DesertAvenger They should leave a time capsule filled with modern technology and no way to specifically date it.

I was meaning future *future* archaeologists. Like, thousands of years from now. They would be like "Why is this castle centuries older than the other ones we found? dafuq were they doing back then?"

"... centuries *younger* ..." ftfy Also, unfortunately the internet is too strong. Theres no way that information is getting lost.

Yeah, thanks for that. Not a native English speaker. And yes, probably wouldn't happen, but it's fun to think about it as a joke.

and when future archeoligists find neuschwanstein, they'll wonder why some castle builders already knew about steel beams, modern concrete and telephone wires. :)

Put log is better

We are do you see him ? Hes no David Attenborough 🤣🤣

I actually had a highschool history teacher whose teaching method was 99% getting us to watch a documentary and then right about it. Shads vids would have been great if we ever covered the middle ages

I had a history teacher who would tell the most amazing stories and sometimes showed movies and tell what was really happening in the time period and what the movie did right and wrong. I think thats what spiked my interest in history.

Sadly. History is NOT even being taught anymore.

I’m actually doing homework for that now haha

jort93z I wish we had stuff that old other than trees in the Pacific Northwest.

Well, back then only native americans lived over there, and those didn't build castles(or build anything from stone for that matter). I guess you could be heading south and check out some of the buildings the maya and the aztecs have build. They've build pretty impressive stuff too.

Oof

Actually north american natives built some pretty interesting stuff from stone - google Pueblo in Mesa Verde.

Gabriel Wunderlich If Australian schools are anything like British schools, the job would destroy him.

Shad would be the most AWESOME history teacher ever!

4) ...? 5) Profit

castles were just props for displaying machicolations.

It's also tactically sensible to put pommel throwers beside those archers in order to unleash hell upon the attackers

reminds me of a character I've created with a friend.

His swordswing is Bale Fire?

Don’t you know that Katanas do the same thing?

I used to exist like you but then I took a Shad to the knee.

Naturally, we can never know if he's never actually done this or if he does it all the time but nobody remembers.

MACHICOLATIONSSSSS UNITE

ROFL

10:36 there we go xD

same lol

Ha... thank you, I had absolutely no idea what the word he was trying to say was. I know those as machicoulis (with a hat on the first a), but I am not sure what the English term for those would actually be, surely a derivation of sorts... Ok, I had to Google translate it... the english term is: machicolation....

Jojo of Faraway 3:30am here.

It works that way in climates that have large day/night differences in temperature, like the desert or most arid regions. Areas that have hot days, and barely any temperature drop at night, like the tropics, your walls will just heat up to the air temp and you'll be living in a giant stone oven on a permanent low heat. You'll need a crap ton of ventilation openings in the walls and you'll want to shade the walls as much as possible or it'll be an extremely uncomfortable place to live. Consistantly cool areas without a lot of sunlight (like cloudy, rainy england/scotland) have the opposite problem. Walls will be ice cold all winter and you'll need to provide a lot of heating... a fireplace in every room (both to heat the space and the wall) is how that problem was often dealt with.

Soviet who Cuts, Sometimes, but more often adobe or rammed earth which has similar high mass and thermal properties for construction purposes so it'll work in pretty much the same way.

There are also some very interesting and inventive constructive practices with stone. By having the stone jut out on one side or the other depending on where you want the 'stored' thermal energy to go you increase the surface area and thus the conduction. If it is toward the interior the stone will radiate more 'heat' at a night inside then outside due to the larger area. And during the heat of the day while the stone is still taking in thermal energy the interior will be cooler. This ease of conduction though does promote condensation in humid cool climates easily however, thus requiring wood insulation. Our ancestors where honestly I feel on average more intelligent then modern humans. They had less technology but per person where far better critical thinkers imho.

Ahhh, an excellent explanation, thanks!! :)

Architect class covers this in the first two years. Then never bothers to return to these outdated techniques if not for academic purposes.

I liked the part where the hosts were painting the walls and two of the workers were speaking amongst themselves in French. Paraphrasing because I saw it a while back. "Are we just going to leave it like that?" "We'll fix it later."

Actually that's pretty damn close to what they said. I bought a dvd copy of the documentary a little while ago and I rewatched it recently and it's more or less exactly what they said.

I recently watched that documentary, Timeline I think it was called on KZfaq. Fascinating and I wish I could do that for a few months!

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r8qfhaST1b3Kc4k.html Secrets of the Castle: Why Build A Castle? | Episode 1 | (Medieval Documentary) | Timeline

@@eldorados_lost_searcher Yes! I love that documentary because it's so well produced in that way, with lots of cheeky nods to British and France perspectives haha.

Sounds like my home here in Sweden. In the winter it's great, but this year we are having a very hot summer and sleeping is almost impossible without a fan pointed straight at my feet.

Any high mass building like stone, cob/adobe, rammed earth, thick brickwalls ect will have a temperature levelling effect. If you have a very hot day it will stay cool inside the building... and as the walls emit the absorbed heat over night (assuming the nightime temp is much cooler than the daytime temp) will help to keep the inside warmer than the cold night. The problem is when you have extended periods of either very high or very low temps. A few hot days with hot nights in a row and high mass buildings can become uncomfortably warm, like living inside a pizza oven on a permanent low heat. Consistantly cold weather is the opposite, it's like living inside a stone freezer. Arid and desert climates are ideal for high mass building as they have scorching hot days and cool to freezing nights... the temp inside will stay mostly at a comfortable level due to the walls absorbing heat during daytime and radiating heat out at night. I suspect castle walls in cooler climates, like england, would be at the 'stone freezer' end of the scale for much of the year if nobody was living in them/that wing/building ect and keeping several fireplaces lit. Assuming the fireplaces were lit every day the walls would act in some ways like a giant masonry heater, absorbing heat both from the fire and the hot gasses passing up through the chimneys which often ran several levels up through walls. If you kept the fires lit every day I think the walls had the potential, especially if it was an internal wall, to become toasty warm and act as giant radiators keeping the entire building at a nice and comfortable temperature during cold winters.

Right! There's thermic resistance (insulation power) and also phasing i.e. the time for the heat to pass the wall. If it's several hours, (depending the thickness and the material) : you get the heat during the night!

certainly NOT 8 hours, a couple hours after the sun is down at most... I have lived in a small house made of stones, built by my grand father out of the stones off the ruins of an ancient watermill, with walls that were about a metre thick. It was never warm inside unless we had the fire place going, and even then, it took a long time before it was warm, and after letting the fire die overnight, the 6am wake up was very cold, the stone certainly did not radiate any residual heat from the evening fire... Also, the heat of the sun may have warmed the external stones somewhat during the day, but it never reached inside, it may have served as a buffer for a couple of hours, though, I don't really know.

but full-sized shouty Shad is more awesome :P

Atreides what about youtubers on other sites? 😁

El Red Fox old media is dead. KZfaq is the future. That said he could have a Netflix original.

Cherry Trader Why not a VRV show? They have some short-form content in their Curiosity Stream.

Garret LeBuis how about instead - and hear me out - direct to VHS series.

KZfaq isn't the future. That might have been true in 2007, but in 2018 corporate profiteers have been doing their best to run KZfaq into the ground, attempting to squeeze out whatever capital they can before the whole rotten edifice collapses. Who the hell is paying for KZfaq Red when there's so much free content? Not enough people. The future is a mass exodus of independent content creators, and the subsequent creation of a new platform- free of corporate influence and all made possible by funding from Patreon and other direct support from fans.

@@choronos I think you speak the true true. Tell Skallagrim. No sorry scratch that I think he already knows.

lol Understatement of the century.

Y'know, just a hunch...

Meh I don’t see it

a bit lol

He's never even been in one ,, likely.... i've been asked to build one, in mexico by a rich jew. this shad could not even answer me directly. ??? does he look like a tradesman, -or a chubby fool ?????

Yeah, I totally agree with that!

Welcome. If you want to fit right in, remember to randomly ask "But what about dragons?" in any video that has nothing to do with dragons. Shad loves it and isn't sick at all of it.

Also, remember the cardinal rule here: Because swords are awesome!

from a statistic point of view you can probably give TWO thumbs up.

Also, slate roof tiles would be so fucking awesome! Good bye copper roofs, and their fancy longevity. Slate blows them out of the ball park!

I prefer the video game reviews and I really hope he does the castle in Breath of The Wild

I love all his castle video's. It's quite difficult to find info about castle's and Shad gives so much of it in all these video's.

It's always rough in this corner of KZfaq. Half the viewers want more fantasy and the other half wants more history. Skall's channel was pretty much murdered by that viewer split

"On second thought let's not go to Camelot. 'tis a silly place."

Dun-dun da-dun da-dun! We're Knights of the Round Table! We dance whene're we're able! We do routines and chorus scenes. With footwork impeccable. We dine well here in Camelot. We eat ham and jam and spam a lot! We're Knights of the Round Table! Our shows are formidable! But many times we're given rhymes That are quite unsingable. We're opera mad in Camelot. We sing from the diaphragm a lot! In war we're tough and able, Quite indefatigable! Between our guests we sequin vests and Impersonate Clark Gable. It's a busy life in Camelot. I HAVE TO PUSH THE PRAM A LOOOOOOOOOOT!

Old women! Man! And I'm not old I'm 37

I told them we've already got one. Pfffffpfff.

No this is Patrick Cameltoe !!!!! It’s on a model

Lloyd is awesome.

thomnas ilikeswordfighting what did shad say?

@@cassandrakhan1419 He said: MACHICULATIOONNNNNSSSSSSSSSAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

I feel a very solid urge to go there now... Maybe I actually will, I'll have to look into it, but either way, it's fantastic that people are undertaking such a project.

Matteus Silvestre Yes it is i Rogal Dorn

YES

That guy NO

Paintballwizard YYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS

The best offense is a good defense!

Ethan Stevenson you call?

@@draco107 Whoa! Cool your jets there habenero breath! He was definitely calling for a cavalry charge! You go back to sleep....

I pitched my last roof in the late eighties. The "little red book" of tables, protractors. sliding bevels, roofing squares..... couldn't do it today without some homework. Now, all via cad files to truss makers, and voila! truck appears with ready made trusses. Mind you, not designed to last.... those gang nails rust out, and vulnerable in a fire, so collapse faster.

25emann indeed. They say that building a bridge that stands is easy. It takes an engineer to build a bridge that Barely stands!

Like sticking out of a little pocket?

NekoVeil Yes. Hell yes.

Like sticking out of a pocket with machicolations drawn on it?

Bruh

Why does this drip with condescension