How many pressure washers does it take to fly?

for the viewers at home, he wasted the entirety of australia's water reserves and caused a climate disaster

As a mechanical engineer hearing “a force of 4 kilos” and “the nozzle added pressure” killed a small part of me

I can't stop watching this dudes channel. I am utterly enraptured by how even the most mundane thing is raw and utter chaos in his hands.

I occasionally come to check if this guy is still alive, great video man. Keep up the good work.

Every time I watch this man, I always ask myself, "How the hell does he still have all his limbs intact?"

I can't think of another youtuber who manages to consistently make me literally laugh out loud like a crazy person while watching a video alone at home. And why didnt YT recommend this channel to me ages ago?!

He’s done another thing.
I love it when he does things.

Top tier content that I don’t need to pay for.
Definitely living the life of watching some random guy on the internet trying to fly with pressure washers.

You need to be careful with the high pressure water, if you hit your skin it may look like you just got it wet, but what you're doing is damaging skin tissue, ligaments, you can cause severe internal damage (keep in mind they use these things to make the lenses for glasses lol)

I almost lost one of my legs to a pressure washer and I still think this is very funny. Thank God you didn’t lose one.

How did it take me so long to find your channel!? Which I'd known about you years ago! Every video you make is GOLD. Haven't laughed out loud at youtube content for ages and you have me CACKLING!

Love how he never has to do a April fools video because it wouldn’t be any crazier than his regular videos

Hey! I'm getting pretty interested in this kind of thing - have you considered that going to the moon where gravity is less powerful may be an easier alternative to having to make up an excuse to get 12 pressure washers? Keep up the work!

As somebody trained in high pressure water jetting DO NOT DO THIS!! If he had sprayed himself or somebody else even though the wound would look superficial it could be potentially deadly. It would nearly instantly pump a litre or so of water into your body

I would like to see you build a fridge trolley with suspension to get a fridge down a set of stairs as fast as possible!😊

I would love to see IDAT try more 3D printed stuff. I just ordered my first printer recently and would love to see what sort of wacky things he does with it.

Only Ididathing could fail a video and still make one of the most interesting entertaining videos of the month

Hi, I’m studying to be an engineer so this stuff is pretty interesting to me. Have you considered maybe shrinking your body to a very small size and then trying to use the pressure washer? I imagine you would get a lot of lift from a regular pressure washer if you weighed a couple grams. Hope this helps 🙏🏻

Dude, this is the first time I've ever seen any of your content, and I have to say that your commentary was top notch. Hil-fukn-arious! I tuned in for the pressure washer stuff, but your comedy is what made the video. Great job, sir!

How has this man not won a Darwin award by now is beyond me!

Watched for the learning, stayed for the laughing. Comedy with brains. Kudos sir!

I actually used a 40k hydroblaster unit in a previous job (in order to blast phosphate buildup off of dipping tanks for jeep chassis) and two of them can make you fly.. they are only 38000 dollars.. however they are more dangerous than a gun

Love this video so cool never would have come up with the idea of flying with pressure washers

The sheer power of owning a pressure washer is enough

The only channel where he can fail at what he is doing but still succeeded in doing it

I feel like this is most definitely possible. We’re gonna need a follow up in like a year because I can most definitely see this happening, especially if you’re able to somehow hook up more of those external pumps.

Thank you a lot!
I was always asking my self, why should I go on with studying mechanical engineering. I could use try and error instead.
But after this video I knew.
It is way easier to calculate this😂.
Thanks for your efforts.😊

I've just discovered this channel and binged a lot of videos. The question that keeps popping in my head is: how is this guy still alive with all his limbs intact?

I was planning to comment and give props for using the better Grieg peer gynt tune Anitra's Dance, and then you transition straight into the Shosta jazz suite - my fellow Russian Aussie, I could cry. Ten out of ten choices on the hugely underrated soundtrack choices! My dyed was a musician and raised me until I was six, but it was enough to result in a passion for classical music like this I ended up becoming a cellist. I have to wonder if you had similar formative experiences with parents and/or grandparents displaced during the war? Regardless, you actually get it when it comes to the real draw of classical - well done mate, I genuinely reacted like that meme of dudes reacting to someone getting roasted, top tier 😄

He didn’t do this to fly, he did this to turn his backyard into a wetlands, which scares the cats away and in turn, brings the other little animals back. Ecological genius

Create a bracket on the box to hold the washer nosels so the cannot stray from their course and get 4 more washers. Put 4 on each side. You should achieve enough force to weigh maybe 90% less, and could achieve floating jumps

Hey, I doubt you probably did this, but if you accidentally cut your toe using the washer you may want to get it checked out. My neighbor sprayed his leg on accident and it cut him, he thought it was fine, looked like it was just a small cut, turns out it was much worse. Severely bad internal damage that began leading to worse things than a severed ligament. Now it may be different considering the structure of the toe, but might be worth getting it looked at.

Pressure washers are not only pushing towards you it’s also trying to rotate itself because of the nozzle. That rotational force is most of what you feel when handling one. It feels much stronger than it really is because of how far that nozzle is. Idk why they make it like that. Just make it shoot straight for better handling

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lets hope this is enough for him to financially and mentally recover from this monstrosity

I LOVE your videos! Whenever I’m sad these cheer me up! Thank you

Big respect for cute little kid injured at 16:12 for science. He will never be forgotten

You know it's a good day when he does a thing!

I like how he built a whole rig in his ceiling and then in his tree to see if he was strong enough to support his own weight instead of going to the gym and using a dip station or weighted dip machine 😂😂

the bravery to allow that many pressure washers near you is astounding. I'm surprised you didn't lose layers of skin 🫣

the ideas of your content are insane thanks for making such top tier videos

I am watching so many youtubers but this guys content has to be my favorite to watch. I wish more creators were as randomly comedic.

It might be more feasible to do this if he had the pressure washer at his centre of mass, like a chopper with the centre of mass being inline with the centre of lift

“Lucky for me, my grandpa died. So I got a bunch of his tools from the 50s to add to my garage”
I’m lost for words this man is a genius

The force propelling something like a personal water craft with a jet pump is directly related to the the amount of water that flows through the pump, and the change in speed of the water going through the pump. The force (thrust) is related to the change in momentum of the water. The momentum is related to speed and mass, momentum = mass * speed. With all other things being unchanged, to get more force, flow more water, or increase the outlet speed of the water. That why taking off the pressure-washer outlet nozzle at 3:25 reduced the thrust, as the outlet speed of the water went way down.
For an example if you have 100 liters per second flowing through your jet pump, given that 1L of water is 1 kg, that is 100 kg/s. If the pump brings that water in at a speed of 1.0 meters per second (100 L/s through a 0.1 m² opening), and have enough power to squeeze it through a nozzle about 1/11th of the inlet size (an opening about 0.0091m²=91 cm²), the water at the outlet will be going 11 m/s. The change in velocity is 10 m/s (11-1) for that 100 kg/s of water, so that works out to 1000 Newtons of force (100 kg/s * 10 m/s), which is about 100 kg of thrust (1kg = 9.80665 N)
For those interested in doing the unit analysis kg/s * m/s is kg m/s², and you may have seen a similar unit using F=mass * acceleration, which is also force, which in metric would be Newtons.
Obviously he is not going to get that much water from his garden hoses, so he needs to go with a large change in water speed. He has 120 L/min or 2 L/s. To get 100 kg of thrust, he will need a very fast outlet speed. I think it's great he is trying though!

This is exactly what I picture an Australian to be like. Smart, determined, and a little off

I think a lot of the force comes from the water coming out of the nozzle carrying air with it and the sudden change in speed as it comes out of the nozzle... water expands 1600 times when it boils... so if you started with a bathtub of boiling water and heated it just as it was in the nozzle you would have a rocket engine... it would also probably be safer for children

I had to use one of those fuel powered pressure washers for work last year. One of the tradies walking through had seen me using it and told me one of his mates nearly severed his leg using the same type of pressure washer some years back. Gotta be bloody careful using them.

I haven't laughed so hard in so long 😂 great video!

The foreshadowing of the kid. The true genius of this guy is unfathomable. An inspiriation to us all.

Just goes to show you how much we actually weigh.
What's more, is how impressive our muscles are to be able to propel ourselves into the air like that.

I know it wasnt going to get you off the ground but I wonder if you'd been able to make a bracket that held the ends of the pressure washers together more so you wouldnt have to fight them as much keeping them pointed at the ground.
maybe you could stand on it too

if you hand a craftsman a file you can see his qualities as a craftsman if you hand Alex a pressure washer he will sweep the world into an inevitable catalism

Ok, now do it again but I want to know whether turning the curved nozzles in opposite directions before fixing them together might have made each unit more stable instead of pushing you forward.

Funniest shit I've seen in a while and an amazing video, I feel like we all learn more and come to realize better shit when watching your videos over school. I wanna see more great content from you in the near future, the guy trying to fly with pressure washers realising he can just strap his kid to one 🤣🤣

The fact he continues to not wear shoes even when using a pressure washer terrifies me to a new degree
(Edit: this is the dumbest comment why do you people like this?)

Is there a way to quickly open/close the valve to build up more pressure in the nozzle? Would letting the nozzle reach full pressure before it opens give you more thrust than a consistent flow?

105 - 60 gives a difference of 45 IBS. Throwing that into a ratio of 45 IBS for 4 power washers. This gives us a ratio of 11.25 IBS per power washer. If we multiply 11.25 by 10 you get 112.5 IBS. So you need 10 power washers to lift you up. Not to mention placing them in the correct angles so you do not throw yourself into an object and injuring yourself.

Imagine decades from now that the modern military weapon was a really strong pressure washer

I am currently crying so hard right now. This is seriously the most beautiful, well put together story ever. I can’t believe how magical it was 0:03 That part truly made me shed a tear. And especially 0:06 that part was just so truly heart touching words can not describe the series of emotions I felt. I absolutely loved the climax it had insanely excellent detail. Oh and we can’t forget the conclusion. The conclusion was the greatest and saddest conclusion I have ever seen better than any of the books I have read. Thank you so much for creating this absolute masterpiece. This is essentially the most important masterpiece of film history. It is a tragedy that this, it can’t be called a film, but a transcendent emotional experience, will be inaccessible for most. It beautifully encapsulates the human struggle to its basics; suffering, pleasure, faith, despair. It connects with the characters within the viewers, individuals suppressed within our own subconscious. It stays vibrant, fresh, and revolutionizes the art of storytelling and filmmaking while making a damn of statement on what it means to be human. Entertaining, gripping, and simply exhilarating. This might be the most impactful piece of art I’ve come across in my life, and I’m definitely coming back to it in the near future to study it more deeply. this is an absolute masterpiece. it absolutely moved my soul, and I don't think I can ever be the same. this bacon has changed my entire mental state , I am now at peace with who I am and what I will be doing later in my life. i have forgiven all my enemies and now I am a man of a pacifist life. I will move on , gotta move on , as the song says. the bacon is so inspirational , it shares it vast wisdom with all of us , and we are all so lucky that it would bestow it's great words with this music... This made me tear up. How could this do such a thing? I'm struck by awe by this masterpiece. I am currently crying so hard right now. This is seriously the most beautiful, well put together story ever. I can’t believe how magical it was 0:03 That part truly made me shed a tear. And especially 0:06 that part was just so truly heart touching words can not describe the series of emotions I felt. I absolutely loved the climax it had insanely excellent detail. Oh and we can’t forget the conclusion. The conclusion was the greatest and saddest conclusion I have ever seen better than any of the books I have read. Thank you so much for creating this absolute masterpiece. This is essentially the most important masterpiece of film history. It is a tragedy that this, it can’t be called a film, but a transcendent emotional experience, will be inaccessible for most. It beautifully encapsulates the human struggle to its basics; suffering, pleasure, faith, despair. It connects with the characters within the viewers, individuals suppressed within our own subconscious. It stays vibrant, fresh, and revolutionizes the art of storytelling and filmmaking while making a damn of statement on what it means to be human. Entertaining, gripping, and simply exhilarating. This might be the most impactful piece of art I’ve come across in my life, and I’m definitely coming back to it in the near future to study it more deeply. this is an absolute masterpiece. it absolutely moved my soul, and I don't think I can ever be the same. this bacon has changed my entire mental state , I am now at peace with who I am and what I will be doing later in my life. i have forgiven all my enemies and now I am a man of a pacifist life. I will move on , gotta move on , as the song says. it shares it vast wisdom with all of us , and we are all so lucky that it would bestow it's great words with this music... This made me tear up. How could this do such a thing? I'm struck by awe by this masterpiece.

I literally thought applying honey was gonna strengthen the handle of the pressure washer lmao 😂

Would be cool to see how fast they could make you move underwater

Worth a revisit, if you flip one of the blasters in each hand upside down, the angles at the ends will cancel out and they'll stop kicking up, making them much easier to control.

It depends on the PSI of the pressure washers. I have used ones that will blow 4-inch thick dried Plaster off of the floors and everything else with a Bumble Bee nozzle on it (one guy cut the crap out of one of his legs by walking in front of someone else using the pressure washer. I have also used a Gas powered (20 HP+) one that would cut straight through 5 inches of Asphalt NO PROBLEM! That one might take 4-8 to get you off the ground depending on how much you weigh.

Hey man! I was watching the vid and ID like to offer some suggestions … I think the spread of the stream might be to wide! I think it should put like a cylinder type of nozzle to concentrate the pressure, in my mind it should look like a plumber if that makes sense or a cylinder but the base would have to be narrow….. but yea great vid and your crazy s/o to my Aussie bro and sis !

I wanted to sincerely thank you for leading me to friendlyjordies' channel! The political things happening in Australia right now are very educational for those of us in other corrupt nations but who don't (yet) have our own friendlyjordies to reveal said corruption. Together we can all stand strong against this corruption! Thank you from the USA, and good luck Australia!
P.S.: This video was absolutely hilarious and reminded me why I subbed to your channel! XD
Great work!
14:52 It's hard to tell under Earth's high gravity, but that's actually about how slow you would fall on a 0.6G planet. It's still pretty fast. You have to get down to like 0.2G or less before you fall slow enough that you can jump off basically anything safely.

You should make an industrial meat slicer, but replace the blade with a buzz saw blade

I am surprised you didn't turn one nozzle on each angling 180 degrees so the output would be like " ^ ". Seems it would lead to a more stable platform and stop it from rising.

Imagine looking over your fence and seeing some guy trying to fly like iron man with a garden hose

Am not a expert in physics, but I strongly belive that you would need a force higher than your body weight to lift off the ground and float there (the pressure may have a slight variation on the output reducing to below your body weight).
Some dude called newton talked about this stuff.

If you use a pulley system you should be able to essentially jump like your on the moon using that, for context a pulley system can make a 20 pound weight pull up on you with 80 pounds of force and if it’s good it can also reset between jumps

I like how unscientific this is yet still yielded results, I could fly using these.

this is the kind of video that doesn’t even need a “don’t do this at home” warning cause nobody in their right mind would even try this for all the effort it’s worth

This is why this channel is amazing, most "Clip-Sharers" would just fill time for 10 minutes to then reveal a sponsor paid for 50 pressure washers and that's the video

The Clip-Share algo must be actively trying to bury this guy's channel, because in my 10+ years of being here and watching similar content, I've never once been recommended this channel, and I only found about it when a friend showed one of his videos. I've been binge watching for the past couple of days, and this is hands down top3 best channels on Clip-Share; unexpected barrage of actually funny jokes and one-liners, tools, messing around, building cool shit, all is here.

As an engineer i laughed at some part of this video , "nozzle added pressure" was hilarious to hear

1. That last part had me rolling lmao 2. HE GAVE US A CLEAR ANSWER 8-10 pressure washers, a water pump but what if you had multiple water pumps would that help? maybe a harness where they could be attached and maybe a shutoff valve for the pressure washer in case of emergencies?

You should make a working earth quake bed. that'd be pretty cool

You know this isn't for April Fools because this invention has practical use

They have industrial pressure washers that go up to 40,000 PSI Used in industrial cleaning. The leaning technique you thought was cool is the normal way to operate these high powered versions. You can find videos of people floating using them.

I've been flyboarding before! It's a great way to use the entirety of Puget Sound (or the large body of water of your choosing) to clean out your sinuses.

I was terrified at the end because i totally felt like it would be an ididathing bit to actually send the kid flying

I wonder if there’s a nozzle modification to help.
Or create something like a water powered hovercraft by redirecting the flow.

You got me to cry laughing in 13 seconds. You just earned a subscribe for that.

You know how most channels' production value goes up as they get more popular, and how that starts to make them feel sort of bland? I feel like this is the only channel going in the exact opposite direction. I'm loving it.

Probably if you attach those things to a suit, some kind of armor maybe? It could work, 'cause when you jump you don't give enough time to the source of water to be completely straight. I don't know anything about the physics of those things that sounds kind of logical to me

If you said it made you shed about 50 kilos on the scale that thing would have totally made me fly. Wish I could try it 😂

The most comprehensive Aussie wildlife documentary I have ever seen. really, how can people live alongside these beasts?

Not sure if you might see this, but.... What would happen if you make Nunchaku Tasers? Like having a switch that is activated by applying tactical pressure on to a certain part of the nunchaku that will activate the surge of enlightenment. The theoretical physics of the melee tool and the taser will (* 2 hours later *) create a torrent force among the wind to (* another 2 days later*)

you need like vertical rails. Two rails (П in shape) and on each leg - small platform for your leg able to go up and down on that rail. And these double-washers attached to each platform firmly straight downwards.
So you will get stable vertical motion. And you can work on jet power )

It’s so wholesome to see the kid grow up over the years

what's interesting to me is that as a 22 year old I am absolutely tiny and I weigh just over 50kg. I wonder if this makes science more doable for me lol.

Now we want 8 pressure washers to make you actually fly!

After meeting you both in the men's toilet at Sydney airport I can confirm that is alexa's flow rate 😂 was great to meet you both keep up the great content 👍 hopefully we con do it again some time 😉

A friend of mine and I had a conversation regarding the use of bread as a replacement for gasoline. Being that gasoline and bread are somewhat similar chemically, would it be possible to create an engine that runs on bread and perhaps an additional "ingredient" of some kind.

You should fasten a bunch of them to a circular piece of aluminum that you can stand in the middle of and hold on to.

I love how this video starts out as if it's a great idea. With each development your like "Oh no, this is not a good idea", and then "Yup, very bad" and finally you end the roller coaster of emotions with "oh good, he uses the kid instead".

This guy's a hidden gem 😂

How has he not gone insane yet with the amount of power his hands can exact?

Dave: Deliverer of pressure washers
Stats: +2500 speed when carrying three or more pressure washers
+750 agility for three milliseconds after receiving a phone call

you could have instead mounted the washers to your legs which have tonnes more strength than your arms, whilst also having them butt up against your armpits, which leaves the directional control down to your legs (which your brain is used to) and leaves your hands free to direct unwitting friends, and to operate the washers (if you ever tried again that is)