Thanks for noticing it was very hard. I walked through the water with my clothes in my hands. Then took turns balancing on each foot while carefully putting my clothes on. No you cant get a video!
@@morimomento5258 Yup we used to have a very out of commission hot tub which had one of those solid lids and it definitely turned into fermented frog and slug soup
That ramp robot was absolutely ingenious. The way that the hinge bobs in perfect timing with the water? Can't believe you didnt show more of the coding and hard work behind that final product!!
8:34 It has been a while since I've laughed as hard as I did watching this part. Joke worked perfectly. I was JUST thinking to myself "Seems a bit dangerous to put electronics directly connected to an outlet in a pool that you are currently swimming in." *abrupt cut to complete silence just staring at a corpse.*
That would imply that there would be frog corpses in the pool too. Plugged in electronics while in a water source would electrocute them and everything else that touches the water.
It's so funny when he finally resigns to his fate and builds the obvious solution. We have the same problem in our pool the frogs and other stuff drown themselves like crazy. They actually make cheap frog ladders you can buy. That's what we got it's just a tiny sandbag holding it to the side then a little water mesh and ramp for them to get out it works great. Now instead of 15 drowned frogs everyday there's basically none
There's basically none Basically none BASICALLY NONE 0_O I'm just trying to imagine how dumb a frog has to be to literally be drowning and running out of strength, and instead of heading to the obvious big exit area where they can climb up they just kind-of stay where they are and just give up on life, I guess? At that point I wouldn't even chalk it up to the pool. They just saw a way out and let the depression take them!
@@elisaa9981 We always close our pool cover every night. They sneak under there's nothing you can do. After we got the little sandbag exit though there has been zero dead frogs though this year. We used to have to run to rescue them but now the pool is entirely clean
@@dracocrusher well, while they could jump, there is still water over the “big exit area” and they would have nothing to push off of and jump. Also they could even miss that it’s there. They are small ig
Sometimes I'm not so sure whether he actually wants to help the animals in his backyard or is just happy about the opportunity to use them as free test dummies.
I once lived in Costa Rica, and once we rented a property with a pool. We never swam in that pool. For a pretty good reason too. The pool was filled with dead poisonous frogs that drowned themselves. It was pretty sad for all the frogs, and unfortunate for us as well, as we couldn't swim in the pool. We prbly could've used a thing like what you built
insulated wire and usually any GFI or junction boxes we put or have been put poolside have low voltage for vacuums and lights to be run. also helps because theres no risk of us electrocuting ourselves in a wetsuit since it trips itself at the breaker if wet.
@@mattymerr701 yea thats what i meant when i said it would trip itself at the breaker i guess its called switch box down under haha. but what i was getting at is in FL, we gotta put transformers for any *new* light installs. And usually if we have to put a GFI near the pool for the clients robotic cleaner or something we put another transformer.
I like how each machine you make is super complicated and extreme and at the end you just show the most effective method being a simple ledge that allows the frogs to climb onto the edge of the pool that probably only took you five minutes
A couple years ago, I went to a lake with some relatives. We stayed at a cabin and there was a pool. In the pool, I found a bunch of frogs stuck in the filters just whirling around, caught in what looked like seaweed. I tried to pull them out and some were still alive, but for some reason, a lot of them kept hopping right back into the pool. I spent a little over an hour trying to get them all out, but they still kept going back in. And then I noticed a bumble bee drowning, so I used my swimming noodle to scoop it up and slid it off on the edge of the pool. It just sat there, breathing hard. And then it eventually flew away. And then I went back to catching frogs for a while before I got called in for dinner…there were other kids trying to help me get them out of the pool, but sadly, a lot of frogs died that day… :(
I love how you went over the top creating weird machinery when in fact the only humane way is something (anything) along the principles of your last and final solution. 😂 Very entertaining, thanks for being kind and saving wildlife. ❤️
Just discovered this video today and I can say that this really uplifted my mood so much, I love frogs and you're really talented! I laughed so hard at some parts especially the que of the music after saying wet at 4:46 🤣
I was literally thinking "that can't be safe! one nick in the wire and you'll get electrocuted!" 3 seconds later...unconscious man floating face down in the pool! Your humor is the best part of your videos.
I interpreted that joke as he was mad because of the rain ruined his project and he off'd himself 😅😂 but comedy has a bunch of different ways to look at it I suppose
get a frog log for swimming pools. as someone that works for a pool maintenance company, i can assure you they work well. the customers that buy them and have one or more in their pool always have far less to no dead critters in the pool. they cant cost much more than 10 dollars for one. most people have 2 or 3 stationed around the pool, so any tiny animal can make an easy exit
@@Ididathing that's the part that actually worried me for a sec. When I saw the plug touch the water I let out an "okay that's good it's not plugged...." Then there you were just floating.
despite them drowning, i think another reason why they could be dying is because they breath through their skin so absorbing all that chlorine might be harming them. Dont worry you did great and im glad your trying to protect them! i just am saying this so you dont need to feel bad if you feel like you cant save them. great video overall!
We had a mouse plague about a year ago, we were meant to kill them all but I lived in a shed with fkall so I gave them increasingly difficult tricks to get to the sunflower seeds, and saw 3-4 families of mice quarrelling over the knowledge and older ones teaching the timid babies, so hard to kill them once you've seen their hard work and loyalty and bravery to their family
@Hey Dislike This Video & Leave A Rude Comment It's rich to call yourself an artist if you have zero integrity and solely depend on bad traffic to get any views at all, pathetic. Instead of using popular media and hate as a crutch try to make something original you're actually passionate about, find your thing instead of relying on trends. If you love to make music that is, if you're just a sellout you won't make it big anyway, so do whatever I guess.
Mainly because in suburbs, the pure destruction of landscape [ including bodies of water ] forces these amphibians to go to any and every body of water to survive, I.e, pools and garden ponds. The issue is they can’t get out due to the rim and they get sucked into the filter. Two solutions, put a grate on your filter and get a Frog Log
Imagine the amount of times he had to dry off his apron during the filming of this video, just so he could get yet another shot of him in a dry apron diving/falling into the pool again.
I can't explain how incredibly fun and entertaining your videos are. The random, completely unpredictable humor you sprinkle into your very wholesome and informative animal/tinkering videos makes every upload my best experience of the day. Love your work!
I don't have anything as grand as a pool, and I prefer low-tech 100 percent of the time when it will do the job (your video kinda demonstrates why LOL) but I bend old cheap silverware into an upside down U, scratch it up a bit with sandpaper or even a rock so tiny things can grip, and stick it hooked over the side of any containers (potted plants, cat water dish, etc) in my yard that might hold water. It's like a Sims game ladder but for bugs and little lizards, lol. It can even look quite nice IMO if you use a pretty thrift-store piece with a nice handle. Got too sad seeing the little babies had passed away when all they wanted was a drink. I also set up an old decent-sized pot under an AC drip with rocks propping it (and yes a spoon Sims ladder heh) just so that the drips fill it but then the overflow runs down the handle onto a rock: Big babies can drink out of the pot, little babies can land on the rock or handle or creep up to the ground underneath in the summer heat, without dying! Anybody who gets it wrong or doesn't stick their landing can hopefully climb out! I'm kind of in the country so I might get almost anything, and very SOUTH so it gets hot QUICK and somebody's cat or dog that snuck out might find this lifesaving during the worst of summer. I love feeling less crazy when I see other people caring about that sort of kindness, even to tiny things most people would scream about or just murder for no reason. NOBODY deserves to die just for being thirsty!
This actually a LOT like how I design things. I like to spend a LOT of time making a super overcomplicated solution then usually "scale ot back" to the simplest solution later. Classic
0:38 And I want to place my bet now before the video officially kicks off. I think that I did a thing is more likely going to increase his pools wildlife kill count by accidentally improving it's murder abilities. I genuinely think he wants to save the slimy critters, I just know that after idk how many videos, that he is a bundle of pure chaos energy + wholesomeness. It seems every time he's trying to help, something always ends up decapitated/close to being decapitated/ripped to shreds/or missing some key portion of itself 💖 I love him for his pure chaotic wholesome energy, not because the results always lend themselves to the original intent.
@@Ididathing I like to think that theres tons of off-screen resurrections in the other videos, this was was just particularly irritating so you left it in
Imagine being a frog going for a swim in a weird looking pond, and suddenly something floats over and catapults you into a bush Way funner than just making a small floating ramp
what i appreciate about his content the most is it is always about the journey to the final product, because most, if not all the time, the final product doesnt really work at all.
I had a bunny almost drown in my pool. I bought a few "Frog logs" that help. It is pretty much like your wool ramp, but there is a bottom and it has air. The birds and rabbits love to use them to drink now.
@@Domebuddy I wonder the SAME thing. I want to get a bird bath with an under water feeder. But, I am in the desert. It will dry from full in a day. I always feel bad seeing them drink it... But it isn't meant for them to drink...
I used to live at a house that had a pool with a frog problem. They weren’t dying in it. Rather the problem was that they kept *spawning* in it. Little tadpoles in the pool every spring
The support elastic is so elegant. It helps the servo exactly when it needs to, when the elastic is perpendicular to the servo horn. Really good thinking mate.
i was searching for a comment about this, the support elastic has me a little confused. how does it keep the servo turning when it loosens and is no longer pulling on it? does it only have to pull it past a certain position?
Theres something called a "frog log" that basicly hangs off the side of your pool and allows the froggos and other critters to climb out. I've seen it in my friends pool and it really worked! Frogs climbed out and no longer died.
I just googled this and it looks great. In fact I was amazed at how many pictures there are of multiple creatures congregating on the frog log...If I had a pool, let alone a garden I would buy two of them!
That was a really nice long shot with zero movement showing how dangerous it is to drop mains power cable into a pool. All in all, great informational video, as always!
For sure never do that if you're in an old house with no circuit breakers. If you plug a toaster into a wall then sit in a tub and put the toaster in the tub with you, the 15 AMP breaker will trip instantly once the short happens so you will get 120V infinite current for like 1 millisecond and it doesn't work anymore. They patched that because too many people were committing suicide with it and God is not into suicide.
"No, I'm not murdering them. They just keep drowning themselves and I have no idea why." -- me when the pool ladder mysteriously disappears at my sim's house party
I really love how this could easily be solved by purchasing some sort of net to cover the pool but he chose to do the brilliantly chaotic and ingenious method. This is top tier content 😂
Those can run upwards of 3 grand, it's actually ridiculous. Here in canada they go bad in a few years as well, it's possible they'd last longer in australia but still it's hefty.
When it's breeding season for the frogs you should make a specialised tank for the tadpoles it would be pretty cool. *edit Thanks for all the likes-however I didn't mean the tadpoles were from the pool. I remember he had a small pond but the frogs were wiped out by water skinks. I meant that he could make something similar, but see-through kind of like a shabby chic version of serpa-design maybe? So you can see the tadpoles developing, but they are safe from cats, birds and water skinks.
@@ladyinsect6444 Sure, because that's the water that is available. But if they come across a nice body of water in their travels they'll happily use it for breeding. We had a small spring at our cabin and dammed it to create about a half acre of pond. It was full of frogs in a single season. Was full of fish within a few years and eventually gained a family of otters. I know the fish usually arrive in such bodies of water as eggs stuck to ducks and other water foul, but I have no clue how the otters found it!
I work at a pool, the amount of frogs I’ll find in the skimmers is insane. The amount of them that float (or if alive, jump) over and get sucked into the vacuum port and into the hair lint strainer in the pump room is actually horrific, they’re usually torn to shreds cause of pressure and shit and honestly I’ll never get that image from my head lol
@@UnsaltedCashew38 not that simple as The vacuum port is supposed to pick up the leaves and sticks and stuff that gets past the skimmer basket, if we put a net it would clog the port (when skimmers clog, water doesn’t circulate, filter, or chlorinate as well as it should) and defeat the whole purpose of it in the first place Also for reference, the vacuum port in a skimmer is usually no larger than a small tennis ball
We have a pool too and based on how sensitive frogs are, and how they breathe through their skin, I'm inclined to believe that the chemicals used to maintain pools also contribute to the problem.
Yeah, you see the bit in the video when he said chlorine isn't good for frogs skin, something obvious like that yeah? But just repeated and written like a school report. That kind of thing?
Pool cover, although they could get trapped underneath. Critters in pool will swim around the edge of the pool looking for a way out until they drown or die. They make plastic Lily pads you can attach to the side of the pool for the animals to climb up on. You might still need to check every morning or several times a day. To get them out
I was screaming internally when I saw you getting into the pool with a live wire, and then you showed why a line powered robot in a pool is not such a great idea, even with GFCI outlets.
@@xXMindSoulXx ground fault circuit interrupter. They’re the outlets with the little “reset” buttons on them that you find in kitchens and bathrooms. Basically, the outlet opens if there is a ground fault, like, say, a hair dryer that’s fallen into water. They significantly reduce the likelihood of death by electrocution by opening the circuit (cutting off electric current) when too much electricity goes through, so a person may still receive a shock, but the outlet cuts the power soon enough that they can survive.
When I see your videos full of birds, cute frogs and lizards I think of Australia as a beautiful place full of peaceful and nice animals. Then I remember the 5 meter long spiders and the cat-eating sand-worms.
I like people with long brain. I have long amount of disl*kes btw. Why? Maybe people with short brain disl*ke because jealous of my long amount of subscr*bers. Please have long brain, dear nn
@@proloycodes he doesnt have the power to do so? thats how. imagine if he had the power to block/delete a users comments. he could then delete yours too. i dont think that would be fair, would it
@@pvic6959 he can delete comments wdym? blocking people from commenting is entirely possible. the real reason is its damn hard to block every single bot, theres just too many and they get new accounts all the time
I love the energy of inventing unnecessarily complex things just for the sake of inventing them, this is the genuine spirit of being a mad scientist. Whenever I read books about the renaissancemen and victorians doing goofy ass off the wall obscure experiments or building insane niche contraptions and like 90% of them just living their whole lives being crotchety weirdos chasing down science nobody needs but 10% stumble into some actual breakthrough I always wonder "why don't people still do this kind of 'just because I felt like it/thought it would be cool' science" and then I remember that oh people definitely do they're just all on youtube entertaining us in the process. Tbh a lot of those mad inventors and experimenters wrote lots of whacky books and essays on their work and I wonder how many people back then read and kept up with those for entertainment
@@Sarah-ic4yu Da Vinci Just straight up designed a prototype tank (which did not work) and a bunch of flying machines, from a helicopteresque aerial screw to a hang glider with flapping wings (most of which did not work). It's all very interesting, the renaissance truly was a utopia for insane off the wall ideas
I mean there are also plenty of engineers trying all sorts of wacky stuff too, but they either get ridiculed if it doesn't work or the idea gets attributed to some CEO if it does. At least on TH-cam its not quite so lose-lose.
The first idea I thought of was floating water Lilly pads that would swim to the edges of the pool. Frogs would swim to those triggering them to go to the side, once the frog jumps off, the Lilly pads swim back to the middle.
Why does it have to go back to the middle? Frogs will follow the edge of the pool anyways, a ramp like he made at the end is an obvious and decent solution.
yes, those lily pads would be great. now add a root-like weight that'll reach the bottom of the pool. and to ensure that the lily pad stay one the sides on of the roots will have a suction cup to the side of the pool. NOW TRADEMARK THAT, SELL IT CLOUDYBRAIN
Imagine your in the kitchen and frogs start flying against the window and you check what it us and there's this water catapult that shoots frogs out of the neighbours pool NAAAAH BRO THIS GUY I LOVE HIM 😭😭😭
real question, how did you do the sponsor part in the pool without getting wet
Looked like a stack of bricks mate
Thanks for noticing it was very hard. I walked through the water with my clothes in my hands. Then took turns balancing on each foot while carefully putting my clothes on. No you cant get a video!
By walking on the water like Jesus 🙄🙄🙄
@@Ididathing imagine if u had fallen over
Asking the real questions! I noticed it and thought he built a kneehigh walkway underwater in addition to the stand under the surface
I love how getting a pool cover was just never an option 😂😂
_they still get in my pool with the cover on. Then they get stuck._
@@TheBlairWenchProject =frog soup in the worse way
@@morimomento5258 Yup we used to have a very out of commission hot tub which had one of those solid lids and it definitely turned into fermented frog and slug soup
Facts
he still wants to swim in his pool bro
That ramp robot was absolutely ingenious. The way that the hinge bobs in perfect timing with the water? Can't believe you didnt show more of the coding and hard work behind that final product!!
@@giselle8924 bruh
@Mr.Squidward wtf
I think it would be even better it it had a little curtain towards the wall on one side at least so those following the wall get directed to the ramp.
Thanks mate. Im patenting it
@@Ididathing I hope we see you on shark tank at some point in the future! Sure to sell
8:34 It has been a while since I've laughed as hard as I did watching this part. Joke worked perfectly. I was JUST thinking to myself "Seems a bit dangerous to put electronics directly connected to an outlet in a pool that you are currently swimming in." *abrupt cut to complete silence just staring at a corpse.*
Thought so too, was like wtf this guy hahahahhahahaha
It’s also the fact he took time to build it then made something super simple lol
I legit didn't understand it until I saw your comment! Thanks bro hahaha
BAHAHAHAH BRO SAME
That would imply that there would be frog corpses in the pool too. Plugged in electronics while in a water source would electrocute them and everything else that touches the water.
It's so funny when he finally resigns to his fate and builds the obvious solution. We have the same problem in our pool the frogs and other stuff drown themselves like crazy. They actually make cheap frog ladders you can buy. That's what we got it's just a tiny sandbag holding it to the side then a little water mesh and ramp for them to get out it works great. Now instead of 15 drowned frogs everyday there's basically none
There's basically none
Basically none
BASICALLY NONE
0_O
I'm just trying to imagine how dumb a frog has to be to literally be drowning and running out of strength, and instead of heading to the obvious big exit area where they can climb up they just kind-of stay where they are and just give up on life, I guess? At that point I wouldn't even chalk it up to the pool. They just saw a way out and let the depression take them!
How about doing the responsible thing and get a pool cover?
@@elisaa9981 We always close our pool cover every night. They sneak under there's nothing you can do.
After we got the little sandbag exit though there has been zero dead frogs though this year. We used to have to run to rescue them but now the pool is entirely clean
@Will Wunsche Ok. Thanks for the info, my bad.
@@dracocrusher well, while they could jump, there is still water over the “big exit area” and they would have nothing to push off of and jump. Also they could even miss that it’s there. They are small ig
I love how he built such a sophisticated contraption and ended up just using a block of wood and some cloth
he always leads up to this big device and then backs down to something simpler, this channel is gold
Theres usually always a simpler way to everything, remember that
Occam's Razor: “the simplest solution is almost always the best.”
the simplest solution is usually the best one for day to day problems like this ^^
@karolin bro what
Sometimes I'm not so sure whether he actually wants to help the animals in his backyard or is just happy about the opportunity to use them as free test dummies.
its definitely a mix of both
@@Ididathing Is there a way to filter out spam bots from your comments section? Things are really bad
@@seamoose9039 I report them when I see them
@@seamoose9039 They can be banned but that doesn't remove their messages. But I've seen someone making a script for that.
Somewhere on TH-cam is the squirrel launcher.
I don't know if I'm more proud of you for saving the lives of various pool dwelling animals, or of my Mum for finding a decent man. Thanks Dad.
🤣 LMAO This comment had me dying! Thank you! I needed a good laugh!
I once lived in Costa Rica, and once we rented a property with a pool.
We never swam in that pool. For a pretty good reason too. The pool was filled with dead poisonous frogs that drowned themselves. It was pretty sad for all the frogs, and unfortunate for us as well, as we couldn't swim in the pool. We prbly could've used a thing like what you built
Would have been easy to build too
Just a towel and a chunk of wood
@@jamesbackstar8285 they also sell them pretty cheap tbh, its a common issue
Super late to reply, but couldn’t you have gotten a pool cover?
the way he so confidently put electronics and cords underwater truly amazes me
insulated wire and usually any GFI or junction boxes we put or have been put poolside have low voltage for vacuums and lights to be run. also helps because theres no risk of us electrocuting ourselves in a wetsuit since it trips itself at the breaker if wet.
@@bigbossogbigtoe_9367 I don't think we do.
We just rely on the house wide RCDs in the switch box.
Edit: "we" meaning Australians
Although it doesn't matter if there is an RCd if you just turn off the switch :P
@@mattymerr701 yea thats what i meant when i said it would trip itself at the breaker i guess its called switch box down under haha. but what i was getting at is in FL, we gotta put transformers for any *new* light installs. And usually if we have to put a GFI near the pool for the clients robotic cleaner or something we put another transformer.
@@bigbossogbigtoe_9367 you're right. I missed the "Junction box" and just read "poolside"
Read too fast XD
At this rate, he will fly and save birds from falling off the sky
“Falling off the sky” as if it’s some rotating carousel with birds attached to the ceiling by string
True
This is the best channel with an even better audience.
@Don't read profile photo man, do know there are youtube videos about you?
Yep
I love how this man is TH-cam’s jankiest engineer and never once shows the least bit of self-consciousness about it. His shit just works. Or doesn’t.
This is like PG-13 Mark Rober and I’m all here for it
I like how each machine you make is super complicated and extreme and at the end you just show the most effective method being a simple ledge that allows the frogs to climb onto the edge of the pool that probably only took you five minutes
he showed us the concept of overengeneering :)
spoilers
thanks for describing the video :)
@@raccoontrashpanda1467 I'd wager having 2 on opposite ends of the pool would be a tad bit safer
or just simply cover the pool
Have you seen a bear saving a salmon from drowning in a river? Nature's just amazing!
lol
@febbyy🔞 bruh
@@keinarhya7709 bruh
@@giselle8924 bruh
@@jovanka---------3022 bruh
A couple years ago, I went to a lake with some relatives. We stayed at a cabin and there was a pool. In the pool, I found a bunch of frogs stuck in the filters just whirling around, caught in what looked like seaweed. I tried to pull them out and some were still alive, but for some reason, a lot of them kept hopping right back into the pool. I spent a little over an hour trying to get them all out, but they still kept going back in. And then I noticed a bumble bee drowning, so I used my swimming noodle to scoop it up and slid it off on the edge of the pool. It just sat there, breathing hard. And then it eventually flew away. And then I went back to catching frogs for a while before I got called in for dinner…there were other kids trying to help me get them out of the pool, but sadly, a lot of frogs died that day… :(
I love how you went over the top creating weird machinery when in fact the only humane way is something (anything) along the principles of your last and final solution. 😂 Very entertaining, thanks for being kind and saving wildlife. ❤️
His inventions are getting better and better.
He slowly turns into the wish version of mark rober
Mark rober is the amazon version of I did a thing
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With how dangerous many of his inventions are I would say he becomes the more social version of michael reeves
@@keinarhya7709 bruh
“It’s not meant to look like this, it’s dead.”
This made me laugh way more than it should have
I cackled!!!
Haha dark humor
Haha 🫤not funny
@@Your_a_simp0_0 you are not one of us.
It made me slightly sad actually
Just discovered this video today and I can say that this really uplifted my mood so much, I love frogs and you're really talented! I laughed so hard at some parts especially the que of the music after saying wet at 4:46 🤣
Honestly the quiet - oh my god there is an easier way - at the end is so damn real. Also you’re so geniunly clever and funny I love what you do
I love when he first shows us stupid ideas so that when he shows a sensible idea it seems more impressive 😂
Frog can't drown
@@usernamenotsave if it gets too tired of swimming. It can die due to fatigue.
Frogs can die. They have lungs. As tadpoles they have gills, but they lose it after around 4 weeks.
@@usernamenotsave are you still on 3rd grade?
@@miraclemalletyougrowbigger5339 yes
I was literally thinking "that can't be safe! one nick in the wire and you'll get electrocuted!" 3 seconds later...unconscious man floating face down in the pool! Your humor is the best part of your videos.
i thought that was him looking for frogs
I interpreted that joke as he was mad because of the rain ruined his project and he off'd himself 😅😂 but comedy has a bunch of different ways to look at it I suppose
I thought he died because the frogs ignored all his work, beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder.
Same I was about to say I hope he didn’t plug that in
I thought he fainted from his own stupidity.
get a frog log for swimming pools. as someone that works for a pool maintenance company, i can assure you they work well. the customers that buy them and have one or more in their pool always have far less to no dead critters in the pool. they cant cost much more than 10 dollars for one. most people have 2 or 3 stationed around the pool, so any tiny animal can make an easy exit
I love the genius of "support elastic" rather than a larger motor. Working smarter, not harder, LOVE IT!
The chaotic energy surrounding this man is mythical and frightening, he truly is the one we must fear
@Tommy Gaming 🅥 no
Agreed
Nah, he seems like a kind soul underneath the chaos. Not many would care enough about the lives of creatures so small.
Oe worship
I was genuinely like "wait, he can't seriously be getting into the pool with that plugged in???" then the cut away absolutely gutted me 😂
it is something i would do
@@Ididathing that's the part that actually worried me for a sec. When I saw the plug touch the water I let out an "okay that's good it's not plugged...." Then there you were just floating.
Ohhhh! 🤦🏾♂️ LOL. I was like "Y is he just floating there?"
@@starvemarve5530 same i was confused
despite them drowning, i think another reason why they could be dying is because they breath through their skin so absorbing all that chlorine might be harming them. Dont worry you did great and im glad your trying to protect them! i just am saying this so you dont need to feel bad if you feel like you cant save them. great video overall!
We had a mouse plague about a year ago, we were meant to kill them all but I lived in a shed with fkall so I gave them increasingly difficult tricks to get to the sunflower seeds, and saw 3-4 families of mice quarrelling over the knowledge and older ones teaching the timid babies, so hard to kill them once you've seen their hard work and loyalty and bravery to their family
Amazing how he died for a minute there and came back to life with an extra ounce of enlightenment on how to really help the poor frogs and lizzies
Yes it's a perfect dish for cats to come and grab dinner.
@@MrGuideElk they would have get eaten anyway, at least now they can exit the pool.
This is all fun and games until you start flinging drowining bees
@Hey Dislike This Video & Leave A Rude Comment i bet your father left you
Drowining lol
@Hey Dislike This Video & Leave A Rude Comment It's rich to call yourself an artist if you have zero integrity and solely depend on bad traffic to get any views at all, pathetic. Instead of using popular media and hate as a crutch try to make something original you're actually passionate about, find your thing instead of relying on trends. If you love to make music that is, if you're just a sellout you won't make it big anyway, so do whatever I guess.
Bees are good though, you actually want to save them, they're precious. Flinging hornets on the other hand...
@@nickpikup7389 Hornets are actually pretty peaceful if you don't mess with them. Wasps are the real bullys
Mainly because in suburbs, the pure destruction of landscape [ including bodies of water ] forces these amphibians to go to any and every body of water to survive, I.e, pools and garden ponds. The issue is they can’t get out due to the rim and they get sucked into the filter. Two solutions, put a grate on your filter and get a Frog Log
This was the first time I've ever rewatched a sponsort part in a video, I love your content man.
Mark Rober: Don’t worry, the squirrels are fine, I promise. Here’s the science of how.
I did a thing: FROG CATAPULT!!!
Why does every macgyvered idea seem to involve a catapult at some point
“Squirts”
@@GlaxMM2 ...... how did it take me this long to notice that
@@sasariwtf lol, well your welcome
I mean they survived… not really confirmed on how safe they are but they’re not dying, which is better than the drowning
I love how this shows that more complicated or technical doesn't always mean better.
Sometimes the most simple solution is the best and most practical
You don't know til you try.
What a fantastic channel. We need guys like you doing what you do.
That was honestly the best transition into a promo I've ever seen in my life.
Imagine the amount of times he had to dry off his apron during the filming of this video, just so he could get yet another shot of him in a dry apron diving/falling into the pool again.
P
@@keinarhya7709 bruh
@@giselle8924 bruh
I would hope he had many aprons
so many fucking times
I can't explain how incredibly fun and entertaining your videos are. The random, completely unpredictable humor you sprinkle into your very wholesome and informative animal/tinkering videos makes every upload my best experience of the day. Love your work!
Thanks mate
Very well said! :)
@@Ididathing please make a leash for a spider and walk it like a dog.
I don't have anything as grand as a pool, and I prefer low-tech 100 percent of the time when it will do the job (your video kinda demonstrates why LOL) but I bend old cheap silverware into an upside down U, scratch it up a bit with sandpaper or even a rock so tiny things can grip, and stick it hooked over the side of any containers (potted plants, cat water dish, etc) in my yard that might hold water. It's like a Sims game ladder but for bugs and little lizards, lol. It can even look quite nice IMO if you use a pretty thrift-store piece with a nice handle.
Got too sad seeing the little babies had passed away when all they wanted was a drink.
I also set up an old decent-sized pot under an AC drip with rocks propping it (and yes a spoon Sims ladder heh) just so that the drips fill it but then the overflow runs down the handle onto a rock: Big babies can drink out of the pot, little babies can land on the rock or handle or creep up to the ground underneath in the summer heat, without dying! Anybody who gets it wrong or doesn't stick their landing can hopefully climb out! I'm kind of in the country so I might get almost anything, and very SOUTH so it gets hot QUICK and somebody's cat or dog that snuck out might find this lifesaving during the worst of summer.
I love feeling less crazy when I see other people caring about that sort of kindness, even to tiny things most people would scream about or just murder for no reason. NOBODY deserves to die just for being thirsty!
This was so creative and fun. Thank you!
I'm a few seconds in and know this machine is going to kill more than it helps, and that's what I appreciates about this channel.
Same 💀
Its like when the dynamite was invented.
Same soap😩😩😩
At the latest by minute 2:50
No frogs were harmed in the making of this video
"This is a frog, it's not meant to look like this... it's dead" was a great intro
Sweet baby Jesus, what's with all the bots here?!?!
@@mewhe no clue bruh but they annoying as fuck
This actually a LOT like how I design things. I like to spend a LOT of time making a super overcomplicated solution then usually "scale ot back" to the simplest solution later. Classic
0:38 And I want to place my bet now before the video officially kicks off. I think that I did a thing is more likely going to increase his pools wildlife kill count by accidentally improving it's murder abilities. I genuinely think he wants to save the slimy critters, I just know that after idk how many videos, that he is a bundle of pure chaos energy + wholesomeness.
It seems every time he's trying to help, something always ends up decapitated/close to being decapitated/ripped to shreds/or missing some key portion of itself 💖 I love him for his pure chaotic wholesome energy, not because the results always lend themselves to the original intent.
I love how he died then came back to life just to save frogs and lizards. Big props man
someone has to do it
@@Ididathing I like to think that theres tons of off-screen resurrections in the other videos, this was was just particularly irritating so you left it in
Like Jesus... But for frogs
It's skillshare. Taught this man to literally be Jesus.
Imagine being a frog going for a swim in a weird looking pond, and suddenly something floats over and catapults you into a bush
Way funner than just making a small floating ramp
Yes
On the other hand not so funny for the frog
Peace was never an option
No, just catapult back into the water 🌊.
@@cindyyy768 WTF :D
Just gotta love his ideas and creativity
this is heart warming to see him caring about living things....
now manakins on the other hand....
what i appreciate about his content the most is it is always about the journey to the final product, because most, if not all the time, the final product doesnt really work at all.
that's the meaning of life, the most important part is the journey that we go through, the destination is not our goal
@@giselle8924 bruh
@@jovanka---------3022 bruh
Yeah I actually really missed a lot of the process in this video. Usually it includes more of the building and that stuff is always funny
This is a nice way of saying im shit ahaha
I had a bunny almost drown in my pool. I bought a few "Frog logs" that help. It is pretty much like your wool ramp, but there is a bottom and it has air. The birds and rabbits love to use them to drink now.
But he made money
how much chlorine can birds and rabbits drink? lol
@@Domebuddy I wonder the SAME thing. I want to get a bird bath with an under water feeder. But, I am in the desert. It will dry from full in a day. I always feel bad seeing them drink it... But it isn't meant for them to drink...
you are so sweet :)
@@urmaker okay but the frog thing would not be a problem if he had a pool cover. and you too. maybe it is a nescasarry home improvement.
This was the most enjoyable video I’ve seen in months😂
This man is the LEAST lazy person, building a robot before making just a simple ramp.
Amazing work! 👍🏼
I always enjoy your content involving native wildlife. At home eco-friendliness is a great form of conservation and I respect what you do!
Thanks gage!
@@Ididathing Eh, I'm here for the foot pics.
@Wenia🔞 did you know that if you inject yourself with a bottle of bleach you die?
bloody hippies
@@usuallyadam stop humanity! 💚
I used to live at a house that had a pool with a frog problem.
They weren’t dying in it. Rather the problem was that they kept *spawning* in it.
Little tadpoles in the pool every spring
Wouldn’t they die in the chlorine?
@@gaminggator37 freshwater pools are a thing so maybe not?
omg- i wouldve just swimmed with them
@@just_let_toby_sleep yeah and them you accidentally swallow one of tadpoles
@@Vaxedia protein
4:41 made me laugh out loud- it's something about the music's timing with the close up of that frog 😆
I love the printing money bit. such a good B-roll
I admire your skill to pick up dead slimy animals, I...could not do that AT ALL
gulp and slurp it down shloop
@@splendidblu2041 aww hell noo
He's australian
@@isidown7442 im australian too 💀
@@sofialam9048 just embrace your inner australian
The support elastic is so elegant. It helps the servo exactly when it needs to, when the elastic is perpendicular to the servo horn. Really good thinking mate.
Thanks mate. I cant believe i did something smart
They should build the whole thing out of support elastic.
@@Ididathing I did a (smart) thing
@Hey Dislike This Video & Leave A Rude Comment no thanks
i was searching for a comment about this, the support elastic has me a little confused. how does it keep the servo turning when it loosens and is no longer pulling on it? does it only have to pull it past a certain position?
This shows that the simplest of things can also get the job done.
Another way of saying “work smarter not harder” 😂
I love your channel you crack me up
Theres something called a "frog log" that basicly hangs off the side of your pool and allows the froggos and other critters to climb out. I've seen it in my friends pool and it really worked! Frogs climbed out and no longer died.
I just googled this and it looks great. In fact I was amazed at how many pictures there are of multiple creatures congregating on the frog log...If I had a pool, let alone a garden I would buy two of them!
You mean something that he built at the end 9:36 ??
@@ArifSelect1 kinda? But it's a product that anyone can buy. I highly recommend it for anyone who has a pool
I did a thing be like 🤦
@@Magickenny basically the end of the video
That was a really nice long shot with zero movement showing how dangerous it is to drop mains power cable into a pool.
All in all, great informational video, as always!
When tap dancing barefoot on an operating lathe just doesn't produce the serotonin that it used to.
I know this was all lighthearted fun, but that moment when he submerged the cable gave me a real feeling of dread
For sure never do that if you're in an old house with no circuit breakers.
If you plug a toaster into a wall then sit in a tub and put the toaster in the tub with you, the 15 AMP breaker will trip instantly once the short happens so you will get 120V infinite current for like 1 millisecond and it doesn't work anymore. They patched that because too many people were committing suicide with it and God is not into suicide.
oh... i didn't get that... I was wondering what he was doing... badly cut I find
Bro I didn't know that was the reason for him to do that
Wow. I don't know what I watched. You've made it so simple and silly that convinced me like poor frogs.
I love how at the beginning he just spawned above the pool at an extreme height...
i love the fact how his methods are getting better and sophisticated over the time
i cant lie cooking kangaroo on hot tiles was pretty sophisticated back then
It is called evolution
News soon will be like "AUSTRALIAN MAN WHO SOLVES WORLD HUNGER AND GLOBAL WARMING ALOS CURED CANCER"
yeah man, that final product was something would come out from the future!
"No, I'm not murdering them. They just keep drowning themselves and I have no idea why."
-- me when the pool ladder mysteriously disappears at my sim's house party
Btw most frogs get poisonous reactions from human oil on skin so try not to touch tbem with your hands
I love how you said they need skillshare if they dont want to drown, skill issue
I really love how this could easily be solved by purchasing some sort of net to cover the pool but he chose to do the brilliantly chaotic and ingenious method. This is top tier content 😂
The e frogs gotta swim
@@aghost6818 yea I get it but our guy can just make a small pool for the frogs tho like he did with the birds 😂
@@MightyFartBomber1 oh yeah good point
@@aghost6818 a plank on the steps of the pool would work 2... lmao
Those can run upwards of 3 grand, it's actually ridiculous. Here in canada they go bad in a few years as well, it's possible they'd last longer in australia but still it's hefty.
frogs and lizards: *drowns*
him with skill share sponsor: "skill issue"
My first thought was to just build them a ramp so they can climb out. I'm glad that's what you ended up doing lol.
I saw the title and immediately thought: “Oh he found an excuse to make a frog catapult” and I was not disappointed
Spaaam f off
Also froggapult
@febbyy🔞 bruh
@@keinarhya7709 bruh
@@giselle8924 bruh
When it's breeding season for the frogs you should make a specialised tank for the tadpoles it would be pretty cool.
*edit
Thanks for all the likes-however I didn't mean the tadpoles were from the pool. I remember he had a small pond but the frogs were wiped out by water skinks. I meant that he could make something similar, but see-through kind of like a shabby chic version of serpa-design maybe? So you can see the tadpoles developing, but they are safe from cats, birds and water skinks.
Frogs lay their tadpol where they themselfs were born so unless he hatched tadpols their frogs arnt bringing their tadpols to his yard
@@demonic_myst4503 You're thinking of Salmon lol
@@nickh5081 a lot of frogs do actually return to the pond they were first spawned in. Or they at least try to.
@@ladyinsect6444 Sure, because that's the water that is available. But if they come across a nice body of water in their travels they'll happily use it for breeding. We had a small spring at our cabin and dammed it to create about a half acre of pond. It was full of frogs in a single season. Was full of fish within a few years and eventually gained a family of otters. I know the fish usually arrive in such bodies of water as eggs stuck to ducks and other water foul, but I have no clue how the otters found it!
@@nickh5081 i wouldnt call chlorinated pool a "nice body of water". they 100% will die in pools due to toxic water and no food.
i love how you spent a whole video making complex machinery after complex machinery only to find out haw simple the actual solution was
3:41 the poor cat got slapped by the reverse mouse trap 😂
I work at a pool, the amount of frogs I’ll find in the skimmers is insane. The amount of them that float (or if alive, jump) over and get sucked into the vacuum port and into the hair lint strainer in the pump room is actually horrific, they’re usually torn to shreds cause of pressure and shit and honestly I’ll never get that image from my head lol
Now I'll never get this image out of MY head. Thanks a lot.
cover vacuum port with a net???
@@UnsaltedCashew38 not that simple as The vacuum port is supposed to pick up the leaves and sticks and stuff that gets past the skimmer basket, if we put a net it would clog the port (when skimmers clog, water doesn’t circulate, filter, or chlorinate as well as it should) and defeat the whole purpose of it in the first place
Also for reference, the vacuum port in a skimmer is usually no larger than a small tennis ball
@@Tdflgmichael If not a net can you put something to prevent something frog sized from entering it?
Lol
We have a pool too and based on how sensitive frogs are, and how they breathe through their skin, I'm inclined to believe that the chemicals used to maintain pools also contribute to the problem.
You're absolutely right... amphibians are extremely sensitive to chemicals.. the chlorine is absolutely poisoning them...
If all the frogs that jump in to the chlorinated water die off, they might eventually evolve to avoid the smell of chlorine.
-🤓
@@noem4162 -🤡
Yeah, you see the bit in the video when he said chlorine isn't good for frogs skin, something obvious like that yeah? But just repeated and written like a school report. That kind of thing?
im so glad you actually made a ramp. i would have lost it otherwise
Pool cover, although they could get trapped underneath. Critters in pool will swim around the edge of the pool looking for a way out until they drown or die. They make plastic Lily pads you can attach to the side of the pool for the animals to climb up on. You might still need to check every morning or several times a day. To get them out
I'm sorry sir your backyard seems to be inhabited by derp frogs
These amphibians are just sitting around getting high on chlorine. They are a bad influence to the feral cats and youtubers that roam the area.
@@zerotakis lmao
Are there any other kind?
people still say derp?
@@sethh8892 yes
Other people: *buys frog log*
This guy: *builds an entire flinging device*
this illustrates engineering perfectly... all that work just to make a flimsy frog dock in the end 🤣
8:38 - 8:52 got me good. I was just thinking ‘why did you get in the pool with a powered extension cord?’ Lol
I was screaming internally when I saw you getting into the pool with a live wire, and then you showed why a line powered robot in a pool is not such a great idea, even with GFCI outlets.
What’s a GFCI outlet?
@@xXMindSoulXx ground fault circuit interrupter. They’re the outlets with the little “reset” buttons on them that you find in kitchens and bathrooms. Basically, the outlet opens if there is a ground fault, like, say, a hair dryer that’s fallen into water. They significantly reduce the likelihood of death by electrocution by opening the circuit (cutting off electric current) when too much electricity goes through, so a person may still receive a shock, but the outlet cuts the power soon enough that they can survive.
Ok yeah that joke at 8:50 was so subtle but this was my first through when I saw him walking into the water with it
E
When I see your videos full of birds, cute frogs and lizards I think of Australia as a beautiful place full of peaceful and nice animals. Then I remember the 5 meter long spiders and the cat-eating sand-worms.
They really arent scary
The trick is to let them eat a few cats first, then you can cuddle them
Drop Bears are what you need to look out for
Ah shit They got Graboids there too?
what kind of frog was that with the yellow in between his back legs? i swear the ones in my minnesota backyard look the exact same
Glad to see you didn't go with the super catapult! I could just see that whipping a frog against a wall! Much safer idea with the ramp!
Jesus when you entered the pool with that device connected to what I'm assuming was a live connection my heart jumped.
Yo, I'm legit impressed with 7:52. I would not have expected that extra rubber band to help that much.
me too! its the smartest ive ever felt
I love your humor and thank you for explaining everything in an easy way for everyone to understand what’s going on!
I like people with long brain. I have long amount of disl*kes btw. Why? Maybe people with short brain disl*ke because jealous of my long amount of subscr*bers. Please have long brain, dear nn
no worries mate
@@Ididathing how can you not just delete the bots?
@@proloycodes he doesnt have the power to do so? thats how. imagine if he had the power to block/delete a users comments. he could then delete yours too. i dont think that would be fair, would it
@@pvic6959 he can delete comments wdym? blocking people from commenting is entirely possible. the real reason is its damn hard to block every single bot, theres just too many and they get new accounts all the time
Lol he cut the pool noodle with the table saw. I like the overkill.
Ha! Jokes on you! My mom isn't Australian anymore! She's all cured
Thank you for saving my people. Your good deeds have not gone unnoticed
Julian: What does Royal Frog Legs taste like?
thanks king
@@Ididathing It is the king after all.
@@Ididathing Please send a box of Frogs to Europe French restaurant are too pricey and i wans to taste it !!!
Trying my best not to like this comment considering the number it's at
Edit: now that it's passed, imma like it too lol
I love the energy of inventing unnecessarily complex things just for the sake of inventing them, this is the genuine spirit of being a mad scientist. Whenever I read books about the renaissancemen and victorians doing goofy ass off the wall obscure experiments or building insane niche contraptions and like 90% of them just living their whole lives being crotchety weirdos chasing down science nobody needs but 10% stumble into some actual breakthrough I always wonder "why don't people still do this kind of 'just because I felt like it/thought it would be cool' science" and then I remember that oh people definitely do they're just all on youtube entertaining us in the process. Tbh a lot of those mad inventors and experimenters wrote lots of whacky books and essays on their work and I wonder how many people back then read and kept up with those for entertainment
Wait I wanna hear more about these inventions! Share some examples please!
@@Sarah-ic4yu Da Vinci Just straight up designed a prototype tank (which did not work) and a bunch of flying machines, from a helicopteresque aerial screw to a hang glider with flapping wings (most of which did not work). It's all very interesting, the renaissance truly was a utopia for insane off the wall ideas
I mean there are also plenty of engineers trying all sorts of wacky stuff too, but they either get ridiculed if it doesn't work or the idea gets attributed to some CEO if it does. At least on TH-cam its not quite so lose-lose.
Had the same problem with a local well. All we did was put a few timber poles down into the water so the frogs can climb out.
He played Catch with a robot
But never- with his dad.
7:28
🤓🤓🤓
The first idea I thought of was floating water Lilly pads that would swim to the edges of the pool. Frogs would swim to those triggering them to go to the side, once the frog jumps off, the Lilly pads swim back to the middle.
Why does it have to go back to the middle? Frogs will follow the edge of the pool anyways, a ramp like he made at the end is an obvious and decent solution.
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@@neighneighthecamel2700 Lol megamind reference
yes, those lily pads would be great. now add a root-like weight that'll reach the bottom of the pool. and to ensure that the lily pad stay one the sides on of the roots will have a suction cup to the side of the pool. NOW TRADEMARK THAT, SELL IT CLOUDYBRAIN
As he was dragging his cord into the water, I thought - wait, is he sure he made this waterproof? And then 8:55 😂🤣
ahaha its not
Imagine your in the kitchen and frogs start flying against the window and you check what it us and there's this water catapult that shoots frogs out of the neighbours pool NAAAAH BRO THIS GUY I LOVE HIM 😭😭😭
Nothing more wholesome then seeing a rubber frog get catapulted into the wall lmao