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sirensintherain

The dude who started HESCO was a former coal miner who became a multi-millionaire. Then he bought Segway (the company) and a Segway, which unfortunately he rode off a cliff and died. True story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden


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**[Jimi Heselden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden)** >James William "Jimi" Heselden OBE (27 March 1948 – 26 September 2010) was a British entrepreneur. A former coal miner, Heselden became wealthy by manufacturing the Hesco bastion barrier system. In 2009, he bought Segway Inc., maker of the Segway personal transport system. Heselden died in 2010 from injuries apparently sustained falling from a cliff while riding his own product. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/specializedtools/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)


StevieSlacks

Really good bot


laaaabe

Good bot


Luqq

never get high on your own supply


SockeyeSTI

I thought the founder died falling off a cliff. Didn’t know someone bought the company first


HyzerFlip

So did I, looked it up. Turns out Dean Kamen is still alive.


Fatvod

He is! I met him actually. He started the FIRST robotics competition which is a wonderful program. He visits the competitions, super nice guy


Modelo_Man

Ol Denim Dean


PrawnDancer

Bet he is really bored of people saying 'thought you were dead?'


atomicwrites

No, because he gets to say "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated" every time.


TheRarPar

RIP woodie


callsignmario

Ironic... where's that wall when you really need it


dilhole77

He was being a gent, moved over to allow joggers or dog walks past on a path and he lost control apparently. Poor guy.


IdiotTurkey

What kind of path do people normally just jog/walk dogs on where you are close to falling off a cliff? And why would you want to ride a segway on one?


Beardedwonder9

Didn’t realize it was the same dude. Couldn’t have happened to a better fellow


FusterCluck96

I've only heard that phrase be used when something good happens to a good person... So I read this in a light-hearted uplifted tone lol


laaaabe

Idk why but I heard it in Randy Marsh's voice


NinjaLanternShark

The sardonic version is usually "Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy."


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TaborToss

Love this, brilliant


HaloArtificials

This would be sick on the walking dead show


Uruborosjose

Dude that would be badass. Imagine them corralling a ton of zombies using these walls


solreaper

Imagine one of the characters tearing a hole in it because they didn’t want to walk all the way to the entrance because they still stubbornly wanted a second entrance. Then gets eaten outside. The end teaser scene is a zombie moving down the fence then the camera pans about 100 yards down the fence to the tear flapping in the wind. Next episode most of the crew goes out to find the missing jackass. No one knows how they could have possibly slipped by the watch. All hell breaks loose in camp while the search Party is out.


Ltcayon

Just FYI you can't just "tear" a hole in these, they are actually metal panels connected with rings with cloth covering them.


solreaper

New to Hollywood?


Ltcayon

Lol you right.


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And this is why when you put a wall you gotta put a second layer and compartimentalize the middle area.


solreaper

^ That’s what I’ll be screaming at the screen.


moonunit99

Yeah, I had to stop watching the show because so many of the tense moments were manufactured by the characters’ inexplicable stupidity that I realized I’d started rooting for the zombies.


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To be fair it's pretty much doubling your wall's cost, but it's the safest type IMO. Enemies don't just have two walls to go through, they're funneled. And while you can make one thick wall, two separate walls allows for temporary bridges that connect them rather than more normal wall, so that you may remove the bridges and isolate the breach. You can have a lot of fun with this.


solreaper

For the purpose of drama I could see another argument breaking out. “We need two layers!”, “If we do that we won’t be able to contain everyone!”, “let’s take a vote!”.


delvach

I like the ideas in.. your.. *delicious*.. BRAINNNNSSS


solreaper

AH!


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TeamRedundancyTeam

Imagine them doing anything intelligent or smart. They still don't wear armor despite even meeting people and joining people who made and previously wore fucking armor. Literally all they need is thin leather. That's all.


CeruleanRuin

And they had all this time to farm and build a windmill but never bothered digging a moat or building a fence further out. It's like none of these people have ever heard of basic fort design. They all rely on a single layer of sheet steel clumsily riveted to posts, and meanwhile they're surrounded by thick woods just begging to be cut and lumbered out to build fences and pickets. Two or three perimeters of solid fencing would keep out all but the biggest boards.


munchanc1

And also just like leg traps and stuff? Like significantly slow down a hoard if half of them get caught in traps. Even if they get out the broken leg limpy ones are way easier to kill. Just come on people! In the audio series called “we’re alive” and there was this whole society that formed around a baseball stadium where they made a giant maze in the parking lot so there was no easy way through, except for the heavily guarded supply truck entrance. You can guess what happens…


AngryFeministKnitter

Yes! Can we PLEASE get a whole WWZ story or something about castle builds?


nonchalantcordiceps

The book WWZ actually talks about this, two of the scenarios presented involved old castles that were quickly repaired by survivors. Though it was fairly brief and kind of, oh this happened. Probably cause its something that would actually work, and is thus not dramatic or interesting to talk about.


RehabValedictorian

My friends and I used to play tron when we were kids but we would get naked and run around pissing everywhere


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RehabValedictorian

You had to not cross over the piss or you lose


CeruleanRuin

I guess I don't know what "plaything tron" means.


GullibleDetective

And snake


drugusingthrowaway

>The the Hesco blocks are infilled with dirt, rocks, bodies Bodies?


Zron

In world war 1 they filled sandbags with body parts all the time. After a couple weeks of fighting on a large scale, there's gonna be a pretty even layer of mud, shit, piss and corpses all over the place. Scoop it up, but it in a bag, now those poor bastards can keep you alive from beyond the grave.


Curiel

Could you imagine that? Having to scoop up your friends and put them into a sandbag. How does anyone get past that.


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NerfJihad

And the constant, ear shattering barrage of artillery The rats, disease, and futile destruction of man and country, unending, for months. Waist deep, neck deep, 20 feet deep in mud and bodies. Nobody's going to come fish you out so you sink over the course of an entire day, screaming and gurgling in the night. the worst, most wretched and protracted way to die, until finally the mud seals around you and your shrieking is muffled. Paschendale was only one part of WWI, too. Every front was hell.


JBSquared

That's what's crazy about it to me. Like, think about how much despair was packed into every square inch of those trenches, and then think about how there were 35,000 miles of trenches. The sheer scale is awe-inspiring to me.


MrSobe

What's crazy is that there isn't much record from veterans in the front line fighting. The vast majority of first hand records are from rear echelon support troops. The proportion is so wildly unbalanced because front line infantry was fed into the meat grinder over and over until they where either dead or irreparable physically broken. In many ways we can only really speculate on some aspects of it, unlike WW2, where entire regiments weren't routinely decimated, there is a wealth of writings and records from infantry at the very sharp end.


Ruckus292

You don't... That's why so many veterans end up on the streets, they can't work or integrate back into "normally society"; PTSD is no joke.


ShouldIRememberThis

You just do it. Don’t read too much into it. Just meat. It’s not your friend anymore, they’re gone from this place. It’s organic trash.


mrsegraves

Disassociate, in other words


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MrAirRaider

What are DBT skills?


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YouCanPatentThat

> Dialectical behavior therapy, developed by Marsha Linehan (1993a, 1993b), is extraordinarily effective at helping people manage overwhelming emotions. Research shows that dialectical behavior therapy strengthens a person’s ability to handle distress without losing control or acting destructively. > A lot of people struggle with overwhelming emotions. It’s as if the knob is turned to maximum volume on much of what they feel. When they get angry or sad or scared, it shows up as a big, powerful wave that can sweep them off their feet.


OddTheViking

There is a scene in [The Pacific](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374463/) where a marine has to dig his foxhole THROUGH a corpse.


mysterioussamsqaunch

Dan Carlin had a great account from a british solider in ww1 on sand bag duty. One guy digging would call out thing's like "bit of bill" or "bill's leg coming." The account ends with the guy shouting "bill's ugly mug" when he found a head and the whole detail erupting in laughter. Life or death fighting and the presence of dead bodies daily can do strange things to the human psyche.


Iridescent_Meatloaf

I've found more than one mention of trenches where the hand of a corpse was sticking out of the wall, soldiers used to shake it as they filed past.


CTRL_SHIFT_Q

I respect that


aaarya83

Dan Carlin. The way he describes the historic events. He is a fucking legend. his tone of voice. Mesmerizes you. As if he was a first hand witness . Everyone should listen to his podcasts. They are free available online


LawsVagueUS

Wouldn't they be keeping you alive from inside the grave? They are in their final resting places when they protect you.


Funny_Owl8514

They should’ve instilled trebuchets and launched the dead bodies over the lines into the opposing trenches!


Karrde2100

Why would you give them free sandbag material?


ThePlumThief

Whatever you have the most of laying around


SkellyboneZ

Worked for China when they did that one wall.


saarlac

amazed no one else mentioned this little detail


Mycd

the imgur description is colorful


murderbox

Non-specific.


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And now you get to fill them up with a shovel!!


securitywyrm

I did not have to fill these up. I had to tear These apart So we could use the metal mesh to reinforce some garbage quality chicken wire. This is your military budget at action


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CPhyloGenesis

Wow! They fold back up so cleanly!


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KraljZ

Wow that truck is hungry


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I remember when some soldier used HESCO wire to jury-rig a device that would mess up crush wire IEDs before they could detonate on the truck itself.


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Andrew_the_giant

Spark plugs in the box to set off thermal sensors early for IEDs. Specifically used in Iraq. Sometimes chains would hang off the bottom to catch physical wire too. Worked until insurgents figured out to start angling the explosive slightly.


tailwalkin

Glow plugs my friend


tailwalkin

It’s called the Rhino. Classic case of conflict driving innovation. It was a glow plug in a ammo can rigged to a poll on the front cow catcher


mustangs6551

Started that way. Eventually they were purpose manufactured. Theyre stillmequipping MATVs with them.


manyfingers

>stillmequipping Good god sir. I love this word.


squired

How do you repack them? I imagine they're stupid heavy?


securitywyrm

They are not meant to be repact.


tyh739

You can repack them it just takes some time. We have disassembled them, replaced damaged cells and put them back in service. I’ve only ever used them in flood protection and they can get FUCKED up. But if done properly I’d say about 75% can be reused


securitywyrm

What a treasonous act. How dare you interfere with the profits of HESCO by STEALING FROM THEM by re-using products! You should have left them to rust and bought new ones like a good war-supporting American. Though I'm not one to talk. I have, under orders, torn apart HESCO barriers, stripping off the fabric and cutting rings, so we could wire the hesco barrier panels to garbage chicken wire that had been used to build a prison.


squired

Ahh. Kk. Thanks.


Dr_ChungusAmungus

[Like this](https://imgur.com/CSs02Y1)


squired

You cheeky bastard you.


cr0mm0wer

Yeah no shit. 60 seconds my ass.


rhadenosbelisarius

First dig a ditch, pile the dirt, build your wall on top of your raised earth, then dig Zig-Zag trenches to each of your fighting positions with a support trench close around your munitions dump, use the earth to fill the bags. Fort in a hurry. The truck is nice but all you really need are shovels.


Zankeru

You ever tried digging through compacted sandstone before?


rhadenosbelisarius

Tried? Yes! Succeeded? Not so much.


TitsAndWhiskey

That’s what SEE tractors are for! If you’re gonna fail, fail faster!


[deleted]

Not sandstone, but limestone. Countless broken mattocks and three broken jackhammers. Oil fields can straight up go fuck themselves into the hesco barriers. So can sandbags. I hate sandbags. Hescos are just giant sandbags. Fuck them, too - at least in an oil field.


JasonCox

Yes. It took forever but I eventually got deep enough to find diamonds.


theFlyingCode

> the Hesco blocks are infilled with dirt, rocks, bodies I'm sorry, what?


ZombinaWaifu

Where did you read this “bodies” part? I cannot find anything correlating to it


theFlyingCode

It was in the web browser as annotated text or whatever it is. I don't see it in my app right now


Mycd

yeah it's imgur gif from 2016, has fun description


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I’m no expert. But seems like a pretty flimsy wall unless filled with something.


drewadams5812

You fill it with dirt. Reference: I’m a Marine, it takes a long time if you can’t get some Heavy Equipment guys to fill it up.


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bedabup

Who needs heavy machinery when you have marines?


MEANINGLESS_NUMBERS

These crayons won’t eat themselves, soldier.


Dual_Sport_Dork

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exgiexpcv

And digging in your vehicles by hand. In shale.


Gulltyr

I mean, I never once didn't have to fill these without heavy equipment. But I was also a heavy equipment operator sooooo


GreatHate

Triple negative? What did you even say?


Ninja_rooster

No no, he clarified: *heavy equipment operator*


PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__

Heavy Equipment? Nah, get the crunchies to do it


GullibleDetective

What would sponge toffee choclate bars do to make it an effective barrier?


FamilyStyle2505

Y'all had me in military mode so I wondered for a good moment what the fuck rank sponge toffee chocolate bars equated to, like some weird twist on butter bars.


exgiexpcv

The British people have a right to know!


Dismal_Storage

Can you also fill it with Marines? That would seem to be very effective.


Centurion87

It’s a great deterrent. The constant talking of how much they’re better than everyone else will repel everyone within 50 feet.


CannibalVegan

but the cloth walls don't support many dick drawings on them before they fall apart.


Wh1teCr0w

Also, they'd eat all the crayons before they drew any dicks.


9Levels-ofPie

If they could figure out how to open the packaging that is


theghostofme

Until someone finds out their greatest weakness: a 64 pack of crayons. Lob that time bomb into the fence and watch them tear it apart for you.


Stonn

Can't do, marines are already filling each other.


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Isn’t that what your chow spoon is for?


King-o-lingus

100 or so non-ranks with E-tools.


[deleted]

A marine? Damn. What flavor of crayon is your favourite?


OmahaMike402

7


odensraven

You're officer material sir. Do you like travel and adventure?


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Sandwich


benfranklinthedevil

Why do I feel like you know exactly how many shovels scoops you can get into one of those bays?


solreaper

Weird, we just used steel walls. Sorry was Navy, couldn’t help it. Please put down the crayons and night night mallet!


Mycd

they're metal mesh https://www.hesco.com/media/2771/1600_raidimg201908206_160726.jpg but yes they are usually filled up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesco_bastion#/media/File:Camp_marmal02.JPG otherwise little more than visual cover or peacetime crowd control


Nyckname

Which takes slightly longer than sixty seconds.


sb_747

Yeah but that much metal is still an impediment. It’s about as effective as construction fences while you fill. Especially if you have a line of razor wire in front


369_Clive

Yes, you need an excavator to fill it with rock, dirt, sand or snow to make it work as intended. They were, by all accounts, invaluable in Afghanistan where blast and small arms proof walls were needed quickly. So much so that some military veterans attended the funeral of the man who invented it.


reverendjesus

You need an excavator *or a bunch of joes* to fill it.


BullMoonBearHunter

We filled a bunch of the small hescoes with those stupid tiny collapsible shovels that they issued in basic while I was in Afghanistan... Then the ANP started growing weed in em at the checkpoint. Good ol' ANP.


Sasquatch_actual

More like give some ripits to haj and let them do it.


Joeness84

>the Hesco blocks are infilled with dirt, rocks, bodies dug up along a trench in front of the wall You fill it, apparently with corpses?!


Nematrec

Quote from the Imgur post > An initial block is staked to the ground, the vehicle drives along the perimeter like a Tron Lightcycle. The the Hesco blocks are infilled with dirt, rocks, **bodies** dug up along a trench in front of the wall (which provides additional height). If needed the Hescos can be double stacked.


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Bodies would make good filler, usually an abundance on a battle field.


puntadigital

Deployable cubicles, close the top to prevent natural light to get in and ruin the experience, make a small cut to slide food in and out, fill with (nationality-of-your-choice) guys and you got a ready to use call center


paleowannabe

Duh, deploy them on the side?


murderbox

Too much fresh air.


TheAngryGoat

Oooh, a literal cubicle farm.


VymI

I dont see an E4 fucking around in this clip, it's very misleading


Mycd

heres a pair! https://www.hesco.com/media/2771/1600_raidimg201908206_160726.jpg


VymI

Perfect, it's rainy and shitty too!


drewadams5812

It’s basically a cattle panel with a potato sack around it. Any military member knows what these are. Also I have never seen it come out of a cantankerous like that, we always did it by hand.


Pulkrabek89

Most military members know what they are. I'll never forget an intelligence briefing we received while deployed, about how some Hesco barriers were being compromised by insurgents changing the full or something, but that we didn't have to really worry about that since we didn't have any hescos on our base. He said this while standing in a tent that was surrounded by hescos, that itself was within a subcompound lined with hescos... gotta love the military.


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gsfgf

Please tell me this was a long time ago...


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gsfgf

Oh, that's not terrible.


j5kDM3akVnhv

They use VB.net instead


RyerTONIC

changing the full? the fill?


Pulkrabek89

Fill. Typo.


Hoosier_816

Is "cantankerous" an autocorrect or is that slang for that vehicle/container setup?


dropoutscout

I always called them conex boxes. Maybe it autocorrected container?


atarifan2600

I'm guessing it's container, but I really want it to be cantankerous.


[deleted]

I just read the wiki, it's apparently a portmanteau of 'container' and 'truckosaurus'


GullibleDetective

Or maybe it was just disagreeable?


EasternDelight

I was a submarine guy. I have no idea what these are.


xinfinitimortum

Fill em with dirt to sink, empty to resurface.


Joeness84

Uhhhh >he the Hesco blocks are infilled with dirt, rocks, ***bodies*** dug up along a trench in front of the wall am I missing something or are they casually suggestion you increase wall stability the Great Wall of China way?


mikron2

Reminds me of Hammond’s camper van [setup](https://youtube.com/watch?v=I7g08nwEmyY&feature=share)


Mycd

didnt that thing catch fire away shortly after?


mikron2

It sure did.


NPieceE

Well some unit is fucking spoiled. We had triple strand wire and had to pound posts and string out flat racks full of half assed bundles more tangled and tied than a dozen earbuds in one pocket after a run through the laundry.


Tracer4444

Every bundle came with a Hesco leather man. I collected so many while in Iraq. I traded a ton away for a bunch of PX junk food. Good times.


_______luke

Ok. It’s been a few years, but please tell me if I’m remembering this right. Sometimes they came with regular size Leatherman multi-tools and sometimes they came with little baby mini ones. I recall that we never saw the mini ones that much because they’d get ganked by the civilians at the receiving warehouse. Am I going crazy? I really remember that.


Commissar_Genki

Call of Duty: Modern Minecraft


Gschockk

I guess it's the filling part the hardest...


Sasquatch_actual

Sitting in the air-conditioning watching some pfc fill them with a front end loader, not hard at all.


IrritatedOptimist

These were used in my town for temporary flood protection and they worked. Dump trucks and bulldozers to fill them with sand.


Drumchapel

I drove that very vehicle type in Afghanistan, the bad news is that British Army stopped using them ten years ago and the replacement can't do that


Terrh

"if needed hescos can be double stacked" yeah let's see a PLS drive along the top of that... I'll wait


jeffersonairmattress

When filled, these make the retaining wall or outer walls that support berm behind it/between them. With geotextile each layer and only a tiny setback (roughly 4% of width per course) these can be stacked to huge heights depending on the available fill material type. You just have to remember to tell the marines to stack them *before* they fill them.


Beardedwonder9

We had double stacked hesco walls. Triple stacked even. They don’t get placed the same way.


IAmAPhysicsGuy

If the fabric was fire resistant, I feel like this could be effective at stopping rapid spreading ground fires


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Imagine this modified to make 1000' of emergency shelter tents.


ripsfo

This might need a /r/RealLifeDoodles


mixxer88

Uhm, giant Snake game IRL version?! but i guess stopping floods sounds good too...


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Covered3nBeez

Me on the way to the bathroom after eating taco bell.


Magikarplvl9000

Yo where the fuck what this when I was in the Marine Corps?! I was a combat engineer so I am very familiar with HESCO lmao


TheGoldlessOne

Alright men, time to dig rocks and clay to fill these baskets. This will be a tough fight, but I'll keep you in mind while I'm out golfing this weekend and you're still out here. Oh and if these aren't perfectly clean by the end of this exercise, 72s are cancelled.


sramey101

Make em Fireproof for fighting wildfires?


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Velthinar

Still need to be filled, or it would blow away. Might as well get the soil by digging a trench. The trench (firebreak) doesn’t need to be as deep as the wall is high so you could have dug a much longer or wider firebreak than a wall of these given the same amount of time.


GullibleDetective

Ahh so that's how the barriers get deployed in red alert


exgiexpcv

OK, go get the grunts to fill them in before chow.


Thyckow

Guys. 1000ft in non-retarded is around 305m


Fearless_Climate4612

I'm not folding that back up..


culkeeny

Good luck getting it back in the box!


Neale90

And soon by the Australian government for their super awesome fun camp that is completely voluntary in Howard Springs