how about a man carrying rocket, should be worth a few laughs...
As some of you may know many moons ago i was on scrapheap challenge. We built a twin sailed land yacht. Ive just been in touch with one of the guys
from RDF television for a copy of the tape. He has said they are always on the lookout for new challenge ideas. I thought id open this up to you
lot.
Ill send him a link when we have a few on so let the creative juices flow......
Ill make a start - combine harvester.
[Edited on 20/2/07 by DarrenW]
Something that turns woodland into road in one movement. And vice versa.
Its hard to remeber all the things they've done.
I don't remember ever seeing a straight weight lifting challenge. They could build either Hydraulic platforms or cranes. Then just keep lifting
bigger and bigger weights till one of the machines can't make the lift or breaks trying.
They'd have to be operated from a safe distance of course.
I am sure combine harvester was done (some sort of harvester definately was - one team ended up doing it by hand!).
you were on that, oh I watched that quite alot, best one was the planes and of course the british team won by like 1000ft!
how about a man carrying rocket, should be worth a few laughs...
Submarine
Auto sheep shearer
Corned beef tin opener
Stone crusher
Windmill
Oil drilling platform
solar powered se7en.
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Originally posted by macnab
you were on that, oh I watched that quite alot, best one was the planes and of course the british team won by like 1000ft!
how about a man carrying rocket, should be worth a few laughs...
Build a locost & race it for £250? Nah impossible.
Mine clearing tank- like they used in WW1?
a sheep tosser! or any other sort of catapult
How about a machine to multiply human force? So it would be controlled by moving your limbs etc but you could pick up heavy stuff like barrels and
cars. I've seen them in sci-fi films and I'm sure they've got a proper name but no idea what!
Pete
how about a putting a reliant robin into orbit....thats original
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Originally posted by scoobyis2cool
How about a machine to multiply human force? So it would be controlled by moving your limbs etc but you could pick up heavy stuff like barrels and cars. I've seen them in sci-fi films and I'm sure they've got a proper name but no idea what!
Pete
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Originally posted by macnab
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Originally posted by scoobyis2cool
How about a machine to multiply human force? So it would be controlled by moving your limbs etc but you could pick up heavy stuff like barrels and cars. I've seen them in sci-fi films and I'm sure they've got a proper name but no idea what!
Pete
You mean one of these...
Exo-skeleton, that would be cool. How about a wood chipper and see who can shred most or biggest branches in a set time.
The international one with the aeroplanes was brilliant, British ingenuity at its best.
So it's called an exo-skeleton eh, you learn something every day 
Pete
automatic car crusher...how many cars can be crushed in 5 minutes sort of thing.
jaws of life, who can cut the dummy out of the car quickest.
exo-skeleton would be cool, but hard to do well and safely.
Mountain climbing vehicle (hillclimb up a 45 slope with assorted rocks etc) - or a classic trials car.
gatling/chain gun, number of rounds in 1 min + accuracy bonus.
Have non of you watched the program? most of the sugestions so far have been done already - the exo skeleton ideas a cracker though imo
Cray supercomputer
Car wash
Time Machine
Future predicting machine
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Originally posted by scottc
Cray supercomputer
Car wash
Time Machine
Future predicting machine
Have hovercrafts been done?
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Have hovercrafts been done?
Tunnelling machine of some sort?
something to accurately predict the lottery numbers
A machine to jam average speed cameras.
Pete
is this you Darren with your co team mates
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So who else on here has done the show then See if someone can win for a change
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A machine to jam average speed cameras.
Pete
Mmmm, the Scrapheap Challenge bird (whose name I forget right now)
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Mmmm, the Scrapheap Challenge bird (whose name I forget right now)
Space elevator.
Proper size space station
Hotel on the moon
Anti gravity car (aaly spaceframe, helium balloons and a couple of fans should do it).
World's fastest escalator, or moving pavement.
ATB
Simon
a earth boring machine that can also do a lap round a track as quick as a 20 year old diesel fiesta
A vehicle that can dig a hole, climb/drive/drop into it, be driven over by another vehicle and then extract itself........and drive over the next team...
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is this you Darren with your co team mates
build a titan.
failing that, an unfeasably large tank.
How about useful stuff. . .
Traffic Warden deflector
Speed camera Harvester
Congestion charger blinder
white van engine seizer
Taxi stopper
Bus breaker
Caber