The tool was never meant to by implied as a weapon in its origin. Death was personified as analogous to a farmer. He merely collects us when our time has come, much as a farmer harvests crops when he has decided it is their time. That's why he's called the grim (solemn, sad) reaper (harvester, collecter).
@theromanorder
Жыл бұрын
I know and that was my thought too.. its my thought that a farmer may want it a little more then fighting with fits
@KyleStratacusDrewry
9 жыл бұрын
I've figured out why Death carries a scythe. Death is a farmer.
@jas9friend
9 жыл бұрын
Kyle Drewry The Harvester of souls who severs the tie between the soul and body. He's not evil. Don't fear the reaper.
@nmarbletoe8210
8 жыл бұрын
+Yognaught Xedmos ... or the sun and the wind and the rain...
@Lukeeiiee
8 жыл бұрын
+Kyle „Stratacus“ Drewry or maybe death killed a farmer and took his scythe
@IIIRobIII
8 жыл бұрын
+Kyle „Stratacus“ Drewry hes farming kills
@MrBeiragua
8 жыл бұрын
+Kyle “Stratacus” Drewry Chronos, the Titan of time, or originally Kronu God of harvest; in Rome called Saturnus, originally Satu, God of the harvest. The Scythe is their weapon for it is the farmers tool.
@witchsniffer5764
10 жыл бұрын
You think that's bad? The Grim Reaper traded in his scythe for a combine harvester decades ago.
@Appletank8
10 жыл бұрын
Technology marches on. So does Death. Seriously, that is a hilarious mental image. "Oh look, I'm de-" *BRRRRRRRRRRRR* *WHOS NEXT?*
@HiddenDragon555
10 жыл бұрын
Appletank8 And when Death needs to fight he has to pick up the entire thing and swing it at people, quite funny actually.
@Punishthefalse
10 жыл бұрын
Gorinich Serpant He could just run them down.
@evanb1470
5 жыл бұрын
Now all I can picture is the Grim Reaper bitching about the price of diesel....
@scxrpion3828
4 жыл бұрын
six years ago big nostalgia moments
@MikaelDryden
10 жыл бұрын
Here's hoping there will be more videos on peasant weaponry.
@sibanbgd100
7 жыл бұрын
MikaelDryden like ps4?
@burritowyrm6530
5 жыл бұрын
voting is a really powerful peasant weapon tbh
@thundersuckler5194
3 жыл бұрын
All weapons are peasant weapons. The elites just use the peasants as weapons.
@xaroxero
10 жыл бұрын
So...it's basically like menacing someone with a lawnmower? Only, if someone can lift a lawnmower while it's running and menace me, I'd be proper terrified. Spinny sharp bits? No, thank you.
@HitodamaKyrie
10 жыл бұрын
If some guy plans to use anything the size of a lawnmower as a weapon on me, then you can consider me thoroughly menaced as well.
@TomaszWota
9 жыл бұрын
No. This scythe isn't even what I usually see as scythe around here. Rather, it usually has a pretty straight shaft (mass produced ones are almost always straight-cut...). This one looks like modern "ergonomic" version or something. Even my old (well, pre-WW2) shaft was mostly straight (it was made out of a straight branch or a young tree, it wasn't bent like this at all). Also, scythes are sharp as hell - imagine reforging the end of it to fit it on a stick at 180 degree angle along the shaft. Anybody without some actual armor will get viciously cut. It's usually strong enough to cut through young wood (...tree sprouts? sorry, can't think of a correct term atm) 15mm in diameter. Sure, if it hits metal, or bone, it will most likely chip, but hey, in XIX century there weren't that many full-plate knights running around battlefields. And that's when Polish peasant scythe-bearers did fight in insurrections using these "home made" war scythes. Not like they were the main force, but they were significant in number: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosynierzy#cite_ref-10 see "Kosy i piki" percents - it's "scythes and pikes". So, it's more like menacing someone with a terrifying deep cuts. I had cut myself with a scythe's blade before. It doesn't take much, and it's not pleasant at all. ;)
@BuzzKirill3D
9 жыл бұрын
Watch the movie "Brain Dead" ("Dead Alive"). There's a great lawnmower fighting scene near the end.
@MisterBones2910
9 жыл бұрын
Tomasz Wota In the middle ages you can bet your ass the pole would still be curved. Perhaps not as strikingly, but it would still be curved quite considerably.
@TomaszWota
9 жыл бұрын
***** Why is that? You're not trying to tell me people back then didn't know how to make a straight piece of wood? ;) I can agree that they wouldn't probably waste time to make every single one a nice straight one, but I think I can "bet my ass" they weren't all as curved as this one here. ;)
@MickeyCuervo36
10 жыл бұрын
What's the deal with the straight shafted, blade pointing skywards scythes in Poland? They're on one of their military insignias, and there were medieval books written on them. Would these be mistranslations? Are they actually fauchards, minus the spike?
@lindybeige
10 жыл бұрын
Yes, there are weapons called war-scythes, but the ones you see Polish troops posing with are specialist war weapons, not agricultural tools.
@iniudan
10 жыл бұрын
A fauchards without the spike is indeed what would be considered war scythe, which is basically a naginata with the cutting part on the opposite side of the blade. This is a nice painting of them, but sadly it not contenporary to the battle, been that it was painted like a century later. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Che%C5%82mo%C5%84ski_Modlitwa_przed_bitwa.jpg
@dextrodemon
10 жыл бұрын
sort of the same thing, and one supposes more or less the same function, as a japanese naginata.
@CowboyxWayne
10 жыл бұрын
Lindybeige You think that's where the misconception of farm tools being repurposed into weapons came from? I thought the same thing too until I actually saw a real scythe blade.
@mechadrake
8 жыл бұрын
+CowboyxWayne because Polaks and Lithuaniams often made weapons from said scythes. Fine revolt weapons ;)
@arthurdent6256
9 жыл бұрын
I'd rather have a pitchfork.
@GrenadeRat
9 жыл бұрын
+Nathan C. I'd rather have a shotgun...
@arthurdent6256
9 жыл бұрын
Colin M If we're going to play that way then... I'd rather have a network of missile launch sites.
@naphackDT
8 жыл бұрын
+Nathan C. I'd rather have a nuclear submarine.
@karhumetsallanainen2040
8 жыл бұрын
+Nathan C. Not a very good close quarters weapon I must say
@arthurdent6256
8 жыл бұрын
karhu metsällä nainen I disagree.
@victorselve8349
8 жыл бұрын
There are only three reasons to use a scythe: It's a soul eating weapon, It's also a gun, You talk in capital letters.
@MustangGT4
4 жыл бұрын
RWBY reference?
@adamisdracora2091
3 жыл бұрын
Sam Greenberg nooooooo There are so many other gun scythes such as ...... Anyways, that‘s definitely not one of the most iconic scenes of the series Noooooo
@Tilnaor
3 жыл бұрын
@@MustangGT4 capital letters is definitely a Terry Pratchett reference
@MoonRose-Valentine
2 жыл бұрын
It's a soul eater, RWBY, and something else reference
@victorselve8349
2 жыл бұрын
@@MoonRose-Valentine disc world is the third one
@trollforge
10 жыл бұрын
Lindy: What you have there is: an ERGONOMICALLY (spit & glare with disdain at the word) re-engineered tool designed for some pansy city boy to environmentally manicure his lawn. The traditional agricultural tool has a heavier blade designed to cut through straw all day, the tang was flat in the same plane as the blade. The angle the blade was mounted in relationship to the handle was closer to 15 degrees them to 45 degrees because the tool was meant to be used at nearly full arms length away from the body as to prevent the user from walking on the forage he has just cut. The the handle would have somewhat less of the recurve than the one you have because it was not meant to snake around the user's body. There were models built from straight dimensional lumber and there were models that were intended to cut straight through young tree saplings. I have used and rebuild many as a demonstrator at a living history site, and in the running of my own small farm. As a matter of fact I have 3 currently around the homestead. Though all in all I must agree it is not the best of weapons.
@Vot63
10 жыл бұрын
Very interesting, but there's no need to be a knobend. Why don't you post some videos of your scything brilliance?
@TheWonkster
5 жыл бұрын
Do you know what the word Ergonomic actually means? Or are you just being one of those "making things easier and more efficient is stupid and we should go back to gathering water in leaky clay jugs and lugging it 5 miles back to the mud-hut so we can have something to fend off our impending death from dehydration and maybe watch the grass grow for fun later" dildos?
@shakti666
3 жыл бұрын
@Mr. Wonky Im pretty sure he used it correctly? He did reference a pansy city boy.
@superqwat8618
2 жыл бұрын
The scythe my grandfather used had a straight handle, not a curved one like this. It did have a heavier blade than the one in this video, but not much, definietly not as heavy as a sword, but I distinctly remember that for me it was a bit hard to get used to, but he wielded it with ease. I think the point here is that he used it occasionally, so I think the one he had was a simple one, compared to the one on the video which strikes me as a professional one, which you would use for all day for months.
@zacharyorme2474
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheWonkster your literally describing my dream life, I'd love to go a long walk then watch the grass grow the rest of the day. You don't need to, but I think it's a nice life
@KeanKennedy
8 жыл бұрын
On the plus side, the scythe was a more beautiful and complex thing than usually depicted in art.
@MrHendrix17
10 жыл бұрын
Maybe the Grim Reaper uses a scythe to encourage others to do so, thus minimising the number of deaths per battle?
@MrHendrix17
10 жыл бұрын
Cernel Joson He barely gets five minutes to himself, and I'm sure after tens of thousands of years hes got a comfortable savings fund. He'd probably appreciate a few minutes rest between deaths.
@CyranofromBergerac
10 жыл бұрын
MrHendrix17 I can see it! He clocks in for the day, goes home. Gets a beer from the fridge and plops down on the couch. He hits the remote and George Carlin is on TV. He then yells at George Carlin to get off his TV and he obliges. At this moment his cell phone blows up and it's his boss. There's a back up due to the crusades and he needs to come in for work immediately. He doesn't get paid overtime so he schemes a way to get out of working so much. He hasn't even had time to eat in thousands of years which is why he's a skeleton. Sadly beer doesn't have the adequate amount of calories to sustain anyone who isn't Irish.
@masterpoogway
6 жыл бұрын
If you bring a scythe into battle you are going to get killed 😂
@thood1607
5 жыл бұрын
He uses it because he is "The Harvester of Souls" and scythes were used for harvesting plants ready to be harvested
@50Calabyte
10 жыл бұрын
Can I just tell you how much I love your videos? Something about your dry British wit coupled with the interesting information about various Medieval weaponry is delightful.
@fredfry5100
10 жыл бұрын
The Reaper is/was not a fictional character. He's a symbolic one. During the Black Plague the image was Death reaping men the way a farmer reaps his crops. Thus, the Grim Reaper.
@itzyaboi8477
9 жыл бұрын
I read rape instead of reap and I was like Good to know O.O
@MatthewCampbell765
9 жыл бұрын
Defeci Diabolus In many religious traditions there's a psychochomp that basically serves the role of a grim reaper. So not quite fictional /per say/ though improbable, not verifiable to science, and probably does not own a scythe anyways. For all intents and purposes, fictional.
@bellelavictorie61
9 жыл бұрын
Fiction is for entertainment. Symbols are ideas expressed as an image. The nuclear radiation symbol is not something that exists in nature, but it is symbolic of an idea that there is significant amounts of radiation present and that care should be taken in the presence of whatever it is that is there. The Grim Reaper symbolizes mass death. It may not be something that exists in nature, but it is symbolic of an idea that there is significant amounts of mass death present and that-... Do I really need to explain? The Grim Reaper image may be fictitious, but the meaning of the Grim Reaper is far from fiction.
@gawayne1374
9 жыл бұрын
Ok, assuming that your symbolic argument works, well, there are many movies and books that today use him fictionally, so if he wasn't considered a fictional character, well, he is now.
@bellelavictorie61
9 жыл бұрын
Christopher Teale If your name or your likeness is made a character in a book or movie, do you automatically become a fictional character? The answer is no. A chair can be placed in a fictional book, but the concept of chair is not fiction. The Grim Reaper can be placed in fiction, but the fact is it symbolizes mass death is not fiction. Mass death is not fiction. It is a major historic symbol that holds information.
@Arutima
9 жыл бұрын
Poles used war scythes for centuries, but their scythes have straight shaft and a blade running on the same length than the shaft. They are closer to other pole arms compared to the agricultural scythes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_scythe
@jonassol1
9 жыл бұрын
isn't that a 'pole-axe'? ;-)
@bartolomeonew
9 жыл бұрын
Jonas n No, there were actual scythes... but a bit modified :) - straighten and additionaly sharpened at the end. There were actual whole battalions of peasants armed with them (since not enough firearms were available) - and yes, they won couple of battles against regular army.
@CharizardousRex
9 жыл бұрын
oh how dissapointing they look more like spears.. everything i know is wrong :(, i love the grim reaper looking scythe being used in media
@kashsmith6181
9 жыл бұрын
Charizardous Rex Grim Reaper's scythe is made to reap souls, not grain.
@CharizardousRex
9 жыл бұрын
kash smith i was talking to someone else in another video earlier, and they proved that even if there was an equivalent of that weapon irl, that it wouldnt be a good weapon :/
@RealLuckless
10 жыл бұрын
Having lost a rather sizeable chunk out of my leg to a scythe blade that led to a rather involved bit of surgery to reattach it all, I have to rather strongly disagree with your view that a stick would make a more effective weapon. Would a scythe blade fixed on a more suitable haft be a highly durable weapon? No. It is however, more than capable of cutting and ripping devastatingly large chunks of flesh out of a human.
@lindybeige
10 жыл бұрын
If we squared off against each other in a deliberate fight, with parries and ripostes, I would prefer a straight stick to a scythe. Sorry to read of your injury, of course.
@Segalmed
10 жыл бұрын
Lindybeige When it comes to that the revolting peasant would have lost already. I would assume the (modified) scythe to be used to bring down the horse the knight is on. Then the comrades of the scythe wielder would jump on the fallen rider with more suitable 'can openers'. And in later time periods the opponents would not have had much neck protection anymore, so even a thin blade could be used effectively at least as a threat. In any case the scythe would not be used in one-on-one combat but as one weapon in a (rag-tag) group.
@SiliconBong
9 жыл бұрын
Lindybeige Hmm, an interesting video Mr. beige; you have yourself your one hundred and three thousand, eight hundred and fourth subscriber :D P.S. The last i saw a scythe in a movie was Lord of the Rings[1] where Farmer maggot chases the hobbits across one of his fields, after they 'found' some stray vegetables on his property . . .
@valentinlance8072
9 жыл бұрын
RealLuckless My friend Lucas who is also studying forestry just as I am had a dead stick on the the ground go straight through his calf while on a hike through the woods. So I beg to differ that wooden stick is not effective, especially when an unrefined dead stick in the woods managed to do the same damage to a husky Pennsylvania logger as a scythe has done to you.
@valentinlance8072
9 жыл бұрын
RealLuckless Sorry about your injury, that sounds like an incredibly harrowing experience to have a chunk of your leg cut out.
@singami465
10 жыл бұрын
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_scythe pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:Polish_scythemen_1863.PNG It was done historically, and even though the modification isn't something you can do on the fly, it was a pretty effective way of getting a large amount of cheap and war-ready weapons.
@leifeng9123
10 жыл бұрын
Could you share a photo of a Polish scythe before conversion? The weapons used by the Polish soldiers in your wikipedia picture look like they were made for that purpose in the first place. They seem to be named after the scythe for shape of the blade and its basic use but they don't look like converted farming implements to me.... Edit: Looks like they were used but that makes me question Polish agricultural tool design more than anything.
@ToadSlaysStool
10 жыл бұрын
Lei Feng the blades were reforged for the purpose of war. Very few changes would have been required.The most difficult problem would have been finding a good pole to mount your scythe blade on. It would be less then worthless to use the original handle as mr. Lindy Beige has clearly demonstrated.
@siprus
10 жыл бұрын
ToadSlaysStool Wikipedia states that Scythe is easy to turn into a weapon... But i wonder about that. You need to change your pole, and you need to rework the blade. Basically you need to change 100% of the weapon... so i wonder how much effective making weapon out of scythe compared to just make a complitely new weapon outof new shaft and with new metal.
@ToadSlaysStool
10 жыл бұрын
siprus The process of forging an entirely new blade is a time consuming process. I work a small forge and have actually made the change, that wikipedia speaks of, to a scythe blade before. The scythe blade that I was working on is one that my neighbor wanted me to make into a sword/wall decoration. It took me less than 10 minutes to change that angle. I did not spend anytime reinforcing the blade since it was just for decoration. But I am 100 percent confident that a blacksmith's apprentice of minimum experience could hammer out these changes to make the scythe efficient as a pole weapon, considering I did this same thing with my limited metal working experience.
@qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqw
10 жыл бұрын
usually created from standard scythes.[citation needed] The blade of the scythe is transformed[citation needed] More likely they were just simple polearms made by peasant smiths used to forging scythes.
@ItsYaBoySkinnyPenis69420
7 жыл бұрын
its almost harvesting season
@toussaintgervais8285
9 жыл бұрын
How to use a scythe as a weapon: 1- Obtain said Scythe. 2- Find neighbor stupid enough to trade scythe for second-hand sword 3- Enjoy
This video is awful. In the real world scythes are brilliant and do 2d4 damage and everything!
@Tabmaster94
6 жыл бұрын
That x4 crit though
@KnifeChatswithTobias
6 жыл бұрын
Hilarious!
@Nutt_lemmings
6 жыл бұрын
Dark souls 2 pvp scythe of want with its sweet spot dat trust damage damn and dat r2 spin great for going through shields
@shinkiro403
5 жыл бұрын
@@Nutt_lemmings yeah, that's why I never... thrust shythe users Ok ok, door's over there...
@Little_Eris
5 жыл бұрын
And they also have sniffle Rifles in them.
@chrisofnottingham
9 жыл бұрын
To convert a scythe for fighting you replace the haft with a straight pole and the blade with thicker aligned straight blade. Also, fabulous use of an old single bed as a clothes horse.
@toussaintgervais8285
9 жыл бұрын
So just carry a pitchfork?
@Dimitrij90
9 жыл бұрын
why?
@foodfoodfood8898
9 жыл бұрын
The haft and the blade are literally the only parts of the scythe. It wouldn't be conversion at that point, but just making a new weapon.
@greysquirrel404
9 жыл бұрын
food food food whoosh
@chrisofnottingham
9 жыл бұрын
Grey Squirrel :-)
@sewagedweller
10 жыл бұрын
there were war scythes that were used as weapons ,but they didnt look like agricultural ones .
@Argol228
10 жыл бұрын
a war scythe is more or less a variation of a glaive. As for the video. The closest thing to the traditional fantasy depictions of scythes are Kama. which are sickles with out the same curvature.
@Argol228
10 жыл бұрын
Kuba022 yeah it's funny how an agricultural tool became a fairly famous weapon just by adding a weighted chain and making it a kusarigama
@RonSmiththesonsofhera
6 жыл бұрын
Argol228 it's because of the ninja
@shakti666
3 жыл бұрын
The scythe blade is also displayed on the karambit, which was also originally an agriculture tool
@maciejrozanski154
9 жыл бұрын
Scythyniers (i hope i translated this right) were troops that used scythes with blade pointed up, it is because they were simple peasants that joined uprising during Kościuszko`s insugurence. I live in country where it happend so its confrimed information, i am sure if they had any other weapon they would use it, that was just emergency.
@cyrylkowalczyk9392
10 жыл бұрын
Funny. I live in eastern Europe and first time i saw a curved shaft was in your video. I bought a scythe some time ago (for places too bumpy for my mower) and there were none with curved shafts. Though I have to admit - for military purpose I would replace the shaft with thinner, longer one. And the blade is not that thin either: it has some kind of thicker shaft in the back. Finaly: the angle of the blade. In mine the angle is a result of folding the blade, so, to use it as a military polearm-like weapon, all you have to do is to straighten the fold (an hour of hammering?). So - the usage of such improvised weapon in Kościuszko Uprising is not that suprising.
@KafelObrotowy
9 жыл бұрын
Actually war scythes has been used with good effect, for example at Kościuszko Insurrection of 1794 by polish kosyniers.
@arczi1309
5 жыл бұрын
the point is, that the blades were forged straight-up, working as a makeshift halberd.
@Modelstl063
5 жыл бұрын
Artur polski noob youre about 4 years late
@arczi1309
5 жыл бұрын
@@Modelstl063 ik but cam't leave unanswered questions.
@wolfeye2717
7 жыл бұрын
I do own an old scythe -used for farming- that is actually like the artworks and it's sharp and thick enough to cut many things in half
@bjarked47
7 жыл бұрын
My father has one to, Straight stik with a bent downward blade. He used it to get down wild barry bushes.
@dergrammarfuhrer1901
7 жыл бұрын
Scythes can vary quite a lot, you see some ones that only have a very gentle curve to the handle and have a smaller blade that faces inwards, like bjarked47 said these would be more useful for clearing bushes than cutting grass, it all depends on how it will be used.
@KahavaveCAPIPI
9 жыл бұрын
There are a few issues with this. First, the scythe you're using is a modern type. That is, most historical scythes were built simply, because it was usually cheaper to hire more farmhands willing to do work with shitty tools than it was to get better tools. So they just used relatively straight shafts, because the type of curve you used was more expensive to make than a straight or slightly wobbly shaft. Second, war-scythes were common though history. Especially in peasant uprisings in antiquity and the middle ages, but as late as the 1863 January Uprising. There is, infact, a picture of war-scythe users on the wikipedia page for "War Scythe". Not an artists rendition (though there is one of those), a picture. It was not, admittedly, a "Pick up a use" weapon, but some slight modification made it a perfectly practical weapon for peasants.
@KurNorock
9 жыл бұрын
Those war scythes are not scythes at all. Those are a pole-arm, i.e., an actual weapon, called a war scythe. And actual scythe is a farm tool as shown in this video and is more of a hindrance than a weapon in a fight.
@KahavaveCAPIPI
9 жыл бұрын
Kur Norock A war scythe is a scythe converted to a regular polearm. Like I said; some slight modification was used.
@jonassol1
9 жыл бұрын
Unus Domus how do you know? - most farm tools are useless in battle and break easily when banged against stuff (and not cutting through wheat/hay)
@uegvdczuVF
9 жыл бұрын
Manny people believe that war scythes are actual farming implements or are made from them. Even wikipedia article states so, but gives no sources for those claims. This just not true. All scythes have very light, thin blades which are unsuitable to make any blade larger than a stake knife and would be useless as a pole arm blades. They would bend or brake with first strike. Which is something that can happen to a scythe if you hit a rock or a molehill.
@KahavaveCAPIPI
9 жыл бұрын
uegvdczuVF Austrian scythes (which are currently the most common, barring a few traditional areas in rural America) or traditional Anglo-American scythes (which have fallen in popularity)? Because a 75 centimeter traditional Anglo-American blade weighs about 3 kilos while a 75 centimeter Austrian blade weighs about 1.8 kilos. I would have to assume that if the Austrian blade weighs ~60% of an Anglo-American blade, there has to be some variation in thickness. Unless, for some reason, the principle difference between the two is that the Anglo-American has an extra 1.2 kilos of weight on the back of the blade.
@schwarzerritter5724
8 жыл бұрын
Well, that explains why a regular scythe can't be used in battle? But what about the "wrong" scythe you showed in the ending. Could that be used in battle?
@kristheobserver
8 жыл бұрын
+Schwarzer Ritter Google the term war scythe. They look radically different from this.
@MrSkinnyWhale
3 жыл бұрын
Scythes are like scissors. You wouldn't want to take them to war as your weapon, but you also wouldn't want someone to come at you with them.
@Luciffrit
10 жыл бұрын
I might add that, that is a modern scythe. Where technology has come along way. I could make the same argument with a modern shovel, that it would bend like the thin aluminum it was and that no shovels were ever used as weapons. That being said I would assume a sickle to be where this myth mostly stems from. Which is a different kettle of fish as it's handiness, size and shape can deliver fatal wounds even to a knight in armour. Peasants armed with sharpened sticks knock him over and a sickle through his visor would ruin his day severely. Many antique sickle's I've picked up are fairly hefty and were not made exclusively for grasses either.
@gebatron604
10 жыл бұрын
By your logic you could also kill a knight with a sharpened chopstick
@Hypoo
10 жыл бұрын
Guy Potts Sharp enough and made of steel, maybe.
@lakshen47
10 жыл бұрын
A shovel would be a horrible weapon, but a spade might be used as one, and they are not at all likely to bend if you hit someone with them.
@gebatron604
10 жыл бұрын
I'd say a simple spear is a much better weapon and probably no harder for a farmer to get his hands on
@MrSzymonSz
10 жыл бұрын
Guy Potts Not really. That's why scythes were actually used by peasants in the 18th and 19th century:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosynierzy
@secutorprimus
8 жыл бұрын
What are you talking about?! Scythes are great weapons! They are easily attainable for free at a low level through clan research, and as long as you use the right polarity mods and stance mods, you can tear through waves of enemies! Not to mention that they are great at hitting multiple enemies. And, come on, you can't say Nekros doesn't look badass with the Reaper Prime. Noob. 1v1 me clan duel, bro.
@dalmirocampos7642
8 жыл бұрын
ohhhhhh thiz iz gona git gud
@Spacefrisian
7 жыл бұрын
Get a stick and use it as a club, same effect. maybe less cutting and more smashing.
@demonetizeddemonetisedinmy1890
7 жыл бұрын
Talk to my Fragor Prime
@Hawk_of_Battle
7 жыл бұрын
My tonbo wielding Valkyr would also like a word.
@ElvenMans
7 жыл бұрын
Kaszás
@maciejdzik7252
10 жыл бұрын
An interesting fact: war scythes were used in 18th and 19th century as an improvized weapon to arm cheaply guerillas as well as regular formations recruited from peasants in polish insurections at that time. There is a lot of mythology around heroic peasants armed with scythes thanks to romantic painters who portrayed their battles in the later period.
@zaholykrusedar1459
2 жыл бұрын
Just one thing, that thing is also used in 16th and 17th century
@lukaszplonka3857
7 жыл бұрын
In Poland it was used in many battles in 18th century. Soldiers who used them were called kosynierzy (singular: kosynier; sometimes translated as scythe-bearers or scythemen, from Polish kosa, scythe) is the term for soldiers (often peasants) armed with war scythes. First appearing in the Kościuszko Insurrection of 1794, kosynierzy quickly became one of the symbols of the struggle for Polish independence.
@jamesgordley5000
8 жыл бұрын
I kinda want to organize a peasant rampage on Craigslist.
@Karol-cj9fy
9 жыл бұрын
The scythe WAS actually used as a weapon. But that were village men, who had no better tools, and the modifited the scythes for it. And it wasn't as effective as the weapons army carried, not to mention these men weren't trained in battle. Like during the Swedish Deluge, Polish peasants used they scythes to fight the Swedish invaders. I guess the most effective way to fight with a scythe is to "chop" the legs of passing by horses. Not very save thou, the cavalry won't just let you do that.
@IshanDeston
9 жыл бұрын
Completely omits the existence and tradition of war scythes. There is even a Fechtbuch by Paulus Hector Mair from after the peasant war of 1525 that has instructions on how to use a war scythe.
@Total1337
9 жыл бұрын
That's more of a spear than a traditional scythe, though.
@IshanDeston
9 жыл бұрын
I never claimed that it was unmodified. I said it omits the existence of the War scythe, which has been playing a major part in polish, lithuanian and transylvan history to the point where Poland had Military Units of "Scythe Men" in their official army till 1940. And they all used Scythes. The question of the video was Scythes in battle and a War scythe is still a Scythe, even if they removed the rubbish hilt and mounted it as stabbing implement to use it, it is still a Scythe.
@Total1337
9 жыл бұрын
Kajan451 It was a 'scythe' by the broadest sense of the term. At that point you may as well call it a bastardised halberd.
@IshanDeston
9 жыл бұрын
Nicolaas van Dijk A halberd is not a War Scythe. A War Scythe is a Scythe, it is in the name. War... Scythe. There. In the name. Are you really arguing that a thing that is called a Scythe is not a Scythe?
@Total1337
9 жыл бұрын
Kajan451 I'm not saying it's not a scythe, I'm saying it's barely a scythe.
@Dr_V
8 жыл бұрын
I am Romanian, here scythes have straight handles. There are hystorical documents stating that scythes were occasionally used as weapons by peasants trying to defend themselves. In recent years many idiots wounded people with scythes (intentionally or accidentally, usually when drunk), as a doctor I've seen a few cases. Most wounds are very deep cuts to the legs (often below the knee). Hits to the body and arms are usually long shallow cuts, but if the tip hits first you can get deep stabs to the abdomen. In the chest the rib cage stops the blade from penetrating too deep, but it can still collapse a lung. Hits to the neck are rare but usually fatal. Most injuries are inflicted using the same circular motion of cutting grass but with the blade held higher up from the ground.
@MsSomeonenew
8 жыл бұрын
Well you are basing all this on your style of scythe, I've seen quite a few around farms but none in that style. They usually come with straight shafts and adjustable blade mounts (in my area anyway), so you could turn those into somewhat of a weapon easily. Peasant fighting a knight would be suicidal in either case, so who they would presumably be fighting is other peasants, and these things cleave flesh at a scary pace, we are talking an accidental swipe leading to near dismemberment.
@darkmantlestudios
10 жыл бұрын
I never realized how wrong fantasy scythes were :/
@TowerSavant
10 жыл бұрын
I was about to come down into this comment section and tell Lindybeige how doubtful it was people took the fantasy depiction of scythes seriously. I never did. Its a "fun" fantasy weapon. I mean the main guy using it is a robed skeleton (or tiny anime girl) afterall! Then I read your comment. Have hugs.
@darkmantlestudios
10 жыл бұрын
TowerSavant Quite honestly I never really looked into it anyway :p the grim reaper scythe is the only one I've ever seen, I imagine it's the same for a lot of people.
@Roflcopter4b
10 жыл бұрын
TowerSavant This is passive aggressiveness at its max.
@Balsiefen
5 жыл бұрын
In Horncastle church there are some "pikes" dating from the civil war (or possibly the Lincolnshire rebellion) which are clearly just scythe blades hammered onto a straight haft. Just because they are crap weapons doesn't mean someone won't have a go with them anyway. It's amazing, and quite rare to see such commoner's weapons that have survived through the ages though. Apparently the vicar found a cache of them in the 1900's and decided to stick them above one of the doors.
@mnk199245
10 жыл бұрын
For the longest time I wasn't sure whether to subscribe, but the Blackadder reference has won me over good job
@ArkhanNightman
10 жыл бұрын
There are war scythes but they more resemble some kind of polearm or glaive rather than a farming tool.
@KurNorock
9 жыл бұрын
I've been trying to convince nerds for years that the scythe is a terrible, bullshit, thing to use as a weapon under any circumstances. And they argue and cry about how it's the coolest weapon ever. I refuse to even use them in video games even though they generally have better stats than the swords and axes..
@ABaumstumpf
9 жыл бұрын
Kur Norock It is for fu** GAMES. You are constantly doing things that are utterly impossible and yet you refuse to acknowledge scythes in them? The objects they label swords in those games - they often are more than 1 cm thick, 10cm wide and 1m long blunt metal bars => 8kg for the blade alone. And many weapons are even thicker and bigger. A direct hit of a mace onto you arm only covered in chainmail and you can keep on fighting like nothing happened. Scythes in Video-games are designed very different from actual agricultural tools but they are still based upon those - and would work just as well as all the other fictional weapons.
@Verithiell
9 жыл бұрын
scythes has been used in the past as fighting weapon. Read about Kosciuszko's insurgence. The only thing is the blade of the scythe would be set edgewise.
@KurNorock
9 жыл бұрын
ABaumstumpf Except that when I play a game based on a fantasy setting, there are certain things that go along with that. Characters are going to be stronger than regular people. they would be able to lift large heavy swords. Also, if game designers made swords true to scale they would be very boring looking and hard to see. They make them so beefy looking just so that you can see them. It is unfortunate, but I can accept that. What I can not accept, is using something as a weapon that would be a terrible fucking weapon. Even the scythes in video games, with the straight handles and sideways blades, are terrible fucking weapons. The cutting edge is on the INSIDE of the blade and curved the wrong direction. you are forced into only being able to swing the blade in certain specific ways and with a pull towards yourself. Your opponent has to be a very specific distance from you. You have to hook your weapon behind them to actually cut them, putting your opponent between yourself and your weapon, which is a fucking stupid thing to do, and because of the inward curve of the blade, you aren't going to cut very deep at all. Your best bet is to hope you just stab the scythe into the side of your opponent, but the scythe is not a stabbing weapon, and even if you did that, you are at the wrong angle to be able to pull it back out easily so now your weapon is stuck in a falling opponent while his friends rush in to kill you. A scythe in any form is a bullshit thing to try to fight with. No matter how cool you think it looks, or how much you want it to be a real weapon, it is not. It's garbage.
@KurNorock
9 жыл бұрын
Verithiell again, those aren't scythes. Those are a polearm that has the word scythe in its name because the blade is kinda sorta curved like a scythe blade. Other than that, it has no resemblance to a scythe whatsoever. A polearm is an excellent weapon. A scythe is a farm implement that makes for a terrible weapon. And the kind of scythe you see in video games is also a bullshit thing that never even existed and is just as terrible as the farm tool.
@ABaumstumpf
9 жыл бұрын
Kur Norock As the persons in Video-games are that ridicules overpowered the scythe only becomes a more valid choice: In those games you don't care if you get a single hit mostly, if in exchange for that you can deal a crushing blow. The blades of Scythe in game are more than big and thick enough to withstand heavy skirmishes and they have a rather far away center of mass, so your big arching swings would hit like a truck. the inwards-move is in it self a problem, but normally you will see that combined with some palm-strikes or similar to push the opponent back right away.
@VelmiVelkiZrut
10 жыл бұрын
I think the sticking point here is that the language of many regions where "scythes" were used as weapons of war uses the word meaning "scythe" to also denote the war scythe (Crimean Cossacks used this to great effect) or falx (a Dacian weapon that forced Rome to add reinforcing bars on late period helms). Both of these weapons have a straight haft or one with a mild curve and place the blade parallel to the haft. The end result is a chopping or slashing blade with a hook-like shape about two meters long, meaning it has more in common with a sword staff, naginata or hewing spear than the agricultural implement English associates with the word scythe or sickle.
@NirrumTheMad
10 жыл бұрын
Ahahah, ahh the falx, such a great weapon
@howlandowlle7953
4 жыл бұрын
We may harken back to that old adage: "It's not the size of the scythe, its the tickle of the sickle." Words we all should learn to live by.
@BLUDBXNN
6 жыл бұрын
From what I can tell there are the scythes that people use for agriculture and there’s the more straighter scythe which is perfect for battle and it’s used in some martial arts as well. It would be tricky using the agricultural scythe in battle but the other one would do wonderfully.
@morallyambiguousnet
10 жыл бұрын
I often wonder if when people reference a scythe as a possible weapon, they aren't actually picturing a sickle. Pity I didn't get to watch more Blackadder in my younger days.
@DPS31762
10 жыл бұрын
Probably so. I think that some people use the two words interchangably.
@szczepanpekaa3562
10 жыл бұрын
War scythes looks like that bi.gazeta.pl/im/e0/59/cb/z13326816AA,Na-placu-Litewskim-kowal-pokazywal-jak-zmienic-zwy.jpg and pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosynierzy
@aumann0452
4 жыл бұрын
That's a "modern" scythe with a steam-bend handle. In medieval times those handles were usually much straighter since you had to find a branch that was growing that way, which is rare because obviously, trees usually don't grow like that, or just take one that is straight and live with it.
@n00btotale
7 жыл бұрын
"Yes the Grim Reaper gets to scythe people, but he's a special mythical creature." Lloyd
@yurykomarinskiy9497
8 жыл бұрын
Based on Russian experience you handle shape is unconventional. All the scythes I saw & used were straight. You got incredibly fancy one. I saw such sophisticated shape only in movies as a weapon, not on the field. Might be you shall review your position regarding the grip.
@jasonslade6259
10 жыл бұрын
There's a reason why when the peasants go on a rampage, everybody grabs their pitchforks. All you've got to do is sharpen the points and you've got a half-way serviceable pole-arm of some kind, all be it, one that would probably be better off with one big point rather than a bunch of small ones.
@LazyMaybe
10 жыл бұрын
You can, however, given some time break off the individual tines and put each of them in their own pole.
@MisterBones2910
9 жыл бұрын
Shard1697 I'd personally just bend them outward into wings for more efficient impalement. It would also work as a war spike if you swung it too.
@johnosullivan675
8 жыл бұрын
The wooden part of a scythe is called a snaith, not a shaft, or a handle, or a haft. The blades also come in many different designs. The long thin ones are designed for grass, but there are shorter, thicker and heavier blades for cutting brush and weeds. Finally, the verb for using a scythe is mowing, not scything.
@balddrummer5089
2 жыл бұрын
Scythes were used in combat during the Monmouth Rebellion. On June 20, 1685, the chief treasurer of the rebel army gave an order that commanders under his control should buy scythes from farmers at a reasonable price. The scythes were then reworked by local blacksmiths by forging the blade and adding rings to the spar to improve resistance to damage. Scythe units were treated as the equivalent of a grenadier company.
@ZarlanTheGreen
10 жыл бұрын
Scythe's *did* get mounted on straight pole, in the manner you describe. It's what's known as a "war scythe" ...and yeah, it's not exactly the best of weapons, but it was essentially something done when you had no other weapons available. It was a quick and cheap way to get another weapon. Oh, and scythe's (mainly just early ones) could be straight, or in a non-three dimensional S-shape, though that is a clearly inferior design.
@GetitUnderCool
10 жыл бұрын
in agriculture there are also some tools with a straight shaft and a more curved scythe blade mounted straight on the pole, they-re used to cut tree branches and they look like a partisan. But what about getting a spear by mounting a knife-s blade on a stick?
@ZarlanTheGreen
10 жыл бұрын
RZ-357 _"in agriculture there are also some tools with a straight shaft and a more curved scythe blade mounted straight on the pole, they-re used to cut tree branches and they look like a partisan."_ Ah yes. Those could be used without modification, presumably. Not as good as proper weapons, designed for that purpose, but a decent option when you're short on weapons (like war scythes), I'd guess. _"But what about getting a spear by mounting a knife-s blade on a stick?"_ That's essentially what the earliest spears were, but... In some cases it'd be too troublesome to construct, due to how the hilt is constructed, but in some cases it'd be fairly simple. As to the efficacy, that would depend on how the blade looks More importantly though, it would necessarily result in a tanged spear, which would be relatively weak and, quite significantly, the attachment of the blade with the stick would be quite vulnerable to damage ...thus meaning that the "spear head" would drop out, if it got a little bit of damage near the head. In short: I don't think it would work out too well.
@GetitUnderCool
10 жыл бұрын
***** painters were never really accurate, there are cases of medieval paintings and manusripts illustrations depicting events from ancient history, or omeric poems, showing characters wearing contemporary (to the painters) armors and weapons.
@Malkuth-Gaming
10 жыл бұрын
if you want a peasant riot... get a pitchfork ^^
@Punishthefalse
10 жыл бұрын
A shovel is also good.
@Stan_Delone
10 жыл бұрын
Punishthefalse Nah, shovels are for knights.
@Stan_Delone
9 жыл бұрын
***** I did indeed, good sir!
@Sathrik
10 жыл бұрын
I appreciate how clear you made it that this is not a weapon in the least. And to even convert it into a weapon would indeed be a chore. Now people can more accurately imagine a peasant revolt and please others with their scythe knowledge.
@noahtoy6514
7 жыл бұрын
Your content is the best. Keep up the good work!
@Celestial_Wing
8 жыл бұрын
Ever thought that you bought the wrong Scythe?
@DJMouthwash
10 жыл бұрын
This is easily the pointiest channel on youtube.
@morganjones2925
10 жыл бұрын
I don't know, have you ever seen cinemasins?
@NBDYSPCL
9 жыл бұрын
The Reaper's scythe is also metaphorical, for how death moves through the living like a scythe through dry grass.
@Unit076
10 жыл бұрын
Because our souls are as thick as grass, thus Reaper's schyte is justified
@MaxWellenstein
10 жыл бұрын
Yes! Thank you! I'll never understand why D&D 3rd edition & up chose to include the scythe as a 'martial' weapon when it's really nothing more than an especially impractical improvised weapon that would break after first contact.
@szczepanpekaa3562
10 жыл бұрын
Because modified scythes were actually used as a weapons. Here you got link pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosynierzy I know that you probably wouldn't understand much but there are some pictures wich shows scythes used as a weapons. Scythes were used as a weapons and that is a fact, it is easy to link them with many peasant rebellions. When peasants goes on war or uprising they take farming tools and modify them. As a historical proofs of such a use of scythes are polish uprisings (the best known for scythes usage is that from 1794) or cossacks (most of them used sort of pikes but many used scythes).
@MaxWellenstein
10 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Szczepan! It's always good to learn something new.
@szczepanpekaa3562
10 жыл бұрын
ThuleanPerspective Sory I didn't know what kind of scythe was in D&D.
@ZarlanTheGreen
10 жыл бұрын
ThuleanPerspective They _were_ used as weapons ...though rarely, and only when there was nothing else available. There is even a fencing manual that includes how to fight with one (it includes a lot of different obscure and rare "weapons")
@MaxWellenstein
10 жыл бұрын
Sounds like it's a low-tier option. Like if I had to fight off an invading army with stuff in my back yard, I _could_ use a hose with a heavy sprinkler head, but it'd be a lot more practical and effective to use my wood axe.
@lm42ro
8 жыл бұрын
în România the shaft îs straight..
@Dave-me3bi
7 жыл бұрын
Alin Tiptis That means it is a sickle
@bjarked47
7 жыл бұрын
Alin tiptis: in danmark to. Dan_veed: No, a sickle is a small one handed "version"
@TheCimbrianBull
6 жыл бұрын
John Smith That's what she said! ;-)
@radogost1536
3 жыл бұрын
@@Dave-me3bi sickle is used to harvest wheat or barely, not to cut grass
@roseintagliata9569
7 жыл бұрын
The grim reaper gets to have a scythe because he is the harvester of souls and a scythe is a symbol of the harvest.
@theradioactiveplayer3461
Жыл бұрын
I'd very much like to have a good scythe myself, just because I enjoy doing garden work personally. Also, on the subject of remaking a scythe, I recall reading a book where a farmer, on being informed of a coming war which would certainly spill over to his land, goes and gets his best scythe but - being in a remote area having incentivised learning the requisite skills for fixing and forging rough-shod tools in a pinch - removes the blade, folds the metal on itself, reforges the shape, tempers it again, and sets it on the end of a spare stave. He then goes off to this war, and while we don't know if he survives, we do know that a good deal of other people had a similar idea, and so an entire company is composed of makeshift-polearm-wielding farmers.
@SwitchFeathers
10 жыл бұрын
A traditional scythe would certainly do some damage... against an un-armoured enemy, in a big open field, who isn't attacking you. At the end of the day, it's a big blade on a stick, and it certainly looks pretty menacing. And, in the odd circumstances you could actually get a good hit in with one, yeah, you could do some nasty damage. But same goes for a crowbar.
@freigeist2833
9 жыл бұрын
I have heard that Paul Hektor Mair describes in his books some fencing with scythes and sickles and these are even some nice illustrations around: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arte_De_Athletica_5a.jpg Ok, that's more sports and/or duell than battle, but I think it would absolutely make sense that stuff like that was used in battle, especially by peasant or irregular troups as in the various uprisings through the ages. Keep in mind that economy does play an important factor in such things. Sure, every farmboy would have prefered to go into battle having a full set or weapons available, at best a horse and loads of armor. But he could never pay for that stuff. And since anything is better that nothing, he takes what he has. An older scythe or sickle hammered flat becomes a dussack and maybe a scythe, which might be a bit reworked to become something like a halberd or a spear.
@slingshotwarrrior8105
10 жыл бұрын
I agree ,Id prefer the pitch fork!
@slingshotwarrrior8105
10 жыл бұрын
thanks
@TheSecondVersion
4 жыл бұрын
It's right there in the "The Grim Reaper's" name. *To reap is to harvest.* The fact that he harvests souls is why he's called the GRIM reaper. I guess in modern parlance, the word "reap" fell out of regular usage so we more immediately associate it with Death instead of farming. Also, the original meaning of "dank" is comparable to grim/death, because it refers to "disagreeably damp, musty, and typically cold." So the Grim Reaper is technically also *The Dank Farmer*
@billbolton
5 жыл бұрын
Great video, I really liked the set, especially the way it represented the death of tidiness and order.
@jesse3311
8 жыл бұрын
I don't think you're going into this with the right mindset. There's a couple things I find wrong with your observations. Using an agricultural scythe in battle in place of say a battle scythe, would be as foolish as using a lumber axe in battle in place of a battle axe. Battle axes aren't repurposed tools, they're weapons with the concept being based off of an axe. But they're incredibly different from the designs of lumber axes. I'd apply this came concept to a scythe. I would not use an agricultural scythe in battle, but the real question here is this. If someone designed a battle scythe, would that be a competent weapon in battle? Also on the shape of the blade, the cliche of "blade on top, facing down, with a curve" didn't come from no where. That takes inspirations from a typical sickle. Basically an enlarged sickle, or mixed with the ideas of a scythe. So my main point being, is the question should be reformatted. Regular scythes have no place in battle, but what about battle scythes?
@jesse3311
8 жыл бұрын
+Jesse Weinert Just noticed the second video, and that did answer many of my questions. Just so someone doesn't think I missed that video.
@EvilTwinn
10 жыл бұрын
My point has already been covered. Hooray.
@speedy01247
8 жыл бұрын
the beauty of a ergonomic design, I love things like that.
@HondoTrailside
5 жыл бұрын
My wife walked into our scythe this summer and poked her wrist. She got a deep cut that sported blood ominously, but we put pressure on it and got it under control. Very frightening. There are scythe blades of all sizes, some quite short and stout designed for clearing brush, I am talking of two handed scythes. And in Asia since they can make razors of hardened thick steel they also had hefty scythes. Our razors and scythes both are made of softer steel so they can be tapped, out to keep the feather thin, and sharp edge. But you literally stop to freshen the edge every 5 or 10 minutes, and worked would have a specialized anvil in a stump to foil out the blade at regular intervals. But of course one can make very sharp stout blades, and for some purposes they did use those. Also there are scythes with strait handles, where the down hand is on an extension, so the handle could be easily swung like a hammer, though the blade would be off angle. Also, in a mobbing situation they might be good as hooks to pull rides milling about off their horses.
@human_entropy7958
7 жыл бұрын
soul eater
@fishsock2698
6 жыл бұрын
Ahmad The meme distributor that’s the only reason I came here.
@piotr.kaczmarski
10 жыл бұрын
Lindy, check out "Kosynierzy" on polish wikipedia. This unit was apparently used during the Kościuszko Uprising (also check this on wikipedia. Kościuszko Uprising is a very well known event, especially in Poland). They used scythes transformed into a weapon. It was called "Kosa bojowa" (war scythe, also can be seen on wikipedia). The kosynierzy are very well known in Poland. If you say in Poland that scythe isn't a very good weapon then most everyone will respond: "Then how about kosynierzy? How about 'Żywią i bronią'?" From my personal experience I can say, that you can successfully stop a single unarmed aggressive opponent with unmodified scythe. And also, there is a pokemon - Scyther - which has scythes for his hands!
@josefcastek3358
5 жыл бұрын
We do actually have a scythe with a straight haft at home, I'm from czech republic and they are quite common.
@justinbell7309
7 жыл бұрын
I like how you show one particular example of a scythe and then generalize it to all scythe.
@memesredacted
7 жыл бұрын
what if its also a high powered sniper rifle?
@edi9892
10 жыл бұрын
stick? How about axes, hatchets, knives, bills, pitchforks?
@frpgplayer
Жыл бұрын
A Falcastra was used in Roman days as a defensive weapon. The 'scythe' blade was sharp on the convex side instead of the concave. This allowed those on a wall to push opponents with the sharp edge.
@mechadrake
8 жыл бұрын
About the 3d s shaped handles of scythes: these are not always like that. Here ( Lithuania and I think at least Poland) the farmer scythes are mostly with straight or slightly curved one way handles. One additional handle usually mounted offset to compensate for not ergonomic straight shaft. These are easily converted to weapons and were used in the past. There are significant number of historic sources mentioned of revolts and peasants recruited to armies armed with war scythes (like 5000 men strong)
@nmarbletoe8210
8 жыл бұрын
+mechadrake to clarify, the historical sources mention war scythes, or farm scythes, or is it unclear?
@mechadrake
8 жыл бұрын
+N Marbletoe can't remember my high school materials now and pretty sure where armies had those they were purpose made weapons, but where peasants were recruited they had a mix of repurposed farm implements and real weapons. Weapons were expensive thing and often you had to make do... Scythes (modified farm ones) were used as makeshift terrifying weapons even in guerrilla warfare when guns were involved for a long time. Not popular or widely used. There is a mention of 1863 revolt of confiscated weapons made mostly from scythes (Lithuania was occupied by Russia then). Sadly i have no idea where to find material in english.
@Intrafacial86
9 жыл бұрын
What about a brush hook or a sling blade (aka Kaiser blade)? That pretty much exactly describes how you said you would modify a scythe for battle: straight handle, thicker blade, and blade repositioned to be parallel to handle.
@EattinThurs61
9 жыл бұрын
Or an "Irish Slasher"
@robertsroberts1688
5 жыл бұрын
bill hooks are a modification of an agricultural tool
@MrBudwv
10 жыл бұрын
Seeing a lot of comments about war scythes. If I was confined to using a peasant weapon I think a common billhook would be my choice.
@Jesses001
10 жыл бұрын
A bit short, but I sure would not want to get hit in the head with it. An agricultural flail would be good for getting around a shield, but a bit awkward to use compared to the shorter billhook. I guess most tools have some combat function if you do not have anything else.
@goblinrat6119
10 жыл бұрын
Jesse Sisolack An agricultural flail probably wouldn't get past a shield very well. It's really just two staves of wood with one, maybe two linking rings. You'd have to hit the shield with that exact point. It could certainly be done, but in a chaotic battle situation, it would be difficult. And it wouldn't be as effective, since it wouldn't strike at the enemy with the optimal part of the treshing head.
@MrBudwv
10 жыл бұрын
Goblin Rat I don't believe in fighting fair. Use the flail to take out a knee and then thresh his head with the flail! :)
@goblinrat6119
10 жыл бұрын
MrBudwv Heh, that probably works. Going for the legs is an effective tactic if you can surprise the enemy.
@sirdidymus62
10 жыл бұрын
I just re-watched that episode of Blackadder! Good video by the way, as always.
@steppin-razor
10 жыл бұрын
You're fuckin awesome man. Could watch these videos all day.
@michal000123
9 жыл бұрын
The only example i have found of scythes used for battle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosynierzy They were not a main battle formation, rather a support formation, to protect main forces from cavalry charges etc. Sooooo... they were used, and peasents used them instead of pitchforks. :)
@EattinThurs61
9 жыл бұрын
The siege of Vienna.
@jonassol1
9 жыл бұрын
EattinThurs61=polearms, blades put on a spear, those were called scythes for historical reasons, useless for 'scything' grass. That sir is a special spear - a scythe has an angle, important when cutting grass and useless when cutting humans (blockable and weak)
@EattinThurs61
9 жыл бұрын
Jonas n Sturm sense
@sneakyvanquisher
10 жыл бұрын
When will we get 'A point about missing socks'?
@bigblue6917
6 жыл бұрын
Some years ago I was visiting a village church in North Lincolnshire as part of my archaeological degree when I notice that a very tall stone in the church's cemetery had odd makes on it. I then realised that the locals had been using it to sharpen their scythes on it.
@tierekquesnel7789
6 жыл бұрын
"The Grim Reaper is a fictional character" *Grim Reaper harvests him*
@baysword
10 жыл бұрын
Now it you want a famers weapon take a look at pruning hooks!
@malnutritionboy
9 жыл бұрын
Who came here from ZednoughtAlpha
@twistedmayhem24
9 жыл бұрын
I BallisticRaptor me
@sauljapuntich
8 жыл бұрын
+Melting Clocks Not directly but that guy is awesome.
@TimothyGreenTRiG
8 жыл бұрын
+Melting Clocks Not heard of him before, but he looks interesting. Which of his videos linked here?
@malnutritionboy
8 жыл бұрын
Timothy Green a scythe video. Anyways i have learnt alot from lindybiege in the time after that comment
@SoralTheSol
7 жыл бұрын
How to make the scythe into a useful weapon/self defense implement. When your opponent charges at you, lift the scythe via the provided grips to chest level, chuck the scythe at the attacker, run away. Congratulations, you did some damage and got rid of your useless dead weight. Now you just need to survive until you reach your pitchfork.
@potatoheadpokemario1931
Жыл бұрын
I'd say it'd be enough to scare off an unarmored peasant, even if it's not the best tool for the job
@therealquade
10 жыл бұрын
Hey Lindybeige What about War-Scythes? They apparently where a thing, initially as an improvised weapon where the blade of a scythe is moved to be vertical on the end of a pole like a spear. there Is a small wikipedia article on the subject. I'd love to see a followup to this video on those.
@kravcio
10 жыл бұрын
They were used by Polish infantry durig Kościuszko (yup, the one who designed West Point) uprising. But then you would find a straight pole and fashion the blade onto it. A decent weapon in a formation but I can't imagine any serious fencing with one of these.
@ausguymac
10 жыл бұрын
Was is not referrred to as a glaive or polearm. You wouldn't call a sword a knife.
@NirrumTheMad
10 жыл бұрын
ausguymac Unless you're referring to the langes messer, Grosse Messer, Kriegsmesser, Dha, or any of the Dao family. Around half of all sword names end up with the word "knife" in them (in their native language)
@kravcio
10 жыл бұрын
Vennificus It all depends on what do you call a sword. For me, a sword is a weapon that has a straight, double-edged blade where the blade makes up for a majority of the weapon's length. This definition excludes messers and other knife-like weapons. Back to the topic, Poles call and called these combat scythes. They were also using pikes during Kościuszko uprising, as pikes were also relatively cheap and easy to make in quantity.
@ZarlanTheGreen
10 жыл бұрын
kravcio _"For me, a sword is a weapon that has a straight, double-edged blade where the blade makes up for a majority of the weapon's length."_ So katanas, kriegsmessers and sabers are all just a bread-knife, then? Sorry, but your definition is absurd.
@shurdi3
10 жыл бұрын
Uhm... that's a westerner scythe The more traditional eastern european scythes have a straight haft
@taltamir
10 жыл бұрын
What is the point of typing "Uhm"?
@shurdi3
10 жыл бұрын
I try to type the way I would say something. That's why I use a lot of ellipses in my sentences, and often put *words* I emphasize one in **
@shurdi3
10 жыл бұрын
This is what an Eastern scythe looks like i.imgur.com/3XR2wXp.jpg Another example: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Scythe.svg You can see that this would be much easier to use as a weapon
@taltamir
10 жыл бұрын
shurdi3 every single point made in this video stands with the exception of the curved heft and needing to replace it with a straight one Also, you make it out to be a cultural difference with calling it "eastern" but in fact it isn't, it is just a cheaper and less ergonomic scythe lacking the curved shaft
@sebastianpidek2943
6 жыл бұрын
To change a Slavic scythe into a warscythe all you have to do is to remount the blade at 180 instead of 90 degrees. It takes like 5 minutes for a smith to do that, and every few villages there's a smith, so in one afternoon you can have all the peasants in region ready with weapons. It had been done historically, most famously during Kościuszko uprising, but not only then. We have the scythes in museums, we have literary accounts. It's been done. Lindy is just talking without researching the subject properly, as usual. And the scythe is just a ergonomic, I've used such a scythe, it has a handle mounted horizontally in the middle, so you can hold it conveniently.
@Altrantis
10 жыл бұрын
This is what I said that one time when people wanted to call that one bronze age weapon a scythe. A scythe is a terrible weapon. The grim reaper uses it because it's not a weapon for it, it's a tool. It's metaphorically reaping people.
@regstar212
9 жыл бұрын
I love the final quote. Blackadder definitely has some memorable quotes.
@johnlavery3433
7 жыл бұрын
Wait..what if your scythe is also a shotgun...and also a sword
@defiance7424
7 жыл бұрын
Qrow's scythe?
@StarFoxHeroSJ
7 жыл бұрын
I knew if i looked long enough i would find a RWBY fan somewhere.
@calamar8199
7 жыл бұрын
qrow from rwby
@1cme1
10 жыл бұрын
pretty much anyone who owned a scythe would also need a pitch fork for that kind of work. so obviously that would be the better choice. but i guess if some hooligan tried to harass you during your farming work you could floppily bludgeon him with the scythe you were holding.
@theMedievalBadass
10 жыл бұрын
There is a type of scythe with a built in basket behind the blade, I don't remember the exact name off the top of my head unfortunately.
@1cme1
10 жыл бұрын
theMedievalBadass okay.
@Tilnaor
3 жыл бұрын
I've read somewhere that the straighted scythes was used not for infantry, but rather cavalry. Hid in the bushes/trenches/etc and cut the legs of the horses. The biggest advantage - against the other tool-weapons like axes and hammers - is the range.
@fsmoura
7 жыл бұрын
You could also approach the enemy, request a meeting, and threaten to mow all his grass and fields if he doesn't comply with your demands. "No! Please! It's too early in the year!" Brutal.
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