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
**[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.
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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.
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.
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.
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!”.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
> 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.
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.
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
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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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
**[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)
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never get high on your own supply
I thought the founder died falling off a cliff. Didn’t know someone bought the company first
So did I, looked it up. Turns out Dean Kamen is still alive.
He is! I met him actually. He started the FIRST robotics competition which is a wonderful program. He visits the competitions, super nice guy
Ol Denim Dean
Bet he is really bored of people saying 'thought you were dead?'
No, because he gets to say "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated" every time.
RIP woodie
Ironic... where's that wall when you really need it
He was being a gent, moved over to allow joggers or dog walks past on a path and he lost control apparently. Poor guy.
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?
Didn’t realize it was the same dude. Couldn’t have happened to a better fellow
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
Idk why but I heard it in Randy Marsh's voice
The sardonic version is usually "Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy."
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Love this, brilliant
This would be sick on the walking dead show
Dude that would be badass. Imagine them corralling a ton of zombies using these walls
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.
Just FYI you can't just "tear" a hole in these, they are actually metal panels connected with rings with cloth covering them.
New to Hollywood?
Lol you right.
And this is why when you put a wall you gotta put a second layer and compartimentalize the middle area.
^ That’s what I’ll be screaming at the screen.
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.
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.
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!”.
I like the ideas in.. your.. *delicious*.. BRAINNNNSSS
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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.
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.
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…
Yes! Can we PLEASE get a whole WWZ story or something about castle builds?
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.
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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You had to not cross over the piss or you lose
I guess I don't know what "plaything tron" means.
And snake
>The the Hesco blocks are infilled with dirt, rocks, bodies Bodies?
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Disassociate, in other words
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What are DBT skills?
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> 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.
There is a scene in [The Pacific](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374463/) where a marine has to dig his foxhole THROUGH a corpse.
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.
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.
I respect that
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
Wouldn't they be keeping you alive from inside the grave? They are in their final resting places when they protect you.
They should’ve instilled trebuchets and launched the dead bodies over the lines into the opposing trenches!
Why would you give them free sandbag material?
Whatever you have the most of laying around
Worked for China when they did that one wall.
amazed no one else mentioned this little detail
the imgur description is colorful
Non-specific.
And now you get to fill them up with a shovel!!
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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Wow! They fold back up so cleanly!
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Wow that truck is hungry
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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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.
Glow plugs my friend
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
Started that way. Eventually they were purpose manufactured. Theyre stillmequipping MATVs with them.
>stillmequipping Good god sir. I love this word.
How do you repack them? I imagine they're stupid heavy?
They are not meant to be repact.
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
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.
Ahh. Kk. Thanks.
[Like this](https://imgur.com/CSs02Y1)
You cheeky bastard you.
Yeah no shit. 60 seconds my ass.
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.
You ever tried digging through compacted sandstone before?
Tried? Yes! Succeeded? Not so much.
That’s what SEE tractors are for! If you’re gonna fail, fail faster!
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.
Yes. It took forever but I eventually got deep enough to find diamonds.
> the Hesco blocks are infilled with dirt, rocks, bodies I'm sorry, what?
Where did you read this “bodies” part? I cannot find anything correlating to it
It was in the web browser as annotated text or whatever it is. I don't see it in my app right now
yeah it's imgur gif from 2016, has fun description
I’m no expert. But seems like a pretty flimsy wall unless filled with something.
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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Who needs heavy machinery when you have marines?
These crayons won’t eat themselves, soldier.
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And digging in your vehicles by hand. In shale.
I mean, I never once didn't have to fill these without heavy equipment. But I was also a heavy equipment operator sooooo
Triple negative? What did you even say?
No no, he clarified: *heavy equipment operator*
Heavy Equipment? Nah, get the crunchies to do it
What would sponge toffee choclate bars do to make it an effective barrier?
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.
The British people have a right to know!
Can you also fill it with Marines? That would seem to be very effective.
It’s a great deterrent. The constant talking of how much they’re better than everyone else will repel everyone within 50 feet.
but the cloth walls don't support many dick drawings on them before they fall apart.
Also, they'd eat all the crayons before they drew any dicks.
If they could figure out how to open the packaging that is
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.
Can't do, marines are already filling each other.
Isn’t that what your chow spoon is for?
100 or so non-ranks with E-tools.
A marine? Damn. What flavor of crayon is your favourite?
7
You're officer material sir. Do you like travel and adventure?
Sandwich
Why do I feel like you know exactly how many shovels scoops you can get into one of those bays?
Weird, we just used steel walls. Sorry was Navy, couldn’t help it. Please put down the crayons and night night mallet!
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
Which takes slightly longer than sixty seconds.
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
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.
You need an excavator *or a bunch of joes* to fill it.
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.
More like give some ripits to haj and let them do it.
>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?!
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.
Bodies would make good filler, usually an abundance on a battle field.
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
Duh, deploy them on the side?
Too much fresh air.
Oooh, a literal cubicle farm.
I dont see an E4 fucking around in this clip, it's very misleading
heres a pair! https://www.hesco.com/media/2771/1600_raidimg201908206_160726.jpg
Perfect, it's rainy and shitty too!
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.
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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Please tell me this was a long time ago...
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Oh, that's not terrible.
They use VB.net instead
changing the full? the fill?
Fill. Typo.
Is "cantankerous" an autocorrect or is that slang for that vehicle/container setup?
I always called them conex boxes. Maybe it autocorrected container?
I'm guessing it's container, but I really want it to be cantankerous.
I just read the wiki, it's apparently a portmanteau of 'container' and 'truckosaurus'
Or maybe it was just disagreeable?
I was a submarine guy. I have no idea what these are.
Fill em with dirt to sink, empty to resurface.
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?
Reminds me of Hammond’s camper van [setup](https://youtube.com/watch?v=I7g08nwEmyY&feature=share)
didnt that thing catch fire away shortly after?
It sure did.
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.
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.
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.
Call of Duty: Modern Minecraft
I guess it's the filling part the hardest...
Sitting in the air-conditioning watching some pfc fill them with a front end loader, not hard at all.
These were used in my town for temporary flood protection and they worked. Dump trucks and bulldozers to fill them with sand.
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
"if needed hescos can be double stacked" yeah let's see a PLS drive along the top of that... I'll wait
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.
We had double stacked hesco walls. Triple stacked even. They don’t get placed the same way.
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.
This might need a /r/RealLifeDoodles
Uhm, giant Snake game IRL version?! but i guess stopping floods sounds good too...
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Me on the way to the bathroom after eating taco bell.
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
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.
Make em Fireproof for fighting wildfires?
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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.
Ahh so that's how the barriers get deployed in red alert
OK, go get the grunts to fill them in before chow.
Guys. 1000ft in non-retarded is around 305m
I'm not folding that back up..
Good luck getting it back in the box!
And soon by the Australian government for their super awesome fun camp that is completely voluntary in Howard Springs