Potato Cannon Mini Tank Made From Junk
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- čas přidán 31. 07. 2024
- I've built potato cannons before, and even a spud howitzer. Obviously the next step was a tank!
When an old stairlift gadget with some tracks showed up at work, I finally had the parts I needed!
The spud tank is built from 99% free and scavenged material, including the old stair climber, dumpster-dived plexiglass, plywood, and PVC, salvaged wiring, and a paintball marker found on the side of the road. I think the only parts that cost money were the sprinkler valve for the cannon and the 12v batteries, but all of those things were left over from previous projects I made. I can't say it was completely free since there might be $5 worth of PVC glue and electrical tape in it.
As mentioned in the video, this isn't related to certain unprovoked invasions, it's just what I was in the middle of building this month.
Please note that I don't recommend pressurizing or firing a potato cannon right in your lap. Don't try this at home!
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Something to consider: If you reverse the seating/drive arrangement, having the elevated section of track at the rear, and your weight focused there, you might be able to get it to climb stairs with you, you just have to do it butt-first.
This reminds me of an idea I had in high school but never got to build. A go-kart but with a revolver style potato gun!
Your expression as you're driving it sooooo slowwwww... LOL
Very brave... to ride around in your neighborhood for your peers to see. 😅 Loved it.
Keep on salvaging.
Great video, and the tank looks fantastic! I was laughing my head off as you drove around in it, made even funnier by it's snails pace speed!👍😄😂😂🇬🇧
It’s amazing! It is also kind of accurate with old WW2 tanks from Italy.
Best project EVER.
This really needs to be continued as an ongoing debacle. Larger seating/firing platform, more artillery, larger/faster motor, surround sound stereo... no, wait...
*Imagine a 17-pounder potato AT gun.*
You have motivated a bunch of people, with your initiative and ingenuity. My hat off sr.
Very Nice! That would make an interesting RC vehicle platform... all terrain perhaps?
I like making it an RC vehicle, I have some RC control parts that are all yours if I can find them in my spring cleaning.
Someone suggested a battle bot... I also need to make Tuggy into an RC toy so the DNR can't say anything about it :-P
In 1977 I was in Germany, Armor crewman 11E10 R8 W1, you're a good guy, it's an interesting way you have. thanks again for all you do.
Man I should’ve been keeping up with this project, I love tanks and seeing what people come up with when making their own
15:58 - True laugh out loud moments are rare for me, but that was great!
Add retractable spring loaded wheelie bars so you can still climb stairs and hills. Add retractable casters to the front so you can turn easier on hard surfaces without stressing the motors and causing excessive wear to the treads.
Cool machine though!!! 👍👍
14:30 you just re-invented the M1028 canister shot for the abrams
Armed and humorous!
We love your ongoing entertainment! Ha! Friend of your dad's from about 50 years ago. Keep them coming!
Cool! Glad you like it, and good to hear :-)
AMAZING!! Real cool project brother.
I think it is WONDERFUL!
Useless...but wonderful.
And you did a GREAT job of filming/editing (imho).
☮
agreed
I'm a year late, but better late than never? Anyhow, every tank needs radio comms...or a data link, you know, for situational awareness. ;)
Found your channel recently, and working my way through your videos, absolutely love what you are doing!
15:46 was my favorite part. Neat build
“LOAD THE POTATOES PATRICK”
MASHED OR SCALLOPS SIR”
*”No Patrick”*
*”Raw.”*
The Coax really added that little bit to this, a potato gun is a nice dayjob, a mounted potato gun for a take is beautiful, but adding a paintball gun as well? 👨🍳👌
I you did a remote control (wired or wireless) you could convert it into a powered wheel barrel type hauler and use the tipping mechanism as the dumper. This thing could in handy carving out tunnels in Sandland. Or use it as the locomotive pulling 3 or 4 wheeled carts.
Dude thank you for this...I have such a hard time chucking stuff in the trash..my kids loved this build
You are a genius. I think of you as a "Doc Brown" kind of genius from the movie Back to the Future.
That tipover was the most beautiful thing ive seen in a looong time
Two things I might have changed would have been was put the track system in reverse position so you could go up the stairs backwards, like they do skid steers, plus I might have put 2 cannons-one on each side with the paint ball gun in the middle, might give a little more room inside
Get a front bicycle wheel and turn it into one of those panzercycles.
That would be really cool! I hope he gets a old snow mobile one day to play with
This channel is definitely high on my entertainment list! Great video.
When you tired off the paint balls from the cannon is that was a good belly laugh.Thanks I needed that!
Keep making videos bro just love your vibe, you got a bright futre ahead
Love it! You definitely deserve more subs than you get
Thanks! Now if I can just figure out how to get them :-D
@@saveitforparts I’ve been sharing your videos with friends, know you’ve got a few :D It’s just a grind
@@saveitforparts You're clearly a genuine guy, so it's probably not in your nature to pander to the algorithm gods. Perhaps if your thumbnail was of the battery fire, or your tank "crash", you'd generate more intrigue. If not for Electroboom's "accidents", he would probably be an unknown.
you should definitely take that to an airsoft game and maybe make rounds for the potato cannon similar to the paint balls that you shot
Great job! I think you got all you could get out of that , well done.
Bahaha that fast foward then forth, back forth again was great
years ago in the 80s there used to be an attraction at Gatlinburg Tennessee called Tank Tag. You rode around in a 1 person tank that fired tennis balls.
That platform looks like what they make bomb disposal droids form.
Firstly, I love your work. I, too, hoard things that interest me and make stuff. Mostly woodworking, but electronics have been my new fascination. I enjoy watching! However, at 8:00, you use your table saw without a fence. I can’t tell you how much that scared me!
That's always the first thing that breaks on these cheap table saws. Some day I should get a real one!
@15:45 I pissed myself laughing. Thanks for leaving that in lol.
I would drive those motors with 24v PWM and guide myself based on coils temp.... well done Sir.
looks awesome and it would be great with RC, controlling from distance
Amazing camera action at 14:12!
Carefull, with these "scrap days". 10:25
i did the same one day, where I found a car on the side of the road, and it was missing the whole roof, so I clearly took it.
I later learned, it wasnt okay.
I think I missed this year's roadside scrap days, which is probably for the best :-P
13:15 POV: your a British infantryman in the African campaign and you see a tankette over a hill
Me and my buddies built a potato cannon when we were in high school 25y ago.
We had the smart idea of a buddy going out on a small sail boat on the lake. An once that buddy was out about 100 yards or so. Starts yelling that we can't hit him. First shot missed. Second shot did not miss and hit him about 2in to the right of his manhood. We laughed as he fell into the water. Buddy came back to the dock a few minutes later and the spot where he was hit started bruising already.
The next day it was about the size of a softball and black in color. It was there for about 2-3 weeks.
We learned right then dont shoot at each other with potato cannon. So then we built a 2 story beer bong instead. That didnt go so well either but made us laugh seening the other people puke from the 5 or more beers it held.
Ahh, high school was fun. Lol
Ha! Glad your friend and his junk survived! Reminds me of a story about my grandpa and his brothers. Grampa built a black powder cannon in shop class (back when that was OK!). They had one ball bearing that would fit, so they told the youngest brother to ride his bike down the block and watch where it landed so they could re-use it. Cannon was fired, brother comes biking back and says it whizzed past his head too fast to find it! Fortunately they stopped shooting near eachother after that. I still have the cannon, I should make a video on it!
@saveitforparts . Now that's insane. Lol
But my buddy was bound and determined to lose at least one in the man sack. Running through the woods playing capture the flag in scout summer camp one year. High school age still. A stick got mad and jumped up into one side of the man sack. Same buddy, running through the woods playing capture the flag again in scout summer camp, at night. I'm chasing him laterally about 25 yards apart. He gets clothes lined with feet straight out 3ft in the air. The funniest damn thing I've seen in my life still. I'm yelling asking if he is OK and laughter so hard at the same time. He's a buddy that I've known since kindergarten. Same buddy cut off part of his thumb carring plywood onto a roof. Doctor put his thumb in his palm. Like fold your thumb down to your palm. But it was held there to heal with stitches. For 2-4 weeks.
Good friend just slightly accident prone. Lol
Dude has his budget T90 tank and I bloody love it honestly I want one of my own at some point 😂
"Load Photatoton torpedoes, prepare to fire!"
Been anxiously awaiting for the end of your hibernation, and to see what's new for this year. But what really surprised me is when you said that you got the climber from "work."
🤔You work? Somehow, It never dawned on me that you have a job somewhere! Great video. 👍
My day job has some really fun dumpsters!
That's one of the coolest free things I've ever seen! 😄
It's all worth that shot where the camera falls over! 👍
Also- 💙💛
Böyle güzel bi videonun böyle az izlenmaesi çok acı umarım bir gün 100.000.000 izlenir ve hak ettiğini alır
With a pair of these, the victory is granted
newer sub here - love your content!!! Do you mind if I ask what your real job is? You are so creative!!!!
I do property management, and some of the properties have good dumpsters :-D
I keep wanting him to do this full time. :)
Key limes make pretty good ammo for pneumatic cannons to
It would be a blast having you for a neighbor.
bro is an top level craftsman
I've always wanted to use one for a radio controlled rover project .
Pure genius!!
first potato howitzer, then tank. Next thing you need is a strategic bomber and some nukes and you will be a global superpower.
What a cute tank
That was a very funny video. It was a great reuse of "stuff". I think putting it in storage for parting out is a good thing. LOL 73 Leo
That tank reminds me of Soldier on a small tank in TF2
great video! :D
Most excellent!
I am definitely going to try this at home😅😅😅
This was a really cool project! I must say, as someone who uses a power wheelchair, I would absolutely NOT trust that thing to safely move me up stairs. Looking at the diagram on the control panel, I'd be terrified.
We have a couple of these at the fire department I used to work at and they are definetly magic when they're needed and they are safe IF I REPEAT IF the operator is competent. It's always unnerving for the rider though. Your safety is totally in the hands of someone else at that point, nothing like an elevator.
Nice tankette
14:11 what a lovely angle lmao
I wasn't even trying to do that, the camera just tipped over!
Be kinda cool to make it a radio control tank.
"Some may call this junk but i call it tresure" -some dude in fallout 4
Would be interesting to see how fast you could make this tank go in a straight line
This OBVIOUSLY must become a remote controlled UGV.
omg cant even stop a 8.8 APC round smh. Anyway very nice tank
I must know what this interesting man does for work?
Property management, which gets me some interesting dumpsters sometimes :-)
congrats on the italian
tank
who let this man do junkyard tomfoolery 💀
You have to reverse top part. In this case you will be able climb stairs backwards without tipping.
Oh man... if you and I were neighbors! ;-)
Awesome.
Why did you biuld it because you could and it works love it!!!!
This would make a great RC bulldozer or Mining machine.
With the slow speed it might be usable as face cutter platform.
Or even better a mucker that can follow a line out of the mine and dump its self.
I'm considering turning it into a mining machine for Sandland. I'm not sure how long the rubber treads and motors will live through the sand though!
@@saveitforparts Move the motors up like a bulldozer. Some sort of horizontal drum cutter would be a neat tool if it spun so the tailings came out over the top and passed out the back of the machine it could dig its own path like a flat square tunnel.
Start it on a table for the first pass and then on the floor for the second get most of a full tunnel. Scrap lathe carbide tooling would make good bits for it.
That is so bad ass 👍
Still more effective than a Bob Semple Tank
what do you mean? the bob semple is invincible!
Let's appreciate of how he sacrificed his shed to fire paintballs at it.
The worst thing is that it actually isn't that different in look and design from a interwar tankette. And those where real war verhicles that went on to the battlefield with people in it...
Awesome
The tank. The cannon. The operater/builder,is one of the most dumbest things ever dude,great job👊👍
awesome
I want one now
That’s so awesome 😂😂😂
That's perfect for a child to play with😂😂😂
A tank or armored carry personnel? 😅 used to remember Ryan Mcbeth saying if there’s no turret it is not a tank :p
Best somalian tank:
Honestly its peetty good. I wish to have one.
Nice 👍👍👍
This is really cool I am going to subscribe to you
Dam small chonker tank
You could drive the stairs backward
a like for everyone who didn't understand any thing but enjoyed 😆
it would be cool if this was available to anyone, imagine the children having warfare in their tanks...
my lord that was hilarious lolol
Wonder if this could be converted to work on tracks/pull sand out of tunnels?
Maybe, I considered trying to make a mini bulldozer or sand hauler. I don't think it would like the humidity in the tunnels or the sand, a lot of things get destroyed by that sand!
Que fofo 😂😍