Hard Times Come Again No More | The Longest Johns Music Video | First Single from Smoke & Oakum youtube.com/watch?v=5Fddr…
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Hard Times Come Again No More | The Longest Johns Music Video | First Single from Smoke & Oakum youtu.be/5Fddr0CTflQ
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[intentional] Oakum Picking At The Workhouse (Workhouse #4) youtu.be/i_sWdJn1Wt0
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Since we're sharing our Lead and Oakum joints, may I Present, My Totem Pole.
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πŸ‘€︎ u/El_Burnsta
πŸ“…︎ Dec 28 2019
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Was oakum manufactured in British workhouses during the Napoleonic wars?

I've been watching Tony Robinson's amazing series "The Worst Jobs In History." I just saw the part of the Victorian era episode about Oakum (here). This made me wonder about a few things:

  1. Was oakum manufactured in British workhouses during the Napoleonic wars?
  2. If so, how important were workhouses for the production of oakum during that time?
  3. During the Georgian period, how important were workhouses for the British navy?

I have no historical training, but I will be adding the results of my "research" below:

  • A. It seems like things were very different before and after various poor laws that were passed some time after the Napoleonic wars, so it is probably dangerous for me to extrapolate from the episode about the Victorian period back into the Georgian period.
  • B. (Maybe pertinent to question 1) There is mention of "Oakum Boys" in this report.
  • C. (Maybe pertinent to question 1) It looks like prisoners made Oakum sometimes, based on this report from about 50 years after my question.
  • D. Based on this, it looks like the number of people in workhouses and other forms of undesirable/backup work increased significantly in Birmingham during the Napoleonic wars (but more due to the bad economy rather than the needs of the state). This seems like a more general pattern that in the opinion of this writer was part of what led to the updated poor laws after the Napoleonic wars.
  • E. This random person 60 years after my period of interest seems to think that a workhouse is a natural place to get oakum, but it seems like they might be talking about tar?
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Apparently I missed the boat on caturday so heres a boat being worked on next to the tug I'm working on. Someone told me they're chinking the joints again. The term seems dated. After some research I found other words like oakum.
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First time trying a lead/oakum joint. Gained a lot of respect for the old school plumbers. reddit.com/gallery/ko46j9
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Since a lot of you don't do cast iron anymore, here's a little taste from an offset I had to do in the city of Chicago where we still use lead and oakum. imgur.com/iLkOwIo
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Noromac
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"Two small pads of oakum, some strips of sticking plaster from the surgeon's stores, and Hornblower now had a couple of legs of which no one need be ashamed."
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Dr-Niles-Crane
πŸ“…︎ Dec 17 2020
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Who else still does Lead and Oakum? imgur.com/gallery/Fd8CByA
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πŸ‘€︎ u/El_Burnsta
πŸ“…︎ May 10 2019
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Somebody actually connected ABS directly to cast iron with lead and oakum. A lot more work to do it wrong than to just use a no-hub coupling.
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Origin of "crack on like smoke and oakum"

My Google searching hasn't turned up anything, so I'm hoping someone here will have some ideas. Where does the expression "crack (ing) on like smoke and oakum" come from? I know generally what it means, but can't figure out where the oakum comes into the equation. Is it just one of Jack's malapropisms? There seem to be references to it from documents older than O'Brian, but nothing to indicate where it comes from.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/aragornelessar86
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I Was just blessed with these lead tools from a retired old plumber. I live in a city where lead and oakum still reigns supreme. These old irons are way better than my newer modern ones.
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πŸ“…︎ Nov 20 2019
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Afro Blue- Smoke N'Oakum 4/24/20 Jam Session v.redd.it/55jxlil0i2v41
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Growing Marijuana in New England (and other cold climates) By Peter Oakum - Full imgur.com/a/e57a5
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Hi Oak Island reddit, I'm not having much success with these coconut related posts. My previous, Most Excellent post now know as "The Oakum Post" has been taken down and deleted without trace. I say definitely under mysterious circumstances. This can only mean one thing, the Oak Island Treasure is
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Oakum (single release version - 2000) youtube.com/watch?v=ftB0G…
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πŸ“…︎ Apr 25 2019
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New house, new puppy. Meet Oakum
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Ozric Tentacles - Oakum - Live at Le Badaboum, 2016 youtube.com/watch?v=zN1Aa…
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Afro Blue- Smoke N'Oakum 4/24/20 Jam Session v.redd.it/qotx2kzgk2v41
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Caulking instruction - using oakum and pitch. Very informative video by a Norwegian preservation shipyard! youtube.com/watch?v=zhYm-…
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πŸ“…︎ Jun 10 2019
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TIL the fluffy brown juveniles of King Penguins are known as 'Oakum Boys' oceanlight.com/spotlight.…
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Oil from brown oakum dripping out.

Oil from the Oakum is dripping out on joints packed like 4 months ago. Is there a solution to this? Currently we are going back and melting all the joints out and using white oakum.

This is in chicago so they have to be lead joints. No PVC.

Anyone have this problem before?

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Ozric Tentacles - Oakum [Organically Visualized] youtube.com/watch?v=Z5goW…
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πŸ“…︎ Jul 18 2017
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flexoelectric oakum
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πŸ“…︎ Jun 12 2017
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NEWS JUST IN: My missing post known as "The Oakum Post" has been found. The "hide" button had been pressed. I can only assume that I hit a keyboard shourtcut that activates the hide button in a fury of three finger typing. I take full responsibility, here is a picture of Crown as compensation.
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LΓ­adΓ‘n - SΓ­ Oakum a' PhriosΓΊin youtube.com/watch?v=X4Eu5…
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Oakum: Update #3. A recent graduate's quest to make an online naval adventure imgur.com/a/radGk
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πŸ“…︎ Jun 24 2014
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Smoke N'Oakum by Juhani Jokinen
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Smoke N'Oakum by Juhani Jokinen artofjokinen.deviantart.c…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/sacredserenity
πŸ“…︎ Oct 06 2015
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Black oil leaking from lead and oakum joint

Back in January I had my old cast iron sewer pipe replaced. The company I went with opted to use cast iron for the replacement as well.

Soon after the job was completed, I noticed a black oily substance seeping out from the lead and oakum joints in the sewer pipe. I called them back out, and the plumber assured me that it was normal for these joints to do this.

He re-packed/caulked the joint for me about two months ago, but it's still seeping out.

Is this normal? Or is it going to keep seeping out until the joints fail? Is it time to call another plumber?

Here are some pictures.

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πŸ“…︎ Jul 02 2013
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LiadΓ‘n - SΓ­ Oakum a'PhriosΓΊin youtube.com/watch?v=X4Eu5…
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πŸ“…︎ Jan 25 2014
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My new gecko Oakum interrupted a game of Parcheesi imgur.com/d6XEi
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πŸ“…︎ Jan 30 2012
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WotD "Oakum" 8/19

Word of the day.

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Oakum - Ozric Tentacles (my favorite song to listen to underwater) youtube.com/watch?v=TXzdx…
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