Pouring Molten Aluminum from 50 feet! What will happen?

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[@taofledermaus]

The company I used to work for gave me the same safety training you got, for the huge boom lifts we had to use. None.

[@bio3m]

🎶 youuuuu rent ittttt, youuuu die inn itttt” 🎼 Bring back the jingle!!!

[@manicoptio9305]

That explains a lot... :)

[@blueninja115]

(figured I should probably put that harness on so I didn't have to constantly step over it) "There's the power switch now take it over there and fix that" AYE AYE CAPTAIN!

[@cliffordsmith8499]

That's the amount of training everyone gets. I think it's supposed to make it more fun to learn not to die on the fly.

[@justaregulargymrata]

Its a bird Its a plane No Its silver surfers cum

[@PlasmaChannel]

"I'm proud to live in a free country where only multinational corporations can decide what you can and cant see, based on arbritray licensing deals" - Kevin 2021

[@celestestefanova]

glad to see kevin is on his way to being a leftist revolutionary :•)

[@alech9418]

@@celestestefanova I had the opposite thought. I guessed he was talking about social media bias.

[@celestestefanova]

@@alech9418 it's pretty overtly anti-capitalist. deplatforming people who incite attempted coups isn't the issue.

[@alech9418]

@@celestestefanova It it decrying oligarchical rule from the tech sector. Being able to forcibly shut down your competition isnt exactly free market friendly. I didn't even mention Trump, but since you mention it "Go home. Be Peaceful" doesn't seem like incitement to me. Maybe I am just crazy.

[@celestestefanova]

@@alech9418 is that seriously the only tweet that comes to mind? not consistently discussing how big and wild the jan. 6th protest was?

[@Ididathing]

I can feel the American army taking notes

[@pajpuch260]

Probably true !

[@thermalemu3828]

American government: noted

[@dylanward6406]

So true

[@thesci-fibro5835]

And I did a reply

[@toaffungus8373]

I’m scared now

[@kirkjohnson9353]

He is worried about 'safety but never blinks at one handed handling of a pot of boiling aluminum while wearing shorts - the part that is actually dangerous.

[@VenturiLife]

First thing I noticed. Molten plastic or metal are no joke.

[@Spideryote]

@@VenturiLife Brian Brushwood talks about this when teaching fire eating for magic performances You cannot wear any kind of synthetic fabrics, because they'll melt to your skin like napalm if anything goes wrong. Full cotton/wool, no compromises

[@michelelabrador7312]

I imagined the lift suddenly jerking on the way up and molten aluminum spilling all over him 😖

[@MarkTillotson]

If you wear shorts, don't wear shoes for pities sake! But really why not use PPE that's fit for purpose?

[@Spideryote]

@@MarkTillotson Cause he lives in Florida. He's gotta represent

[@ventura9513]

You should come to Australia and collab with the boys from How Ridiculous and drop the molten aluminium off their 40 meter high tower,, would be good to see

[@WenrichSam]

How Ridiculous loves this kind of content! I’m sure they would be interested.

[@JofreSteele]

My thoughts exactly.

[@CaptainQ2607]

Just coming to say this lol

[@aurora_dawn123]

At least I wasn't the only one who thought of that, I hope he sees this.

[@andysalvador9947]

I was just about to say that

[@GadgetAddict]

"I always wondered" lol I love how your mind works.

[@DragonMals]

Hi

[@stanleybochenek1862]

@@DragonMals Sup

[@DragonMals]

@@stanleybochenek1862 How are you?

[@stanleybochenek1862]

@@DragonMals Good you?

[@joshuasalem5022]

9:50 The amount of times you replayed that clip is annoying but hilarious

[@MrE_]

Hes such a troll lol

[@ganondorf66]

Reminded me of Taken

[@Graytail]

I see you quiver with antici.................

[@Graytail]

PATION

[@RadioTrefoil]

it's a parody of the infamous "truck vs bollard" gif

[@darreno9874]

Lead shot is made in the same way but dropped from 140 to 225 ft inside a tower, the lead shot is collected in a water bath to keep it spherical. So maybe if you used a smaller diameter sieve and 3 of the lifts taped on top of each other, it would work

[@achdubloedesau]

You mean… the way he explains at the end of the video?

[@BecomeTheKnight]

0:23 me after work every day 0:55 how we know you're from FL

[@carloskaskalla8017]

Nice to see you here man

[@xdragclick2074]

doge

[@pompomaddons]

*I needa get high!*

[@KaiLean]

10:08 me after i get high

[@DragonMals]

Hi

[@zackerybartlett4426]

I love your videos man. Layout and all. I may be 27 and with pretty severe depression but your attitude and style definitely helps me be happy and calm. You've helped me. And for that I truly appreciate you man. 💚🔥💨

[@winksatfriend]

0:17 Me: Hey if you want high, ask How Ridiculous

[@Sasquatch_101]

I mean... yeah. But aren’t they in Australia?

[@goodgenes0]

@@Sasquatch_101 well, mark rober went there so im sure the backyard scientist can go there too

[@syncfox6835]

“I am not one to care about safety so I am not going to” quote of the year.

[@bigstackD]

Mmmm molten metal🤤🤤🤤

[@arinfishburn3513]

great vid earlier mate ;)

[@jackgyver4683]

Duuude I love your videos. I didn’t expect to see you here

[@xXx_Azulover69]

Slurp slurp 😋

[@Lucas_sGarage]

Cmon give it a quick tast

[@adamscoolthings3316]

Lichit

[@taylang6101]

“This is really high!!!” How ridiculous: “that’s cute”

[@electronicsNmore]

You definitely needed to be much higher for the first test without the strainer. One drawback to living in Florida, it's flat. LOL

[@epicguy228]

Like my wife.

[@RO_Tim]

@@epicguy228 nothing wrong with that tho.

[@comfortablynumb9342]

Flat is part of what makes Florida awesome

[@electronicsNmore]

@@comfortablynumb9342 The warm weather, lakes, and ocean makes Florida, without those things, I wouldn't be here.

[@DragonMals]

Hi

[@mysticfist-cloakedgamer-9042]

6:58 Ants: The last war has come upon us! Stay strong! Hold!

[@crymorefkr]

"I need to get high" "I'm already too high" "i know it doesnt look like I'm that high" great soundboard clips 😂

[@Ninety9Ninjas66]

Stoner soundboard clips 😂😂😂😂

[@fof1353]

When he said i need to get high, i felt that

[@Giuseppe_De_Bellis]

Cool Video! This reminded me of the Coop’s Shot Tower I saw in Melbourne, Australia, where lead bullets were made by dropping molten lead from a tall tower (50 meters - 164 feet) into pools of water that would flash form them into their spherical shape. Keep up the great work! Cheers form Italy!

[@kahlzun]

Yeah, people seem to have forgotten that those were a thing

[@Nuovoswiss]

For the aluminum/water explosion, increasing the conductivity of the water by saturating it with salt should help that. The explosive reaction between reactive metals and water is called a Coulomb Explosion, and has more to do with electric charge than most people are aware of. Another option is to add a bit of hydrochloric acid to the water, which will help eat through the oxide layer. If you want to get really nuts, using a lot of iron chloride in the salt solution will result in a much more violent version of the thermite reaction (chlorides instead of oxides in the reactants/products).

[@dudeman6593]

0:56 😂🤣😂 Love the authenticity!

[@SonnytheSaved]

Time for the Backyard Scientist to grab Mark Rober and head down under to How Ridiculous! 50 meter tower molten aluminum drop?

[@Seelenschmiede]

Why Mark? Is there an engineering part in it? More of a Destin thing I think.

[@SonnytheSaved]

@@Seelenschmiede Mark has worked with both of them before was my thinking.

[@zuthalsoraniz6764]

I wonder if aluminium would ever pull together into a spherical or raindrop shape while falling, the same way that lead does in a shot tower. It seems to me like maybe the oxide layer that forms on the molten aluminium prevents surface tension from pulling it together into a sphere.

[@Gopic21]

2:01 now this feels like information that the people that watch this type of channel should not be allowed to know

[@christopher3790]

All I can say is you're freakin' crazy. To put it more eloquently, a true maverick. In all the best ways. Thanks for another awesome video

[@brennanbarlow3078]

"I need to get high!" -Florida Man ( 0:23 )

[@thew2646]

😳😳😳

[@kevindegraaff9875]

This is like all my phobias in a 10 minute video

[@joshuagibson2520]

"I need to get high!" I got you fam. Just tell me how high.

[@DyslexicMitochondria]

Haha funny you say that. I am also working on videos throwing things from a height. Don't know how high though

[@TheBackyardScientist]

@@DyslexicMitochondria at least 450ft... know a guy?

[@joshuagibson2520]

@@TheBackyardScientist 😂😂😂

[@ChipsDaCat]

@@TheBackyardScientist danggggg

[@extremetornado4080]

@@TheBackyardScientist yea i know a guy his name is TheBackyardScientist

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

6:22 the reason why water droplets are the shape they are is surface tension from hydrogen bonding and the fact that the water isn't changing state. The aluminium however has a cooling outer layer while also decent metallic bonding. Much like a volcano throwing out lava into the air. Looks just the same

[@matt_kildea]

Come to Australia and drop some molten aluminium from the How Ridiculous tower in Perth, Im sure the How Ridiculous boys will look after you

[@RedPhoenix550]

but then the aluminum will fall upside down XD

[@matt_kildea]

Haha how do you know that you're on top? Maybe magnetic north is just gravity pointing down 🤔

[@redsquirrelftw]

I was thinking that too, I was literally watching some of their videos a while ago lol

[@alandouglas2789]

Those grubs need to learn to clean up after themselves

[@chieffirefigherplays]

It's in GinGin at the Space discovery Center.

[@therealog9430]

Research shot drops. It's how they used to make lead shot back in the day. Tall silo looking buildings that were tall enough for the lead shot to solidify by the time they hit the ground.

[@krystofdayne]

A "safety noose" 😂😂 dude I'm rolling

[@insane4deadpool468]

Ah gotta love a good ol Backyard Science video 😎 glad to see you're still alive and not in a federal pen 😁

[@ryanfarrell8763]

If you could somehow get in touch with the guys over at 'How Ridiculous' I bet they would let you use their 45m (147ft) tower.

[@flipper99808]

I'm wondering if it would make a difference if you pour the molten aluminium directly into a pipe/tube with Argon gas, so the aluminium can't make the oxide layer before hitting the water. And the aluminium would have a little more resistance on the way down, so you might be able to get a different shape, perhaps somting more resembling a droplet?

[@YounesLayachi]

1:58 this is dangerous information and should be classified lmao

[@TabooGroundhog]

Companies fault for being lazy

[@theknowunknown1098]

10:05 Minecraft glassbreakingsound

[@Rainok]

One of these days, he’s gonna burn his face off with all this molten aluminum stuff and his gravestone is gonna read “died by reenacting the end of Terminator”

[@Tropategan]

This has been one of my favourite backyard scientist videos. I like to think of you safety third team as the real life KZbin equivalent of MCU Avengers. I wonder which one Kevin would be?

[@cpu_1292]

Wait till youtube reccomends this 5yrs later.

[@LegendareLee]

"I'm not one to normally care about safety...so I'm not going to"....bro had me busting out laughing in the middle of my office. LOL

[@DesignedbyWill2084]

01:45 The LPL would have picked the lock in the time it took you to say "I think I forgot the key"

[@kdarkwynde]

Backyard Scientist: I think I forgot-- LPL: This is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and what I have for you today is, a cherry picker with a missing key. Small click on one...nothing on two...and, we've got an open. BYS: Wait, what?

[@pedrovarunca2197]

1:17 I'm gonna take a gander and say it goes 50 ft up

[@techguy6241]

4:43 My Teachers Mic on Zoom meeting's.

[@minimalgrammar1276]

Aww, he's acrophobic. I feel ya there.

[@treepotato9273]

If you need to drop things off high stuff I recommend contacting the HowRidiculous lads, they're essentially experts at this point and they have access to a bigass tower.

[@edsanville]

I want this crossover.

[@TheBntimmins]

At my job, we use genie's and scissor lifts to clean pipes. Pipes that are 30 feet above the floor and over machines that cost millions to put together. Don't forget the random dips and hills on the floor.

[@unouin7252]

0:23 wait a minute

[@dismal8294]

Ok 1:23

[@t395delta]

Could you suspend drops in a vertical wind tunnel? just need the wind speed at terminal velocity

[@Zack-nd8ef]

" i need to get high" followed by "so some how i swindled..."

[@milanmottl8983]

There is an old production hall with 220ft big "chimney". I work for the company that owns the unused land and if you wanna... you know... visit it and make some experiments just PM me. You can be there for days. The only problem is it is like 8000km from Florida...

[@amanda-dv9nf]

Backyard Scientist, thank you so much for your content, I have a daughter and she really likes science and stuff, so I'm watching a lot of your videos and me and her are learning so much, thank you dude! Keep up the great content, hope my daughter will become a great scientist! ;)

[@MochaFur1]

amogus

[@amanda-dv9nf]

@TheBackyardScientist Thanks for the heart! My daughter is jumping out of happiness hahaha

[@aaronjoseph1777]

Former career aluminum smelter worker. Water and aluminum can and will explode violently in the right conditions. Casting pit failure, furnace charging accidents can cause fatalities and severe structural damage. Even little explosions can severely burn or injure you.

[@WarlandWriter]

You say you need guys with a really tall building you can drop stuff off... Collab with the guys from How Ridiculous when?

[@justinreeves3699]

Genius idea.

[@cameronknowles6267]

Different countries though

[@randyfox4611]

Love the falling camera following the drops down. Very clever. Great job.

[@marquisoflabyrinths]

5:10 is almost like something out of a HowToBasic video

[@yeetgrenade7492]

Backyard scientist out of context: “I need to get high”

[@Austin1097]

The chaotic energy that the Backyard Scientist brings to his videos is just...supreme entertainment. Really top tier.

[@MF-dz7cp]

I don't know why, but this kind of made me think of what it would be like if this KZbin channel and "How Ridiculous" made a collaboration 🤣

[@cry2love]

10:15 shattersfying

[@CrystalFungus]

Bruh I started dying when he said safety noose 🤣

[@smellycat249]

This was a great episode. And that shot following the molten aluminum to the ground was epic. Hope this style video keeps coming

[@pixelsafoison]

"Would you like to insure your rental?" "Yes." "Perfect, so against what kind of damage would you want to have the lift insured?" "Yes."

[@SD-oi9gr]

It’s cute that you thought it was going into the tank so soon lmao.

[@JuanArroyoRios]

Did you notice how the molten aluminum reduces speed in contact with water? Could you try solid aluminum and compare the behavior? Same mass, same shape. You pour molten first and whatever shape it formed, you use that one to try the solid. I perceived that the slowing down is radical, compared to how solid metal would behave entering water.

[@sjei.]

This seems like something The Modern Rouge would love to help with, especially with the tower they do tests off of

[@zeromotivation1817]

2:30 am binge-watching backyard scientist vids instead of doing assignments. To the best of my knowledge forcing liquid Al through a similar set up of smalls to make tiny microdroplets ( then cooling by falling into a fine mist of water) is a production method for AlO

[@Charles12]

when its 4/20: 0:23

[@kyartick8502]

9:04 YESSS 😂😂😂.That shot i love it

[@playbuttonwith1video-readm668]

2:22 “I hate this. I’m not even afraid of heights” Not afraid of heights? 🤣

[@fearmeforiamscary]

I’m not afraid if heights, I’m just afraid of falling

[@dillonvandergriff4124]

@@fearmeforiamscary Yes! Not even really falling, just the sudden stop at the end.

[@Scoupe400]

Great and interesting as always. Shame a lot of those brick chimneys are demolished. Maybe a disused thermal one.

[@ThatDutchGuy82]

Jfc!! 4:04 scared the living sh1t out of me! 😂

[@Berm_Blaster]

When the rental company asked if he knew how to operate the man lift he said "yes! I've been watching KZbin videos on it!" Hahaha

[@dari9245]

The amount of cuts from the block of aluminum missing is just a wow

[@russellzauner]

55 gal drum of water (more columnar) and 20kg blob of fully molten metal. Get behind a blast shield and just *set* it into the water. It'll explode. In fact, it doesn't really matter what you use as long as it has good thermal mass and high coefficient of thermal conductivity, you made a steam cannon.

[@jaywest4102]

Did he really make them move the pool and tanks instead of adjusting his position?

[@TheBackyardScientist]

We couldn't move further forward without pouring from a lower height.

[@spugintrntl]

They'd have to hook it back up to the truck to adjust the position of the manlift. Dragging a kiddie pool with a fish tank in it is pretty easy by comparison.

[@malkmuslistener5459]

"oh my gosh the grass is on fire" good times, yo

[@zenithstar20]

The How Ridiculous people have a forty five meter tower...you should try to do a collaboration with them!!!

[@sliccmang8176]

Two problem with that covid and Australia

[@baldieman64]

This is reinventing the work of William Watts of Bristol, England. He built the first shot tower and patented the process in 1782. You're going to have to go way, way higher to get the metal to solidify before hitting the ground.

[@thewallwall]

"I need to get high" -Florida man, 2021

[@SacredCowStockyards]

Yay, Florida Man the Science Guy is back!

[@freman]

*cough* shot tower *cough* edit: yay you got there in the end :)

[@Starkl3t]

That is the cutest little boom lift I've ever seen

[@adamburtonwood5432]

Hey that's pretty coooool

[@jamesxboxgaming]

Ikr

[@Sohamsta]

woah

[@TrickzLGB]

How did u comment 9 minutes ago when the video came out 1 minute ago??

[@adamburtonwood5432]

@@TrickzLGB join the backyard sciantist discord and you can get previews of the latest videos before they're released

[@TrickzLGB]

@@adamburtonwood5432 oh ok lmao

[@NomadSoul76]

I really liked the freefall cam. Such an unusual perspective.

[@tidalepc8736]

"I need to get HIGH" XD

[@Belnick6666]

15 meter is not that high, it is the highest jump from our bathing house, they got spring on 3m, then stone/cement/concrete on 5m, 10m and 15 m

[@thegoobie1]

Clifton Hill shot tower in Melbourne Australia at 10:23. 80m high (263ft)

[@jeffarto8340]

use bismuth instead, it's melting point is very low for a metal. You can melt it on the stove in a pan.

[@HeroDevon420]

Lol, "I need to get high"

[@borontv6400]

The ladenfrost effect keeps them from reaching a point that pure aluminum is exposed to the water. The oxid layer has time to form due to the barrier of vaporizes water and the oxid layer is solid when the layer of gas escapes.

[@JCetto.2612]

i'm not the one that normally care about safety... so I'm not going to... Thank you Kevin for this new video and a new motto for my life! Keep up with the great experiments!

[@CanineDefenseTechnologies]

How about instead of a tall tower, you use a heavy lift drone

[@sephyryn]

this is a simulation of me and my toilet after taco tuesday at the gas station

[@DrEckig]

2:00 Not only does most heavy machinery use the same standardized key but also copcars, weapon locks, gate locks, key boxes and also telephone access control boxes. Deviant Ollam has a great talk called "Tactics of Physical Pen Testers" about the whole ordeal. It's crazy to think that you can get a key for the next best copcar at your local hardware store...

[@smaks887]

sick

[@Masterslackers]

I live around 5 miles from you, and it's always fun trying to find where you film certain things since I'm familiar with the area! This field has me stumped so far, though! Haha

[@epicfedora]

“I need to get high” - Florida man 2021

[@alhill975]

Left a disposable lighter, not cheap (cricket) in the pocket of my trousers before, when I was doing my washing, it has been washed and dried high heat and is now more than 2x the size all ballooned up but still works, then I thought what if it had exploded, then I thought the backyard scientist would be able to find the probable outcome, love the vids bud

[@diywithhaz1559]

* the backyard scientist * today we are pouring molten aluminium off of the top of the burj khalifa

[@Ragard123]

I suggest that you wait until the pandemic is over and then travel to Australia for a collaboration with the How Ridiculous guys. Dropping molten aluminum from their 45 meter tower might be fun.