Hi Jorg, Great video and great fun and I do like the way you encourage making things to be accessible to all. Get making everyone- its good for the soul and perhaps, as Jorg showed, not as hard as you would think to make something effective. He (of course he did, he is Jorg Sprave!) improved distance using the tail string and that is interesting and I may just have to video reply to that....Otherwise he challenged me to send some of my plumbatae over and you will be pleased to know, the challenge is accepted - they will be one the way shortly.
The string idea, that was litterly the first thing I wanted to ask why no string to sling it away on wouldn't that be better, like five cents of money back then per dart extra for a massive range advantages. Also shot at the twich from a distance it wil break and the dart would fall straight down at not risk of yourself.
if i would write scrips for movies i would give the supervillain a sidekick, who equips the villain with weapons, much like Q does on the good side. that sidekick would be surprisingly similar to a certain german.
Everyone should have one Mine has started growing Made 2 alright slings from paracord and electric tape, have 1 away, had a dysfunctional bow which I got rid of and am waiting on a flatbow to dry Made a sheet of electric tape to replace leather and followed one of tods tutorials to make a sling staff Hammering a random metal pipe into a spearhead of sorts Plumbata would be nice to join the pile
Plumbata's are raining on my head. That doesn't mean my eyes are sooon be truning red. Cry is not for me. These... Plumbata's are falling on my head - they keep falling...
Imagine being out for a walk in the woods to relax and then all you hear is 9:56 before you take a dart to the eye and as you lay there dying a large German man stands on you and yells "42 steps!" ..... terrifying. Lol love you Jörg.
i had a boomerang stuck in a tree, so I glued string to an arrow and shot it up there to get it out...it worked but the arrow got stuck, when i was pulling the rope the arrow shot back at me like a rocket and stuck into the ground by my ankle about 10 in... I almost got a darwin award that day, it was freaky, i can see why you are being cautious.
I think the last hardware store the old Romans went to was located in Teutoburg Forest Apparently they weren't big fans of the Customer Service offered...
@SamuraiSquirrel the dictionary defines a dart as a small missle with a sharp point at one end and feathers on the other end. The real question is why we throw darts at "dart board" and not a "missle target"
@OLD LUKE They destroyed the celtics and Germans were not better as s soldiers. There was no economical interest in conquering a land not populated and covered of woods. It was easier building a wall and to massacre who tried to pass it using just a small amount of men. The armies that created problems to Romans were the eastern ones.
How about fragmenting-breakaway tips? they would be slightly easier to make as, well , if you were to make breakaways you might as well get them to do a little more damage.
@@shootymcshootfacekoff7972 How about you drill a hole in the tip the size of a 9mm blank cartridge and have the tips explode on impact. That'd be neat.
@@ulrichkalber9039 this is because it's rather difficult to get lead in Germany today; it ha been banned years ago from most usages because of its poisoness
Actually, it's one _plumbātum,_ two or more _plumbāta._ It is declined the same as _scūtum_ "(large) shield" or _pīlum_ "Roman long-necked war javelin."
Romans used them first on the battlefield so, lawn darts should have been banned under the Geneva Convention before they ever became a game in the 1980's. Imagine telling your grandkids you used to play a game as a kid that was banned under the international rules of civillized warfare!!! Lolol
Suddenly the sounds of an anvil being pounded on in the Home Depot theme song (yes it's real) makes far more sense. Now we just need vague Imperial-Latin chanting to accompany it.
The Romans also used a lot of different poisons and toxins during battles, so they probably made good use of those when using Plumbata. Also, try using playing cards to stiffen your flights, it might help with stability 👍
In America, we had something similar as toys in the 1950s. They were called "Jarts" or "Lawn Darts." They're not made anymore though because too many people got hurt.
Glad to see you still producing videos. It is always an enjoyable moment when I get to see you make something unique and try making improvements to it. I hope he takes you up on your offer. Would love to see it
I can see several advantages to having the string loop.... one can spin them around much faster for greater distance... plus, a single person can swing several (maybe a dozen?) of these from one hand and rain a whole lot of nasty down in an area!
Awesome man, I love everything you do. I build custom guitars, sculpt monsters, breed snakes and build custom enclosures and have my own tattoo shop as my full time job but I'm getting very interested in weaponry and alternative projectiles. This channel is great, keep up the amazing work.
Joerg is like the mad max / metro engineers which usually create homemade weapons. This guy... Watching him for 3 years or so now, never stops to amaze me. Greets from Eastern Europe
I had a set of these as a kid! They were called lawn darts, or yard darts? I can’t remember but it was back when there were less attorneys running around!
When younger this is the same game we called lawn darts, people stand 50 feet apart and throw darts toward each other to try and get them to land in 2 foot circle for points, just like horse shoes, thanks for the Roman info, always like watching you
If you tie the tail string at the base but leave the ends long and loose, you could still grab and release, but it wouldn't get stuck in branches. Like the leather straps used for falconry, untied ends so the bird's feet don't get tied up on branches.
You should try removing the fletchings. It looks like the rope you added might provide enough drag to keep it flying straight. I wonder how much further it would go? Thanks for another great video. Love your channel!
Can I just say ... you have the BEST job in the world!!! The fun and enjoyment you have is fabulous to see - I ALWAYS learn something and every one of your videos I watch puts a huge smile on my face! Thanks (for sharing) and ... bye bye! You are a star
Work on a construction crew and once made an awesome mace with large curved square washers offset from each other and tightened at the end of and all thread.
After waking up to learn my great aunt passed away this morning, seeing this provided a much needed boost to my day. Thanks for all the quality content, Joerg.
Jorg as I tried to mention to Tod about what is known as a whip dart, is a flexible sapling with a string tied to the small end of the stick. The string is around 18 to 24 inches long. On the end of the string, a note is tied. Then after carving a dart out of an 18-inch stick make sure a flat wide fin is on one end, and a point on the other. Take the dart balancing point and slice a little Knoch towards the pointed end. Place the end not into the slot pull back and let it rip. of cores I just saw the video he made two years ago. I kept modifying this until it was made with a flexible fishing pole end, fishing line, and a normal arrow. Ended up with a throw of 453 feet.
When I was a kid I got grounded in my room and I tore the slats off my bunk bed and put razor blades in the wooden dowel that held my window closed and used them as aboriginal throw sticks which essentially give you a second elbow to throw with for leverage. I bet these darts would work well with an aboriginal throw stick
You are the only guy I know who'd hold project piece in one hand and angle grinder in the other instead of using the vice that's RIGHT THERE! That's why we love you though! XD
Joerg, I often put birdfeeders and birdhouses in trees hanging from limbs that are much higher then what ladders can reach. In order to do this I bought a set of poles that were made for cleaning gutters . It is a set of 6 aluminum poles that are male threads on one end and female on the other and screw together . I took a metal coathanger , cut it and bent it so that one end went about 6 inches into the end of one pole and then bent the rest of into a J shape. You insert it into the pole and then use duct tape to hold the one leg of the J shape to the pole , which then leaves you with a sort of v shaped piece of coathanger at the end of the one pipe . After screwing the rest of the pipes together , you then have this V shape of hanger on the end which gives you the ability to lift things up into trees or remove things from way up in trees. I your case , you could then easily push the one leg of the V through the string loop and safely lift it out of the tree
Please invest in better eye protection! I once got metal splinters in my eye while just wearing eyeglasses and using an angle grinder. They can bounce off of your cheek into your eyes even with eyeglasses on. A full face shield or goggles that can go over your glasses are preferred!
In the U.S. before they were outlawed we used to play with them on picnics, they were called lawn darts, fun for the family !!! keep up the great vids Joerg!
I’ve been subscribed for years now and your videos still never disappoint. Your the best and one of my favorite people on RU-vid, if not one of my favorite people ever. Godless and keep up the great stuff! Sending love from florida USA
Joerg, I have a challenge for you! I want to see you make a hand crank(or drillpowered), gatling style steel ball launcher that self cocks and feeds from a hopper. If you really want a challenge you can give the cocking mechanism a pulley reduction so that it's easier to run really heavy tubes. If anyone can do it it's you. Keep up the good work, I love your channel
Leaving that plumbata in the tree is the ultimate widow-maker deadfall trap. - Toilet brush dart is quite similar to a plumbata. Plumb from lead gives us plumbing, which led to indoor flush toilets which brought us to toilet brushes, which you took full circle!
Please do a collaboration with some pro disc golfer and revisit the "weaponized frisbee" idea, disc golf distance drivers would be really cool as weapons! Especially out of the hand of a pro disc golfer. But some protective gloves would be needed.
@@scottcrawford3745 yes... Something that can be thrown well over 100 meters and leaves craters in trees if a high-power throw doesn't go where it is supposed to. And that's without any blades or sharp edges. I am pretty sure that a driver could be lethal at short range if it hits head or neck in a bad way.
@@outandabout259 Well.. Those would likely be banned in most countries almost immediately... Especially here in Canada, where for some reason Bali-song/ butterfly knives and nunchaku are prohibited weapons ( despite requiring more than a modicum of skill to operate) yet I can carry a 5 foot staff or a heavy cane/ shillelagh openly without question.
