By popular demand, here is another grenade history video. I am always open to suggestions, so leave a comment if there is something you want to see a video on.
I hate that there are no video's about old style grenades exploding, there's nothing about the napoleonic grenades. no detailes on shrapnel effects. I really liked the video. if you can find anything on napoleonic grenades let me know :)
Very cool! The pictures from that auction were some of the best I was able to find on the internet. Where did you originally get the grenade from if you don’t mind me asking?
Awesome video! I just started metal detecting - as I live in Colorado, the chances of me finding Civil War relics here are nil. However, I’ve watched a lot of videos back East. They routinely recover Civil War and older relics. As of yet I have note seen a single 1800’s vintage grenade recovered. I’m enjoying your channel, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed the video. I have been metal detecting for almost a decade, it is a very enjoyable hobby. I’ve seen a few Ketchum grenades recovered back in the day but items that big don’t come out of the ground much anymore.
Thanks! I pretty much just make videos on whatever is interesting to me at the moment. I’ve got a long list of ideas, just have to find the time to film them!
It's weird you know potential history has also say it we think that the us civil war with outdated concepts like infantry of the line but you also have this and also submarines things that actually blow up ( no pun intended) in the used we associated to " modern warfare " but they have them all the way back it's kinda funny how just a 50 years gap can make a huge difference now days before you needed twice that to actually see technological developments
Not that many people on this video tho U need to make more videos about topics most history buffs like me like to watch look up mark Felton productions and focus on stuff that he does and keep it to ww1 and ww2 also focus on topics people want to watch like guns, tanks, planes, trains, ships, etc and U will get a lot of views homie!
Appriciate the advice. I try to make videos on a variety of conflicts and topics even if they may not have the mass appeal that WW1 and WW2 have. Really it’s just whatever is interesting to me at the moment. One of the reasons I started my channel was to talk about things that no one else really was. I find a lot of history youtubers follow the “wunderwaffe of the week” format which gets old after a while IMO.
Hey great video. I was wondering if you could do a video on operation paperclip. It takes place towards the end of WW2, when the Germans where losing, and USA and the allies started hunting down Nazi scientists so they could use them to make (at the time) Advanced missiles and I think other weapons but that’s all I know. If you don’t want to do the video that’s fine, I just find it very interesting to think about.
I would think that throwing them with any force would cause the plunger to contact the inside of the outer casing causing it to detonate before it even left your hand.
I think with 1770s technology, and a blunderbuss, you could make a riveted, cast iron missle, launched from the end of the Blunderbuss. The tip just has a cigar Fuze, inside a little cage, and a metal gasket, that, on impact, dumps the cigar into the powder charge.. and all black powder, propellant, and charge.. although separated. It would just have a firework fuze and a simple nozzle for the rocket, and jammed in the end of the bell with wax. It would be a 《) shape of sorts, although longer... it could have fins too, if it protruded from the barrel, without falling out... which could be remedied by a longer projectile into the barrel... so it would be an RPG. The gun would fire, and then, the ballistic missle would fire, and go straight into that captains cabin, picture it! At night Grenadiers are like the original special forces, from the times of Prussian mercenaries... The oldest way is to just make a cast iron ball, and drill out the inside, and fill with powder, and a fuze, which could be cloth wrapped around powder like a cigar... That's from the time of Attilla the Hun
These look so dangerous. I think the best way to use them is to give them all to the enemy and watch them........."blow themselves up from a distance!"
4:23 I always wonder about that gap. Considering every other bit of tech in the modern design was ancient by the time the percussion cap came around...
By popular demand, here is another grenade history video. I am always open to suggestions, so leave a comment if there is something you want to see a video on.
granade ideas I would like to see: granades of ww1 (and ww2), improvised granades of ww1
I gotta share this with my military history teacher
Cool! Let me know what he thinks.
Damn, just discovered your channel from the WWII ship mothballs video, and I'm shocked with how well researched your videos are. Never stop, please!
Thanks! I have many more on the way.
I hate that there are no video's about old style grenades exploding, there's nothing about the napoleonic grenades. no detailes on shrapnel effects. I really liked the video. if you can find anything on napoleonic grenades let me know :)
@Bonesintheocean.mp3 yeah true most of them are made from clay
Hey man, i appreciate how thorough you are and the effort you put into these. Never give this up, you’re incredible
Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate it.
The Ketchum grenade turns your enemies to ash.
CARLOOOS!!!
people from 2030: the first or the second war?
That's spoopy
Interesting video. It's neat to see the progress from these early grenades to something like the Mills bomb.
Lmao. "Hey cletus whats that thing in the air?!"
Cletus: "I dunno but im gonna catch one!"
That is a picture of my W. Hanes Hand Grenade that I auctioned through the Heritage Auction company. It was a perfect example of this grenade.
Very cool! The pictures from that auction were some of the best I was able to find on the internet. Where did you originally get the grenade from if you don’t mind me asking?
@@MilitariaReviewed This was my Great Grandfather's! He was in the Union Army and supposedly got it while serving.
Awesome video!
I just started metal detecting - as I live in Colorado, the chances of me finding Civil War relics here are nil.
However, I’ve watched a lot of videos back East. They routinely recover Civil War and older relics. As of yet I have note seen a single 1800’s vintage grenade recovered.
I’m enjoying your channel, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed the video. I have been metal detecting for almost a decade, it is a very enjoyable hobby. I’ve seen a few Ketchum grenades recovered back in the day but items that big don’t come out of the ground much anymore.
0:48 otherwise known as the "Ah, Hell No" grenade.
That thing make me queazy every time I see it
You could do really well on TH-cam with more videos like this and your flak vid. I love your content, keep it coming!
Thanks! I pretty much just make videos on whatever is interesting to me at the moment. I’ve got a long list of ideas, just have to find the time to film them!
That's tough the algorithm gods didn't come through on this video
Would you really throw the Ketchum like a dart, or more like a lawn dart?
Very interesting!
You should do a video on Shrapnel, by which I mean Henry Shrapnel and his spherical case shell.
It's weird you know potential history has also say it we think that the us civil war with outdated concepts like infantry of the line but you also have this and also submarines things that actually blow up ( no pun intended) in the used we associated to " modern warfare " but they have them all the way back it's kinda funny how just a 50 years gap can make a huge difference now days before you needed twice that to actually see technological developments
The 1, 3 and 5 pound - was this the total weight or the weight of the black powder?
💯
Bet these things were so dangerous to carry around and use
Not that many people on this video tho U need to make more videos about topics most history buffs like me like to watch look up mark Felton productions and focus on stuff that he does and keep it to ww1 and ww2 also focus on topics people want to watch like guns, tanks, planes, trains, ships, etc and U will get a lot of views homie!
Appriciate the advice. I try to make videos on a variety of conflicts and topics even if they may not have the mass appeal that WW1 and WW2 have. Really it’s just whatever is interesting to me at the moment. One of the reasons I started my channel was to talk about things that no one else really was. I find a lot of history youtubers follow the “wunderwaffe of the week” format which gets old after a while IMO.
Plumbata! -- Roman -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumbata
Not really anything like a grenade, except for being thrown by hand. Now greek fire, on the other hand, was often deployed in thrown bombs.
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Keep it up. It’s good.
Appreciate it!
Lol catching the grenades with blankets, 200 IQ move. Very interesting video! Keep up the good work
The Ketchum Grenade: 'The Nerf Ball of Doom'
The irony this was made by a man named Ketchem and what did the enemy decide to do Ketchem. Gotta catch em all.
Hey great video.
I was wondering if you could do a video on operation paperclip. It takes place towards the end of WW2, when the Germans where losing, and USA and the allies started hunting down Nazi scientists so they could use them to make (at the time)
Advanced missiles and I think other weapons but that’s all I know. If you don’t want to do the video that’s fine, I just find it very interesting to think about.
Thanks. I can definitely try to do something on that at some point. I used to live in a city where they brought some of the paperclip scientists.
Really interesting. First I have ever seen.
So happy your channel blew up and people are noticing you
When he hearts and responds to every comment apart from yours:
I would think that throwing them with any force would cause the plunger to contact the inside of the outer casing causing it to detonate before it even left your hand.
Always reminds me how nasty shrapnel can be!
I think with 1770s technology, and a blunderbuss, you could make a riveted, cast iron missle, launched from the end of the Blunderbuss.
The tip just has a cigar Fuze, inside a little cage, and a metal gasket, that, on impact, dumps the cigar into the powder charge.. and all black powder, propellant, and charge.. although separated.
It would just have a firework fuze and a simple nozzle for the rocket, and jammed in the end of the bell with wax. It would be a 《) shape of sorts, although longer... it could have fins too, if it protruded from the barrel, without falling out... which could be remedied by a longer projectile into the barrel... so it would be an RPG. The gun would fire, and then, the ballistic missle would fire, and go straight into that captains cabin, picture it! At night
Grenadiers are like the original special forces, from the times of Prussian mercenaries...
The oldest way is to just make a cast iron ball, and drill out the inside, and fill with powder, and a fuze, which could be cloth wrapped around powder like a cigar...
That's from the time of Attilla the Hun
These look so dangerous. I think the best way to use them is to give them all to the enemy and watch them........."blow themselves up from a distance!"
4:23 I always wonder about that gap. Considering every other bit of tech in the modern design was ancient by the time the percussion cap came around...
The Ketchum grenade looks like Roman plumbata
I'd like to see these in Red Dead some day, the ketchum grenade could be throw like a nerf football lol.
Unfortunately these things will never make it to Red Dead. These things were long forgotten when dynamite came around in 1866.
Ok well now I want grenades in red dead
That would be dope
Awesome! Thanks for putting the work into making this interesting video