TRENCH CLUBS!!! A Nasty Weapon of WWI 😦

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  • Опубліковано 27 лют 2023
  • Close quarter combat in the trenches of WWI was the stuff of nightmares.

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  • @lesterforney6200
    @lesterforney6200 Рік тому +75

    I remember my grand dad on my dad's side had a trench club that was my great uncle's. it was made from a table leg wrapped with barbed wire and had pointed wood screws threw it. the creepy part is there was a little bit of red stains in the wood grain. although we never talked about the red we all knew what it was.

    • @providencepath8706
      @providencepath8706 Рік тому +7

      Jesus, your Great Granduncle was Negan! But on a serious note R.I.P to you Great Granduncle.

    • @pyronite59
      @pyronite59 Рік тому +7

      Probably strawberry jelly? Raspberry? You’re not saying what I think it was, are you? Marinara sauce?! On a trench club? 😵

    • @Winddancer1991
      @Winddancer1991 Рік тому

      Well good news. It probably isn’t what you think it is. As blood oxidizes it turns from red too maroon, and after a great amount of time it turns brown….so the red “stuff” on your granddads makeshift ww1 weapon is most assuredly and 100% not blood. I promise

    • @mg.8144
      @mg.8144 Рік тому +5

      Barb wire actually acts as a cushion for a bat or a baton. You wrap it on there so that they hit from the back doesn’t hurt as much.

    • @mg.8144
      @mg.8144 Рік тому +1

      Barb wire actually acts as a cushion for a bat or a baton. You wrap it on there so that they hit from the back doesn’t hurt as much.

  • @0ldb1ll
    @0ldb1ll Рік тому +16

    My grandfather always said that the best weapon an infantry soldier had was a sharp shovel. He fought in the Boer War and first three years of WW1.

  • @Jerry-fn5nx
    @Jerry-fn5nx Рік тому +33

    Damn! That thing looks like it could do some nasty damage

  • @timinwsac
    @timinwsac Рік тому +14

    Short handled shovels with saw teeth filed into them were used.

  • @T_Burd_75
    @T_Burd_75 Рік тому +24

    This would be great to keep behind the driver's seat.

    • @rebelscumspeedshop
      @rebelscumspeedshop Рік тому +8

      With museum brochures..your lawyer will love you for it.

    • @michaeldouglas1243
      @michaeldouglas1243 Рік тому +2

      Bwahahahaha

    • @alvashoemaker8536
      @alvashoemaker8536 Рік тому +1

      YEAH…! I live in TX; THIS happened when I was driving btwn Huntsville & Houston; there was a red truck in front of me; at that time, I was driving a small import; ANYWAY, THIS truck started following me…VERY CLOSELY…which scared me. I grabbed my cell phone, raised it to take a photo of his listened plate…THIS driver quick look y drove away…! THANK GOD the cell phone’sCAMERA was all I needed…. 😮😐😐👣👠

  • @banthaexplosion
    @banthaexplosion Рік тому +17

    I didn't know trench club meant improvised zombie apocalypse weapon.
    That looks like something I'd come up with after watching Zombieland then heading out to the shed.

    • @infidel202
      @infidel202 Рік тому +3

      Humans are very resourceful

    • @TheMaxWhoKnewTooMuch
      @TheMaxWhoKnewTooMuch 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@infidel202
      There's an retired US infantryman quoted in the Ken Burns documentary about the Vietnam War, where he talks about how "Humans didn't get to the top of the food chain because we're 'nice.' "

  • @bannedmadmike4234
    @bannedmadmike4234 Рік тому +24

    Love a good melee weapon

  • @infidel202
    @infidel202 Рік тому +6

    The war memorial in Canberra Australia has a collection of trench clubs

  • @02Benji
    @02Benji Рік тому +4

    I’ve seen some French trench knives hammered out of what looks to be railway ties it was brutal combat

    • @JM-lk6wo
      @JM-lk6wo Рік тому +1

      Railway track spikes, perhaps. Railway ties are a great, bloody chunk of timber.

    • @John-mf6ky
      @John-mf6ky Місяць тому

      They usually the wire posts the germans used to hang barbed wire. Granted, people made m sorts of stuff.

  • @rickyburdge3537
    @rickyburdge3537 Рік тому +2

    Beat on the Brat. Ramones. First thing that came to my mind. You rock JD. Keep up the great work.

  • @alvashoemaker8536
    @alvashoemaker8536 Рік тому +1

    THANKS for this info…& history…👍🏼👣👠

  • @politicjunkee
    @politicjunkee Рік тому +4

    WWI was more brutal kinetic warfare than WWII imho

  • @zeekgeek420
    @zeekgeek420 Рік тому +4

    That's a War Mace, clubs are blunt, and "semi non lethal"‼️Once you add the murderous part on the end its a Mace😳

    • @agorman1341
      @agorman1341 7 місяців тому

      I didnty realize the title said club not mace 😂😭

  • @wileybird69
    @wileybird69 Рік тому +3

    Dam that club there do some damage! Be brutal to take a blow to skull with them sprockets😢😢😢!!

    • @haydenlysinger1705
      @haydenlysinger1705 Рік тому

      Its literally designed to beat the enemy to death 2 feet from your eyes. Imagine what it did to the person who used it. That person would walk around with the memory of hearing a 17 year old boy scream no and you beat him to death. Thats war!!

  • @alexs5744
    @alexs5744 11 місяців тому +1

    Now that’s something I like to have, you might never know if I need something like it.

  • @1psychofan
    @1psychofan Рік тому +1

    WOW! Brutal!!!!

  • @scottjenkins6972
    @scottjenkins6972 Рік тому +3

    Brass knuckles with a 6-ish inch blade were also quite nasty.

    • @danielluna1826
      @danielluna1826 Рік тому +3

      My friend i know what your getting at. I actually have an original, the LFC 1918 trench dagger spiked brass knuckles and a 6 inch dagger blade.

    • @TheMaxWhoKnewTooMuch
      @TheMaxWhoKnewTooMuch 4 місяці тому

      'French nails' worked just fine.

  • @jennjohnson-richards5829
    @jennjohnson-richards5829 Рік тому +2

    Now that's a shank😬

  • @Broski1318
    @Broski1318 Рік тому +1

    Nice club you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if I didn’t see it.

  • @karenb4871
    @karenb4871 Рік тому

    Ouch! War is hell and hate.

  • @baronedipiemonte3990
    @baronedipiemonte3990 Рік тому +1

    It was a modernized medieval mace

  • @rokana9641
    @rokana9641 Рік тому +1

    Monstrous looking thing

  • @OTDMilitaryHistory
    @OTDMilitaryHistory Рік тому

    A nasty piece of kit.

  • @Gehennakat
    @Gehennakat Рік тому +1

    Gears of War... I'll let myself out

  • @kevinperlow4595
    @kevinperlow4595 Рік тому

    That'll make anyone go into the forever shleep upon colliding with their cranium

  • @Oldfartstuff2.0
    @Oldfartstuff2.0 Рік тому

    Awesome

  • @Revbone450
    @Revbone450 Рік тому

    That is a Kraut skull crusher if I ever saw one..

  • @bendoingthing
    @bendoingthing Рік тому

    That thing is brutal

  • @andrewburton8966
    @andrewburton8966 Рік тому

    Man that thing would leave a mark!

  • @jodynunley6447
    @jodynunley6447 Рік тому

    Wow!

  • @paulapridy6804
    @paulapridy6804 Рік тому

    Bayonet looks a bit less dangerous now 😮

  • @cindyrussell7017
    @cindyrussell7017 Рік тому

    Wicked

  • @justinweaver8107
    @justinweaver8107 Рік тому

    I absolutely love it!!!!

  • @cynditermath9118
    @cynditermath9118 Рік тому

    Nasty weapon from a really nasty war.

  • @samjonespurple
    @samjonespurple Рік тому

    Wow

  • @dianeburnejko2908
    @dianeburnejko2908 Рік тому

    Horrific!

  • @steve_the_springtails
    @steve_the_springtails Рік тому +3

    People are assholes on yt shorts don't let any comments get to you but this will 100% drive traffic to your long form videos. drop a link to a video on the topic of ww1 and pin it in the comments trust me brotha it will work wonders!

  • @samstamos427
    @samstamos427 Рік тому

    😨

  • @akbychoice
    @akbychoice Рік тому

    Time to fire up the lathe and strike an arc.

  • @wesbrackmanthercenthusiast4695

    anyone remember the battle field 1 I've got a mace song

  • @haydenlysinger1705
    @haydenlysinger1705 Рік тому +1

    What brutal beasts we are. The men who where responsible for this conflict should not be hung for their crimes but beaten to death with weapons like this. Imagine what this did to the boys who used it on others. 😢

    • @zeekgeek420
      @zeekgeek420 Рік тому

      They started it dummy, it was used against NAsIs dummy 😂 SMH 🤦‍♂️

    • @haydenlysinger1705
      @haydenlysinger1705 Рік тому +1

      @@zeekgeek420 these where used in trench combat during the first world war. There were no nazis. The war was started when archduke Ferdinand was assassinated by anarchist. What does that have to do with British and French farm boys beating german farm boys to death in the trenches or the reverse. The men responsible for these conflicts are rarely the men actually dying in them.

  • @dennis82468
    @dennis82468 Рік тому

    War shank

  • @nancymilawski1048
    @nancymilawski1048 Рік тому

    WWI aas called the "war to end all wars." Unfortunately that didn't happen.

  • @stubeast4031
    @stubeast4031 Рік тому +3

    Seeing that warms my heart.

    • @alisade127
      @alisade127 Рік тому

      @Dav serban Or your head, stomach. Anywhere. Very nasty weapon.

  • @LuE87
    @LuE87 11 місяців тому

    So its a medieval mace made of modern parts

  • @tundranomad
    @tundranomad Рік тому +2

    That warrants a hearty DAD GUM!

  • @suzyqualcast6269
    @suzyqualcast6269 Рік тому

    Did do.

  • @stevennewberg8781
    @stevennewberg8781 11 місяців тому

    It's a French coghead club

  • @enriquemireles8947
    @enriquemireles8947 Рік тому +2

    Had to be a mechanic.

  • @jdaze1
    @jdaze1 Рік тому

    Everybody pray for world peace whether you believe in God or not. We need a change in the hearts of the men who rule over us. It cant hurt anything if we pray.

  • @MrSirlulzalot
    @MrSirlulzalot Рік тому

    eew

  • @petewarrell228
    @petewarrell228 Рік тому

    and then come home and get a job
    as a carpender or a job your swinging
    something dayley. dosent allways
    get left in the trench🙏👍✌🇨🇦❤

  • @jerrymiller9039
    @jerrymiller9039 Рік тому

    Sprockets not gearrs

  • @Makeguillotinesgreatagain
    @Makeguillotinesgreatagain Рік тому +1

    You can't imagine what damage it could do? You would bash someones head in with it and poke them in the chest. Lol how can you not imagine it

  • @texasgina
    @texasgina Рік тому

    Yikes

  • @simonsmith1974
    @simonsmith1974 Рік тому

    The ingenuity shown here 😳😳😳😳 shame it was for brutal means 🥺🥺🥺🥺☹️☹️☹️