Your fisrt lamps

[morton 5,368]

I still remember the ex,getting the electric blanket out and being unable to plug it in because moi,had found a better use for the flex and switch,possibly something to do with the ex bit,another happy day.

[Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin]

When you say "not that long ago", when was that, Cookie ?

 

Cheers.

 

Well I am too young to remeber using candles like you char

 

Oil lamp !! Just like I had on my brand new Model T Ford !!

 

Cheers.

 

Now I know your talking bollocks the car hadnt been invented when you first started lamping another THL bullshitting member bet you caught 104 on the lamp aswell

 

ATB Cookie

[Maximus Ferret 2,063]

I used a car spot with part of a wooden tent peg for the handle and a bell push for the switch. The bell push was handy for flicking on and off instead of rocking the lamp. It all worked well enough but what I miss most from those days is the darkness. Everyone didn't have great big feck off yard lights that they left on all night like they do now. Light pollution really pisses me off .

[chartpolski 24,132]

When you say "not that long ago", when was that, Cookie ?

 

Cheers.

 

Well I am too young to remeber using candles like you char

 

Oil lamp !! Just like I had on my brand new Model T Ford !!

 

Cheers.

 

Now I know your talking bollocks the car hadnt been invented when you first started lamping another THL bullshitting member bet you caught 104 on the lamp aswell

 

ATB Cookie

 

Cookie, all bullshit aside..... my younger brother asked if I had lamped with "Prince", my first running dog, a Non-Ped Whippet that I had around 68/69. I told him ; no I only ran day time hares with him. My first lamping dog was a Saluki type, "Tic", around 70/72 when they were fairly unknown around here, Salukis and lamping !! LOL !! It was just as "hot" in them days, and I have just as much permission now, as I had then !! LOL !!

 

Cheers.

[talt 878]

an old cibie spotlight on a broom handle with a loud clicky flip switch and car battery in a rucksack. I later "progressed" to a quartz fire handheld spot lamp. The best thing i ever did was drop it and break the glass the beam was a lot better without it!

[Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin]

I first started going with a chap of my farm I work on in mid 80s I was young only 10 or so I had no chance of carrying a fecking car battery his dog had saluki in it we spent most of the night not lamping but chasing the fecker around

Thats when my love affair started with running dogs luckly our farm was nearly 3000 acres which we had free run the worst thing is it was infested with bared wire from old fences that had been rolled up into balls .

It was bliss up there sadly I dont work that land anymore

 

ATB Cookie

[oldmancoursing 228]

honda 250 superdream battery wipac hair raiser headlampand rotten coat with battery acid all over it and cuts on dog feet off hampshire flint

[richie198 28]

an old car head light copper handle bit of flex door bell

button and the motor bike battery who could forget them

ha ha ha due to all the acid burns.

[P5HEN 168]

car spotlight, motorbike battery, rotted jeans in the morning. my lamp now is off a shogun , little satchel for the battery, but this time i bought dry cell

[tommyt 19]

an old car head light and car battery ..........when i first started i didnt even have a dog .....was told the rabbits would freeze in the light and could be just picked up ......... ......spent many a night running a round like a clown but hey I was only 12........... the holes used to only appear in me clothes next day after they were washed............

[trigger2 3,145]

when i first started out i used a LR6 with a copper handle on it which was heavily tape'd up. i had that connected to a motorbike battery in a little wooden box with car seatbelt for a strap. had a matchstick broke off in the breather on the battery to stop the acid leaking all over the place.

[Magwitch 687]

I use to have a Coleman, it could be likened to a frying pan but it did the job....................................

[redtailhawk1 84]

Car spot light with home made wooden handle and piece of black tape in centre of lense. 12v acid motorbike battery, large and very heavy, burnt through the carry bag and coats often.

[freelance 448]

a set up by kings .in the 80s.

I too had my first proper lamp from kings bought out of there advert in shooting news when it was a proper magazine and not a paper, it was the black square lamp with the handle on the back and switch on top. Also had car headlight with doorbell switch on broom handle and my lamp after those was a old coleman 800,000 a cracking lamp back in the day, and still have it now Cheers Atb

[boyo 1,398]

homemade lamp with heavy acid battery and lr9 or lr 6sp spotlight with handle and pushbutton switch there wasnt a car in the valleys with a lr spotlight left on it lol. these spotlights gave a really good long tight beam .can remember taping a pot around some spotlights to bring the beam in tighter ,.didnt half ruin some clothes with that setup .i can remember buying my first ever genuine barbour coat and the acid rotting it after a few weeks the mrs went spare has she had saved for ages to buy it for me . oh for the good old days .