That's my dad!!!!!!! The number one man! Holy crap!
@davidca96
3 жыл бұрын
@SSS Dias and the guy who posted is 7 years older
@NEY-uu3lx
3 жыл бұрын
@@davidca96 weird
@3mate1
2 жыл бұрын
@SSS Dias He's also passed and this is the most of his voice I've heard in 9 years
@brodyleephotography2177
3 жыл бұрын
I'll never stop loving the sound of an arty shell flying through the air
@diatomaceousexudate42
3 жыл бұрын
Right? Imagine being on the receiving end of it!
@faust7619
3 жыл бұрын
@@diatomaceousexudate42 that's the best part
@zooeyhall
10 жыл бұрын
What I find especially fascinating is the insight this video gives on the ingenious technology in all this. Rifled barrels, impact and time-delay fuses, expanding rings around the shell perimeter, range and elevation tables. And to think this was the 1860's! Our Civil War ancestors certainly weren't stupid!
@3vimages471
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah they learned well from the British and French.
@satidog
3 жыл бұрын
@@3vimages471 And then the British, Germans, and French learned a lot from our war. That's how it works.
@SStupendous
2 жыл бұрын
Look at krupp guns, being made at the same time!
@ghostie7028
2 жыл бұрын
@@satidog They did not really learn anything, most of what the civil war had to teach was already known. The American Civil war was just a good example for them. And before you say anything- -Trench warfare was nothing new -Ironclads in battle was nothing new (Though hampton was the first time two ironclads fought each other, but everyone knew what would happen) -Revolving turrets wasn't new, and the Monitor was a swedish ship design and had already been built in Sweden -Rifled muskets for the infantry wasn't new either
@satidog
2 жыл бұрын
@@ghostie7028 Just citing "firsts" is a thin understanding of the development of military strategy and tactics.
@ethiac1
10 жыл бұрын
Commentator seems excited
@milomaturi8256
5 жыл бұрын
EthanK-R 🙃
@model-man7802
3 жыл бұрын
Hes at an Insurance conference.
@jeddkeech259
11 жыл бұрын
very good explanation. it's nice to see a accurate and precise explanation of how the Parrot gun works.
@TheMilspyguy
9 жыл бұрын
you guys rock! I live in southern Oregon and would love to join a club like yours. Kids growing up no don't appreciate things like this Therefore.... I hope this goes on for many many decades and then some! I was 1st Cav. 3rd Brigade Combat Team Baghdad, Iraq 2004. HOOORRRAAHHH!!
@manvstaco
9 жыл бұрын
I was 1/3 ACR Howbat in Iraq 2003-2004 too!!! 13Bravo!!! Tiger base, Train station, the dam/Powerstation for a bit. Al assad.
@rjs1jd
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks guys for giving and maintaining our FREEDOM.....i know it doesn't come FREE! U gotta serve and fight 4 it! Thx u USofA MILITARY!
@coltonregal1797
4 жыл бұрын
I'm just like to point out that a mile is about 1700 yards. Their target was 2000 yards away.
@notstupid5322
6 ай бұрын
they could hit at twice that distance
@tpobrienjr
3 жыл бұрын
This is an excellent, detailed close-up of what went on in an artillery crew. I'm particularly interested because I had two grandfathers who were in the same Confederate artillery unit, and both units had Parrott rifles. I'm working on a model 10-pounder. The more detail, the better Thanks!
@michaeltedesco6567
4 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for this. As a researcher on certain subjects, I appreciate all the hard work and knowledge you provided; it answered most of my questions with great acuracy.
@norwegianwiking
12 жыл бұрын
"boring" - "to long" Dont listen to them cannonmn, this stuff is incredible. Keep uploading it.
@3vimages471
3 жыл бұрын
'Too long'.
@mynamejeff8401
3 жыл бұрын
Boring
@faerieSAALE
3 жыл бұрын
Quite interesting - My family had men that fought in the civil war for the Union Forces. All Officers. All were wounded but survived. Most of them lived to be in their 90s. I never met any of them. But my mother did and she remembers them. My mother is 91 this year.
@steviechampagne
Жыл бұрын
ask your mother many stories and try to record them or write them down. her mind is PRICELESS!
@garyschraa7947
7 жыл бұрын
when Johnny comes marching home again Hurrah Hurrah . that song gives you chills . the whole video is now historic for sure . it'd be interesting to interview any of the remaining men who participated . this was awesome thank you
@jhorne18
11 жыл бұрын
This is the first comprehensive explanation I have ever seen of how one of these Civil War cannons was fired. Only, it would have been nice to see how the friction primer operates. Thanks for uploading! I did like very much the cross-section of the canister and exploding mechanisms.
@unclemikeb
11 жыл бұрын
This video was quite educational. I didn't know there were artillery with rifled barrels clear back then. That would explain the high degree of accuracy this piece was capable of. I was amazed by this video. I have heard necessity is the mother of invention. In the case of the civil war, it became necessary to have artillery like this. I wish that war might have been avoided. Who knows how many people we lost who could have made useful contributions to the good of mankind.
@BIG-DIPPER-56
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks ! ! ! Thought I was the only one ! Been saying that for decades !!! 🙂😎👍
@jjonestowne
8 жыл бұрын
yeah, i did French & Ind. War and Rev. War. had to help w/ artillery guys, but i've never seen anythin so massive. they're HUGE. amazing.
@brucenator
12 жыл бұрын
I saw an excellent demonstration recently at Antietam battlefield. Manning of the cannon starts at 15(:)20: the worm for clearing out debris, the sponge for extinguishing embers and the ram for loading the ammunition (meanwhile the gunner places his thumb over the vent to reduce air flow), elevation and sight and hand spikes for adjusting the cannon, gimlet and primer for firing the cannon. Further behind the cannon were the munitions carriages. Properly eight men in all manning one cannon.
@USMarineRifleman0311
11 жыл бұрын
Agreed, I taught it would be just another cheesy video showing cannon drill and people going through the motions but this is perhaps the best Ive seen showing the effects of actual munitions.
@galoon
11 жыл бұрын
Indeed. The 10-inch Columbiads and 200 pounder Parrott Rifles that were mounted at Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter during the Civil War could hit targets up to about 4.5 miles away! Some Civil War pieces were breechloaders, quite similar to what you guys used in the artillery.
@JessHull
8 жыл бұрын
love the south park style animations
@unclemikeb
11 жыл бұрын
The 6 inch (155 MM) shell weighed 97 pounds and I think the power weighed 13 lbs. That would send the shell a max of 11 miles. We still had to unscrew the plug in the shell, and screw in a fuse. It used a sight that was a bit like a periscope with graduated lines inside. Aiming stakes were set out at 25 and 50 feet which were used as the reference from left to right. We usually were firing too far away to visually sight on the target. We received numbers to use on the sight to aim the barrel.
@jimwest7362
4 жыл бұрын
Impressive. I think everyone should watch this even if it's just a video it shows the reality of the power of these guns and brings an additional perspective to the magnitude of the war.
@khamulshadow
11 жыл бұрын
This video is amazing. As someone who is very experienced loading and firing muzzleloading artillery, I can tell you that rarely if ever will you get a chance to see ordnance this large loaded and fired, let alone with live ammunition----let alone with LIVE shells. How did they clean up all the unexploded projectiles? This must have been shot on a military artillery range.
@williamdodd8660
4 жыл бұрын
That seems likely.
@ericheckenkamp6091
7 ай бұрын
I worked on a 12lb mountain howitzer and we fired that live a couple of times. I can't imagine more than twice that power! WOOO!!
@stever4181
11 жыл бұрын
Very good video. It's like you are right there in real time. It was great to see Bruce and Terry again. I miss being there.
@karneda92
11 жыл бұрын
Yeah I saw this movie called Glory recently and I just wanted to see what an actual cannonball fire would look like, then I got this, can't say no to education.
@gordonhazel697
4 жыл бұрын
I have really enjoyed seeing this video. Those old time gunners had it worked out. Interesting to see explosive shells used. I wonder how and by whom they are made.
@unclemikeb
11 жыл бұрын
Interesting. I had no idea there were artillery pieces this accurate in 1864. Hitting an object at 2000 yards with a 27 pound shell is not easy. It is amazing how little had changed by 1967 when I was in the artillery. Our pieces were loaded from the rear using a hinged breech block but most was still the same. We had to swab the piece between shots, the shell was loaded first with a ram from the rear to seal the brass rings into the chamber then the powder and the block was closed behind.
@Zulutime44
9 ай бұрын
How curious, this Parrott rifle is 4.2" bore, and perhaps not coincidentally, the modern US Army heavy mortar and ammo is also 4.2" diameter. Or at least it was so called in my day. The same heavy morter is now known as 120mm. Every mechanized infantry battalion has a 120mm mortar platoon in its HHC.
@SB-qm5wg
6 жыл бұрын
Good explanation of the fuse.
@rifleman17hmrshooter
10 жыл бұрын
obviously older low def video, but excellent none the less! very cool! the rose of Alabama was a bonus too lol
@bradynurfer556
4 жыл бұрын
the third shot hit just to the left of the target if you look close enough you can see that it hit just left of it
@opalprestonshirley1700
10 жыл бұрын
Awesome video. So that's how those shells work. Thanks.
@LutzDerLurch
12 жыл бұрын
"boring boring.." NOPE, it is not. It is a Video made by purpuse, to show in detail and educate, not just to show as many a big boom as possible ind the shortest possible Time.. Damn, dont these People have ANY apreciation for quality education, anymore?
@Itsaboutthewaterlife
4 жыл бұрын
Agree.
@hayesstephen8447
11 жыл бұрын
Great!!! Thank you. My people were on the other end of that thing!!! God Bless ALL who lost life and limb during that terrible war. Gob Bless the CSA and Bobby Lee. May I suggest we all pray for our Country the U.S.A, she is in more danger today then ever before.
@Itsaboutthewaterlife
4 жыл бұрын
Yo: Hopefully you've heard about the Minneapolis rally where Trump accused Biden of being an ass kisser. Thank god we finally have someone on our side fighting for us.
@timmytyphoon
11 жыл бұрын
I cannot help but believe that under fire with bullets and shells screaming overhead that the crew of a gun like this would have been moving a whole lot faster than these guys. I understand safety and all that...but still...These guys act like they are all taking a lot of Valium.
@shanek6582
7 жыл бұрын
Wonder if they were shooting original projectiles? I wouldn't think anyone still made them.
@weirdscience8341
6 жыл бұрын
Shane K most folks who shoot cannons and refurbished artillery get them made by people I saw a little breech loader at a country show a few years back and the guy said every shot bar the powder cost 25 pounds because each round was hand turned from solid copper on a lathe
@jjonestowne
8 жыл бұрын
wow, Doug Howser is ab awfully fantastic fella! snazzy dresser, great doo, AND is jazzed about siege artillery. what more could you ask for? i'm just bustin' your chops, Doug...you're ALL RIGHT, Dougis. you're an alright guy...i don't care what everyone else says about yuh, you're all right. jk, sorry...thanks for the video, 4real. appreciate it.
@dr.johnpaladinshow9747
5 жыл бұрын
Doug... you just gotta settle down dude.
@cobbetlprogrammer1344
4 жыл бұрын
NOTE: This was Awesome. Thanks so much for Posting!
@Kaeto2002
11 жыл бұрын
There was a 78 year old man who fought on the Union side at Gettysburg.
@Itsaboutthewaterlife
4 жыл бұрын
Wow.
@farmall1951c
8 жыл бұрын
great video, thanks for making.
@1joshjosh1
11 жыл бұрын
This kicks ass!!
@uttaradit2
11 жыл бұрын
Very informative video. Good work.
@normanhughes6861
8 жыл бұрын
This video is in somewhat "slow motion" to illustrate details of the loading/firing sequence. Although the siege guns are a bit slower, the 1861 field artillery manual specifies a rate of fire of 3 rounds per minute! So, as for the comment below about the cavalry charging the guns, this will work fine if your horse can run one mile in 20 seconds.... Most horses can't do 180 miles per hour.
@Bulsh1tMan
8 жыл бұрын
+Norman Hughes But if you come at the guns from the flanks, they'll need several more seconds to traverse the gun and aim it at you. I suppose a good cavalry captain would watch and wait for the gun crew to get distracted or preoccupied with the battle before creeping in for the charge. I say both sides have same chance of having their day ruined.
@steveww1507
8 жыл бұрын
thank you some one who knows what they are talking about !
@samsonpamson893
6 жыл бұрын
Don't negate infantry support and that a 12 pounder witch canister has 30 golf ball sized rounds. I hate to think what a 30 pounder lobs in 1 shot if canister.
@user-ew8vn3lw1w
9 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video!!!
@AZdirtdog
3 жыл бұрын
Good shot for 2k yards, hats off to you gentlemen
@propstick
3 ай бұрын
Absolutely fascinating!
@BirdDogg
9 ай бұрын
#4 man done lost half his stash to some over flash 😂
@austingoleman9431
3 жыл бұрын
They should do a few shots going at battle speed show how fast they did this in real battle
@rrssmooth6643
3 жыл бұрын
Gives a good perspective next time I watch a civil war movie.
@skyfix9813
8 жыл бұрын
A 30 lb parrott would be pretty big. But I still don't believe they could see one a mile away.
@Bulsh1tMan
8 жыл бұрын
+skyfix It would depend, a good commander would cover or conceal his guns using local terrain. The problem with a gun like is the the flat trajectory would force you to use direct fire, hence you have to see your target in order to shoot at it. And if you can see them, they can see you. They'll certainly know where your gun is when you start shooting with all that smoke.
@hwoods01
8 жыл бұрын
Those guys had some eyesight back then. Billy Dixon shot an Indian Chief off his horse at almost one mile distance with a 50-90 in 1873. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Dixon
@budmeister
7 жыл бұрын
Ridiculous spelling
@jeredhersh789
4 жыл бұрын
Well, they did have telescopes and binoculars, and some rifles were equipped with telescopic sights. So, spotting wouldn't be so difficult.
@ftargr
Жыл бұрын
wonderful presentation. god bless r e lee
@kenrussell1093
5 жыл бұрын
Super educational video, but the narrator reminds me of Ben Stein doing a Visine commercial....
@logain1988
12 жыл бұрын
thanks for uploading these
@skipsassy1
12 жыл бұрын
These reenactments take so much time and the men are very old looking. I can't believe soldiers and cannon soldiers were much older than teenagers, and were scared at the time of fiing since they were being fired at, not these older gents. They appear to be in a "scientific experiments" type activity which war is far from I'm sure. Death is sudden and limbs blowing off changes your outlook I'm sure.
@FunnyMan-pw4hl
3 жыл бұрын
Stuart Smalley of Civil War artillery?
@Historybluff1986
2 ай бұрын
I could never want to be the man ramming in the charge or projectile. Way too much danger there.
@rotgut14
11 жыл бұрын
Great job on an informative video!!
@timothyjdingman
5 жыл бұрын
The round hit just to the left; how was that a direct hit? General Jackson would’ve made those guys repeat the class, “word for word; word for word” (Gettysburge the movie 🙂).
@thulomanchay
8 ай бұрын
Are there any legendary Gunner, who are always on target with the first or second shot?
@TheWazil
3 жыл бұрын
Excited: Yup , just too excited.
@IIDASHII
11 жыл бұрын
20:40 to see "Live Firing of Civil War Siege Artillery."
@rbpompeu1
2 ай бұрын
How long does it take to shot in battle conditions? Something like one shot every 10 minutes?
@vole12
9 жыл бұрын
Fascinating stuff thanks . Nice cardigan , much like mine .
@carlkrebs1
11 жыл бұрын
Good vid , dept no. 1. & 2 man should NEVER be anywhere near that axis line of the gun bore upon loading the live Pedro &that live she'll !one wrong mistake and those two men , can be torn to prices ! People need to know this . This artillery piece is not a toy folks . They are shooting live shells . It can be an extremely dangerous hobby!
@TaterChip91
3 жыл бұрын
I did not expect that voice
@MpowerdAPE
5 жыл бұрын
Those ARE NOT animations... take a closer look. 13:15
@dmithsmith5880
7 жыл бұрын
That sweater would make a good swab !
@Nedroj
9 жыл бұрын
A direct hit the stoned narrator says. They missed the target all 3 times. Nice vid tho.
@TheMwarrior50
3 жыл бұрын
I wish we could get modern footage of this :C
@stevendeatley4878
5 жыл бұрын
that was a good video ,I qlwqya did wonder what made cannon balls explode.thanks.
@tomservo5347
8 жыл бұрын
Little wonder the Parrot was excellent for counter-battery fire. You could hit them, but all the 12-pounder crew could do was swear at you bluebellys for being dishonorable.
@diggitallindadirt3283
6 жыл бұрын
Very nice videos
@kingmiura8138
5 жыл бұрын
If the target was movable, it would have moved after the first shot.
@kingmiura8138
5 жыл бұрын
I would put a sponge on the opposite end of the rammer pole....but that's just me.
@MrSolLeks
5 жыл бұрын
they often had a separate poll with a cloth and bucket to do what you are describing for many different cannons.
@SekTauBand
3 жыл бұрын
the commentator sounds like Garfield
@rrssmooth6643
3 жыл бұрын
So if you carried it, tripped, feel over and dropped shell on front, will it blow up?.
@drpoundsign
4 жыл бұрын
Fascinating!....but, why wouldn't the timed fuze be in the base of the shell?
@hoosieryank6731
9 ай бұрын
Are these reenactors still around as a formation?
@justinfenningsdorf3741
5 жыл бұрын
This demo would been done a lot faster because you under fire by the enemy
@tellmeitsnottaken
4 жыл бұрын
What a cool video
@14arma
Жыл бұрын
Awesome video. Question: Would gun crews from that era be issued rifles or any sort of a personal weapon?
@ValMartinIreland
11 жыл бұрын
In relation to the timed fuse, You said it was ignited by the main charge. How can this be when the diagram shows the fuse to in front of the bullet?
@coinsmith
5 жыл бұрын
Can't believe in 5 years no one has answered you. The flash from the discharge at the muzzle encompasses the entire projectile, igniting the forward-facing fuse (which was coated with a hardened disc of putty consisting of finely ground black powder and gum spirits). If the shell were to be loaded with the fuse facing rearwards upon the powder charge, the ignition of the firing charge would have driven the fuse up into the shell and bursting it before it ever left the barrel.
@Itsaboutthewaterlife
4 жыл бұрын
@@coinsmith: dang dude: you know your stuff. I'll bet you are a reenactor.
@19james77
2 жыл бұрын
great video
@karneda92
11 жыл бұрын
this has to be the most overly informative video I've ever seen
@rckchp
9 жыл бұрын
I wonder.....did they have an EOD team look for and safely dispose of the unexploded 2nd shot????......or did they leave it for some farmer to plow up someday?
@williamdodd8660
4 жыл бұрын
It looks like a range-all those craters in the hillside. Presumably that’s a restricted area.
@BIG-DIPPER-56
2 жыл бұрын
Very nice - thank you ! ! ! 🙂😎👍
@chrisdowdy
4 жыл бұрын
King of battle, red leg forever
@christianwouters6764
4 жыл бұрын
So these guns were completely useless against moving targets unless scoring a direct hit the very first time ?
@robertgorham3755
4 жыл бұрын
I never knew they had artillery shells like that back then...thought they were just round balls
@jordanhicks5131
4 жыл бұрын
The civil war was one of the first modern wars with things such as rifled muskets and shrapnel shells being used as well as early iterations of machine guns and hand grenades and landmines, that's why the casualty count was so high, they were using napoleonic tactics against weapons which could kill at 5 times the distance of the weapons those tactics were designed for.
@drpoundsign
4 жыл бұрын
@@jordanhicks5131 TRUE. The North even had repeating Henry rifles-but the Brass were stubborn about their implementation. Could have probably shortened the War.
@gasplut
12 жыл бұрын
...the guy talking 12:44 has just smoked some weed and is just about to fall asleep...
@Daylon91
7 жыл бұрын
wicked sweater lol!
@carlkrebs1
11 жыл бұрын
Sorry for spelling . But I have trained men on these guns and I am extremely careful of these men's lives on the guns I have in the past assisted in training men .
@gstone42
11 жыл бұрын
Very cool!
@Verdunveteran
12 жыл бұрын
Very interesting! :)
@Jixxor
6 жыл бұрын
Actually less than 1% of this video is about whats advertised in the title.
@flair1211
11 жыл бұрын
back in 2004, when I was in Korea, I was a #2 Man, i.e. bitch of the section
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