Meet the Men Who Dig WW1 TRENCHES in Fields | BARMY

Joe visits two men who have worked together to transform a field into a World War 1 trench. It's a trip along the duckboards of history... but what made them start digging!?
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[@yourhostfritz8432]

I'm finally not the only one who wanted to build a trench in the back yard. XD

[@TheRealFDR]

You DIDN'T build a trench in your backyard?

[@imperialwarphotographer4346]

I always wanted to dig a trench in my backyard but I only had space for a two man fighting hole which I I’d end up digging

[@John.McMillan]

I built small trenches but never made a in depth trench, Once I buy some land I damn well will be digging for fun.

[@yourhostfritz8432]

@@John.McMillan Maybe one day I could join you. XD

[@bram2369]

Search “history sectets” on youtube. That guy also has a nice trench!

[@tomreijtenbach7154]

9:24 “I really enjoyed my day in the trenches” that is something these soldiers would have never said during the war. Great video!

[@benguthrie3286]

i feel that there were sarcastic smart asses back then

[@joshw9037]

@@benguthrie3286 I can only imagine the things that were said back then lol. I know the bullshit we said in the army while deployed 😂

[@barbarannop1799]

@@benguthrie3286 in the documentary “they shall not grow old” you get some insight on some of the soldiers humor and what they would joke about:) (besides other things ofc)

[@sirstahlhelm6977]

​@@barbarannop1799 Also from that movie, some soldiers even enjoyed some time in the front line (when it wasn't too active)

[@Jinnai89]

"pish posh lad, i was in the trenches and it was a lovely time" the guy with the highest rank there probably

[@davidguf579]

conducting a "defence" is no joke, during a field op in the Marinecorps me another guy had to dig a two man fighting hole lined with sandbags and areas to put our gear and stuff, that took all day. Not to mention some kind of tropical storm came right over us and poured on us the whole night, our small fighting hole kept collapsing on us the whole night and we had to constantly trovel water and mud out of our hole, cant imagine holding that kind of thing up for years on end.

[@claydud271]

Once it’s been set up with revetting wouldnt need much beside getting water out of it

[@John.McMillan]

Trenches were typically structurally supported with wood planks and support beams as well as a elevated platform to avoid stepping in mud all the time. Trench foot and gangrene were still massive problems, Took about as many men out of the war as bullets.

[@John.McMillan]

And yea, Fighting holes in rainstorms are a massive bitch.

[@sesew8933]

@@John.McMillan 20 million people died in ww1. How many people died to trench foot? 79000.

[@John.McMillan]

@@sesew8933 Did I say died? No.

[@ledge5890]

As a reenactor myself, and knowing a full kit of gear costs £1000+ my heart nearly shot out of my chest when he fell over "Trying it out" for the first time... 0:

[@oli3437]

Agreed, especially when he fell on the rifle 😧

[@johndavies5906]

That rifle was probably an original deac, i spat my tea put when he fell over🥴

[@nateweter4012]

It’s so interesting to read these comments (in a good way) to get a little insight into the perspectives of others. As a yank, we’re in a bit of a weird time in the surplus market especially regarding certain milsurp rifles. We have smle’s, 98’s and Garands up to our chins at the moment and oddly enough, they’re cheaper than SKS’s which used to be the rock bottom standard by which everything else was sort of gauged. When I saw him fall I thought nothing of the deact and my first thought was “that’ll be good for the gear, to get some wear and mud in the fabric”. I’ve got a bunch of repro German and US gear I’ve collected since I was 12 but I just don’t value it as much. Anything original, I very much care for. I’ve gotten most of my gear through At The Front and love their stuff. I wear their repro US Service Shoe M43 as my work boots currently and use their German M42 cut Blurred Edge (rauchtarnmuster) Smock for Turkey hunting here. Good stuff.

[@tavish4699]

So what ? Your reenacting but you want a clean Kit without scrapes and no dirt ? Whats the point of that

[@PilotTed]

@@johndavies5906 It didn't look anything like a real enfield, deac or not. It is a wooden mockup.

[@davepearce6359]

How cool is this. Well done Toby. 😊👍🏻

[@McNab1986]

Crazy thing is, if they are identical boots, look how easily he fell on wet mud, and think about what no mans land consisted of alot of the time

[@greenfireproductions8629]

This man was the reason me and others are as interested in WW1 as we are and I started building my trench we are a few but strong style of historians

[@jameshewitt8828]

Incredible stuff, and jealous of your job, getting to explore and interview people like this fine chap

[@51WCDodge]

Andy is a fantastic communicator, though he ruined my life. Once he started me on the Great War, I've never been cured.

[@MiKeMiDNiTe-77]

The guy showing us the trenches is great I would love to have a chat with him about WW1...good value

[@Falkriim]

Same

[@derekstynes9631]

Great Work Toby You are an Exceptional Young Man and a Credit to Your Family .

[@pranavr9783]

Gurkha beaneth the bravery. The movie made by Nepalese crew. It about kulbir Thapa who obtained the first Victoria cross. Should read the reasoning of why he obtained Victoria cross

[@lifestories7957]

Very interesting..

[@lachlanchester8142]

Thank you barmy very cool

[@antnewbon2673]

I watched this gentleman when I was younger. He has a wealth of knowledge.

[@MadMatt13]

Well done Toby, it's great that you are able to educate so many people and pass on your passion. All the best 👍

[@AdurianJ]

An interesting topic for a video could be how the bodies from the 1916 Batte of Jutland floated with the currents as far as the Swedish west coast hence there are war graves from Jutland all along the Swedish and Norwegian west coasts.

[@andrewward1887]

We have a 200 acre WWI French battle field here where I live in PA complete with field hospital, vehicles and everything else with 1000 members and it's all private.

[@nicolagiles9498]

Being a bit of a history buff I'm enjoying your channel. Keep up the good work

[@jamessheehy4895]

Just discovered your videos gonna watch them all great stuff

[@louismoran9413]

What a king, thank you Toby. Very cool !

[@gilvangreig-clarke2106]

Not me watching this after coming in from digging my trench

[@johanminnaar1074]

Truly impressive ! Well done Toby !

[@RoninOfTheVerse]

This was lovely. Thank you for sharing.

[@roniimontfort536]

Great video, and congratulations!!! It would be careless of not salute Mr. Tobey Dingle and his love of history and building the trenches. Bravooo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@TheAir2142]

To be honest there is something about digging holes. Something deep down and primal. I have yet to go to the beach and not find an “entrenching” group of men from ages 9 to 35 just digging a big hole for no other reason as to because we can. Just start digging a big hole on the beach and I guarantee other random males will join you in deepening the hole. I get the feeling these guys took that primal drive to dig a hole to the extreme and ended up recreating a WW1 trench and made a business of it. To be honest I kinda wish I could do the same thing.

[@jayweber3020]

seen so many of this man's documentaries growing up

[@erroleabrown4317]

Extreme lessons in history from one so young amazing

[@fayecox9401]

What a amazing young lad keep up good work

[@1701enter]

blooming marvelous...

[@shaunpoland5656]

You have a good face for a movie, I could see you staring in a ww1 movie, you really fit the kit

[@K04L44]

Great video, very inciteful

[@ianmatthews22]

Hi there guys I'm a disabled British Army Veteran who has set up a not for profit community educational project called WORS War Out Reach in Schools- Gloucestershire. We have our own Mobile WW1 Trench. We are working towards a Local History Partnership with 7 Schools and building our own small Trench System

[@noddytiddlywinks6873]

as a vet RESPECT n THANK YOU Toby :-)

[@joek7277]

Really interesting video, Andy is a top bloke

[@oMaGicKsv]

That was just the right amount of interesting! I loved it, thank you so much mate 😀

[@jameskessler2553]

Hes so keen about it amazing

[@sayerma]

I love this dude 😆. What a legend. I also built a fighting pit at my grandmothers farm completed with sandbags, firing port and timber revetments. Then came the home-made weapon pintle to support my big plastic toy gun. Had so much fun in it with my mates as we were growing up rein-acting all of our favourite war movie moments.

[@yonkokaido6955]

They did the opposite of history. Spent forever making nice British trenches and spent almost no time on the german trenches. In reality the germans had way better living conditions in their trenches. Edit: the germans realized very quickly that trenches where not going away quickly. The british did not.

[@WethamanClanVideos]

Wow this kid got to do exactly what I wanted for airsoft. My dad borrowed my principals tractor back when I was in middleschool and I asked him to dig some trenches on our property turned out more like 4 sandpits. Its the thought that counts but darn this would have been awesome.

[@philipdaelman1684]

Beautyful .From Belgium nearby YPRES Flanders Fields

[@georgehorobin438]

Interesting stuff

[@sporkboy3469]

"He had to save the mud, to give the rest to his mate"

[@GiacoN-__-]

im 9 and i with i had trench in my garden!!!!!

[@babyseals4872]

Very cool

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Well _someone's_ got to do it - those trenches aren't going to dig themselves, are they?

[@elveheim]

I am currently reading Ioan Grillo’s new book “Blood, Gun, Money”. It is about the iron river of guns going from the USA and south across the border. Very interesting and easy to read.g

[@gboutdoors5198]

At my grandmas farm I’m digging a trench with my cousins and siblings it’s just shovels wish me luck we maybe are 2 feet in we started yesterday

[@man.inblack]

youve just gotta convince her neighbours to do the same, so you can drink tea and sing war songs at each other

[@td370]

1:20 Anyone know what kind of jacket the host is wearing? A Harrington Jacket?

[@bscrecoveryrescue4791]

Great trench .... when the reporter took cover lol lol

[@opinioncuenta1751]

Imagine having an airsoft WWII battle but with 5000+

[@warrickmiller7651]

Range aint great on the sub 500fps guns haha

[@johnsmithers5044]

Great stuff.

[@pickitup7008]

Dedication!

[@st0rts11D4]

I need to find some drinking buddies and a plot of land to dig trenches with.

[@christianpatriot7439]

Are these trenches dug to scale? Today's people are physically larger than they were in World War I.

[@ScootsMcPoot]

Not much bigger

[@John.McMillan]

Holy shit, Ive wanted to do this for so long.

[@jonathanrichwine1996]

I went looking for it on google maps without knowing the address. I found it

[@nikospielvogel6464]

Imagine playing airsoft in those

[@aperson5994]

Dangerous

[@Bunny-zn7ke]

@@aperson5994 just remove the barbed wires

[@SyroXtal]

Imagine Having a Nerf/Airsoft War in these while dressing up in WW1 Outfits and WW1 Style Nerf/Airsoft Guns.

[@jasonnicholasschwarz7788]

I want one!

[@Leandro-bj6jh]

@ 15:00 : "All before he could buy a bear" My American ass: "You can buy bears?"

[@NW-sp1fj]

No

[@Leandro-bj6jh]

@@NW-sp1fj My disappointment is unimaginable

[@fetanizmczorabin8543]

They all look so young as for ww1 veterans!

[@wijk89]

I couldn't help but notice they are not up to their ankles in mud and water.

[@danielm7435]

Toby’s house kinda looks like the house in war horse

[@SleepingForestGaming]

some went through hell and back and some souls were laid to rest

[@DrummingWebby123]

Where abouts are these guys located? Noticed Toby mentioned that they open to the public sometimes?

[@Htchhgjhhchc45]

Imagine you start building a WW1 Trench in your backyard and your Neighbors look out the window and sees a Man digging a WW1 Trench in a British WW1 Uniform 😂😂😂 The Neighbor 👁 👁 👄

[@ivanmosiunleongxuanhemoe7521]

Cool trench

[@Biggie_Cheese1234]

Ima give these guys a call to see if they can hook me up with a trench for my airsoft games

[@jacobbuxton932]

Awesome video!

[@twinz0l043]

Nice intro

[@artificerdrachen6908]

"So, why do you dig out trenches?" "Because why the fuck not?"

[@zaynevanday142]

Why go to all that effort to skimp on the depth of the Trench ? Plus the German trenches were way more elaborate than the British lines with deep comfortable bunkers/living quarters

[@tobiasbourne9073]

You’re not one to do research are you?

[@zaynevanday142]

@@tobiasbourne9073 more than you obviously at least ive actually seen the real ones in France and at no time is your head over the parapet unless you are on a firestep

[@tobiasbourne9073]

@@zaynevanday142 I have been to many in France and Belgium, including Sanctuary Wood in which there are parts that are deep and parts where your head is high above the parapet. Also if you look in photos you can easily see how much trenches differentiate in depth. It’s Especially significant that reserve trenches are much deeper, however they’re not making a reserve trench. You need to realise that many times when digging their trenches, they could be under heavy shellfire, I have read a primary source explaining how they couldn’t get their trench very deep due to poor weather and lots of danger. So you’re either blind, or lazy in your research. . .

[@zaynevanday142]

@@tobiasbourne9073 OMG can one person be so Obtuse ?

[@tobiasbourne9073]

@@zaynevanday142 Well I’m not, but you may be.

[@t5rzcx]

Same regiment as my 2X great grandfather

[@LehySnek]

Some garden, some build trenches in their spare time. But do mind that I'd rather have a green thumb rather than a trench toe.

[@lordot8665]

I would do this as a job any day.

[@TheresOnly1Matew]

Where’d ya get ya coat from

[@NannyLicker]

Any chance I could come see ?

[@adele8955]

I built a city in my backyard

[@mistersands339]

This is what your husband is doing when you think hes cheating on you

[@lemon_stuff2475]

allies trenches: BAD TRENCHES axis trenches: depends but mostly good

[@joshuajones9035]

I’d love to gig my own in the country but it would just fill with snakes and spiders

[@danielnilsson9198]

This is so bloody cool so this is a "most see" soon as the damn Covid crap is over. You british are so much cooler than us swedes, this trenches would never be allowed in Sweden. "Someone might get hurt!!"

[@adamarthur2042]

whos gonna tell em it ended.

[@BlackJeepConvertible]

Just join the Infantry for a few years

[@reddevilparatrooper]

I would hate to be in a WWI trench. My Dad who was in combat in Korea told me they had to dig trenches along hillsides for defensive positions to fight off or hold the North Koreans or Chinese during their attacks. The problem was living in them for days or weeks and even months as a patrol base was the enemy dead bodies left 300 meters or more in front of your firing position would leave a bad stench of rotting corpses that will bring flies and maggots to you and rats that will start running up and down your own trench that will keep you awake all night keeping them off of your body. Next is lice, these little bugs will fuck with your mind scratching under your uniform when you try to sleep. Dad hated Korea during his 3 years there in combat. He said the Chinese made that place a living hell fighting for the same hills and valleys for months because the Chinese and North Koreans dug trenches also. To attack an enemy trench requires more firepower as in artillery and mortars before an assault. The problem is you have to constantly observe where the Chinese or North Koreans move their machineguns and mortars because at night they move them into positions of interlocking fires. Artillery coordination and fire planning had to be solid in assaulting any objective. A good leader had to do reverse fire planning also just in case of being counter attacked for a withdrawl. Doesn't mean you are retreating but drawing your enemy into the open to bring down more accurate artillery or mortar fire to cause more casualties on your enemy as a deception. American infantry companies within a regiment were used as bait for these objective assaults on enemy positions. Very sad and horrifying stories Dad told me about combat in Korea..

[@lauraramsey8658]

Where in the UK is this?

[@oli3437]

It’s in Kent

[@headhunter_4209]

bfbs no way not seen that in years

[@moriarty6958]

It was annoying me he didn't shut his car door, but then he shut it

[@morganfreeman6305]

I know a ww2 soldier and he is my mate

[@bearsagainstevil]

watching the shelling in Ukraine , trenches would still cut down the numbers killed , you see people putting up barricades or running from bombs but not digging foxholes . although they are digging trenches in Odessa

[@Paxotrials]

Your liying if you say you never wanted to build a trench when you were younger, this top bloke just went and did it and made an income

[@RichardNumbers]

Gorden Ramsey of WWI.

[@harrydoescrap6423]

hope nobody wants to invade this mans yard

[@jamessheehy4895]

What car you own really confusing me? Peugeot is it? A mazda?

[@announcerspeakerboxbfdi4966]

Looks great for airsoft

[@christianpatriot7439]

The way I would have done it would have involved real mortars.

[@jeremymacdonald2073]

Forrest why are you making a bunker. i just like digginngg.

[@rkkastarshina3989]

Guys, I hope everyone can relate to that I would love, fuckin LOVE to build a smalm trnech system in like a 1km×1km field and have an airsoft war between american soldiers and soviet soldiers 1980, as if the "3rd world war" broke out. If ypu get hit in chest or head, you just drop on the floor and get transported away later, if you get hit anywhere thats not chest or head you fall to the ground and scream. That wpuld be a hell of an adrenaline kick and I think after a few days it would really feel like you were in an actual battle Costs of my almost-original uniform: -M69 summer jacket+trousers (officers version) 46€ + 10€ shipping (ORIGINAL) -SSh-60 VSSR helmet about 30€ (ORIGINAL) -rubber boots( look fairly similar to original ones) 13€ -GP-5 gasmask with new polish filter 30€ (cause original one has asbestos) (ORIGINAL) -leather belt I got from my parents: 0€ all together: 129€ for looking close to a 1980's soviet officer

[@Steelstriker]

What is the difference between next level and too far in this hobby?

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Well, some say bankruptcy and divorce are too far; some say it’s a good start.

[@genesmolko8113]

The trenches seems a bit shallow

[@hawlikd]

Why?