More Colin Furze lunacy

Just watched that. Yes definitely qualifies as lunacy 😂

Is it actually a job, what do the risk assessments say for that sort of activity (without getting too pedantic, spraying the barn stealth black without masks and moulding concrete with bare hands probably doesn’t meet a method statement either….)

Unsure it is a job but it is great way to earn a living (and going by numbers of views, I don’t think it is just making a living)…if he got all health and safety and sensible then he’d lose his lunacy mad creator in the shed look…although I think that has long gone now he has his new place.

the tie launcher is gemius LOL

there was a tips video but that was far too sensible for this thread 😀 so back to the lunacy!

Was just thinking about this either last night or this morning, just the bunker would be brilliant.

That garage is going to be frickin awesome.

I’d love to know what his neighbours think and if they know what he’s actually up to!

not quite so secret tunnel 🙂

How does he actually get allowed to do all this in a suburb?
I’m amazed he’s able to. 😳

His neighbours must be VERY understanding, or maybe they’ve all been bought? 😂

Write to him and ask, I’m sure Colin Furze, Stamford should find him 😉

One of his earlier tunnel videos had one of his neighbours in It and didn’t seem to be the least bit bothered. Pretty sure he had to get planning permission so should be easy to see if there was any objections.

Seems to be a case of build it then seek forgiveness, actually do you need planning if nothing is visible?

https://prod.publicaccess.southkesteven.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=RA0MHOONHE600&activeTab=summary

Interested to know what interactions he’s having with Planning and Building Control over his latest massive driveway sinkhole! I know the vibe of the channel is all about spontaneity and not wandering around in hi-viz and a helmet, but he must have had to get some pretty thorough calcs before embarking on this.

But then again, the latest vid has him musing about whether the structure will cope with the weight of a concrete slab on top…

It’s a great project and I do like his attitude of just getting on with it, but I would definitely be a little wary if I was his neighbour

I’m surprised he hasn’t decided to move somewhere with a bit more land, but I suppose once you’ve built an underground bunker then you’re probably committed to staying put.

He hasn’t actually lived there for ages, it’s more a sort of office and film set for him now. He lives there when doing multiple days in a row but the family house is elsewhere. I chatted to him a year or so ago at the Late Brake Show Live in Manchester as part of a small group and he explained that he does indeed get his ideas for the tunnel checked over before doing anything and that the local Building Regs people are fully aware of what he’s doing. The neighbours are also surprisingly cool with it too! He definitely wouldn’t have got so far as he has if anything was amiss.

Oh and his DeLorean is absolutely stunning in the flesh, he drove it to the show through a rain shower and looked brilliant with the fresh rain beaded up all over the Stainless Steel body.

Ah, that makes sense. I suppose i makes for a more compelling narrative to do all this stuff to a suburban semi than some ex-farm or similar.

I do love a DeLorean, if it wasn’t for that (great) film-series , it’d definitely be a car I’d own.

Furze gets paranoid !! 🙂

He started the Stamford Santa Fun Run a couple of weekends ago.
He wandered past us as we were walking to the start – I said to my Wife, “that’s Colin Furze” and she looked at me, like who the hell is he?

He hung upside down at the start with magnetic boots on and had a Makita powered air-horn with about 5 horns on it.

colin goes caving….

He started the Stamford Santa Fun Run a couple of weekends ago.

DNF? 

a Q & A vid

I’m starting to regard the volume of materials he uses for a few 20 minute YouTube videos as a bit excessive. When it was drift trikes and mad fast bumper cars, fair enough but that’s tonnes of steel and ply used for the wall of death, and god knows the concrete and other materials needed for the tunnels and underground garage.

It’s still great entertainment mind, so I’m quite the conflicted hypocrite. 😊

Yeah, I mean I can’t believe he used all those materials, which must be insanely expensive, and didn’t do something as basic as overlapping the ply in layers which would have prevented that sketchy pulling apart.

With all the cash thrown at it, it would have been better built outside with a cover to keep it going for future stuff.

must be insanely expensive

He’s not paying though. He has 13 million channel followers, so has a massive reach for sponsors and advertisers. The cool duvet thingumy makers will have covered his material costs and a handsome pay cheque too.

I suspect it will be dismantled and the undamaged ply stacked and reused for a future project. The box section steel will get weighed in at the very least, if not used in some other madness.

must be insanely expensive

He’s not paying though

Oh yeah I know. I meant more that given the cost, you’d think it might have been put together in a way that would avoid missing the fundamentals of ramp building the first time.

He’s not paying though

That wasn’t my point really, more basically the carbon cost of tonnes of steel and concrete for a YouTube video.

For a long time I have thought that YouTube/insta etc should pay the content creators based on the carbon footprints of their content.

Flying to the US to review a car? No money.

Flying to just review a planes first class offerings, pffft! You owe us money.

Travelling around the world to see hotels from $1 to $ 1000000 a night? You guessed it (though Mr Beast would be paid more for the charity vids he does).

This isn’t a YouTube phenomenon. It’s more obvious with Colin’s stuff because he shows you the making but virtually all TV is like this. They make loads of stuff that gets binned. Years ago I worked for a company that made sets for adverts. Great for them as they were paid handsomely to make things that only needed to last a day or two for filming. Huge numbers of people involved too, getting driven or flown around, put up in hotels, fed, etc. if anything the YouTubers are leading the way in cutting costs and consequently carbon footprint

The underground garage gets bigger!