JAMES: We're gonna make tree planting fun and invent a tree planting gun.
Squirrels got nothing against me.
This is our modified leaf blower!
I need to brace myself.
We've got some airsoft granades.
Hey guys, we're teaming up with Mr. Beast mark Rober
and hundreds of other youtubers to plant 20 million trees by 2020 to help combat
climate change. The movement is called #TEAMTREES and hundreds of
creators are coming together to raise donations for the Arbor Day Foundation
which is one of the largest tree planting organizations in the world.
And they've been around for 49 years for every dollar raised they will plant a
tree the goal is to raise 20 million dollars to plant 20 million trees in the
next two months. To donate just click the big donate button below 100% of the
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To do our part we're gonna make tree planting fun and invent a tree planting gun!
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Now obviously in order to plant, say 20
million trees we're gonna need 20 million seeds so we made a few posts on
Instagram and Twitter to crowdsource all the seeds we need it and boy did it work.
James: So many acorns...!
Ian: Does anyone want to try lifting Stormbreaker?
James: Ready...?
3... 2... 1... TEAMTREES!
Alright, so obviously we have one barrel of acorns, roughly about 21,000
acorns so if we want to plant 20 million oak trees we would need 1,000 barrels!
It would look something like this:
Oh my knees...!
Alright so, funny story, after our fans collected almost 20,000
acorns, the squirrels took revenge. Literally a squirrel chewed through on
the Transformers on the Hydro pole across the street and actually caused a
power surge throughout this entire building and actually damaged some of
our computer equipment and the UPS'. Don't mess with the squirrels!
Alright, so how are we gonna shoot all these nuts? Well it turns out these long skinny ones
actually fit perfectly in a paintball gun!
Boom!
Yeah!
Squirrels got nothing against me...
Alright, so as you can see acorn paintball gun works pretty good,
but let's see how good it will be at actually planting an acorn in this pot.
Assuming I can hit it...
Didn't work...
Anyways, what if we want to shoot more paintballs per minute?
Paintballs? Acorns! Because obviously we're not gonna be able to plant 20
million trees using a single shot paintball gun right luckily we've made
something better.
Say hello to my little friend!
Shis is our modified leaf blower capable of shooting 100 rounds per minute of acorns!
Let's try it out!
Ian: Perfect!
Alright, so that worked pretty good but shooting a hundred acorns per minute it
would take a hundred and forty-eight days to plant 20 million trees planting
non-stop 24/7 so that's not really realistic but we have something a bit better.
So in case you guys don't know what this is, this is an older project of
ours it's actually the world's largest man-made portable leaf blower.
This produces over 50 pounds of thrust which means I need to brace myself.
Let's see what it can do.
Load me up!
We need more acorns.
Alright Ian let's try that again.
How many acorns per minute was that? So that's about four thousand acorns in
what, 30 seconds? So that's eight thousand acorns per minute. Do some
quick math. Forty-two hours! That's more like it that's actually doable.
But you know it's even more doable...?
Donating to the team trees campaign by using the
donate button below the video one dollar equals one tree and YouTube covers all
the transaction fees we'll be personally donating twenty four hundred dollars to
this campaign to plant twenty four hundred trees roughly there's four
hundred trees per acre so that means we're actually planning six acres or the
equivalent of four and a half football fields worth of trees now that's pretty awesome.
Alright so what if we want to plant twenty million trees faster than
forty two hours? Well mustard plants while they aren't technically trees they
do grow to about thirty feet tall which is crazy and they have some of the
smallest seeds of any plant in fact this one bottle has over 400,000 seeds in it.
So, we've got some airsoft grenades now how these work is there's actually a co2
cartridge inside and when you pull the pin like this...
Hey Ian catch!
[BOOM] James: Aw jeez...
Okay that was a bit dangerous, we have one more plan for the mustard seeds
though besides the grenades what we did is we actually produced some mustard
seed paintballs so each of these paintball shells actually has around
50 to a hundred mustard seeds in them so now we could shoot a ton of mustard seeds!
Perfect!
Alright so, to demonstrate the power of
the mustard seed gun we've got some clay pigeons to shoot at.
Yeah!
Finally, we have one more method of planting trees
the good old faithful potato cannon but instead
of launching potatoes we're gonna be launching these apples filled with apple seeds!
Spray in some butane, tighten up the cap, take aim...
Potato canons are great!
Anotha'!
Oh-ho that's a good seal.
That wasn't very powerful...
Ready?
Oh-oh...! There we go!
I can't wait till these apple trees spread out of this awesome dirt pile we're gonna have apple
trees in the dirt pile.
So many trees.
Only you can help us plant trees by
donating to teamtrees.org links below!
Alright, so some of these tree planting
ideas in this video might seem a bit far-fetched but did you know there's
already a company out there that uses drones to shoot seed missiles in order
to plant trees and they can plant 40,000 per day per drone? That's crazy!
if you can please donate to teamtrees.org
It's an awesome cause and the world needs more trees.
Thanks for watching guys.