Tree cannon part 1

Mb build tree cannon

[@Poopscipade]

Man, I forgot how much the voiceover adds to the show. He's just exuberant and kinda cheesy enough to be fun without going overboard and becoming grating.

[@GlennDavey]

I forgot he existed. I'm like "wait who's that guy?" In my memory it was just Jamie and Adam talking. Gosh this show is like a warm blanket...

[@HMan2828]

Jamie shirtless axing a tree trunk is the most manly thing I have seen on this show.

[@zaynehausman5066]

No no he's got a point

[@endermeap6488]

That’s a surprisingly high bar

[@riptidemonzarc3103]

Be honest, it's the most manly thing we've seen on the internet

[@BigBossTussBall]

Jamie Swoleman

[@rudiausbuddeln2588]

I only looked into the comments because i knew this one would be here

[@viceliag3916]

"The best medieval drill that Jamie's made all day" implies that he made another one yesterday that was much, much more impressive

[@aidanjohnson7571]

Or he made a much, much worse one that morning

[@Original_Syn]

Obviously he was referring to the one he made back in the actual Middle Ages

[@GodKingBob]

@@Original_Syn my thoughts precisely!

[@siscokidder]

He could have probably built a better one if there were a couple people with a whip and drums.

[@MageMelonVT]

"For safety reasons, they will ignite the gunpower electronically." Jamie: *Stands 2 feet away from it*

[@dopierraptor4679]

Estoppel Jamie fears nothing

[@77perudo]

i miss these guys

[@wellshit9489]

Nice pfp

[@SirNarax]

I think when you have a mustache remotely like Teddy Roosevelt you inherent some of his countless infinite MAN points.

[@geordannik]

I liked how the myth was that it killed half a village, and then Jamie stands so damn close to it on it's first gunpowder test

[@nickambrosini5177]

"And it weighs several hundred pounds" Immediate cut to Jamie lifting it

[@justafellerwithnoprofilepi4546]

Jamie is just the most powerful being to ever exist.

[@onbored9627]

@@justafellerwithnoprofilepi4546 Yeah, haven't you seen that picture where he pulls open his own asshole? super human feats.

[@JackSilver1410]

As the VO guy once said. Jamie Hyneman is "a man so tough he occasionally rusts."

[@PittsburghSonido]

Onbored ????

[@onbored9627]

@@PittsburghSonido it was right around the time mythbusters got canceled.

[@JD-dc1eb]

"I'm not doing anything to packish wouldn't have done if they had a chainsaw" is one of my favorite quotes

[@MrNick1092]

J D Exploration The sniff at the end makes it 😂

[@jamsistired]

It’s so great

[@emperorhadrian6011]

Overnight with hand tools? No. Overnight with a mill? definitely.

[@AgentTasmania]

Medieval wind and water powertools are the coolest shit.

[@thegeneralissimo470]

Probably a team of drillers overnight

[@BrandonsUsername]

@@thegeneralissimo470 Could even rig up a self-winding double pullstring to make the drill spin much much faster.

[@berryreading4809]

Or they could've wedged or sawn the tree split into halves, easily/quickly carved each barrel half, then banded it back together. Or they just used a tree with a rotten core with an all natural barrel 😄👍

[@twilightsparkle75]

@@berryreading4809 a rotted tree would give a lot more credence to the thought that the tree cannon just exploded on the villagers using it. or perhaps a termite infested tree

[@MattNeufy]

I see a shirtless heineman, I click

[@sgtjitters8980]

I’m a simple man

[@nickbryant2318]

My exact thought

[@Vitaliuz]

Matt Neufeld, you and me, buddy.

[@irishjames]

hyneman?

[@LurkerPatrol5]

I want his heineman

[@tdrizz08]

Doing everything “medieval” then cutting to a shitty Toyota was the funniest shit

[@vladig3995]

Nice pfp man

[@Salidin111]

Don't you know the trojan horse Greeks used was carried by a Toyota...

[@82ndAbnVet]

I drove a shitty Toyota just like that. It was a 93, same color and everything. Had over 300k miles on it when the motor finally died.

[@tdrizz08]

@@82ndAbnVet haha fr tho my third gen shitmobile got 300k and she’s still kickin

[@uppishcub1617]

carrying an improvised canon on the back of a shitty toyota has real ISIS energy

[@LouSassles]

You know shit's real when The Hyneman has to shed it's protective layer. (the shirt)

[@ivanadriazola1991]

Well to be fair, the "made overnight" often includes everything you had premade until the moment you decided to build it.

[@TheSFMCreators]

And to ensure accuracy, they used medieval tools and a medieval Toyota Hilux pickup truck to collect the tree trunks

LMAO

[@jacob_m_box3973]

2:18 Runescape: *Congratulations, you just advanced a Woodcutting level. Your Woodcutting level is now 2.*

[@cessna688]

the good old days of Mythbusters when the folklorist had a job

[@theindooroutdoorsman]

I love it when random channels have higher quality clips than the Discovery channel does.

[@DraconicDuelist]

6:11 I mean, the cannon also failed. I'd say the villagers cut several corners. Perhaps they'd cut the log in half and made the bore improperly before banding it?

[@sochiolympics8427]

Not to mention they had an entire village

[@davidgeorge6278]

"they" were fighting for their life, and "they" were probably more than 2 guys, who had hard medieval lives. You could get that hole drilled with 20 or 30 guys much easier.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

You can't really operate a drill with that many people at the same time. Although I find it probably they used softer wood to get it done faster. That would explain why the cannon exploded.

[@madman2u]

@@schwarzerritter5724 He probably meant it as they're taking turns since it'd be intense work. The more people that can shift with you the easier it will get. Say 5 minutes at a time at full speed and then switch guy and repeat until done. You'd work non-stop this way and people get to rest.

[@glenngriffon8032]

That's what bothered me about the mythbusters. They try their hand at a thing and when they can't they throw their hands up and say "It's busted". Completely neglecting things like skill, experience, craftsmanship. It'd be like me, who has never made a model in her life, trying to do one of Adam's "one day builds" and when I can't declaring it as something can't be done.

[@aronnemcsik]

Also "they" were probably in a much better shape...

[@onbored9627]

@@schwarzerritter5724 Taking turns going fully blast cranking, rather than slow and steady. I'm sure by overnight they mean sundown to sunup... 12 hours of straight full bore drilling by determined medieval soldiers/engineers... I bet they could do it.

[@kegmonkey5648]

I love that the finished cannon is in the background at the beginning of the set.

[@eddielane9569]

I remember that myth well. They never found that cannon ball.

[@samuelgunter]

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[@testikuskitestdrivr6012]

My gawd the shirtless walrus is hot !

[@downiemcsyndrome8067]

He's swoll

[@cloudstrife5174]

Is it rare to see him without hat?

[@dtiydr]

@@cloudstrife5174 Never happen, he must be very sick and strongly delusional.

[@TH-mr2ne]

Narrator: "it's the best medieval drill Jamie has made all day"

[@Cypher791]

It killed half the villager... we should probably stand like... at least 5 ft away... ☝️😐

[@TheJamie109]

I miss when the mythbusters was about seeing if something could be done, not whether or not it was possible. They put so much more effort into the earlier shows. And the music was so on point.

[@TheBobostuv]

"Of course we're going to try to blow it up, that's what we do!" -- Adam Savage

[@98integraGSR]

"Jamie starts by making an axe..." *shows an adze*

[@dxdraiba7604]

I think they mispronoubced it....because the guys certainly knew that was an adze....maybe narrator mistake

[@wu2166]

The MythBusters were a gift to mankind. RIP Grant Imahara

[@chazblank2717]

“I need someone with a whip and a drum.” I always knew he was a masochist.

[@Intrepid_Explorer]

3:00 "It's the best medieval drill Jamie's made all day." XD

[@gameoverlordN7]

Let's be honest. We all came here for the topples Jamie.

[@JackSilver1410]

Half right. I also came for the story. "If we have so many dead, how many left of the enemy can there be?" Medieval Hungarians were so smooth I'm sliding right out of my chair.

[@jmanalo9353]

Jamie's precision and Adam's creativity made these two kick off as a team

[@detachsoup6061]

Well with a cannon that was quickly rushed, and with a low quality tree, it could blow up, and it could be made in one night by a big group of people...

[@theduke7539]

When you do a barrel band. It helps to make the ring before you put it on the log so that you don't waste precious time bending it into a circle. Source: I'm a gunsmith with a hobby of breaking things until they become useful again. Also, cannon balls. Just fire harden mud in round molds. Fast, cheap, easy.

[@Spike-hl2mw]

"I'm not doing anything that the Paks wouldn't have done if they'd had a chainsaw." One of the best lines in the whole of Mythbusters.

[@leviticuscornwall499]

Doesn't matter who you are, Mysthbusters was one of, if not the coolest shows ever on tv.

[@Scott.Farkus]

I remember watching this episode; I said "That's not a canon, that's a big ass wooden pipe bomb"!!!

[@Corristo89]

Notice how they talk about the myth at the beginning WITH THE BUILT TREE CANNON IN THE BACKGROUND? That's like saying "You know, once upon a time people would drive these big metal vehicles with four wheels. But no one has proof of that" while a pick-up truck drives past in the background.

[@nematolvajkergetok5104]

I was quite astonished when I saw this show because I am the source of the story. It was told to me by an army mate back in 1998, who was from Paks. It's an urban legend they still tell there. The other town in the story is Tolna. I sent the story to Darwin Awards, and it was printed in their 2nd book. Mythbusters' research team must've picked it up from there.

[@daey9384]

i was watching foundation repair videos then a trebuchet video and now with mythbusters.... what a time to be alive

[@robmckennie4203]

Quenching steel in a plastic container, good idea!

[@nicosmind3]

"Can't drill a cannon overnight" Two solutions to that. 1 it was already partly made and they rushed the rest. 2 they used animal power in a clever way to speed up the drill. They were already using animals to power cranes and other devices. So to power a drill is easily possible. And I guess 3 they could have had better drills, and even maybe 4 better drills powered by animals.

[@Outside85]

It occurred to me that the village might have had a saw mill of some sort, like one powered by a big waterwheel, that could have been going all night. Another thing is that since the canon blew up in their faces, they might have cheated and though a trunk with a rotten core would have been sufficient.

[@dangerousdoggo5465]

@@Outside85 Paks is indeed next to a river. Wich is the Danube river.

[@IamfromCZ]

My grandfather used this so called "medieval saw" ten years ago :-D

[@thomasslater1533]

He needs to update his tool set then

[@YOMAMAXXL]

IamfromCZ a lot of people still use them

[@kdarkwynde]

If it ain't broke...

[@SDeww]

6:44 look at the marker on the drill its not even 1 foot, the gun powder and the cannonball wont be in the rear of the cannon thus not building full pressure when shot.

[@kakokapolei123]

"Instructor Chris Niemer specializes in keeping his cool" *said as he's going around his workshop on a skateboard* Must not be a very good instructor

[@navaryn2938]

"they light the fuse from a distance" * jamie literally stands two meters to it *

[@roberteospeedwagon538]

7:07 it’s actually precision vs power and precision

[@reignbowsix]

not to take anything from those 2, but i really think i could have seriously worked. the smiths back in the days weren´t that bad actually, i presume they already had complexer drills than jamie, and you shouldn´t forget the resilience of a fresh cut trunk.

[@StormsandSaugeye]

TBH, I doubt that only two people would be working on it. They'd probably have teams of their biggest, most muscular, sweatiest, Hungarians doing the job.

[@railgap]

Fun fact: technically, muzzle-loading black powder cannons are legal to make and own, even improvised ones. And technically, the local sheriff's department can come to your home, cut it up with torches right there in your drive way, and threaten you with physical violence if you complain to anyone, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. Ask me how I know this.

[@Intrepid_Explorer]

It doesn't matter how they build the tools, what matters is how quickly they could build a tree cannon with old style tools, not how they build the old style tools themselves.

[@patsykenelly9399]

The cherry tree cannon is documented part of the Bulgarian rebellion against the Otoman empire in the 19th century. It was made by hole tree and tied with metal, carried by a huge hero called the Bearwrestler. The cannon made only few shots on short range with BB's and then broke... but after all his purpose was accomplished - to give some fighting spirit to the men as first bulgarian artillery

[@kemimaro50]

my thoughts were exactly - didnt we have a cannon during the april rebellion?

[@patsykenelly9399]

kemimaro50 Yes man, we have around twenty ( the history is not so sure about the number:) But as long I remember, we took the idea from the rebels in Croatia. Few years before the April rebellion they were using the same canons as a mountain artillery. But anyway against the otoman artillery (quite modern for its time models of Krupp) they were just pointless. For example the maximum range of the cherry cannon was 400-500 meters shooting with stock weights or BB's, but the Krupp cannons have range around 5000 meters. Also most of the cherry cannons just went broken after couple of shots. But their purpose was different. Can you imagine the first turkish forces arriving in Batak and expecting poor villagers with few old rifles, then they see rebels with uniforms, discipline and freakin cannons shouting "This is Bulgaria mothafuckers - get lost". Cheers

[@kemimaro50]

i agree - although we go buttfucked for 3 centuries we have our awesome moments too

[@Amundstvoll]

Mythbuster doesn't actually do their homework properly for the most part. If they tested "did humans build the pyramids 10000 years ago", I'm pretty sure they would have concluded that it couldn't be done by the existing "low tech"

[@arwo1143]

As someone who worked with properly made medieval tools in a project where we build a cloister with methods from early 9th century (Messkirch, Germany... it’s called “Karolingische Klosterstadt Messkirch”) wich is basically the tools from the Mestermir find (the toolbox found in Sweden) that is the only tool find from that age It is possible to drill 1 cannon each night. Those tools work better than modern tools at times, especially if they are made properly You simply lack the experience in medieval toolmaking

[@GreenDayRoxer1]

Metallica in Mythbusters? This show just got a whole lot better :D

[@jmiller289]

I love the back and forth between those two!🤣👍

[@Razzfazz87]

even the drill would work. just let cows walk in circles, they don't mind, and they have more power so you can push on it harder.

[@Reth_Hard]

8:30 Please, tell me they're joking... Come on! The fuse look even more powerful than the main charge.

[@DJB10T1C]

Because there is no pressure. The chamber is empty. So the explosion would just flow down the chamber without any resistance.

[@eddiewebb1966]

I could just imagine going to work and doing what these guys do . This would be an awesome job.

[@HolographicSweater]

i feel like this show will still be equally entertaining in 100 years

[@kingsoup9]

I think Jamie was born with that moustache.

[@joey_chestnut]

3:00 "it's the best medieval drill Jamie's made all day" so your telling me he just sits there and makes medieval drills all day

[@franklyspeaking4480]

I think people dumb down previous generations way too much. They did laser etchings without a laser 😕 in granite. Drilled near perfect holes and cut 90° corners in solid granite, on the inside. Yeah, they cut them with wooden spoons dipped in wild berry juice. 😂

[@RadiantSkiddMarx]

That cannon ball was perfect though.

[@PeterBoulanger]

When I saw Jamie heating something metal with a blowtorch, I thought he was going for another technique, burning a hole through. They could have used a heated poker, plus a spoon drill, and gone through much faster.

[@jnielsen20]

Or maybe the canon exploded because it was made of a softer and easier drillable wood... just saying.

[@pallien7501]

As a blacksmith i have made augers close to this size. If done correct it should not take more than maybe an hour to drill out the bore.

[@nevadie133]

"The whole tribe" "I can't hand drill it by myself in one night so that's not possible" Bro the myth busters couldn't even theorize using gears or some shit?? Smh

[@kendrickminchew1855]

nevadie133 I’m thinking they were just fed up with using hand tools

[@Finnr100]

Drill bit was too large. Medieval wood workers would have started small and enlarged. Easily overnight.

[@rolandscales9380]

Spanish partisans used tree guns against the French during the Napoleonic wars, but they used pebbles as loose shot - a scatter gun - rather than cannon balls. They were generally used against columns in ambush on mountain roads. The gun would only have to be used once. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_cannon

[@Wolfsong27FlyHalfFullHeart]

And they told me A walrus was chubby! All I see here is all man Jamie.

[@MarioWendorf]

Remember when Adam and Jaime didn't hate the work and each other?

[@clinttheboss2117]

That little yota is loaded down. Like an immortal, unkillable mule.

[@Gilder-von-Schattenkreuz]

Just saying. But if the Tribe Build a Tree Cannon at all. They likely did not Build it with 2 People one of which turned a Single Short Handle above. They likely Drilled it with 2 People walking Circles with a Long Handle that had Extra Weight on top of it and had someone constantly removing the Splinters to make Room. Since we Talk about an Tribe they likely also did not have to do it with these 3 People but had One Guy Supervising and 3x3 Guys Switching with each other so the Drill would Run constantly. So I dont think it can be Called Busted just for this.

[@matthewdowns9822]

Or they could have been using compleatly diffrent method as well. Or possibly a softer wood, i mean it did explode after all

[@countteddy]

When we had to drill down the centre of a 12 foot log at the woollen mill we used increasingly bigger spoon drills that were heated to red heat to burn and drill out the core, even so , it could take over a week to reach the other end....

[@istvankovacs4154]

A mai napig emlékszem erre részre magyar szinkronnal még a rég elmúlt gyerekkoromból amikor még néztem tv-t. Van még más is aki Magyar és ezt nézi most angolul, mert mostanra már eléggé érti a nyelvet? 😉

[@dafid]

itt is lennék XD

[@dangerousdoggo5465]

Van bizony.

[@rolandfrei3924]

De melyik városról is beszélnek?😀

[@Infomaker69]

Paks is the town they talk about. Here is Hungary's only nuclear power plant.

[@chubbycatfish4573]

Don't try making a nuclear cannon.

[@TheBigMajskorv]

Jamie's got a ripper bod.

[@bens1752]

"I think thats going to do quite well, yes" is my favorite line

[@TheTarrMan]

What glasses is Jamie Heidemann wearing? The clear framed ones at 2:07.

[@MatthewSuffidy]

4:25 The town would have forgot to include this part.

[@solataire9805]

Jamie with shirt and beret: Hello 👨‍🎨 Jamie with no shirt or beret: Hi 😡

[@mr.personhumanson6871]

This was the first mythbuster episode I ever saw

[@brahmomento3189]

I came for the thumbnail, I came from the thumbnail 😉

[@MomQuestionMark]

3:18, Ah yes riding a skateboard in an industrial environment is such a brilliant idea. Nothing bad could ever occur if he crashed.

[@anomalyp8584]

This is just one way to drill out the barrel. There are def faster ways and better tools from back then to get the job done. Not to mention the quality of the wood.

[@noahhastings6145]

They act like there weren't lathes in medieval times. There were, and they were mostly used for wood.

[@zamane1234]

Adam: Jamie, you're doing such a good job! Jamie: *Get out of my way*

[@TheKisj]

There is nothing more manly than a shirtless Hyneman

[@Achonas]

id ont think drilling the cannon would bust it. remember, this was a village. they probably had everyone taking turns drilling it, going pretty hard at it.

[@letsbehonest4221]

We used to make mini tree cannons when we was kids to shoot rocks

[@Ipherix]

jamie looks like an 1800's pugilist good lord

[@samdilworth1989]

3:00 Its the only mid evil drill that Jaime made that day haha

[@danioshea]

Elm seems like a really odd choice. It's super strong, but it doesn't withstand a shock load, usually...

[@KarisMajik]

I have doubts they only had one person drilling. It would be more plausible to get it done in one night with a drill rigged up with something like a nautical capstan, technology that already existed for hundreds of years, so multiple labourers (all stronger and younger than Jamie, given the most common job was farmer, and average life expectancy was about 30 years) could turn the drill together and swap out when they needed a break

[@gunlover4758]

so thats why i have a hole in my roof

[@stoneforest2639]

I find it funny that made their own tools instead of just buying them, like I get they want the tools to me authentic, but you coulda just used a shoddy axe instead of making one, though I guess “what’s the fun in that”.

[@siprus]

LoL that mayor true politician. Answer to that question is of course.... not too many, probably none.

[@Bayan1905]

There is actually a clip of a small tree cannon in the 2017 version of The Magnificent Seven, when Jack Horn opens the barn door he cuts loose with a small version that takes out several mounted riders on horseback. You have to look quick, but you can see it's a wooden cannon.

[@SgtCookie111]

I disagree with Jamie's statement that it was unlikely they did it in one night. Medieval folks were used to hard, physical labour in a way that Jamie almost certainly wasn't. Combine that with the fact you can have one of these labourers just go _beast mode_ on the drill and then, when they can't do anymore, have another labourer swap in and go all-out drilling is something else that wasn't taken into account. And if Jamie thinks it'd take _him_ a couple of days? Those medieval farmers would've had it done in a night _easy_.

[@missumenimsatanass]

they used horses that was attached to the actual drill. the horses had ropes that would be wrapped around the drill and when the horses walked it turned the bit. not only made it easier on the men but it was much faster as well...

[@johnstuart3803]

Jamie shirtless remembers me the one time when he climb a mountain with hammer in a pot

[@Nonameoffroad]

😂