An industrial wood chipper capable of reducing whole trees to dust in a matter
of seconds.
Just imagine what it could do to a body.
Here come the girls. No time to imagine what they can do.
There's a dangerous escape coming up. Appropriately enough the magician has a
solid pine box in the shape of a coffin headed straight toward the wood chippers
1000rpm blades.
You can probably guess what he's got in mind.
We know this guy is pretty twisted.
Under no circumstances should you attempt anything you're about to see.
Sure enough he heads straight for the coffin. Let's hope he's not headed to an
early grave.
His assistants are all too eager to help seal him inside the pine box.
Maybe he's not so easy to work for.
The lid goes into place and the teeth continue to grind.
The magician sticks his hands through two hand holes. The lid is fastened with
screws as his hands are secured with a pair of regulation police handcuffs.
Which will make his escape from the coffin even more difficult.
I don't even want to think about what's going to happen next.
The grinding teeth of that wood chipper are less than 30 feet away.
Do you think the magician plans to escape before he and the box are ground
into garden mulch?
The box is in motion cruising down the conveyor and directly at the spinning
blades. Less than 10 feet to go and he is still trapped inside. This is too
dangerous.
His hands are free but someone better let him out.
This is one continuous camera shot the box isn't stopping. It's being sucked into
the steel jaws.
I can't bear to watch.
The chipper is turning the coffin and its occupant into shreds.
So long masked man. I didn't even get a chance to thank him for all the laughs.
But wait who's this? Can it be? The masked magician! He stared death in the face and
won again.
Nice work.
So how does the magician escape the coffin and the handcuffs before it's fed
into the grinding blades of the 220 horsepower wood chipper?
There's a secret but this is still a very dangerous trick. Again
do not try this at home. Failure would result in a horrifying death.
This is a real wood chipper and the pine coffin is actually being reduced to tiny
flakes of wood.
But the masked magician knows he'll make it out in time.
The assistants use real screws to fasten the lid in place the handcuffs on the
other hand aren't so real.
That's why he's confident he'll escape before is chopped to pieces.
The handcuffs are rigged open with the slightest pressure.
Here's another look. A quick snap of the wrists and he's out. The truth shall set
you free.
And so will phony cuffs.
Not very sporting of them but then again he's got to minimize the danger.
The magician is free of the handcuffs but still headed for certain doom. But
he's not worried since the coffin has a secret trapdoor along one side.
This secret panel allows him an instant escape.
Once his hands are free all he has to do is flip open the door and jump out of
the box.
A thin pad breaks his fall only seconds before the box is chewed to shreds.
A soft landing, safe and sound.
And here's the secret to why we never see his escape.
Beneath the conveyor belt is a mirror that reflects the ground.
We never see anyone walk in front of the mirror like this.
So the illusion is very convincing. When you look closely from this angle you can
see the mirror vibrating as the coffin enters the chipper.
Of course you're so distracted by the destruction we don't even bother to
notice.
And now for the magician's escape route. He crawls from the crash mats across the
ground and along the backside of the chipper.
While we're looking at the shooting shards of wood
he's making his way into the cab of the truck.
The driver's door is open and ready for his arrival from the front seat.
It's just a short hop in the back of the truck. A black curtain hides the magician
until it's time for him to make his appearance. He sneaks out and strikes
a pose.
Offering relief to those who feared the worst.