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Hi it's Tod of Tod's Workshop and Tod Cutler here
and today I'm back with another sort of Lockdown Longbow film.
I've done one recently about what happens to the arrows, how deeply do they
go in, if you grease your shaft and in that
film I talked about the hindrance of having these things
poking through your shield. I mean out the front actually is inconvenient, but
I was actually looking at the back. A lot of people said that you could do like
they did in the movies, and you could just cut them away with a
sword or smack them aside with a spear shaft
like Leonidas did in the 300. Well I thought
let's just try and cut these arrows off. So we've got
an Albion Agincourt sword; this sword is not made by me. We've also got to help us
a Tod Cutler hammer, because of course not everybody wore swords. So look at
that baby there. A nice bronze... oh look at that fella.
Our first trial is going to be me trying to cut these off with my sword.
This is awkward I can tell you because I, I can't get in there.
You know this is difficult more or less all I can do is sort of ram it down
and hope that I can sort of snap and cut them off. So let's give it a go....
maybe not. Actually i like my Will Sherman arrows so I'm going to replace
these with arrow shafts that aren't yet turned
into arrows. So let's do that. Unsurprisingly I've
replaced my real arrows with these ones, which are still 12 mm ash shafts
so it's the same arrow shaft diameter. Here's my sword, let's see how easily or
not, I can hack them off.
Well so far I've got a shield in the face...
all right I'm going to try and get that one with a longer strike because I can't
get in there.
Hey one down!
I just going to stop there actually. Ummm. Awkward. So can I get it off with a
single swipe? No I can't. So I'm just going to replace
these shafts now and we'll try it with a hammer and we'll see what happens.
So much for the sword; that was really awkward and difficult and I ended up
having to extend my arm right out to get a good striking point
and it still didn't really work. So we're coming back for a mass weapon.
If you'd like to support the channel, items like the Tod Cutler dragon hammer go a
long way to helping. So we're going to use this now and see
if we can smash these arrow shafts off. Let's see what we do. Oww.
Like owww!
And I think that that is our answer. Umm. Basically ow oh ow ow um...
pause for a moment. Well a bit of recovery time now on my shoulder and I
tell you I need it. The last variant we're going to try is
with an axe. I know this isn't a fighting axe, but you
know it's sharp enough to do the job so let's see how this clears it. Sword
didn't, mace didn't, let's give it a go with the
axe.
Well I'm in the swing of it now! Yeah! No.
No. Yeah! Right; tool of choice. Axe. Was it easy and
straightforward? Not really actually. Here's our
conclusion your shield has been shot to hell it's
full of arrows how do you clear them out? You can't pull them out that is really
not easy. You can't cut them away with a sword or
a knife or a dagger; just not going to happen.
You can't smash them away with a hammer or a mace they just weren't interested
in that. You can with some effort it must be said,
you can, cut them away with an axe. So tool of
choice if you have a porcupine shield is an axe.
Thank you very much.