Goodbye sandbags? This is how fortifications are built now | HESCO Barrier
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- čas přidán 12. 07. 2024
- HESCO Barrier
Note 1: This video is an adaptation of a video from my Brazilian Portuguese channel called "Integrando Conhecimento".
Note 2: "The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement." - Zábava
Hesco barriers are for bases. Sandbags are still used by the infantry. Hesco barriers require heavy equipment to place them. Infantry troops don't have that luxury. I am reminded of the time when I was a private in the 82nd. We were going into the field and my platoon sergeant was assigning tasks. He tells me "You will carry 4 sand bags. I was freaked out because sand bags are heavy and I was the M-60 machine gunner. The M-60 and ammo is already heavy. I went to him afterwards and told him that I would try but I didn't know if I could carry that much weight. He looked puzzled at first, then burst out laughing. "Hey, Dumbass, they don't have sand in them when you are carrying them. You fill them when needed." I should have felt foolish, but I just felt great relief.
this is the most infantry assumption ive ever seen. Assuming they will be full while you have to carry them.
100% the most WSL answer 😂
Helmet +100 Def but also -100 Int.
This is the grunstest story of all grunts.
This reminds me of the story in ww2 when the Gurka regiment was told they were going to be flown into hostile territory and then they would jump out of the plane.
They assumed they were going without parachutes..... for a full week and were making requests for changing the landing spot to an open field so they had a higher chance of survival. But they never refused😂
😂😂😂
600 years of intense R and D into explosive penetration and exotic armor to counter it...............LUMP O DIRT! Checkmate.
These are just modern Gabion barriers, which have been around about as long as cannons.
Big piles of dirt always win.
Imagine them filled with gravel, sounds pretty effective to me.
@@sebastianbauer4768 Sand is much more effective than gravel. So is dirt. Gravel would send, well, gravel flying everywhere as shrapnel when hit with mortars or artillery.
@@Mittens_Gaming interesting, I didn’t consider artillery, good point
Don't forget that properly filled HESCO barriers excel at absorbing shockwaves.
As someone who spent too much time filling sandbags, I applaud such thinking.
This barrier works when country employing it has industrial advantage. You must have heavy equipment available to utilise it at fullest. While doing same with sandbags would be difficult. So its excels at specific situation.
the major flaw being it works very poorly in wet areas, it needs a dry base and dry fill; if the structure built gets waterlogged you can forget the re-use or dismantle part.
So use sand bags for those places
I built and deconstructed these all over Africa in 2019 , they NEVER come apart in the Sahara , sahel or jungle , just use the gas powered chop saw , or 20-36 inch bolt cutters they work really well when you don't have any mogas . Also if your gonna pour concrete in them , which you can , do 1 foot at a time so they don't bulge, sweel or leak out the bottom , mixing a lot of crush and run in works good . Also you can send the exterior side of the cloth and grass and vines will grow on it , don't forget to wire claymores on the sides before you seed and plant vines on the sides .
Re-use is Secondary Positions have to be hold over long duration.
It's not major Flaw, it's private Parts!!!
Hear me out. What if we take a fueler; the m978. Take the fuel our of the equation, replace it with concrete, and 3d print the barrier. That way if its wet it should be able to print a foundation itself, given the fortifications lend curing time
Whoever thought of that container deployment technique is definitely a work smarter not harder kind of guy/gal.
No gal was ever mentioned in this video and the odds that a gal would have been the one to come up with this idea is pretty close to zero. They showed multiple videos of the guy who came up with the idea, and he was obviously a guy.
That long 'barrier would still take a massive amount of dirt fill! Without heavy machinery, how long would it take men with shovels to fill even one of the sections? Even with heavy equipment, the type of soil you have to work with would make a lot of difference, for instance, very rocky soil would be very difficult to tamp down especially with just your boots!
@@actionjksn That is a fairly sexist thing to say man.
@@_gungrave_6802 It is like they're programmed to do it whenever they see the term gal mentioned, like Pavlov's dogs, just stupider. They really can't help outing themselves.
@@actionjksn The commenter was obviously talking about the container deployment technique, not the HESCO Barriers themselves, so your last point of the multiple videos of the guy is moot.
I honestly want to buy some of these for my house. I think they're nice and practical for making some simple walls.
do you live in afghanistan?
Ive bought some for my homestead's fortifications.
@@odoroussmegma2191 No, lmao, but I live in California. So its the same shit honestly.
@@markoredano9141 Where did you buy them at?
@@BlyatBear Alibaba
Dude THANK YOU. It is surprisingly hard to find good info on these despite them being so practical
what? there are 5+ year old videos on official hesco group yt channel.
@@TheMrKotmanulYes, I’ve seen them. That’s all there is and it’s lacking. You’d think there would be 30 minute long features on these things
it is a gabion cage with cloth bag, that is it...
I spent many hours around Ramadi in a loader, both filling and removing HESCOs. The idea of pulling the rod and dumping the dirt out is a nice thought, and _might_ work if you're making a promo video and it was only filled an hour ago. In practice, by the time you're told to remove the things, they've been in place for months or years and seen at least a couple good rains. At that point, they may as well be concrete for most purposes. You couldn't even push them with a D7, most of the time. My method was to simply attack them with a clamshell bucket until they ripped apart, while softening the dirt. Ram them, pinch the top and pull, scrape vertically with the teeth-whatever it took. You ended up with a pile of dirt and HESCO scraps all mixed in, which you could load into a dump truck (or...not).
They called you...The HESCO Hunter 😅
@@rickskellig4652 Ha, I would have preferred that over most of the nicknames I earned. Just like pilots' callsigns (in real life, not the movies), they are rarely flattering 😂
@@hibob841 It wouldn't be military humor if it was flattering.
automatic sand bag machine used for flood fighting in small municipalities can do 1000 sand bags per hour.. so apples to oranges when they show marines filling single bags one at a time. there's also concrete T-wall that goes up in the same amount of time if fill is unavailable for both. While HESCO was neat addition while deployed it was only successful when it was used in conjunction with other barriers.. But nice video, brought back some memories..
In the '93 flood, the city manager of Columbia MO had crews filling sandbags using highway salt trucks. Fast.
I'm now wondering how fast you could fill sandbags if you loaded a concrete truck with only sand. I'm also thinking how practical a single sand tube 200 feet long of foot square cross section would be for flood control. Possibly 2 ft by 2 ft 50 feet long instead? Fill in any gaps with traditional sand bags and there you go.
@@willythemailboy2grain bags could be repurposed for that idea (albeit they are a bit wider than what you had in mind).
Imagine you've created a product that killed your Boss who is fond of using it.
The story is not correct as far as I remember it. He was riding it on a parth and moved backwards to let someone else past. He went too far and rode off the cliff.
That was an interesting segue into the scooter story.
Yes, the story proved the scooter was misnamed. Move without interruption, the Segway did not...
"slow clap" nicely done 😂
Get back to work Gray.
Were you tempted to spell it Segway?
@@krashd Yes, lol.
We had stacked 55 gallon drums filled with dirt in Vietnam. This was used around the barracks only. They barely saved lifes mortars were the worst because could walk into barracks. Bunkers had sand bags that were same ones used for flooding in the states. Rockets could go through sand bags over bunkers and did killing Men inside. One killing 30 men in bunker. These need heavy equipment to fill not available in the field. We filled sand bags in the field with equipment only shovel required. They weren't very good at protecting us.
The need for heavy equipment, plus incompetence and hubris, is how you got Wanat. When the bobcat broke down there was not way you properly fill the Hescos, and the bobcat was too small to properly construct the position even if it had continued working, they needed a significantly larger loader or a HMEE to fill above 4 ft.
My dog, rescued from Afghanistan, is named Hesco.
One things for certain, you'll never run out of material to fill them.
The Hesco barrier is brilliant, and will be around for a long time 😁👌👌❤️❤️
Always wondered what they were called. Hell of an innovation!
Sorry to hear about his death.
Imagine telling your commander that the attack failed cause the enemy build a giant sandcastle!.
Just use a hose to wash it away :D
@@VuLe-wi9kv in a desert!?.
@@kelvinsantiago7061 I was referencing to the Bahr operation (1973) lol. Egyptian combat engineers used some very big hoses (water cannons) to blast away Israeli sand wall.
@@VuLe-wi9kv ahhh didn't know about that.
I thank Hesco barriers at Base in Mali, I would probably not be alive if it weren´t for those barriers
Dude, you keep up this kind of quality in videos, you'll be 100k in no time.
Hesco mesh looks like one of those foldable laundry baskets.
lol imagine losing a war to a sandcastle made of laundry baskets 😂
Wish I had these sand barriers ...years ago. Very easy.. dozer and bag..
They take huge impacts
So many new improvements.
Retired US Army special forces.
Been using Hesco since the late 80's
We had them in Bosnia early 90’s Canadian continent
this video gives me back pain
Outstanding! Interesting topic, well presented.
Thank You.
Hesco barriers and sand bags each have their niche; I don't see sand bags going away anytime soon. A couple of points I want to bring up. I designed a number of FOB's in western Afghanistan. If you desire Hesco fortification, need to 1) properly prepare it's base (think proper soil compaction, crushed rock or concrete) to prevent eventual collapse of the barriers due to runoff and soil erosion, and 2) do not fill with rock. rocks/gravel are brittle and will fragment when struck. Hescos makes good versatile fast fortification, enough to withstand truck bombs, when prepared right. However, not easily removable as our contractors have found out.
They came with this little hammer/knife tool. Somewhere I have one still.
Nice to know even soldiers steal from work :p
Jimmy:
*Invents HESCO Barrier to stop floods, but it ends up becoming a military product
*Donates to charity, buys Segway corporation, rides one off a cliff to his death
*Refuses to elaborate, leaves
2:44 I'm in that photo, in the back of the chinook. Was the last flight in/out of FOB Shawqat and I had to drop some something off for the closedown.
How cool, man
That is the coolest most informative military vid. More plz
I've NEVER seen a barrier disassembled.
If I invented that I’d be watching this from my Viking 120’ yacht in the keys
'Inventing' something is easy. It's actually giving a solid case and making a marketing for it, that about equally as challenging.
Gabions were pretty practical for their usage, they could steepen earthworks and the only stuff they would face were bullet and roundshot in which you just need a bunch of mass
Sandbags were cheaper and easier to carry which is why they made a resurgence
I was wondering how to spell gabions to look it up. Thanks. 👍
You need heavy equipment and the infrastructure that comes from that. Sandbags require bags and grunts with entrenching tools..
If you watch the video he points that out exactly, hesco barriers are for bases and long term fortifications. Sandbags are still used by troops as they can be carried to the field and filled.
There is a HESCO Barrier set up at West Point Museum or at least the sides of one that shows a warning sign that was used in Iraq.
Fun fact you can make a poor man’s Version out of cattle panels and tarps
I was thinking along those lines myself. I was also thinking you could use willow saplings/shoots and build a living house with 2' (or whatever) thick walls. Good insulation, I think. It would probably work with black locust, too which I've heard people claim they've seen black locust fence posts start growing leaves and branches. I kinda believe it.
Southern Engineering for the win. "It ain't perfect but if it works it works."
@@MyName-tb9oz they used use willow sapling version during the civil war and in The Crimean war not the modern one
Thinking of building a house and this seems intriguing.
cool vid and good channel have subbed and pressed the bell hello from Scotland
That's funny that they mentioned that barrier in my State. Was going to mention it as well. They finally took it all down around 2022-2023 hah
The irony of him falling off a barrierless pathway
good info!
Great system if you have the time and equipment to set them up. If not get out your old school pioneer gear.
Amazing
I like the HESCO barrier.
I read so much sci-fi. One day, I imagine some kind of instant fortification with concrete and steel reinforcement. Or at least something that strong, but light to transport and easy to deploy.
A hesco saved my life in Khan Younis, Gaza 4 months ago.
Hesco makes good body armor too
Awesome !
They're a useful tool - it'll be interesting to see how they evolve. Might make some good border barriers around Kharkiv.
Rip sandbags, you will forever be in my heart.
Isn’t it still being used? Like in a fewer quantity
It was Camp Bastion although it is long since gone.
That's a sad end, for him, but life and death are random that way....
Sand bags and HESCO barriers are diffrent, HESCO can replace sand bags in a lot of places however if you where let's say, reenforcing an existing building, HESCO barriers would take ay more effort and any hole you can shoot out of would be 1.4 m × 1.1 m wide and not work as cover.
In the Civil War many confederate ships were known as "Cottonclads" because bales of cotton backed the iron armor plate, was effective against most projectiles of the day.
Heavier to transport but not as much of an issue with modern logistics and heavy lift transport planes and helicopters, and the wider availability of front loaders.
Sandbags are still the backup option when manpower is the only thing available, but for larger fortifications HESCO are absolutely incredible.
Filling these barriers with dirt and sand is fine but putting gravel in them could backfire simply because if they are broken by an explosive the gravel would surely become projectiles that could kill the very people they are used to protect !!
YES!
The sandbags are not to be underestimated. Their purpose is to be highly mobile, easily placed field fortification. You get dozens of bags in small space and you get them transported with the troops themselves and make the small protection where required easily, inside buildings, on the hard rock surfaces etc.
They are never meant for permanent fortifications as western military like to use them to utilize them as infantry exerciser utility. You get people shovel, carry and place those bags, no need to run, do push-ups etc. And they take small space and can be replaced where required. You can't do anything like that with those permanent fortification systems that requires heavy equipment and safe areas in first place.
British bases in Iraq/Afghan had a good way of filling sandbags. A pile of sand and sandbags outside the mess tent, nobody (regardless of rank) got in for food without filling one...
They can also be emptied by lifting them up with the same wheel loader, as the internal material just falls out of the bottom.
Wouldn't that destroy the wire mesh?
@@rogerjensen5277 They have a metal pin that runs down one of the corners. You can attach a hook and have the loader pull the pin upwards, basically it just opens up and the dirt falls out. You can put the pin back in when done.
A couple good rains and the filler may as well be concrete. Hescos are cheap enough you just destroy them
Don't know about replacing it, but maybe a hemp version. Microplastic is already everywhere, but trying to reduce it should not slip our minds.
Been using them for 20+years now...
About 40
I saw a video on here of some steel mesh things that they filled with rocks and they were very effective and stopping high powered rifle rounds. They weren't even very thick either.
.50 BMG can be stopped in 6" of sand
@@MFingChuckI know it's amazing.
I build these in Battlebit all the time!
20 minutes to erect and fill 10m of hesco sounds very optimistic. That is going to require dozens of rounds trips of the front loader to the fill source. Even if the fill source is only a few meters away, you still have to turn around twice each trip, so there is no way you can do more than a couple buckets per minute under the most favorable real-world conditions.
What it we used expanding foam instead of sand. A couple of rebars dug in the middle like tentpole for stability.
Great idea, but unsuitable for long-term protection in Africa due to weather conditions. They fall apart. Gabions have of course, their own issues if filled with rock, as impacting projectiles send rock shrapnel everywhere.
Highly underrated channel
Like the Roman legions
Each assembly has a small knife included in the kit.
There are literally sandbags on top of the hesco barriers in the thumbnail.
Used to make a firing window for extra cover, would you rather spend several days stacking sandbags to get the same height and thickness?
that's some craftmanship details right there
I'm not an engineer but it would seem to me that these barriers could be defeated by use of strips of detonation cord attached vertically to cut sections out of several barrier panels at once, then artillery/tank rounds with a short-delay fuse would blow thru most of the dirt allowing troops to invade fairly easily and provide them with some protection against small arms at the same time! These panels provide no over-head protection and don't allow for gun ports! Having inner walls made of these should reduce damage from artillery shrapnel but would also serve to increase over-pressure in each confined space! If no heavy equipment is available to fill these barriers, then how long would it take for men with shovel to fill them? Where would they get the dirt from? Maybe from just outside the barriers so that they would be making a moat at the same time; one that could potentially be filled with flammable liquids quickly in a last ditch defense!
Assume you would put wire and land mines in front of the barrier to discourage exactly what you outlined.
You would be shot and killed before you got near the barrier, bases have guard towers you know.
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I think the Swedish got an improved version of this filled with tiny concrete ball that when bullet pierce another ball just take it's place.
Sand bags are still used extensively
Does anyone know if they use the dirt from inside the place or outside the base? (Maybe use for trenches?)
What ordinance can those walls stop?? You showed some firing from the front, but not what happened at the rear.
Looks like this can be used to construct low cost housing , with some RnD this could b done on a large scale making housing affordable all around .
I need to put these around my house
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0:55 Those germans run a tight ship!!
There are nothing new they've been using those for over 20 years. We had those back in 2004.
0:48 dude thats like a modern castle wall lmfao
cool, ive seen those in ARMA
never never never - we need more different sizes but the idee - no field fortification, no field camp nothing without Hasco Basketts
Maybe you can sellthis Hesco barrier to our Armed Forces of the Philippines because they will be needing this in areas frequented by enemies.
So, it is only a matter of time when they will be asking for this.
Please do the sales talk.
A UK company bought by a high official in the US gov in the early 2000s.....and HESCO was "asked" to supply all the wars...and made millions.
yo i cant believe the guy who bought segway died to a segway
Replacing the steel inserts with nylon or glas fibre might solve the weight issue.
0:43 Hahahah take that Ruzzia 😂
As long as you have some excavator at hand and don't need to duck or cover...
Literally shows sandbags in the thumbnail. Sandbags will always be useful
He never implied these are replacing sandbags...
@@dominuslogik484 the title says "goodbye sandbags"
@@ThePizzaGoblin it has a question mark placed after that... Have you never read a headline to an article before?
@@dominuslogik484 no never. Not once in my life.
One artillery salvo will turn this barrier into an unusually small dune.
A dune is better than nothing.
@@garywheeler7039 You don't get it. Under actual artillery barrage HESCO won't stand much chances. It will collapse on people hiding behind it. And its artillery - some HE 500kg gliding bomb will delete an entire HESCO strongpoint, leaving no chance for soldiers. Shockwave will make those HESCO units topple all over the places, literally burying stunned survivors.
ANY BARRIER THAT STICKS OUT OF THE GROUND WILL FAIL UNDER MASSED STRIKES. Only digging inside the ground works. HESCO is good for sandy areas where digging is complicated, but it is weaker than regular trench system. Its good against mortars and small arms, but look how actual full-scale war is fought here, in Ukraine. Look at few videos with bomb strikes and tell me, how well will HESCO fare. The answer is obvious.
If Dirt & earth is able to be used to protect against projectiles, then It will be used until the end of time
I honestly wonder why we haven't seen these things much in Ukraine, seems like a good way to reinforce areas in a few hours.
Already eaten by usa and ukrainian contractor
@@OSTemli eaten.... You really need to clarify what you mean by that
@@dominuslogik484 He's probably referring to the corruption rampant in Ukraine that has resulted in tons of advanced weapons that were ment for them appearing in other places entirely
@@dirckthedork-knight1201 well in recent videos I have seen these things in use so they are there I just hadn't seen footage of it. Also careful bringing up corruption as that is much worse on the Russian side with troops stealing copper and diesel fuel for beer money.
They seem good for defending bases from insurgents, or reinforcing back lines to form a defense should the front line move, but I don't see how they'd actually be good on the front lines given that they seem pretty hard to deploy while under fire. sandbags give you cover one sandbag at a time, HESCO barriers only provide cover once you fill it. You might as well dig a trench at that rate.
not to mention an individual soldier can carry 20 to 50 unfilled sandbags to thier fox hole cant say the same for a hesco barrier
Some earth moving equipment can be armored.
@@garywheeler7039 Yeah but they're not very readily available when contact with the enemy is made
If something better is needed I am certain it will be invented.
Sappers from the Napoleonic war is gonna make a great comeback 😂😂😂💀
You know, if those things were full of empty sandbags you'd have ten times the fortifications in two days