We Built A Giant Teeter Totter In the Woods!

[Music] that was so funny when they start going and then stop like how did you just stop oh [Music] [Music] the first piece of wood has been harvested something like that something like that [Music] so we got our first piece of the teeter-totter up that didn't take long as our main beam we might add another support here later for stiffness so now i'm going to cut down this tree and this one is still alive but it's not very healthy and it's in the way of the angle of the teeter-totter we want it to come through here kind of right where this is so i'm gonna take out this one and then this one's basically dead i could actually yeah that one well that took care of that one yeah [Music] this tree was uh very dead you can see like probably 80 percent of it was rotten here at the base but hopefully if we cut into it a couple firewood chunks worth we'll get into some clean solid wood for the next rail already a little more solid [Music] got the two main beams here for the teeter-totter in place obviously they're a little springy for having the weight of a whole uh power wheels on there sprawling is a technical term for uh bendiness so to fix the springiness my plan is to kind of make these into trusses using these logs here [Music] so [Music] uh [Music] oh my goodness [Music] the peter totter project is coming along nicely got the x brace on that side and this side uh i'm adding on planks until it's a little heavier and we can bring it all the way down to the ground and then we'll put the bracing on this side screwing a whole bunch of logs down one after the other pretty straightforward not a lot to talk about i sound like an idiot [Applause] so we're using the mad max tesla as a log skidder today we're moving around a lot of wood for this project and if you want to see the mad max tesla in person and us ethan myself steven and well we're all going to be there at holley high voltage this is going to be on sonoma raceway november 13th and 14th we're going to be doing autocross road courses full ev car show the cars that are going to be there are insane rich rebuilds is gonna be there it's gonna be a really good time i highly recommend checking it out and even if you can't check it out in person check it out on social media i know we'll be doing a video on it so yeah it's kind of the place to be here we go world's fastest log skidder right here absolutely [Applause] [Music] [Music] this is this is how the pros do it for sure perfect there she goes [Music] also i feel like we should uh give steven credit here right now he's running the camera this was his idea the teeter-totter you stephen what do you think is this how you pictured the teeter-totter oh no i was imagining something like half this size but this is way better half this size and made out of like normal lumber oh yeah i was picturing a you know lumber yard run yeah well you know that's what happens when you work construction you think you think that everything should be built with lumber it's also a lot more free [Music] [Music] [Music] my yeah [Music] [Music] how does it feel awesome just as awesome as it did at the dunes just as awesome as it did at the track teeter totter's awesome i just i didn't know my fuel pump wasn't on so i kept stalling at the top and ethan's coming behind me like oh shoot i gotta get out of here before ethan eats down upon me so that's the quote of the day before ethan eats down upon me [Music] oh [Music] no way no way this seems so sketchy apparently paddle tires and wet logs do not go well together who would yeah the timber quad makes that thing boring yeah like it's it's not even exciting at all because you could it's so slow you just put but and it has plenty of traction no matter what so you just and then clunk so the the timber quad is the most boring on the on the eater cutter for sure oh yeah for sure [Music] yeah the the skidoo machine is awesome though it almost feels like it has a turbo because it's like spins the wheels so fast well also it has power valves so it's a two-stroke thing that i don't even really understand but basically they're exhaust valve things that have like a spring in them and at a certain rpm they open and it's kind of like v-tech or a turbine it feels like it has v-tech yeah cause like you don't have a lot of power and then when it gets up into the rpms it just wow [Music] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] not only is the eater totter amazing for the power wheels but it's also super fun to just play on it takes a while to catch up to your weight so every move and we've only had one injury doing this so far that was actually pretty serious we're going for another one though we're going for round two i love this thing oh let's try to get it right to the end and then oh that was so satisfying oh yeah that's it's so much fun i don't know why like we're just going over a ramp and then down the other side but it's just fun and it is like it's not really difficult but given that you don't get a good run up and then it's really slippery it's there's a little challenge to it because you have to hit it with enough speed to make it over center uh the colonel can just kind of crawl up it because four-wheel drive but uh you know will in the uh incendy has only two-wheel drive so he's really got to send it up to the middle and then go down the other side or else he uh you know slides back down hitting the teeter-totter and hitting that tree i uh broke this tie rod so this wheel is now floppy floppy and i was trying to drive it back to the shop and uh i got it stuck on a tree because i was trying to go past it and then the steering went blink and the back went eat and then i went oh crap apparently i just wasn't sending it hard enough last time i just pulled it right off this time pull sideways baby uh the front doesn't matter we just need to tag the back there you go [Applause] define balance [Music] [Music] [Music] oh well that was a pain but it's back so now it lives here for now yep [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] i popped the clutch a little too hard on that one i was really enjoying the four wheel burnouts off of the teeter-totter and uh oh hey look the underglow started working again that's what i say part of it did anyway um uh but yeah i eat it a little too hard and the drive shaft exploded which is honestly shocking that it lasted this long because it's been through a lot of abuse well i guess we're pushing it up there for the thumbnail yeah this is also uh if you look at it this is why we have a driveline hoop this little hoop here goes around the driveline and it used to be a perfect circle and now it's an oval so when this broke just now it went clank and stretched out that oval instead of breaking your leg yeah sliding yeah you just uncontrollably slide so you've got to have like the perfect balance between like speed and finesse to get over that without it i don't i mean like i know that i wouldn't try but i honestly don't think i could drive over that in the camaro right now if it was dry yes but with the wet because like the camaro suspension sucks so like you can't just like send it into it yeah so unfortunately yeah that's uh not yet for the camaro soon though it's not particularly challenging uh but it's just it's just fun it's just ridiculous the absurdity of going up the teeter-totter and then just also this thing's suspension is just so it's so cool to have it just compress when you're not moving or like not driving forward because you're like you're on the teeter totter you come down and the suspension just soaks it up and you take off so much fun [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Keywords: teeter-totter, teeterboard, how to, tails, building, mtb, mountain bike trails, biking, diy, seesaw, home improvement, bike riding, power sport, woods, backyard projects, wood work, wood working, wood working, wood working idea, wood working idea home, woodworking projects, woodworking videos, another level, inventions, handmade, machine, do it yourself

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Length: 18min 19sec (1099 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 05 2021

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[u/rotarypower101]

Looks like the hinge point should be supported by logs bolted under the attachment points of the cross beam, and possible an additional center support .