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This guy make Brunel look like a kid with Meccano.
Digging a tunnel is easy.
Keeping it straight, ventilating and not having it collapse are much harder to achieve.
fully expecting "Stamford home collapses into mysterious sink hole" on the local news.
Do you need planning permission to dig a tunnel under your house? What does it do to your insurance premiums? These questions need answers.
Anyone know what Flexi tubs he's using? The ones I've had have broken pretty easily. Having one handle fail after months of hoisting 50kg of stone is pretty good going. Should last me a lifetime
this week he's reinventing the wheel
I don’t get the point of this tunnel
I no longer get the point of anything he does.
All I can think of when i see his latest vid is either get a Job, or do something productive..
A wheel made up of little feet, 😕 pointless.
this week he’s reinventing the wheel
Well, he's not, is he. He's just building a slightly bigger version of what someone else designed.
Well, he’s not, is he.
well yes he is quite literally
reinvent the wheel
phrase of reinvent
waste a great deal of time or effort in creating something that already exists.
"he spoke with the fervour of discovery, unaware that he was reinventing the wheel"
teaser
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E03ILLUNYFc
All I can think of when i see his latest vid is either get a Job, or do something productive..
A wheel made up of little feet, 😕 pointless.
Inspiring people to think outside the box is far from pointless. It's basically applied design engineering, taking concepts from ideas to reality and picking up all the mistakes along the way.
Sure, someone built one of those before but on a smaller scale, he just had the means to make it bigger. There must be a wealth of "failed" patents out there that were just too far ahead of their time to work with the technology and materials of the day, bringing these to life might not solve any problems but its a great exercise in applied engineering and may occasionally yield something brilliant.
Pulse jets and screw tanks are also engineering dead ends but they are brilliant. If you only ever did stuff based on practical merits you may as well just give up.
@squirrelking You've basically just described what artists do when they create something. Even though I am not a big fan of some sorts of art, I would not want to live in a world without it.
Video 7 of this Tunnel adventure is being released this coming Thursday...
All I can think of when i see his latest vid is either get a Job, or do something productive..
I am sure the massive amount of money he’s earning and the fact that he seems very happy in what he’s doing and the undoubted influence he will be having on young budding engineers will help to counter your withering disapproval.
I don’t get the mentality of calling what he is doing pointless. Most of the things we do in life don’t really achieve anything useful. But we do it anyway.
CF is the master of taking things to the extreme. Getting an idea of something that is then taken to the extreme.
Want toast faster? Make an electrified bread knife that slices the bread and toasts it at the same time.
Want to walk on the ceiling? Make some electromagnetic shoes.
Want to eat cake faster? Cake-o-Matic (which has me in stitches every time).
Don’t like the French? Make a house size pair of steel buttocks and fire a pulse jet though them that can be heard in Calais.
Don’t want to get wet walking to the shed? Spend months and many thousands of pounds (have you seen how much steel he is using?!?! 😳) and a Herculean effort to make a subterranean tunnel system around your property.
He was a very good BMX flatland rider and a qualified plumber. He also has a lot of other things under his belt now to enable him to do a lot of things he has done - IIRC he is registered to use/sell firearms due to a few of the things he has made. He also does get planning permission for all the house projects he has done - the cave in the back yard has full planning and I am sure the tunnels will have them.
He’s very considerate to his neighbours as well - the talk at the Late Brake Show was ace - I was there too!!
I’ve just looked it up and estimates are that he might earn around $1600 a day from his channel - 11 million subscribers growing 5000 a day, 1.4 billion views in total, average 200,000 views a day.
It seems a lot less pointless than some of the other popular youtube channels. My nephew was watching a gaming channel where some kid was just mucking around in a game and swearing. It had 100,000s of views and this guy is making a fortune! This vid has 600k views since yesterday. WTF!?
I am sure the massive amount of money he’s earning and the fact that he seems very happy in what he’s doing and the undoubted influence he will be having on young budding engineers will help to counter your withering disapproval.
The channel is bonkers, and no, none of the end products probably have much practical use for humanity, but the idea is to show how you can apply engineering principles to daft problems, and in that regard it's very educational.
The tunnel series in particular is an excellent illustration of just how hard building tunnels is - the quantity of material you have to remove, the amount of support and ventilation you need to be safe, even the difficulty in lining up your tunnel to arrive in the right spot.
Yes, CF is a genius, and a very entertaining one at that.
As for pointless videos, too many influential YTers are knocking out BS content because they know it gets clicks. Yes, I'm looking at you Mr Beast, the Morgz family and many more. Unfortunately, there is so much money to be made* and popularity to be gained, that it becomes IMO a cycle of addiction. What's especially sad is that a lot of kids lap it up and aspire to be the same.
* they also have the ability to re-invest that money (in a bid to outdo their YT competitors), hence throwing around houses, cars and huge sums of cash as "prizes"
The channel is bonkers, and no, none of the end products probably have much practical use for humanity, but the idea is to show how you can apply engineering principles to daft problems, and in that regard it’s very educational.
Yep, I agree. I'm not sure its much about the end thing being useful. The journey and the process is quite interesting and there are some useful nuggets tucked in with the nonsense, especially if you are a maker. In fact its quite interesting spotting the bits he leaves out of the videos. Hopefully there is also an element of "if he can build a jet powered go kart maybe I can have a go at fixing my bike". He is quite relatable.
If you want to knock pointless YouTube channels there's a big list above Colin's
What I like about it is the fact he can make some very complicated things with off-the-shelf components and tools which can fit in a shed/garage. The fact that he has things like cnc plasma cutters in his workshop is amazing - it's not so long ago that these kind of things would have been cutting edge even in a proper factory.
It's like the crazy ideas a 6y old has but he actually makes them come to life rather than the sensible adult in us stopping and saying that's just daft
Glad to hear next one is only 2 weeks away! Great stuff.
It seems a lot less pointless than some of the other popular youtube channels. My
nephewbrother was watching agamingmountain biking channel where somekidbloke was just mucking around in agamewood, falling off a bike and swearing
😉
First time I have heard of this guy and his stuff, just watched the tank episode. It's different.........but I like it!
I hope you've not got much planned this weekend, there's a lot to catch up on!
@tthew just getting YouTube up on the big telly and settling in with a beer
I'm still loving this...absolutely brilliant!
So now he wants a Thunderbirds-style underground garage with car lift? 🙂
Who doesn’t?
Some good practical help today. "If you are building a tunnel into your house you might want to think about coming up in a larger room." Great, I'll keep that in mind.
So now he wants a Thunderbirds-style underground garage with car lift?
Brilliant stuff, he best make a fake pond over it with some palm trees!!
It’s like the crazy ideas a 6y old has but he actually makes them come to life rather than the sensible adult in us stopping and saying that’s just daft
i love a bit of furze, lunacy at its best, just in regard to the point above, theres a nw show on netflix called making fun, albeit a little american, but they literally take kids ideas and invent them.
8ft taco vomiting dinosaur? sure no worries.
Twin racing unicorn bikes? go for it
I just like watching the though process from initial idea to how they and furze are going to make these things work, as someone who has no clue where to even start i find it absolutely fascinating.
Besides theres enough crap in the world, if you dont like it fine, but just move along quietly to something you do like.
Not so crazy now is he! Sure I'm not alone in thinking a steel and concrete bunker in the garden with easy access from the house would be a nice addition...
The guy is a genius. Amazing skills. I wonder how much it has all cost so far
I met him a few years ago with a few of the MNPR guys from here when he was filming a promotional video about battery power for EDF. Really nice guy and got to have a go on his bike of springs. It was crazy, like riding after 10 pints of Stella
more tunnel madness
Secret tunnel - 3.5 million views. Not so secret 😆
Pleased the next one has now been published...it is a brilliant project!
Retrospective planning permission might be the bravest thing he has done.
Imagine filling that in
I'd rather do laps of la Périphérique on the worlds fastest mobility scooter, then do a run up the M5 in rush hour on a pulse jet motorbike than fill in retrospective planning for a 20 m tunnel in the garden.
Probably helped that he had 'previous' with his underground bunker.
Gotta love that it was objected to by the town council, an invisible structure that won't affect anyone in any way...
His neighbour seemed a bit bemused. But then again, he must already know he lives next door to a madman.
I love it when the retired busybodies on parish/town councils find out how little influence they actually have. Furze just rubbing their noses in it, too. 🙂
real time colin
looks like he could do with a pick axe.
Agreed Klunk, looks loose enough, but who are we to criticise when he's got that far. I'd guess it's more a question of endurance and blister avoidance. He said it was hard not to chat on camera, so if you're down there with your mates and endless cups of tea it's probably fine. Do you reckon they get out of the tunnel every time they need to pee...?