Can a Mudcrab cut off your finger?

how you going now I've got some pretty dodgy stuff in my garage but there's one tool I use that always scares me the most this can opener or more commonly known as the mud crab and I've heard some wacky stories about their strength like this one fisherman who told me that a mud crab cut off his whole body from his finger so today I'm going to put mud crabs to the ultimate strength test and see if they really can cut off a human finger [Music] [Applause] okay I want to test out the mud crab's strength in three ways first I want to know how much a mud crab can lift and modify one of those strength grippers or the gym boys use and compare them to a mud crab's claw then I want to make some replica fingers made out of ballistic gel with bones inside and put them in the claws to see what happens and then if it doesn't look that bad I'll stick my own finger inside or if it does look bad I'll stick my mate's finger inside I'll Alexa I made some so I'm going to start with making the delicious gelatin fingers and to do that I'm going to use this stuff called alginate to take a mold and you might have seen or had this stuff used on you before when you go to the dentist and they take a mold of your finger and that's what I'm going to do so I precisely measured the powder and then mixed it with water until it changed color and poured it in a little cup before sticking in my finger I wanted to go the same color as that at the moment of truth can I get my finger out [Music] does she knows now I'm not sure why that was such a stressful experience but the set rate and amount of water I needed to put in changed every time I did it but they seem to have worked and all the molds are dry so next I took the Wings off some chickens and then deboned them you can buy boneless chicken okay could I have just bought chickenless bottoms and I think that chicken bones are pretty similar to the thickness of my finger bones but then again I've never pulled the meat off my bones so I don't really know last time I made these fingers I did an eight percent gelatin to water mixture which didn't hold together too well but this time I'm going to follow a professional cookbook which recommends that for a stronger flesh to do a 20 gelatin to water ratio which should increase the bounciness and resilience of the gelatin making it more similar to a human finger that has a chicken bone inside of it it also recommends I shouldn't use horse gelatin but instead use McKenzie's gelatin which is made presumably from Mackenzie okay I started mixing it all making sure to inhale as many gelatin spores as possible [Music] and this got real thick quick and reminds me of the texture of cut so once it was all mixed up I poured it into the finger mold and then poked in the chicken bones and put it in the fridge for eight hours to set which means I've got some time to kill speaking of which I've also really been into a new mobile game which is the sponsor of today's video Watcher of Realms it is an 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crabs are and not because I want to show off at all here's my hand strength with my right I pulled 89 kilos or 200 pounds for the Americans with my left I pulled 80 kilosing for the Chinese and 30 kilos with my cheeks [Music] so I really hope that the mud crabs are at least as strong as my cheeks okay now to modify the scale first I just hit this metal bar with a hammer until it gave up and bent then drilled holes in it and screwed it in and that's done and hopefully this Gap is now small enough to fit inside the claws of the crab and I'm very excited to get a digital number telling me how much clawforce crabs actually have as all the numbers on the Internet seem way too high with some scientists saying they have 700 pounds of crushing Force but that doesn't seem to make sense considering how small their claws are but then again it might be true as people have even done Theses on this topic filled with diagrams and this guy even went as far as jacking off a crab to find out the answer okay that seemed around eight hours so I took the molds out of my fridge and also the fingers and then cracked them open that is good look at that oh my fingernails disgusting [Music] I don't know if you can see the details properly in that but that is look at it look at that and these look disgusting exactly the same as my real fingers now I might look rushed during all of this and that's because I am and I'm unboxing stupid gelatin fingers at 2AM at night when I have a flight the next morning at 5am to Queensland and I'm going there to meet an Aussie Legend and YouTuber named Willem power fish who's gonna hook me up with some big crabs because as far as I'm aware there just aren't any muddies in Sydney besides Carl in my toolbox now Willem is a strange bloke who does fishing pranks and causes trouble at the boat ramp but his most infamous videos are probably where he walks around a construction site paying tradies to put mud crabs on their face so he's the perfect man for this video if I can get all my fingers through airport security which I'm now realizing might be an issue but after a nervous 30 minutes I got through and I really wish I got video footage of the confusion on the X-ray operator's face when he was trying to figure out what the six finger and vibrator-shaped objects were in my bag they stopped and they uh they looked at it and they zoomed in and then she looked at it and then she just licked her lips like she spots but I got through with almost all my fingers intact this is uh someone sees this little ballistic finger hang on is there Chicken in there what so it was the closest bone I could find to the the same thickness of a what do you make this out of gelatin can you eat it you could eat that really you can have a nibble of one if you want all right now I thought Willem would have some mud crabs ready to go for us but it turns out we need to catch him and luckily he knows a great secret muddy hole hidden away in the mangroves only problem was that we had to get across this old falling apart Bridge no we're not going in we'll make it oh it's not that bad I'm soaked with Heights OH hi scared it's not high but I'm just I'm just a massive baby you're doing well we've only got this and then the and the rest of the bridge the guy now the rest of the bridge is easier carry all this stuff in we don't even know if we're going to catch mud crabs or not I mean like how are you going to come back across with crabs and after getting rust cuts on almost every one of my toes we made it across to the other side and then headed our separate ways into the mangroves until one of us found a crab [Applause] yeah is there such thing as quick mud can you get can you die in this which surprisingly only took a couple of minutes before Willem found our first one hiding in a hole under this pipe okay is it comfortable it's it's actually really good no wonder all these crabs here to get the mud crowd become the mud crab whoa oh he's ready for you he sees you right so we've definitely found a mud crab look at his eyes look at him oh he's my blondle bubbles in front of my camera oh he's trying to dig is he trying to dig I think he's trying to get away yeah should I where should I use the shovel or get one yeah you get use your hands like maybe are you blocking your views come over where you are there's your chance to escape grab while he's while he's not watching he's actually trying right now he's getting deeper so oh he's so deep [Music] towards me [Music] if I go like that yeah yeah that's working all right the hell he's massive oh look at his eyes [Music] yeah big buck you're shaking you're right yeah perfectly fine this will be one of the scariest animals I've ever touched yeah they look scary as well and I think I think just the pounds of pressure that these claws hold is just phenomenal man like well if you look at that compared to the rest of its body just look how much meat is in there yeah if that's the best fish so much muscle let's get out of this mud do we need any more I think this is pretty much enough for science right yeah I think this is enough for science yeah like we could we could bag out if we wanted yeah like I reckon there's easily another 800 just in here well that's all of these air bubbles is actually a crab all right well yeah that'll be enough yeah no we don't want to be greedy though it's like a day spa oh look at these crabs on my foot little cries yeah because you're probably just taking their mother get off can you can you even get up yeah put him down [Music] ah there was something sharp oh don't stand there did you bring a change of clothes no I didn't know I didn't know I thought they were just like you just catch them in like the sand or something I mean mud mud crabs that makes sense so I have to get back on a plane look at my legs and this is way bigger than any mud crab I was expecting to find it was also surprisingly calm considering that a random bloke had his fingers on his ass cheeks but maybe that's what mud crabs like but it could also be the cold temperature which is a bad thing which means they might be really chilled out and not willing to squeeze as hard as they can and one crab is enough for the test but on the way back to our stuff we stumbled upon one just sitting underneath this log um I reckon that's safe to say that's a it's a mud crap big he's big that's it you got it oh my God dude holy [ __ ] and lucky for us the second mud crab we found was a little more Angry hey hey man it really sucks having a big [ __ ] so the first thing I wanted to test was their grip strength and I'm hoping they get at least 50 kilos you have a broken that fit in there yes okay let's just see it's working so we just need something to tickle the um the hair not used you run out of battery on this thing no okay try to tickle his ass he's grabbing he's not biting oh he's going down 10 kilograms well fifteen I feel like crabs have more than 15 kilos in them so we tried the bigger guy foreign [Applause] in like a second yeah it's interesting when it hits 30 it stops immediately yeah and then it stops 31 kilos or 70 pounds is not bad especially considering that the crab only weighs 1.5 kilos so it's 20 times their body weight that's the same as me squeezing 1 800 kilos or ye Shin bye bye gong Jing with just two fingers and I did want to see a higher number but maybe it's because the crabs could tell that they weren't grabbing onto an actual threat so they didn't want to squeeze as hard as they could so I decided to move on to the ballistic fingers to see what damage they would do but first had to get the crabs to let go of the scale like literally I'm pulling as hard as I can and I cannot get that and you're very strong I'm a very strong man oh there we go no that was my place's break the original crack this bone oh yeah he's yeah he's pissed off this one's all right should I give him give him a finger do you want to get him out to get a clearer shot yeah oh it's fast yeah he's getting a psycho how do you even grab him come on stop oh so he's biting down he's biting down going for it oh wait is he gone all that he's gone he's touching he's he's gone all the way through oh my God you never do that yeah that'll happen that'll happen and the ballistic gel isn't holding up very well and the crab managed to get through the Flesh and down to the bone in a second then just like a real finger the flesh nicely de-gloved and I reckon this flash isn't accurate as the crabs seem to slice through this like butter it'll be a good narrative watch this that doesn't make any sense but the bones are real at least so we tried another one in the hope that we could get it to snap the bone there we go let go no he's trying to eat it I was so we go over to this guy [Applause] hey he's playing dumb Jesus man boy this one's sorry oh should we give him another finger oh there we go oh he's tight yeah he's onto this he's locked onto the floor I've gone for another one look at this going for the pliers man I can't get the Plies out there we go I mean he completely ripped the oh yep yep yep yep oh oh no I heard the snap I heard the snap yeah I heard that too that was loud oh yeah oh my God what the [ __ ] well get away from him he's gonna try to get here and even though I do want this to be true I don't think these bones are as strong as real finger bones also most annoyingly the crabs still seem to know that these aren't real fingers and don't seem to be clenching that hard they are too focused on trying to nip us so after a group discussion we decided that one of us had to put their finger in just the Palm do here that's where I'm gonna go I'm gonna go across there how do you reckon we get him to let go just wait quieter now I just had to pick which crab I would like to get mutilated by he's got the nicer claw there I feel like just I'm worried about the curve on that one the thing is though I don't know why I'm looking there's no nice option exactly yeah yeah try to find the best crab to buy you look I've had many people attacked by these and um watched a lot of people in a lot of pain and um I think your best option is just get in there and then get out in and out Shakey's hand introduce yourself because if he likes you he'll let go [Music] you say hello my name is Alex let's see it's cam straight yeah and it doesn't matter what hand you shake to him it doesn't matter well the thing is when I put my hand this other course coming back because they usually well it's accustomed for them as well it makes sense so I'll hold him you come in there stick and shake his hand I might hold this one so I can oh you want to do this one yeah I was going to hold this one you're gonna hold that one yeah hold on I'm telling you now the smaller ones hurt than the more than the bigger bigger [Music] hi I'm Alex nice to meet you you recording yeah [Music] you got this hi I'm Alex hi I'm Alex hi I'm Alex I can't do it oh you're so close you were there I saw it happening come on yeah come on you can do it let's do it it looks like a devil on your shoulder these dress so ridiculous do it oh hey go go in there just put it in put it in and close your eyes [Music] handy to oh yeah I'll do it if you do I'll do it if you don't if you do it I'll do it why is it so hard why the [ __ ] I've done so much damage so there you go this is nothing done okay you ready say the line and hold your hand there because I'll put it straight on say the line get your hand out no I tried for probably an hour to put my hand in the mud crab's claw but I just couldn't do it if you put your [ __ ] in there put your [ __ ] it down put my hand in there you do it I'll do it title on and hold your hand there because I'll put it straight on say the line you get your hand out they're leaving us here in the mangroves if you don't do it you do it foreign [Music] hi Mr Crab I'm Alexa it's nice to meet you the crab guy no no he's not gonna get me with yellow don't let him go don't let him go go let him always [ __ ] ah okay you got to tell him someone get it off no no you gotta tell us how much pain do you put out of 10. it's the worst handshake I've ever had ah he gets angry don't don't move don't move the other hand because I'm already moving but if I let go of this head all right so basically no don't don't give me another okay now that's bad he's pitching real hard ah [Music] numb ah no problem no no it's good he was releasing a little bit yep it's good we're almost there I have to go back across the bridge put him down no no that's how he'll release but then the other hand might grab you put him down no no no no no no no no just try it again should we yeah let's get that in there look at that angle oh he's so deep in me [ __ ] oh oh I'm stuck with this [Music] guy yeah slowly yeah get out of there all right this is the worst me can I try Paul as well did you let go oh come on get him off oh oh dude dude it didn't even break the skin that's so good so there you go it turns out mud crabs can't cut off your finger and they probably have enough strength through it but their claws are designed to pinch and grab not cut I cannot believe after all that you're more scared of the bridge also it turns out Alexa's pain wasn't necessary as Willem already has a couple of videos doing exactly this like this one where this tradie puts two mud crabs on a single finger and didn't get any real injuries but that's not to say they can't be serious injuries and Willem waited until after Alexa put the crab on his hand to tell me this but it turns out some people that have been bit by mud crabs have lost limbs and not from the force of the claws but from infection and I don't know why we didn't think of this as obviously if you dig something out of this disgusting primordial suit and then let it stab through your skin you're going to get all sorts of crazy bacteria into your body like vibrio vulnificus which has caused many amputations and even killed people but luckily Alexa doesn't know this and I'm not going to tell him I'll just make a video if he dies thank you so much for watching if you like this please check out some of my other videos thank you

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Length: 24min 54sec (1494 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 23 2023