WRECKING BALL Vs. SEESAW from 45m! How High Will the Watermelon Go?
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I’m guessing Nigel took 2 minutes and 25 seconds to get to the top
You’ve been pinned!!
John Depp THEY PINNED YAH
Wel pin ya
Right because they told us a good while back in another video!
John Depp NOPE
"This is only the beginning of the seesaw saga"
Four years later and I'm still waiting on part 2.
Drops are at
1.) 4:00
2.) 5:36
3:) 7:12
4.) 8:56
5.) 9:47
6.) 10:37
7.) 11:32
8.) 12:51
9.) 14:44
God bless
You sir are a gentleman and a scholar
Thx
Thank you my loyal helper and friend I am so unbelievably proud and grateful. And now I must leave so I leave telling thank you sire and and have a nice day
Why didn't I scroll to see this first. So much filler in these vids.
Do not support god I am an atheist
"We're not engineers, we're not scientists, but we're giving it a go."
Ideals to live by ❤
did u make dead island?
Jesus Christ loves you please turn to him before its too late to repent
You actually nailed the mission statement of the USA
I am a woman with no brothers. I feel like you guys are giving me a glimpse what that would have been like. In the best wat possible. Thank you! You guys have the best vibes together.
7:31 Dino said:*screw gravity*
Then gets knocked out by the the BBQ
James Henderson wow😂
FBI OPEN UP!!!!
Yes he did
Old Emily Bronte-saurus follows different physics :)
You gave Rexy flashbacks. A giant rock from the sky is how he died the first time.
Now that is some drastic climate change hahahaha
Millions of years ago a giant rock wiped out his species
@@steffydd lol thanks for restating the op
@@steffydd And he is made out of plastic or rubber, which is made out of oil, which is what's left of the dinosaurs. So Atom Ogre was right, a giant rock from the sky IS how he died the first time.
Wait rexy has more than one life?
You guys have to got pair with Mark Rober again, on building a catapult/seesaw, and drop/fling a car, a boat, a fridge, a washer, a dryer, and much more!
"Who needs Nigel when you've got Herron." Priceless. Also LVL is laminated veneer lumber. It's really not strong along the wide surface. It's strong on its edge, like a floor joist would be installed. The problem with this seesaw is that the force on it goes from zero to max in a nanosecond. You need some kind of spring to apply the force more gradually.
Try coating the planks with Line-X
Bob Motster underrated comment
I was gonna say the same thing lmao
Woha dude!!! You just read my mind!!! I was about to comment this and then i saw your comment!
Genius
Has no one watched Mythbusters?
Even the weight of a person falling onto the seesaw they made was bending and breaking things!
For Sale: Skateboard
Condition: Remarkably Good
5:35 for the full story
6:30 to 6:34 your start and end times for this gents superb Ebay meme XD
You guys gotta do a part 2 to this video and WIN! 👍🏻
Very cool, can't wait to see the next seesaw with sturdier components!
You should spray the wood with Line-X.. it would work for sure
Don't forget the fulcrum needs the Line-X too.
Jonny B-Side i was just about to comment this 😂
Or reinforce the 90mm plank with a few flat bar steel beams
You mean it WOOD work? Keepo
@candy adventure have you seen the Line-X videos?
At 14:00 they basically built a way better see saw that could’ve flung something extremely far
lol good eye
Yeah, just noticed that
Good spotting
You should build a seesaw like mythbusters that’s is designed for high impact. Search Mythbusters seesaw to see video.
Nice profile pic @Game Star Wars
Honestly, i find these videos so entertaining that im 44 club abut 99% of the time. Thanks for all of the good content yall put out!
Drop Times:
1) 4:01
2) 5:37
3) 7:12
4) 8:57
5) 9:48
6) 10:37
7) 11:32
8) 12:51
9) 14:44
Like for the duck
This is the only way to watch this
god bless you son
This comment deserves more likes
Ehrenmann💪
Why wouldn't you just watch the whole video ? You miss all the funny comments made lol ah well your choice i guess
Just spray Line-X on the plank and it'll be strong and flexible enough.
Yes please do that guys!!
I really need to see this now
Yes
My thought exactly, Line-X the entire see-saw.
Lol my first thought as well.
7:30 the stegosaurus was straight up levitating and with the music it was just magical
Y'all are my favorite CZcamsrs
Reply
Put Line-X on the boards, it worked for the trampoline
Came to write the same comment! Surprised they didn't think of this already. Get on it boys! More brand placement= Mo $$!! 👍😎👍
It will still break!
To some extent.
Bruh just use steel
Linex didn't save the water jugs.
Could cover the wood plank in linex idk how to spell it like but u get it
i literally came here to comment that exact same thing
its a brilliant idea tho
"It was about as interesting as my big toe" *Gaunson seconds later giggling like a shoolgirl thinking about his big toe presumably* so I guess it was interesting
It's mad science on the go! Keep up the awesome work 👏
"It's a dangerous thing to try and explain a fulcrum." -Scott Gaunson
You guys should publish a book with all of Gaunson's quotes from your videos...
For such long planks the fulcrum oughta be higher, allowing for more rotation, and force.
I was about to say that 😂
I'm wondering if some kind of spring-loaded or pressure-loaded fulcrum would be better. Absorb the energy imparted too quickly by the atlas stone to lower the fulcrum, then rebound with that force while the stone is still forcing the pushed-end down to push even harder on the end being forced upward.
They should also calculate forces being imparted and design the lever arm to withstand those forces. Trebuchets don't typically have arms of equal size their whole lengths, the arm is thickest at the weighted end and tapers at the sling-end.
It wouldn't have prevented the breaks in any way. The velocity and therefore the force from the stones was just far too much. Look how it bent the steel beam at the impact point and the fulcrum point. The speed at impact is 106km/h (65 mph for the primitives) and the impact force is 8,820,000N or 899 tons of force.
You also want a moment arm that doesn't plastically deform so easily. Maybe wood that is reinforced with the leaf springs from a truck at it's critical stress points? Something that can take that kind of force without deforming at all is probably not going to be feasible, even though it would produce the sharpest impulse to the launched object.
This guy physics
5:32 Rubber Duck
7:11 Dino, Cola, Bowling Pin
9:15 Pineapple
10:33 Pineapple v2
11:29 Watermelon
12:49 Pineapple v3
14:41 Watermelon v2 (steel)
Let me know if I missed anything :)
I'm surprised the duck lived
Fly-O-saur 7:30
When do you do the seesaw again? Looking forward to this. Maybe use everything from steel and attatch it in the middle... 😊
Line-X a wood beam, that would be an epic test!
Also quite expensive I'd imagine.
wont do anything
Also, Line-X the fulcrum assembly.
Abion47 it would be cheaper than having a truck bed coated in line-x it’s not that much surface area.
Steel beam!
The Mythbusters made an indestructible see-saw once. Maybe try getting in contact with Adam or Jamie?
Or Collab with Adam since he has his own YT channel!
This is definitely the most Mythbusters-like episode the boys have done to date.
I wanted to like it but it's on 69, soooo......
@@Veggieman87 Well... I mean, one of the main reasons I watch How Ridiculous is because they do some Mythbusters-like experiments and stunts. I feel the deepest connection between the two when bulletproof glass gets tested.
They mythbustas any more
Watching in late 2023, you lads are really putting out great content very much in the spirit of scientific inquiry! While it's all in great fun, you put forth a hypothesis and then test it by practical means. I imagine that a great many of your videos are of use in science classrooms to demonstrate concepts in a lively and engaging way. Kudos. :)
Any progress on a tough see-saw that will fling ANYTHING?
Y’all should do a toy soldier parachute contest off the dam or tower and try to land on a target
Quince Colburn nah they have to catch it
@@fazenoob2747 stanford should try to catch lol
Mike Robinson yeah he should lol gotta love stanford
Yeeeeeeeeeees
They should jump off themselves but one of the parachutes isn't working
You gents got your physics all wrong. There's no point in having a longer seesaw. If you have a longer seesaw, you have to put more energy into the beam to get things to fling and it just increases the chance you snap your beam because of the leverage of the impact. You want your energy to go into the THING, not the fling. If you have a seesaw, no matter how long it is, if the fulcrum is in the middle, best case scenario you end up launching your thing at the same speed the stone hits. If you make the impact side shorter than the thing side, you get more mechanical advantage to launch your thing FASTER than the stone fell. Ideally it's as follows:
What you need is a beam short enough on the impact side that you hit it close to the fulcrum, say 1 meter away, strong enough that it doesn't collapse, but long enough on the THING side to give you 2-3 times the speed, that'd be 2-3 meters. Also, make it totally impossible for the stone to trap the beam between itself and the ground or it WILL destroy it. The impact target needs to rotate out of the way to let the stone punch past it and still hit the sand. Triangle base fulcrum, welded tube steel. Fulcrum beefy enough to take the hits, beam made of i-beam steel THICKER on the impact side with a replaceable target plate, thinner on the THING side. That way it hangs balanced. A beam stop built into the base so the beam can't pass 60 or 70 degrees rise on the THING side.
You WILL send Rexy to the moon. Check out trebuchets to get more ideas about getting even more wicked distance. Keep the great work going you good things.
dereknalley not hating but wow you actually took the time to type all that 😂
Excellent advice, I hope they see this and take note
@@mindyabusinesses649 Totally worth it if they do make an upgraded seesaw launcher and we get to see it in action. I want Rexy to need a GPS tracker.
that is a lot of type
sorry didn't actually read it
I'll add a reply so this gets more attention. Granted, the lads didn't spend a great deal of time prepping. Could do with industrial bearings on the fulcrum point just to keep the energy purely in the direction intended
15:05 hearing the lads down on the ground weeping and gnashing their teeths. 😆😆😁
yo! im no the only one late to the party!
*Measurements with Stanford*
"Stanford, how far is that?"
"... That's a long way"
Very sure Rexy is the only dinosaur capable of surviving the meteor.
How do you think Rexy got to modern day Australia?
Patrick Stanley Simple. He heard about the otherworldly creatures in Australia while he was in the astral plane. He descended from the astral plane, and become a god in physical form. Therefore, his might is currently unmatched.
MrAfreay it all makes sense now!
@@patrickstanley7211 Meteor falls and wipes out the dinosaurs.
Rexy: Hold mah beer.
Stands under 200kg Nigel from 44m.
Yes very true and they need to get text a girl friend
4:15, how the dinosaurs really went extinct
By a bowling ball or a meteor?😆😂🤣
😂😂
@@BiskeTv44 bowling ball
A planet fell on their head 😂
@@masongaming9269 meteor
One year later and I'm still waiting on my Mark Rober/HR "seesaw saga" collab! *cough* *cough*
LVL is Laminated Veneer Lumber - it's basically 3 mm peeled softwood veneer glued together in layers to form a continuous billet. In layman's terms, it's wood that's made by glueing thinner layers of wood together into a thicker sheet.
I like how the skateboard held up and flung the best, that'll be 1 point to the underdog
Just the same, the last beam was bent by the stone, and the fulcrum destroyed, but that crusty duct tape held on lolol
Yess
Scientist: levitation can’t happen
Dinosaur: hold my beer
7:30
I said the same thing 😂😂😂
LOL
Dinosaurs don’t drink beer - _ -
@@skeletoon It's a joke you deflated orange
@@skeletoon r/woooosh
3:12 that laugh tho 🤣
i just went back to that, do you think he's a maniac?
So! Where is this metal seesaw by now, 3 years later? :D wanna see it!!!!
Check Mythbusters Episode 120: Seesaw Saga. Learn from those who have gone before.
i was just thinking that
7:31 the damn Dino was levitating😂😂
I saw that to.
I agree
YAS QUEEN
He didn’t even realize that his life crumbled under him
Di:why are we still here ,just to suffer
Just caught this video. Yea, I know I am late.
1st) A stronger more low profile fulcrum. (half that height)
2nd) shorter more rigid planks/levers.
The planks are so long and high, that the energy from Nigil is overwhelming it before there is the option of transferring the force. Nigil's girth/weight/mass will almost always destroy the lever/plank from that height, but if you play with fulcrum height and plank thickness/length you can move the planks/levers failure point closer to the ground and allow energy transfer of energy before that happens.
I hope that you’re still working on the see saw! Every once in a while I think about the future tease on this video.
15:42 I love that you can see the rust being flung from the steel
hey bro
I think you accidentally made a practical demonstration of how fuses work when hit by a power surge:
-Light fuse: blew before any energy could be transferred to the device.
-Slightly larger fuses: also blew, but were able to transfer some energy before breaking the connection.
-Oversized fuse: was not blown by the surge, but instead transferred enough power to destroy the device and the system that connected it.
Physics.
it`s been nearly 3 years and one pandemic and we are still waiting for a new seesaw vid
"That was about as entertaining as my big toe"
I think we need an April Fools video where the entire video is just his big toe.
Hats off to the company that made Rex. That dude has been through sooo much and keeps going.
Kmart
China I'd rekon
@@kledus420smith8 China are one of my favourite companies
They buy new Rex's. Its not the same one
@@pasousam no they do not rexy has been the original legend of a toy since they got him!
Pretty sure How Ridiculous now holds the world record for "furthest rubber duck launched by skateboard"
Forget the commtest. This comment deserves pinning!
I wish they'd put a wood board under the front wheels of the skateboard to avoid smashing the front of the board into the sand, so they could maybe get more flippage.
@@FS2K4Pilot they did, you can clearly see at 5:08 that the truck is on a chunk of wood
Derek yelling "Fulcrum Noo!" When it broke was gold
If anyone is curious, the 90 kg stone has ~40 kJ of potential energy. Nigel had ~88 kJ, which is actually fitting when you think about it. If you want to build something stronger, the Mythbusters did their own seesaw saga. Might want to look at their design.
"The Seesaw Saga"
I like that :D sounds like a ton of content incomming
Baghira27 my exact thoughts
seesaga
"We're not engineers,
we're not scientists,
but we're givin' it a go".
Welp, there is your new T-Shirt print.
Sounds like the gov'ment trying to explain quarantine.
7:30 I like how the dino just stayed there and was like "I'll fall in a minute I gotta do something" and falls
He stayed right in place
Get Marky Rober on it!!!
I think you can try to soften the first impact, maybe foam floor pieces for the meeting point? steel parts for the Seesaw and the Fulcrum...
If they can work out the physics, this could be the humble beginnings of the Western Australia Space Program.
Wow, it'd be just like Kerbal Space Program but slightly dumber. I'd enjoy that.
Fly like a WASP
Drops for those who don't want to watch the other stuff in the vid:
4:00
5:32
7:10
8:55
10:35
11:30
12:50
14:42
Edit: Wow, 3 mins out and already 11 likes? Thanks!
Quacky Moo thank you 🙏😭😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you
Thank you!
@@vocalpunk97 I didn't say that you had to use my key, that's why I wrote "for those who don't want to watch the other stuff in the vid".
Love this video! Keep it up
The first drop that cracked the see saw reminds me of a trick I have seen. You can break a wooden ruler by hitting it, just by putting paper over part of it and hanging the other part ofer the edge of a table. Air pressure holds the paper in place with enough force that if you strike the ruler fast and hard it will just break. The rest of the drops just reminded me that an object at rest wants to stay at rest.
To prevent the beam twisting on impact weld a metal striker plate the diameter of the atlas stone on the impact end, also make a fabricated fulcrum out of 12mm or solid bar should give you max chance of launching most things max height
Love the videos fellas keep them coming
Brendon Longbottom this man engineers
Mr. Engineer, what do you think about using a basketball instead of a melon as the object? Do you think it would pop?
This and maybe adjust the length of the arm to even out the pressure on the object end. In this instance the force was greater on the atlas end of the stone. This is the equivalent of asking the beam to be snapped. Basically: make the atlas end shorter to increase the power needed to move the seesaw. This way the forces of the stone is more focused on the movement and less on the material.
also not use this long of a beam, shorter means be able to withstand much more force. Also with the fulcrum being that small it puts an enormous amount of force on the middle of the beam/plank, and this lessens the force it can put out to whip the other end up and fling whatever is there up. I would make the part on the fulcrum from something like a spring leaf layered part, flexible springy steel re enforcement that helps to transfer the force much better.
Ok Einstein
When can we get atlas stone, hammer and giant dart against a car?
i'd like to add a trampoline and a lazy boy vs. a car too
Love this channel keep up the great work the boys are here to entertain us.
Jesus Christ loves you please turn to him before its too late to repent please.
Should make one with metal plate on end as a hit zone with hr on and weld a beam on top with bolts that will keep wood together and could weld a metal car in middle to pivet in stead if it bending around the falcom
Good to see the Aussie space programme is coming to fruition!
Lmao
How many likes for Scott to wear a T. rex costume next video? 😂
WOOOOOwwwwww
44,000
yes!!
They all need to wear T rex costumes.
@@jaxmediavlogs5673 its all right i made it to 667
I know they didn't really like the results of the barbeque, but when they did the slow motion shot it was great watching the plastic dino just hang there midair
Only the beginning of the seesaw saga, we will never see another episode of lol
Check out the Mythbuster's Seesaw episode for a good design of strong seesaw. It could work.... maybe.
Get Adam Savage from Tested channel to assist you.
@@cliffrandolph9363 I would love to see that collaboration - the child-like delight of Adam Savage playing with seesaws.
holy heck I just commented that. We need Adam to come help them.
Reckon you could drop a mentos into a Diet Coke bottle from the tower?
Stick a dart through the centre of it. So, it will fall straighter and will not float around as much.
Y did I hear this is one of their voices
bucket of mentos into a wading pool of diet coke?
117
A simple method to make your seesaw a little bit more sturdy without going over-engineer: Screw/nail another beam into the middle at a right angle to it, underneath the flat one. It should make a T-shaped cross-section. It's significantly harder to break a board on its narrow edge than on the broad one, and the force from the impact was primarily lost in breaking your boards. Reduce the amount of force spent breaking the board, and more will be left over to propel the other side up.
Jesus Christ loves you please turn to him before its too late to repent
Ye they call it a "strong back"
Yup, that's exactly how the steel I-beam they eventually used works.
Makes sense to me.
"This is only the beginning of the seesaw saga", alas, it was not lol.
You need more elasticity, not more rigidity! You want a whip-like action!
Sam Graulty so...duct tape a bunch of golf clubs together?
Maybe a I beam with a distill taper and the fulcrum in the center of the i
Yah, perhaps a very solid wood or other elastic-type beam with line-x coating
maybe start at a lower height as well?
7:31
The dinosaur: ight ima turn on creative mode
Braden Byrne he has a name you know
It’s called a freaking brachiosaures
Play some freaking minecraft god damn
4:15 When the dinosaurs got wiped out.
This experiment is worth re-visiting. Only the beginning? Gosh, I hope so!
New Idea:
Make a giant fork, name it Forty Fork, drop it on a car, fridge, trampoline, bullet proof glass, etc.
Forky Four is a better name, but that's a hell of an idea.
I hope they see this cuz that GENIUS💯
Really hope they do this!!
A trident?
yeah I love this one
I always did wonder how Rexie survived the meteor.
And then I watched this video.
It would be truly educational too.
3:35 seconds
Heey guys, just some quick physics tips... what you want is to convert it's kinetic energy towards the melon/pine apple/ what ever launching object it is... At this point you have all 'hard' materials, and and very short moment to convert that energy, this will deform metal of brake wood, in short: you stress the beam/plank over it's max force... what you want to do is catch that falling weight in a more gradual way (like a softer falling object with same weight and a plank/beam with more flex). If your moment of energy transfer is longer the object might take a little longer to get to a decent speed, but at that very last moment, the elastic force of the beam will shoot the object away... for example, hit an apple with a baseball bat, and it will splash apart, but if you launch it with a slingshot and it flies!
Would love the result on that!
Did you guys revisit the see-saw?
If the Duck sticks around for future videos, I reckon he shall be named Percy.
I like it
Ducklas like Douglas!
would love to see an all metal sea saw vid!
*HELP* :
5:36 : Squishy Duck
7:13 : Bowling, Coke and Dinosaur
8:57 : Ananas (Fail)
11:33 : Watermelon
12:51 : Ananas
14:44 : Watermelon
I feel like they need to collab with Colin Furze for this.
"The see-saw saga is only beginning"
Yeah, never to be seen again :/ Too bad, I'd like some more!
I guess there are a few engineering problems to be solved before they can continue in a satisfying way. For a start, the seesaw needs to be incredibly strong to transfer the energy from end to end without breaking. The fulcrum also needs to be really durable. And lastly, the projectile needs to withstand the sudden acceleration. In that last drop, the watermelon was outright smashed by the bar below it suddenly rising into it at a hundred kilometers per hour. The force is like the strike of a baseball bat. Whatever they launch need to be able to withstand that.
Now, if they could make some kind of pulley system up the tower, they could make the acceleration more gradual, and create some sort of catapult. That would be quite epic to watch.
Same, please, how ridiculous, PLEASE!
Me too
@@Codraroll If they do those three things it will be very dangerous. Examples: Take out the person at the top of the tower, take part of the roof off of the tower, damage the side of the tower or end up in someone's living room.
@@Codraroll i don't get what happened with the watermelon though because it wasn't actually struck
You should drop items on differently filled up propane tanks (the smallest ones ever made first and bigger ones laser)
It would be a great video the would blow up
4:57 you are right I have a 45m tall tower and a wrecking ball at home.
A lower axis, with a shorter piece of wood. I am fairly certain that would work.
Jay Gatsby agreed the fulcrum needs to be lower, also possibly some bigger surface area where the atlas stone hits? Doesn’t have to be even, skinny end for flingys and large square area on the other end. I’m not an engineer either but that’s what would make sense to me. Great video anyways love How Ridiculous!
I’m no physicists but I think attaching it to the fulcrum would help with flinging it and relieve some pressure off of the wood.
We need a Rexy shirt where Rexy is staring up at the wrecking ball - either in fear or in confidence
And he should definitely have a stick leg
14:00 - you had your best wood see saw flipper right there.
What you need on the all steel see saw is a seat for the watermelon that is buffered with springs so the energy from Nigel is gradually transferred into the target object so the force energy doesn’t overwhelm the cohesion of the watermelon.
I wanna see a rexy ice sculpture destroyed. Give me happiness
The brachiosaurus kinda defied the laws of gravity! 7:30
Levitation Achieved! :-)
I saw that too
Right side of grill: "Not on my watch"
@@cauldronguyheckin8169 Bahahahaha!
He just didn't look down. #cartoonphysics
I've seen all your vids and ..dang I can't get enough
I was watching your see saw one abd have you seen mythbusters see saw saga ..might give you guys an idea.
I reckon that if you'd have used the 90kg Atlas stone with 3 planks stacked together, you'd have the result you were looking for.
One plank by itself just isn't enough to withstand the force of 200kg (or even 90kg) with gravity-assist.