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all right i thought it was bright outside oh that's better
holy crime any of these lights in here are amazing
all right so we've got drew and derek from northwest lighting out of minnesota you guys are
here to make a difference in our shop we're going to light you up awesome so what do you got going
uh we brought out today uh some 215 watt 215 watt linear high bays uh they're 28 000 lumen and uh
we're gonna we're gonna make this thing pop sweet so the whole ceiling is gonna get new lighting
in here yes yep and then we're gonna store your benches yes that on the benches too i'm personally
super excited about this because of well what i'm holding right now the camera filming in a
dark environment is not camera friendly and for anyone out there who's a professional videographer
lighting is key and in this shop we just do not have great lighting so now is our chance
to up the production level a little bit you bet let's do it all right let's get to work
i'm finally back here at the farm it feels great to be back in montana i was in buffalo new york
for a few uh well a little bit i'll just go ahead and tell you guys a few weeks ago my father-in-law
passed away he was battling cancer and he lost that battle he was battling it since 2014 so
it was a long long push but he got to see his grandchildren and he got to spend time
with them and spend time with his family and it was a huge blessing huge blessing
but i don't want to get too much into that um just figured you guys
are probably wondering why is leg arms going to be gone again and where is he going well
that's that's the main reason yeah um but i'm back here on the farm which means we can get
some stuff done and i'll probably be in the camera a little bit more nick and my dad have been busy
what do they do
we'll find out okay i do know what they did they bought this cleaner and i actually found this on
craigslist and so they bought it which is good because we need it for peas and it looks like
they've got a little bit of uh contraption work going on and modifying and fabricating which is
actually a very common thing on this farm we buy something and it usually doesn't stay factory he
usually kind of gets modified because we find ways of making our lives a little easier and
more uh convenient for us but that's a sweet little deal saying that this shop
needs to be cleaned like right now it is a disaster they miss me all right let's get to
cleaning
foreign when you're in here especially not during the day time like it's day right now the sun's
shining in we're in here in the evening we're working it's dark in here and filming is tough
and there's a there's actually a term they use called foot candles and what that is is one candle
imagine burning a candle wax candle sticking it on the ground the square foot or a foot radius around
it that's the determination how much light there is in an optimum shop in an optimum like a walmart
some type of industrial warehouse whatever maybe they say you want between 100 and 120 feet candle
per square foot so that's a 120 candles of light in one square foot and that's ideal okay
i have what's pretty cool a light sensor juggle juggle there we go okay this little doohickey here
is going to tell me what the feet candle is in this shot so i can walk around holding it
level and i can see what kind of light are these lights putting on the floor
we want that 120 feet candle let you guys know what we have now under in a bench
it's a little different because you want a little brighter like you're working up close
that's like 130 probably but we would like to see above 100 with this let's see
so what i'll do is i'll take this light sensor and i'll walk around the shop holding it level
and we'll see what kind of readings we come up with all right so we're sitting at 24 20 15 10 9
15. it's at 10 12 9 7 now under our machining area 140 130 so these lights down here kicking
out quite a bit of light going to this bench 150 it is in the morning and the sun is shining
very bright through these windows which is creating a lot more feet candle inside the shop
so that does throw off the reading a little bit i was in here when it was dark and it was averaging
on this side of the shop between 7 and 12 feet candle and on this side of the shop around 15
or so so what we've been using on this farm is what gopro hero 9. good or bad there's
definitely some pros and cons this camera but that's not what we're going with this camera
does basically what all digital cameras do as it takes in light it has to automatically adjust
settings so that the frame rate matches the light coming in because if you increase the frame rate
the lighting goes down so then the camera has to adjust accordingly if you lower the frame rate the
lighting goes up and it's brighter so the camera again has to adjust accordingly so it's constantly
battling the light and how the quality of the video has been recorded like when i turn like this
obviously very dark face saturated white super bright you know it can't see out you can't even
see outside it's but if you wait a second for it to clear up there it goes camera adjusts
well that's constantly happy when we're working in the shop on equipment we're up underneath things
we're around we're inside and these poor cameras are always trying to adjust to the circumstances
we're in and filming quality isn't very great when that happens and we're always having to get little
lights and hold in leds to try to light up the area we're working on so that you guys can see it
so this is our old fixture as you can see notice the dirt grunge on it these are the cheaper led
t8s that we had and these are what's in the whole shop at the moment they're pretty much
just everywhere this is the replacement light this is from keystone and drew so what is this
again how much how many lumens is it uh this is uh 28 000 lumens 215 watts wow that's awesome so this
little package here is gonna kick out probably four or five times the light of one of these
that's awesome can i tell you how many times that scissor lift has been used in this shop
and elsewhere you guys seen us put on pickups you guys have seen us put on trucks
how many what scissor lift yeah we've kind of hung out oh yeah there's that too it's a great way to
hang and skin a deer and an antelope beautiful it works like fantastic maybe a coyote too
yeah we say coyotes we don't say coyote we don't say coyote we say coyotes
i guess we don't need this anymore stop it's too nice yeah actually that's not
funny oh sorry cam nice thanks come on yeah nice now for our t8s all of these that we're
not putting those big fixtures in we've got these these are keystone replacements they're
not necessarily a tremendous amount brighter than what we have but it's a lot better light
a lot nicer on the eyes it doesn't flicker as much i'm really hoping they do a lot better with the
cameras so i'm going to start putting these up let's just go around them from the shop install
them all right we're starting on the old shop this is the old shop side i finished the new shop and
it's bright it's really nice but here's the thing with these new lights because this is a
14 foot ceiling not a 16 there's a lot more light coming down so we may not need stuff like that
or those or that one over there or half these lights we've got hanging down including the frame
that we have built above our machining area which is right there so i think i'm going to go up there
start pulling all that apart pull that unit down and then i'll stick one of those new ones up above
that should light it up really well derrick's going to town on these uh yeah it's looking good
it is absolutely amazing the difference from this shop to this shop well the same shop but different
sides these old lights here yeah they're awesome those over there they're excellent
that's all i have to say now what we're doing here is we're going to actually remove this whole
frame unit that we have above the lathe in the middle that had a bunch of lights on it we're
going to take it down we'll stick some of those big lights that they have on that side up here and
if we need extra we're going to put maybe a couple of things hanging down we'll see how it goes but
removing the old stuff and getting new stuff because when we work in the shop as much as we do
it is fantastic to see what you're working on which is nice they're doing a fantastic job
that's why i'm not gonna work with them cause i don't want to screw it up see having fun yet
derrick loving the dream is it is it good i know you wanted the ladder but nice and clean oh wow
we we do a good job wiping everything down after every day lady lady must be a couple days later
what are we 130 140 150
wow i did this earlier and it was 20. so i just asked drew i was like hey uh flip flip flip the
sensor upside down and see what's coming off the floor now and it came in at 17. 17.
that means that there's more light coming from the floor reflected up than there was originally
from the ceiling coming down that's what we want though and the whole point of that is so when
we're under stuff like let's just get under this cleaner here like this up and around we don't have
to shine lights everywhere because we can just see it and that's the whole point is to reflect
light everywhere thank you keystone for the lights and for the opportunity to put them in here and
thank you guys thank you guys for having us on here northwest lighting yeah enjoy your lights
absolutely if you guys want lights like these give them a call we'll hook you up
all right have a good one so i got back from my trip and um somebody tampered with my pickup
i actually knew that beforehand uh we have cameras in the shop and i was looking on my
phone because i can see what's going on the shop from a different location and
watching nick's pickup go in and uh then all of a sudden mine popped in there too
and they started doing exhaust on it so i kind of knew beforehand sorry nick you
know it wasn't really that secret see isn't it just beautiful right there thank you very much
ah
all right i thought it was bright outside oh that's better
got to put two lights up here and so what i'm going to go ahead and do is grab the scissor
lift and i'm going to install these two lights up here get those done and then start working through
maybe on the bench lights do something a little different um yeah i think it's time to get to work
i'm thinking about reorganizing everything well not everything but a lot of things like
lathe the mill and the bench here the position that we have this in
is kind of it works and it's not bad but i'd like to free it up a little bit so there's more room
to work around the lift when you have a vehicle in and i feel like we can do something different here
so looking at it i have an idea what i'm going to do and i think it's going to work but i also have
another idea too the shelving around here i'm thinking about taking everything out
even those shelves in that one spot right there and i'm going to take all of our hydraulic
fittings our shelving unit and even the hydraulic crimper and moving it over there because that
whole opening would fit pretty well with this nice wonderful rack we have for the hydraulic crimper
then this unit here i will make it onto a rollable stand so you can actually like pick it up like a
dolly move it over and you can take it outside if you need to that way you don't have to take
a complete hydraulic hose off of something you can crimp the end while it's still on something
and it's a little bit more accessible so let's get to business get busy and
start rearranging because i think i think i can make it happen let's do this
so i'm kind of wondering about just building a whole entire frame that
goes above so that that way i can support the lights on top
and then i can run the electrical lines and air hoses and then i can hang other stuff on that too
but the frame will also go down this way and that'll actually support our uh iron rack too for
miscellaneous things like cold rolled steel that goes with a lathe so i'm thinking keyword thinking
i am going to go ahead and just build it so it's about eight feet this way and eight
feet down this way so i'm gonna use the frame that we chopped apart apart and make it work
now i've turned off all the lights in the shop besides these lights right here they're just
quickly rigged to get them on i'll have to finish putting a junction box fixing it but the point is
is this overkill absolutely is it needed is it necessary absolutely because when you're working
on a lathe or something that needs fine tuning and you really got to see well you don't want shadows
well the only shadow i have here is my hat so turn that around i can see everything really well
this is gonna be fantastic because if you're working with like a thousands or ten thousands or
you're cutting off a half inch or whatever you're doing you really wanna see what you're doing
because a little bit makes a big difference on this precise machine i'm happy thank you keystone
wow it's just so light everything's just the atmosphere just so bright and big and and now
we can see all the dirt on the walls that we're gonna have to wash off
that's okay though we spend so much time in this shop why not have it lit up like it should be
thank you northwest lighting systems drew you guys did a great job
i can't wait for the next project to start i just wish we would have done this about three years ago
so you guys need lights in your shop i'd look them up keystone's pretty good deal and uh
these lights are they're amazing well thanks for watching guys take care god bless later
you