DarrenW
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 02:23 PM |
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Scrapheap Challenges - your suggestions please
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]
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emsfactory
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 02:30 PM |
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Something that turns woodland into road in one movement. And vice versa.
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boxfile
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 02:31 PM |
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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 not a number!
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twybrow
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 02:31 PM |
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I am sure combine harvester was done (some sort of harvester definately was - one team ended up doing it by hand!).
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macnab
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 02:33 PM |
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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...
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DarrenW
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 02:35 PM |
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Submarine
Auto sheep shearer
Corned beef tin opener
Stone crusher
Windmill
Oil drilling platform
solar powered se7en.
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DarrenW
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 02:39 PM |
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quote:
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...
i was part of the driller thrillers team. Got beat by the Megs (Noshers team). Very good fun but extremely hard work. TBH honest at the end of it we
were happy to be beaten - we were totally exhausted by it. Twin sail idea was flawed from the start but it made good telly. I wish i had the newspaper
cutting from it still, im well narked that they went missing. It was filmed in 1999.
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pauldm
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 02:42 PM |
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Build a locost & race it for £250? Nah impossible.
Mine clearing tank- like they used in WW1?
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Hammerhead
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 02:46 PM |
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a sheep tosser! or any other sort of catapult
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scoobyis2cool
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 02:47 PM |
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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
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care...
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 02:50 PM |
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how about a putting a reliant robin into orbit....thats original
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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macnab
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 02:54 PM |
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quote:
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...
 
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scoobyis2cool
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 02:57 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by macnab
quote:
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...
That's the one! Although it looks more complicated than I remember. Still, I'm sure the teams could figure out how to make one. Not sure
if they've got any aliens on the scrapheap though, maybe Robert could steal one of the old Red Dwarf monsters - scrapheap team vs the vindaloo
monster, that would be an episode worth watching
Pete
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care...
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Peteff
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 02:58 PM |
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How about a machine to multiply human force?
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.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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scoobyis2cool
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 02:59 PM |
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So it's called an exo-skeleton eh, you learn something every day 
Pete
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care...
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scottc
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 03:19 PM |
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automatic car crusher...how many cars can be crushed in 5 minutes sort of thing.
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iank
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 03:29 PM |
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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.
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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D Beddows
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 03:31 PM |
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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
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scottc
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 04:07 PM |
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Cray supercomputer
Car wash
Time Machine
Future predicting machine
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scoobyis2cool
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 04:09 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scottc
Cray supercomputer
Car wash
Time Machine
Future predicting machine
Good suggestion but I think it's too implausible to expect a team to produce a fully functioning car wash...
Pete
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care...
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twybrow
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 04:26 PM |
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Have hovercrafts been done?
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Aboardman
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 04:30 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by twybrow
Have hovercrafts been done?
yes
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DIY Si
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 04:46 PM |
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Tunnelling machine of some sort?
“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
My new blog: http://spritecave.blogspot.co.uk/
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mookaloid
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 04:49 PM |
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something to accurately predict the lottery numbers
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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scoobyis2cool
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| posted on 20/2/07 at 04:50 PM |
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A machine to jam average speed cameras.
Pete
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care...
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