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This is the undisputed legitimate record.
Agreed
it is and its idea can also inspire firefighting tech and make it the global standard!!
Hi Destin!
Nerdcord.
You guys should colab🙃
It’s just not the same without him showing his wife and her completely shattering his hopes and confidence in how cool his invention is.
Didn't need her this time for that, figured it himself.
Better than completely shattering his tibia and femur.
Agreed
They still together? Energy lacked here big time. Felt off. He seems down
@@Lgp2324 I'm pretty sure they had a kid together. So I would hope so.
1% building
99% complementing the water jet
I think he likes the water jet. Don't know why..
@@finjafeenstaub7459 Who wouldnt? If I can only afford it.
And stressing how hard it is to reassemble the legs
honestly I came here for that
As an engineer I appreciate your illustration of the fact that even with amazing tools and a highly skilled engineer, success comes only after repeated failures and perseverance.
if you're related to Ben... I am so, SO sorry
(insightful comment btw, I def agree. Engineering is mostly failing lol)
thanks for that comment, it inspired me to get back to work on a project that I was failing at.
@@idontwantahandlethough
Shapiro is a quite common name in Jewish communities.
@@idontwantahandlethoughThe video has nothing to do with Ben Shapiro, neither does the comment. You chose to insult the guy using faked compassion. WTF??
ok but can you imagine how horrifying would this project be if it was made by "i did a thing" lmao
Probably instead of using air, he would use explosives, and of course he would be bare foot and only wearing his apron
XDDD
one is a scientist doing a mad project, other is a mad scientist doing a project
I'm waiting for years for the collab
Came here to ask would Collin Furse have taken off his safety tie; I think not!
_One small step for a man, one _*_giant leap_*_ for nerdkind._
Score!
Daddy would you like some sausage? Daddy would you like some sausages?
URC
@@RKroese wtf is that second line lmao
@@peptobepto a movie from before your time, I suppose
Except he never took the step.
I love the constant rationalizing that I assume is for your wife - "it's SO helpful that I have this water jet or this entire project would take SOOOOOO much longer!"
Came here for this comment!
Petition that Shane should make a Foosball table that is robotically controlled on one side, and have professionals try to beat it🤨
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that would be awesome actually
I want to see a foosball table that will play against itself. A lot of learning opportunities in that build.
@@AronDarling it would be awesome to see it play using AI on one side, and preprogrammed algorithms on the other side
Great idea!
I honestly think that would be too easy for him.
Man's really cutting it close to the sponsor deadline.
As a true engineer!!
What does that mean?
@@Capt-Intrepid The deadline was probably this year 2023
Man reached for the sky on this one though
Didn't even have time for the Mrs to mock him.... I miss that part.
Every time he brings up the water jet I feel like that part is meant to show his wife that it was worth the purchase lol
I was thinking the same thing 😂
I wonder what wife thinks about this
I have to imagine that tool was at least partially donated by the manufacturer as a product placement (its well into the 6 figures and he isn't using it to generate revenue on a day-to-day basis [for example cutting granite counter tops]).
At least no one can say he is taking it for granted XD
This seems like one of those inventions that he deems “not good enough” and comes up with a 2.0 or 3.0. Would love to see a follow up
Can't wait for the building size full military mech version!
At Kennedy they had a cantilevered harness system of some sort to simulate lunar gravity, and you could jump around a decent height and area. Something like this could be a safer and more flexible way to do this - he already has a lot of experience with pulley systems, too.
he has to make it voice activated by saying "Go Go Wighton Stilts"
@@jmcbresilfr i can already imagine a hexapod that jumps with these
I want to say big stilts usually have tall handles for better leverage.. also minimizes the chance of getting hit in the face if the handle goes above your head
I think your development of the seals really effectively demonstrates a common problem in the modern-day engineering space and one I fall victim to all the time. When you have such speedy prototyping resources at your fingertips like 3D Printers, it can be incredibly tempting to iterate a larger assembly than you need. Especially, when you’ve had a eureka moment and are certain that this will be the final iteration which will work perfectly, for the 43rd time….
You appeared to manufacture seals for the entire assembly every time you iterated on the design. With the minimal viable product (MVP) method in mind, you could have iterated the seal on a single join (maybe a smaller diameter to save in materials) so you could fail fast and develop the design without making multiple seals and spending hours assembling the entire stilt. Once you have some confidence in your design you could push it with the worst-case join. Potentially, this is the largest diameter because this join will be subject to the highest force and has the largest sealing surface. Once you have a working design, you could start to assemble and test a larger and larger assembly until you have a wholly working part.
This is exactly right except for one key point: these videos are made for entertainment as much as education and it might be worth showing the whole process being used from an entertainment point of view.
I think a healthy compromise would be to make a scale model of the design to show the whole process in miniature to cut down on material cost while still getting the visual effect of the whole rig activating.
Yeah, I was confused why the seal wasn't perfected on one joint before making whole set. But I guess it's easy to feel like you're doing "just a minimal prototype" while you're making too much at the moment. I'm glad he did just one leg before assembling the other one :D
The only problem with that would be that the one seal would be experiencing lower pressure than what would be experienced with every leg extended. Like he mentioned that the bottom-most leg needs 10x the pressure to extend than the first - if he only tested the seals with one leg, the seals would be exposed to much less pressure in the test than the actual thing. Basically, the full thing IS the MVP to accurately test the seals with the appropriate air pressure.
All the joints have to be sealed, otherwise air will leak out and the joint being tested will not be pressurized.
I assumed he did test the one seal before making the entire leg. But obviously not good enough test@@angrypotato_fz
I feel like Shane did this project just so he could justify to his wife why he needed to buy an auto belay.
With you on that. I'll be nice and just say that this wasn't his best idea.
For real!
and the water jet. I think he mentioned that 3 times.
*two* auto belays
yeah lol autobelays aint cheap.
It didn't feel complete without the harsh judgement of your wife! 🤣 Great video
She must have loved it.
Yeah, how do I know if this is good without critical wife reviews
I think it was so sketchy that he didnt even show her the video before releasing it... thats what you get killed for as a father, you know...trying to kill yourself.
SMH: The legs extend without blowing apart now!!
Wife: Yeah but your real legs are still gonna blow apart when you use this thing
@@nilz6432 Totally makes sense, marriage is basically forfeiting the right to kill oneself to their spouse
Can weld, code, program, machine, design, etc. Anything related to fabrication/automation, it seems he can do. What a skill set to have.
A great engineer
I always call him "The most complete engineer"
Starting off the new year strong with a video from one of the best out there!
Not near as good as you guys
Next year he's gonna have a fully functioning ironman suit lol
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
The people who watch both seeing this comment 👀
my favorite thing about stuff made here is that every video is in a new workshop
next one he is in an air hangar for SURE
This is the same workshop as the last few videos. Just with tarps covering the walls.
HAHA
@@Enderman0415 Well of course - he can only get himself... like 20 feet up in the air in this one. So limiting!! Lol
Having attended engineering school on a basketball scholarship really made this a natural choice for Shane.
Huh?
@@ChargeNReact It was a joke. He didn't actually go to engineering school on a basketball scholarship.
@@DavidKutzler
I must express my profound gratitude for your prompt elucidation regarding the intended facetiousness inherent in the initial comment under the aforementioned video. Regrettably, my cognitive faculties were momentarily confounded, and I found myself ensnared within the labyrinthine corridors of literal interpretation. Your perspicacious clarification has extricated me from the bewildering depths of my initial confusion, and I am now poised to proffer my sincere acknowledgment of the humor intended by the commentator in question.
Upon revisiting the comment thread, it has become manifestly evident that the assertion posited therein, regarding the individual known as Shane, attending engineering school under the auspices of a basketball scholarship, was nothing more than a whimsical and facetious fabrication. This sardonic invention, delivered with a deftness that eluded my initial comprehension, proffers a satirical twist on the perceived incongruity between the ostensibly unathletic demeanor of Shane and the ingenuity demonstrated in the creation of the aforementioned contraption designed for the facilitation of dunking a basketball.
In light of this revelation, I am compelled to express my admiration for the astuteness with which the commentator ingeniously wove a fictional narrative, embellishing the video creator's backstory with a purportedly athletic foray into engineering academia. The delightful concoction of irony and jest, which served as the foundation for this comedic stratagem, has now been unveiled, and I find myself humbled by the dexterity with which the commentator navigated the delicate balance between fiction and reality.
As I reflect upon the intricacies of this humorous exchange, I am prompted to marvel at the multifaceted nature of online discourse, wherein the interplay of wit and banter serves to enrich the communal experience of content consumption. It is a testament to the creativity and quick-wittedness of the denizens of the digital realm that such textual repartees can be fashioned with such finesse, transforming an innocuous comment section into a veritable playground of linguistic acrobatics.
In conclusion, I extend my deepest appreciation for your elucidation, which has not only dismantled the shackles of my initial perplexity but has also heightened my awareness of the nuanced dynamics inherent in the realm of online humor. May we continue to traverse the vast expanse of internet discourse with an ever-heightened sensitivity to the manifold layers of meaning concealed beneath the veneer of textual exchanges.
Dude I seriously forget that your channel exists because how long the videos take but then I remember months later to check in . Love your work bro
thank you so much for repeating that you "slept on" something you're trying to learn. I learned how to drive a car like that, it works really well for me and I'm glad I'm not the only person who works like that :3
Everytime he talks about being thankful for the tools he has, I know it's just so he can watch it back with his wife and use it as justification for buying all of them 😂
Exactly what I thought too! 😂
No, he gets almost all of them free from sponsors.
You see? The video made $10 so that means I can buy the water jet
id say he does that so the tool manufacturers see how much publicity can get by sending him their tools
Engineering comedy is a genre that could only exist here and now. I'm so grateful this exists.
"The design is very human"
100% agree
Simone Giertz also has trailblazed a lot in that area
Two things, I see your videos being looked back at 30 years from now, and your applications being used from everything like construction to sports,.......secondly I love how much time you put into these projects, and appreciate your perseverance!!!! (Thanks for the cool content)
I love your channel, your videos and also love the fact that there are sponsors like Brilliant out there that can help push this kind of content for free on the internet. Everything about it is positive, love it.
Imagine this dude inviting someone over that didn't know what he did. "Hey what's this?" "Oh that's my un-missable basketball hoop." "and what's that?" "That's my explosive-powered baseball bat."
Sadly he tends to cannibalize past projects for parts.
As a rock climber and nerd - it's so fun to see Shane's obvious rock climbing alter ego come through in his videos. "On belay, belay on, dunking, dunk on!"
"Throw me the rock!"
Everyone just starts yelling "ROCK!" until it stops moving
Actually, thanks for writing down the name of the device, I've never heard of it before and not being native English speaker it was difficult to understand what exactly he was calling it throughout the video (I've heard "delay" and kept thinking it can't be right).
@@mikosoft oh yeah, that would be confusing if you don't speak English -or... French, I suppose?- edit: nope, I was wrong. Just looked into the etymology of "belay" and wow, what a neat word! Words are so cool :D
we take words for granted, but the capacity for speech is so damn cool. Consider how many orders of magnitude more data we transmit compared to any other organism on earth!! All they can do is warn each other, say "hey bb want to get sixy wit meh?" and "learn" a single new thing every few thousand/million years via evolution. Even before the internet (even before electricity, for that matter), humans were capable of transmitting more information (in the strictest [Shannon] sense of the word) in a single sentence than most animals are probably capable of in their entire lives! That's pretty sweet 🤗
Boy o’ boy you put a ton of work into creating just one video…WOW! Thank you very much. Get to learn through all your hard work 👍🙂
One of the aspects that I love about this project is how you iterate in parallel the product itself (expanding legs), your skills of handling them, a support system (rail / winch / reverse auto-belay) and your personal safety system. Each of those have their own evolution and interdependencies. A great approach to the problem.
To me the most genius ideas in this project came out of the need to improvise all the safety devices.
Yeah, the safety systems in his projects look like they shouldn't work or aren't enough, but are actually quite thought out I'd say lol
Sometimes I wonder why he hasn’t uploaded. Then he does and I remember how complicated his builds get 😂
I'm not saying this didn't take a lot of effort, but compared to all the previous videos, this one was lacking a lot - there's no electronics or firmware. This one is basically just a bunch of seals and o-rings and some solenoid valves.
@@gorak9000 hey, you know what, you make a good point. In comparison to his other builds this one didn’t have the digital complexity his builds usually do. And I’ve often noticed his builds quickly become a Rube Goldberg machine; so much fun but the exact opposite of KISS. lol this entire ‘problem’ is solved with a small trampoline
this is probably a "quick" in-between project to get us some content because he's working on something more complicated
@@BPBomber Didn't he say in the previous video that he moved shops again? Don't underestimate what a PIA moving is and how much time and effort it takes to set a shop back up after a move. He gets a pass this time... (just joking, his videos are amazing and I'll watch them all!)
Also his day job is basically rapid prototyping/product design (thus why he needs all the gear he has), so this is all in his "spare time"
Always so exciting to see a new stuff made here video. Thank you for providing such high quality content
" A little bit of time and effort " . That's an understatement 😂. The truth is this it takes years to gain this sort specialized knowledge and experience. With a lot of time, hard work, practice, and dedication anything is possible. But you sir are extremely talented.
"Just make it lighter, cheaper, and faster" at 3:25. Illustrated by 3 interlocking cogs. Nicely done! @standupmaths would be proud!
….that’s literally the joke.
@@CGagnon5 We know. It's inception, the movie plot, not the actual meaning of the word. Plans within plans (Dune). Wheels within wheels (Revelations). You get the idea.
lighter/cheaper/faster is a choice for consumers to make, not innovators
@@CGagnon5 yeah, you can only have two
Mark Rober: I’m just trying to be the worlds best uncle
Shane: I’m trying to make the things I thought of during my childhood
Who’s Shane
@@TheCanadianCommunistShane is the guy who runs the Stuff Made Here channel.
@@TheCanadianCommunistShank on deez nuts😂🎉
@@TheCanadianCommunistthis channel
Shane is a way way wayyy better mechanical engineer than mark is two of them are not even comparable
Always a favorite channel to watch and always looking forward to the next vid. On that note, a lot of us would take a video that's a fraction as complicated but that allows you to crank them out every other month than two or three annually.
Dude, your videos, ideas and creations are sooo awesome. Congrats and keep up the good work! :D
You should combine all your inventions to make the ultimate basketball player
excellent idea
Hits the dunk stilts and the 3D moving basket races over and annihilates you
@@krumplin8992LMAO
If he does that, he'll create the ultimate basketball court- where even a newborn can be the ultimate basketball player if they can manage to simply hold the ball
@@krumplin8992 holy hell that's an amazing visual
There should be a Nerdlympics where you compete in some sport, but with self built tools. Score based on performance, coolness and creativity.
It'll be so much more interesting than the normal Olympics.
nah keep it strictly score based, i want a centralized meta
There is technically something like that for handicapped people. Engineering teams work to build solutions to help them pass through different events
I want to see fencing
Are you aware there’s wheelchair fencing?@@brackzaff
robot wars ?
I like how you show the parts that didn’t work-a great showcasing of your thought process journey
Stuff, this is great! Watching your process inspires me to do better with my creative projects at home. You're a genius Engineer!
I love the entire safety system just being climbing gear.
Didn't expect to hear the phrase "that's way too dangerous, so I didn't do it," on this channel. Certainly didn't expect the wave of relief I experienced having heard it. Like, I know the dude survived, he uploaded the video. I was still somehow nervous.
Well, it *could* have been uploaded by his next of kin.
It is genuinely amazing to see what your mind is capable of, incredible to watch, love your videos
You could have saved time by going straight to the Parker Hannifan O-ring sizing guide. I use it all the time for gaskets, o-rings, and gland seals. It shows how to design the groove to get the proper %squish given the o-ring and pressure. Great Video! Thanks so much!!!
It doesn't count without your wife's skeptical looks.
yea she is gone
@@SPIKEASAURUS How do you know?
@@SPIKEASAURUSwhat a weird thing to say.
@@carlschmidt8134 She is gone from the video lol as in "yea shes gone. where the heck did she go?" Gone for the duration of a n entire video.
When I first got out of high school in the 1970’s, I spent a year framing houses. One job had cathedral ceilings that went up to 11 feet. The sheet rockers who put the sheet rock on the ceilings used stilts that were about 5 or 6 feet long. When I asked them how they learned to do this, they said they started with 6” stilts, and then kept extending them by 6” increments whenever they got comfortable. They said after a couple of weeks, they could use stilts of any lengths. They said they had used 9 foot stilts in a circus parade before they decided circus life was not for them.
These are the most insane high heels ever designed
Another stellar idea and execution Shane. Your never give up attitude and determination continue to amaze me.
So that's why Gadget is so clumsy - he's walking around with these things INSIDE his legs and arms! Turns out he's actually super coordinated and agile to be able to function at all.
I was really hoping for a reaction to these monstrosities from Mrs. Stuff. She represents the audience at large so perfectly; half super impressed but trying to act like it's not a big deal, half bemused by the absurdity of it, half terrified for your safety, and half not understanding how fractions work. Except that last part.
Now you can win a staring contest with a giraffe! 🦒💪❤️
tall zonday
chocolate dunk
The GOAT! I love your brain, Tay. A staring contest with a giraffe.. Who thinks of this stuff!?
Well, *start* a staring contest with a giraffe, anyway XD
You mean camel
I love these projects and channel so much! keep up the great work.
Great vids man. Thank you for the uploads
I was waiting for his wife's reaction, but it never came! That's become one of my favorite parts of his videos 😂
My favorite part was the proper climbing safety communication stuffs.
"Dunking."
"Dunk on"
Lol.
Inspiring to see how much time it takes, how many times you have to start over. Honestly the most impressive part for me.
I loved it. The attention to safety from StuffMadeHere and "I did a thing" are two extremes of the spectrum 😂
I really appreciate the irony of buying a ladder so you could engineer it into something that lifts you higher
My guy post this in February, you don’t deserve the wasteland of January revenue
American New Year's Eve
What do you mean?
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@@UnknownVirhere in Canada, new year eve is not the same days in the USA...
wtf does this mean how is January revenue different
I can't believe how creative you've got with this project and how far you took this contraption. Literally amazing!
There are some small details that I'm wondering why have you not mentioned them or tried them though.
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I believe you could have spring tensioned the winch slightly, so that it would reel in all the cable that was in the leg when it would start contracting. The spring would be very light, barely strong enough to spin the winch back as you deflate the legs.
Also if you implemented a locking mechanism for the winch, you could have locked it at a point where it would hold the leg compressed even as you stepped off of the leg.
This would possibly help you to learn how to walk on it better too, as it potentially wouldn't extend if you offset your weight left and right while walking.
Connecting the stilts on the top by a steel bar that is attached to each stilt by means of a spherical bearing would make it much easier to keep balance and walk.
"So I was thinking I could miniaturize it into something much lighter that barely works."
I expected nothing less, my dude 😆😆😆
Your content is always so awesome.
Anyone can make a bridge that doesn't fall down.
An engineer can make a bridge that almost doesn't fall down.
doesn't that mean the engineers bridge will still fall down@@robertdascoli949
If Tony Stark didn't have stock holders to please, he'd be this guy.
Love your stuff. Always worth the wait.
The obvious change which would make balancing and walking much easier is if your feet and upper leg were securely ... interacting ... (i want to avoid saying 'attached') to the stilts. Two points of interaction makes it so you can control it. One point (at present) is just a hinge. I know you didn't want to do that for safety reasons, but if you could design a way of positively controlling two points but also be able to bail, you would have so much more success.
I wonder if clipless bike shoes + mounting points would work? Once you're familiar with how to clip in and out, the motion isn't too hard, and they're designed to be able to do that if you need to bail
I absolutely love and appreciate the enormous amount of work that is glossed over in a second per video. Like, huge amounts of work. Love it.
Really nice video!
I wanted to tell you, that watching what you do, and seeing how your projects work, that was a big reason of why I decided to continue studying! I left my old job, and I started university this year, studying electronic engineering. Keep up the good work man! Your videos are inspiring many people.
I feel like one of the reasons you make these videos is because it helps you troubleshoot while you're actually in the building process lol. I find that explaining something to someone else often introduces some answers to questions I didn't know needed answering
Amazing video, amazing design !!! This is is incredible ! I can't fathom the time it takes !
I still think Shane should make a robot that you could dump a laundry basket of washed and dried clothes in and it would fold and sort them into baskets for each member of the household. Besides being very cool to see his engineering ingenuity at work, the final product would make households around the world happier.
he actually has an object like that: its called The Wife
@@commentbot8081You have a comfortable couch, I take it?
@@professorluimes3020LOL
I second this idea! I've had this idea for years and always got stuck in clothing items that don't look like regular clothing items. Like a circle scarf
I don't want to doubt the man, but most likely he'd get as close to the solution as with the hair dresser robot
I am a mech engineer who also enjoys my own design and build projects. Nothing about what you showed is easy, but you are next level. Thanks for the great video and including the stuff that didn't work.
BIG BIG props for helping out Mathias. Good on you !
some kid told him in middle school that he could never dunk and he took it SO personally
You should make the original ladders expand with air tank so it could be used to climb walls very fast!
How come your ideas always start out sounding straightforward but always end up being terrifying machines?! 😂
That's engineering.
Like how the idea of flying started with small wings attached to your arms, and ended in large metal tubes with 200.000 horsepower going over 600mph at 30.000 feet.
10% of the development process is making it work, and 90% is making it less likely to kill you.
@@andrasbiro3007 "10% of the development process is making it work, and 90% is making it less likely to kill you." I fuckin love that
Have you never met humans before?
Compared to your other projects so far, this went strangely smoothly. It felt weird even 😂
This mechanism setup could have some very exciting applications for compact, large, lightweight setups of machinery. Love the results so far, keep it up!
ok i did NOT expect this to be the thing that stuffmadehere has been working on all this time ngl
Are you positively surprised or negativly?
@@lynes2peters438 Ngl I don't even know
@@personguyguy lol
@@personguyguysame lol
"All this time" was only two months, hopefully he gets back to a more regular schedule after the major delays getting his new shop set up for the videos before that.
I'm always waiting for your next videos. Love your creativity and the math that takes to do them
Shocked this video isn’t getting pushed by algorithm more, this was my favorite of your recent projects. The first minute is engaging too so I would think new viewer retention would be solid, but YT is always rough this month.
Half way through the video I kept thinking, “when is he gonna have his wife try it out?” 😂
This man is the most knowledgeable engineer on the entire platform, every stuff making youtuber has tried or mentioned trying something similar and no one has even come close.
Thanks for showing us what is possible for a single human to achieve.
Can't tell you how many times I've seen people try this idea (so many scissor lift attempts) and not succeed. Really cool to finally see it done. Removing the frame and doing it solo was great, exactly what the viewer wanted lol.
You know, what I really love about your videos is how they show that you really love what you're doing 😊
Love your work. I was missing why things weren't working, such as why the seals were printed wrong, that I loved in previous videos. Keep it up!
What a way to bring in the new year! Glad I caught this at upload. Happy new year everyone
Allen Pan punching the air right now.
You mean all I had to do was not leave the ground????
yeah a collab with safety 3rd would be great!
"What a time to be alive!" 14:00. So true, even if we are setting at our computers watching, there is so much knowledge to be gleaned from the internet. It is fabulous!
You’re my hero man, love watching your stuff!
You are my favorite CZcamsr. Thanks for doing all this. It’s inspiring for my kids.
I absolutely love your tenacity and your willingness to share your less than successful attempts
That was incredible! I'm glad that you're okay though. Those legs were definitely scary! But man, that must have been a rush! Thanks for the cool video!
@StuffMadeHere Thanks for another amazing video!
This is really late but I think part of your problem is that you’re leaning forward in anticipation of the dunk so you fall forward while your stilts go back. You would have to wait longer and be more vertical before leaning. Part of the issue might be that your stilts’ feet are designed to be perpendicular to the floor, when a slight forward angle would likely serve this scenario better.
Keep it up!
Thanks for closing 2023 with a great story about hard work, dedication, and overcoming adversity. Here's to the future 🥂
This is why I'm not an engineer.
I can't physically assemble the same thing 20 times, no matter how passionate I am about it.
might I suggest using a shaft seal instead an O ring to seal the sliding part of the tubes. A shaft seal is designed to seal tighter on the tube with more pressure and it has a wiper seal built into it which cleans the tube as it's retracting to prevent any debris tearing the seal.
now we just need to find a way to hide these in basketball shorts
First!
omg CZcams 🤭 ur so quirky 😁 goofy goober 😹
THIRD!!!
Boooo
I can't express my joy at how this man just came right back around to making a scissor lift, but with extra steps haha.
Nah, man, these ain't no scissors - the joint is not in the middle of the blades
I like that your safety rig is very similar to the one in Flubber where the professor is trying to slam dunk with his invention. He even used a sand bag as an anchor weight.
As silly as dunking stilts are I think something like this could be good for certain uses. Something like an entry tool, rapid deploy ladder, vehicle/building stabilizer for emergency rescue, etc. Love seeing crazy ideas with practical applications!
Essentially this exact mechanism is used to lift stuff for construction. Look up a Genie SuperLift.
It's also very similar to what TV reporting vans use for their telescopic antenna masts.