Time to drop a gear and disappear! It's futile running away from Skal though. He'll throw a pommel at you to end you rightly before you release the clutch
Modern polymer protection gears hold up surprisingly well against cold arms. Imagine you get teleported back into the middle ages but gets to keep your padded fleece jacket and a motorcycle helmet. All the blacksmiths are gonna be awed by your miraculous plastic gear that has the weight of linen but strength of steel. And you become the super hero: "The Plastic Man"
yeah, once many years ago when I used to do a bit of rough shotgun shooting and a bit of sporting clays. one of the regulars brought a crash helmet of his that he'd had an 'off' from his motorbike. well we shot at that thing with pretty much any 12 bore load that we had up to LG (old British term 'Large Game' .36 cal lead balls) that one of the blokes nipped home to get. you know what, nothing penetrated the lid, admittedly the crash helmet was just put on the ground and shot from about 10 yards the visor was ans absolute mess but only the LG's went through it, but the body of the lid kept them out, not that you'd want to try it with it on your head ;-)
There was a guy in Brazil, he had his bike stolen and was shot in the head with a FAL rifle. He survived because he was wearing one of those super expensive helmets.
More like you fall down dead with no visible wounds. Plastic doesn't absorb concussive force at all. It the SCA it is commonly noted that is transfers a ton of "sting" for a rigid matriel.
@@danilooliveira6580 But it's possible to melt plastic, isn't it? Work a torch on it, Then again that's rather crude and probably won't work, but still, plastic can melt, and it can be reformed
@@johnfrancisdoe1563 attourney: "Doctor, was the patient perchance still alive when you performed the autopsy?" Doctor: "Well if he was, he sure as hell wasn't when I finished!"
That zombie head had you right where he wanted you when you couldn't get that pole arm out! He strategically and patiently disarmed you! Now you're in trouble!
you see back in my day when you bough a polearm you got the full polehammer. but the triple A pole industry now prefers you pay the same amount for just the spear, then flog my hammer as DLC
Hello Everyone, Craig from A&A here. Once again Skallagrim has demonstrated, excellently help by the zombie head, some of the short comings of pole weapons. When mounting a steel head on a wooden haft one will always have to deal with the physics of the heavy head being supported by a relatively slim piece of organic material. This is often an unequal equation. The original weapons would in most cases be iron for the elements on a weapon like this. So the tool steel we use is a decent substitute. The Ash we use for hafts however can be a challenge on any given piece. The grain structure of the wood is aligned to enhance strength but this is not old growth wood which would have a denser grain in many cases. Great example of this is how different the wood in a viking shield in period is from any type of modern growth pine. The wood we use, we buy in large format boards and cut the hafts to be as straight and aligned with the grain for maximum strength. Thus we get a fair bit of waist wood to get a better haft. Now we use a rivet through the haft to attach the langets (upper rivet can be seen in vid after breakage) most originals probably had clinch nails (thin nail driven through from each side and the tip rolls over against the back of opposing langet. From some initial testing this did not seem to be any more resistant to destructive testing than the rivets. When using a natural material, like wood, in a product we are always held to the best the material will hold. Here we can see it was several mighty blows against a stationary target and it eventually hit a point where it gave. This is what happens in the real life of weapons. The physics of how the piece was being used was probably putting some of the max stress the weapon was designed for into the piece. When using a pole weapon from the lower end of the haft with a full on swing you are putting the piece to its maximum. One can see period evidence of such in many of the battle scenes and combat manuals in art from the period, the ground being littered with broken weapons. Now that is not our goal and in the vid you saw the piece deal a decent account of itself against the helm through several hits, but at some point wood will give under stress. Have sent a note to skallagram about getting piece ready for round 2 :-)
The wood grain was in the wrong direction, rotate it by 90 degrees and it would be much sturdier. You want the grain to face the direction it strikes rather than the side. That will increase hand shock though which is why tools are usually the way that hammer was made.
Wood is going to break. There is no getting around it. I used to restore and sell wood axes. The strongest handles will fsil eventually. The previous tests against the helmet already but a tremendous strain on the handle. At that point it doesnt take much for a chunk to break off
@@TheReTurnersFlips You are correct and I was wrong and you are wrong and I was correct. Just checked a bunch of tools in my garage... Was a mix of either grain direction. oddly one had the grain at 45 degrees but it was a cheap ball peen hammer.
This is actually a pretty impressive demonstration of both how lethal a pole hammer could be, as well as how far our protective equipment has come in these last few hundred years. The best attack you made against the zombie would probably be the stab through the visor, though against a living target, brain, neck and spine injuries would probably abound.
im pretty sure even a bacinet would wistand it, the problem with a poleaxe is the concussion that will deliver to the target, while against soldier with a kettle hat the beack would the job
Any helmet is better than no helmet, apparently. Well, that's not that much of a suprise, after all. If helmets wouldn't make some sense nobody would wear them.
No as long you talk about traffic accident. Poor helmet don't protect and can make more damage to you for example from broken visor. Think in combat same rule apply.
@@TomaszDurlej Anything that could break the visor is going to break your face much worse. Even a cheap visor breakage means your face has impacted the pavement. Frankly a cheap helmet is probably not much better than nothing sure but it'll ALWAYS be better than nothing.
@@Skallagrim you should let Erik do the destruction testing with the stuff with shaky construction. It works thematically, and sharp flying bits are more likely to hit him than you. Win win. Let's see, currently we're at two axes and one set of plastic knuckle dusters. Anything else?
Yeah, if it's been in a crash, it is compromised. Motorcycle helmets are one use only. You're even supposed to replace them if they're dropped on concrete or similar hard surfaces. Cool test either way. I would be interested to see how an expensive helmet like an Arai with SNELL certs would hold up compared to a DOT approved Bilt or similar.
Considering this compromised DOT rated HJC kept the zombie head ok (other than the stab to the eye) i think a SNELL rated helmet well hold up great to the hammer but i think that rear spike will still puncture & get stuck like it did here.
pyruleanfire demon here in europe it's kind of odd to even mention SNELL in a motorcycle context because nobody knows what it is and those that do think of formula 1 helmets (and I believe even f1 is using a different one at this point)
Reminds me somehow a little bit of the scene, in the Directors Cut Version of "Kingdom of Heaven", when the Knight that survived the Attack on Godfrey de Ibelin's Camp to capture Balian said, while kneeling in supplication, "I'm a Knight and I have the privilege of Ransom" and Liam Neeson says "Yes you do" and Kevin McKidd, playing the Sergeant, drives the spike of his Warhammer so nonchalantly from behind into his Head.
@@maxgrebe3199 That pin was way too close to the end of the pole, it was waiting to split at the first chance it got. When he gets to replacing it, I recommend drilling a new hole a few inches below
I have the Opinel knife. The no 12. It has served me well when camping, working in the garden, and making food when backpacking. Great knife. Plus the carbon steel turns cool colors when in contact with various substances. Meats turns it blackish and the plants I was pruning turned it blue.
Have you ever used the Shockwatch impact indicators that the Mythbusters featured so often in their episodes? It would be interesting to see how much force is transferring through the helmet to the skull--among many other times you could use those in testing.
I wish I was surprised that another Arms & Armor polearm fell apart under normal usage. Between the clearly sub-optimal wood they use, and the fact that they don't heat-treat their maces, axes, and polearms, I have been very hesitant to buy from them. I have been looking into other sources of quality polearms, and it seems likely I will soon be purchasing a poleaxe from White Well Arms (out of the UK).
Interesting idea. You've done videos about being transported back in time before and the positives and negatives. If you knew you were gonna be transported back to medevial times in a month and you could bring a backpack+whatever you could carry, what would you bring to make yourself as powerful as possible.
God I wish there were more polearms in movies. Speaking of movies Outlaw King on Netflix is something I think viewers of this channel would enjoy that came out recently.
They should really just have the langets be one piece welded the whole way around the pole for the top 4 inches or so. Your one polearm bent there now this one split there, so as a welder id say thats a problem weak spot under the head.
Still seems like it was a fairly good wood used for the shaft, held up as much as it did under stress. That top rivet seems kinda high though, don't know if it being lower would've helped though.
Today, it's really hard to find a properly dried an processed piece of wood. Most has just been harvested moist and past through an oven, which destroys like 10% and leaves 90% in crap quality that will break in hard use or grow fungi as a window... (depending on treatment, but I've seen coating pealing off and the wood sweating...)
What country do they do that in? I've lived near a couple of timber yards all my life and the wood is normal dried and aged in long sheds loosely wrapped in tarp.
@@AnonEyeMouse I used to live in Germany and AFAIK, the only wood dried naturally is for music instruments. Drying big logs for up to 10 years would cost a lot in storage.
@@edi9892 I don't work in the industry, but here in the UK I think we just leave it to age. Or maybe I just happened to live next to two lumber yards (different towns) that sold naturally aged wood. I know it wasn't particularly expensive when I bought wood for my first house restoration, but they did have A LOT of space. That said, I don't know if construction grade oak and ash is appropriate for making weapons.
So what I'm getting from this video is. If a time warp opens right in front of you and medieval knight come pouring out bent on destruction. Put your motorcycle helmet on, then drive away. After all safety first.
Now this is what I'm talking about! Although it seemed you used more of the spike than the hammer. But still a polearm! OP as always! But man when you took off the helmet! That's when the hammer shined!
Looks like the shell was pretty intact, but like other helmets motorcycle helmets are normally only "good" for one impact. Would be fun looking at different materials facing a hammer's beak with an overhead cam, is all I'm saying.
Skall. The wood withstood the skull analogue just fine. It's the FREAKIN' MOTORCYCLE HELMET that did the damage. Ps. Hooray for more smashy smash videos.
@@runefaustblack no... The weakness was created by the helmet. It stuck in the helmet tight, secured to the head, secured to the stand. On the other side a burly bloke with a firm grip... There was a lot of energy and a lot of flexing in the middle of that balance and it's probably what did the damage. Yes, it was the bare head where the chip flew out, but the damage, the weakness would have come before.
I'd say that the risk of concussion might be actually slightly lower than with medieval helmet. The motorcycle helmet has much more padding and also the padding is made from different material so it could be possible that it can absorb more shock just because of the material alone.
I wanna see this sort of mindless destruction with a flanged mace. Those are so beautiful I wanna make them justice in writing as to how visceral the impact would look!
Given that motorcycle helmets are designed to a standard that requires they protect against impact and penetration, I'm not surprised that it did so well and I'm pretty sure the zombie would be fine (other than the stab through the visor port). I've personally gone sliding head-first into a sandstone wall at ~45mph wearing one, stood up and walked away. Busted thumb, skinned knees, but no head or spine injuries.
It's an interesting matchup, because Motorcycle Helmets are designed for BFT (Blunt Force Trauma) but specifically smashing into flat surfaces, like walls, and pavement. At extremely high energy, but a Lucern Hammer is designed to defeat metal armor, by focusing impact energy to a small area. Also, the round surface of the helmet can deflect focused energy (And bullets, I've shot them, bowling balls...) so while a direct hit might go straight through, a glancing blow can struggle to put enough force into the skull. And finally, a great amount of the protection is actually the padded lining, to cushion the impact, and prevent surge-countersurge concussion, in a motorcycle accident. (That's hard to test for with a zombie head, though. That basically only covers skull fracture. You'd need accelerometers and/or shock watch stickers to test for that. Those are expensive, though.)
against a steel helmet like a bacinet even the beak wouldn't do much and will mostly get deflected, on the other hand the hammer with the huge crown even if dissipate more force will deliver more concussion trauma on lesser protective helmet, like a kettle hat, the beak would be more letal
@@fabiovarra3698 The hammer has a huge crown, extended out in prongs, Lucerne style, to concentrate force on those 4 points. Not to mention the padding is designed to spread the impact out, and you're not going to find a larger surface than the surface of the Earth. (At least not on the surface of the Earth.) Compared to pavement, yes. Even that large crown does not spread out the energy over as large of a surface as that helmet was designed for.
The next time you conduct one of these helmet or armor tests you should try and see if there's a way to rig up a DIY shock sensor, like what they would use on Mythbusters to register how much force or Gs is being imparted. But the real things are a bit pricey and a one shot deal which is why I suggested looking up a DIY solution, something that's cheap and/or resuable.
Now we need a football helmet and shoulder pads. The bulky pads I imagine help to spread the impact across the shoulder structure instead of all being focused on the spine/neck.
Imagine riding your bike and then saw a dude beating a zombie dummy wearing a biker's helmet with a polehammer....
Time to drop a gear and disappear! It's futile running away from Skal though. He'll throw a pommel at you to end you rightly before you release the clutch
Worse if he starts looking in your direction and laughs... But at least Skal doesn´t laugh like Jörg Sprave ;)
@@Aracnah just imagine a fusion betwen skall and jörg laugthing in armor whit a warhamer and a slingshot,
THAT is scary.
@@soyhugo390 i am sure you mean a slingshot that fires warhammers ;)
(edit: and pommels)
...
*pedal faster*
1:58 when the hit is so solid the camera gltiches out
the blow was so mighty it destroyed the pallet
a blow so effective, it can corrupt video files
In reallity he is a part of some Jojo clan... has "The World" stand XD
A critical hit!
It procced curse debuff
1:58
Scal, how about breaking donated helmet and not our reality?
In reallity he is a part of some Jojo clan... has "The World" stand XD
@@XwerffX
I dunno, looked more like King Crimson to me.
Well, it could be, but I "STAND" on my point!
@@XwerffX Wish the dislike button worked.
@@runefaustblack I works, but doesn't show XD
I "STAND" on my "HIGH" ground...
(Yep, I'm killing everything, with a worse Joke each time)
Modern polymer protection gears hold up surprisingly well against cold arms. Imagine you get teleported back into the middle ages but gets to keep your padded fleece jacket and a motorcycle helmet. All the blacksmiths are gonna be awed by your miraculous plastic gear that has the weight of linen but strength of steel. And you become the super hero: "The Plastic Man"
yeah, once many years ago when I used to do a bit of rough shotgun shooting and a bit of sporting clays. one of the regulars brought a crash helmet of his that he'd had an 'off' from his motorbike. well we shot at that thing with pretty much any 12 bore load that we had up to LG (old British term 'Large Game' .36 cal lead balls) that one of the blokes nipped home to get. you know what, nothing penetrated the lid, admittedly the crash helmet was just put on the ground and shot from about 10 yards the visor was ans absolute mess but only the LG's went through it, but the body of the lid kept them out, not that you'd want to try it with it on your head ;-)
There was a guy in Brazil, he had his bike stolen and was shot in the head with a FAL rifle. He survived because he was wearing one of those super expensive helmets.
More like you fall down dead with no visible wounds. Plastic doesn't absorb concussive force at all. It the SCA it is commonly noted that is transfers a ton of "sting" for a rigid matriel.
the problem is that while plastic is flexible it likes to break, not bend. and they are impossible to repair.
@@danilooliveira6580 But it's possible to melt plastic, isn't it? Work a torch on it, Then again that's rather crude and probably won't work, but still, plastic can melt, and it can be reformed
“The zombie head already has some damage from previous tests” *punctures zombie head with nothing more than his thumb like a physical god*
Alpha Derp OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU
nice profile pic
Alpha Derp Nah, that's what ordinary doctors do all the time to assess the damage.
@@johnfrancisdoe1563 attourney: "Doctor, was the patient perchance still alive when you performed the autopsy?"
Doctor: "Well if he was, he sure as hell wasn't when I finished!"
That zombie head had you right where he wanted you when you couldn't get that pole arm out! He strategically and patiently disarmed you! Now you're in trouble!
That's what sidearms are for.
@@Skallagrim he may be thinking the SAME thing ;-)
@@Skallagrim but Skall... he doesn't have any arms!
Polehammers = Spears with DLC
you see back in my day when you bough a polearm you got the full polehammer. but the triple A pole industry now prefers you pay the same amount for just the spear, then flog my hammer as DLC
IK I'm late but I'd say that would be true of a Halberd but a Pollax/hammer is usually shorter
Hello Everyone, Craig from A&A here. Once again Skallagrim has demonstrated, excellently help by the zombie head, some of the short comings of pole weapons. When mounting a steel head on a wooden haft one will always have to deal with the physics of the heavy head being supported by a relatively slim piece of organic material. This is often an unequal equation. The original weapons would in most cases be iron for the elements on a weapon like this. So the tool steel we use is a decent substitute. The Ash we use for hafts however can be a challenge on any given piece. The grain structure of the wood is aligned to enhance strength but this is not old growth wood which would have a denser grain in many cases. Great example of this is how different the wood in a viking shield in period is from any type of modern growth pine. The wood we use, we buy in large format boards and cut the hafts to be as straight and aligned with the grain for maximum strength. Thus we get a fair bit of waist wood to get a better haft. Now we use a rivet through the haft to attach the langets (upper rivet can be seen in vid after breakage) most originals probably had clinch nails (thin nail driven through from each side and the tip rolls over against the back of opposing langet. From some initial testing this did not seem to be any more resistant to destructive testing than the rivets. When using a natural material, like wood, in a product we are always held to the best the material will hold. Here we can see it was several mighty blows against a stationary target and it eventually hit a point where it gave. This is what happens in the real life of weapons. The physics of how the piece was being used was probably putting some of the max stress the weapon was designed for into the piece. When using a pole weapon from the lower end of the haft with a full on swing you are putting the piece to its maximum. One can see period evidence of such in many of the battle scenes and combat manuals in art from the period, the ground being littered with broken weapons. Now that is not our goal and in the vid you saw the piece deal a decent account of itself against the helm through several hits, but at some point wood will give under stress. Have sent a note to skallagram about getting piece ready for round 2 :-)
The wood grain was in the wrong direction, rotate it by 90 degrees and it would be much sturdier. You want the grain to face the direction it strikes rather than the side. That will increase hand shock though which is why tools are usually the way that hammer was made.
As someone who has split tons (literally) of firewood with an ax, I can confirm that any wooden ax handle will break after a while.
@@JETWTF Tools have grain runnng parallel to striking face
Wood is going to break. There is no getting around it. I used to restore and sell wood axes. The strongest handles will fsil eventually. The previous tests against the helmet already but a tremendous strain on the handle. At that point it doesnt take much for a chunk to break off
@@TheReTurnersFlips You are correct and I was wrong and you are wrong and I was correct. Just checked a bunch of tools in my garage... Was a mix of either grain direction. oddly one had the grain at 45 degrees but it was a cheap ball peen hammer.
This is actually a pretty impressive demonstration of both how lethal a pole hammer could be, as well as how far our protective equipment has come in these last few hundred years. The best attack you made against the zombie would probably be the stab through the visor, though against a living target, brain, neck and spine injuries would probably abound.
im pretty sure even a bacinet would wistand it, the problem with a poleaxe is the concussion that will deliver to the target, while against soldier with a kettle hat the beack would the job
Any helmet is better than no helmet, apparently. Well, that's not that much of a suprise, after all. If helmets wouldn't make some sense nobody would wear them.
Like in gameof thrones
No as long you talk about traffic accident. Poor helmet don't protect and can make more damage to you for example from broken visor.
Think in combat same rule apply.
People do a lot of stupid stuff despite contrary results. Communism comes to mind.
@@TomaszDurlej Anything that could break the visor is going to break your face much worse. Even a cheap visor breakage means your face has impacted the pavement. Frankly a cheap helmet is probably not much better than nothing sure but it'll ALWAYS be better than nothing.
Like movies, TV, and many video games.
damn i could watch skal destroy zombie heads with all kinds of weapon all day
IT WASN'T ME THIS TIME! :D
Well obviously. It wasn't an axe.
Ok Shaggy lol
We all know you touched it, Erik >:(
I was thinking about how funny that would have been.
@@Skallagrim you should let Erik do the destruction testing with the stuff with shaky construction. It works thematically, and sharp flying bits are more likely to hit him than you. Win win.
Let's see, currently we're at two axes and one set of plastic knuckle dusters. Anything else?
Yeah, if it's been in a crash, it is compromised. Motorcycle helmets are one use only. You're even supposed to replace them if they're dropped on concrete or similar hard surfaces.
Cool test either way. I would be interested to see how an expensive helmet like an Arai with SNELL certs would hold up compared to a DOT approved Bilt or similar.
PhilosoraptorXJ what
okay guys, next livestream I can make, I'll send in a super chat asking him to do this xD
Considering this compromised DOT rated HJC kept the zombie head ok (other than the stab to the eye) i think a SNELL rated helmet well hold up great to the hammer but i think that rear spike will still puncture & get stuck like it did here.
pyruleanfire demon the HJC has ECE which is not for off the ridiculous SNELL which is optimized for race car helmets anyway
pyruleanfire demon here in europe it's kind of odd to even mention SNELL in a motorcycle context because nobody knows what it is and those that do think of formula 1 helmets (and I believe even f1 is using a different one at this point)
Reminds me somehow a little bit of the scene, in the Directors Cut Version of "Kingdom of Heaven", when the Knight that survived the Attack on Godfrey de Ibelin's Camp to capture Balian said, while kneeling in supplication, "I'm a Knight and I have the privilege of Ransom" and Liam Neeson says "Yes you do" and Kevin McKidd, playing the Sergeant, drives the spike of his Warhammer so nonchalantly from behind into his Head.
Finally the mighty Polehammer
Its amazing
Then the haft dies...
@@ElliWoelfin Yeah pretty embarrassing for the manufacturer. I commented before I came to this point in the Video lol
@@maxgrebe3199 That pin was way too close to the end of the pole, it was waiting to split at the first chance it got. When he gets to replacing it, I recommend drilling a new hole a few inches below
It's an Arms and Armor polehammer... it'll break in a stiff breeze.
I have the Opinel knife. The no 12. It has served me well when camping, working in the garden, and making food when backpacking. Great knife. Plus the carbon steel turns cool colors when in contact with various substances. Meats turns it blackish and the plants I was pruning turned it blue.
It's always nice to see Daddy Skall just smashing things
What...?
@@spartanwar1185 what what?
Yet another demonstration of why I love polehammers and other polearms so much!
(And why I hate cheap ones so much...)
Best part about pole arms is you can roast things over the campfire lol. I can see hotdogs and marshmallows with this one lol
Honestly it did much better than i expected
The mighty polehammer shatters... :(
Splinters....
@@AnonEyeMouse Cracks
Now he needs to show the mighty pole axe!
@@genobreaker1054 But pole axe is already broken...
Have you ever used the Shockwatch impact indicators that the Mythbusters featured so often in their episodes? It would be interesting to see how much force is transferring through the helmet to the skull--among many other times you could use those in testing.
Hey Skal, can you do a video on the effectiveness of a warhammer in a zombie apocalypse? I feel like it's an underrated option.
SeemsLogical Straight up.
Halligan tool. :)
I wish I was surprised that another Arms & Armor polearm fell apart under normal usage. Between the clearly sub-optimal wood they use, and the fact that they don't heat-treat their maces, axes, and polearms, I have been very hesitant to buy from them. I have been looking into other sources of quality polearms, and it seems likely I will soon be purchasing a poleaxe from White Well Arms (out of the UK).
A&A make great swords... their polearms are overpriced garbage however.
As the helm is designed to protect you from a bike crash, I didn't expect it to do anything less against a polehammer.
Imagine if Skall would accidently hit his camera instead of the zombie head.
"alright, today we are gonna destroy a motocycle helmet with a pole hammer"
"for science ?"
"nah..."
Interesting idea. You've done videos about being transported back in time before and the positives and negatives.
If you knew you were gonna be transported back to medevial times in a month and you could bring a backpack+whatever you could carry, what would you bring to make yourself as powerful as possible.
God I wish there were more polearms in movies.
Speaking of movies Outlaw King on Netflix is something I think viewers of this channel would enjoy that came out recently.
*woah, I didn't know you are a scientist*
You know, I'm actually something of a scientist myself.
My cat really enjoyed watching this video. She followed the hammer the entire time.
as always thanks for running these tests (even these non formal ones), it provides so much information!!!
Polearm (+5)
Armor penetration 25%
Crowd control 75%
Stun 10%
Bleed 25%
They should really just have the langets be one piece welded the whole way around the pole for the top 4 inches or so. Your one polearm bent there now this one split there, so as a welder id say thats a problem weak spot under the head.
Lovely looking pole hammer although a bit flimsy.
At least you broke this one yourself.
Polehammers are VASTLY underrated
5:00 I like how you make these zombie heads smile by cutting their jaws.
Still seems like it was a fairly good wood used for the shaft, held up as much as it did under stress. That top rivet seems kinda high though, don't know if it being lower would've helped though.
Skallagrim, I noticed you're getting a little thin up top. I totally feel your pain. Keep up the great work!
Excellent content as always, and having another track by Nightrage as backgroung music is a nice plus.
This is a video that has actual use in a comic I'm making. Thanks dude!
Wow if nothing else this is a good visual argument for using proper riding gear, would love to see more riding gear "tested"
Love how you used the same bust as your flashlight review. Waste not, right?
Those zombie heads are @£^$ing expensive.
@@scottmacgregor3444 I can only imagine
Yep, those heads are expensive.
You have *Picked* the right weapons.
I like how this guy got straight into the video with out talking shit
Awesome video!
Today, it's really hard to find a properly dried an processed piece of wood. Most has just been harvested moist and past through an oven, which destroys like 10% and leaves 90% in crap quality that will break in hard use or grow fungi as a window... (depending on treatment, but I've seen coating pealing off and the wood sweating...)
What country do they do that in? I've lived near a couple of timber yards all my life and the wood is normal dried and aged in long sheds loosely wrapped in tarp.
@@AnonEyeMouse I used to live in Germany and AFAIK, the only wood dried naturally is for music instruments. Drying big logs for up to 10 years would cost a lot in storage.
@@edi9892 I don't work in the industry, but here in the UK I think we just leave it to age. Or maybe I just happened to live next to two lumber yards (different towns) that sold naturally aged wood. I know it wasn't particularly expensive when I bought wood for my first house restoration, but they did have A LOT of space. That said, I don't know if construction grade oak and ash is appropriate for making weapons.
@@AnonEyeMouse well ash is probably one of the most common woods used for spear and pole weapon staffs. So id say it is.
A single well hit would break your neck or even some serious brain trauma. At the best scenario you would be stunned
That one pick strike was so hard it broke reality for a moment there.
This actually protected better than I expected.
That is an awesome weapon a must have for the bug out bag imo.
So what I'm getting from this video is. If a time warp opens right in front of you and medieval knight come pouring out bent on destruction. Put your motorcycle helmet on, then drive away. After all safety first.
Thanks Skall
Now this is what I'm talking about! Although it seemed you used more of the spike than the hammer. But still a polearm! OP as always! But man when you took off the helmet! That's when the hammer shined!
If one were fighting several enemies at once (i.e., zombie apocalypse), getting your polearm stuck in someone's head could be a problem.
Had to pop in to this video again after watching Dequitem's brutal Lucerne hammer fight.
Skallagrim, simply the best!
this is the best ad for HJC i've ever seen
That is one tough helmet, because, tbh
motorcycle helmets rarely incur very sharp items damage.
Looks like the shell was pretty intact, but like other helmets motorcycle helmets are normally only "good" for one impact.
Would be fun looking at different materials facing a hammer's beak with an overhead cam, is all I'm saying.
Skall. The wood withstood the skull analogue just fine. It's the FREAKIN' MOTORCYCLE HELMET that did the damage.
Ps. Hooray for more smashy smash videos.
Nope. Check 5:16 again.
@@runefaustblack no... The weakness was created by the helmet. It stuck in the helmet tight, secured to the head, secured to the stand. On the other side a burly bloke with a firm grip... There was a lot of energy and a lot of flexing in the middle of that balance and it's probably what did the damage. Yes, it was the bare head where the chip flew out, but the damage, the weakness would have come before.
Point taken.
But I still think it's an error to say that the hammer withstood the skull analogue.
Even if it was the helmet, a weapon like this is designed to strike *steel* helmets and armor.
@@Skallagrim Also true
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I’m getting a custom order made of one of these
CONGRATULATIONS FOR THE MILLON DUDEEEEEEE
Not bad at all, if shit hits the fan with that apocalypse thingy I'm grabbing one of these
dude the thumbnail is great
"I know what you're thinking"........ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!! The look on his face is absolutely hilarious
Well, you did go to town on a bike helmet pretty hard. Not surprised the wood broke near the langets.
1:59
Dammit Skall. Stop breaking reality.
I'd say that the risk of concussion might be actually slightly lower than with medieval helmet. The motorcycle helmet has much more padding and also the padding is made from different material so it could be possible that it can absorb more shock just because of the material alone.
slow motion sound, fantastic
I kinda wanted to see a thrust to the visor.
I would be really interested if you repeated this experiment with a military kevlar helmet Skall
1:07
My visor is steaming up ,
Skalligrim: *Hold my beer*
I wanna see this sort of mindless destruction with a flanged mace. Those are so beautiful I wanna make them justice in writing as to how visceral the impact would look!
I think every time you put your full force behind your hits your toys beging to break... Sad but true, most of the time.
5:56 that cheesy pun there got me for some reason :D
That helmet was surprisingly resilient.
I believe that particular poll on arm is called a Bec de corbin
I'd love to see some US Football or hockey equipment tested against medieval weapons.
>Someone asks me why i love polearms so much
>Shows them this
"This among many other reasons..."
1:58 skal got that stand-game just right
This video reminded me I needed to watch my safety committee training videos...
You get a like for Nigel Thornberry on the thumbnail, you magnificent bastard.
Does skall have any videos on hammer/polehammer fighting techniques? I can't find any.
Wait....? Are you using a new camera? camera the quality is amazing!
Besides the glitch at 1:58 xD
"I bet you're wondering what it's like without the helmet. I gotchu." What a legend.
Happy Skallagrim day to everyone!
"Knights vs. Zombie Bikers", coming soon to a theater near you!
04:35 - Skall, you're reading my mind.
Given that motorcycle helmets are designed to a standard that requires they protect against impact and penetration, I'm not surprised that it did so well and I'm pretty sure the zombie would be fine (other than the stab through the visor port). I've personally gone sliding head-first into a sandstone wall at ~45mph wearing one, stood up and walked away. Busted thumb, skinned knees, but no head or spine injuries.
That helm stood up surprisingly well.
Time for Motorcycle Knights?
it did superbly against the blunt side.... wow
It's an interesting matchup, because Motorcycle Helmets are designed for BFT (Blunt Force Trauma) but specifically smashing into flat surfaces, like walls, and pavement. At extremely high energy, but a Lucern Hammer is designed to defeat metal armor, by focusing impact energy to a small area. Also, the round surface of the helmet can deflect focused energy (And bullets, I've shot them, bowling balls...) so while a direct hit might go straight through, a glancing blow can struggle to put enough force into the skull. And finally, a great amount of the protection is actually the padded lining, to cushion the impact, and prevent surge-countersurge concussion, in a motorcycle accident. (That's hard to test for with a zombie head, though. That basically only covers skull fracture. You'd need accelerometers and/or shock watch stickers to test for that. Those are expensive, though.)
against a steel helmet like a bacinet even the beak wouldn't do much and will mostly get deflected, on the other hand the hammer with the huge crown even if dissipate more force will deliver more concussion trauma
on lesser protective helmet, like a kettle hat, the beak would be more letal
@@fabiovarra3698 The hammer has a huge crown, extended out in prongs, Lucerne style, to concentrate force on those 4 points. Not to mention the padding is designed to spread the impact out, and you're not going to find a larger surface than the surface of the Earth. (At least not on the surface of the Earth.) Compared to pavement, yes. Even that large crown does not spread out the energy over as large of a surface as that helmet was designed for.
BEST. THUMBNAIL.
That's one hell of a polearm
This video proofs that the ancient saying "never bring a gun to a polehammerfight" is there for a reason.
The next time you conduct one of these helmet or armor tests you should try and see if there's a way to rig up a DIY shock sensor, like what they would use on Mythbusters to register how much force or Gs is being imparted. But the real things are a bit pricey and a one shot deal which is why I suggested looking up a DIY solution, something that's cheap and/or resuable.
Now we need a football helmet and shoulder pads. The bulky pads I imagine help to spread the impact across the shoulder structure instead of all being focused on the spine/neck.
gratz on 1million subs :D