These days I find that youtubers provide a lot more entertainment and information for me than television ever did. Farmcraft101 is a youtube channel run by a cattle farmer named John who hails from Virginia. In this episode, he performs more repairs to a 75000 pound excavator that he purchased for $7000. In other episodes, he rebuilt the motor on a 1960 crawler tractor and entirely rebuilt a tandem dump truck. Enjoy!
This is what I watch. Stuff like this. So restful, to see a guy who knows what he’s doing, doing it.
Add Cutting Edge Engineering Australia, Abom79, Shurap and Stavros Gakos to your YouTube lists.
MartyT & Diesel Creek as well. Try AntsPants for a little Euro redneck engineering.
I think i’m subscribed to 200 or so, damn addictive.
Yup. DIY videos and logging forums saved me thousand$ in mechanic fees and parts on my old skidder.
The wisdom of the internet.
Entertaining and educational.
I find myself going there anytime I am faced with a new to me,defective toy.
Here comes the boom! https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/05/friday-funday-here-comes-the-boom/
That guy has his shit together. I use u-tube a lot, so to cut discovery time down when doing repairs or alterations.
There’s a barncat guy on YouTube that’s quite good.
YouTube is better than TV ever was. Everything from college productions of Shakespeare to how to fix the carburetor on your snow machine. A lot of copycat dreck out there, but if you do the work to sort through it, its worth it.
YouTube has some good stuff.
From watching bullets hit various targets at 100 000+ fps to physics professors walking you through the math of advanced post-grad physics with lots of pretty visualizations to help demonstrate, to electronics to home maintenance to auto repair. Its a great medium.
…and then there is this guy:
Building a fire death machine using soviet military tech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNisqZOAaAs
I’m hooked on the Project Farm guy, Todd….
Me too. Some of his older stuff is pretty neat, too, testing alternate fuels in engines, doing slo-mo of combustion with a transparent head…
“Me too. Some of his older stuff is pretty neat, too, testing alternate fuels in engines, doing slo-mo of combustion with a transparent head…”
That one was amazing. He’s so creative in the way he custom designs his testing methods for each individual product, and when he gets it wrong he is quick to admit it and re-test things.
I enjoy Project Farm too. He does put in the time and effort.
Another good guy is Mustie1, who brings a lot of things back to life, many of which were discarded needlessly by someone who couldn’t handle simpler repairs. When I see lawn mowers at the dump, I always think that they probably just need a carb clean or a five dollar part to run another ten years.
A year ago I dumped all my streaming services except Prime, which I need for the free deliveries, and went to YouTube premium.
The streamers are mostly boring and badly done videos stuffed full of insane leftist ideas.
The YouTube recommendation algorithms have the same problem that Netflix’s do: they only show you stuff like what you just watched, so you end up in a narrowing spiral of more and more specific content.
I think we could do with user-curated lists of YouTube channels on particular topics. The Steam video game platform does this and it goes a long way to separating the wheat from the chaff.