Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/10/this-is-one-crazy-ass-potato-g.html
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Love this guy!
World needs more crazy engineers/inventors anyway
Furze may be a Brit, but clearly he must have been using American potatos
Years ago, a buddy of mine made a spudlauncher using a compressed air tank, a length of copper tubing, and a ball valve. That thing could put noticeable dents into 1/4" thick steel plate.
I wonder what kind of FPS he’s getting from that. Quite the recoil, it looks like.
What’s an ass-potato?
“We got the forensics report back on the mass killing, detective.”
“How did our vics die?”
“Potatoes, sir.”
And the NHS has already spent enough money putting him back together after some of his creations went pear-shaped …
Cats in the garden? Not any more…
I do like that all the music he uses is from bands that send in songs. He’s clearly a fan of British Ska-punk.
My recollection of a potato gun was one where you punched the tip of a little pistol-shaped bellows into a potato, thus fitting a little core sample into the end. you then squeezed and shot the little chip out. I was expecting a semi-auto that with each shot rotated the potato in a spiral and took a chip off with each shot.
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