The Worst Jobs in History - The Maritime Age - Part 1

[er10b]

These are the sort of jobs I'd hire Baldrick to do.

[xraidedlok]

these are the type of xfactors they would never put on deadliest warrior

[xraidedlok]

tony makes mike rowe look like a girl

[teufelstaub]

Depending upon the type of ship being built:knarr,byrding or snekke,the basics would have been similar.A knowledgable craftsman would spend much of his year chosing growing trees for timbers,and marking trees to cut.Naturally forked trees provided the ribs,and extremely long ones the strakes,etc.Pine,spruce,oak,ju­niper were all used for specific tasks.This sawing technique would have come about later,all the planks used by the Norse were hand split with axes.Baleen was used for lashing too.

[justaman6972]

imagine being in an open viking boat in the North Sea. I don't know if any of you have ever seen the North Sea,well I have and it is responsible for destroying modern vessels and massive oil platforms rather easily. I cannot fathom being aboard an open boat out there in that shite, no way ,not for gold,furs ,or any item of supposed material wealth,fuck that! Its funny too my ancestors are Picts, Vikings.Those were some tough assed folks with balls big as a house. Made it to America too.Crazy!!

[Maergensargoth]

'It Leaks'.

It Rocks.

[RatkoUSA]

Tony kicks ass. He gets right in the tough of it on all the jobs.

[PollyJuice]

"Fernalaur" = pork? :-/

Sounds more like "fåralår", which means "sheep's thigh".

[mechislander]

this show also tells us how a lot of English terms and phrases came about.

[breathless46]

manky... I used to live in the North of England and am now in Canada, I love this word.

[alpha18412]

"Even the Vikings hated it".

BTW even wooden boats built into the 1970s have to be soaked in order to swell the wood planks if they have been out of the water.

[GhostWritersDragon]

I'm surprised any battle was won going in that boat...you're too busy trying not to sink :)

[acerb45666555]

it seems strange that Saxons whos ancestors came from around where Holland and Denmark are, and knew the sea very well, would be afraid of the sea! jeez! the Saxons themselves went "a viking" when they hit Romano-Britain!!!

[BrionyCoote]

Copying the enemy from the North alone would make this a worst job. Remember Tony's demonstration of how being a seafaring Viking was a worst job from the Dark Ages episode?

[bikegirl2]

i wank over this every day!

[Cosmoline]

"It leaks"  LOL

[Isthisthelongestname]

love tony pretending to cough at the end, bit melodramatic hahaha

[chashavko]

Did he played Baldrick in Blackadder ??

[fkafka64]

Aye!

[Tia1ko]

Yep. ;-)

[newnilzizi]

Yes, yes he did.

[5seba56]

@chashavko yes he did :)

[Milenium412]

So british took the idea of the vikings to make creative and quality boats?

[yerk3]

I saw a Japanese watercolor of workers cutting planks using this exact same method.

[crusnix]

this sho is awsome

[benoitbabe]

Thank you for uploading thease. This is my favorite show on History International. Kinda reminds me of Dirty Jobs.

[Isthisthelongestname]

dirty jobs,...loada shit!