A Day in Life of Africa’s Wooden Scooter Crew

[@siberianTiger639]

Respect to these guys. They want to have something, they have nothing, they aren't complaining and crying, or stealing from someone... They are making those things out of wood, with their own hands! Respect!

[@zognoger7451]

They aren't stealing because if you steal a potato a mob will burn alive in the street ding dong. Stop with the virtue bull shit.

[@Woods_Hiker]

this man is like the General Motors of Africa. Kudos to him for his craftsmanship

[@willazeppeli]

thousands of years craftsmanship evolution to this marvel

[@RGCAD]

You should consider traveling (Africa is too big )

[@obxarms7685]

Craftsmanship??? Where??

[@sinister_sushi]

@@obxarms7685 It is craftsmanship, but these people sure blow it out of proportion. Comparing some pea-brained people from a third-world country making Flintstones scooters to last century engineering breakthroughs...these people are literally more than a century behind the rest of the world.

[@obxarms7685]

@@sinister_sushi LOL

[@cchris667]

Lashing two motorcycles together with logs and rope is CRAZY! Lashing four together and transporting an enormous log is madness! I’m very impressed!

[@gseric4721]

Double the horsepower with just a tad bit of additional weight. Very impressive ingenuity, haha.

[@slipsonic809]

I do HVAC for work, at work my nickname is Macguyver because I always find a way to make things work with what I have, and the way they used those motorcycles blew MY mind.

[@sempol_rizki]

Ini dari INDONESIA

[@ReyAguilar-r5j]

@@slipsonic809 LOL...

[@steve-y1h]

@@sempol_rizki orang Indonesia gila tau, bagus bangeeeet

[@sharonrigs7999]

These are some hard working people! Creating a heavy duty scooter with nothing but a sharp machete and a few simple hand tools is very impressive. That machete has obviously become an extension of his arm over the years.

[@Scott-y6k4s]

I only see 1 person working, the rest of doing the usual, nothing

[@binderdundit228]

Pretty wild. I have lived in places similar to this. You have to be the type of person that can get by with anything. Your level of creativity will rise above the clouds, and it is easy to be happy with what you may have. Living in North America and having to become a slave to your job drains the joy out of life and having too many things is empty.

[@Scott-y6k4s]

So , why don't you go back and live like that again

[@Superguru123]

Engineering is not born in colleges or found in certificates. Engineers are a special kind of human beings on Earth, capable of creating anything through their own ideas. Great work!

[@MeyoolangPamthied]

💯💪💪

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[@León_1977]

No romantices la pobreza...carnal!!!

[@2fiafisdoafw34]

Yep. Engineering always existed, the first prehistoric hominid that did an upgrade to a mere rock to convert it in a more efficient tool was in practice already an engineer.

[@NISHAmusichouse]

great innovation in difficult situation ----best wishes

[@SweetTooth8989]

You gotta give them props where it's due for working with what they got and making something so functional.

[@joseplaza9442]

It’s the colonizers influence

[@ThisIsToolman]

Where there’s a will there’s a way. Kudos to these guys for having the will.

[@kaembechisenga]

i have led down my tools and want to explore the world on 2 wheels and show people the other sides that no one shows them. I am really inspired by what you do and cant wait to reach your level. I have started touring Zambia on a motorbike and i have first started with Chililabombwe town and i will move to chingola and other towns. i will show you the culture and people and way of life in these areas. tag along guys.

[@MrSouthwillrise]

Where there's the will there's a way. Much respect to these folks.

[@miloudgara3398]

يا أخي مع كامل إحترامي لكلامك الجميل لاكن إلى متى بقى هدا الشعب ومعه شعوب إفريقيا مهمشة وفقيرة بسبب النخبة الحاكمة،بلادهم غنية بموارد معدنية وطبيعية ولا يستفيد منها إلا المستعمر والرئيس غير الشرعي وزمرته من المفسدين.

[@daddyrabbit835]

seriously? This is some Flintstone's engineering.

[@commissarkitty3553]

​​@@daddyrabbit835let's see you do better with less than 1$ a day, and bad access to education, and information. I doubt you'd be able to change a tire let alone engineer a wooden scooter with a machete and nails.

[@siberianTiger639]

YES.

[@siberianTiger639]

​@@daddyrabbit835and what do you suggest? They should buy some real metal parts?😅

[@PushOutsourcing]

The Flinstones inspiration haha. So cool 👏👏

[@jobro1511]

wont be long before we have them scooters here in UK

[@peterturner6497]

Except you haven't got enough skilled people to make them.

[@barrydaly7174]

What do you mean?? You watched a video of amazing ingenuity. And your brain winkled out the tiniest bit you could relate to your bigotry. I suppose that's a form of ingenuity in it's self, unlike the one in the video though a useless form.

[@moldywaffle69]

daaaaaaamnnnnnn lol

[@chrisdraughn5941]

Or the wood…. I can imagine what happens if you cut down a tree in the UK…

[@Radiofacecraig]

These skills can be found in Southall, London

[@GunnyPerrero]

I have seen these in action. Transporting goods through major cities. Where traffic and trucks will take hours to drive 10km. Cement, diese, charcoal and anything you can imagine. I was amazed by the energy and efficiency.

[@Toxa-t8k]

Коли дивишся на те як цим людям доводиться працювати кожен день що прогодувати себе та свої сім'ї, починаєш розуміти що ми живимо ще в досить гарних умовах.

[@ivanpulse]

Полностью с тобой согласен

[@CP-ex9ce]

Great engineering, they will never have to experience a flat tire 😉👍

[@sinister_sushi]

But they will experience a slipped disk in the spine lol

[@CP-ex9ce]

@@sinister_sushi 😂 yeah you’re right , not much suspension on that machine but I could see a spring in a middle to probably damp some of the vibrations, good thing they won’t have to deal with an engine failure 😂👍

[@sinister_sushi]

@ look how far back they are standing on the frame and the tiny rear wheel looks to be without any suspension at all. What really gets me is all the people who come on here and cheer them on like spectators tossing peanuts to an animal in a circus after watching it do tricks.

[@Love_1980s]

@@sinister_sushi "Like spectators tossing peanuts at animals in a circus after watching it perform tricks" sounds racist.. 🤣😭

[@sinister_sushi]

@@Love_1980s I'm not sure racist is exactly the right term...basically, Africans and black Americans are quite different from each other--and Africans aren't really a race. If you go to southeast Asia, you'll see the same small-minded stuff as well. I guess I just don't like the people in 3rd world countries...must be the colonizer genes in me.

[@presentjoy645]

രണ്ടുപേർക്കിടയിൽ പരസ്പരം കേൾക്കാനും സംസാരിക്കാനുമുള്ള സമയവും ക്ഷമയും ഉണ്ടാകുമ്പോഴാണ് ജീവിതത്തിലെ ഏതൊരു ബന്ധവും മനോഹരമുള്ളതാകുന്നത്, പരസ്പരം ബഹുമാനിക്കുകയും അംഗീകരിക്കുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നിടത്ത് ബന്ധങ്ങളും, സ്നേഹവും ദീർഘകാലം നിലനിർത്താൻ കഴിയും.....❤️ സ്നേഹപൂർവ്വം നേരുന്നു

[@binderdundit228]

Very true.

[@AshleyPoulose]

No athike veruthe peayukaya

[@AshleyPoulose]

Oru bendhamo snehamo samsaramo alla

[@DarrenMalin]

necessity is the mother of invention. They had a need and did good with what they had a hand to use.

[@ZarathustraMG42-qo7oj]

Great to see London thriving.

[@martyn5799]

Pmsl best comment in like ever an ever bar none lmfao 💯💯💯😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@joseplaza9442]

London is not England and there is no UK

[@PanteraFirearms]

@@joseplaza9442 ☠

[@oldflorida2003]

Virginia

[@georgenabulele]

El espíritu humano es indomable. El hombre encontrará la manera de sobrevivir y cuidar de sus seres queridos. Estas herramientas de la edad de piedra funcionan. Mi respeto y admiración

[@jamesbtex]

Where there is a will, there is a way. I sure was a lot of work making it, but its going to allow him to move a lot of firewood much easier. Very cool video.

[@LudwigSC93]

The irony of hammering a nail into the tread to make the tire work.

[@Benbrabu]

Nice police motorcycle course and tank action at the end too!

[@Justone372]

Can you imagine what this guy would do with proper tools! Amazing.

[@popthatbeep]

He just need a wood mill

[@qwerty4561]

nothing he does requires high skill. nothing he does is precise nor effective, he has one "advanced" part which is the ball bearing and even that he doesnt mount properly. he is where he belongs with his "skills"

[@MarkusAnthony88]

He would make proper tools if he was capable. He is not.

[@joeangel4864]

@@qwerty4561he’s using some western tools and parts

[@Kali-nl3ll]

he would sell them! as he does not require them...

[@AKBARARBABI-OFICAL]

ماشاالله ب این استاد بزرگ واقعا ک کارش زیبا هست و دیدنی با چوب های محکم موتور باهاش بار بزرگ می‌کشن واقعا شاهکار. می‌کنه این استاد بنازم به دست و پنجه اش حیرت آور هست کارش ❤

[@BeCreative1]

this is so amazing and creative, im going to make this scooter from metal 🤩

[@streetwheelz1]

Wow, that's really ingenious! Love it!

[@helioavelino432]

Um abraço aos irmãos da África ,nós do Brasil torcemos por vocês. Deus abençoe.

[@burtbrooks7731]

Gotta love the willing to do whatever it takes with whatever you got💪 to work with. I admire that.

[@EXTREME.702]

Vid went from building wooden bikes in Africa... Then to a police motorcycle driving course. Then to a tank parade! Welcome to the Variety Show! 😂

[@exOtikFPS]

kind of a chronologic sense of evolution through the video lmao

[@oldflorida2003]

I'd love to have one !! Excellent craftsmanship !

[@woreoutdrummer1861]

Those men and women in the cone field have some skills. I, on the other hand, made an instant coffee this morning.

[@CreativeBoy-y6u]

These people will survive more than the first developed world 🎉🎉 Greetings from Yemen🇾🇪 👏👏

[@Lemmiwinks_The_Gerbil_King]

average years of life tell a different story

[@ryanward8039]

We have the Amish. Beat that!

[@Lemmiwinks_The_Gerbil_King]

@@ryanward8039 the amish invented using horses and a carriage hundreds of years ago

[@grassbrain13]

hahaha😂 , stop using phone and only use flying donkey as your religion preach 😂😂

[@eddiebirch2067]

We will all survive , we are humans

[@zouloubango1365]

Impressive, so much work ! Everything done with a hammer and a machete. Nice content of lowtech system, thank !

[@MotoAtheist]

Completely ignoring the chisel, the nails, the metal bearings and rubber tread, metal springs.

[@theallofist5461]

whenever I feel down I look at these guys and say to myself that ''You've done alright mate''

[@bowshot9606]

Did that guy really make that tank with just a knife and a piece of wood. Amazing!

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[@NgabitsinzeJoshua-official]

I used to ride them when I was still young in Rwanda 🇷🇼 village ❤❤

[@johnaustin635]

Sky dish ,mobile phone, and wooden scooter man’s progress !

[@eJunkee]

He dude who finally figures out how to make a perfect round wooden wheel in that country is going to be a rich!

[@joiiaxom885]

Respect for hardworking. 🙏✔️

[@sky173]

Almost like looking back 10,000 years in time.

[@michaeltellurian825]

🤣

[@ProvMaro-hq6vd]

exaggerating

[@tmshowier]

The question? Why?!

[@Lagdheera]

50000000000000000 year usa

[@johne3999]

The design of those scooters has improved since 10000 years ago..As you can see, they added a strip of rubber to the wheels.

[@achilles9822]

Awesome ideas how you work together build a great country 👍

[@andymahi7502]

Respect. Pure hard work !!!

[@GalileyUA]

Интереснно наблюдать как происходит прогрес и развитие человека... Кажется я это уже где-то видел, в детстве смотрел мультфильм Флинстоны, там первобытные люди ездили на похожих устройствах, но в мультфильме был привод на двигателе...

[@РубинИшмаметов-ъ6л]

ногами они бултыхали,мне больше понравился их мусоросборник на кухне в шкафу😂

[@SoloCrimeWave]

@ 0:37 Man had a Chevy 1 ton dually load on that joint 😮

[@Maryc2G]

Well done sir. You’re cleat-ivy❤

[@Tamilan-t2x]

Wow ......its amazing ...... ❤ readymade wooden bike 🚲 very excellent workers ....🎉 Congratulations to all ❤

[@xmankx]

C'mon man..stop spouting 🏀 💩..look at them!you think that incredible..??

[@djdapper3721]

Nothing can ever beat the basics and that’s fact

[@Jarl_Thidrandi]

Wow, he's really good with that machete. I wonder where he learned those skills.

[@BonafideToolJunkie]

1:08 toddlers playing with fire 🔥 in the background 🤗

[@FillmoSlimm]

A right cross from this man would knock a whole family out 😂💪🏾. Salute to you, brother.

[@Goodfood717]

Advocating domestic abuse! 🌍

[@josecastrolopez]

A round of applause for them, that's what engineering and art are all about 👏🏻 wooden scooter

[@Himelsq]

❤❤

[@budiyantoblora5540]

Nice to see an atmosphere like that..

[@matthewalexander2436]

Lovely, back to the Flintstones 😁

[@freemason4979]

Even stone age people had a lathe

[@matthewalexander2436]

@freemason4979 😂

[@bryancondrey6457]

A jump forward??...must be emergent alien DNA but 50,000 year dormant. Next thing we know they will claim world wide rights to the circle and claim the authority to tax...

[@michaelbowen463]

Pretty sure the Flintstones would find these things to be primitive.

[@matthewalexander2436]

@michaelbowen463 😂 my bad😂

[@mrborneotv211]

Super my friend wel come to Indonesia ❤❤❤❤❤

[@zakaroonetwork777]

I miss the Reigns down in Africa. Something Horse and Buggy could never do. Ooh ooh ooh.

[@Puttyankit11music]

In this Whole World From india to africa... Most talend person Is tribles..... Infact..Tribles are knowns as (moolnivasi) first Preference of indians are tribles...❤.. Love your always ...😍 Your work and Creativity..😍

[@thedoctor2102]

The first couple of times I thought those springs on the wooden scooters were just for bling. A closer look main frame of those wooden scooters is actually sprung weight, to a vague degree a floating “axle”

[@Joshbelikegosh]

I think you should do a spectacular wooden cart crashes video...

[@sparty94]

the bearings spin right along with the wheel.😂

[@RIPPERTON]

Those bearings have been handed down through the family since 1972

[@MykeMyke-fv2io]

😂😂​@@RIPPERTON

[@samuraidf]

@@RIPPERTON auhauhauhauhuhauh

[@CosmosArchipelago]

lmaooo

[@haerulakbar7527]

the real flintstone

[@Gentle_Spirit777]

Flintwood

[@CosmosArchipelago]

🤣🤣🤣

[@TempeMax]

Great accuracy! For sure these are better than electric cars

[@mongoosevsgt]

Ironically scooters and vehicles zoom by while this dude is busy making wheels out of wood.

[@anewlookatlurestopwaterpop5466]

Some serious work respect to all those men.

[@michaeltellurian825]

2024 and they invented the wheel! Albeit a wooden wheel, a disk cut from a log, but a wheel nonetheless. Better late than never.

[@IvanBLR]

А что ты изобрел, комик?

[@Lemmiwinks_The_Gerbil_King]

remember, those are the people who invented EVERYTHING including the creation of the white race.

[@CGohlke]

In Germany some crazy people tell us, that they even invented a space rocket an flly to the moon in 1673.

[@Lemmiwinks_The_Gerbil_King]

@@CGohlke the africans invented everything they even invented the white race haha we stole everything from them xD thats why they dont make progress when they are alone

[@seltaeb9691]

We might laugh, but with our planet's resources getting depleted & our unwillingness to make changes, this guy's 'bike' may become universal for us all.

[@manishgangal1981]

An example of both, resourcefulness as well as inequality (of material and resources and goods) at the same time.

[@arfermo853]

What i like is that they dont complain like the west,they get on with life and it works

[@pchoy7854]

No time to complain

[@CosmosArchipelago]

@@pchoy7854 All they have is time. In fact they have so much that time ceases to exist. MUST BE NICE

[@commissarkitty3553]

​@@CosmosArchipelagotime to think maybe that's why they're happier less time slaving away for corporations that don't care about you.

[@ChainsawDaveUSA]

Weird transition from logging in the jungle to police motorcycle skill competition

[@zlatkosabljak5167]

They go downhill very nice.... Uphill is a different story....

[@ЕвгенийОпарин-н2й]

They leave a bike at the bottom of the mountain. they go up the mountain and make a new wooden bike there

[@iliketurtles9719]

😑​@@ЕвгенийОпарин-н2й

[@Lemmiwinks_The_Gerbil_King]

funnily u could EASILY build an electric motor for uphill driving a motor from a Drill, Screwdriver, Saw or even washing mashine is more then enough to let u drive uphill with proper gearing. u can build pretty fast bicycles with those little engines. Most people use simple motorbike or car batteries to power those engines. or lithium batterys from phones put into a huge cluster. if u collect some batteries for a while, u could build that with ease. or if u harvest old motorbilke batteries.

[@CosmosArchipelago]

@@ЕвгенийОпарин-н2й LOL what a waste of resources

[@alamgirkhan7535]

Great idea, I am appreciating. We must focus at first around our resources and bring these in using to run our homes necessaries. Because in society not equal all by money some poor as some many of them rich. Try to use in hand resources to defend poverty, and step by step advancing our lives . Thanks

[@outdoorlifemaine6691]

I love how people say countries with shortages and they don't actually put the thought in its the world with shortages but some people take more than their share😊

[@FanNy-ku6wt]

Extremely well adapted low tech scooters. They transport as much as a small truck with zero fuel or electricity. It's 100% recycled materials and it probably costs less than 50€. You can't be more efficient, sustainable, green, etc, with modern technology.

[@t.michaelbodine4341]

That's tight. He puts bearings, suspension, brakes, and rubber tread on it.

[@sankararaoyelisetti8416]

Wonderful life skills congratulations 😅😅

[@viavictoreletrica3527]

INTERESSANTE ESSE VÍDEO. TAMO JUNTO ÁFRICA. Abraços a todos.

[@kenofken9458]

They need to form their own MC. The rocker panel of the patch would have Fred Flintstone on it!

[@stevengrant1319]

The ride on those homemade bike thingies must be a complete nightmare because they don’t seem to do the ‘balancing’ or ‘tracking’ on the tyres/wheels. 🤣🤣🤣

[@petekamper9497]

U watch the whole thing?

[@jkelley8173]

This is some serious Fred Flintstone ish👋🏿👋🏿👋🏿👋🏿

[@Jackson-T23]

Son. When I was your age I used to ride my wooden scooter to school and back every day. Down hill. Both ways.

[@WernerRachtman]

😂

[@dacat8171]

😂👍🏾

[@TouristTVpakistan]

african people are very hard workers and very kind love you from pakistan 🇵🇰 ❤️ stay blessed ameen ❤️ 💖

[@Asianframe]

Thank you for 150 youtube Subscribers 🎉🎉🎉

[@tijan8948]

They just reinvented the wheel ❤

[@FULRAIBOUch]

知恵の結晶っていう感じですね！素晴らしい。

[@evydaemon]

Doesn‘t wobble a bit! You‘re fine! 😂

[@trythis2821]

Go down a steep hill and will be in a world of pain, that's if it doesn't send you flying.

[@48billy0]

And I bet the leaders of that country live in huge mansions and drive Rolls Royces and Bentleys.

[@JacquesMartini]

Made of wood!!! 😂

[@hendrikdebruin4012]

Where I live 2 Royces, a Maybach and tons of other luxury sedans. Huge Merc for each wife - costs 6 million USD just for their daily expenses per month.

[@robertrizzi4915]

Yup.

[@Spencerjones_musicSM]

Less happy than these people .

[@Lemmiwinks_The_Gerbil_King]

And thats the problem with africans they blame the white people for their misery but its their own leaders who fill their own pockets and sell out the country it was always like that

[@Parayogi]

kind of crazy to think of parts of the world where gasoline scooters drive casually on the road, while a worker casually carves his own wheels right by the roadside

[@GroovyMike65]

They discovered the wheel.

[@CosmosArchipelago]

3 weeks ago.

[@frebro2939]

Finally 🙈

[@GroovyMike65]

@@frebro2939 BOUT TIME

[@Industrialmodels2]

The Flintstones would be proud!

[@indian097]

6:24 It is useful only for the down side road 😮😮😮😮

[@Educareassamplus-pn1mx]

Yes

[@nickclark4469]

Sick at least they have some type of car now

[@thegailen]

Interesting video BUT... Africa is a huge place. What country is this?

[@audioaiindo]

I think the video about scooters comes from Burundi, the poorest country in the world, I've seen their documentary videos, while the video of someone cutting down a tree, it comes from Indonesia

[@NicholasPittman-n4k]

Are those tires all seasonal, resourceful all the same hats off to you sir

[@waynebarnett7467]

“ this isn’t your father’s oakmobile “

[@stevewhite791]

hahah...nice one.

[@jorgeolopez2883]

😂😂😂

[@chanliyhey4499]

Itu Ada rem nya tidak..

[@HammyXs]

That road is smoother than Bangkok road.

[@rodneysammons5544]

It's not the poverty that no one is wearing a time piece. No Corporate 24 enforced there, work 8, play 8, sleep 8.

[@billienomates1606]

The Flintstones are alive!!!!!!!!!!

[@MikeGamba-gc7hi]

Not one smile or cracked joke these are some hardend folks

[@AamiAppu]

Engineering is not born in colleges or found in certificates. Engineers are a special kind of human beings on Earth, capable of creating anything through their own ideas. Great work!

[@FordManiac76]

But these were engineered decades ago and they are still building them today!

[@michaelbowman4607]

College "degrees" have stifled the human ABILITY to think and, more importantly, DO.

[@JanSzedlak]

Dude, thats like engineering 4000 years ago. Those people are dumb af.

[@beetlejuice4693]

Lol they finally invented the wheel in Africa what's next written language

[@MikeGowan-xo9yv]

I agree. You either have the kind for it or you don’t. It isn’t taught just furthered through education. Those that have the mind can build it on their own without school, I just mean school puts all those minds together to spitfire ideas and drawings and models. I wish I had the brain like that, I’m more keyed to English in my old school days, long ago…lol

[@mrpankajbabu1153]

Wow amazing scooter 🛴 I'm from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@baby-sharkgto4902]

Wow those guys and gals can ride!