The original cannon was probably made with a rotted log, the reason it exploded and the reason they could drill it in one day.
@Catnippy4 жыл бұрын
plus i doubt that they reinforced it
@ChadKakashi4 жыл бұрын
@@Catnippy the dude made that comment 7 years ago.
@Mngalahad4 жыл бұрын
@@ChadKakashi still true
@drwahnsin68674 жыл бұрын
@@ChadKakashi So: no one is allowed to comment on his comment any more?
@williamwaffle16294 жыл бұрын
i wasnt even alive 7 years ago
@Corristo895 жыл бұрын
Jamie actually looked for that little granite ball every time they were at the runway, hoping to find it hiding in a bush somewhere. Either it's still there or fell into the San Francisco Bay.
@magnusgranskau74875 жыл бұрын
as someone else here said it probably shattered when it hit the runway
@Voltaic_Fire3 жыл бұрын
Let's hope it was lucky enough to fly right out of San Francisco.
@RAHSdaboy123 жыл бұрын
i kinda feel bad for him. he’s sentimental about that ball hahaha
@o-hogameplay1853 жыл бұрын
legends says that it is in orbit, and nasa has to calculate it way always in order to avoid a collision.
@ichuisaac12312 жыл бұрын
poor jamie.... losing his awesomely carved ball. you can here the disappointment in his voice
@starchild22994 жыл бұрын
wrong "hear"
@senneverkoyen23784 жыл бұрын
Legends say that Jamie’s cannonball is still going
Awesome! But, pretty much any cannon can bee blown apart by jamming the pipe and fill it up with way too much powder. It was more impressive too see that such a well working cannon could be built out of wood.
@russruss15315 жыл бұрын
It would depend on the platform you put it on
@leokim14585 жыл бұрын
@@Exarhadsgfds It's an artillery piece, it doesn't need to be precise.
@Knyex5 жыл бұрын
The cannon in the myth was made by common townspeople. Them using *way* too much gunpowder and getting it jammed is a very realistic explanation. basically the tree cannon in the myth most likely exploded due to misuse the same way a normal metal one would have.
@leokim14585 жыл бұрын
@@Knyex Agreed. It's quite plausible. The equipment will only go as far as the operator allows it. If the operator F*up, then so will the equipment.
@madcowrebel42166 жыл бұрын
I think Jamie's cannonball must have shattered when it hit the ground. 😔
@josephkaufmann49175 жыл бұрын
It's Granite! At one time that's what was used! You can find them. I used to work on a farm,the old farmer had a lot of them,i live in the Isle of Man!
@killman3695475 жыл бұрын
+Mad Cow Rebel. either that or i bounced a few times and landed in the bay, or the cannon was powerful enough to fire it into the bay without touching the ground at all since the cannonball is alot heavier than the tennis ball it would go farther
@atoaster67155 жыл бұрын
@@josephkaufmann4917 Oh nice! I live on the Isle Of Man and didn't realize you could find Cannon balls.
@tkegger214 жыл бұрын
Nah. Someone working there mustve found it
@michaelcaplin89694 жыл бұрын
Not a chance. That cannonball was intact 100%. I work in a museum where we have similar cannonballs, all used to destroy the building the museum is now in, and they were fired from a cannon about three times the size of this one and with probably 15 times more power straight into massive stone walls. They don't shatter :)
@nalinea183 жыл бұрын
"Hey, test out a wooden cannon!" Jamie&Adam: "Make a wooden pipe bomb? Sure!"
@SeraSer4phic3 жыл бұрын
Here in the philippines, we make mini cannons made out of bamboo. Sure it's way out of proportion but imagine how flimsy bamboo is and how these cannons can launch rocks and cans over 100 meters only using gasoline.
@haruhisuzumiya66502 жыл бұрын
Gun powder has more potential force energy wise, and TNT was originally more gun powder than nitro glycerine
@andypendant35906 жыл бұрын
The guy who invented the myth is so happy now. No one will know he actually killed thw villagers
@_Channel-ce4vq4 жыл бұрын
Bulgaria used a cherry cannon (Made out of a cherry tree) in the April uprising 1876. It actually killed its user on the first shot.
@94Newbie10 жыл бұрын
well they could have used a log that was way to soft, that would make both the explosion and the fast drilling easier. maybe it was partitially rotten from the inside.
@Techischannel6 жыл бұрын
The Hole was proberbly uneven, and to have more a force behind the cannon blast they could have made a bigger chaber inside the Cannon before the Shaft just for more ... Boom?
@kevinaugustsson22026 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking the simplest way to build a tree cannot quickly would be to split the log, carve the barrel and then nail/tie it together with rope, which I can see would be disastrous
@Knyex5 жыл бұрын
Maybe they used way too much gunpowder (remember: none of the people in the myth were actual cannon engineers) and the projectile could have gotten stuck. Real cannons misfired and exploded all the time. A crappy improvised wooden one exploding seems *super* likely, especially considering the people operating it.
@TankdozerCavalry5 жыл бұрын
They should've just rigged up a bow drill. Now that CAN drill a log like that in a night.
@PBMS1235 жыл бұрын
You can tell they didn't have need enough weight pushing down on the drill. He made that dril sharp, yet the shavings were dust. It's needs more feed pressure.
@LadZeroUltra3 жыл бұрын
What they didnt tell you is that modern black powder (which is what they used in the last clip) is a hell of a lot more explosive than some medieval concoction of sulphur and charcoal
@sxualp0t4t094 жыл бұрын
2:30 feels like part of a stand-up set lmao
@fijistarproductions9904 жыл бұрын
Next up: The Mythbusters make a tree out of a cannon
@MrAppleSalad6 жыл бұрын
they were angry so they probably rushed things. Maybe picked a soft log or split the wood a bit when they were drilling the hole and they certainty didn't reinforce it with metal. That plus the fact they more then likely packed it with all the gunpowder they had makes for a big boom.
@Fadez774 жыл бұрын
Back then the safety parameters on Mythbusters was listed under the philosophy: "Best Guess" Looking at the later seasons its like night and day
@ViktorKruger993 жыл бұрын
indeed, Jamie once said that the guy in charge of the gunpowder was kinda clueless. From that point on they started working with bombsquad.
@alexanderquijada11 жыл бұрын
The myth does not explain how familiar the villagers were with cannons. Simple logic would dictate to a ordinary untrained person that lots of gun powder= longer range and more death. For all we know (if this even happened) that the village blew up their cannon the exact same way the myth busters did. With too much gun powder and improper cannon balls. Not surprising for a one day build.
@alecnolastname43624 жыл бұрын
6:59 Dissapointed in himself Jamie is nowhere near as sexy as Shirtless Sweaty Jamie.
@alexanderquijada11 жыл бұрын
The shrapnel from the exploding cannon may have though... in Naval battles, the shrapnel from a cannon ball was more deadly than the ball themselves.
@lemons15593 жыл бұрын
That is also how modern kinetic shells work.
@SALordBaxter12 жыл бұрын
Wooden cannons are a tricky thing too, they CAN work but they could and often did explode, King james the second of scotland was killed when a wooden cannon exploded when it was fired during a siege, the gun crew was safe as they had wisely hidden behind a mound of dirt as was generally the practice when operating one.
@haruhisuzumiya66502 жыл бұрын
The Turkish were the first to use canons in war and were deadly effective
@AL33M1811 жыл бұрын
thank god they spild the soda, otherwise no 5 pounds of gunpowder
@idiotsandwich75283 жыл бұрын
mythbuster: I hope it won’t blow up on us. Also mythbusters: Lets try 5 pound of gunpowder.
@nandus198912 жыл бұрын
There ARE records of wooden cannons, but they were built with an inner iron/steel barrel. The Swedes used leather cannons in the same fashion in tha 17th century. The villagers of Paks (Hungary) built a full-wooden cannon and they got a barrel-explosion just like they did, seemingly for the same reasons. It was around 1570.
@Bigpapa889012 жыл бұрын
it made me feel kinda sad when they blew the cannon up :( they worked so hard to make it and it was working so well....
@xientau90283 жыл бұрын
At the same time they were searching for the ball, on the other side of the bay; "Alright, which one of you brats threw this rock through mah windah?!"
@DraconiusDragora12 жыл бұрын
Same as they had mills, water mills, that could easily keep momentum on the drill and saws with less people working on it. So it is more likely to acctually be done than most people think. Thinking outside the box always good, knowing about the age is better. Besides we wouldn't have powered drills if we didn't have those mills XD
@PedroSilvahf12 жыл бұрын
I wonder if the cannonball was really launched or destroyed in the blast
@Xifihas5 жыл бұрын
The cannon in the myth was built by desperate medieval peasants. Their workmanship was likely much sloppier than the Mythbusters'. A rotten log, no reinforcement, too much powder, an uneven bore causing the ball to get caught. There's all sorts of ways it could have failed.
@Debonair.Aristocrat5 жыл бұрын
You do realise that on average a medieval village idiot was more capable than modern man.
@chibani-5 жыл бұрын
merdieval peaseants who were carpenters,blacksmiths,alchemists and lumberjacks so quite a skillfull peasants also modern man also can fill too much powder in their cartridges reloads blowing up their rifles and revolvers
@VNYoshi5 жыл бұрын
@@Debonair.Aristocrat Depending on what are you using as a comparison. Knowledge-wise, no, same for safety standards, mechanical designs, pyrotechnic, etc, meaning almost everything involved in designing anything that is remotely safe. From the get-go, a cannon that can be built out of a tree trunk is already stupidity in its highest form: low accuracy, low fire power, small cannon ball (else you risk the wood integrity), can't use a lot of gun powder (risk of explosion) and overall is a much greater threat to everyone operating the damn trunk rather than the enemy. They'd have better luck jamming a log with gunpowder and rolling it downhill as a primitive bomb.
@TomZonk5 жыл бұрын
@@Debonair.Aristocrat What are you even talking about? There's no medieval village idiot that could come close to what the modern man can do, you're just an old saggy idiot who complains about everything. Get out of here.
@dylanmonstrum15385 жыл бұрын
Don't underestimate medievil villagers. Twice as strong and twice as smart as you or me. They knew what they were doing.
@ingni12345612 жыл бұрын
The people in the village would have been much stronger than Adam and Jamie, and would have also have more of an intensive to work. They would also be a whole village, so it's still perfectly possible.
@derhugo01355 жыл бұрын
bald man sad about loosing ball
@TheDanmarkian12 жыл бұрын
Maybe this is a dumb question, but wouldn't the spoon drill have been more effective if they had pre-drilled a small hole with a regular drill? Seems to me that the spoondrill scrapes off the sides but has no downward cutting ability.
@patersul5 жыл бұрын
They be like fuck it,lets get another one of them technicians 😂
@TheFurio25 жыл бұрын
“I want my ball back 😔” - jamie
@kilroy89893 жыл бұрын
Jamie still went looking for that cannon ball any time they returned to the runway when he had time.
@fuelfiredesire90054 жыл бұрын
5:50 i didnt get that "joke" when i was 7 lol
@Henzzman12 жыл бұрын
yeah but i think it would have been possible to make it in one night,because they had the tools already pre made and they had a lot more human resource available and their spoon drill might have been more powerful and robust.
@lucasbarrow57766 жыл бұрын
Henzzman also depends on the wood if they used hard wood or soft wood
@NoVoiOvi11 жыл бұрын
It's funny see how the shows success has effected the safety and money issues, If they built this cannon now, they would have fired it in a bombing range, and would have used slowmo cameras too :D
@StijnVanBauwel11 жыл бұрын
6 people knew the guy who was suddenly hit by a handcarved cannonball...
@GnomishBoot12 жыл бұрын
That was my thinking as well when I first watched this episode. Given that the cannon evidently poorly made I also wondered if the original might have been without the reinforcing iron bands which may have also led to it exploding with a more reasonable amount of gunpowder.
@haruhisuzumiya66502 жыл бұрын
Considering the gun powder they made they likely overestimated the load, trust me scientists in the defence force know that too much is going to cause a chain reaction,
@LouSassles12 жыл бұрын
It's the Hyneman. He is always right.
@lapinlogic62675 жыл бұрын
This log was sat drying for a long time, if the log was fresh and wet maybe different story also maybe a weaker log, they made it over night in the spare of the moment not expertly chosen and the best thickness.
@ShtevieBrabo12 жыл бұрын
Someone hasn't been paying attention. They built it OVERNIGHT. That was their time frame.
@ShtevieBrabo12 жыл бұрын
Well, if you noticed their drilling with the medieval tool, you would know that even with taking turns, 12 hours still seems short. Plus drilling the hole is not the only part about the tree cannon. So even if the night was long enough to drill the hole, they would have an extremely short time frame for the rest.
@AdamIsUrqed12 жыл бұрын
No.. a logical extension would be that people of that era were unable to bore a deep hole into hard wood in one night.
@mrs_plinkett3 жыл бұрын
5:52 his laugh is so cute 😭😭😭
@TengouX10 жыл бұрын
I don't really know what they were expecting. Even a regular cannon can blow apart if you back the damn thing up too much and then overprime it with too much powder. Wood is just more vulnerable to internal stresses than, say, cast iron.
@schlipp90846 жыл бұрын
Tengou they were trying to blow it up ffs
@Oinikis12 жыл бұрын
well about cannon, i took a fat log and drilled a hole in side, put 20 grams of homemade blackpowder, added electric ignitor and made wooden plug. blown mup soo good, also saved some work for spliting.
@hitsurapapel19785 жыл бұрын
when the soda can hissed, i thought it was the gun powder activated
@Gilder-von-Schattenkreuz6 жыл бұрын
Also additional thing here. They Drilled this thing over Night. So it was likely done MUUUUUCH less Precise than what was Build here. And they likely had no Idea how to Measure Gunpowder so they might just have stuffed the Cannon to the Brink :P
@pemo26765 жыл бұрын
Could've done any technique to put the hole in too, someone suggested they could've split the lock and tied it together. That would result in the log being blown apart much easier, too
@shodanxx5 жыл бұрын
8:30 "eighty pounds or something" lol, no jamie, that's no 80 pounds for that piece of wood
@DjZorlag5 жыл бұрын
English elm is 0.55-0.6kg/dm3. That log looks to be about 15x20x170cm in size. That equals about 28-30kg or 62-68lbs. Slight exaggeration I'd say.
@shadowplotter12 жыл бұрын
one thing they never considered what if the drill theyd made back then was a much longer one, and that meant that a whole team of people can power the drill at once, that would increase speed for sure
@ashleyd93103 жыл бұрын
mythbusters: *doing science* jamie: imma put a can of soda in a hole
@jackasshomey4 жыл бұрын
lmfao best way to retreat from a frontline with cannon placements just stuff em full of gunpowder cork the ends and wait a couple hundred feet back for the enemy to ride in and take the place then blow the cannons XD
@DeathWard18711 жыл бұрын
and it was probably a way bigger shot and load. making the log weaker having a higher bore.
@lorispicer45983 жыл бұрын
These 2 certainly didnt believe in keeping anything for nostalgic purposes. (Maybe only if they could blow it up later)..... i miss this show with these 2 in it.
@BerserkerCompay312 жыл бұрын
There are things that aren't shown in the program. Sometimes, due to the duration of the show, they have to cut some parts. It doesn't mean that they forget thing (but sometimes they really do, like put bones in their balistic gel fists, for example).
@darthroden12 жыл бұрын
It might have if the villagers all took turns drilling and kept up the whole night. They might conceivably of had the time. Plus it depends on when they started and finished as no specific amount of time was offered.
@taipan80214 жыл бұрын
A little Color on the ball would have made it easier to find
@ThatsLeoYKnow12 жыл бұрын
No, the logical extension of that claim would be that people of that era took a lot of time to bore holes in wood.
@exudeku4 жыл бұрын
5:38 this is where the sexual innuendo began 5:49 ehem
@brendanhart5174 жыл бұрын
How many ounces to a pound? I thought the canonball might have shattered on impact but some people say it might not have. Really impressed at the canon though
@wowalamoiz94893 жыл бұрын
The reason why Jamie felt sad is he identifies as a baseball, and he felt like he lost a friend.
@HeeroYuy91113 жыл бұрын
ah man that was quite epic but come on they wrecked a really cool cannon lol.
@Enchurito12 жыл бұрын
Jamie should have painted the stone with spray paint a day glow orange or something.
@cuijiashousinacom12 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking, maybe the handle is shorter, although they would need mroe force, but then, they can drill 10 times faster. and if one is tired, the others can continue while he rest.
@Ouli9312 жыл бұрын
Mostly every village in medival had a river throughthe village. I think the also used the power of the water. I think with a mill they could done it. Also they normally had horses or other animals. I think they could done it. They weren't stupid. PS.: Sorry for my terrible english. Just correct my in your mind. You don't have to tell me my mistakes. Thx...
@prodos812 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't they have to register it with ATF as a destructive device? Since the bore is over .50 caliber.
@haruhisuzumiya66502 жыл бұрын
Just picture that, that tree canon was considered a WMD
@sachinshilwal713 жыл бұрын
With 5 pounds of gunpowder they made a tree bomb not tree cannon .lol
@randomshotz1312 жыл бұрын
they never in these clips anyway properly announced it busted based on what i saw they would probably call it plausible as it can happen and chances were the townsfolk used a larger hole and stuffed in as much powder as they had.
@Acylify12 жыл бұрын
actually i wouldnt say this myth was busted, just that tree cannons made and fired according to modern standards do not explode easily. who knows, they may have used more gunpowder or something that made it explode.
@Zombie-lx3sh4 жыл бұрын
At least this one didn't hit a house like the bowling ball did.
@Sbeatly12 жыл бұрын
even with all the experience in the world, I doubt anyone would be able to drill a 6 foot hole a tree with those tools
@StressfulGengar12 жыл бұрын
to this day jamie has still never found that cannonball that he chiseled!!!
@MiniMackeroni12 жыл бұрын
Disintegrated? No. More probable is that it split into clusters, which would be even more deadly for any infantry it was aimed at.
@noneofyourbusiness32883 жыл бұрын
0:47 that kinda makes me nervous. Static charges and friction are a thing you know ...
@miskers1212 жыл бұрын
Realistically, if the townsfolk didnt know what they were doing, they probably thought that the more the better and put to much in the cannon, causing it to explode/blow up ect.
@ntokozomduna6375 жыл бұрын
Wiah! Jammie did something wrong lol
@HighKingoftheElves12 күн бұрын
The bore of the cannon is far too small, an average cannon would have a bore of about six inches in diameter, such a wooden cannon would then probably explode
@Muck0064 жыл бұрын
They should have PAINTED THE ROCK made by Jamie for easier retrieval ...
@gunlover475811 жыл бұрын
so thats why i have a broken window XD
@pedroclaro78223 жыл бұрын
Ok now I wanna try to fall a tree with explosives XD
@iN00bT00ber12 жыл бұрын
They never said that it was impossible to bore a hole with a spoon drill. They said it was BUSTED because IT WOULD TAKE LONGER THAN A DAY TO MAKE A HOLE, even though the myth stated that it took the towns people only ONE day to do it. Not trying to start a fight.
@noisebombTDR12 жыл бұрын
this tree log was never ment to be a cannon ....... it was a granade. and they shot it out of a stone cannon that was inside a iron cannon that was loaded on a slingshot
@DaveDexterMusic5 жыл бұрын
It's weird to me that there was no slow motion, backstop, ballistic gel, backup balls . . . basically anything that would return good data.
@AnnabelLolita12 жыл бұрын
Indeed. They forget a lot of such things in many of their tests.
@MarkSmith-to7xi5 жыл бұрын
Cannons were made of wooden staves banded with iron well into 14th century anyway, so it was never a myth to start with
@TheFreakyJhonny11 жыл бұрын
which color is easier to see than white at a black surface?
@abhilashpatel18093 жыл бұрын
a good idea is to donate such cannon to enemies.
@mattbas-vi77504 жыл бұрын
Should have dyed the ball red or cover it on tracing fluid
@Spacemonkeymojo11 жыл бұрын
Oh wait nvm that was another mythbusters experiment lol.
5 жыл бұрын
Didn't you guys hit someone's house with the ball lol
@corndoghead15 жыл бұрын
Its not this one..
@BadMadChicken12 жыл бұрын
Thats an excellent point.
@Viirrvill12 жыл бұрын
hope jamie finds his ball someday..... i want to go and find it!
@nameless54135 жыл бұрын
i kinda want to see Braniac (explossives farm or whatever it was called) / Mythbusters crosover well back in the hayday of the shows it would have been just explossion porn
@TheGibberishGuy12 жыл бұрын
it's probably busted becuase they had to use a BAG of gunpowder, i don't think a town would use a bag of medivail to launch a rock.
@ohmahgawdfilms12 жыл бұрын
how far do you think that cannon ball went? I think it went somewhere around 4 miles away...
@Henrix19984 жыл бұрын
Didn't they also destroy a car window?
@KarisMajik3 жыл бұрын
Narrator: "for safety, the Mythbusters are behind lexan blast screens" Me, in the future: 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
@grandslam697612 жыл бұрын
More than likely used a rotted log and put too much gunpowder in.