The Insanely Gruesome Origins of the Chainsaw
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
- Discover the dark origins of the chainsaw, originally designed for childbirth, not woodcutting. This shocking history reveals how a medical tool evolved into a lumberjack's essential. Watch if you dare!
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As an American, I have to protest the depiction of our healthcare system. We're not funding the doctor's second house, we're paying for the hospital administrator's third home and the insurance company CEO's private island
Start with the core of the problem....the Healthcare Middleman. That is one hell of a rabbit hole and it's about a money pit that sucks in tremendous cash and other resources like a cosmic black hole. And after coming from all of this, doctors and insurance companies become just an afterthought.
I've never had my jaw drop so hard in the first minute of a video before. I don't know what I expected the origin story to be, but it sure wasn't that.
Same. Sorry to say, now that I found out, I’m out of here until the next video.
Same here. Still, my jaw kept dropping further and further during the whole video. That was ... gruesome.
Yeah, I was thinking amputations, not this!
as soon as i found out i looked over at a chainsaw nearby and said in my head: oh....yeah i can see that, freaking old medicine was crazy.
WTF lol
That got really dark really fast.
I have to clarify the American C-Section pricing statement; The doctor doesn't make enough money for vacation homes in America any more; It's the venture capitalist who purchased the hospital and proceeded to run it into the ground, extracting every possible bit of profit from the procedure on American Mothers who has the yacht now. Insurance company investors also get their piece. The doctor has 2 choices; join the machine or quit medicine. Times they are a-changing.
As a Canadian,.I've seen a few comments of Americans in denial of their healthcare situation. Some have even gone as far as to say that the long wait times are somehow worse.. at least our hospitals are actually palatable, and won't try to break you over every possible.
@@jwalster9412and as if the American healthcare system doesn’t have long wait times too lol. It can take 3-9 months to see a specialist, hours and hours at the emergency room unless you’re bleeding out of your eyeballs, etc
Even if you’re bleeding out of your eyeballs, you’ll wait six hours at an ER. My dad’s appendix burst and he went septic while waiting in the goddamn waiting room and no matter how many times we begged them to take him into emergency surgery, they told us he had to wait cuz they “couldn’t see anything wrong physically” even tho he turned literally grey, passed out, and even started having muscle seizing. They called security on us cuz we were all huddled around him sobbing cuz we were watching him die.
He sat for six hours with bile flooding his system. Once the surgeon actually got to him, they told us there’s a possibility he wouldn’t live. The fact that he did live is completely against medical knowledge. He should not have.
This was in one of the wealthiest counties in the entire United States.
Yet, half of the population will defend it, to the death.
Mostly what I was going to say. When I was looking into becoming an MD, a not very old book at the time said average pay was around $100k/yr. I think it is now around $160k/yr, considering decades of inflation, that's not much of an increase and plainly even 10x that much wouldn't account for cost of medical treatment now which could cost that much in a day in some cases. Considering the level of education required, I think they deserve a raise after we change to public medicine. I'm not sure that venture capitalists specifically are to blame, but I'd guess investors in general--megacorp hospitals traded in stock markets and maybe upper level management. I don't know for certain, but my guess is Reagan era deregulation opened the floodgates for profiting off other people's work and human suffering since that seems to be around the time things got truly ridiculous. Sadly, I also have to partly blame a close family member who I think was nationally known as The Hatchet Lady, or something like that. Her job was to make medical businesses more "efficient," meaning fire doctors and nurses, cut corners, and a laundry list of things to maximize profits for investors by harming everyone else. What seems sad on a personal level is she didn't seem like a monster to me, but was willing to be one for the right price. Thanks to efficiency we can now die in the ER waiting room because there aren't enough doctors to treat everyone in a timely manner. Aunty probably wouldn't have had the job if medicine hadn't become such a lucrative investment opportunity and I imagine quite a few people would have lived longer and better.
"Doctor, the babys stuck, what can we do?!"
👨⚕️: I NEED A CHAINSAW, STAT!!
They said I was mad when I told them we needed a new Stihl in the OR!
And today, we just use scissors.
You rang?
Nurse: "What!?"
Fred Durst: "A chainsaw!"
When a simple, sharp, clean, axe will do?
Why a wood chipper?
The farmer saving his wife with the first successful C-section stands a chance of being true as unfortunately farmers took better care of their animals than Doctors did their parents.
Patients* although parents wouldn't surprise me in some instances
@@owennoad-watson2820 hahahaha shit.
Yep. Animals were worth something, people weren't. Still the case even today. We euthanase our animals when they are too ill to continue living, yet we force people to exist. We prevent livestock that can not carry offspring to term and care for it from breeding, yet if a human is in the same position, bad luck. As a species, we are just a little bit deranged!
There's at least one documented incident of a women giving herself a C-section. Just one, though. Sort of like the doctor in Antarctica who removed his own appendix.
Doctors got paid a lot, while the farmers lived off of their animals, so it kinda makes sense.
I knew it was medical, but I thought it was for limb removal… 🤯
take it from a 2d george carlin view...it looks vaguely penis shaped from the side....and where do they usually go? yeah.
Your idea would have been much better
Bernhard Heine thought the same as you. I like how he kept improving the procedure to minimize collateral damage. Sounds like a very conscientious man.
I've heard this story before, and I remember it now but my brain suppressed it for a while..
Did not have "hearing simon say hoo ha" on my bingo card for today.
Fun fact: The Marquis de Sade in the 1780's imagined a steam-powered saw with a moving blade. Being the Marquis de Sade, I cannot go into detail about how it was to be used, but it wasn't trees.
Thank you for covering the abuses women in Ireland faced
Religion... Wouldn't you know it would engage in the worst of human misery.
"Then despair, tyrant, for McDuff from his mother's womb was untimely ripped." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (the Scottish play)
I always reference that. Especially if nerdy friends are disappointed they need a c section!
My girlfriend in IT makes more than Dr Mike per hour.
You gotta get to the hospital executive or investors level too get that vacation home
Now I wonder how someone saw a medical tool for cutting lady bits and thought "what a wonderful tool for cutting trees! " 😅😅😅
when intrusive thoughts win
Probably because people had been using saws in tree cutting and woodworking for a thousand years before a saw was used in medicine?
I’m sorry Facts Boy, I’m 1:50 in and I can’t do it. My wife had to be snipped for our first child and the sound from the scissors will haunt my nightmares forever. The thought of using a chainsaw is incomprehensible.
I got in further but had to stop at about the story at 1830.
Everyone needs to watch this until the end. WTF that this went on until TEN YEARS AGO!?!!
Right, like seriously? I had to back it up to make sure I was hearing the dates right. I hate learning sometimes
Religious whackos still don't surprise me
1981?
43ersomthing years ago... sounds about right, they were doing all kinds of weird shit "medically" back then... for no reason.
The interview was 10 years ago. The mutilation of that woman was in the 80s.
Breach is bottom first, not feet! A lot of people don't realize that they aren't referring to the bottom of the entire body, but rather the bottom that we sit upon. A bit like sitting in a round pool floatie and deciding to raise your arms and legs and just drop to dismount, except you discover that you are in fact too big and are now stuck with your shoulders to your knees. And now someone has to bring a chainsaw to cut you out because your head and feet are above water, your butt is in the water, and the floatie is screaming at the nurse
so.. folded? yeah that could obviously put a lot of strain on both the baby and mother.
i was breech but thought it was feet first. thank you for making this correction for me.
I’m saving this amazing video to watch with my family - my mom is a cultural and literature studies professor and would absolutely find the first section of this video very interesting. Thanks Simon
Let us know how that goes
Interesting...and horrifying
one important part in chainsaw development that bears mentioning is the invention of the membrane carburetor, which allowed for chainsaws being used in any position necessary.
you see prior to this invention a chainsaw had to be held upright for the engine to function.
That's just engines in general, even some fighters in WWII had that issue, such as the Hurricane and early Spitfire's
I saw a guy in the ER with a chainsaw wound to his knee
It was brutal.
Ok. I made it almost halfway through, but I've gotta tap out. The past truly IS the worst. It's amazing ANY of us survived.
I thought I expected what the invention would have been for.
I was not expecting what the invention was for.
In Germany we call the surgery "Kaiserschnitt", wich now makes me think it's a nod to Caesar instead of a doctor named Kaiser, as the translation is emperor cut.
I wasn't horrified because I actually knew this use. It probably saved a lot of lives in the 19th century, both in childbirth and in amputation, but I was wondering how and if the pubis would heal afterward. Now I was horrified that Ireland would allow this so recently.
I was picturing them using a modern chainsaw for limb removal, but the hand-cranked model sounds like it would cause less damage to the surrounding tissue.
Except that the motion of the hand crank means that the saw will wiggle with the cranking...😬
@@SonsOfLorgar omg ouch /under statement of the year
I did not know about the 'Origins' of this tool, and HAVE seen the carnage it can cause to flesh, by people using chainsaws to process lumber. AS a Woman, the idea of THIS contraption being used to 'Assist' a laboring Woman deliver a living/healthy infant?
O.o?!?!?!?
Hearing Simon say "stuck in a ladies hoohaa" cracked me up....
A couple years ago I bought a battery-powered chainsaw. It is the scariest tool I own. Gas saws have some drama to them. They feel and sound dangerous. The battery saw is like a lightsaber.
I read about this years ago i was waiting for you to do this
That was soooooo satisfying to watch!!
Erik Santos' and Stell's voice are so differebt, yet both so amazing.
I love them both!! ❤
Are used to be a paramedic, I started my medical training back in the mid 70s. What I was taught and used back then seems barbaric now. I had no idea this is where the chainsaw originated. Some of the macabre medical practices of the past and unfortunately, the recent past have caused a lot of suffering.
Plz do video about Beavers Butt Vanilla 😂😂😂😂😂
Honestly who got their face up in a beaver Butt and said mmmmm that would taste delicious in my cakes and crepes
*Simon:* "Chainsaws have a gruesome origin..."
*Me:* "Yeah, probably chopping off limbs and such..."
*Simon:* "So, childbirth complications..."
*Me:* 😳🤯
Quite an informative video - much appreciated. Though it immediately became more "Into the Shadows" than "Today I Found Out".
Wow when you'd said it was used in surgery I really hadn't expected this horror story. Good god man. Can you imagine someone chainsawing your genitals and pelvic bone without any real anesthetic? 😳😥
I remember this being covered briefly in a brain blaze. This is gonna be good and horrifying.
His voice at the end basically saying "Thank you for the Trauma..." XD
Ye gads, the history of the chainsaw might make even Leatherface himself puke inside his mask and run away, gagging...maybe...
Yup. I actually knew this. So glad it's not necessary anymore...
I can vouch for chainsaws being no joke. I was a ground apprentice for a large well known tree trimming/removal company shortly after high school. I witnessed the journeyman on our crew lower the chain bar down to his shin just as the chain was coming to a stop. One tooth of the chain nicked his shin just below his (too small) chaps and his entire lower leg and foot was soaked in blood within seconds. He not only cut the skin through his jeans but also sliced a chunk out of his shin bone. The wound overall was tiny but the amount of blood was insane and he was crying like a child.
I "saw" what you did there.
All 3 of my kids were Csecs. The first was an emergency and the last two were scheduled surgeries, so I actually got to me in the room. A seriously wild experience. They do things that I just...let's just say that the Dunning-Kreuger was largely in effect that day lol.
I love this guy!
Wow, this is morbidly fascinating 😅
Geez. That escalated
I feel like a really important bit of information this video is lacking is that anesthesia wasn't invented until the mid 19th century.
So THIS is why the Chainsaw Devils so feared.
As a professional arborist.... This was cool to learn. Chainsaws are awesome machines
Well that's gruesome AF... 😲
So the Ripper in Fallout.. is real?
where do you think they got the idea, the retrofuturism is inspired by 1950s United States
I was expecting icky, but not THAT!
Simon: "In Ireland up to 1981!"
Me: "Wait. What?"
*One second later remembering*
Me: "Oh, f■■k! It's THAT story isn't it?"
Simon: "It's that story!"
They had me at chainsaw!
Good God! How horrendous!😮
That was gruesome . The past really was the worst.
I thought it was for amputations, not for childbirth. 😨
Hey there, surgical tech here. Many of the current instruments used in GYN surgery still look medieval and barbaric. I only work with patients who are asleep, but i would assume these torture devices to be quite painful. It doesn't help the situation that women bleed like crazy down there. So just imagine large weighted speculums with a divot in the middle for the blood to flow out, tenaculums with needle sharp pincers that overlap when closed....and thats just for helping the surgeon see what he/she is doing. The actual surgery (whatever that may be) hasnt even started yet. 😂
I remember the origins of the chainsaw and it made my face tense up back then.
This really could have been an Into the Shadows or Brain Blaze video.
1:28-1:40🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 hey America, do you need some ice for that burn 😂
They can't afford ice, they have to work two more life times to pay off their infant checkups...
I worked for Oregon chain in Milwaukee Oregon for 20 years…
As someone who has used a chainsaw for decades I had no idea as to its rather ancient origin. True, they are dangerous but over the years saws have become safer and if you are smart use them with caution and wear chaps and a helmet. That being said accidents always come as a surprise then the tree or branch does not react as expected.
As an ex-Catholic horrendous abuse dictated by the church sadly did not come as a surprise.
I will never look at the ripper in the Fallout games the same again.
The history of the English and Christendom violating the Irish goes back centuries.
St. Patrick, it seems to me, was less concerned with "saving" the Irish and more concerned with "Eradicating the Pagans and Druids" who were (most likely) the "Snakes" from his fable (strong evidence that Ireland has been snake-free for most of human history), and not out of piousness or altruism but out of a deep seated hatred due to his stint as a slave. He was never cannonized and at _least_ the perception of a revenge plot likely played a part.
We know that violence and coercion were common tactics, in general, for forcing conversion at the time and in the region, and some oral histories suggest that the erasure was not only of the Irish culture, but humans too, with allegations of anti-pagan genocide under St. Patrick being the actual meaning of the "snake" myth, esp. paired with notable drops in the irish population around the general timeframe (the calendars were yet unreliable at the time, it seems)
there are enough known and provable outright lies in his tale that the rest can't really be dismissed out of hand, even if we take them with a grain of salt.
and the 1600 years of brutal oppression under the Roman Catholics that followed doesn't help their case...
40 seconds in and I paused the video and took my glasses off just to take a moment. Alright let’s do this.
4:48 Well we don't kill a mother cow to save the calf do we?
And I thought they invented the Chainsaw to trim toenails and scratch off lottery Tickets.
I have an electric chainsaw. I thought it was a newer idea than petrol saws. the cable is only a couple of meters, so I'm not going to chase anyone with it.
I found this out when i watched QI many years ago
I shouldn’t have listened to this.
I didn’t even watch. I was in the kitchen (wearing my earphones) making breakfast while my phone was in the other room.
My girlfriend asked me what was wrong, the disgust on my face was so evident. At one point I clutched my belly, I was so horrified by the history of the surgeries discussed.
Oh, my!
I'm usually not too bad at handling this kind of stuff but I had to tap out at 6 minutes and 53 seconds. Wow!
Same man...can't take any more of it...
I have watched real human dissections on RUclips...but somehow I can't watch this...
Karyne, fron Paraná in Brasil. Whatching yours videos, I like. You fun.
"Groovy"
Ummmm....what? A chainsaw for birth 😮
"Roman general and emperor Julius Caesar".
Caesar was never an emperor.
Interesting, I did not know that.
That could be the next video, 10 things people always get wrong.
Just like Jesus wasn't christian: they both founded the system that eventually became what would follow
I thought the little cartoon came out and used his pokey thing and went, "Pizza, pizza!" and tries to eat the baby but then he's put back in his cage for next use.
This video will haunt my dreams.. 😨🤢
Can't say I wasn't warned though! Ty!
Greetings from the BIG SKY. Chainsaws are tricky.
Simon... wtf my dude.
Both Me & My Mother Were Breach Births. However, I Was Delivered Via C-section, While My Mother Was Delivered The Natural Way. My Mother Had Her Tubes Tied After I Was Born & Mother's Mother Swore To Not Have Anymore Children After My Mother Was Born.
Nice name drop Gilles , million ways to die . ❤❤
What on this rock ,lead people to early medical ideas??
OK.... before this they waited patiently for the STORK ?
Mines Stihl working fine.
I once went to visit a friend who had just had a baby and she got up and showed me her newborn. Then she told me she had had a C-section. I was shocked, but apparently it's not quite as debilitating these days.
Holding my knees together while watching this one and I’m a bloke!
Good Gawd 👀
Hooha and chainsaw should not be used in the same sentence 😢😮
Today I learned we were still trying to figure out the chainsaw all while the development of nuclear fissioned bombs. 😅
i always heard this story. but i still refuse to believe it
At 10:30p it's my bedtime- Do I watch Simon talk about a gruesome origin story I already know or watch a makeup review that's 30 minutes long..... Definitely choosing Simon, bc why would I want to dream about makeup? 😂 Edit Aaaand of course the 1st electric chainsaw was patented in SF, my hometown 🥳
Whuuuuuut??? 😳🤯😳😱
I have a feeling Denji would like this origin if he was real.
I bought the movie "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" Simon drops a video about the creation of the Chainsaw.
I learned about the origin of the chainsaw from Stephen Fry on QI ages ago.
Isn't this a re-upload?
Gotta remember they were more interested in saving the child than the mother. You can always get another wife but an heir is important. 😅
So thankful for not needing a c-section until 2004…😂
I know, desperate times call for desperate measures, but COME ON...
6:16 made me almost audibly gasp after watching Saw X and I see the Gulie saw 🤢
If you know you know
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