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How can he ever sell that house? Going to have to be a cash buyer for sure. He must have a very understanding wife.
She probably lives somewhere else, a little less chaotic 😀
I don't think he lives there anymore - he has enough YouTube subscribers and views to live elsewhere - much to the delight of the neighbors....... until he starts tunneling!
Yes another tunnel inside and concrete between the 2 layers but the first tunnel skin seems very thin. Says me who has never worked with anything like that so have no idea, however, it is brilliant to watch.
Not sure he has planning permission for his latest hole in the ground...
I love that he has building control logs for 'building of a bomb shelter' though
(address from a quick google of his name which shows registered businesses at this address...and not that many people build bomb shelters, so it is probably the right place...All public info and not intended to be stalkerish...)
I'd have loved to been in the office, the day the bomb shelter planning application came in 😂
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How can he ever sell that house? Going to have to be a cash buyer for sure. He must have a very understanding wife.
Maybe not and this is all part of the plot... saves having to disturb the patio from above
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If his next project is a sarcophagus then there should be concerns raised!
Makes me cringe watching him use that jackhammer in the tunnel without ear protection!
I can just imagine the neighbours happily watching him build the new rockery in the garden, then getting slowly more and more concerned as it grows to the height of his house...
How can he ever sell that house?
He mentioned this on one of the review video's about the bunker. An expert told him that the property would be best advertised as a unique bunker with the added attraction of an attached house.
I don't think he'll have any trouble selling it. It'll easily be worth as much as one of the neighbouring houses. Admittedly he won't get the money back he's spent on it, but the videos and sponsorship pay for that.
When he comes to sell, a video of estate agents doing valuations who are unaware of what lies in the garden needs to be done.
How can he ever sell that house?
Do you mean because he won't want to?
I'd love it! It would be a big plus point for me unless there were serious safety concerns or it required expensive specialist maintenance on a regular basis.
When he comes to sell, a video of estate agents doing valuations who are unaware of what lies in the garden needs to be done.
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My concern would be that anyone buying would not get a mortgage due to the excavations in the garden. Building regs? Planning? Soil structure testing? Lenders are always twitchy about stuff like that and often seek indemnity insurance if things don't conform.
Would still love to have this in my garden though, no doubt. I would not want to dissuade him from doing this either, its blooming brilliant. I would hope that the Youtube stuff and his massive viewing numbers mean that he will never need to be concerned with trivial things like selling the place or hearing loss!
What about the calculations to confirm the design of the structure is fine...also didn't like the way he's using plate steel and pouring concrete behind it with no corrosion protection, so harldly a structure built to last a long time. Also what about ventilation? Didn't seem to build any in to his bunker. Good fun though but suspect he's written off the house and the bunker is just a project for his channel. I suspect when he ditches that house he'll have to dig it all up and backfill it before it would be acceptable for anyone else to live in.
Do you think he'd of got it past building control without calcs?
Has he got planning permission? Something like that surely is better to beg forgiveness than ask permission?
Not saying he hasn't...but surely something like that will require some special stuff to get permission.
Again, showing my ignorance of all this.
I'm sure he said he got retrospective planning for the bunker, which he admitted was a bit of a gamble 🤣
There are websites where you can put in the details of a YouTuber and it will give you estimates of their income based on their views and level of in video advertising.
There is also sponsorship, Patreon, merchandising etc.
His Ltd company and company accounts are easy enough to find if you go down a rabbit hole of the planning link shared by @JCA
He seems to be doing very well. Good on him. He makes great, engaging, inspiring content. Why shouldn't he be be rewarded similarly to TV and conventional media personalities.
Writing off the cost of a house in Lincolnshire is probably worth it.
Not happy I'll need to wait a bit for the next installment!
I kind of wish I'd only found this after it was finished, but I've been following for a while. TBF they are coming through pretty quickly if they are following the build/dig progress
he needs someone to sponsor him on grand designs
To be fair it wouldn't make for a very good grand designs, he'd just get on and build the thing himself... and then it would be finished.
Without all the "drama" in the middle where the builders steal the roof or it goes fifteen times over budget or the foundations collapse or the unique quadruple glazed windows which are only available from a small artisan factory on the foothills of the nepalese himalayas turn out to have a surprisingly long lead time, or something.
Given he seems to be removing everything he has dug out using those plastic buckets I would love to know how many bucketloads they have carted out.
I remember the size of the pile of earth we dug out just to make a flowerbed a bit bigger, I can't imagine how much material they must have shifted using nothing more than a load of buckets.
He really needs to stop thrusting at well measured welds with his groin though
I'm intrigued how the tunnel is coming along. He seems to have not updated that for months.
Think he said in one of his videos that the there wasn't going to be a tunnel video for a while as he had other projects he needed to do first, and it takes a while to make progress, so needs time to actually get good content for a video.
His last tunnel video did ay it would be a few months before a next update - didn't hint at why really but it is annoying as it is an interesting project!
He's doing a series of projects for the new Far Cry game, and I guess digging a secret tunnel using hand tools isn't exactly fast 😁
I think he mentioned that he needed some sunshine! He’ll probably finish the tunnel with rickets and a spine problem. Great content though. Love the 2wd bike. Decent tyres and it would have gone very well.
Colin channels his inner forest gump.
far too sensible for this thread 😀
One thing confuses me about Colin, the tie. Everone who's ever worked in a workshop knows they're dangerous. Long hair gets tied back in a bun or tucked under a hat, flapping ties are banned. You're a bad example, Mr Furze.
Yeah because that's the most dangerous thing he does... 🤣
It's a safety tie. He sells them
Good God. Marketing genius.
I watched that last night. Surprisingly sensible and useful. I wonder how well it would stand up to extended use in a British climate (i.e. wet), because for bigger grass areas, that might be a sensible option.
I wonder if yu could do a football pitch with the right battery setup...
Nice tie, but unsure what is 'safety' about it as it appears to be a standard tie - or have I missed the marketing humour to it and it is in actual fact just a standard tie?
I thought safety ties had to be clip-ons, like ambulance peeps [used to] wear - so if a customer grabs you by it, you don't choke.
Tunnel! Tunnel! Tunnel!
"this is the most safety equipment I've ever worn" 😂
Loved the falling over still shot, he could have impaled himself on anything!
Met him at the Late Brake show Live in Manchester, he's surprisingly calm and normal when not in front of the camera! He did say there had been a lot of progress on the tunnel and a video was due very soon. That Delorean is also lovely, much better in the metal. When the Idol Chat is released I'll link to it as it really does show him in a new light.
I've been checking every couple of days for an update...it looks brilliant. No idea of time lapsed but it must be ages...
I can’t even begin to think of how many hours must have been put in on that. Great work.
I’m no expert but Can’t help thinking a concrete pump and a vibrating poker would make the concreting easier though.
Interviewed on the late brake show
Start of that video suggest it has been a 3 year project...mental, but not entirely surprising.
I don't get the point of this tunnel
I don’t get the point of this tunnel
views and subscribers = £££££
and it seems to be very popular.
I don’t get the point of this tunnel
11.5 million subscribers. Mr Furze is doing very very nicely.
Well yeah, I get that..but compared to other stuff he's done, which is somewhat unique (and "does something")...this seems pointless. Anyone (not me obvs) can dig a tunnel...
Latest episode is out
Nope, I'm seeing a benefit to that, but more for the ease of moving between some buildings in awful weather without getting wet! It really does appeal to me but the amount of work to get it sorted is what stops me from just dreaming about how cool it would be to even thinking what would need to be considered if doing this...
Anyone (not me obvs) can dig a tunnel
Really? Have you actually watched the videos to see what is involved?
This guy make Brunel look like a kid with Meccano.
Digging a tunnel is easy.
Keeping it straight, ventilating and not having it collapse are much harder to achieve.
fully expecting "Stamford home collapses into mysterious sink hole" on the local news.
Do you need planning permission to dig a tunnel under your house? What does it do to your insurance premiums? These questions need answers.
Anyone know what Flexi tubs he's using? The ones I've had have broken pretty easily. Having one handle fail after months of hoisting 50kg of stone is pretty good going. Should last me a lifetime
this week he's reinventing the wheel
I don’t get the point of this tunnel
I no longer get the point of anything he does.
All I can think of when i see his latest vid is either get a Job, or do something productive..
A wheel made up of little feet, 😕 pointless.
this week he’s reinventing the wheel
Well, he's not, is he. He's just building a slightly bigger version of what someone else designed.
Well, he’s not, is he.
well yes he is quite literally
reinvent the wheel
phrase of reinvent
waste a great deal of time or effort in creating something that already exists.
"he spoke with the fervour of discovery, unaware that he was reinventing the wheel"
teaser
All I can think of when i see his latest vid is either get a Job, or do something productive..
A wheel made up of little feet, 😕 pointless.
Inspiring people to think outside the box is far from pointless. It's basically applied design engineering, taking concepts from ideas to reality and picking up all the mistakes along the way.
Sure, someone built one of those before but on a smaller scale, he just had the means to make it bigger. There must be a wealth of "failed" patents out there that were just too far ahead of their time to work with the technology and materials of the day, bringing these to life might not solve any problems but its a great exercise in applied engineering and may occasionally yield something brilliant.
Pulse jets and screw tanks are also engineering dead ends but they are brilliant. If you only ever did stuff based on practical merits you may as well just give up.
@squirrelking You've basically just described what artists do when they create something. Even though I am not a big fan of some sorts of art, I would not want to live in a world without it.
Video 7 of this Tunnel adventure is being released this coming Thursday...
All I can think of when i see his latest vid is either get a Job, or do something productive..
I am sure the massive amount of money he’s earning and the fact that he seems very happy in what he’s doing and the undoubted influence he will be having on young budding engineers will help to counter your withering disapproval.
I don’t get the mentality of calling what he is doing pointless. Most of the things we do in life don’t really achieve anything useful. But we do it anyway.
CF is the master of taking things to the extreme. Getting an idea of something that is then taken to the extreme.
Want toast faster? Make an electrified bread knife that slices the bread and toasts it at the same time.
Want to walk on the ceiling? Make some electromagnetic shoes.
Want to eat cake faster? Cake-o-Matic (which has me in stitches every time).
Don’t like the French? Make a house size pair of steel buttocks and fire a pulse jet though them that can be heard in Calais.
Don’t want to get wet walking to the shed? Spend months and many thousands of pounds (have you seen how much steel he is using?!?! 😳) and a Herculean effort to make a subterranean tunnel system around your property.
He was a very good BMX flatland rider and a qualified plumber. He also has a lot of other things under his belt now to enable him to do a lot of things he has done - IIRC he is registered to use/sell firearms due to a few of the things he has made. He also does get planning permission for all the house projects he has done - the cave in the back yard has full planning and I am sure the tunnels will have them.
He’s very considerate to his neighbours as well - the talk at the Late Brake Show was ace - I was there too!!
I’ve just looked it up and estimates are that he might earn around $1600 a day from his channel - 11 million subscribers growing 5000 a day, 1.4 billion views in total, average 200,000 views a day.
It seems a lot less pointless than some of the other popular youtube channels. My nephew was watching a gaming channel where some kid was just mucking around in a game and swearing. It had 100,000s of views and this guy is making a fortune! This vid has 600k views since yesterday. WTF!?
I am sure the massive amount of money he’s earning and the fact that he seems very happy in what he’s doing and the undoubted influence he will be having on young budding engineers will help to counter your withering disapproval.
The channel is bonkers, and no, none of the end products probably have much practical use for humanity, but the idea is to show how you can apply engineering principles to daft problems, and in that regard it's very educational.
The tunnel series in particular is an excellent illustration of just how hard building tunnels is - the quantity of material you have to remove, the amount of support and ventilation you need to be safe, even the difficulty in lining up your tunnel to arrive in the right spot.
Yes, CF is a genius, and a very entertaining one at that.
As for pointless videos, too many influential YTers are knocking out BS content because they know it gets clicks. Yes, I'm looking at you Mr Beast, the Morgz family and many more. Unfortunately, there is so much money to be made* and popularity to be gained, that it becomes IMO a cycle of addiction. What's especially sad is that a lot of kids lap it up and aspire to be the same.
* they also have the ability to re-invest that money (in a bid to outdo their YT competitors), hence throwing around houses, cars and huge sums of cash as "prizes"
The channel is bonkers, and no, none of the end products probably have much practical use for humanity, but the idea is to show how you can apply engineering principles to daft problems, and in that regard it’s very educational.
Yep, I agree. I'm not sure its much about the end thing being useful. The journey and the process is quite interesting and there are some useful nuggets tucked in with the nonsense, especially if you are a maker. In fact its quite interesting spotting the bits he leaves out of the videos. Hopefully there is also an element of "if he can build a jet powered go kart maybe I can have a go at fixing my bike". He is quite relatable.
If you want to knock pointless YouTube channels there's a big list above Colin's
What I like about it is the fact he can make some very complicated things with off-the-shelf components and tools which can fit in a shed/garage. The fact that he has things like cnc plasma cutters in his workshop is amazing - it's not so long ago that these kind of things would have been cutting edge even in a proper factory.
It's like the crazy ideas a 6y old has but he actually makes them come to life rather than the sensible adult in us stopping and saying that's just daft
Glad to hear next one is only 2 weeks away! Great stuff.
It seems a lot less pointless than some of the other popular youtube channels. My
nephewbrother was watching agamingmountain biking channel where somekidbloke was just mucking around in agamewood, falling off a bike and swearing
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First time I have heard of this guy and his stuff, just watched the tank episode. It's different.........but I like it!
I hope you've not got much planned this weekend, there's a lot to catch up on!