Major UA-cam issues this morning and I'm not sure this one is going to be distributed well. I'd like to humbly (& with no drama) request a Retweet if you enjoy it please! Backstory: I think this one might get suppressed by the algorithm. The first time I uploaded it it didn't distribute properly (not suspecting malicious intent at all, just automated system). I have theories, but they're just theories. If you would, please consider sharing this video via social media. I would greatly appreciate it!
4:34 is some seriously amazing videography. Using the same camera footage for back and forth real-time and slow-motion, all while being a fully framed and full color scene makes this the most amazing slow motion on youtube.
I just think it's so funny they have a prayer before they dress up like soldiers and shoot cannons, kind of funny haha, it's like they really are from 100 years ago Usually doesn't really mesh with science but they're nice dudes either way I've got uncle's from down there and it really is a completely different country from the coast Most are nice people, down to earth, but my uncle straight up tried debating with me that slavery was actually for the best haha.. Like it was just free room and board, kept them out of trouble It was mind boggling, like he's a century behind
YES, i want to see and hear more about that. i've never heard of this before. I wonder what it would pick up from watching planes flying overhead, landing/taking off, cars on a highway, whether it would pick up interplay of pressure waves around cars as they pass each other on the highway, etc... I want to see tons of stuff with this. if it's precise enough i wonder what it would show for more mundane things like dogs barking or an aluminum pole hitting the ground. I want to see lots more stuff with this.
Bane BlackGuard I wonder if you could do this with photoshop as it has basic video editing tools I wonder if this would work on things like compressed air (sub-sonic)
over9000713 it's sounding like all it's doing is comparing differences in pixels between subsequent frames. so anything that is causing a difference in pixels from one frame to another "should" show up i would think. whether that is a physical object moving or simply changes in light refraction/reflection, should all show up. I just don't know how precise it is. no doubt there are many things that show up with this technique using slow motion that wouldn't in normal speed. I'm very curious to see what all it CAN pick up with slow motion.
It seems like a very simple technique. Most video editors have a “difference” blending mode, so I am guessing that if you take the footage, make a copy on the layer below and shift it by a frame or two, and set the top blending mode to difference you could do it. Not sure how sensitive it would be, certainly interesting to play with. And you could just do single frames or whatever in Photoshop too, certainly
13:18 "The assisted living bus dropped us off here, we don't know what to do!" I love reenactors and people like them, they always have a great sense of humor!
"I dunno, they just dropped these couple a' guys here, I guess they wanted to make them feel at home in their time period. We should probably make them feel useful, I guess."
So twenty-seven years in the field artillery, from private to colonel, and I did enjoy this. Maybe they should have chocked the wheels so that the cannon did not recoil as loose as it seemed, but they knew what they were doing so no harm. The technical quality of the pics was the best I have ever seen. The old black powder was very slow compared to a modern howitzer, and you would be amazed at the instantaneous report from a modern artillery piece. And the wife and I have also used Hello Fresh, for a year now (and I am not getting anything for this) and it is very good. I don;t think we would have ever even tried to cook the stuff that they send, but we have been able to follow the directions and got some really good meals. Better than we could do on our own.
William Heyman in actual service the gun crews chocked the wheels on the other side, so when running the gun back to battery the wheels could return the same spot.
Perhaps its much better for the time to make it role because the wood framing may perhaps cant handle continued full recoil of the gun. Tho it is just my theory.
@@aldrinmilespartosa1578 Yes, same thing on naval guns, they put them on carriages because if they recoiled straight into the ropes they could pull the bolts out of the hull and become a "loose cannon", which is incredibly dangerous
@@silverapplesegp8112 and Marc Johansson : Please write more sentences like this. To the rest of the world you sound like lunatics and we love reading that stuff!
That roofer must have been a great persuader. :Hey, you have a great piece of property here. It would make a great cannon firing range for an event." Is not a phrase that would see the landowner signing off on it normally. Glad teh land owner was good with that. The slow mo action was really sweet.
GhostyOcean Any glass shards will be propelled away from the direction of the cannon, and would be easy to zoom in on and hit even at a few hundred yards, plenty safe of a distance. You could even use a polished metal mirrored surface and totally avoid glass altogether.
Rubmaster it’s called a friction igniter. If I remember correctly, it’s a little brass tube filled with gunpowder, and a little pin with the string connected to it. You stuff the tube in the touch hole, and then when you pull on the string, the friction(I’m not sure if it’s just heat or a spark) ignited the powder in the tube, which then lights the main charge.
I love to think that hundreds of years from now archaeologists and metal detectorists will come across that field and think that they have found the grounds where one of the biggest battles of that era must have taken place, given how many projectiles are found!
Few things warm my heart more than seeing a group of people be really really passionate about something, even if its as totally bonkers as civil war cannons.
Hey now, civil war canons aren't even regulated. You could have one in your front yard and nobody can do anything about it (except your HOA if you have one.).
Hey Destin, I don't know how often some of the railroads do this, but every now and then, they pull out one of their steam engines. It would be nice to see you capture various aspects in slow motion, like the power stroke of the piston rods that drive the wheels. It is amazing how much engineering went into those engines in an age before slide rulers. (And it was this engineering that eventually lead to the first automobiles.) If you can, see if Union Pacific is going to be running any of the old 4-8-8-4 or 4-8-8-2 Cab Forwards (Yes, a steam locomotive with the cab mounted on the front of the boiler.) If not, there are tourist railways, like the Grand Canyon Railway, that do regularly run steam engines.
I was just in Topeka yesterday at a BNSF overhaul shop. Saw some ancient 8 cylinder Santa Fe switch engines. It would be cool to see a comparison of locomotives over the years. It’s crazy how there’s equipment like this that still works after 100+ years
I ask me every time myself. Why are under this videos dislikes???? I think this is a channel wich we learn as much as we can. Eberyone can profit of this very very cool videos. Why are there people who dislike those vids?????? I can‘t understand theese
What you seeing there is actually the ground-reflected wave he is referring to in the commentary. So it’s actually compression of the air molecules along a front causing a distortion in the background features. Pretty cool nonetheless!
The wave I'm talking about is the one that you can only see on the tree trunk. I don't think that's the ground-reflected wave he's talking about, because why would you only be able to see it where the tree is? There's a more subtle ground-reflected wave that you can see following the main wave as it propagates, and meeting up with it at ground level, as you would expect if it's reflecting off the ground.
Yeah, I'm talking about the tree trunk specifically. The bark is certainly soft enough to show rippling, and the wave is nowhere visible except (a) on the trunk, and (b) on the side of the trunk facing the blast. The other side of the tree is plainly visible, and does not exhibit the rippling, also consistent with it being the bark itself.
Depends on the the caliber, type of cannon and type of projectile or projectiles but generally anywhere from 1000-1500 feet per second. The most common type of civil war cannon, the 12 pounder was right around 1400-1450 feet per second.
Thanks for including the bit about what these kinds of weapons did in war. It's too easy to look at them almost like toys in this context and not realize what they were really designed to do.
I have one of those canister round balls that got my great-great grandfather in the leg. Took him right off his horse. He later extracted it himself and kept it to show off. Tough old bird, he was. As far as these cannon go, I used to shoot the same, competitively, on a regular basis, back in the late '70's with a group called the Civil War Skirmishers Association. Good times, that was!
My great-greats fought on the Union side. We have family civil war era letters, civil war era family photo album, and a family Bible starting late 1700's.
I spent 22 years in the US Army, Field Artillery, and I always love seeing the modern cannons fire, but I do so enjoy watching these period pieces too.
This is so amazing to watch as a normal photographer perspective. I’ve never seen anything like it before. And watching/listening on my home theatre setup is mint. So much to watch, observe and take in. WOW. Thankyou.
they're good these cannons, i just use mine for concealed carry, it's great if someone is trying to rob you, you pull one of these out they change their mind very quickly 😂😂
Interesting that the base of the projectile is already red hot by the time it leaves the barrel. The cannonball at 3:57 has a red hotspot on it, as it rotates through the air.
1862 lawn chair :-) The differential shockwaves are cool. Watching the projectiles go downrange, especially the canister rounds-very cool. Awesome as usual!
You REALLY need to head up to Winchester VA next week (Oct 3 -7th, 2018) for the North-South Skirmish Assoc National match. We have 3 relays of 20 cannon shooting in matches. We also will be having mortars along with a match for pretty much every kind of small arm used in the Civil war. The website for the organization is www.n-ssa.org and we are officially listed as a non profit organization for the education and preservation of pretty much everything to do with the civil war. Definitely check it out.
This is an utterly remarkable video... thanks for making it. I make cannon carriages... and restore Civil War cannons. I've never seen the dynamics of recoil on a carriage. It's fantastic. The development that went into the Civil War cannon was 500 years of engineering.... the world's BEST engineering at the time. Military academies were, basically, artillery schools. Because it was where the mathematicians, scientists, engineers.... best and the brightest went. And they designed these implements of war. Just after the CW... Iron carriages, hydraulic recoil, cordite, breech loading.... all came about. So these carriages are the penultimate development of wood-carriage artillery. Amazing video. Thanks so much for making it and sharing it!
Great video. Interesting to see the blowby blast BEFORE the round leaves the muzzle and the separate contained blast afterwards, even with the rifled shell. Suggest compare these firings to firings with later cannons to see how well the developing technology contained the blast behind the round and thereby improved speed, range, and accuracy. For example, it looked to me that the single Whitworth shot produced an earlier exit and less blowby blast. Thank you.
I'd love to attend that. The sequence showing the flying cannister was worth watching the whole video for. NEVER seen that before. Overall the slomo of the firings was really fantastic. Thanks a lot for this one.
Forwarded the link to my mother, who is from Tennessee and proud of it. She thought it was very educational, and she praised your diction and your dimples.
That was just AWESOME! I have to tell you, I laughed so hard in the end with the guys talking about the assisted living van, I choked on my beer. Please keep up the great work! You and your family Rock!
Hello from Singapore 😊 I have an avid interest in the American Civil War. I absolutely ❤️ cannons... especially canister and grapeshot!! It's horrible, I know... But it's mesmerising to watch! Your video is the MOST AMAZING I've seen on Civil War cannons!! Great job! 😊🇸🇬✌🏻
Hi Destin! The fast frame differencing effect was incredible. Would you consider uploading footage from the other blasts with this effect to your second channel? I would love to see more of it. Thanks! Great video.
I think this is the third or fourth time watching this.. while showing someone else.. and it never ceases to entertain and educate.. seems I find something in the vid I missed before.
Love watching these videos from you. I live in South Africa and never get to see things like this here, and with slow motion included ahhh what a treat.
I never realised how much a primer hole blew back until today. Realistically, you would have to expect it with Newton's Laws and such, but having the visual evidence of the flame blowing back through the flash hole at the point the main charge ignited was amazing. Keep up the good work Destin. God Bless and keep it up. P.s. UA-cam is being stupid . Fight the Power !! :) P.s. Wow the recoil on these things is amazing!!!! Can you get some footage of Flintlock era muskets fireing also at some point? :)
I discovered this channel by accident but after watching a few videos, I have decided that I need to record my life in ultra slo-mo format. The images from the camera's are amazing, very hypnotic. You sir just earned yourself a sub, keep'em coming. One thing that caught my attention in the video is the amount of "blow-by" of propellant escaping the barrel before the projectile leaves the cannon. Some wasted potential energy there. Probably not much they can do about it without precision machining everything for exact fit, and they're more hobbyists than anything. Would still be cool to see the full capability of the cannon though
6:00 That was one of my favorite parts of my Glass Cannon; Seeing it recoil back. It wasn't really even part of my overall design, I just put it on glass wheels to be authentic.
The recoil does begin as soon as the projectile begins moving, but it has to overcome the tremendous weight of the gun and carriage before any movement is seen.
Wouldn't it start as soon as the gasses hit the back of the cannon, regardless of whether a projectile is present or has been affected yet? I would think that the ball has no bearing (heh) on whether the cannon experiences recoil, just how much. Even without the ball, the gasses would expand and hit the back of the cannon. Or the expanding gasses would attempt to push against the gases in front of them, and then be momentarily forced back against the still igniting powder charge, pushing that back into the cannon.
Suped cool! I'm a total civil war buff, especially artillery. I have never seen a vid like this. That cannister shot at the end was like a HUGE shotgun shooting many .58 caliber balls... absolutely devastating. All of this was amazing, including the soldiers with cell phones, lol. You earned my subscription with this one. Plus, I like your name and I always try to become "Smarter every day". I love thinking and learning. Great vid, one of my recent top faves of all time. Great content. Amazing work by the reenactors and everyone involved as well. Looks like a well put on, safe demonstration. Cant beat that. As I said, you earned my sub with this one. Id like to see some civil war rifles tested and shown in ultra high speed as well... I've always had a few questions about the Minie ball that I can't answer. Ultra high speed tells no lies, lol. Keep em coming and stay safe! Now off to watch more of your vids, lol! Jim Brown @bonezcustoms on Instagram Bonez Customs and Collectables
lol People were flipping out about Musk's flame thrower that was just a torch in a gun body. I wonder how many of those that complained know that it's fully legal to own one of these muzzle loading cannons. Like any caliber you want. Something to think about next time you're stuck in traffic. :P
Brother, I just wanted to take the time To say "THANK YOU" , A Friend from work turned me onto your channel and can't stop watching all you videos, and this one was so amazing and awesome, so thank you for sharing your passion, your time, and you heart. God bless you and your family/friends, Merry Christmas
That is what I love about USA. You have your own land and you can do whatever you want with it. It is amazing. One day I'll visit you guys and experience this crazy stuff. God bless!!
I love how at 7:07 in slow mo if ya slow playback to x.25 you can actually see a visible line of distortion from the shockwave where it destorts the visibility of reality (if ya catch my drift) as it travels. cool.
Hey, salutes from Brazil!!! For many years you are inspiring us to spread science. And now we had our own channel on youtube. If one day we could talk about science in the way that you do, our country will be a better place. Thanks for such a brilliant channel.
Weird but does kinda make sense. They know how to make carriages and probably old school barrels(not grooves I bet) due to their knowledge of old school blacksmithing techniques. Its probably easy for them to make an 1860s style steel barrel. Gotta use the Amish for something I guess lol
There are about three companies making and restoring the tubes (barrels). The carriages are built by a couple of companies. The Amish build most of the wheels.
My favorite part of this video is seeing so much happening then looking at the background and noticing it's happened so fast that the people look frozen
Why is there so much unburnt powder before the ball comes out? After seeing the video, do you think the fire teams will reduce the amount of powder they are using?
I think that it's just inevitable with such a short barrel and black powder. The explosion pushes some amount of powder out before it can be burned. If you reduced the charge the same thing would still happen
It could be a lot of things, like the cloth wadding they used to create the initial seal for the powder, wasn't tamped correctly. Also, the balls don't really seal the barrel very well, so you get a lot of material that's blown around them. (This is something common with iron shot that doesn't deform, where as lead shot does deform to fit the barrel, creating a better seal.) So, it's probably not the amount of powder they're using.
@@jackielinde7568 that makes a lot of sense. I hadn't thought about the ball not deforming to seal the barrel. I wonder if cannon makers would have changed anything if they could see then what we can see now
There were problems uploading. The first one UA-cam decided not to show people because they’re dumb and the second time he messed up something and it wouldn’t work right
Major UA-cam issues this morning and I'm not sure this one is going to be distributed well. I'd like to humbly (& with no drama) request a Retweet if you enjoy it please!
Backstory: I think this one might get suppressed by the algorithm. The first time I uploaded it it didn't distribute properly (not suspecting malicious intent at all, just automated system). I have theories, but they're just theories. If you would, please consider sharing this video via social media. I would greatly appreciate it!
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Hello from Sweden!
What was different between each upload if anything?
May be correct. I didn't get a notification for it the first time or this time but I did get a notification for it the second time.
Also I like this video because Artillery Only
Very tough filming black powder stuff because of all the smoke and fire balls. Well done!
Hey Jeff! Love both of y'alls chanel's!
Thanks Jeff!
I wonder if that differencing technique would work with different shaped slugs!
I wanted to see the OG fingering some canonball holes...
*FLAUTADERMOUSE!*
4:34 is some seriously amazing videography. Using the same camera footage for back and forth real-time and slow-motion, all while being a fully framed and full color scene makes this the most amazing slow motion on youtube.
Dude, Gordon did a fantastic job on the audio. He needs a raise.
He's a wizard.
I always forget the audio isn't real when I hear his work
Wait what the audio when the cannons fire in slo-mo isn't real????
Zero Cool check out his video on How to Record Slow Motion sounds.
Foley WIZARDRY! So realistic!
I love how Destin's southern accent thickens when talking to the reenactors.
It's because he's talking normally instead of trying to speak clearly for you yanks. ;)
I love the fact that when the rest of the world hears the word Yank or Yankee the person they end up picturing is often a Southerner.
aidan levy I actually always think of a New Yorker (New York _Yankees_ ) 😁
@@nick4819 Us what
nick4819 to me a yank is an American.
The ole boys in the lawn chairs killed me lol
Those two are some fairly famous gentlemen in the cannon world.
I just think it's so funny they have a prayer before they dress up like soldiers and shoot cannons, kind of funny haha, it's like they really are from 100 years ago
Usually doesn't really mesh with science but they're nice dudes either way
I've got uncle's from down there and it really is a completely different country from the coast
Most are nice people, down to earth, but my uncle straight up tried debating with me that slavery was actually for the best haha.. Like it was just free room and board, kept them out of trouble
It was mind boggling, like he's a century behind
@@KaladinVegapunk >nice, down to earth people
>argues slavery was good
Lmao.
Are they friendly to non white people as well?
@@prathameshpatil6888 no if you aren’t white stay out of the south.
Me too😂😂
The differencing thing was awesome.
YES, i want to see and hear more about that. i've never heard of this before. I wonder what it would pick up from watching planes flying overhead, landing/taking off, cars on a highway, whether it would pick up interplay of pressure waves around cars as they pass each other on the highway, etc... I want to see tons of stuff with this. if it's precise enough i wonder what it would show for more mundane things like dogs barking or an aluminum pole hitting the ground. I want to see lots more stuff with this.
Bane BlackGuard I wonder if you could do this with photoshop as it has basic video editing tools
I wonder if this would work on things like compressed air (sub-sonic)
I have no clue why or how ive never seen that effect, it looked incredible
over9000713 it's sounding like all it's doing is comparing differences in pixels between subsequent frames. so anything that is causing a difference in pixels from one frame to another "should" show up i would think. whether that is a physical object moving or simply changes in light refraction/reflection, should all show up. I just don't know how precise it is. no doubt there are many things that show up with this technique using slow motion that wouldn't in normal speed. I'm very curious to see what all it CAN pick up with slow motion.
It seems like a very simple technique. Most video editors have a “difference” blending mode, so I am guessing that if you take the footage, make a copy on the layer below and shift it by a frame or two, and set the top blending mode to difference you could do it. Not sure how sensitive it would be, certainly interesting to play with. And you could just do single frames or whatever in Photoshop too, certainly
13:18 "The assisted living bus dropped us off here, we don't know what to do!"
I love reenactors and people like them, they always have a great sense of humor!
"I dunno, they just dropped these couple a' guys here, I guess they wanted to make them feel at home in their time period. We should probably make them feel useful, I guess."
That line got me dying lol
So twenty-seven years in the field artillery, from private to colonel, and I did enjoy this. Maybe they should have chocked the wheels so that the cannon did not recoil as loose as it seemed, but they knew what they were doing so no harm. The technical quality of the pics was the best I have ever seen. The old black powder was very slow compared to a modern howitzer, and you would be amazed at the instantaneous report from a modern artillery piece. And the wife and I have also used Hello Fresh, for a year now (and I am not getting anything for this) and it is very good. I don;t think we would have ever even tried to cook the stuff that they send, but we have been able to follow the directions and got some really good meals. Better than we could do on our own.
William Heyman in actual service the gun crews chocked the wheels on the other side, so when running the gun back to battery the wheels could return the same spot.
Chocking the wheels would create pressure on the wood frame that holds the barrel. The pressure from the recoil is released by rolling backwards.
Perhaps its much better for the time to make it role because the wood framing may perhaps cant handle continued full recoil of the gun. Tho it is just my theory.
@@aldrinmilespartosa1578 Yes, same thing on naval guns, they put them on carriages because if they recoiled straight into the ropes they could pull the bolts out of the hull and become a "loose cannon", which is incredibly dangerous
“The assisted living facility dropped us off here...”
Best. Line. Ever.
*SAME xD*
Yessir! Those two are sharp characters !
Hey! I resemble that remark!
I'm proud to say Dave and H.G. are my friends.
@@glennalley6857 And you are lucky to have them. :-)
That last canister round was like a massive oversized shotgun shell.
Agent 47, looking for artillery support?
thats exactly what it is haha
Basically an evolved form of grapeshot, has some real oomph to it.
The military still use canister. it's fired out of tanks now.
Xr Yup, perfect for dealing with massed infantry.
"Local roofer who has a canon" a sentence that could only be used in USA or in 1854.
@Marc Johansson That's cute.
@@silverapplesegp8112 and Marc Johansson : Please write more sentences like this. To the rest of the world you sound like lunatics and we love reading that stuff!
@@Rdkng07 That was great, thank you. Please keep it coming ;)
@@Rdkng07 PS. Due to your mentioning of the financial bit I was assuming that you aren't a Native American. If I'm incorrect about that, I apologise,
That roofer must have been a great persuader. :Hey, you have a great piece of property here. It would make a great cannon firing range for an event." Is not a phrase that would see the landowner signing off on it normally. Glad teh land owner was good with that. The slow mo action was really sweet.
Great video as always, but I have to say I love those two old guys in the chairs at the end so funny! 😁
The Assisted Living people just wanted them to feel at-home in their own time period!
I laughed so hard with them, right in the middle of my office. Great stuff.
I literally was in tears from laughing lol
I love these videos, but the last pair of guys, made this excellent!
I'm glad you brought them up. What the heck did that last man say?
How about using a (sacrificial) mirror to get a down-the-barrel shot
Great idea
That is an awesome idea!
How do you protect yourself and others from the shards? Even more dangerous with the cannon because it's strong enough to powderize the glass
GhostyOcean , clear the range, use a longer firing string so you can hide behind a barrier. Not that hard to do with a big range like that.
GhostyOcean Any glass shards will be propelled away from the direction of the cannon, and would be easy to zoom in on and hit even at a few hundred yards, plenty safe of a distance. You could even use a polished metal mirrored surface and totally avoid glass altogether.
13:17 “The assisted living bus dropped us off and didn’t tell us what to do!” 🤣😂🤣
Me : "I wonder how that pull string ignition works"
Destin : "I'll be making a video about how the pull string ignition works"
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Same dude!
I'm curious to, but I think Its just a match with a string :P
Rubmaster it’s called a friction igniter. If I remember correctly, it’s a little brass tube filled with gunpowder, and a little pin with the string connected to it. You stuff the tube in the touch hole, and then when you pull on the string, the friction(I’m not sure if it’s just heat or a spark) ignited the powder in the tube, which then lights the main charge.
@@sandervanduren2779 so basically a fuse?
Lol same here
woah that frame comparison algorithm makes those shockwaves look sweet
Two years later and still visually the most beautiful video on the channel
Great stuff Bud!! You never disappoint!!☺
Hey man! Shouldn't you be working on your truck!
I love to think that hundreds of years from now archaeologists and metal detectorists will come across that field and think that they have found the grounds where one of the biggest battles of that era must have taken place, given how many projectiles are found!
Thanks, Obama.
I'm wondering what they'll say when they realize the cannons were only firing in one direction. >.>
the greatest massacre in history** haha
That and the lack of skeletal remains
@@NDI-wp1ip "They must have eaten the bodies! The savages!"
Destin : We're also shooting with ultra highdef super turbo camera ultra video lenses....
Canon People: ...... Cool story bruh.
Even a Red can’t remotely keep up with a Phantom
im dead. 💀 lol
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Few things warm my heart more than seeing a group of people be really really passionate about something, even if its as totally bonkers as civil war cannons.
I have a whole bunch of cannon, and there's nothing bonkers about it.
Hey now, civil war canons aren't even regulated. You could have one in your front yard and nobody can do anything about it (except your HOA if you have one.).
@@blondbowler8776 ＷＯＷ
ESPECIALLY if it’s as bonkers as 18th century civil war cannons
That's right! Passion is beautiful. Not to mention cannons are gorgeous too!
Hey Destin, I don't know how often some of the railroads do this, but every now and then, they pull out one of their steam engines. It would be nice to see you capture various aspects in slow motion, like the power stroke of the piston rods that drive the wheels. It is amazing how much engineering went into those engines in an age before slide rulers. (And it was this engineering that eventually lead to the first automobiles.)
If you can, see if Union Pacific is going to be running any of the old 4-8-8-4 or 4-8-8-2 Cab Forwards (Yes, a steam locomotive with the cab mounted on the front of the boiler.) If not, there are tourist railways, like the Grand Canyon Railway, that do regularly run steam engines.
Oh YES, steam locomotion!
That would make an awesome video, and I know he'd love making it!
I second this. This video would be incredible and so fascinating!!
Rollag Minnesota!!
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I was just in Topeka yesterday at a BNSF overhaul shop. Saw some ancient 8 cylinder Santa Fe switch engines. It would be cool to see a comparison of locomotives over the years. It’s crazy how there’s equipment like this that still works after 100+ years
"The assisted living bus just dropped us off". Man I hope they drop me off somewhere as cool.
Happy 200 my dude
Thank you sir.
Dito on that, Destin! You do AWESOME work! I show your videos every day in science class! Happy 200th!
Happy 200th you beautiful man!
Your interaction with those two old gentlemen at the end was heartwarming. Keep up the amazing work, Destin!
I ask me every time myself. Why are under this videos dislikes???? I think this is a channel wich we learn as much as we can. Eberyone can profit of this very very cool videos. Why are there people who dislike those vids?????? I can‘t understand theese
Did anyone notice at 7:36-7:39 the shock wave visibly runs up the tree trunk?! Amazing.
Looks to me like the shadow of the shock wave. Very cool!
What you seeing there is actually the ground-reflected wave he is referring to in the commentary. So it’s actually compression of the air molecules along a front causing a distortion in the background features. Pretty cool nonetheless!
The wave I'm talking about is the one that you can only see on the tree trunk. I don't think that's the ground-reflected wave he's talking about, because why would you only be able to see it where the tree is? There's a more subtle ground-reflected wave that you can see following the main wave as it propagates, and meeting up with it at ground level, as you would expect if it's reflecting off the ground.
Yeah, I'm talking about the tree trunk specifically. The bark is certainly soft enough to show rippling, and the wave is nowhere visible except (a) on the trunk, and (b) on the side of the trunk facing the blast. The other side of the tree is plainly visible, and does not exhibit the rippling, also consistent with it being the bark itself.
I think you may be right. I think that explains why it looks elliptical also.
Loved this one! My kids (7 and 10) would like to know: "How fast does the cannonball go?" (And greet meeting you!)
I hope you and Destin do a live stream together on visualisation of shock waves.
If I remember right, something in the nature of 1250 feet per second as it leaves the muzzle.
Depends on the the caliber, type of cannon and type of projectile or projectiles but generally anywhere from 1000-1500 feet per second. The most common type of civil war cannon, the 12 pounder was right around 1400-1450 feet per second.
thats funny i just finished watching a video of yours
@@matthewbradley4644 right
love these videos. the fact that there is an equal amount of fun and study makes for a good time for both producer and viewer. keep it up!
Thanks for including the bit about what these kinds of weapons did in war. It's too easy to look at them almost like toys in this context and not realize what they were really designed to do.
I have one of those canister round balls that got my great-great grandfather in the leg. Took him right off his horse. He later extracted it himself and kept it to show off. Tough old bird, he was.
As far as these cannon go, I used to shoot the same, competitively, on a regular basis, back in the late '70's with a group called the Civil War Skirmishers Association. Good times, that was!
Your great great grandfather sounds like he was a kinda cool dude
Was he a Confederate or an invader? :D
Wow: good story.
Davis Johnson lol
My great-greats fought on the Union side. We have family civil war era letters, civil war era family photo album, and a family Bible starting late 1700's.
“Safety and prayer” I love it!
Hedging the bets there
This is the most American hobby ever, and it seems like a very nice group of people having a lot of fun. Amazing
It looks like a similar vibe to the machinegun shoots I've been to.
This is the first I've heard of fast frame differencing and now I want to see it for all your other slow-motion videos.
I spent 22 years in the US Army, Field Artillery, and I always love seeing the modern cannons fire, but I do so enjoy watching these period pieces too.
"this is actually an 1862 model" :)
ok
That was awesome.
Dude, that was AWESOME!!!
This is so amazing to watch as a normal photographer perspective. I’ve never seen anything like it before. And watching/listening on my home theatre setup is mint. So much to watch, observe and take in. WOW. Thankyou.
You are the perfect middle man between Einstein and layman.
This might be the best way I've seen Destin described!
Kind of like The Neil Degrasse Tyson of engineering
I feel like I should make a cannon ball pun. I think it would be a *blast* ...
But I’m not sure if I want to give it a *shot*
Aspect Science slow clap
Sounds like you're having a ball doing this
that joke was explosive
Nicholas Caprarola it's a real emotional battleground in my head
amazing_dude I'm just _fusing_ my love of science and terrible jokes
the cannon shot at 4:15 is super cool cause its shooting a massive oversized bullet and you can see that the cannon he shot from had rifling
they're good these cannons, i just use mine for concealed carry, it's great if someone is trying to rob you, you pull one of these out they change their mind very quickly 😂😂
"Concealed carry" 🤣
It's you and Crocodile Dundee, is it?
When we trailer cannons to events with the muzzle points to the rear no one and I mean no one tail gates you.
@@burroughsbattery9982 bet they don't 😂 i stole the concealed carry joke btw, can't remember from where, just can't take credit. funny af though
@@Gillsing yeah, "that's not a gun! this is....".😂
Interesting that the base of the projectile is already red hot by the time it leaves the barrel.
The cannonball at 3:57 has a red hotspot on it, as it rotates through the air.
Nexfero they were painted red
Saw that too. Looks like it's glowing.
I love how my BROTHER is the one talking about how lead flattens and that Iron was the way to get the job done lol
1862 lawn chair :-) The differential shockwaves are cool. Watching the projectiles go downrange, especially the canister rounds-very cool. Awesome as usual!
You REALLY need to head up to Winchester VA next week (Oct 3 -7th, 2018) for the North-South Skirmish Assoc National match. We have 3 relays of 20 cannon shooting in matches. We also will be having mortars along with a match for pretty much every kind of small arm used in the Civil war. The website for the organization is www.n-ssa.org and we are officially listed as a non profit organization for the education and preservation of pretty much everything to do with the civil war. Definitely check it out.
This deserves an upvote!
Don't know if he will be there but I know I will be..😁
I went to one of these several years ago--BEST TIME EVER!!!
Destin, you make my day with every video. You really do. No stopping, no parking, no U-turn. Full speed ahead.
This is an utterly remarkable video... thanks for making it. I make cannon carriages... and restore Civil War cannons. I've never seen the dynamics of recoil on a carriage. It's fantastic. The development that went into the Civil War cannon was 500 years of engineering.... the world's BEST engineering at the time. Military academies were, basically, artillery schools. Because it was where the mathematicians, scientists, engineers.... best and the brightest went. And they designed these implements of war. Just after the CW... Iron carriages, hydraulic recoil, cordite, breech loading.... all came about. So these carriages are the penultimate development of wood-carriage artillery. Amazing video. Thanks so much for making it and sharing it!
Great video. Interesting to see the blowby blast BEFORE the round leaves the muzzle and the separate contained blast afterwards, even with the rifled shell. Suggest compare these firings to firings with later cannons to see how well the developing technology contained the blast behind the round and thereby improved speed, range, and accuracy. For example, it looked to me that the single Whitworth shot produced an earlier exit and less blowby blast. Thank you.
I'd love to attend that. The sequence showing the flying cannister was worth watching the whole video for. NEVER seen that before. Overall the slomo of the firings was really fantastic.
Thanks a lot for this one.
Now some men like a fishin'
But some men like the fowlin'
Some men like to hear,
To hear the cannonball roarin'
Me, I like sleepin'...
*naps*
For real, great song
Musha dee dum a dee dum a daaaa
Whack for my daddy yoo
Whack for my DADDY OH!
There's whisky in the jar, ohhh
That awkward failed fist bump at 8:34
Glorious.
LOL I saw that too.
Forwarded the link to my mother, who is from Tennessee and proud of it. She thought it was very educational, and she praised your diction and your dimples.
Absolutely loved the slow motion sequences !! Thanks for the great video !
That was just AWESOME! I have to tell you, I laughed so hard in the end with the guys talking about the assisted living van, I choked on my beer.
Please keep up the great work! You and your family Rock!
the way you explains the ideas, the method you use to simplify what are you seeing or explainig is the whole point to watch you everyday !
Hello from Singapore 😊 I have an avid interest in the American Civil War. I absolutely ❤️ cannons... especially canister and grapeshot!! It's horrible, I know... But it's mesmerising to watch! Your video is the MOST AMAZING I've seen on Civil War cannons!! Great job! 😊🇸🇬✌🏻
Hi Destin! The fast frame differencing effect was incredible. Would you consider uploading footage from the other blasts with this effect to your second channel? I would love to see more of it. Thanks! Great video.
I think this is the third or fourth time watching this.. while showing someone else.. and it never ceases to entertain and educate.. seems I find something in the vid I missed before.
"assisted living dropped us off in a bus.. t-tell us what to do!"
HAHAHA XD that dude's awesome
I think the owner's egg production increases from this event. Side benefit.
Tom Spurlock nope. Chickens lay more when they’re happy.
@@derpmarine216 I think he means the eggs the owner lays.
scrambled
Love watching these videos from you. I live in South Africa and never get to see things like this here, and with slow motion included ahhh what a treat.
"After a quick meeting about safety and a prayer" Hahahaha. Brill vid though
Safety and (a) prayer. You good now?
What's funny about a prayer
@@calebsc731 well, religion is a joke
@@calebsc731 It's 2020...
@@tokilladaemon I'm not religious but it is so obnoxious when people make fun of other people's faith or lack of it.
I never realised how much a primer hole blew back until today. Realistically, you would have to expect it with Newton's Laws and such, but having the visual evidence of the flame blowing back through the flash hole at the point the main charge ignited was amazing. Keep up the good work Destin. God Bless and keep it up. P.s. UA-cam is being stupid . Fight the Power !! :)
P.s. Wow the recoil on these things is amazing!!!! Can you get some footage of Flintlock era muskets fireing also at some point? :)
I discovered this channel by accident but after watching a few videos, I have decided that I need to record my life in ultra slo-mo format. The images from the camera's are amazing, very hypnotic. You sir just earned yourself a sub, keep'em coming.
One thing that caught my attention in the video is the amount of "blow-by" of propellant escaping the barrel before the projectile leaves the cannon. Some wasted potential energy there. Probably not much they can do about it without precision machining everything for exact fit, and they're more hobbyists than anything. Would still be cool to see the full capability of the cannon though
They need a little "windage", a leak around the ball, to flash around and light the fuses. Usually at least a 10th of an inch.
This video did not earn my subscription. It would have if I weren't already subscribed.
Very awesome video. The shockwave part the best one ever 7:49 please do more shockwave videos thanks a lot
6:00 That was one of my favorite parts of my Glass Cannon; Seeing it recoil back. It wasn't really even part of my overall design, I just put it on glass wheels to be authentic.
Excellent Photography of these primitive weapons ! Love to see this cinematography on modern weapons !
These weapons are not exactly primitive.
4:35 - Notice the cannon only recoils after the projectile has left the barrel and is out of view.
The beauty of slow motion! I had no idea before this video that that happens! Did you?
Aspect Science No. Thought the recoil started the moment the powder was lit and the projectile started moving
The recoil does begin as soon as the projectile begins moving, but it has to overcome the tremendous weight of the gun and carriage before any movement is seen.
Wouldn't it start as soon as the gasses hit the back of the cannon, regardless of whether a projectile is present or has been affected yet?
I would think that the ball has no bearing (heh) on whether the cannon experiences recoil, just how much. Even without the ball, the gasses would expand and hit the back of the cannon. Or the expanding gasses would attempt to push against the gases in front of them, and then be momentarily forced back against the still igniting powder charge, pushing that back into the cannon.
The expanding gasses push equally against the ball and the cannon. The ball accelerates quicker because it is lighter.
This is much better to watch than any TV or Netflix program.
Suped cool! I'm a total civil war buff, especially artillery. I have never seen a vid like this. That cannister shot at the end was like a HUGE shotgun shooting many .58 caliber balls... absolutely devastating. All of this was amazing, including the soldiers with cell phones, lol. You earned my subscription with this one. Plus, I like your name and I always try to become "Smarter every day". I love thinking and learning. Great vid, one of my recent top faves of all time. Great content. Amazing work by the reenactors and everyone involved as well. Looks like a well put on, safe demonstration. Cant beat that. As I said, you earned my sub with this one. Id like to see some civil war rifles tested and shown in ultra high speed as well... I've always had a few questions about the Minie ball that I can't answer. Ultra high speed tells no lies, lol. Keep em coming and stay safe! Now off to watch more of your vids, lol!
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Especially if he shows the different types of mini-balls being shot. 2-band, 3-band, cleaner , & Whitworth.
lol People were flipping out about Musk's flame thrower that was just a torch in a gun body. I wonder how many of those that complained know that it's fully legal to own one of these muzzle loading cannons. Like any caliber you want. Something to think about next time you're stuck in traffic. :P
Brother, I just wanted to take the time To say "THANK YOU" , A Friend from work turned me onto your channel and can't stop watching all you videos, and this one was so amazing and awesome, so thank you for sharing your passion, your time, and you heart. God bless you and your family/friends, Merry Christmas
Have a small 2 1/2" bore one myself, on a humid north Missouri summer evening you can see the shockwave travel across the ground, good times.
God bless America. This is so cool!
That is what I love about USA. You have your own land and you can do whatever you want with it. It is amazing. One day I'll visit you guys and experience this crazy stuff. God bless!!
i love when you go to these reenactment places and capture all these old people smiling having a good time and without fear.
4:34 That looks so cool, especially with the smoke and fire moving while everything else doesn't
I love how at 7:07 in slow mo if ya slow playback to x.25 you can actually see a visible line of distortion from the shockwave where it destorts the visibility of reality (if ya catch my drift) as it travels. cool.
Might I presume that all the cannon are pointed North? And interesting that the target barrels are all blue! I thoroughly enjoyed this vid.
Destin You are my role model BTW love your accent when you talked to those old folks at the end
"and then i saw that cannon and i knew, i had to ask, that cannon is me."
*hardcut to adorable mini-canon*
Of course, the adorable mini-cannon would be totally lethal.
No matter how my day has gone...I know I can watch one of your videos and wind up smiling and laughing. I truly want to thank you for what you do!!!
William Stone Marry him man. Don’t let anything stop you from your true happiness.
Hey, salutes from Brazil!!! For many years you are inspiring us to spread science. And now we had our own channel on youtube. If one day we could talk about science in the way that you do, our country will be a better place. Thanks for such a brilliant channel.
5:57 "These are reproductions by the Amish." Amish makes cannons??
Weird but does kinda make sense. They know how to make carriages and probably old school barrels(not grooves I bet) due to their knowledge of old school blacksmithing techniques. Its probably easy for them to make an 1860s style steel barrel. Gotta use the Amish for something I guess lol
There are about three companies making and restoring the tubes (barrels). The carriages are built by a couple of companies. The Amish build most of the wheels.
@@glennalley6857 : So Amish only make the carriage, not the cannon barrels?
@@jacobh9487 True. I've been involved with Civil War Artillery 20 years and don't know of any Amish making the tubes (cannon barrels).
Ironic, no?
It is amazing how much of the blast gets past the projectile that is still inside the cannon bore, before it exits.
My favorite part of this video is seeing so much happening then looking at the background and noticing it's happened so fast that the people look frozen
We love u Destin. Or dustin Idk lol learn so much in cool way love how u break some simple things in. That arent so simple when really look at it
The switch between slow motion and real time @4:33 looks incredible.
Huge potencial like Skyfall ☻️
Whoa. Look for the Mach diamonds in the percussion exhaust at 11:09!
You saw that too.
SmarterEveryDay, chalk it up to my obsession with tiny things going fast. ;)
What amazed me was the recoil on some of those guns. Don't stand behind them or you will get run over.
That breaks legs.
something about the color of the low exposure slow motion shots looks so satisfying.
I like how Destin's Alabama accent and way of speaking carried over well to these boys out in Tennessee.
You do know we border Tennessee, right?
I didnt hear any accent, that's how we sound. It's those people up north who have the accent.
Fires the little baby cannon and proceeds to build a supersonic baseball cannon of his own.
Host is truly honest and respectful ! Good job btw !
"What are you watching?"
"Nothin, just people having fun with canons"
Why is there so much unburnt powder before the ball comes out? After seeing the video, do you think the fire teams will reduce the amount of powder they are using?
I think that it's just inevitable with such a short barrel and black powder. The explosion pushes some amount of powder out before it can be burned. If you reduced the charge the same thing would still happen
It could be a lot of things, like the cloth wadding they used to create the initial seal for the powder, wasn't tamped correctly. Also, the balls don't really seal the barrel very well, so you get a lot of material that's blown around them. (This is something common with iron shot that doesn't deform, where as lead shot does deform to fit the barrel, creating a better seal.)
So, it's probably not the amount of powder they're using.
@@carlistasycia thanks
@@jackielinde7568 that makes a lot of sense. I hadn't thought about the ball not deforming to seal the barrel. I wonder if cannon makers would have changed anything if they could see then what we can see now
I think balls are normally about 3% smaller than bore diameter.
That solid bronze 12-pound field howitzers reminds me
of the 2003 Tom Cruise movie The Last Samurai.
why was the first one removed? Also, earlyyyy :D
First and second ones.
Martin read the description
There were problems uploading. The first one UA-cam decided not to show people because they’re dumb and the second time he messed up something and it wouldn’t work right
Because "Civil W-A-R" was in the title and UA-cam doesn't like that work.
UA-cam's censorship is ridiculous; bunch of snowflakes running it.