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Extremely satisfying watch…I wonder why he burns the ends he puts in the ground??
fivefivesixmillion
Prevents rot and keeps the beetles from burrowing
At 1:34, anyone knows what purpose does that part of the structure serve?
It might be a retaining wall he can pile dirt up the walls for better insulation
My Dad taught me a lesson about fenceposts he learned from a real live Texas Ranger.
In the late 1930s, Dad and his twin brother were setting fenceposts on their dad’s farm in southern Oklahoma, right close to the Texas border when a mounted Texas Ranger rides up. “Whatcha doin’, boys?” “Settin’ fenceposts.” “Show me how you’re doin’ it.”
They dug a hole with post-hole diggers, set a post in the hole, filled it in with dirt and tamped the dirt at the top in real tight.
The Ranger put his horse up next to the post and had it take a step sideways. The post leaned over. He then went and leaned over the last ten posts they’d set.
“Boys, you gotta tamp down the dirt at the bottom of the post, too. If you don’t, the cows will push the fence right down and get out.”
They pulled one of the posts out, cleaned out the hole, and set the post back in, tamping the dirt at the bottom the way the Ranger said. When they were done, the Ranger leaned his horse against the post. It didn’t budge.
Gotta tamp the dirt at the bottom, boys. The guy in the video didn’t, but all his posts were structurally tied together, unlike a fence. Not likely to fold the whole thing down.
fortyninemercury
I feel like this is another thing "history" has lied about.
These guys were plenty agile.
one of the big reasons why a full plate harness was so damn expensive: The workmanship making it so flexible and less burdensome.
What they mean by Master Crafted Armor
I’ve not seen full plate armour that has plate parts protecting the interiors of the elbows and knees. That seems... off to me. Usually it’s either maille or left bare for padded cloth.
But full plate armour of the Middle Ages was a lot less cumbersome than people imagined it being. Apparently it was Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” that started the trend of knights in full plate armour being cumbersome brutes that needed cranes and a score of servants to help them mount their horse (though it could have been an older idea).
A knight could run, jump, climb, and mount his horse by himself with no problem at all while wearing a suit of full plate armour, because the weight was perfectly spread between the various parts of the wearer’s body because the individual parts of armour would be tied to their gambeson, the padded quilt jacket worn beneath for comfort and extra protection.
I’ll share these videos for the full examples of plate armour was fitted to a knight while he was being dressed.
I said to my boss the other day, “I need to leave early today, I’m going to be a father!” He replied, “Of course! Take the afternoon off.” When I returned to work the next day, he came to my desk, smiled and asked, “Well, how’d it go? Is it a boy or a girl?” I shrugged, “I don’t know…”
“I’ll tell you in nine months!”
Lads
When people say "boys will be boys", THIS is the shit that they should be talking about.
