I woke up this morning to this email from YouTube: Hi How To Cook That, our team has
reviewed your content and unfortunately we think it violates our harmful and dangerous
policy. We've removed the following content from YouTube: Debunking deadliest craft hack,
34 dead. We know this might be disappointing but it is important to us that YouTube is a safe
place for all content that encourages or promotes harmful or dangerous activities that have a risk
of serious physical harm or death are not allowed on YouTube. If you missed my last video the one
that's now been banned, I explained the dangers the extreme danger of F W burning. In fact the
video was entitled 34 deaths because there's been 34 deaths in the U.S already and that's just ones
that were reported in the newspaper. I've since found out there's been 30 deaths reported in the
UK and I know there's some here in Australia and no doubt around the world. The video's purpose
was very clear was to tell people NOT to do it my purpose was to get the video to get enough views
and enough momentum that that video would appear when you searched for F W burning. I wanted it to
be in the search result one or two because those ones get the most clicks we'd manage to get it
all the way to number three so it was nearly there when people search F W burning and when
I started reading comments like this one that says: you probably just saved my life here I'd
watched a video earlier this week with that type of wood burning and had planned to try it myself
tomorrow now I've completely scrapped that idea. And I thought when I read that comment the whole
video was worthwhile if it's prevented one person who didn't know what they were doing from doing
it and dying it's worth the video but since then those comments just kept coming of people saying:
that they'd watched videos they were going to try it they were about to try it people we knew
were talking to us saying they were trying it this weekend and they didn't realize just how
dangerous it was. There was even a comment from an ER doctor who said: I had to look a woman in
the eyes and tell her I was sorry for her loss her husband died in my ER after electrocuting himself
doing wood burning. Diana commented saying my husband died five years ago doing F wood burning
please don't do it it isn't the way to go. And that was the last comment on the video before
YouTube banned it saying that it's not safe for the community, so my first thought actually was
maybe we've made a difference maybe just maybe they might have banned all the videos on F wood
burning and that will make a huge impact but when I searched on YouTube for F wood burning using
a microwave Transformer the videos are all still there on how to do it! There's how-to videos that
show in detail how to get a microwave Transformer and plug all the parts in to make a F wood burning
machine but the video that it said don't do it it's ridiculously dangerous and has killed lots
of people already that one's not safe they had to take that one down it's just ridiculous 🤯 I will
of course fill out YouTube's form to challenge this to see if we can get the ban removed and get
the video reinstated but the damage has been done ... that video now has had zero views for a day
and longer by the time they process it which is like taking a video that had lots of momentum, it
was number one on Reddit videos it had been shared on other websites that were writing articles about
the dangers of wood burning it's like taking that momentum of like a ball going downhill picking it
up and then saying oh yeah we'll put it back on again on flat ground it's really hard to get it
rolling again and get that momentum that it needs to get it to the top when people search for F wood
burning so that then made me really sad and really disappointed because the whole purpose of it is to
warn people and now thanks to YouTube a whole lot less people are going to see that warning.
So at the risk of getting another ban and getting a channel strike which is
personally very damaging I'm going to post here again that section of the F wood burning
video warning you not to do it because I think your life is more important than my channel.
Now to the most dangerous hack that I have seen yet this hack has already killed 34 people in
the US and that is only counting the ones that have been reported in newspapers there may well
be a lot more than that and certainly there are many more around the world the hack is
called F wood burning or L wood burning there are heaps of videos on Tik Tok showing people
doing it essentially it uses electricity to burn a lightning or a tree-like pattern into wood that's
been dampened the results are unique every time and it does look pretty impressive which is why
people want to try out for themselves. Then they head over to YouTube and find more videos showing
people doing it including how-to videos that show you how to make your own F wood burning
device using parts from an old microwave. It is so dangerous that the American Association
of woodturners has banned any demonstrations of it at their events and they will not publish anything
about it on their website except for articles saying how dangerous it is. So why is it so
dangerous? Well to explain that let me draw you a picture we'll start with our piece of wood and
then we'll wet that with a mixture of water and bicarb then over here we have a PowerPoint that
will plug the machine into and in the middle here we have a box which in most how-to videos is a
Transformer that has been taken out of a microwave so they attach one side of the Transformer to the
power supply and on the other side they have a couple of car jumper cables and in these alligator
clips they add long metal spikes that they touch the wood with then you turn it on and the electric
current starts to burn patterns into the wood. One of the problems with this hack is that people
don't understand what is happening in inside the microwave Transformer on this side the wire does
a few turns around but on the other side it has lots and lots and lots of turns and what that
effectively does is it takes the 120 volts or 240 volts that are coming from the power outlet
depending on where you live and it transforms that into 2000 volts which means if you accidentally
touch the metal on those alligator clips or you touch the wood or you touch the table if it's
not on a non-conductive surface you are going to be delivered 10 times the amount of power that's
needed to stop your heartbeat and in 7 out of 10 cases the person is dead before they even
hit the floor! There is just no margin for error here one little lapse in concentration one little
error and you dead. It's not a good hack for anyone to try and you'll remember from our
previous video that was talking about electricity and it had that stupid metal electric plug which
short circuits everything and is dangerous in itself but you'll remember in that that the
residual current device on our house flicks the power off because it notices there's something
wrong and as a safety measure it flicks it off and most modern houses have a device or some
sort of safety device that's going to flick the power off if someone's getting electrocuted. Well
that doesn't happen with this machine and once again the problem is what's happening
inside that microwave Transformer. You may have noticed that there are no wires connecting one
side of the Transformer to the other the charge actually passes from one winding to the other
using a pulsing magnetic field so in this half everything continues to operate as normal the
safety switch doesn't kick in because it's not noticing anything abnormal happening. In one
sad case in Wisconsin where a couple were both electrocuted if if someone is being electrocuted
it's important you turn off the power before you touch them or you also will be electrocuted and
then in their case after that because the power continued to go through the whole house burnt
down. We do know that the fire started in the garage before spreading to the home we believe
that the F wood burning equipment that cause electrocutions likely started the fire. Now that
you know just how many volts of electricity are going through that and that there is no safety off
switch I want you to watch a couple of these clips again and tell me would you walk this close to a F
wood burning machine knowing if you just brush that wood with your leg there's a seven out of
10 chance that you're dead would you hold these alligator clips in your hand as so many videos
show people doing knowing that one little mishap you slightly touch that metal and it's all over.
Well sadly this guy learned that the hard way and his widow in an interview with the local newspaper
said that he was not aware of the dangers she went on to say we knew he could get a shock but we had
no idea it could kill you there were no warnings with the videos. If he had of known he never would
have done it. There is a small number of people who have managed to survive a F wood-burning
injury and that is usually due to the fact they've got someone watching who has managed to turn off
the power immediately start CPR because their heart has stopped and by some miracle Emergency
Services managed to get to their house within a few minutes which is pretty rare here in Australia
I don't know about the rest of the world but even those people aren't left unscathed they
usually have very bad injuries to their hands and permanent injury to their hearts. Mary Calhoun
was walking with her f wood bending device she'd finished using it and she tripped as she went to
put it somewhere and turned it on accidentally this is what her hands looked like after the
surgeons had tried to rescue them so that she had some functionality for the rest of her life ...
trust me you don't want to see the before photos we're talking severe burns we're talking 2000
volts here we're not playing with tiny amounts of current this is just not worth the risk people and
in case you're thinking oh well she should have been wearing insulating gloves that would protect
her from the electricity. Part of the problem is if you do that the rest of your body could
still brush up against the table or the wood or anywhere else it's not just your hands but also
people don't know how many volts they're dealing with so the insulating gloves are often not enough
listen to this from Bren from Utah: I remember just gasping for air looking down and seeing the
smoke coming off of my gloves that were basically welded to my hands. And just in case there are
any electricians out there who are thinking well of course it's dangerous it's electricity
but if you know what you're doing and you're careful you'll be fine I'll be fine to do this,
two of the deaths that I flashed up before for women who were experienced electricians and they
left behind their wife and kids so don't do it it is just not worth it! If I had my way YouTube
would make a policy against dangerous hacks and dangerous how-to videos, they've got one against
dangerous pranks and dangerous challenges why isn't there one for Dangerous hacks? I don't know
but I feel like we've been waiting a long time for them to listen on this one so it's up to you if
you know anyone who is thinking about doing F wood burning please share this video with them because
you might just save their life. With thanks to my wonderful patrons for all of your support
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