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  • Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024

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  • @TUSK1157
    @TUSK1157 Год назад +21

    Here in the States we called the "poleman" on a survey crew the "rodman". I was a surveyor in central Florida in the 80s. Starting as a Rodman but became the instrument man very quickly. Back then we had 3 man crews. Today, I see surveyors working alone thanks to GPS. I learned to read a transit angles by lining up "hairs" on an azimuth.

  • @Didntwanttomakeauser
    @Didntwanttomakeauser Год назад +6

    Did you poach the sound editor from Top Gear? I can't hear the people over the background noise.

  • @antoniomoreira5921
    @antoniomoreira5921 Год назад +53

    If anyone's interested in such themes I recommend Schwerpunkt's Medieval society playlists

  • @imcnagpc2
    @imcnagpc2 Год назад +7

    Omg. Is there a link to those old newspapers with the accident reports? Someone should put them in a book, I would buy it!

  • @pumirya
    @pumirya Год назад +4

    Thanks for the awesome content.

  • @gy2gy246
    @gy2gy246 Год назад +19

    He didn't mention hatters, who made hats using mercury, poisoning themselves. Thus the Mad Hatter of "Alice in Wonderland."

    • @greywater3186
      @greywater3186 Год назад

      Have you read the book?

    • @gy2gy246
      @gy2gy246 Год назад

      @@greywater3186 Of course, many times.

    • @greywater3186
      @greywater3186 Год назад

      @@gy2gy246 Then you’ll know that there is a character known as the Hatter, who is referred to as being mad as in insane. The Mad Hatter is a creation of Disney.

    • @gy2gy246
      @gy2gy246 Год назад

      @@greywater3186 I stand corrected.

    • @nickthelick
      @nickthelick 11 месяцев назад +2

      You're correct with your original comment. I'm not sure where this other commentator is leading to...?! 🤔

  • @Viperspider1
    @Viperspider1 Год назад +3

    Sage harvesting sounds wild. Deep lacerations down to the bone by grass? Fuck me. Surprised it wasn't weaponised somehow lol

  • @allenanderson4911
    @allenanderson4911 Год назад +16

    We have sedge in Florida. Not suprisingly it's called saw grass.
    Once, whilst detasselling corn in Iowa i saw a fellow sliced thru the eyeball by the edge of a corn leaf. Poor chap was less than pleased.

    • @summersday7894
      @summersday7894 Год назад +6

      😮

    • @TUSK1157
      @TUSK1157 Год назад +6

      I lost my right eye in Florida while laying brick. A "lineblock" popped loose and hit me square in the eye. I hope the poor guy had a better outcome than me.

    • @ElysetheEevee
      @ElysetheEevee Год назад +6

      Dear God. Eyeball stuff...blech. I feel so bad for the other commenter and your friend.

    • @colehoward5074
      @colehoward5074 Год назад

      ​@TUSK1157 I'm a Mason, and I always fear this I've seen people knocked out from lineblocks

    • @vksasdgaming9472
      @vksasdgaming9472 9 месяцев назад

      Met me guess: lost the eye and can't even figure out sufficiently badass story to explain it.

  • @pepperoni6767
    @pepperoni6767 Год назад +3

    LETS GOO YOUR CHANNEL IS SOO GOOD DUDE

  • @LiqqaRoni-cx3tx
    @LiqqaRoni-cx3tx Год назад +6

    Sheep were even more helpless than I ever could've imagined. The fact that they need someone to trim their behind daily just to survive!

  • @Feline_Frenzy53
    @Feline_Frenzy53 Год назад +5

    Wow, Tony is much braver than I.

  • @jogennotsuki
    @jogennotsuki Год назад +7

    Can't hear anything they're saying because of the music. Whoever mixed this needs to be fired.

    • @JV-NY987
      @JV-NY987 11 месяцев назад

      Calm down mate

  • @Blah75893
    @Blah75893 Год назад +13

    They really made this man do all these things 😂😂😂😂😩 (I know he probably agreed to it all) but damn. Him climbing the steeple had me in tears. Clinging onto that ladder for dear life, AS HE SHOULD 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

    • @katie2843
      @katie2843 Год назад +1

      Part of the reason I love these documentaries. He cracks me up 😂

    • @christopherlawley1842
      @christopherlawley1842 Год назад

      Check out Fred Dibnah who climbed and worked these things for real

  • @juliahyatt5838
    @juliahyatt5838 Год назад +3

    I don't like climbing up a short ladder but be a steeplejack, perish the thought 😱

  • @whitestararmada103
    @whitestararmada103 Год назад +5

    really need to work on the audio leveling on this channel, half the videos have the music way to fekn high or the narration way to low. =/

  • @amazeus1980
    @amazeus1980 Год назад +6

    I was doing gardening for Tony! xD Dirty job at times... unfortunately we have never met. It was his vacation home...of course location will remain secret! :D

  • @censusgary
    @censusgary Год назад +7

    Threshing machines were (and still can be) extremely dangerous. Many a farmhand lost an arm trying to clear a jam out of one.

  • @paulherman5822
    @paulherman5822 Год назад +6

    Shoveling horse dung is possibly the best to deal with. There's pig dung... Townies, smh. 😁

  • @melaniesimkins4154
    @melaniesimkins4154 Год назад

    Dirty Jobs with my favorite period piece lackey (thanks to Black Adder), Tony Robinson?! Sign me up, I love this series & so sad that I didn't find it sooner

  • @KevinBattle100
    @KevinBattle100 Год назад +2

    The music is far too loud ... often drowns out the dialogue.

  • @1003JustinLaw
    @1003JustinLaw Год назад +1

    Being a sin eater sounds like a great job for a no-gooder, you got paid in coin and ale to eat bread and salt, and because you're a no-gooder you're already extremely sinful and you know you're going to hell so, well, it's like being charged with armed robbery while serving 3,000 years for multiple mass murders ain't it? I'd probably be a "professional" sin eater if I was born back in those days.

  • @JenniferVermeulen-cw4pp
    @JenniferVermeulen-cw4pp 10 месяцев назад

    Lovely compilation of information, but it's so hard to hear a lot of the talking over the background music 🙁

  • @gregcrane4953
    @gregcrane4953 Год назад +1

    Love this.

  • @pysikcraft2429
    @pysikcraft2429 Год назад +2

    7:56 i look the same at work

  • @lightdancedesigns
    @lightdancedesigns Год назад +2

    I adore this channel but you need to fire your sound mixer! The music drowns out the narrator! It's so annoying and it happens all the time on many episodes! I've given up trying to hear Tony in much of this episode.

  • @christopherlawley1842
    @christopherlawley1842 Год назад +1

    The "background" music is TOO LOUD

  • @TheKsourmoon
    @TheKsourmoon Год назад +2

    We need an entire documentary talking about Tudor Knackers, not just the ONE well documented example of the one who became a famous executioner.. there was one for nearly each area of england. we need to hear their rural stories too. they mattered a lot to how trades and professions exist today. without them, we wouldn't have prominent candlemakers, entire fertilizer companies, dedicated locations for the processing of leathers that are slowly dwindling out of existence across the globe.. :(

    • @gy2gy246
      @gy2gy246 Год назад

      American here: What's a Knacker?

    • @TheKsourmoon
      @TheKsourmoon Год назад +1

      @gy2gy246 a knacker was a profession made out of the bare basic building blocks to other jobs. A leatherworker needs the skin, a farmer needs the fertile bone meal, a chef needs the meat, book binders need the glue, candle makers need the wax...
      A knacker would wake at dawn, take a wheelbarrow to the streets and search for sick and dying animals or dead ones. The knackers job was to turn those dead animals into useful ingredients in other jobs! That's how they made their living and kept their families afloat.

  • @SiarzewskiSiara
    @SiarzewskiSiara Год назад

    Indeed schwerpunkt is really worth recommendation!! Personally I admire creator for knowledge.

  • @kar702
    @kar702 Год назад +2

    It would’ve been a very interesting show if not, for the very loud, weird noises they were playing all through it😢

  • @vandapurvis9464
    @vandapurvis9464 Год назад

    Ty

  • @allenanderson4911
    @allenanderson4911 Год назад +2

    I think it was Benjamin Franklin who invented the lightening rod.
    Ur welcolme.

  • @craigdutton6072
    @craigdutton6072 Год назад +2

    If your a shearer’s cook 👩‍🍳 on a property ! One meal you should never serve is rice 🍚 lol 😂 it reminds them of the maggots 😂

  • @megorex630
    @megorex630 Год назад +3

    Saw grass is rough, during a biology feels trio to the Everglades in college our professor let us walk thru a patch that was near the trail, my skin is paper thin and tears easily so I declined, I may be blonde but I’m not stupid.

  • @BobJohnson648
    @BobJohnson648 Год назад +1

    As soon as I heard the music, I had to turn it off

  • @eternal8364
    @eternal8364 Год назад +1

    The music while being unnecessary while tony is talking is also annoyingly loud

  • @PQRModel
    @PQRModel 10 месяцев назад

    The 'foreground' music is incredibly obtrusive into what would otherwise be good viewing.

  • @seanpaula8924
    @seanpaula8924 Год назад +1

    Steeple jack, nope nope nope.

  • @gy2gy246
    @gy2gy246 Год назад

    He covers only the past 4 centuries, and only in Britain. I think there were medieval jobs probably worse than these. But the video is delightful.

    • @AnnaAnna-uc2ff
      @AnnaAnna-uc2ff Год назад

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Jobs_in_History

  • @jeffdittrich6778
    @jeffdittrich6778 11 месяцев назад

    The quality of the sound is poor. Too much interference from background noise and music.

  • @1stepcl0ser
    @1stepcl0ser Год назад

    Are these reuploads or new stuff?

  • @Good-DaySunshine
    @Good-DaySunshine Год назад +1

    so you wash it in dirty water?

  • @derryjones1029
    @derryjones1029 Год назад

    I can remember watching this guy on a children's history show as a kid for the life of me I can't remember what it was called 😂

    • @jenniferhart559
      @jenniferhart559 10 месяцев назад

      "Sam on Boffs Island?"
      "Odysseus the Greatest Hero of Them All?"
      "Time Team?"
      "Walking Through History?"
      "Tony Robinson's Time Travels?"
      (What a prolific fellow; this is just a fraction of what he's been in according to IMDB).

  • @Seashed
    @Seashed Год назад

    Steeplejack=nope

  • @ladysunfire8625
    @ladysunfire8625 8 месяцев назад

    The music is overpowering the actual talking

  • @tomhammer1784
    @tomhammer1784 11 месяцев назад +1

    If you want to play music, then play music. If you want to give commentary… turn the music down!

  • @bettyir4302
    @bettyir4302 Год назад +1

    Poor, Tony.

  • @a.evelyn5498
    @a.evelyn5498 Год назад

    So I suppose modern Shepard still wipe sheep’s’ bottoms…?

  • @evanbalgordantihatedotca1339
    @evanbalgordantihatedotca1339 Год назад +1

    Ruined the video with the terrible background music.

  • @bobknobbe3561
    @bobknobbe3561 Год назад

    in reality the first segment was actually a early british dating service

  • @tdog2284
    @tdog2284 Год назад

    Suprised they didnt use horse for pole man ?

  • @kerstin4516
    @kerstin4516 11 месяцев назад

    Very problematic to understand as you can't make up your mind if you want to provide music or speech.

  • @fenixfp40
    @fenixfp40 11 месяцев назад

    Pointless music 👎👎

  • @ingridakerblom7577
    @ingridakerblom7577 11 месяцев назад

    Miscarriages! not abortion...

  • @cornduckygaming
    @cornduckygaming Год назад +1

    First

  • @christianhansen3292
    @christianhansen3292 Год назад

    guy moves like a fragile lady in that mud. lol

  • @darkwood777
    @darkwood777 Год назад +2

    I didn't realize the British were that weak.

    • @Good-DaySunshine
      @Good-DaySunshine Год назад +5

      not nice

    • @ElysetheEevee
      @ElysetheEevee Год назад +10

      I mean, to be fair, they've colonized much of the world at some point, so they were excellent and strong conquesters back when that mattered (though things didn't end well for many of the countries they commandeered, unfortunately). So "weakness" is subjective in the context of the British in general. If you mean "physically," then that's a massive generalization spawned by you watching an elderly man doing hard labor, which is equally stupid lol.

    • @margaretcastell9429
      @margaretcastell9429 Год назад

      Comment of a true oik. Stay in your own rotten country. You know nothing.

    • @greywater3186
      @greywater3186 Год назад

      What an ignorant statement

    • @colehoward5074
      @colehoward5074 Год назад

      You must be from one of the old colonies, butthurt that Brittain came and stomped your ancestors into submission, and left once they wrecked your culture and took what they wanted.

  • @giovanni545
    @giovanni545 Год назад

    Revelation 14:12
    12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

  • @AndreyBogoslowskyNewYorkCity
    @AndreyBogoslowskyNewYorkCity Год назад

    Sheep and goats were domesticated approximately 10,000 years ago so geneticists say.
    There is a Hittites #mythology, which #inspired ancient #Greekmythology, and traveled to #Greece .
    In the #original #story #son of the sky #God cuts fathers testicles with a sickle made out of #meteoriron.
    Greeks translated this into #Zeus, doing the same to his father .
    In the original #Hittites story the son grabbed the testicles with his mouth and spit them into the #sea 🌊 , and out of the foam of the sea #Venus Aphrodite, goddess of #love #desire was born .
    Greeks continued the story of Venus’s forces of Aphrodite being untamed, non-negotiable by any other #gods . But she was no longer #goddess of #war. As #Ishtar was in my city of #Ur .
    Zeus was controlled by his wife #Hera, but #Aphrodite was literally out of #control .
    #Bogoslowsky .🦁🤴

  • @Kyle1234861
    @Kyle1234861 Год назад

    19:11 the level of detail, explaining a wooden fence of the houses next to the track

  • @KG-yn9qi
    @KG-yn9qi Год назад +1

    So bad job!!! As a kid when the Bass would move sheep through the are to higher grounds fro summer and the real young kids were corralled! The Shepards would capture the young rams and would bite their balls off! Seen it !!!!!