alex shawn congratulations you've moving on to the second round all right we call it the
run with the challenge tim tell them what they're gonna build all right well let's first talk about
an invention that's even better than sliced bread the mighty leaf blower that loud abrasive droning
noise on an early saturday morning music to my ears the real problem is the leaf blower is no
match for ice and snow is it so like richard it just gathers cobwebs throughout the winter
two of you will attempt to build a machine that maintains your property in any season
it's gotta blow leaves it's gotta blow dirt it's gotta melt ice inside your crates
are materials needed to build a custom all-season leaf blower and ice melter each of you have been
given an intact leaf blower you can disassemble it you can upgrade it add more power if you want
this isn't just an assembly challenge when you complete your build after five days they
will be shipped back to me and richard where they will be tested on three criteria quality
design and functionality keep those cameras rolling make sure you don't sleep eat or even
talk to your families if you want to win right your crates will arrive tomorrow morning good luck
no idea this thing would be so big
cool my plan is to get this torch piece together from what i already have and make it even better
than it was before next i'll get it attached to the leaf blower and have the tank hanging off
the back using some brass fittings this propane torch it's uh relatively small
this is something i had around the shop which is going to have a larger nozzle
look at that he's swapping the torch for a bigger one that's real smart it's a smart
way to do that this is from my first build a little bit cooler look kind of gets my hand
into a different position look at that you know what that means more power more fire if it works
let's go try this with our external ignition system
let's give this a shot
oh wow
now you know the neighbors are calling the police right now the guy's got a flamethrower dude
i know you could take out an army of walking zombies this is gonna end up being the
backbone sort of the skeleton of everything uh you won't see this by the time it's done
i'm thinking out loud has to be portable that's for sure
world war ii airplanes are one of my passions so i'm going to use the p51d mustang as
the inspiration for my build i'm going to make it have the same muscular look
as the fuselage of the plane wow that's going to be a huge barrel for a leaf blower flame thrower
this part over here remind me as uh airplane engines they got the tubes coming in
this reminds them of an airplane yeah i i think we got to do an intervention
have some faith jim have some faith looks cool to me it's gonna look cooler later wow shut up wow
oh my gosh all right i asked him to build me the ultimate all-weather machine and boy did they
deliver alex came guns blazing with his design modeled after a p-51 mustang yeah and he included
all the bells and whistles a flashlight for night op the digital thermometer and accessory pouch
with a backup fire starter he also incorporated his strap and pressure hose from his round one
build nice going let's hope this performs as mean as this dude looks sean delivered the mother of
all dragons with his entire machine encased in hand-hammered lightweight steel to look like a
dragon what a head on this guy he added d-rings and a brass fitting from round one to his propane
tank a galvanized pipe to the leaf floor got that a hidden fire extinguisher if that doesn't get
you excited enough he had a larger flame nozzle for you you guessed it a little more heat all
right shoulder up hombre okay taking these things into battle i thought he said it was lightweight
let's test which blower is more powerful first one to blow their leaves to the other side
wins i'm at defcon 4 right now
come on
ah that was fun leaf wars next on the history channel part one of the functionality test was
amazing yeah i mean we uh we blew a lot of leaves around it's amazing i i i feel like they were both
kind of the same yeah right and neither of them chose to boost the power of the blower
we're only halfway there let's head over to the ice and uh flame test
ah all right we got the final test of functionality let's light these popsicle
chains up huh feel like getting hot let's do it first one to melt through the ice wins
well son of a gun yours yours cut through a lot quicker than mine did i could never see my flame i
saw your flame perfectly but uh i i i didn't know where my flame was it was at the end of the device
yeah well apparently it wasn't as strong as europe look at that i'm not even halfway through
oh boy this is gonna be rough huh guys look at this oh yes alex hey sean hello how's it going
good to see you guys in the flesh well you both did a tremendous job on this ridiculous project
well thank you thank you your two machines have taken over season cleanup you both had incredible
designs you both had amazing ingenuity but in the end one of the builds outperformed the other
just this much the maker with the winning all-season leap blower is
sean sean you are the winner congratulations congratulations on top of winning you also got
five grand coming your way april courtesy of ifixit they're also going to be sending you the
ultimate fixer kit both of you did incredible detail work but one of them melted ice quite a
bit faster than the other one and we just had to give it to you sean but alex my god you made us
love your build well thank you so much i'm really happy for what i built i won't change anything
congratulations to both of you and the victor or sean piece of artwork you did there man
but i got to tell you anytime you know in a movie when the military goes up against a dragon
the dragon usually wins yeah yeah thank you guys very much for being part of it thank you
i am amazed i'm super gracious and excited i in no way was expecting to win i'm humbled i'm honored
it was amazing thank you
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