It is year 3000. All of Britain - buildings, trees, animals, even the ground - has been rebuilt with custom folded steel sheet brackets and Makita grinders. A monument to the first 1000 fallen grinders is erected in central London. No one remembers how this started, but the end is not anywhere in sight.
I like the fact that you laugh at each other, about each other and simply a lot. Gives me the impression that you two have worked together for a very long time. And I think you wrecked a lot of things together, too. It is fun to watch!
I bought a double decker bus and at first they wanted to ha e it as a private HTC then said no, it's a class 4 PIG so I can drive on my car licence as I have D on my license. Was going to be my home as it looked like I was going to be homeless with the divorce, keep saying I'm going to finish it but not done much to it for a year now, you inspire me to crack on, at first fix stage at the moment.
The only bad thing about this channel is I watch all of it, emagine the lucky bastard that finds it in 10 years and binge watching it all👌🏻 keep up the good work guys 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
@@HarryNixonTube sadly, it seems that way... But hey, we'll probably have a few more years of content on the Escargot after Binky finally gets completed.
It was SUPREMELY satisfying to watch you guys completely deconstruct a truck until you could simply carry out 2 long straight rails. Keep up the good work guys!
Which begs the question, why the 'ck didn't everything get left on the Daf and a requisite box get built on those 2 rails? (Apologies obviously if its summat daft like different driving license required....)
@@mattjohns3394 There were a few Polish people there. I found them friendly, polite and conscientious. The same cannot be said of some of the English workers who were there when I was.
Matt Johns They are pretty heavy drinkers to be fair, but they graft. I don’t tend to give Polish people who work here any shit because: We wouldn’t of won WW2 without the Polish stealing an enigma machine for us, or doing a lot of the groundwork on decoding the enigma code, Alan Turings work was mainly in making it possible to decode it quickly enough for the information to still be relevant. Also Polish pilots were a huge part of the Battle of Britain, and their kill death ratio was insane. Apparently the RAF didn’t like that they wouldn’t stick to the formations or set manoeuvres they were obsessed with, but they couldn’t argue with their results.
Cant believe i just spent 40 minutes watching 2 guys undo a few bolts, drill a few holes, and do the bolts back up again... Also amazed that the chassis all unbolts into such simple parts!
Richard, You chasing that washer between the frame rails reminded me of a story my cousin, an automobile salesman in upstate New York, USA, loved to tell about a customer who kept bringing his Cadillac Sedan Deville back to the dealership time after time because of a persistent rattle in one of the rear fenders. The body men and mechanics tightened and retightened every nut and bolt they could put their tools on, but to no avail. Finally the body shop removed the fender and found a large washer on a length of string that some bored line worker had hung there during the original assembly. Really enjoying your videos, gents. Keep 'em coming.
You might need to go for uprated springs as the Cargos, indeed most trucks that were built up as mobile libraries and that type of thing had heavier-duty springs than were usually fitted to 7.5 ton trucks to take account of the weight of the body, which is pretty weighty, along with the contents. If my memory serves me right, they were usually fitted with the springs for a truck of the next weight class up, so a 12-ton truck. If you need them, a truck breaker should easily be able to help you with a set of good used springs from a 12-ton DAF LF, and they shouldn't be expensive as they're not the type of truck that people really rebuild, they usually get driven into the ground and then junked, so demand for them is unlikely to be high, as most companies that run them will generally replace any parts necessary with new items or service exchange parts to minimise down-time meaning that used parts will usually just be so much scrap metal...
39 minutes! I needed 2 fresh cups of really hot tea to get through that. I did like the workshop supervisor swinging by every now and again to see how the chassis strip was getting on
I have a few of those handy digital scribers. Apparently you can also measure the size of stuff with them as well, but I don't like to misuse tools like that.
I like the idea that you can basically build the ship of theseus out of this truck and the DVLA will just go "yeah sure the rocket engine in the back and the tank tracks are totally normal, still a class 4"
It will probably need an IVA test, if it was a car it certainly would (Binky will), and being registered as class 4 which is a car it probably should have an IVA. If registered as a truck DVSA would throw a hissy fit, all this is a very grey area, but nevertheless great to watch.
Ronskiman Definitely racked up enough points to class as radically altered and need an IVA. Not sure whether they’d let it keep its bizarre class 4 status
Just idly, having seen that brake caliper at 0:40 and having fecked about with pad swaps on those a few times now, and not knowing if you've run into them before: 1. The adjuster -- under a plastic plug, usually yellow -- is obstructed by the chamber. So you either need a funky custom-bent 8mm spanner, or mess about taking the chamber off, to adjust them. 2. The adjuster is arse-about-face threaded. Wind it clockwise to back the adjustment off, anti-clockwise to tighten the adjustment. 3. That third 'pad' that goes between the piston and the actual brake pad needs to be held to the piston when you're backing the brakes off; because it holds onto a peg that sticks out of the piston and stops it rotating. If the piston rotates, it tears the boot up, and whatnot. They're not as nice to do pads on as the Wabco ones, but they work okay.
@ChrisHallett83 The LFs with the 22.5" wheels have a much less pain in the arse caliper, honestly. (Same as a *lot* of other trucks with 22.5" wheels. ) But, I guess that's what one gets, with a smaller wheel. Either way, though, it's still going to be better than the Cargo drums.
Was having a really hard time judging the size of those bolts. Thanks for putting that other bolt in there for scale, it cleared matters up a treat. It's the little touches that count... O_o Cheers,
One and a half hour later the wife is wondering why are you talking about installing bespoke air-control systems on a mini and what does it have to do with this truck.
Has the dog appeared before? I've also watched every episode at least twice and as far as I can remember this was the first canine assistant I remember seeing.
Outstanding work, necessitated by an overburdensome bureaucracy. In the US, as soon as you install a cot, a hotplate, and a port-a-potty, you can register as an RV, and no special licensing requirement. Some states, you don't even have to do that, just checking the RV box on the form is enough, you get an RV plate and away you go. Good for you guys finding a way to build what you need!
I love the reasoning---'getting a new type of license would take some time', so------lets tear down and rebuild a 30 year old lead brick truck and in the process change everything, sometimes twice. By the way, are sure you don't want to turn this truck into a 4 wheel drive? I'm sure it wouldn't be that much work.
I really do enjoy this editing more a lot more than on the Binky series. It's more personal and doesn't feel as fabricated, more like TH-cam and less like TV.
@@vintagetintrader1062 Yeah true, I think it was only a cheap one. I usually buy them for 2.99 on Ebay; I've got a whole box full of calipers, all with flat batteries. lol.
@33:38 ... Two kinds of people in the world - those that have done this, and those who think it's easy. You buggers still my favorite channel by far though. New episode has made my weekend!
They show a different part of their personality with this series. Here they sound like a couple mates goofing off in the shed, with Binky they sound more scripted and definitely more detailed.
And have to do CPC qualifications every five years if they intend to make money from using the vehicle (if you meet a particularly strict Officer they can claim that winnings from racing count), and have to have a medical every ten years and the MOT requirements change so all round it’s easier to fly under the radar!
those chassis rails look like a good Emmentaler cheese. but as an old professor said: don't forget, between two holes there is always something to bite! love your work guys!
Thanks for explaining your thinking. Extending the DAF chassis and building a new body would be (quite) easy. But the HGV licences etc for sure would not. Makes sense.
thank you for the chuckles. I have never felt so warm and cozy in a cold garage under tons of steel but today that is all different now :) much appreciation for the craftsmanship and the no too polite banter. :D
Thats a distinct possibility, since the suspension, axles, steering and chassis have been changed around, the DVLA may consider it a "radically altered vehicle" and would require an IVA to be road legal..
@@tech4pros1 All they have to do is show the inspector the videos, I'm pretty sure the quality of the work would speak for itself. Factories turn out cars and trucks on Monday and Friday that might not be as well put together as Binky or Escargot. Customs are usually meticulously built, it's to show off what a shop is capable of, not just one of thousands coming off a production line.
Am now more invested in the escargot build than the mini,can’t wait till 2023 when the escargot is nearly completed and ready to be stripped down again for paint 😂
Does it make me a bad person that I wept tears of joy when I realized how many beautifully over engineered brackets would come from the chassis rails of the donor truck?
More impressive than the teamwork / syncopation, is the fact that you can get it done without uttering a single swear word! I can't recall the last time I've managed to complete a project without bleeding on it and / or swearing at it at least once.
This came at a fortuitous time, as I'd just finished rewatching all the Project Binky videos for the third time two nights ago and followed that up with the Escargot videos last night.
Im actually turning a truck into an RV currently, lucky for me it doesn't need any work to the actual truck, I got tired just watching you guys do this and it makes me feel like the massive job I have ahead of me is just barely an inconvenience....I will think of you guys the next time Im swearing at a job I want to finish :)
Working on my VW T5 today - same kinda thing: drilling, red hot swarf, where’s that ‘kin spanner gone? Eventually I realised why it wasn’t going to plan: bloody hammer was AF - should’ve used the metric one!
Only BOM could get me excited to watch a "Toy Hauler" being built British style on the cheap in a shed. Well played boys (I think it's "lads" in your unspeakable foreign tongue) well played.
I started watching this amazing pair approx 3 years ago. I fear I may be a grand pop by the time Binky gets her arse moving let alone this thing. Loving it gents!!
Highlight of my day this is! Transfixed on anxles (transmissionfixed lol?) but yes I can now say for sure that mainstream TV is crap and watching your progress is so much for fun :)
Bloody hell chaps, when you were putting the bolts into the springs, seeing how much the frame was moving put the willies up me, and usually you have to buy me a drink for that
Guy at work: What are you watching?! Me: A couple British dudes unbolting things and drilling holes. Guy: .... Me: You've watched hillbillies looking for buried treasure for how many seasons? I'm glad to see how this is developing.
Must be so nice to be working on a project where there is so much room to manoevre, as opposed to Binkey, where the gaps between components are measured in microns. Very satisfying progress, thank you.
10 years ago, I never thought I'd be excited to wake up Saturday morning and get to watch two blokes work on a truck!
Have you seen mustie1 ? thank me later
Let’s see if you’re still as interested when they at midpoint in 10 years?
Hell, I would take a weeks vacation just to help those guys out. Not sure what my wife would think of a "working" vacation though.
@@kriss1_ Hell yeah. Love that guy.
Yep, this is livin'!
The BOM shop is kind of like the Thunderdome:
Two trucks enter, one truck leaves.
Oh that's good. I approve.
They added lightness to the DAF, I think that's what it's called.
WE WANT JUSTICE!
WE WANT THUNDERDOME!
The other truck kind of walked out 🤔🤣😂🤣
Quality
I look forward to seeing your children completing these projects. It will be worth the patreon money though.
its not about the destination but the journey 😉
@@vallevaan yes but you got to use a vehicle for the journey!
You think they'll be finished that soon? I was thinking grandchildren.
It is year 3000. All of Britain - buildings, trees, animals, even the ground - has been rebuilt with custom folded steel sheet brackets and Makita grinders. A monument to the first 1000 fallen grinders is erected in central London. No one remembers how this started, but the end is not anywhere in sight.
Haha so true
Strip it any further back and you'll have to show us how to smelt ore.
Ok, the other bolt "for scale" tickled me.
Same :)
Shoulda been a banana (Hand Tool Rescue anyone?)
I had a chuckle
At least it was a different size... I expected it to be the same
I like the fact that you laugh at each other, about each other and simply a lot. Gives me the impression that you two have worked together for a very long time. And I think you wrecked a lot of things together, too. It is fun to watch!
I bought a double decker bus and at first they wanted to ha e it as a private HTC then said no, it's a class 4 PIG so I can drive on my car licence as I have D on my license. Was going to be my home as it looked like I was going to be homeless with the divorce, keep saying I'm going to finish it but not done much to it for a year now, you inspire me to crack on, at first fix stage at the moment.
The only bad thing about this channel is I watch all of it, emagine the lucky bastard that finds it in 10 years and binge watching it all👌🏻 keep up the good work guys 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
After watching all the Sema content its truly refreshing watching two blokes working on a rusty truck! keep up the good work guys! :D
When you see there’s only 5 minutes left in the video and realise you’re going to have to wait another 6 months for another video 😩😂
@John Bramble are you okay?
Been 4y…. And still no sign of part 6.
@@HarryNixonTube sadly, it seems that way... But hey, we'll probably have a few more years of content on the Escargot after Binky finally gets completed.
That's an impressive little electric impact 👍
It's a Panasonic I think. It probably pulls like 800 nm. At least 4-500.
@@some______guy It's a Kielder.
It was SUPREMELY satisfying to watch you guys completely deconstruct a truck until you could simply carry out 2 long straight rails. Keep up the good work guys!
Which begs the question, why the 'ck didn't everything get left on the Daf and a requisite box get built on those 2 rails? (Apologies obviously if its summat daft like different driving license required....)
Oh bugger - the advert finished and I found out :)
I prefer to think of it as them carrying out two large bracket kits.
I worked at the Daf assembly plant in Leyland for a little while, and it was entertaining to see one being 'reverse engineered'
Were you surrounded by piss poor polish immigrants? My DAF seems to have been put together on a Friday afternoon, rushing to get to the pub.
@@mattjohns3394
Diversity is our strength...😴
@@mattjohns3394 There were a few Polish people there. I found them friendly, polite and conscientious. The same cannot be said of some of the English workers who were there when I was.
@@Frightningman You make it hard to be racist when the facts don't coincide with my prejudices. 😓
Matt Johns They are pretty heavy drinkers to be fair, but they graft.
I don’t tend to give Polish people who work here any shit because:
We wouldn’t of won WW2 without the Polish stealing an enigma machine for us, or doing a lot of the groundwork on decoding the enigma code, Alan Turings work was mainly in making it possible to decode it quickly enough for the information to still be relevant.
Also Polish pilots were a huge part of the Battle of Britain, and their kill death ratio was insane. Apparently the RAF didn’t like that they wouldn’t stick to the formations or set manoeuvres they were obsessed with, but they couldn’t argue with their results.
Your ability to turn perfection into complication and complication into perfection is quite impressive indeed.
Always a pleasure to watch you guys fix your junk while I avoid fixing my junk
I was doing the same... haha!
Something satisfying about watching 2 blokes in a shed fiddling with their junk.
Oh. That came out wrong.
@@douglaspealing5608 That depends entirely on how you meant it to come out....
@@paulstandeven8572 I didn't mean to come out at all, I swear I'm straighter than that frame rail!
@@paulstandeven8572 ah wait, read yours wrong. I failed english in school. Even though it's my first language. Apologies.
This demonstrates how much easier it is to do things when there is ample room (unlike in Binky).
This and the Aging Wheels bus are my two fav projects right now! That RV life
what channel is that?
@@MrGarycharters a channel called Aging Wheels... specialised in old car
@@tinatpasselepoivre not old cars, just aging ones :D
Cold War Motors, and Johnathan W are a couple of others
@@bigunone Johnathan W is a great channel!
Cant believe i just spent 40 minutes watching 2 guys undo a few bolts, drill a few holes, and do the bolts back up again...
Also amazed that the chassis all unbolts into such simple parts!
Hard to believe how simple that chassis was, just steel beams..and bolted together🤯🤯🤯🤯
Trucks are dead simple, they're just big
@@ThomasBlithe You just wait, once they will find out we figured that out, they will put strain gages on it and transfer the signal via CAN bus...
what makes a good sunday a perfect sunday another BOM video
So this is part Ford, part dAF and Fabricated, does this mean it's a FAFF?
DORD, FARD... whatever you fancy..
Fair enough :)
This Ford got daffed pretty intensely.
As a DAF owner, I am happy for you to use whatever derogatory term you think is appropriate.
@@mattjohns3394 Derogatory As F*** ?
Richard, You chasing that washer between the frame rails reminded me of a story my cousin, an automobile salesman in upstate New York, USA, loved to tell about a customer who kept bringing his Cadillac Sedan Deville back to the dealership time after time because of a persistent rattle in one of the rear fenders. The body men and mechanics tightened and retightened every nut and bolt they could put their tools on, but to no avail. Finally the body shop removed the fender and found a large washer on a length of string that some bored line worker had hung there during the original assembly. Really enjoying your videos, gents. Keep 'em coming.
Nothing makes me miss my best mate more than watching you two... he lives down the road from you and I moved to Austria...
🍆
If he puts a tin of biscuits on their doorstep once a week for three months and waits quietly, they might let him in the BOM shop.
Watching two codgers swap an axle on an old truck should be boring, yet here I am with a cup of tea, glued to the edge of my seat!
You might need to go for uprated springs as the Cargos, indeed most trucks that were built up as mobile libraries and that type of thing had heavier-duty springs than were usually fitted to 7.5 ton trucks to take account of the weight of the body, which is pretty weighty, along with the contents. If my memory serves me right, they were usually fitted with the springs for a truck of the next weight class up, so a 12-ton truck. If you need them, a truck breaker should easily be able to help you with a set of good used springs from a 12-ton DAF LF, and they shouldn't be expensive as they're not the type of truck that people really rebuild, they usually get driven into the ground and then junked, so demand for them is unlikely to be high, as most companies that run them will generally replace any parts necessary with new items or service exchange parts to minimise down-time meaning that used parts will usually just be so much scrap metal...
I don't think these top blokes quite understand how awesome they are and how awesome of a fanbase they have!
39 minutes! I needed 2 fresh cups of really hot tea to get through that.
I did like the workshop supervisor swinging by every now and again to see how the chassis strip was getting on
Gotta say I enjoy watching you two blokes work together with mucked up parts. Elbow deep in it rather than pinkies up with the new sheet metal.
Yaay I've never been this early
9min in and holy crap did they pick that DAF clean!
Gentlemen - both the Mini and the Cargo are epic jobs. My utmost respect for your endeavours.
Please keep the videos coming.
I think the extra 50kg of the front axle is negated by the amount of friggin holes drilled into the frame. It about evens up :)
Adding lightness all the way!
The technical term is speed holes
Like a swis cheese
23:35 the part where you let eachother take it in turns to finish... perfection!
Best Saturday night ever!
I have a few of those handy digital scribers. Apparently you can also measure the size of stuff with them as well, but I don't like to misuse tools like that.
I like the idea that you can basically build the ship of theseus out of this truck and the DVLA will just go "yeah sure the rocket engine in the back and the tank tracks are totally normal, still a class 4"
It just shows how retarded the DVLA are to be honest.
It will probably need an IVA test, if it was a car it certainly would (Binky will), and being registered as class 4 which is a car it probably should have an IVA. If registered as a truck DVSA would throw a hissy fit, all this is a very grey area, but nevertheless great to watch.
@@TheRonskiman I'd tell em nuffink!
Ronskiman Definitely racked up enough points to class as radically altered and need an IVA. Not sure whether they’d let it keep its bizarre class 4 status
I do wonder if the vehicle identification and rating tags could have been transferred and downgraded the donor to a class 4.
You guys did a very good purchase to buy that quality DAF. Man everything powdercoated and still in perfect condition
Just idly, having seen that brake caliper at 0:40 and having fecked about with pad swaps on those a few times now, and not knowing if you've run into them before:
1. The adjuster -- under a plastic plug, usually yellow -- is obstructed by the chamber. So you either need a funky custom-bent 8mm spanner, or mess about taking the chamber off, to adjust them.
2. The adjuster is arse-about-face threaded. Wind it clockwise to back the adjustment off, anti-clockwise to tighten the adjustment.
3. That third 'pad' that goes between the piston and the actual brake pad needs to be held to the piston when you're backing the brakes off; because it holds onto a peg that sticks out of the piston and stops it rotating. If the piston rotates, it tears the boot up, and whatnot.
They're not as nice to do pads on as the Wabco ones, but they work okay.
@ChrisHallett83 The LFs with the 22.5" wheels have a much less pain in the arse caliper, honestly. (Same as a *lot* of other trucks with 22.5" wheels. ) But, I guess that's what one gets, with a smaller wheel.
Either way, though, it's still going to be better than the Cargo drums.
if that dog isn't careful, it's likely to get a bracket attached to it.
RSPCA
That's its name......"Bracket"!
"It's hard for you to get a handle on the size of these bolts, so here's another bolt for scale" 😂
the correct way to show a size reference is with a Banana after all. lol
Was having a really hard time judging the size of those bolts.
Thanks for putting that other bolt in there for scale, it cleared matters up a treat.
It's the little touches that count...
O_o
Cheers,
Wife: What are you watching?
Me: Two blokes in England taking an old truck apart.
Wife: Why?
Me:............
It's a fair question.
Bad Obsession Motorsport I wanted to say ‘ in case they ‘make the noise’’. It was just too hard to explain.
@@CHRIS_HITCHCOCK I guess it's easier than explaining the "angry end" ;)
One and a half hour later the wife is wondering why are you talking about installing bespoke air-control systems on a mini and what does it have to do with this truck.
@@Leo0718 As a general rule, i think the fairer sex just don't get it. boys and their toys and all that jazz.
guy's your kicking ass and taking numbers. thanks for the 411 on the truck.
The Escargot is as good a project as any!
That is a pretty strong cup of tea and did you see how fast that dog was, it made the guys look like they were standing still
That moment when you realize you've watched the whole series at least twice and only noticed the doggo for the first time in this one.
Hi Doggo!
Has the dog appeared before? I've also watched every episode at least twice and as far as I can remember this was the first canine assistant I remember seeing.
Doggo came with the dAF, that's short for "doggo Assisted Fabrication".
Outstanding work, necessitated by an overburdensome bureaucracy. In the US, as soon as you install a cot, a hotplate, and a port-a-potty, you can register as an RV, and no special licensing requirement. Some states, you don't even have to do that, just checking the RV box on the form is enough, you get an RV plate and away you go. Good for you guys finding a way to build what you need!
You lot are easily my favorite thing on TH-cam! lol
Jeez you guys really put in the work don't you ? Nothing like a job well done, you guys literally touch every nut and bolt !
Well, the Escargot has evolved into Project Binky: Heavy Duty Edition!
Does it get awd then? A big turbo installation? CAD for special brackets? Don't forget the CAD!!
...and this surprises you... why?
The music isn't as funky, though.
Binky XL
@@JamesBalazs Blimpy ;)
"Putting axles under trucks" is more than adequate to see you boys at work. Keep it up! 👍🏻
Between the clanging, the banging, and the impacting, there’s really only one thing missing. More Cowbell.
I keep watching this, over and over
I love the reasoning---'getting a new type of license would take some time', so------lets tear down and rebuild a 30 year old lead brick truck and in the process change everything, sometimes twice.
By the way, are sure you don't want to turn this truck into a 4 wheel drive? I'm sure it wouldn't be that much work.
I really do enjoy this editing more a lot more than on the Binky series. It's more personal and doesn't feel as fabricated, more like TH-cam and less like TV.
R.I.P. Vernier Caliper, your sacrifice shall be remembered.
Project Supercar it looks like a Aldi one, treat it as disposable, mine eats batteries but works ok for what I do.
@@vintagetintrader1062 Yeah true, I think it was only a cheap one. I usually buy them for 2.99 on Ebay; I've got a whole box full of calipers, all with flat batteries. lol.
Project Supercar l
@33:38 ... Two kinds of people in the world - those that have done this, and those who think it's easy.
You buggers still my favorite channel by far though. New episode has made my weekend!
Don't hate me, but i find this more interesting than blinky. There something i love about heavy machines
Sooo.... just a shot in the dark - Euro Truck Simulator. Yes? No?
They show a different part of their personality with this series.
Here they sound like a couple mates goofing off in the shed, with Binky they sound more scripted and definitely more detailed.
@@MrStacy1974 I have yet to see a bracket built. I miss Nik's brackets!
@@davearnold628 this just seems like a more of an attainable project for the average petrolhead, I like both projects for different reasons.
i admire your parntership. The way you work togehther. The endurance and patience you have to another.
In which they build a vehicle from scratch in order to avoid taking a driving test...
to be fair, driving tests wouldn't be channel content
win/win for them
win for us too
Underrated comment
DVLA isn't the worst bureaucracy to take on in normal circumstances..
But this isn't normal! You don't poke a snake...You go round it!
@@geoffdavis8008 Driving tests are what you do at 17. No No No!
And have to do CPC qualifications every five years if they intend to make money from using the vehicle (if you meet a particularly strict Officer they can claim that winnings from racing count), and have to have a medical every ten years and the MOT requirements change so all round it’s easier to fly under the radar!
those chassis rails look like a good Emmentaler cheese. but as an old professor said: don't forget, between two holes there is always something to bite! love your work guys!
Thanks for explaining your thinking. Extending the DAF chassis and building a new body would be (quite) easy. But the HGV licences etc for sure would not.
Makes sense.
thank you for the chuckles. I have never felt so warm and cozy in a cold garage under tons of steel but today that is all different now :) much appreciation for the craftsmanship and the no too polite banter. :D
"And soon enough the wheels will come off this project" no truer words where spoken.
You guys make a month long job for me look like it happens in a few days, love it. Looking good, the axle swap was much needed.
Love the camaraderie fellas, great fun and probably illegal in the UK now.
Thats a distinct possibility, since the suspension, axles, steering and chassis have been changed around, the DVLA may consider it a "radically altered vehicle" and would require an IVA to be road legal..
2 guys having fun with spanners...Coming soon! (They got on well on this one)
@@tech4pros1 All they have to do is show the inspector the videos, I'm pretty sure the quality of the work would speak for itself. Factories turn out cars and trucks on Monday and Friday that might not be as well put together as Binky or Escargot. Customs are usually meticulously built, it's to show off what a shop is capable of, not just one of thousands coming off a production line.
@@tech4pros1 I think the OP was referring to two British men having fun being illegal (I may be wrong though).
Thoroughly impressed with that 1/2 inch gun for it's size
I’ve waited so long for this,your channel is awesome
I binged watched your brilliant mini build up. 👍
Big mistake, you will be cringing for monthly fixes!
Am now more invested in the escargot build than the mini,can’t wait till 2023 when the escargot is nearly completed and ready to be stripped down again for paint 😂
Losing washers behind that steering box mount like you are feeding a slot machine 😂
It was a bit of a gamble fitting it there.
Replace the washers with a solid plate. Skip weld in place so it can not move.
Strong Thunderbirds vibes at 16:00. Just needed the dramatic music and the beads of sweat.
Does it make me a bad person that I wept tears of joy when I realized how many beautifully over engineered brackets would come from the chassis rails of the donor truck?
Better than television
Loving the crazy number of ounces weight translation- make those yanks work for their antiquated measurement System!
Joe MacLeod-Iredale het yank here and f you lol there are countries that use the metric system and countries that have been to the moon lol
@@quintenmaccalla5109 Nasa used metric to get on the moon
It's the English measuring system, and any Englishman using metric should be sent for a one way trip to The Tower...
@@somebloke13 hahaha, no
More impressive than the teamwork / syncopation, is the fact that you can get it done without uttering a single swear word! I can't recall the last time I've managed to complete a project without bleeding on it and / or swearing at it at least once.
I swear, you guys make this "yank" laugh every single episode! Definitely "thumbs up"!
This came at a fortuitous time, as I'd just finished rewatching all the Project Binky videos for the third time two nights ago and followed that up with the Escargot videos last night.
Absolutely spot on first montage song choice, and advice none of us here will take.
Indeed, even if it was a WCW/knock off version of Audioslave - Cochise
I guess you could say that disassembling the Escargot was a riveting experience.
awesome to see more progress on this its the series i first came here for
not that Binky isnt also always a welcome sight in my inbox
Im actually turning a truck into an RV currently, lucky for me it doesn't need any work to the actual truck, I got tired just watching you guys do this and it makes me feel like the massive job I have ahead of me is just barely an inconvenience....I will think of you guys the next time Im swearing at a job I want to finish :)
Yes Yes Yes I needed that right now in my life
The hardest working step-drill in showbiz
Working on my VW T5 today - same kinda thing: drilling, red hot swarf, where’s that ‘kin spanner gone? Eventually I realised why it wasn’t going to plan: bloody hammer was AF - should’ve used the metric one!
Only BOM could get me excited to watch a "Toy Hauler" being built British style on the cheap in a shed. Well played boys (I think it's "lads" in your unspeakable foreign tongue) well played.
5:22 Appreciate the conversion to Freedom Units
Imperial? We left you those😉😊
I started watching this amazing pair approx 3 years ago. I fear I may be a grand pop by the time Binky gets her arse moving let alone this thing. Loving it gents!!
I've been waiting for this, thought it never was gonna come.
It took so long I forgot all about the channel. The next video should come around Mai 2020 if we are lucky.
Need an update on the lorry, really enjoyed this series
The fast footage of the DAF chassis dismantlement, was like watching two piranha on a carcass
I still can’t understand why I watch every single episode... and yet here I am!
Highlight of my day this is! Transfixed on anxles (transmissionfixed lol?) but yes I can now say for sure that mainstream TV is crap and watching your progress is so much for fun :)
Bloody hell chaps, when you were putting the bolts into the springs, seeing how much the frame was moving put the willies up me, and usually you have to buy me a drink for that
"...aint nobody got time for that" He said, as he began to sand paper the 50 year old, 30ft long chassis rails.
If this project goes as long as Project Binky then I am assured of at least another 5 years of entertainment from the two of you. Keep on trucking!
Use the unbent sections of the DAF frame for another Big Blue Erection!
Nah, they're gonna add a shitload of lightness and make a zeppelin.
Only you two to do so much work in such "camper"! Following every bit of work....
Guy at work: What are you watching?!
Me: A couple British dudes unbolting things and drilling holes.
Guy: ....
Me: You've watched hillbillies looking for buried treasure for how many seasons?
I'm glad to see how this is developing.
I spend every working day around trucks, and they only interest me in your videos. Keep it up guys!
brilliant stuff lads!!
Must be so nice to be working on a project where there is so much room to manoevre, as opposed to Binkey, where the gaps between components are measured in microns. Very satisfying progress, thank you.