Ok internet, now to celebrate the release of Far Cry 6 on the 7th of October xbox and
ubisoft have challenged me, Colin Furze to create some items from the game.
Now I've already made one of the supremo backpacks, the exterminador.
Now in the game it's like a load of mortars but i've basically got a fireworks display,
strapped to my back.
Links to that video in the description and linked at the end of the video, but the other
thing in this game which I like, is that of the resolver philosophy, and this is the kind
of make do and mend, make weapons and vehicles with whatever you can find lying around.
And some of the vehicles in the game are pretty cool.
You got old like 50s cars, machine guns on the top, beach buggies, you name it.
It all looks like it's come out the scrapyard.
So i think we should go to the scrapyard.
get some components, and make our own vehicle!
Let's have it!
I've got a bicycle, that is a good start, and... oh yes!
This little bad boy, now this is the idea I've got,
take the engine off that and put it in the bicycle, but i know you're thinking...
lawnmower engines, they sit flat and you need the drive to be sideways.
Well
what if we had the lawnmower engine powering a hydraulic pump, which then powered hydraulic
motors, which turned the wheels, and if that works, we can make this bicycle two-wheel
drive, because we can stick a hydraulic motor on the front and a hydraulic motor on the
rear, and oh!
We can just be climbing over everything, boom!
Right i've tried starting it, it does work.
Sounds pretty rough, but it does run.
Right let's get it off here and then try and work out how we can mount it in our bicycle
frame, oh!
So i've got this little hydraulic pump, this is a spare one left over from the bicycle
of hydraulics, put some gears on here .oh yes!
Already fits and we'll mount that somewhere like that and then that can be on here, of
course of course.
New merch, new merch!
i don't think he's got many miles left in it!
Of course we do have to remember this was on the scrap heap!
Now it still works, just,.
I wanted to test it because i did notice that the output shaft was quite bent and i've hammered
it back and it's still bent, but I think, i think we can live with it.
This is very on brief with what I've been asked to do, so the resolver way.
Find junk, make something, and this is junk!
uh, we need a secondary engine support and then get our, ha! sounds like a bag of nails!
You got a zip tie?
okay then internet, what just happened?
Well, you know, the engine turns the pump, which
turns the motor.
I've had to swap the engine because i tried to stop the motor, and it conked out nearly
immediately, because that old engine was completely knackered, So I've got a not quite so knackered
engine now, and it's marginally better.
Now they've only got three horsepower these engines from new, so probably got like one
and a half two maximum.
So it's never going to be like a superpower machine, but anyway the whole thing works,
I think at some point one of these hydraulics has been left outside because it's got water
in it, because the oil now looks like honey, but we can clean that, that's all good.
Right proof of concept is good, let's mount this motor on the forks, to drive the front
wheel and then we will see what other problems occur.
hmm!
This, this is the real reason i made the tunnel look.
I've got like a, like a bicycle inspection pit.
Come on, stop messing around, get on with it.
ok, it's plumbed up, we've got oil in it and the good news is the wheel moves.
The bad news is of course, we have very little power.
You can literally stop it with your hand.
Before we chuck all this on the scrap heap, there are a couple of things i want to try.
I'm going to put a bypass in so once the engine's running it can just be circulating itself
and not actually powering the motor, because as soon as you start this thing, it wants
to move.
So we've not got a lot of control over it at the moment, and i've looked at it and thought
the wheels actually spinning reasonably fast and i tried to start in the garden, like suspended
in the air and then running and then dropping it down to see how fast it is actually turning
and i couldn't do that very well because if i wasn't running fast enough, or it was just
a very difficult operation to perform.
What we can do, get that sorted and then we can mess around with the gear ratios, because
basically we can change sprocket sizes here and at the front till we get to a point where
the little engine power we have got remaining, is enough to self sustain and turn the wheels
with Colin on it!
ah!
Right let's do all that.
bypass!
okey-dokey, we have our bypass, which is effectively our clutch and i've changed the gear ratio
down here.
Will you work?
Well it does work!
Ok, we don't have speed and we do not have power, but the engine runs and it does turn
the wheels, that is the one thing we can be satisfied with.
So ultimately these engines are too small, not got enough wallop, but it's all right,
I've managed to source a ride on mower, which wouldn't fit through the gate, but i've tested
it, the engine runs, i've got it out.
Third engine swap necessary people!
wow!
oh look at that, fits in there a treat doesn't it?!
Third engine in ah still no good!
So basically i've added valve's, bypass valve, something's over pressurizing the pump, we've
even connected it into the 240 volt pump underneath my bench.
I've had oil spraying everywhere, but basically this motor is not powerful enough because
we've got 11 and a half horsepower here now, so we are losing horses left right and center,
they have just disappeared.
So although it's very unresolver like because this is just stuff i've had lying around from
other projects, I've had to buy a bigger pump and a bigger motor because i want to see this
thing work.
New pumps on, plumbed in, thought i'd have a little tickle round the garden, but it turns
out the chain and sprocket off a bicycle is now not man enough to take the torque, so
i've had to swap it for a bigger one.
Something with a bit more meat.
Got back in the garden, turns out it is gonna work and it nearly powered me into the swing
and clotheslined myself.
So i think we'll take my oil covered camera up the airfield, give it a proper test.
Not very easy to pedal now with a big engine in the way!
it finally worked!
Lets see how fast it goes.
30, 30 miles an hour.
31!
It finally works, all that messing around and it turns out i just had the wrong engine,
and the wrong hydraulics, but you know the resolve away is to kind of use what you've
got lying around and finding things in scrap yards and you don't really find many ride
on lawn mowers in scrap yards, so i thought using a push mower would be better, but anyway
not good enough.
Now 30 miles an hour it's all right.
Now i've messed around with the gearing and i've got it to go a bit faster.
but if you think back to the beginning of the video, i didn't kind of have speed in
mind when i made this.
It was the fact that we could put two hydraulic motors on and give it two-wheel drive and
that, that is interesting.
OK, we're sorted, we've got two hydraulic motors now and i've actually upped the capacity
of them so the things should have even more torque and of course we've given it a little
bit of colour, we've kind of made it look like what the vehicles look like in the game.
because everything in the game, although it is all made out of junk and stuff it does
all look pretty cool and there's nice colors and textures.
so we've kind of added that bits of cloth you know, bits of strapping and stuff, all
these sorts of things that you expect to find.
Right let's go and give it a test in what i can only describe as the nearest thing to
yara we have in Lincolnshire!
Chains are jumping so we're gonna do away with the chains and go direct drive onto some
thicker wheels!
In three, two, one!
here she is we've got space saver wheels motors directly driven is this gonna work? yes, yes,
yes, just show is it working!
this is an improvement!
oh no, I wish it had a reverse!
haha!
Well it does work now!
We do have a two-wheel drive bicycle.
It has no brakes obviously, i remembered that as i went shooting off into the ditch straight
away!
um it is very heavy and it is very slow, but unfortunately with the engine, with the setup
that's as best as it's going to get.
If i get a bigger pump to put more oil into the motors to make them turn faster, then
the engine will struggle even more to turn it.
This is kind of the best this is going to get.
When i think back to it like bombing up the runway at 30 miles an hour, that was actually
its best setup, now, little did I know, but i just i love the idea of the two wheel drive
bicycle, it feels like if you were in a situation, you know, like in the game and you wanted
to get away this went 40 miles an hour that'd be super versatile but it didn't so but it
looks cool and it's been a massive learning experience now of course don't forget the
game Far Cry 6 is out on the 7th of October, there is links in the description and i've
got one more, one more thing, one more supremo backpack in me.
That is the next video, subscribe and i'll see you there