Scythes in battle!

a few people have asked me to make a video about scythes since I now don't decide to show him I think now's the time the side is of course an agricultural implement it's great at cutting grass it is pretty rubbish though at being a weapon this is not a weapon of war it's designed for one purpose and that is silent you stand like this and you make this sort of movement and you side down grass if you want to do this all day every day throughout the entire harvest season cutting down grafts of various sorts like wheat a blade is not a substantial way it is paper-thin it has to be substantial enough to cut grass it's not designed for siding through people yes the grim reaper gets to side through people but he's special he's a cool fictional character these are for cutting very thin little blades of grass and lots of them sweeping through so you want a nice paper thin blade that's very very light because you're going to be making this siding movement all day every day for a very long time so a substantial blade will just exhaust you unnecessarily it could sharp a little by hammering but you can put them on a flat surface and Hammer the edge and get them sharp that way but of course you can use a whetstone as well the haft as you can see is not straight very often their pitch too straight but that's wrong it's a sort of weird three-dimensional s-pen that Victor comes around your body as you sigh and hold it at a beautiful convenient angle for siding grass but a completely inconvenient angle for doing anything else if I try to hold this and and skews you see how awkward this is I try to hold this and swing this is a big pole arm it's completely hopeless you would want to replace this half with something straight if you want to use this in a fight the angle of the blade there is another problem if you want to use this as a weapon very often there pictured wrongly you'll see in a lot of her works about the Grim Reaper has got the blades is as if the blades at that angle when he's actually holding the half so that the blade comes down like that Rob the blade actually had 45 degrees roughly to the haft and that's so that it's horizontal with the ground when you're standing like this this means however that if you're trying to fight someone you can only really cut towards yourself with it so if your opponent stands very close to you and obligingly doesn't hit you or anything then you can cut it on the back of the ankle Tower and slowly sign your way through his Achilles attendant Achilles tendons if if he gave you long enough but more likely he would hit you and you'd lose the fight but maybe you could convert this into a useful weapon fairly quickly well no not really you have to replace the half with something straighter and much more warlike and then even if you've got a blacksmith to spend some time effort and money to mount the blade like that on the end of a straight haft you've still got a paper-thin blade which would probably just go crunch if you hit anything so that's a bachelor's a knight in armor with it really the best thing you can do is just a threaten someone just look just look angry and have a big blade and roar yeah maybe you could you could convince them that they're in some danger of course medieval people will be familiar with these and they probably know that that quite safe from you really so I'm sorry to subdue disappoint anyone but sides you're going to go on a peasant rampage and you want to kill people don't use a scythe just get a stick

Channel: Lindybeige

Views: 658,382

Rating: 4.8795757 out of 5

Keywords: scythe, scythes, agricultural, tool, weapon, medieval, peasant, revolt, rampage, warfare, battle, combat, scything, harvest

Id: 4rzQwzg5_mo

Length: 4min 9sec (249 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 04 2014