As the title....
Me, Sky1, 8pm, tonight 29th August!

[Edited on 29/8/11 by owelly]

Seen as your fishing what are on the goggle box for

Good luck! I think our ep is another 3 ish weeks time...

James

Which team are you in?

The bulldozers looked great in the advert!

There should be much bodgery.

Plus'd

Any way those of us without access to the delights of Sky 1 can get to see it?

Maybe a later viewing on youtube or something similar....

Shite! Missed it.. is it repeated???

Geoff

try www.surfthechannel.com or megavideo in a day or two.

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try www.surfthechannel.com or megavideo in a day or two.

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If you do torrents, it'll be available on www.thebox.bz soon. The first 2 episodes are on there already.

I managed to 'borrow' the in-laws Sky ID so I watched the first two episodes whilst everyone else watched me and my chums.......
Hoping Sky will put it up for webby-viewing soon!
Incidentally, was I good? was I?

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Originally posted by owelly
I managed to 'borrow' the in-laws Sky ID so I watched the first two episodes whilst everyone else watched me and my chums.......
Hoping Sky will put it up for webby-viewing soon!
Incidentally, was I good? was I?

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Great machine for 20hours work

20 hours? That was telly-talk. We had 5 hours on the first day and 7 hours on the second day. The 3rd day was "health and dafety day" when the engineers check stuff over to make sure the machines don't kill by-standers but as the engineers were there all the time, they had been keeping an eye on stuff already so day three was "no tools tinkering day". No paramedics on standby so it was "paint and make pretty day". We chose to buy some paint, not paint anything so take the paint back to B&Q........
In total we had 12 hours build time and 'new' rules dictated that if we needed the help of the engineers, the team would incurr a time penalty. This was because there had been a few cases where the engineers had been called in to finish machines that wouldn't have worked otherwise, which then won the show.
The Scimover is now on Ebay....

Just saw the ep owelly! Awesome job, our challenge (and build!) actually was very similar - you'll see what I mean when our ep comes up!

James

Was it just me because I thought the show was not that good. The engineering you did was good and well impressed with the finished beast but all that just to break a couple of pallets and push a couple of barrels. Well done on winning

Nice one Welly! and the team, did good.

Rich

Cheers folks. I still havn't seen us yet but I'm sure I'll get to see it soon!
The original design brief changes several times before the filming started and then changed a bit more during filming! We were originally told we had to bulldoze stuff...... Then we were told we had to lift stuff out of the way and push heavy items to clear a path. Then we were told we had to use 'some sort of mechanical thing to lift stuff into designated areas and push stuff..' Which is why we opted for the rear mounted arm and a dozer blade on the front. We were told the ground was rough terrain, which is why the machine was high up and the dozer blade could be lifted and also why the rear arm could be used to help push the vehicle whist pushing the stuff to be pushed.....
During filming that all changed.....
As he other team intended to use a Landy with a cow catcher, they were 'advised' to build some sort of mechanical arm to do the demolition. The course was then built to suit the vehicles. At the end of the day, it was all for telly and needed to give both teams a fair chance. We would have been happy to lift stuff, smash stuff, push stuff, drive over stuff etc etc but we did what the production team asked us to do. We had planned for a hydraulic pincer to go on the end of the arm but the engineers 'hinted' that it 'may' not be needed, so we made the choppy thing instead. The production team also realised that using the in-house engineers gave folks an advantage so decided for our episode, that there would be a time penalty if we had to use the engineers. Both our teams used the engineers for getting stuff we needed. I sent one off to get a V-pulley belt for our hydraulic pump (and three teas and one coffee) but as long as they didn't 'add' to the design or build, then there was no penalty.
We all had a good time and I'd recommend it to everyone!
Cheers for the kind words on here, Facebook and U2Us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXLSxe1GBtw&feature=player_profilepage

Thats interesting to hear they changed the rules so if you got help you got a time penalty.

We were the guinea pigs and did the first build for the show (tractor boys) It was a big learning curve for the production team. They wanted an amphibious vehicle made from scratch without
a) starting with a boat or
b) starting with a boat.

And 2 Days (well 1.5) days to build it….

I think they scrapped that after our show, we were done by the end of day 2 but the other team “CADS” had 4 experts helping for half of the second day and all of the 3rd (safety day) otherwise there wouldn’t not be a race. Even then the venue changed from the beach to a lake! And the other team had no brakes so the “land” section was shortened to help them basically.

It now seems you can start with a running car or machine much like scrapheap.

Stuart