Can We Break An Obsidian Block With A Giant Hammer?

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[anthonypistocchi]

Please do a block of quartz at night!! It’s piezoelectric, so it arcs/sparks from electricity when crushed! Should look amazing!!

[jordanhassy]

Time stamp guide:
Ice block - 0:36
Silly string - 1:37
Wood stump - 2:47
Lego cube - 3:56
Basketball throw - 5:29
Car tire - 6:17
Wine barrel - 7:05
Acrylic cube - 8:14
Shaving cream - 9:51
Drone - 10:56
Axe - 11:36
Golf clubs - 12:10
Titanium cube - 13:12
44 gallon barrel w red water - 13:57
PVC, wood, metal pipe, baseball bat - 15:36
Obsidian cube - 17:15
Truck springs - 18:57

[SingularityCore]

When smashing aerosol cans you need to have like a blow torch setup close by so it will auto ignite the butane used to pressurise them! Even more fun for the slowies.

Edit: seeing as more people keep commenting...
And I've commented this already
I would expect if the guys did it they would take all precautions to make sure they didn't burn more of Australia away!

Also I don't go around burning stuff so those precautions aren't something I've ever thought about.

[speaksfrumhizrear]

Just a heads up, those springs have crossed coils and have potential to slip past eachother kind of like when you snap your fingers. I worked for a spring manufacturing company for 6 years making high tensile springs with 1/2"+ diameter wire, the loads when comprsessed are in the thousands of pounds of pressure. Pro tip: be very careful with where they end up. 🙂

[CoryMoll]

I too am slack-jawed that Gaunson’s “are we scraping the bottom of the barrel” got no reaction there was clear effort put into that delivery!

[picklepaddy]

I'm a fan of the wine barrel. The surge out from the cracks followed by a second blast when it hits. I think you can also see the delay in the shockwave shaking the camera.

[ZakLeek]

For me the water-filled barrel was the Slowie of the Day; the water coming out of the slats as the whole barrel compressed was so cool! Thanks for the great video guys! 🧡💜

[Loona_____]

12:57 epic looking slo-mo into Herron choking on a fly

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Slowies
Ice; 0:51
Silly string; 2:25
Wood stump; 3:40
Lego cube; 4:52
Basket ball; 6:09
Car tire; 6:48
Big barrel; 7:37
Acryllic block; 9:31
Shaving Cream; 10:33
No axe slowy
Golf clubs; 12:54
No titanium cube slowy
Steel barrel with red water; 14:57
PVC pipe, piece of wood, metal pipe, baseball bat; 16:19
Obsidian cube; 18:14
Truck springs; 21:04
Water explosions always do it for me, so the wood barrel with the green water was the slowy for me, but the Steel barrel with the red water is a good second for me
Keep up the crushin boys ;P

[xmagicka]

Lads, I think it’s time to bring back the see-saw… with the hammer launching items off it!

[name-uhee]

14:31
That rainbow forming was beautiful

[jordanalexander]

Different color plastic pellets could be pressed by this into interesting designs if you make a mold to help form them. The pressure will generate enough heat to get the job done. The Legos gave me that idea.

[M-Cyn]

For those of you who do HR's requests I compiled a list of all of the slow motion shots I saw & their timestamps.

0:51 ice slow motion shot
2:24 silly string slow motion shot
3:40 log slow motion shot
4:51 lego slow motion shot
6:08 basket ball slow motion shot
6:48 tire slow motion shot
7:37 wine barrel slow motion shot
9:31 acrylic slow motion shot
10:33 paint slow motion shot
12:53 golf club slow motion shot
14:56 water barrel slow motion shot
16:19 wood, PVC, pipe, and baseball bat slow motion shot
18:13 obsidian slow motion shot
21:03 springs slow motion shot

PS. My favorite slow motion shot is the paint.

[ThomasSawyers]

Love the new format, its great seeing you guys get right into it

[TheDaveCave_]

The most genius part of all of this, is they can sell literally ANYTHING that’s safe to sell that they’ve destroyed. Like chunks of the acrylic block? Sold. Insane. Love it.

[thanhdinh]

17:54 best recording from GoPro in this video. It’s like those obsidian pieces flying like meteoroid flying in the universe!

[GammaLoop]

I am always amazed by the slowies! Thanks for brightening our days with your content!

[arapahoetactical]

From a strictly mechanical point of view, I really liked the springs. You could see that as the springs were compressing it didn't slow the hammer one bit, but as soon as the coils stacked solid, there was a massive hesitation in the hammer for an instant.

The best looking one, my vote goes to the metal drum.

[forgotn]

I wonder how well an exercise ball filled with non-newtonian fluid would hold up against the hammer.

[AJM]

9:21 The GoPro has been scarred for life 😂😂😂😂