Chopping A Tree With A Dynamite Axe! | MythBusters | Season 8 Episode 2 | Full Episode

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  • In Dynamite Axe, with no axe to hand and a tree to split in two, our resourceful and somewhat insane viewer straps a stick of dynamite to an arrow, fires into a tree and BOOM!
    Using science as a tool, Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk rumours, urban legends and popular myths that have captivated the minds of many individuals.
    #MythBusters #FactOrFiction
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  • @alexfenner7524
    @alexfenner7524 15 днів тому +459

    You guys don't know how great the past two weeks have been since I found out Mythbusters has full length episodes on youtube.

    • @HaposaiBG
      @HaposaiBG 15 днів тому +18

      Yes, I agree. Finding Mythbusters on youtube has made my day alot better.

    • @TiredMomma
      @TiredMomma 15 днів тому +4

      You can get them on dvd though.

    • @BillyBoze
      @BillyBoze 15 днів тому +8

      ​@@TiredMomma
      Ok. No one asked, didn't know or cares.

    • @NarutoGeek411
      @NarutoGeek411 15 днів тому +8

      I'm in high school again, at my father's for the weekend and watching all of the Mythbusters episodes that he recorded, and I have no pressing concerns.

    • @slytherinvibes666
      @slytherinvibes666 15 днів тому +1

      2:50 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @adawg3032
    @adawg3032 15 днів тому +106

    It is a gift to humanity that this show has been uploaded to UA-cam. Not only does it make the show accessible, but it preserves this amazing show for years to come.

    • @skug9bob
      @skug9bob 15 днів тому +1

      It's great to see it back.

    • @jayerjavec
      @jayerjavec 14 днів тому +1

      Sure. Blessings from the owners that molest us with great sound quality that we, the products, deserve.

  • @congoballs9725
    @congoballs9725 15 днів тому +604

    the narrator is locked in that room again poor guy

    • @robashley8216
      @robashley8216 15 днів тому +40

      I love that this is now a running joke every episode

    • @BadluckCursed
      @BadluckCursed 15 днів тому +16

      it wasnt till i went to the comments that i realised there was a narator, i thought he had the day off

    • @canada_isa_carnival
      @canada_isa_carnival 15 днів тому +6

      they have him caged like the PIT joke on the Eric Andre Show

    • @Firikka
      @Firikka 15 днів тому +20

      Well, at least we know that he is on the left side. So, we know which way to start looking for him.

    • @inmyopinion6836
      @inmyopinion6836 15 днів тому +3

      Lactose intolerant. He's phoning it in from the l'eau.

  • @adawg3032
    @adawg3032 15 днів тому +45

    Rest in peace Mr Imahara. Thank you for everything you did for child me and child everyone who grew up watching this on tv.

  • @hedgeearthridge6807
    @hedgeearthridge6807 14 днів тому +18

    I read about how the military has instructions for tree-felling using C4, so I tried it a while back using 2 pounds of tannerite on a pine tree. It did absolutely nothing to it. After a bit of studying, I learned about the property of "brisance", or the crushing-power of an explosion. C4 is so useful because it has extremely high brisance, whereas ammonium nitrate has negligible brisance. It can't crush wood fibers, instead all it can do is push really hard really fast. I then recalled learning that on Mythbusters when I was a kid 😂

    • @BMCKINN7
      @BMCKINN7 13 днів тому

      It be like that. So many random factoids you just know from somewhere and nowhere

  • @swampyproductions6755
    @swampyproductions6755 15 днів тому +18

    been loving getting off work to a new reupload. hats off to whoever made this happen, this show is just as good as when i was a kid. maybe even better

  • @TheVirtualWarlock
    @TheVirtualWarlock 15 днів тому +73

    40:17 Imagine if any vacationers heard that in the middle of the forest.
    "Ah! This is the life! Peace and quiet for miles!"
    Elsewhere... "FIRE IN THE HOLE!"

    • @zebjensen4251
      @zebjensen4251 15 днів тому +4

      If they were foreigners they were probably think. What is wrong with these Americans.

  • @joekinnear4671
    @joekinnear4671 15 днів тому +158

    A secret for you guys- switch your audio output to mono and the narrator will forcibly move to the middle 👍

    • @cyber4053
      @cyber4053 15 днів тому +16

      It seems like the audio in general is borked, because the show in general is on mono, but the narrator is only on one.
      I think it’s just not fixable without the raw audio, and all they have are broken audio versions.

    • @Drkwolf31B
      @Drkwolf31B 15 днів тому

      @@cyber4053 I used a browser extension and it was fixed completely. Tweaks For UA-cam changes it for Chrome.

    • @tv-pp
      @tv-pp 15 днів тому +2

      Use an aux cord with 2 bands instead of 3 and plug it to any speaker or headphones

    • @LokelyConed
      @LokelyConed 15 днів тому

      ​@@cyber4053 Heads up buddy, the show is not generally played back in mono audio. If you pull the audio into any free audio visualizer in the world, you'll see that the two channels have different audio running through them nearly all the time. Whether or not the audio is similar doesn't matter, any slight difference in audio from L to R channel means the audio is not mono.
      "all they have are broken audio versions" " the show in general is on mono, but the narrator is only on one."
      Please learn some basic audio engineering before talking out your ass and misinforming other less informed people.
      You try to provide the most complicated possibilities yet fail to even think "hey, maybe they just had the right channel of audio turned off for the narrator's track when they mass exported all the episodes their computers could handle." Forgetting to unmute a track is literally the most common reason why audio is messed up in any production. Second to the mic guy on set forgetting to jack his mic into the camera when they were recording so it becomes an absolute nightmare to get VO's done.

    • @TiredMomma
      @TiredMomma 15 днів тому +3

      How the heck you supposed to do that? UA-cam doesn't give you audio options.

  • @baddoboss9075
    @baddoboss9075 15 днів тому +5

    I like how youtube is turning more into cable TV but with adblock

  • @wingingglobe4095
    @wingingglobe4095 15 днів тому +121

    It's like I'm watching a show and some guy is just sitting next to me describing shit

    • @j.c.5480
      @j.c.5480 15 днів тому +11

      Yep, that is the narrator's job.

    • @chad9166
      @chad9166 15 днів тому +9

      ​@@j.c.5480The narrator isn't supposed to be panned 100% to one side. Do keep up.

    • @bryandale7125
      @bryandale7125 15 днів тому +1

      Grow up little boy and stop spewing immature disgusting filth like the C, S, or F-words in public! How pathetically unprofessional, disrespectful, uneducated, immoral, and Godless, thus anti-American.

  • @Berm_Blaster
    @Berm_Blaster 14 днів тому +1

    So greatful you guys uploaded free episodes for us to watch. Im praying you guys upload more! I have wanted to rewatch episodes for so long, we need more please!

  • @Kamodomon
    @Kamodomon 15 днів тому +5

    God damn, the bubble myth was fantastic. The way they try to test it on the medium scale and large scale was so simple but perfect. Love it.

  • @samsquanch6984
    @samsquanch6984 15 днів тому +14

    Another episode of quality TV. Those were the golden days of broadcast tv

  • @A_Brainless_Goblin
    @A_Brainless_Goblin 15 днів тому +16

    A myth I accidentally tested constantly as a kid, swimming over large air pipes/bubble in a large artificial beach and getting pushed upwards.

    • @Rinkul
      @Rinkul 15 днів тому +1

      Mine was “will it crush?” Lived next to the train tracks

  • @splintergaming87
    @splintergaming87 15 днів тому +9

    Tory making a Lonely Island reference... amazing

  • @JoeBidenator1564
    @JoeBidenator1564 15 днів тому +41

    R.I.P Jessi and Grant.

    • @rocketamadeus3730
      @rocketamadeus3730 15 днів тому +7

      Whoa, I didn't know about what happened to Jessi, that's nuts.

    • @tylerfortier2666
      @tylerfortier2666 15 днів тому

      RIP

    • @_Aliens_
      @_Aliens_ 15 днів тому +1

      Yeah. You never know when it'll be our own time

    • @jaredsteffes4001
      @jaredsteffes4001 15 днів тому +3

      thanks for reminding me😢

    • @Jay22222
      @Jay22222 14 днів тому +1

      @@rocketamadeus3730
      I’ve seen just about every early episode of Mythbusters and peripherally I think o was aware Grant wasn’t the only person involved with the production of Mythbusters to have passed but I can’t for the life of me bring to mind anyone named Jessi?...

  • @fernando13e
    @fernando13e 15 днів тому +2

    Best tv show ever for free, I ain't complaining for sure

  • @AgricultureTechUS
    @AgricultureTechUS 4 дні тому

    Remarkable! Science continues to push the boundaries of what we know.

  • @markyork1
    @markyork1 15 днів тому +21

    This was my first real favorite TV show

  • @crelos3549
    @crelos3549 14 днів тому +2

    The thing that I learned from this episode is that trees are strong

  • @pizzagal7
    @pizzagal7 13 днів тому +2

    I used to work at a wastewater treatment plant and one of the first things we were taught was not to fall into the aerator tank because you won't be able to get out because of the bubbles. They even demonstrated with a mannequin tied with a rope so they didn't lose it. 😅

  • @juxtor9539
    @juxtor9539 15 днів тому +4

    I couldn't help but wonder what results they might have had using det cord in a continuous slot instead of those bags of explosives. Love this show. Miss it too!

  • @AlexSchmid-TheAceofSpades
    @AlexSchmid-TheAceofSpades 14 днів тому

    Another free episode of Mythbusters, and it isn't even my birthday.
    This show was the bomb when I was growing up. ;) I feel like a kid again.

  • @jonathanschubert9052
    @jonathanschubert9052 15 днів тому +1

    Catch the bubbles in your clothes. Thats actually taught in the Navy (specifically, you splash air into your uniform clothes to use for flotation.) They also have procedures for drowning in tonic, provided the tonic is mixed with gin.

  • @oceanbreeze6455
    @oceanbreeze6455 15 днів тому +4

    That tree must have smelled amazing, Ponderosa smells like butterbeer

  • @rocketamadeus3730
    @rocketamadeus3730 15 днів тому +9

    Adam's idea of reasonably clear water is very different from mine.

    • @Michael_Hunt
      @Michael_Hunt 14 днів тому

      Same with his idea of a "snug fit". Little loose there bud... lol

  • @phookadude
    @phookadude 15 днів тому +2

    The force of an explosive drops off by the inverse square law so if you moved the charge closer to the arrowhead it would make a big difference. Also a binary explosive might have the same force as a stick of dynamite but it doesn't have the impulse which is what cuts. Mythbusters made this mistake a few times, trading dynamite for black powder in the cement truck for instance, their explosives guy was not great.

  • @michaelmayhem350
    @michaelmayhem350 14 днів тому

    Grant and explosives, it's like foreshadowing 😂

  • @calxer
    @calxer 15 днів тому

    Jaime and Adam (and obviously the rest of the Mythbusters crew) are fantastic and I am so grateful for the years of education and entertainment. I grew up watching Mythbusters and seeing these grand experiments and trials on the TV and have fond memories. Thank you again Mythbusters.

    • @adawg3032
      @adawg3032 15 днів тому +1

      Jessi and grant passed away.

    • @calxer
      @calxer 15 днів тому

      @@adawg3032 I know. I hope they may rest in peace.

  • @pedrodepacas-ic1cb
    @pedrodepacas-ic1cb 14 днів тому +1

    Adam has never looked nerdier than in SCUBA and a diving hood.

  • @Drkwolf31B
    @Drkwolf31B 15 днів тому +46

    Best science show ever gets released for free. Everyone complains about the sound.

  • @CAP198462
    @CAP198462 14 днів тому

    Somewhere, Sydney Alford is smiling and thinking “I could split that tree in half with explosives”. -RIP Mr Alford, you were a real mad lad.

  • @bmxscape
    @bmxscape 14 днів тому

    so many episodes i never knew existed and i watched it growing up all the time

  • @zhabiboss
    @zhabiboss 14 днів тому

    “there’s not even a crack!” *camera cuts to a shot of a clear crack in the tree*

  • @chargebackfees3941
    @chargebackfees3941 15 днів тому +4

    narrator is locked in my left ear

  • @neverendingproductions7171
    @neverendingproductions7171 14 днів тому

    Oh my god the full episodes are on UA-cam. God bless!

  • @imacrashtestdumy
    @imacrashtestdumy 15 днів тому

    Jamie making the star trek reference made my day lmao 🤣

  • @ku8721
    @ku8721 15 днів тому +4

    Mr. Beast: "I'm gonna plant a million trees!!!"
    Mythbusters: "We're gonna need more explosives"

    • @yourguysheppy
      @yourguysheppy 15 днів тому

      TV show vs. internet grifter is totally the same thing

  • @YoutubeWatcher264
    @YoutubeWatcher264 14 днів тому

    In another universe, Grant became much like Adam in 30 years.

  • @jonathanschubert9052
    @jonathanschubert9052 15 днів тому

    Awesome! I havent seen this episode!

  • @Thrax_Irons
    @Thrax_Irons 15 днів тому +2

    finally, some good fucking food

  • @CasualRacerRed
    @CasualRacerRed 15 днів тому +2

    More full episodes please

  • @5963jake
    @5963jake 14 днів тому +1

    I miss Grant. Every time I see him on a video it breaks my heart. Dam brain anuresium. 😢😢😢

  • @justindavis1546
    @justindavis1546 15 днів тому

    Dukes of Hazard with arrow and dynamite.

  • @ELTACOMAN101
    @ELTACOMAN101 15 днів тому

    its about dam time they released the full episodes

  • @Lilly_the_Snek
    @Lilly_the_Snek 15 днів тому +1

    Hey tip for everyone here. If you go in your phone settings and switch on Mono audio it fixes the narrator problem, and i don't even notice the lack of sterio saound.

  • @mayeskyj
    @mayeskyj 15 днів тому

    Best show ever.

  • @SarahKchannel
    @SarahKchannel 15 днів тому +3

    I think the audio is best described as 'outer body experience' once again...

  • @Dzokhar
    @Dzokhar 14 днів тому

    This is the kind of Alameda research I can get behind.

  • @spinalobifida
    @spinalobifida 15 днів тому +1

    I'm surprised that my dad didn't think of doing this when clearing trees. 😅

  • @movementencouragedfitness5945
    @movementencouragedfitness5945 15 днів тому

    I didn’t know this show was still happening! The nostalgia of watching this on tv when I was younger😊

    • @Mechanarian
      @Mechanarian 12 днів тому

      It isn’t man, the rights to the show moved so all episodes are now being made public

  • @user-js3kg4zg3w
    @user-js3kg4zg3w 15 днів тому

    I believe they should have started further up the tree. When you split wood you start at an end, not the middle.

  • @SullySadface
    @SullySadface 15 днів тому +3

    My sleeping wife has become the narrator

  • @UpUrHeine
    @UpUrHeine 15 днів тому

    Watching Grant and Jessi on these videos is watching those old timey movies with stars long gone

  • @Smokie181
    @Smokie181 15 днів тому +1

    Trying to split a tree with explosives seems like an American past time

  • @Tmanaz480
    @Tmanaz480 15 днів тому +1

    Jamie: "Swim harder!" 😝

  • @KasSo89
    @KasSo89 11 днів тому

    9:05 - the arrow is intact? Same power as dynamite? Surely.

  • @wmxx2000
    @wmxx2000 15 днів тому +7

    Robert, if you're gonna narrate the show you gotta be in the room with us

  • @Eralen00
    @Eralen00 15 днів тому +5

    Tory every time something blows up: "GOOD EXPLOSION"

  • @ilfarmboy
    @ilfarmboy 15 днів тому

    used enough dynamite there Butch lol

  • @adambosman9611
    @adambosman9611 14 днів тому

    Basically Testing the end of Godzilla: Minus One years in advance (minus not using Freon gas)

  • @Projekt_Seele
    @Projekt_Seele 10 днів тому

    50 degrees hot water damn that sounds uncomfortable

  • @Crawlerz2468
    @Crawlerz2468 15 днів тому +2

    It's "let's make like a tree and split."

  • @dustinlalonde8460
    @dustinlalonde8460 14 днів тому

    “We are trying to see if you can swim in fizzy water! So we are going to see if we can swim in fizzy water!” Jamie.

  • @caveguy22
    @caveguy22 8 днів тому

    Maybe was a dead tree, or the dad had already placed a hidden stick inside the tree that then ignited when he shot the first. Tree species also makes a difference!

  • @Dan-TRP
    @Dan-TRP 15 днів тому +1

    I’m surprised they didn’t use det cord

  • @louiskostelaz1726
    @louiskostelaz1726 15 днів тому

    I didn’t know about non-buoyant water when I originally saw this episode

  • @Magmafrost13
    @Magmafrost13 14 днів тому

    If you want to fix the left ear narrator problem on windows, you can turn on mono audio in ease of access audio settings.

  • @sodapop426
    @sodapop426 15 днів тому

    adam doesnt kick his feet when he swims

  • @hiddentruth1982
    @hiddentruth1982 14 днів тому

    more boom is always more better.

  • @troyBORG
    @troyBORG 15 днів тому

    Are these like remasters or something. Because the episodes that aired on TV the Announcer wasn't stuck in the left ear. Its almost like some intern got ahold of the RAW files and was told to make them into youtube videos but didn't know how to deal with mono audio in a stereo audio project...

  • @happytorrentt4500
    @happytorrentt4500 14 днів тому

    oh, poor lefty is back

  • @EndersJEESH101
    @EndersJEESH101 14 днів тому

    No trees where harmed in the making of this myth . . .

  • @hirobrein445
    @hirobrein445 14 днів тому +1

    Linear sheap chrges wud have worked for the spling

    • @Mechanarian
      @Mechanarian 12 днів тому

      They do directional blasts, it wouldn’t push the two halves of the tree apart

  • @zebjensen4251
    @zebjensen4251 15 днів тому

    My theory is the uncle split the tree partly and used the wxploding arrow to finish it off to show off like a parlor trick. Or slight of hand.

  • @FortniteDad12
    @FortniteDad12 14 днів тому

    If you had a pile of dry trunks and put it on the ends of the pile it would probably work. U can't split wet alive trees lol

  • @kgw100
    @kgw100 14 днів тому

    They didn't test if the dynamite would blow on the impact of the bow shooting or the tree

  • @Anomaly188
    @Anomaly188 15 днів тому

    This reminds me of the Vamp boss fight in Metal Gear Solid 2 where Vamp explains that the pool of water in the center of the room is hyper oxygenated and thus has no buoyancy meaning if you fall in you'll sink to the bottom like a stone and drown. Of course, Vamp is able to swim in the water because of exclusive rule breaking boss bullshit, AKA Nanomachines.

  • @VirtualHolocaust
    @VirtualHolocaust 15 днів тому +1

    Honestly 1) i hate that the guy is in my left ear. 2) i dont think they took into account a live tree over a dead tree. Their first tests were of aged and cured wood. The wood with the moisture still in a live tree might make it more possible to split it.

  • @ChickenLT1
    @ChickenLT1 15 днів тому

    I didn't know they still did this show

  • @davechin5639
    @davechin5639 15 днів тому

    Grant could have said 'Let's make like a tree and split..." RIP

  • @KoalaTeaGuy
    @KoalaTeaGuy 15 днів тому

    If you have the SoundFixer extension, you can switch to 'mono' to "fix" the narrator

  • @turak6009
    @turak6009 15 днів тому

    I've seen someone do that before with a tree with a firecracker and it was because the tree had a crack within the inside it was an older tree taking consideration all the variables of the age of the tree and what it looks like from the outside even if it looks like it's solid on the outside there could be an inner lying crack

  • @scott_hunts
    @scott_hunts 14 днів тому

    My solution for the audio is to use a single earbud. Not great but it works

  • @inmyopinion6836
    @inmyopinion6836 15 днів тому

    I never heard anyone mention wedged shape charge. I could do this to a giant Redwood!

  • @elliot5328
    @elliot5328 14 днів тому

    Should have used some soul sand for the bubbles

  • @plywoodcarjohnson5412
    @plywoodcarjohnson5412 15 днів тому

    More bubbles!

  • @timbrown3171
    @timbrown3171 14 днів тому

    I live in Maine and well were the pine tree state and if ppl were doing that and its a huge if nobody would be doing it with trees that thick cuz ud be using it for firewood. And I haven't seen it further so I'm commenting before results. But being in the pine tree state my whole life going on 45yrs I've never heard of anyone doing that. Were 85% woods here also

  • @hapticghost4419
    @hapticghost4419 15 днів тому +3

    I demand the mythbusters return to the bubbles and do it more evenly dispersed causing less of a current but still filling the water with bubbles!

    • @PsylomeAlpha
      @PsylomeAlpha 15 днів тому +2

      The bubbles in the water are the cause of the current

    • @hapticghost4419
      @hapticghost4419 15 днів тому +1

      @@PsylomeAlpha yes but they are all concentrated, that is what is causing the current

  • @forrestbarton6180
    @forrestbarton6180 15 днів тому

    I think it would be easier to swim through the bobblewater if the entirety of the pool had bubbles coming underneath. Because you wouldn't have the density differential.

  • @petergerman3832
    @petergerman3832 15 днів тому

    they did NOT put those seedling far enough apart.

  • @earendilthemariner5546
    @earendilthemariner5546 15 днів тому +3

    2:50

  • @jamesfair9751
    @jamesfair9751 15 днів тому

    Sink or swim you got to give it a whirl…

  • @ChriaM-uk7wn
    @ChriaM-uk7wn 14 днів тому

    The arrow with explosive myth would of worked if they would’ve just used some type of explosive that was directional and could of used way less

  • @kahleeb624
    @kahleeb624 15 днів тому

    Would have been cool if they tried a shape charge for the tree. Like instead of a cone shape charge make it a wedge shape and that should easily then direct the charge like an axe through the tree. That would have been cool as hell!

  • @a4san99
    @a4san99 15 днів тому

    We’d see this test in Godzilla minus one lmao.

  • @SadJunebug
    @SadJunebug 14 днів тому

    are you telling me there was an actual reason they made minecraft magma blocks pull you down in water

  • @nizitamaruvaka2294
    @nizitamaruvaka2294 14 днів тому

    I bet this episode pissed off a lot of tree huggers.

  • @thegrimlockreaper1279
    @thegrimlockreaper1279 15 днів тому

    I have a feeling that uncle who split the trees used dead trees or something and didn't tell the kids they were already about to fall apart.

  • @maximus4765
    @maximus4765 14 днів тому

    Any reason nearly all of the other episodes are stopped in the US? I was really enjoying watching these. I thought this was like THE channel? Is this just a fan thing?