Can Our GIANT Hammer Destroy This Anvil?
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WOW that hammer is epic!!!! BUT, you just challenged me to contest of DEMOLITION??? You challenged ME… the King of the Demolitia…. to a contest…… to DEMOLISH something….. can wait to hand you that L.
can't wait to see it happen
Meh, you'll easily hand them the L.
Yessss
Oh Matt please don't do it them.
Yes
Crazy idea! Weld 44 on the flat of the hammer so it stamps 44 into everything.
Brilliant idea!
This needs more attention
Heck yea!
Definitely do that.
Do this!
Next level stuff! It's seriously hard to believe this hammer actually exists!
Lmao first reply
2ns
yoooo whats up thats amazing!
You guys should do a collab and so a trick-shot with it somehow.
sup that's amazing
I’ve been watching HR for 4/5 years now, I remember watching anvils being dropped from the tower… and now you guys just casually have a 7 meter tall, 3 tonne hammer. The levels of progression over the years are just insane and can’t wait to see what you have planned next for that beast!
4 5ths of a year, noice...
I remember when anvil v anvil was such a big deal it was anticipated for months
Four to five years dudes 🤣 not four Fifths of a year.
Yeah anvils onto paint cans, bowling balls onto trampolines, small stuff compared to this past two years!!
Thank you engineers at DSM for making this hammer(which has produced amazing results)and also great job, because that is one impressive machine, despite its simplicity.
You should rig like a see-saw under it and see how high you can launch something
THAT IS GENIOUS
That’s such a good idea
YES!!!
yes please!
Totally
9:55 Absolutely love how the hole left by the steel ball is serving as a mold for the copper ball now, leaving the bulges on the downward side.
Both sides, actually.
:-)
These guys are living a life most of us could only dream of. They're getting paid huge amounts of money to hang out with their mates, have fun and just be themselves while destroying things with all sorts of ridiculous equipment, like Hulk's fist and this colossal hammer
how much do they make individually you think? google says a pretty dumb stuff, it varies way to much
@@jdssurf I don't think these geezers need the money. Rich kid's hobby. But it's good they've found somewhere to let off steam other than crime...
Not sure anyone would give them a job; so better than being a cost for social security because that's where they'd be without this.
Aaah yes I am definitely a real Peter Johnson and not a fake google account created in under 2 minutes. Keep up the great content lads!
😂 it’s the profile pic for me
I believe it - you've got an honest face.
Wow, Peter! You look just like Derrick!
Wow a doppelgänger! Amazing 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Looking forward to your content matey
It's hilarious that the attitude of the the guys hasn't changed since their first videos, just making things that clearly took so much effort and planning to put together feel off the cuff. Love to see it!
Stanford content with his daughter was definitely needed, absolutely wholesome stuff! 🥰 keep it up you guys, every Friday night is a classic 👍
Derrick with Brett's daughter was THE cutest thing i have seen all day!!! 🫶🏻🥹
I can agree sooo cute!!!!
2016: "Let's flip water bottles onto store/restaurant/business signs"
2021: "Let's build a 7 meter 3 ton hammer"
I propose that instead of smashing stuff (as gratuitously fun to watch as it is), can I suggest using the impact of the hammer to act as the catalyst to a mechanism... like what you have done before at the 45m tower to launch stuff into the air. at this place you have fewer constraints, a LOT of force and plenty of room for something to fly in the air. so (think: mousetrap); using the hammer to hit against a pivot or a fulcrum (thick steel plate?) resting on a heavy solid steel cylinder and something to flip into the air when the hammer drops. the sky is the limit - literally.
I second this idea
Giant chain reaction!! 😃
Brilliant
I was going to suggest the same! I APPROVE THIS IDEA!! :)
Launch a GoPro (and Rexy of course) and see just how high it can get
12:43 Can we all just take a second to appreciate how adorable this kid is?
Sus
So cute! Reminds me of when my two were that age 😍
@@Khalidnader_ weirdo
One thing I've learned watching hydraulic press channel is that you never underestimate the strength of a ball, whether it's glass or some form of metal...
people underestimate glass because its usually very thin, glass is generally brittle but its still pretty strong
Yeah, that steel ball was a surprise to me. I thought for sure that it would get at least a little less round… instead it just pressed into both the plate and the hammer itself
HOLEE SHEET
@@scottydu81 hahaha classic
Awesome video! An idea for future hammer smashing: an infrared or thermal camera to see how much heat gets generated when the hammer hits another metal object.
Love this idea! Burned rubber from the basketballs and the hot hammer... if you put a number on it, it's SCIENCE. :)
did you ask the hydraulic press dude the same thing??
I would like to acknowledge the editing of all these videos. Editor Jack and whoever else are amazing. You lads have assembled an amazing team. Love it! And you almost had my name!!!! So close!
I'm amazed nobody has mentioned how the anvil and at least one other thing got red hot from the hit!
@@nomadMik Tell your brother Peter that he was mentioned in the video.
Your crew is EPIC. Simply fantastic, AND my students LOVED IT. Just a thought: The ball bearing indent on the hammer left its imprint on everything (aka giant lead nipple). Why not put a heavy steel plate on the bottom of the hammer with a giant engraved HR to imprint the things you smash?
This is he kind of content I need more of. Makes me nostalgic for some of the old Mythbusters explosions. Excellent video y’all!
The best part of the video was seeing your daughter's pure joy playing with the snowman. Too cute.
Ikr!!!
^ and Herron talking to her, so adorable
I reckon you guys should smash a car. That would be absolutely amazing to watch a slow-motion of that. Keep up the great work guys!
I would LOVE that.
Yes absolutely!
I have to say with everything going on in the world its good to see some honest entertainment with the only purpose to have people enjoy, only recently discovered you guys but must have watched 90% of your videos. love ya keep it up xx
🥰🥰🥰
@@howridiculous A gigantic nail
@@loxternator6385 hes yes yes!
@@howridiculous
a Keg full of crap beer
Some ideas to take up against The Hammer:
- Car
- Lawnmower
- Old phonebook (or stack of phonebooks)
- Large garden statue (concrete with a steel middle)
- Bird bath
- Swimming pool full of water
- Giant styrofoam block
- Fireworks (think you need a permit for that in Australia though)
- Carton of eggs
- Casket or burial vault
- Giant bucket of bouncy balls
- Stack of feather pillows
- Office chair
- China cabinet (full of cups and plates and whatnot)
- Kitchen sink
You guys truly fill the Mythbusters sized hole in my life. Can't wait til my Rexy shows up!
same here!
Yeah without that POS Adam Savage and just the young mythbusters that were always excited no matter the result
Well being that's a huge hammer I'd love to see a giant nail molded then either take a stack of plywood sheets or a massive tree trunk and see if you can nail it in with 1 wack of the giant hammer.
Let’s bump this comment!
An extensible nail would be epic. Will they reach Canada?
Genius idea, I'd add progressively larger nails into thicker objects.
Or how about they hit a gigantic log with a steel wedge and and see if they can split the log with the hammer hitting the wedge!
Isn't that essentially what piledrivers do?
I swear, these guys have an unlimited budget.
Seriously? How do they afford all this?
i mean, they have… mh, no yea they do
Cuz God loves them
They budget religiously
@@ravenlockewinds4374 sponsors and TH-cam monetization
6:15 It's so satisfying to see the dust float in the air as the metal plate is pushed underneath
If I'm being completely honest, I usually zoom through the ads because I don't have the patience for 'em, but your little girl has gotta be the best possible spokesperson for a product flippin' ever. She's absolutely adorable and the complete joy she's had by making the project couldn't be more real. Love it.
Ped
@@christopherlawley8975 Tox
@@christopherlawley8975 nah just a cool dude
@@christopherlawley8975 most people project how they feel about themselves. Got any secrets to share?
That’s funny, she kept me from skipping ahead too haha. When my seven year old girl comes with me to bid on jobs/meet potential customers I land almost all of ‘em.
I would love to see a video with the build process and see all the engineering challenges that it took to make this hammer work.
Put gold in the hammer and watch next level $hit!
They could definitely profit from a 2nd engineering channel for the older viewers that are interested in that :)
How about hitting a sturdy coil spring, such as one from a car's suspension. An entire car may be cool too!
Copper ball... Sheer destruction goes to Demolition Ranch. Artistic creation goes to How Ridiculous. And you guys gained a follower. I definitely enjoy your stuff.
I reckon dropping the hammer on one end of a seesaw could produce some serious launchage!
I was trying to come up with all the ways this mechanism could launch things. Like try to launch things into a basketball hoop
This is such a good idea
That's an awesome idea! I bet a one time use of one of those giant balloon launchers would be amazing, too. They're used in the water because no one knows where you're going to go!
Edit: many typos.
I bet they could launch a golf ball into space with that method...
Amazing. Since you have a giant hammer, you guys should drop it on a giant nail. Or a crate full of regular nails. Is there possibly a world record for most nails driven by a single hammer blow?
I was thinking one of the giant darts should be a target. See if the hammer can drive it into the ground like a nail.
Great stuff guys. My daughter and look forward to watching weekly. Hammer a 4-6ft steel nail into a large tree stump
If you heat the copper to glowing and quench it.... it will soften enough to flatten. Copper work hardens (hit it, it gets harder), the opposite of ferrous metals. Love your channel! Oh yeah almost forgot, ball bearings are usually made from 52100 and hardened. WAY harder than average building material.
Shout out to your crew, i can only imagine what it took to put this all together.
I giant pile of flint would be amazing to hit with that hammer. The massive explosion and shower of sparks would be insane!
I was just thinking that or Magnesium strips.
It’s fire ban season now so we can’t do things that could start fires until our next winter (May onwards)
@@howridiculous We can wait. :P
@@howridiculous But we'll still burn down our warehouse with a handful of sparklers, right?
@@howridiculous we will wait until then.
This is incredible! Well done boys. It reminds me of hitting caps (from cap guns) with a hammer as a kid. Please hit a giant stack of caps (or blasting caps?) with this!
YES!
That would be crazy
Railroad Torpedos looked up.. They're these little packs that clamp on a rail and make a loud boom when the train runs over it to warn the train crew to shut down.
@@ElimiXebian Yes! I should have thought of those. My Dad used to work for the railroad. Maybe they start with caps and work their way up. Match heads are good too.
You guys are great. Especially love when Scott gets "creative" with the rules of the games that Brett and Derrick don't let him get away with...great content all around! Keep 'em comin'! "Science with Gaunson" :)
I remember Slow-Mo guys, and how that was interesting.
But I gotta say this is way more fun, random whacky stunts and ideas, and seeing them in normal frame, then in slow-mo, can rarely get any better than this.
Feels educational same time as it's fun as hell, and wouldn't surprise me if channel has become biggest channel that features slow-mo videos regularly
The cost to make videos is different between them, I think Gavin gets rental time on the cameras so his production time is shorter; where as these guys have more leeway.
Id love to see a stack of barrels full of different colored water. This is incredible
"Whaaat a stack-a barrels!"
The best thing you could hit would be a nail scaled up to match the hammers size increase. It would serve 2 purposes, first it would look awesome, secondly, you would then essentially have a steel support pile to set the plate on reducing force lost to soil compression,and the slight blind spot created when the plate sinks into the ground.
Commenting to bump this up in the comment section. Good idea!
A normal sized nail would be funny too
That would be awesome!
That sounds awesome, ngl
True
You brought a hammer to a tank fight. Very bright.
This is insanely amazing guys. Here's a thought on something to smash: blocks of ice. And you could even freeze things inside them to see if the hammer can smash those or perhaps liberate them from the ice. 🤔🤓
Yes! Frozen versions would be cool!
The fact that the ball bearing left an indent resulting in the rest of the drops having an appearance remniscient of that of a nipple is just perfect
You guys really hit the nail on the head with this one!
Bada Bing!!! 🥁
@@timdoyon1964 apparently google thinks drums don’t exist in english
I hate that I laughed 🤣🤣
At 6:15 you can see the big hammer spark against the small hammers!
I recommend a giant glass ball. I reckon the coney joney would be massive
Might even get a two-sided coney honey because it would get smashed from both sides. I’d love to see that.
might even get a coney joney on both sides
The coney joney woney effect again. If you know. You know 😏😏
Gotta do the coney joney ball, maybe it can actually be defeated when smashed between two surfaces
A more sturdy base is in order, the objects transfer a ton of the energy when the base moves. Better base = more smashy!
"Better base = more smashy!" that sounds like something what would Gaunson say in his science monologues. XD
Your daughter's reaction is precious thank you for sharing that.
These are some really good guys
Cutest girl in the world
This was great, but Mat definitely did more damage to the copper ball.
Yes so true, and the way Matt was talking about balls was so funny
I would love to see giant hammer vs bulletproof glass, that would be so amazing
Ikr I agree 😎.
I wanna see a car or something
This against a giant pool of some non-Newtonian fluid could be interesting 🤔
vs oobleck.... sounds like a really good idea
It would just splash everywhere in little chunks I reckon. Good slowmo shot.
@@samus88 like what happened with hulk fist aka bruce
i audibly & involuntarily let out an "ohh yaaaah" after reading that.
When oobleck is over powered it separates the liquid and starch.
What about a glass ball? I'd be intrigued to see how that goes when it's being essentially hit on two sides
7:37 the gopro was like "oh look a mel- AAAAAAAAAAAAA"
My genius wife just said that you guys Should drive a giant nail!! Which I think is brilliant, I’d also like to see some fridges and washing machine‘s get hammered!!🙌😄😄
Agreed. This is just way too logical not to happen
Thank you DSM Engineers for helping the boys bring this MADNESS to life!! Amazing!
Agreed
I want to see you guys smash a ballistic dummy like the ones they use on forged in fire. That way, you can see what would happen if someone got hit by it without actually hurting anyone.
Or forge a sword with the hammer XD
they would die
You guys should really team up with the Slow Mo Guys for this kind of projects
I'm really curious what a solid block of rubber would do! And you know something people find pretty when you break them? Geodes!
How about an atlas stone? Could do different sizes or just a mid size one. Imagine the explosion of rubble
GAME CHANGER!!!!
I can't wait to see what destruction this hammer brings in future videos! Might I suggest the unbreakable box? 🤔🤔🤔
Matt won. I mean, a tank! How can you compete with that?
Typical HR viewer: came to the channel because of the stunts, stayed here because Scott, Derek and Brett are such stand-up guys! So appreciative of their videos!!
Holy moly, these guys are leveling up their content by soooo much every single week. The possibilites with these new ridiciolus "things" are endless.
I was going to “like” this comment but then I saw the number of likes and it says 44, too perfect to change it 😁
That was awesome! I’d like to see you put the hammer to the test with different size safes.
Matt got y’all for sure
Honestly seeing that little girl so happy with her little balancing snowman was the best part!
I would absolutely *love* to see the hammer smash a glass sphere. I want to know if it would completely shatter or create a coney joney.
I agree! Also old tube TVs and Furbies, or some combination of the two!
I know that when the hydraulic press channel did a glass sphere it completely shattered, but I do wonder if there's any difference between applying the force in a slow controlled manner like that and whacking it with a big hammer.
I agree with this also maybe a line-X Watermelon?
@@bennett214 Yes! I want to know if they can finally pop that thing and find out how horrible it smells on the inside. lol
@@forgotn42 That’s exactly what I was thinking!😂
I feel like giant hammer vs car would be great to see! Great work as always you guys! Love the content!
Yes definitely!
i thought they where blurring something funny at 9:24 but it was just a fly on the lense xD
This feels very similar to Destin's baseball cannon.
Also F for the bug near the bottom left of the plates at 3:46
Yeah I noticed it too. It was flying in exactly at the wrong time
I thought it was the spider that he put the phone on
came here to say F for that poor soul
F for respects
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I feel like this is some serious "Wile E. Coyote" shit. I was waiting for a road runner to run under it but the hammer would fall too late to hit RR and squish the coyote.. On a more serious note, I would like to see how this behemoth hammer handles oobleck. A kiddie pool and maybe large plastic bags full? Can't wait to see what you come up with!
Love the new mega hammer. The base needs to more solid, you're getting too much shock absorption.
Would like to see larger items such as whitegoods and vehicles.
I mean there isn't much they can do. It would shatter a concrete foundation, and there is just to much give in dirt
@@bobjoebo8933 they could use the base that they have currently and put multiple layers of concrete (thick; like, 5 or 6 feet of concrete underneath,) and that would be able to hold + not absorb every single shock the hammer applies lol
@@CataclysmicDuck Hmmm... wouldn't the dirt still press in?
@@bobjoebo8933 technically yes but only to a certain degree. The farther down you go the harder the dirt is, so if you have a 5-6 foot cylinder of concrete sitting on concrete-like dirt, it's not gonna really be able to go anywhere even if it wanted to lol.
Would be cool to drive a large hard steel post into the ground until it will go no further, then use it as the base. Great video 👍
Demolitia for the win!
the ground you're dropping on to is absorbing alot of the energy. thankfully there's enough to make that not matter so much but would be amazing to see this being used with something more sturdy.
The dirt underneath absorbs a lot of energy, I bet a solid foundation would increase the damage!
They put the dirt under to lower the G force of the hammer head deaccelerating thus protecting the hammer head from wearing out too quick and stopping the shockwaves that travel down the handle to the joints.
Guys.... Take the BIGGEST steel ball bearing you can find, ( THIS HAS TO BE DONE AT NIGHT OR DUSK) take a welding torch and heat it up till its white hot. Then have the hammer ready and SMASH the be-jeezus outta it !!!! That would be one for the books fellas. The Slowy would be EPIC !!
In the slowmo at 14:00 the dirt on the groundplate just stays in the air and then gets blown away from the current, that looks so dope
Would like to see the steel ball heated to red hot temperatures and see how flat the hammer can get it!
That new 100% accuracy must be a treat!😍
High five to the engineering and the tradies that actually built that thing! That could be a entirely separate vid after the premiere of a vid like this… How’d they build that?By How Ridiculous.
Good idea, that would be cool
But Gaunson has to explain everything
@@keelyledbetter7054 and explain the science behind it🤣
It warms my heart that my 2 favorite youtube channels not only know of each other but actively collaborate on content. But sorry boys Matt out did you this time.
i recommend having a tougher non-compressible ground beneath the plate instead of soil so that the kinetic energy is not dissipated and lost due to compression but almost fully transferred into the object being crushed
Someone had to say it.
Resulting in the head of the hammer deforming and breaking. Grab the nearest hammer and hit it as hard as you can on wood, then concrete, then steel, and you will feel why they have it on soil.
@@gaijininja kinda irrelevant what happens to the hammer. Isn’t the goal to destroy objects? If the hammer deforms then we know that the object truly withstood the full force of the hammer. Which again is the entire objective here.
@@adamaoun1535 except ruins the hammer for future videos over time, theoretically we could see them using this for years instead of months. They want content and they can get it without destroying their investment
@@Darth_Swiss so i guess that’s the trade off. Either complete destruction and accurate results, or inaccurate results with long lasting content.
I’d love to see a scaled up stomp rocket under this thing!
This needs to be seen
Love this one too!
How ridiculous!
Massive privilege to work on building the hammer. Works great
Like you guys both but I think DEMO won!!! You guys need to step it up next challenge! Great collaboration!!!
The way that anvil just dealt with a hit well beyond the design spec is amazing. Give it a bit of a grind to smoothen out the surface and she's still good for use. I was expecting that to be way more cooked, but obviously the shape is not there just because of looks.
The metal did mush down just a tad possibly crack in a few areas but it is in fact in one piece still and being able to move metal when it's cold is quite the achievement especially without blowing it up into a million pieces which is what I would have expected the ball-bearing to do
Now hear me out... A giant nail?
Also, what if you replaced the hammer face, and had the HR logo either carved into it or poking out like a stamp?
Giant Nail. For sure. Lol.
"No hammer is going to take me down!"
--every anvil ever made
A whole raw chicken would be sick under there!
P.S. I think Matt over at Demolition Ranch has you best on the copper ball. His tank did a number.
Personally I want to see the hammer go against oobleck due to the solidity when a force is in contact with it. That would be amazing to watch. Love the vids
I think it would just shatter it
Yeah, the oobleck would just shatter.
Here we go!!!
Gg u got first
Lol
Want to see a glass sphere! To know if the hammer will make a Johnny Conny to it! (assuming the hammer and bottom plates are not damaged anymore which would change the probably of the Johnny Conny!)
That child's delighted laughter genuinely made my day better
Suggestion: a safe. Curious to see how flat those can become 😅
Hi
Thanks DSM for making this possible! This is one of your best videos by far guys!
we gotta see this beast take on the classics like a fridge, dishwasher, lazyboy; all those goodies
This!!
Fridge coming in Hammer Vid #2 next week!
@@howridiculous absolute legends
I know that no one will likely read this, but to answer the question Gaunson asked at 8:50 about spheres and their strength, spheres have no where on them for stress to be concentrated. A cube, for example, has flat sides and sharp corners, which serve as ideal stress risers. A sphere has no flat sides nor sharp corners. Therefore, no stress risers.