The Clamper | Old Tool Reborn 

Friends, for your convenience I assembled a chronologically arranged list of videos about my efforts in establishing this log cabin camp in the off-grid remote location of Karelia (All Seasons): ------------------------------- 01 episode - @​ (1 season) 2014 02 episode - @​ (1 season) 2014 03 episode - ​@ (1 season) 2014 (not translated) 1 episode - ​​@​ (2 season) 2015 2 episode - ​@​ (2 season) 2015 3 episode -​@ (3 season) 2016 4 episode -​@​ (3 season) 2016 5 episode - ​@​ (4 season) 2017 6 episode - ​@​ (4 season) 2017 7 episode - ​@ (5 season) 2018 8 episode - @​ (6 season) 2019 9 episode - ​@​ (6 season) 2019 10 episode- ​@​ (6 season) 2019 -------------------------------- My Patreon page: ​@t​​

As a welder I had a good chuckle at the line: “I’m not an expert in stainless steel welding, but I’m pretty good at grinding!”

This man is an embodiment of what makes RU-vid great

Max, If you ever pass through California, I will buy you a beer and give you a couch to sleep on. I really appreciate you going out of your way to record all your adventures and share them with us, and then to translate them into English.

I just finished making one of these, I even put the wooden insert and everything. That was honestly the hardest part for me. I’m very happy with the way it turned out and great video!!

And today on the list of tools I don't know existed but suddenly need

The reason the wire clamps stay tight is because the wire is strong enough to absolutely prevent the wood underneath it from expanding, and the wire never gets near it's yield point. It should stay tight until the wood literally rots from beneath it. Very cool video!

If Tom Hanks would have used this for his raft, Wilson would still be with us.

I recently discovered this channel, and my God! this man is impressive! People like this are so inspiring. I'm so grateful that RU-vid has given me the chance to learn from amazing people like this.

"I'm not an expert in stainless steel welding, but i'm pretty good at grinding and polishing metal." I've heard an old mechanic say "A grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain't." There's a lot to be said about being good at finishing work.

Ok Advoko I must tell you my story, I was going to make this too right off but..... well it did not happen. So we raise a big garden and I have a greenhouse. I turned water on this year and it leaked, Broken fitting. So the Covid makes impossible to go to the store and buy clamp. Then I remember you used as a clamping device on hose so I reviewed your video, Then I made a suitable clamp after scrounging around. I used it and it worked perfect, so good now I shall build the delux model as you have. A profound Thank You! It was so nice to impress my wife too!

This thing is fantastic. I aim to make one of course. Here in Sweden,in the good old days, people would travel the country (by bicycle or on foot often) with a few hand tools and a long spool of wire, making numerous useful objects to be pedalled from door to door. I have a small collection of such items now and Im always on the lookout. I think the reason the clamp doesn't become loose despite the wood shrinking when drying is because it is "pre-stressed." The steel is stretched beyond its normal length so any srinkage will allow the steel to shrink too, as it attempts to return to its unsprung state. The strinkage in the drying wood clearly never exceeds the shrinkage capacity in the steel wire. Cheers Max!

"This ladder is strong enough to carry my weight and my heavy thoughts..."

“The ladder could easily carry the combined weight of my body, my heavy thoughts and this wet roll of sod” - pure poetry my friend. I’m a boat builder and your videos are some of the most inspiring and entertaining I’ve seen. Incredible work and attitude.

"Close your eyes, I'm going to weld". LOL, you don't know how many times I've instinctively looked away from welding videos.

that tree climbing scene might have been the most epic real life scene I have seen on youtube

I seriously couldn't be more proud of this guy. I was happy to find this video so I could see where to purchase this tool, and he actually crafted and polished this gem. UNREAL! I guess I need a workshop! I am seriously super proud of these accomplishments!

FYI: Due to a system’s glitch subscribers weren’t notified about the last month’s video : “Forging a Bi-metal Axe from a RR Tie Plate and File”: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vAGXOpWs-7o.html -------------------------------- My Patreon page: www.patreon.com/advoko ------------------------------- The Clamper FREE Plan: drive.google.com/file/d/1cZSG339wNxekFLDQIEacI-Pa0GUyanTq/view?usp=sharing ------------------------------- Simple Clamper Free Plan: drive.google.com/file/d/1wUqFdKYnjK0nQkwIsljQhuWOESCRtgum/view?usp=sharing

Love your open source life style glad so see their are people not interested in greed and money but knowledge and unification as a species!

easily the most positive, multi-talented, entertaining dude on the planet.

I am back to leave a review! I have now made a tool almost as yours and had it over this summer and must say it works great. Thanks alot! No more worries for running out of hose clamps

If you ever decide to mass produce your version of the clamper, I'm definitely going to buy some. That's the best looking clamper tool I've seen.

Friends, thank you very much for all your support (your watching, liking, commenting, sharing). The channel wouldn't be approaching 200K on its first anniversary otherwise!... It just happened that The Clamper video was published exactly a year later. I am glad it is that video indeed because I consider my clamper to be one of the most useful tools I have in my shop, yet most people probably have never even heard of it... Hope this video will be both informative and entertaining. It has fresh drone footage from my log cabin camp and a few of my projects you probably haven't not seen before... Again, thank you for your support: both moral and financial!! Max

I accidently came across this video and couldn't stop watching it. I love tools, especially ones that are DIY, are effective and serve a purpose ... this clamper does that and more. So much fun to watch and I'm impressed beyond words. Cheers!!

I finished mine today. It doesn't look anywhere near as good as yours, but just like your bottle cutter, it works absolutely beautifully. I'm planning on putting a few finishing touches on mine, but for now, it'll do the job just fine :)

Amazing intelligence Displayed. Wish you had a store for this purchase. I’m 87 years old and my grandson surely would put this to use. Thank you for sharing such a really nice addition to the tools of mankind.

@2:46 “the laddar could easily hold the combined weight of my body, my heavy thoughts, and the roll of sod on my shoulder”. Very poetic!

Your clamps never got loose because the design is a self adjusting clamp. The wire stretches under load when tightened very much like a bolt under load with a nut. When the wood dries out and shrink or expand with water the clamp adjust to suit because of the tension. Your ideas and skills are remarkable, thanks for your uploads.

You stressed me out climbing that tree, and then blew me away with the Mt. Kilimanjaro clip! You Sir are the real deal!

6:32 "Grinding and paint make me the welder that I ain't." -AvE

Man, here I was thinking this was an antique find. Imagine my mind being blown when you say you MADE it.

"Why are you climbing that tree?" "I need to make a phone call."

I knew about clamper device before, but this one is aesthetically very pleasing

Buddy, you have some serious skills. A man that makes you feel pride in being a man. Thank you sir.

Today on Advoko Makes, I'm going to be splitting an atom using my homemade atom splitting jig.

I've seen this video already. However, I revisit these videos because they are absolute gems.

Man bends wire, man makes boat. Absolutely amazing as ever Max, really inspiring and secure way to make secure lashings, with very minimal tools and materials. Bravo Sir!

We just gonna act like he didn't climb a 50-foot tree and stand on it like he can walk on air?

Marvelous tool! Much admiration to you, as well. This clamping method is used by orthopaedic surgeons and hand surgeons, but not very often. Most do not know how to use this. However, this clamping method allows a construct to maintain "rigid fixation". This term has to do with how forces are distributed across the beams. It isn't implied that something is "rigid" simply because it doesn't move. When you place these clamps across the beams, it causes so much compression of the beam surfaces against one another, that the frictional force is so great that any other forces should be "absorbed" by the beams, not the clamps (although the clamps could handle it, I'm sure). I think this is why the wires did not loosen. Steel has excellent tensile strength, so it doesn't like to stretch. The bent-over ends of the wires hold it together because, although they were bent, they end up having purely longitudinal tensile force exerted upon them and they tolerate this very well. In other words, once the clamp is tightened and set, it will never unravel (unless it breaks). To prove this, do the following: place several "circlage" (that's what this is called) clamp wires around a wooden stick or dal-rod. Then, throw the thing into a big fire. Make sure the fire is able to burn all the wood away, but not too hot to melt the steel. Once the wooden stick is ash, you will be left with the wire clamps that should still be intact AND the same size (not unraveled the slightest bit). The wood may swell underneath these clamps, and it would simply cause the clamps to "cut into" the wood more. The wood may contract underneath the clamps, but the clamps won't loosen. To put it another way, the wire ends that are bent back upon themselves are essentially forming an immovable weld--they are doing the exact same thing as if you actually welded the ends of the wire clamp together. But, that would be near impossible to do, unless you clamped them first with your tool. I'd argue that welding these clamps is pointless and not needed, unless they held up the roof to a cabin, etc. Even then, I don't think it would be needed. These clamps are like 360-degree circumferential compression screws (if there ever was such a thing) without the need for drilling. They hold things together through surface friction. This is very difficult to achieve. But, it is the strongest way to secure things. I'll make a prediction: anything held together by these clamps will break at a site other than the clamps before these clamps break or come undone. The clamp sites should be the area with the most strength by far.

Your ingenuity is beyond the normal scope of thinking. I am blown away by the thing you make. I Love watching your videos. They help me relax and forget about all the frivolous things going on in LIFE. Thank you, from Phoenix, Arizona USA

I found this vid because I was thinking about getting the Clamptite commercial combo pack to keep in my semi as I have had need of something like it many time….watching this vid made me VERY happy seeing someone take such care to make this tool. VERY well done and I think I have a couple new winter projects and a new channel for vids!

Dude hand builds a tool that looks like it was perfectly made by a race of Aliens, and then he climbs a tree to the very top in the matter of seconds. You're like a Superhero man!! That tool is not only amazing, it's equally as beautiful.

This is the video I was most excited to be made into English

I wanted to be impressed by some amazing person this morning, so I came back to watch this video again. I loved watching you climb that tree, and I sure love that clamping tool.

You my sir are bonafide BAD-ASS!!! You should have your own TV/Cable show. Thank you, for this.

Please work out the RU-vid problems because I don’t want to miss any of your videos as they are uploaded. Thanks for sharing. I love your creativity.

i love it, "im not an expert at ss welding but im pretty good at grinding"

I think this version of the tool is better than the one found at most hardware stores. Very nice!

You're the man Advoko! When I die, I want to come back as you! 👍🇷🇺🇺🇸

Holy wow! My stomach dropped when you reached top of that tree and sat and looked up! 😬 The tool looks/performs AMAZING! Great work you do!

Отрадно, годы идут, а это видео не теряет свою актуальность )))

Forgive me if I have already posted on this video. I come back and watch your channel and I'm ALWAYS impressed with your work. Jesus Christ has blessed you with talent and kindness. Thank you for sharing. When I get power in my little building I will be attempting to make your awesome ideas 💡

Nice job. I am impressed with you workmanship. You should be proud of your work. I am in Texas, we all just love your accent. Y’all come see us don here. It’s 101 degrees today. We just saw a longhorn in someone’s cement pond!

I like how you made a handle to break it and repair it afterwards and even made it stronger. Such a nice tool.

6:22 I'm not sure why. But this clip made me incredibly happy :)

You are doing very well on these videos. Thanks a lot. I think the reason that the tools do not loosen when getting wet and dry multiple times is that the wireclamps are sturdy and durable enough to keep the same size even when the wood expands.

Your attitude and lifestyle is amazing. I appreciate that ability to set yourself on thoughtful interaction with complex tasks. thumbs up!

As skilled as the toolmaking is, congratulations has to go to the director and camera crew. Professional quality production.

"I'm pretty good at grinding and polishing" - You sir, earned my subscription with that comment.

Max it’s always a pleasure rewatching your posts so enlightening thank you John Kruk

"my heavy thoughts" bruh you about made me choke on my soup. I love your calm narration, very soothing, and when you make jokes they're even better because there was no lead up.

Very fascinating. I never had a father when i was growing up. So it is great to learn from someone as intelligent as you. I thank you for the education.

The fact that you said “Now close your eyes please, I am going to do some welding.” Thank you good sir. Wonderful content. Subscribed.

I've never seen this guy before and I don't subscribe to many channels but this got me to subscribe before I even finished watching. It's awesome....

Very brilliant design. I had an old brass/bronze tool like that, but traded it away because I never thought I'd need it. Now that I see how you've treated your tool handles, though, I'm thinking I'll have to forge up a good steel version. Wonderful ingenuity, and bravo to you for daring to climb that tree. That's something I would never have done!!!

Awesome tool....! Most people don’t the know importance of the old school tried and true methods of this application... I really like the improvements you made to this tool...👍

Advoko, your videos never fail to be a productive use of my time. Thank you.

WOW!! I thought this was an ad for a tool to buy. And you had me sold quick too. Definitely a good tool to have around. I like that you're soft spoken and easy to understand. I feel like if I ever get home again I might be able to make my own based on your video. Thank You

I love your version of this tool the most!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have now been going up and down on you tube to see all the different versions of this tool and now i must decide which one to make

I really appreciate the time you took to translate this to English. You're a very talented maker and I really am happy learning from you.

My Goodness! You are such a talented man and I love watching you work. I am not very handy so it is a pleasure watching these cool tools being used! Keep those excellent videos coming please!

I have watched many of your videos when I have found time but have no idea how I missed this one. Thank you for sharing.

Your English is not only excellent, but your creative use of specific terms reveals a sophisticated grasp of English words. Heavy thoughts indeed :)

I thought I had found RU-vid heaven when I came to this channel, but no. RU-vid heaven is his other channel, in Russian, which has many more wonderful projects and clever tricks, some of them not exactly safe... I am hoping that at some point those Russian-language videos will be transcribed into English so I may further enjoy them, but if not, I will be satisfied with what is available already in English. I now officially bestow the title "The Bushcrafting Lawyer" on Max Egorov (Advoko MAKES), with many thanks for letting all of us follow his incredibly creative woodland antics.

“It can hold my body, my heavy thoughts, and sod” lmaoo me

I love the way you say "Hello friends" its so welcoming and sweet!

"...my heavy thoughts..." Now, THAT'S a ladder!

That tree walk you did was almost as cool as the clamper! Mine will be a basic one (my clamper), as will my tree walk ha ha. Great fun show!

From what I know of wood expansion seems like the size of the timber being so small it's mostly harder core so not so much moisture off the top of my head. You can see moisture expansion charts by species and gauge how much each should move according to relative humidity my guess is your clamp tightens itself into the fresh lumber past the point it would move anyway. We used bandit clamps in the Navy to patch pipe leaks they're exactly like this but a specialized tool and system it all works on friction Many places use the bandit system to hold up signal lights and signs etc.. Thank you for making it possible for me to make and affordable to have my own!🙏

Hello, hope you are well given these uncertain times. So good of you to share your knowledge.

One of a few really useful tools I did not know about but now have seen. Even visual instruction on how to use it. And yes, I subscribed. Thanks. Truly helpful.

The wire coils compress the wood but, even more so, they prevent the wood from swelling. Wood swells as it absorbs water. If it is not permitted to swell, it will not be able to absorb water.

You sir are a global treasure. Respect.

Great Video Max. Thanks for sharing this. I remember know (it was a long time ago) that when I was young and worked on a farm, the old guy I worked for used to use wired twisted like this to fix hoses on engines and irrigation pipes. I don't recall anything ever coming loose. I guess he liked the method because we always had lots of wire around us (from building and maintaining stock fences)

I’ve watched a few of your videos now. Your bushcraft skills are amazing and your videos are calming and entertaining. Thank you for sharing.

This is an amazing tool! It might even be able to reinforce my self - confidence against my daily work routine...

I cannot believe how skilled this guy is!

Lionel here in California, USA. Very impressive. Love the Clamper. My theory is that the tool is compressing the wood to the degree that there is no room for moisture to penetrate the wired area. It's a must have tool. Thank you.

Mr. Egorov, you do Beautiful work. thank you for showing.

The wire clamp applies pressure 360 degrees around the entire circumference of the handle as in the scythe. Where as, a simple hole drilled thru the scythe and handle would only apply pressure on two sides of the handle, like a "sandwich." Moreover, the tensile strength of the wire comes into play as well, this is superior to that of a straight nail and rivet.

Max, You’re an amazing man. Thank you for sharing your innovations a also bringing back old school craftsmanship. Can you please share your recommendations for the wire you used in your demonstration? Also it would be helpful if you could show us a close up of how you start/wrap your clamps. Thx, Scott

"My heavy thoughts" love it. You are an inspiration sir! PEACE from the USA

Air hose fittings is my favorite place to use this clamp. Works great... Thank you!

You do excellent engineering and high quality handwork , very inspiring to see excellent thought out and produced work , keep up the excellent work and tutorials .

Your a very inspiring man! I just stumbled across your channel and so glad i did! ( was doing alot of research on the clamp tite tool👍 also i think when it comes to the steel never loosing its strength is the wood absorbing the moisture (swelling around the clamp) but the clamps design never looses its strength to the limit of the material uses. Its truly amazing.

Thank you for making these incredible videos Max. True source of inspiration.

Seriously, this is my new favorite channel. You sir, are amazing! Thank you for sharing.

Man i'm hooked. Thanks for sharing all of these outstanding videos with everyone.

The world needs more people like you.

No idea how youtube knew my frustration of not knowing about this tool 5 hours before it recommended me a 1 year old video. Love it. Need to make myself one ASAP!