I made the Scorpion From GAME OF THRONES and its CRAZY
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@@gmodiscool14 florida man, florida man. does whatever a florida man can
TheBackyardScientist F l o r i d a m a n c r e a t e s n u c l e a r m i c r o w a v e
?acronym?I am cunfused
Florida 100
Has 1,000 pounds of draw back force.
Points it at house
@Tomáš Laštovička I wonder how many pounds of draw strenght a properly made ballista has
@@2MeterLP about 5 times hat he was using. About 4700 pounds on the low end
Now I know how people thought Euron could kill a dragon irl.
Tomáš Laštovička i pull strings of 40 or 60 pounds at bows that could penetrates animals on 30m. the energy lost of this thing couldn’t be bigger
Terribly inefficient delivery of that force on release. A half-ton of draw weight should put that bolt through the watermelon and halfway through the house behind it. The ropes are too stretchy and slack, and I doubt those limbs are spring steel so their rate of return to zero may not be very fast.
0:21 I kind of expected a loud "let me show you its features" combined with heart-warming laughter
Slingshot channel, yes.. lol
Felix B. Slingshot channel fan is see
YES
Hahaha
I was actually thinking about Joerg when I was watching episode 4 😂
...I made a ballista once that shot paper airplanes...
Yours was really cool and more practical for hobbies
Really?
Cool!
Same
Let me guess now you made a real one and now shoot down real planes
The audio levels of this video are as stable as my mental health
Gabriele Saviano my ears died
Lol
I now suffer from mental health after listening to this video
**police searches house**
Cop: “any weapons I should know of?”
Backyard scientist: “oh yeah, a ballista”
... and a laser gun.
And a hand held induction heater.
And table saw cannon
Among other things
And a rocket knife
If this experiment went wrong, just imagine the kinds of "Florida man" headlines it would make.
Kevin is Florida Man with a college degree. Change my mind.
Florida man shoots house, accidentally snaps metal piece, injuring himself
Florida man skewers 83 year old woman from 1200 yards away with giant ballista
Florida man injured by flying fire extinguisher, after shooting it with ballista. That's a headline and a half xD
If what he made worked like it's supposed to: Florida man shoots siege weapon (ballista) at watermelon. Penetrates 5 houses, killing 20 people and a dog.
Congratulations for actually mounting the springs curving forward. This thing is amazing.
Everybody else is yelling at me about it. Its tiring hear people complain when they dont understand what they are complaining about
@@TheBackyardScientist Could you have helped by pretensioning the springs though?
"Our dragon problem is solved, but our forest fire problem is starting."
If only you had a fire extinguisher.
xriex oh waittttt🤦🏻♀️ lol
@Felix Simms you seriously missed a joke that bad?
Hunter Green but what he said was true. The joke isn’t that funny anyway.
He only sploded one tho
@@THESLlCK why are you like this
"let's see if it will demolish stuff houses are made out of!" tests it in front of a house.
when i saw his backstop was a house i died laughing
no witnesses
Have you seen his safety video?
He shows some safety tips and a few minutes later completely ignores it while screwing around with a table saw.
That was the only thing I could see.
Let me show you its features!
Giant slingshot guy?
@@hassanabbas5926 yeah giant slingshot guy
Backyardmaus?
When are you going to start a second channel called the front yard scientist?
Daryl Adams XD
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*My relative*
@@lorraineadormonicus Daddy?
@@daryladams2553 pardon?
This is so cool!
At the same time, I would not be surprised if this ended up on the news "Florida Man Builds Game of Thrones Ballista in His Back Yard"
I would bookmark that.
Florida Man at it again.
I find it funny that youtube glitched and showed me a different comment that was from a mk video and said scorpion never dies
This is the best comment I've ever read in my life. Very funny, clever, and just on the spot. Review 5/5 stars
it's always Florida Man
always
Florida man shoots brother with game of thrones scorpion cross bow
This is a pretty normal headline for northern florida
David
THE NORTH REMEMBERS
Ah Florida man, why’d he have to watch GoT? He now has new ways to terrorize the populace
Wearing a Hawaiian shirt over his brother stealing his cousin/girlfriend while doing milk of the poppy party mixes and listening to wrecking ball.
Oh it's a good thing I don't have one of these. It would be bed mounted to a truck and taken to an empty field to play with. There would also be a watermelon adapter. For science reasons.
those aarows are wayyyyy to heavy! you can already see it dipping
not just that, they are terribly balanced you can see it in every shot as the back end of the arrow ist almost always higher then the front end
I couldn't build something like that.. without mounting it on the back of a truck and going on a rampage
How do you trust yourself with that power?!? "Next episode; we're heading to the airport to see if it works in practice. They have more dragons than they need." Don't forget your laser pointer!
Your ropes are too long. You're losing tension halfway through the launch. Other than that... glorious.
He also should have some form of guide to keep the bolt flat against the rail.
It would also be a good idea to make the ropes slightly shorter on one side.
You want the ropes to not lift the bolt up during launch
@@merlinious01 yeah, maybe a free, grooved wheel on top of the arrow that simply holds it there and rolls as the arrow flies part...
Considering more force and velocity puts the bolt through his house, I'd say it's a good amount of tension
@@poodypooroo Well, yes, but that's what appropriate settings are for... like fire ranges and rented soccer fields. Besides, can you imagine how many rewatches this would get if he had "accidentally" put that bolt into his living room? Walls can be repaired, but youtube? CZcams is forever ;D
Erik Stephens also arrows are incorrectly balanced and should have a center of gravity near the middle-front portion not just the tip
BREAKING NEWS
florida man kills his wife with giant crossbow through his house’s walls
He claims it was an accident but police are still investigating
Might take the police a while, I mean I'm still stuck trying to figure out why such an absolute goddess is with him. Lol.
This joke is a bit dark
now just build it full scale because that is a good 5th of size or less :)
you could build a seige engine that make holes in a solid stone wall.
I pledge fealty to house Disaster
Edit: Wow! Thanks for the likes!
Same!
One fire, under god
Today, tomorrow and always. For house Disaster!
Sounds fun
I want to like this comment but it’s got 666 likes and I don’t want to ruin perfection
This guy comes up with ideas, builds those ideas, and shoots a video. Not to mention edits the video and uploads, all in a very short time. This is more than most people do in a month
Jonathan Holbrook your right, it took me a month to do that
He has a wife / gf. So he has time to think about other things rather than an extinction crisis.
I would like but theirs 69 likes
With a 1000 pound draw those arrows should be screaming fast, more than 75mph. Needs more tweaking.
I load of energy is wasted it shaking and vibrating itself.
Arrows are too heavy for their size, and the fletchings are TERRIBLE. Too small, and only two of them. Oak doweling, with maybe canvas fletchings, or even like, a thin plastic would be better. Definitely 3 of them, as well. And yeah, lots of wasted energy, it needs to be secured down better.
and the arrows need to be front heavy god damn. I mean has anyone seen how the back is like a foot higher than the front from just 2 meters distance traveled.
edit: at 5:19 you can see it
I was thinking all this too but, I think it was safer for him to make the arrows this poorly, as he was pointing it at his house as well as him being in a residential area, I would like him to take it out to a field and fire it with some proper arrows and some more tweaking to the design to make use of all the power in those springs
also the limbs schould be lighter so they can move quicker and be shorter as shorter bow limbs achieve better efficiency at same draw length but all that would require better steel
2:23 “Alright so it’s time for the first test and I think you know what is already going to be”
**Points camera at girlfriend**
*_Breaking news: Florida man arrested for killing his wife with a homemade ballista_*
Hey, you should try hitting a dragon in mid air, from a boat.
That's a challenge.
Try hitting the dragon 3 times though.
Forgot My Name and then suddenly not being able to hit him at all
Not on just any boat, on a speed boat thats going top speed...
With the engine broken
...that's moving quickly at about a 1000 meters.
It's actually pretty easy according to S08E04 apparently...
“He’s just standing there... MENACINGLY!!”
-TheBackyardScientist
-Patrick
Wumpus
-The audience of got watching the night king in episode 3
Careful--:
You almost shot Drogon.
“Man makes ballista in his backyard”
Yep definitely Florida
No dragons to kill...
_oh i know let's shoot the emus_
The was a giant war against emus and they won, don’t believe me? Then look up the great emu war and you’ll find it.
now australia will win The Second Emu War
@@YourPalQWERTY I searched it and now I'm intrigued to say the least
i dont know why they didnt just use nets to keep the emus from eating the fields
@@Killbayne they lost using military methods, do you think net is more eficient?
Suddenly I feel less safe sitting here in my Florida house made out of cinder blocks.
Most when used as structural support are grouted full of concrete and rebar
Tyler Randall you may have missed the joke lol
Tyler Randall r/wooooooosh
I understood the sarcasm, but my comment is still valid
@@randallt16 We know. We all know.
But woooshh
with that accuracy no wonder why they all got flambed
I'd be interested in the statistics. "We just need one good shot."
looks good, HOWEVER I am pretty sure if you had a top rail over the mechanism you would make a smoother release making for more kinetic energy
Backyard Scientist is Florida Man with a college degree.
Aleksei Carrion people..... let THIS guy into college??
now double the amount of leafsprings ;)
The issue with this is not the draw weight, but the rate leaf springs release energy.
Compare 80lb long bows against 40lb recurve.
For penetrations, you want velocity.
This can be achieved in part by thinning the limbs rather than reducing width.
However steel isn't great for quick energy release.
It's why top end crossbows use glass fibre or carbon fibre.
You'd be better off halving the weight of the projectile
@@JETBLACKPRIEST But that's not as cool
actual medieval crossbows had over 1000 lb draws in a handheld weapon
@Jerry Smith Have you ever heard of the windlass? Take a look at Tod's Workshop channel and you can see legitimate handheld crossbows that go over 1000 lbs draw weight.
Tbh I expected more than 1,000 lbs of force... there are regular hand size heavy crossbows that have the same draw weight.
BOONISH It could have held more force but he got nervous!
BOONISH
The ballista is literally the most slapdash orky ballista made out of scrap wood and car parts
@@cxn8 please. Do share, in full detail your "calculations"
Anonymoose
r/iamverysmart
Jake Shire he doesn’t have calculations to speak of.
The arrow went way slower than I expected
You can see that Dragon-killing potential. Oh wait, u can't.
Having a giant ballista in my backyard
Totally normal, nothing to shout about.
@@vw5pdmvyc2u2u4 angery boi
Florida man shoots Ballista in backyard
I'd love to see you test a specific historical account of a Roman besieging force using the scorpions and aiming it directly at the stone windows of the fortification. According to the Roman who wrote this, the angling on the side of the arrow slit windows essentially banked the shots into the window, so on building with too steep an angle on the arrow slit windows, they'd simply aim all the scorpions at the windows and very reliably hit defenders. This is significant because as you may know, most shots in history miss, it has always taken 100 arrows to hit someone with 1, basically.
You would get better aim and range if you use an arrow with 3 "feathers" and give it some rotation
to stabilise it in 3 dimensional space.
@Greg Fakerson you could also use more than 3 but at least 3
Two rigid fletchings is historically accurate for some crossbow bolts. This device in the video doesn't produce velocities or range that would make it useful, but a small turn at the ends of the two fletchings could create spin.
Kevin kinda forgot that he isn't Euron Greyjoy
More like Kevin Gayjoy
At a 2 lb projectile, at a hundred and seven feet per second, and in calculating that each pound is a 7,000 grain bullet, meaning that your 2 lb arrow is a 14,000 grain bullet essentially, you have 356 foot-pounds of energy at the muzzle.
Essentially, a powerful 9 mm, WOW!
Can you make a levitating induction heater and hang it over your pool and when the magnet melts it falls directly into the cold water? That would be cool to see.
【FLUX】 or to heat the pool
You should team up with Jörg Sprave from the slingshot channel 👍🏻
"I'm happy to present an awesome build by a fellow youtuber of the House Disaster. The Dragon Slayer!! Hahaha!! Let me show you it's features!"
Do you want an apocalypse? Pretty sure that'd be the result. :p
Jorg has already done this.
Isn’t that the guy that destin from smarter everyday did a video with
Jörg would probably be underwhelmed by this.
I love the high speed cam shots. It really shows the entire process. So you are not only the engineer who designs things you are also a machinist who makes things. Fantastic!
4:58 *phil swift walks up " THAT A LOT OF DAMAGE, HOW BOUT A LITTLE MORE"
@ 4:06 “All you have to do is pull this lever and BNGOINGISNGNG”! It cracked me up because you couldn’t hear what he said, you could only hear the vibrations lol
1: Arows need (at least) 3 fletchings to be stable in a 3-dimensional world.
2: Never, EVER dry-fire a bow (firing without an arrow). With an arrow, the power of the bow is transferred into the arrow, without it, the power will be transferred into the bow itself and this may break the bow. Also if the arrow is not heavy enough, even with an arrow you might get the same problem. This time half of the power will be transferred into the arrow and the other half to the bow. This may not break it but over time it may cause damage.
3: You need to measure how fast the arrow goes AFTER the arrow leaves the bow because it will accelarate.
These are the points I wanted to make according to my bow/arrow knowledge. There might be mistakes so I would be happy if more knowledgable people can confirm these. Especially dry-firing is VERY dangerous so pls be cautious :/
Nerd
@Aidan King I know! Did riceeater drop out of elementary school
Surprisingly bad aim. Just like the real thing after the episode 5 nerfing patch.
Covfefe Hamberder It really is funny. I truly thank you sir, it made my day. Season 8 had some real kindergartner level writing and you try to seem smart by telling me you liked it and you saw nothing wrong with it. Wow. Just wow. I guess the Dunning-Kruger effect really is true...
Gabriel Incognito Given his pfp I’m pretty sure it’s a troll
People like you help keep my dream alive of one day becoming a watermelon salesmen.
Florida man fights neighbour with ballista
"im going to be shooting those motocycles" **motocycle rate drops to zero**
Cool, but, excuse the sarcasm, does it fire round cliffs and several hundred feet into the air like in GoT?
The bullet is not aerodynamic
Everytime I say I want to build something like this people are always asking "why?"..... DOES THIS REALLY NEED AN EXPLANATION!?!?!?
Florida man destroys his house with homemade Game of Thrones weapon
Lol
This just makes Rhaegal's death more upsetting. That's the weapon which is meant to have single-handedly took out a dragon and an entire fleet of ships.
This is not the same Ballista used in GoT. Those if we stretch our imagination were proper Ballistas with a much higher draw force.
Your Scorpion is really nice and a lot of fun, but now we know something for sure, that thing would never be able to kill a dragon.
Good stuff. More videos should be like this. You get right into testing and show us the process and science as you go. Thank you for sparing the boring parts.
Maybe try a thicker string. That string looks rather thin for such a high draw weight, I think you’d have much higher velocity and better results with a thicker string. Regardless, really cool project 👌🏻
The fletching hit that metal bracket during the slow-mo, that'll slow you down, and try arrows that are lighter, then watch that bow sizzle, lol
5:49 "107 feet per second, which is about 75 miles per hour"
Metric system world: Am I a joke to you?
Kinda yea
I can’t get 107 feets in a second...😭
Yes, yes you are.
Murica doesnt like practicality. Didnt you know?
A Longbow could fire an arrow out to 400 meters with a draw of 200lbs. First we need to change this to real units, 90.72kg. The arrows were around 77.76g but this varied so 80g is appropriate.
We'll knock that draw to 90kg and call our arrow 0.080kg, we can use this to work out a draw:projectile mass based on what we very much know worked. The conclusion is that bow has a 1:0.0008888889 draw to projectile ratio.
Since this behemoth is 1000lb, 453.6kg. Plugging this into the ratio we've worked out, the ideal projectile mass is 403.2g, 14.23oz. Based on tests with reproduction medieval Longbows and arrows, this should yield a velocity of 54m/s. That arrow therefore should pack 587.9j muzzle energy. This puts it roughly on par with some .45ACP and 9X19mm ammo. But unlike those pistol rounds, we know bows could reach 400m with lethal effect and with the help of gravity would have most of its bludgeoning force upon meeting the unfortunate target. And obviously, if the ballista got swarmed by the enemy, those arrows could be used like an Assegai for melee combat.
This comment definitely deserves to be pinned! This was a great breakdown and explanation with some fun facts for comparison. Thank you for taking your time to write this!
@@CWBchannel thank you. I'm glad that awkward mixture of maths nerd and history geek is paying off at last. 😁
5:39 bruh you DRY FIRED that 1000lb draw bow WTF?
Your videos are so creative and look like they take so much time xD thank you for the effort and the great content!
I havent been on your channel in a while , but it looks like you finally got your own backyard!! Congratulations cant wait to see more content!
Thank you for this! Soo cool and so much effort that you put into these videos is highly appreciated by me and other people!
Pitches audible audiobooks.
-Still end up only wanting to buy that shark shirt.
Love this,
But this would have been a great collab with JoergSprave
Just meant to write the same thing. I feel like it's less deadly, than it should be, considering the draw weight. I bet Joerg would do something about that :) Also some distance shooting with better projectiles would be nice.
@@psow4062 Actually Joerg already made something simillar, and with rubber too, it certainly looked a lot more deadly.
@@psow4062 Lmao a rubber powered one with that drawweight would be much more powerful
Man I just love your videos there is no tell what you are going to do next. Keep up the good work
When an zombie apocalypse hit and you meet an certain backyard...
Not as big as the ones in GOT. It's not working if it doesn't go straight thru ur house.
damm i was grinding on some of your vids when this notification came up. loving your vids!
This seemed very irresponsible... which means it was awesome. Thanks for posting!
By irresponsible you mean powerful? (not realy)
I know, I absolutely adore his disregard for safety precautions. It's easier to relate to.
I love the massive energy difference he has from his old videos
2:18 well at least you know an efficient and effective way to put out fires
the ropes are too long so you lose tension and the arms are too short in comparison to the length of the ballista so if they were longer you get more power out of it and it will be more like the one in the show
Yep - shorten the bowstrings (should have no slack whatsoever; some static tension would be good) and the speed of the bolts will be twice as fast (estimate).
@@duffykohler5827 He'd need to reinforce the rig, it'd be too much potential energy for that one. Likely to explode under the tension.
Drew Russell most ballista’s in the show and in real life are wood and reinforced with metal strips so if the ballista is reinforced on some areas that would break under high pressure there should be nothing to go wrong
@@jaspermennink7409 Just do some CAD force analysis and make it from steel. Should be easier for these mostly compressive forces (save for the spring and the rope).
Love my boy Riley, always stepping up to the challenge 💪🏻👏🏻
You might get a lot more power out of the scorpion if you had the springs pre-tensioned at your initial draw position. This helps the springs to transfer all of their energy into the arrow instead of flopping around wildly after it has been fired. Hope you try this out!
Try out how hot a heater must be to brun in cardboard. 🧐
Y'all need me. I've worked in a metal fab shop, I'm good at rocketry and chemistry, and i was in the Army as a 13B cannon crewmember. If it's artillery, I can build it. Mwahahahaha!
I teach all who seek my knowledge.
@@cap5856 Possibly. Ive got a thing about being on camera lol I'm just a Q. We mostly refit motorcycle frames for larger engines and made cannons in our off time 😆
@@cap5856 I do plan on building a couple of armed drones at some point that I'll definitely have videos for. I'm poor though so don't expect too much from me. Lol
@@cap5856 I dont do airsoft anymore. I mod/fab nerf blasters/parts and im working on the efficiency and reliability of my rockets while i research targe locking methods. THAT will be a challenge.
I'm really happy this channel got back to uploading frequently. Seriously u guys are great.
florida welder here 1) love your stuff 2) would love to weld stuff for yah!!!
super cool and creative engineering. I’m never disappointed watching you!
Your jokes are underrated.
The King of the Backyard!
The King of the Backyard!
The King of the Backyard!
ALL HAIL THE KING IN THE YARD
Cops:"have any weapons on you?"
Backyard scientist: well... have you seen Game of Thrones?
you always keep me entertained with your crazy contraptions, when i first started watching you on a account thats long lost
FBI OPEN UP!
No Sir you're not in trouble... we are Game of Thrones fans.
Step 1: Make a giant ballista prototype
Step 2: Make it light
Step 3: Mount it on a car
Step 4: Go Dragon Hunting...
Bonus points if you file a patent...
News:Florida man sets fire to his house after playing with molten metal
Me: kevin should’ve been more careful.
I noticed the arrow moves slightly up at the very end of the draw
You’re absolutely right, I noticed it as well. I think it’s causing the arrow to lose some energy upon release due to the friction and that’s why the arrow is also tipping down.
Yup. With a 1000 pound draw weight, those arrows should have been embedded in his backstop/house.
@@The_Keeper He might not be using all the draw weight as well, but indeed something to keep the arrow or the sled down would allow more efficient energy transfer
@@WarlandWriter Also, he's using steel leaf springs with questionable spring steel qualities after the plasma cut, so I wouldn't expect insane energy retention. it's pretty dang cool though
I think it's also a question of bad arrows, there is a reason real arrows and ballista ammo are made from light and stiff shafts, not metal ones. I know he wanted to keep these for reuse, but they were too heavy.
Technically it's more of a bolt, isn't it?
More of a screw..?
all the piggies gangsta until the angry birds get an upgrade
I appreciate the SpongeBob quote at the end: standing there, menacingly!
Four words for what to use that monster of a siege weapon for next.
Folding Rocket Plane Launcher
@backyardscientist, love your shirt man
wouldn't it be more effective if the string was already pre-tensioned like a regular bow/ like the scorpion in game of thrones
The draw / potential energy does not get transferred enough because the arrow's velocity has not had time to finish accelerating. You need it to travel further before it's airborne.
I clicked the notification really fast love Game of thrones and your channel