Making a Cannon

Deane and Rob show how cannons and cannon balls were made in the olden days. The working models they show were in a mill in Launceston, Tasmania.
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[@get-the-lead-out.4593]

Finally....instead of the many videos where people are just pretty much motioning their hands to describe the process of cannon making, here's a video that actually gives a bit of details and shows some of the tools and methods used to making a cannon

[@get-the-lead-out.4593]

1978Bajax, It sure does. I remember making fun of my parents, grandparents, etc for talking about those good ol' days of things but over the past decade started realizing that the good ol' days are actually something to value and try to retain instead of promoting changes from them.

[@bermchasin]

id love to see those drill bits. Pretty impressive stuff.

[@SergeyPRKL]

Yet i want to see how the drillbits are made. Lathe/drilling in waterwheel is known process.

[@lunalain7184]

Thank you for this. My D&D players want to make cannons and I've been stumped on how to handle setting up a cannon forge.

[@fireandcopper]

3:01 Those metal chip cuttings are amazingly consistent for water power, I didn't think water could push so hard as to drill iron, I just found this show a month ago and I can't stop watching, I've been out of school for 6 years, I'm 24 and Deane and Rob make me hungry for knowledge

[@smadaf]

Force equals mass times acceleration. You can get a big mass of water and you can get gravity to move it fast. You also can use levers and gear ratios to increase the amount of work done.

[@doggonemess1]

Thank you so much for uploading this. It's exactly what I was looking for.

[@CuriosityShow]

Our pleasure - lots more of interest at kzbin.info -Rob

[@idlethoughts.2724]

Sus.

[@dougbroomhall6822]

I used to have all my birthday parties there in the 80s! it was so awesome. there was a boat ride with animatronics and you could fire canons. It had a makeover in the last 10 years so i'm not sure what is different now but i remember it well

[@melostmo]

Thanks. Making all that back in the old days , without electricity, AMAZING !

[@CuriosityShow]

Thanks for the post. What was done pre-electricity and other kinds of motors is astonishing - building cathedrals, fortresses, pyramids, huge ships. Hard to imagine now. Lots more segments at www.youtube.com?curiosityshow - Rob

[@melostmo]

@@CuriosityShow well I've worked on some old small arms, and figured they must have had a time with hand drills. But, how in the world could they ever make a decent cannon ? very little info was available.. now I know

[@STROONZONY]

Curiosity show brings back fond memories of Australian childhood in 1970's/ 80's. Cheers

[@Kasigil0]

Everything about this video has such a wonderful aesthetic

[@ShakerBaby9235]

The Deutsches Museum of Science and Technology in Munich had (may still have) some interesting displays of windmills and water wheels, and part of that was a model/display of cannon manufacture. They had the cannon vertically oriented within a large heavy wooden structure, open at the bottom to facilitate shavings removal. Horses could also be used to turn the boring tools. Quite an interesting display!

[@jimmyb101]

I had no idea how much time it took in the past to make cannon's, amazing presentation Deanne and Rob.

[@bigbird4481]

Thanks for uploading this, my neighbors won't stop annoying me and I think this will help

[@dave4882]

The drilling of a cannon was what helped determine what heat was. Heat was generated through the friction of drilling. It helped determine that energy was just transformed , and never destroyed. (I'm missing a bit of this story)

[@MN-sc9qs]

Videos like these are amazing! Thank you.

[@CuriosityShow]

Our pleasure - lots more at kzbin.info spread the word - Rob

[@GunsAndAmmo3]

Where could I buy these? Too lazy to make my own.

[@yepiratesworkshop7997]

So. Bend Replicas. South Bend, Indiana. They have a webite under that name.@@GunsAndAmmo3

[@Jalalkazim110]

My God. That was heck of a job in gone days.

[@bulletproofpepper2]

Thanks for sharing.

[@redblade5556]

The smaller cannon he talked about at around 1:50 is a falconet if I’m not mistaken.

[@satishbariya6584]

Thank you so much

[@Ostsol]

I'd assume that even those small cannon with cast bores would have to be reamed to smooth them. Is that correct?

[@yepiratesworkshop7997]

Ye would be right about that.

[@peter_castle]

Awesome!

[@piotrlenarczyk5803]

Thank you for video. I guess that "drilling magic" accuracy was connected with usage of reamer, than turning technique (fixed tool vs fixed detail). Any kind of "magic" stink is probably a boring forgery.

[@keeleeng]

Is the mill still there?

[@CuriosityShow]

+keeleeng It was filmed in Tasmania at the Penny Royal Gunpowder Mill -really a recreation for tourists of how they used to make cannon, gunpowder and more at the time of Australia's European settlement. I am not sure if it is still operating, but well worth a visit if it is - Rob

[@keeleeng]

+CuriosityShow Thanks for that.. I'll look it up. my wife has just informed me that she has been there as a kid

[@CuriosityShow]

+CuriosityShow Still going, it seems. You can see a bit about it here getaway.ninemsn.com.au/fsaustraliatas/launceston/17671/penny-royal-world

[@keeleeng]

+CuriosityShow Thanks

[@GunsAndAmmo3]

Thanks, I will use this for home defense.

[@Crusader-Ramos45]

What video tape is this from?

[@jaberjansabe1539]

Tf 5000kg? For one barrel? Holy fck that's indeed heavy

[@AImusic1997_Instrumental]

Thank you very much. Now, I can make my own cannon to make my neighbors shut up!!!

[@GunsAndAmmo3]

as a US citizen,I can own a musket without a license, the same with cannons. Even if I'm not even old enough to get some sort of license for that So can felons in the USA

[@PARALLELPEOPLEAKSHAYB]

That was awesome, is that factory still alive or just a museum???

[@CuriosityShow]

Just a museum. Penny Royal in Tasmania - I think it is still going - Rob

[@PARALLELPEOPLEAKSHAYB]

@@CuriosityShow Thanks

[@avemaria7180]

that is how you make a lantaka or boga use on new year

[@gartenwollo]

Was hat eine Hammerschmiede mit dem Guss einer Kanone zu tun?

[@robnewman6101]

Wow.

[@irishpatriotv2575]

Good to know if i ever get isekai’ed

[@wyattguilliams2621]

Could you make rifle barrels the same way?

[@KoeSeer]

yeah, same technique. Boring hole to a piece of metal pole.

[@richardscheirman9782]

3 miles wow

[@qorilla]

Similar to church bells.

[@pravinnagarkar4710]

This is not british, this is INDIAN cannon

[@heinrichhimmler5216]

lol in your dreams Pajeet

[@Dawid-kn6mv]

That was disapointing. Many deatial weren't shown and explained. They didn't even show the drill.

[@Test7017]

Wow so boooring👌👌😂

[@bamanbangali2897]

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