Climbing A Dam In A Land Rover | Top Gear | Series 22 | BBC
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- Опубліковано 30 гру 2015
- Richard Hammond has to climb Claerwen dam in a sixty four year old Land Rover. Can he do it? From Top Gear, Series 22 Episode 4.
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Guys at the top in full safety gear, the small lad in the Rover ... a lap belt ......
They put him in a fucking rocket I think they lost all cares about Hammond a long time ago
the small lad is very good ! probably hsojkll
I'm pretty sure they came to the conclusion that, if things go wrong, no amount of wearable safety gear would help him. So they might as well ditch it.
Same were i WORK 🔨
I just laughed so hard at this 😂😂 thanks
Hammond: "I don't get why I'm always the one involved in accidents"
Also Hammond:
Look at the background on hammonds,it doesn't change since even when he's half way on the dam.
@@bastardxin3749 it does change dude look even for the cameras next to Hammond's seat
@burteriksson 😘
@@bastardxin3749 blind
anybody else think he was just gonna floor it up the dam instead of being pulled by a winch 🤦🏽♀️
Yes... don't ask.
I thought he'd at least attempt to move the rover under self-power before it was too vertical to move without the winch.
That probably would have worked
Isaac Newton : am i a joke ?
Are you guys stupid ? I mean.. really ? You really thought he would do that with only the engine ? Do you even know what gravity, friction, etc, are ? Like.. really? I mean.. REALLY ? You thought that ? I am repeating myself but god damn, how in the world would you think even for a second that it would be only with the engine...
Kudos to the guy who was tasked with modifying this vehicle. Silent hero of this challenge 😂
yes. all of them. i wonder how they tested it
@@clockwork9827 they tested it by putting hammond in it, and winching him up the dam
I love how they did this with zero concern for safety
How do you mean?
Once Again
Agree
If the winch fails, he is dead.
There supposed o be a safety tether line attached o the vehicle.
@@krisztian3909 You don't have a safety tether line if you go Climbing, because the line can take much more weight than you are.
In Theatre a piece of set that moves up/down doesn't have a safety line (as well as the hauling line) because they hauling line can take more then the weight of the set.
Everything the BBC are using for this is rated to take more weight than it needs to (probably >twice the weight) And therefore is within the safety of the insurers
They have, they just dont show it
It's top gear, sometimes the presenters do something seemingly dangerous but it really is under control.
should be an advertisement for the winch...
sissymarylen15741a A
@@atismoo168 yep
So very true.
Must've been a WARN Winch.
tom lepski it was a smitty built
Sometimes I envy them because of the amount of fun they have doing their jobs...
This is not one of those times.
Im still amazed the top gear/grand tour trio didn't end like a decade ago because someone died making a episode.
@@Brian-qg2qw I swear, it's almost like Hammond has real life plot armor
I would sweating bullets doing this
The point of failure would not be the steel cable, it would be the winch mounting being torn off the car's frame, or a failure in the anchor at the top where they fastened it to the brick dam.
No
@@lew3813Why not?
Ok
200 feet high? That's like 200 Hammonds on top of each other. Wow
xD
Not really I think
+Miguel pmpm come on now
actually it would be 35.7 Hammonds on top of each other
ha
they should have hid a speaker in the rover with him and played a really loud cable snapping sound right at the top of the dam
Sounds like a Clarkson move
+jamiepie123 LOL
imagine that
rofl
+jamiepie123 where do you get that idea from ? ... like satan added you snapchat ?
Should have blasted genesis
I like to imagine this is a scene from a zombie movie where the protagonists are trying to escape by driving up the dam and the horde slowly piles their way up towards the rover
Good one,
Zombies would push the Rover up?
(Hopefully the rear isn't open)
Hammond: I FINALLY ARRIVED AT THE TOP!
Production: ...we forgot to record...
film him going down and play it in reverse
Big brain time XD
They must have had to take into consideration double the weight of the Landy because of Hammond's giant balls...
Is that a reference I see? lol
@@thatonec_set3730 It is a reference to Hammond's giant balls
@@thatonec_set3730 It's a reference to Hammon's cojones
"lets dip the tires in water so they are soaking wet on algae covered stones before he starts"
Cause it matters when the vehicle wasn’t even on the winch was doing the pulling it’s not like the tires helped you half wit
yeah, the tyres really don't matter for this, could have used smooth rubber coated in oil and it would have worked just fine.
This is by far the riskier situation ever on this show. If the winch fails everything is over.
They should rename this “climbing a dam with a winch”
Winches have their faults.. like that winch could have easily ripped out from his car.. with the weight of it being pulled.. I've seen it on one of the other Top Gear Episodes where they attempt to winch another car out and it broke.. I would have passed that challenge and said no too dangerous.. and bit foolish as well.. the winch at the top yes they had crew.. but again whatever was keeping it up was under strain/tension too. worried about chord breaking.. on top of the winch detaching itself from the car.. it's not as simple as just winching a chord to a car.. there's always things, unknown things that can go wrong.. e.g. both engines cutting out..
There’s no way you could do that normally and live 😂
Jeremy: Were you killed?
Hammond: Sadly yes... But I lived!
Hammond does that a lot
So I guess he won't be coming in then?
He lives, he dies, he lives again!
@@JamaicanCastle What a lovely day!
To be fair, that took balls!!
Oh yeah
For what?
are u guys blind? lel. he isnt in the car when its pulled up.. just look at the background when he is talking. there is always the same stairs from the same distance. if he would have been in the car while going up the background would change
@@HarryLenz Stairs for giants.
HarryLenz You’re the blind one lmao 6:40 6:57 haters always gonna say everythings scripted 😂
I just took a trip to Claerwen Dam and I thought I recognised it from somewhere. I must have watched this video years ago and yet I could easily identify that dam as 'the one Richard Hammond winched up on.'
Captain Slow would've been PERFECT for this 😂👌
I bet he'd pass out from fear near the top of the dam
If nothing it shows how unbelievably brave Richard Hammond is. That took guts that few people anywhere have! Well done mate, amazing courage
are u guys blind? lel. he isnt in the car when its pulled up.. just look at the background when he is talking. there is always the same stairs from the same distance. if he would have been in the car while going up the background would change
@@HarryLenz You mean shots like the one at 6:14?
@@Aerroon yes that shot is from higher but its from the back of the car without hammond in the picture. so i still dont know what u are talking about. just look at all the shots where the camera films him and u see the background. always the same distance..
@@HarryLenz he actually did this what are you on about you can cery clearly see at 6:13 hes nearly at the top with him in view, are you just really stupid?
Yet how was he treated at the end.
“This is ok so far” *literally only a metre off the ground*
Mags Earnshaw that’s what “so far” means idiot
@@obamareloadsyt629 I think they were implying that the phrase is something you would usually say a bit further up
I love how at the end the studio audience is laughing in audio but in the video they're not even laughing lol 😆
😂😂😂😂🤣
Lmao it's the bbc what do you expect😂
Every time im watching these episodes i always share a tear for the STIG
Richard: drives up 80° angle on a dam
Mountain goats be like: *so you would like to admit defeat against me*
Spiders on a 180⁰ angle:
Ya thats lil guys can go almost anywere they like the dams because certain rocks or bricks have salt in them I think. Thats why the run up there to get a lick of salt lol
@@lolbosss *90
I would pay to see him do this, while mountain goats casually hop past him.
the goats: look at what they most do to mommy's a fraction of our power
Top Gear was the best tv show in 2000's
By far dude!!!!!
Deep sea divers: we have the most dangerous job in the world.
Top gear presenters: hold my engine oil.
Gotta admit, I was a bit disappointed when I realized the winch was carrying the truck… but hey physics and stuff.
Damm! You can actualy see the fear in his eyes
Yes, but he has faced his fear. I think, Hammond really got balls
DAM IT
are u guys blind? lel. he isnt in the car when its pulled up.. just look at the background when he is talking. there is always the same stairs from the same distance. if he would have been in the car while going up the background would change
@@HarryLenz Lel, are you blind harry? Those are not stairs. This one sentence broke your comment. That is real fear in his eyes!
@@domonkosludvig3314 sure bro.. since u belive everyithing do u still put out cookies and milk for santa too? lmfao
How does Hammond even get talked into these things?
Penguincamp money
Penguincamp probably Jeremy said your job gets given to someone else if u don't do this
Nice
"What are the odds of you having two near fatal accidents?"
£1m
Does anyone notice that in all the shots of him talking, he was low to the ground and holding the steering wheel with only one hand, while all the far away shots show a person not moving and holding the steering wheel with two hands?
Loved the audience not laughing at all and still there was a laughter sound
Imagine the back engine just fell out 😂
🤣
😂 his heart would follow it 😂
Doesn't matter
Climbing and being pulled by something are two different things
kevinslm the winch is part of the car so the car was pulling itself to the top of the dam. Climbing means “pulling owns body to a higher places”. Better star reading before posting dumbass comment
@@donosudono1597 I literally lost brain cells reading your comment. Kevinslm is completely correct.
@@donosudono1597 Go check your tumor its gotten worse, dono.
I mean, if the engine was still on I guess but it’s doesn’t really count if the winch is pulling because that doesn’t rlly count
@@donosudono1597 Exactly
In true Top Gear style, "Always never an easy ride" with them.
This looks dangerous and fun at the same time!
How was his balls of steel not weighing him down?
+Take1 Films because of the shitload of money he gets
+Vykintas Kazdailis go to the dam & check it out for yourself, Valdimir klishnoklav 64mm
+Take1 Films
Well hamsters do have hairy balls ;)
+Take1 Films Because of how over used that is
saheyo champney
Well if you watched the show you would know that it does ;)
I would be pissing myself in pure fear in Hammond's position
yea same lool
same
WOW! BBC and TOP Gear (or their insurance company) are very brave letting Hammond be winched up that dam. Mythbusters' insurance would never let them risk Jaime or Adam on a stunt like that.
Charlie Extra Adam Savage
I live in the nearby town of Rhayader, so I know just how steep those dams are. Very very brave guy, I would never do that.
"you failed", like going to Bristol and then came home again" LOL.
Best series of Top Gear 👍👍👍
You need a horse from skyrim for dis
This*
lol
This**
Lmao
@@trod146 dis*
well damn
+A Beaver Was really better before... I dont really understand why did they want to do that !!
+WoD STALKER do what? The climbing of dam?if it's that,maybe for entertainment
Miguel pmpm They killed Top Gear...
+A Beaver Is it a God damn?
+A Beaver no, well dam
The craziest and most daring of Hammond
Driver: is this safe?
Producer: Yes, I'm wearing a helmet.
what's the point if its not driving? of course you can tow a car just about anywhere!
It's based on an advert/commercial Land Rover did with a 90. However in the advert the winch was on top of the dam. So as a farewell to Land Rover they replicated it with a series 1 Land Rover but with the winch actually on the vehicle.
It's the spirit of the challenge that mattered.
MrSpookylukey Lol was the advert for the wench or the land rover? How does towing a car that is meant to 'go anywhere' show its good points?
All The commercial did was show what the car cannot do.
+Kris S for starters it's winching not towing. Winching is a means of self recovery towing is another vehicle moving your vehicle. I'm assuming you are unfamiliar with the concept of off-roading? Yes you can do this with any true 4wd not an SUV, but any 4x4 with a decent approach angle and departure angle will do it. However no Audi or BMW or normal car will do it. For starters a winch cannot be fitted to either of those vehicles, those cars will rip themselves to bits by over exceeding the approach and departure angles. And lastly and I cannot stress this enough it was an advert.
Do you complain every time you see a Saab and it doesn't turn into a jet fighter?
It was a send off for Land Rover because Land Rover made the advert.
I wanna hear this uncensored. XD
Henris Ivaskevicius I mean the whole thing, like no cuts, just the whole ride up.
Hey gmod chaser
+mindlessgonzo Its on Netflix - you can hear Hammond say the F word like 3 times
+mindlessgonzo Sexy anthro ponies.
+mxims97 which countries netflix? netflix australia doesn't even have this season and the few seasons that they have are 10 min shorter and censored :(
BRAVO MATE! BALLS OF STEEL.
I like the way he is handling the steering, just to have the feel that he is doing something
He has to go side to side a little to keep the wire feeding evenly onto the drum 🙂
Hahaha he could have at least worn a helmet xD
Yeah and the others did
Because a helmet would help tumbling down a 62 metre, vertical, rough surface in a 64 year old aluminium car with no roll cage
get science'd son
A helmet wouldn't of helped him survive a fall like that...
He should of been wearing a High Visibility Jacket.
Tony O'Neill Yeah okay that's true I guess
Who else thought it was gonna be a video of this car driving up the dam with no help??
Marcos Nunez only an idiot . How can a car DRIVE. Vertically?
Not me, because I'm not retarded
A Compelled Passionate Rationalist. You made my day 😂😂😂
Don’t worry bout it bro I thought the same thing 😹
I did, until I saw the dam.
So safety . So amazing
hammond might be short but he surely has steel balls
top gear, the worlds greatest land rover commercial
“All we had to do was follow the damn damn CJ !”
Or JC bit ok
It’s not *damn* it’s *dam*
Austin cartel it is damn
THE ATOMIC SCOTSMAN
He means it’s “Damn dam”
Hideri Kanzaki ok your right thx for telling me
a 2nd winch to connect to a secondary point when at the top, take the slack off the 1st and reposition, then use both to clear the top.
Wales is so beautiful. I have to visit again sometime. The land of my ancestors. I really did feel at home there.
smh my GTA character does this shit in a daily basis
Lol. do this with the osiris in 2 seconds 😂
Adrian Gonzalez same
bloodshaker12 lol
Adrian Gonzalez that's because its a game go try that shit in real life I dare you 😈
It's just a game when they crash and fall they come back to life and tpif that shit happen in real he wouldn't come back to life 😂
For anyone that doesn't like how they didn't actually drive up the dam, it wasn't about trying to drive, it was about using the vehicle's built in winch to climb, as it would if it had been a hill.
At first I was disappointed they didn't drive up the dam, but after re-reading the title, they didn't actually say they would be.
''it was about using the vehicle's built in winch to climb'' but they didn't do that either, they used some hydraulic setup from Rotec, a company that didn't even exist when they made that car.
Jakob Holland, no it wasn’t. That’s not a factory winch and, it didn’t even run under the load of the engine. It ran under a secondary engine in the rear that tilted with angle of the incline. That’s just stupid.
The built in winch wasnt able to pull this off.It was too short on cable.It too was modified.They needed a bigger one to have enough cable to get him to the top. He even says it in the beginning.
Thanks for clearing that up Sherlock.
Dam bro my hats off to u, balls of steel
this is moment when our 3 legends got replaced we dont know why but we kniw this was their last top gear episode
*Laughs in H1*
*Laughs in Jeep*
*Laughs in Dam Goat*
A year ago
Neither a jeep nor a hummer can drive up a dam lol
@@Bluefire397 and a goat certainly can't drive either lol
He had less safety gear than a guy in a roller coaster
To be fair, no amount of safety gear would have stopped Hammond from tumbling down the dam in the event that the cable snapped. The only thing a helmet would really do is keep his brains in one place
That bloody dangerous!!
That takes balls well done
I thought he's going to drive it all the way to the top without using the cable.
+brendan sullivan me too
That was disappointing
ME TOO
too me
Is that even possible?
I love this damn show....
+Ethan DeMarco *loved
+Ethan DeMarco I love this DAM show xD
+Ethan DeMarco I'm sorry
*Loved, just like the rest of us...
it's a damn shame that its discontinued:/
Very great to see about this
Balls of steel!
TOP GEAR LOGIC :
Producer and crew wearing protective gear
While, the driver in the Land Rover not wearing even helmet 💁🏽♂️
Don't think a helmet is gonna do anything if that cables snaps half way up a dam
@@loadingprogress5751 Yeah, best it'd do is keep Hammond's brains mostly in one place
Theoretically, any car can do this with a winch...so, what's the big deal?
balls
wow
The big deal is the "Theoretically" part.
Vikas Sheth you must be fun at parties
Sentor Lord for
I actually thought he was gonna pedal to the metal with that car. But this was more than epic as well
8.05 that was pure pain i saw. What he went through most every one on earth hasnt gone through. And he was trash talked and disrespected. And what deserves the most praise is how he took that. I dont know what i would do in his shoes but it would probably have something too do with losing my job.
So the produces standing on top of the dam wear helmets, but not the driver exposed to a possible lethal fall? Wow god thats stupid.
jbmp1390 yes im sure of all that, but it was funny producers standing on the dam wearing helmets, but hammond not. Maybe it was scripted after all
***** oh I believe you
Exactly, and if the wire snaps, it could take several heads with it...
Hahaha savage...
...but true xP jk
Yashar MJ I don't think a helmet would've helpen much
That was damn good.
that's what she sed
+No Name You spelt dam wrong, good meme tho.
Vadim Viehoff
Says the guy with an alienware logo as his profile pic.
Finally a place that ive been to in real life lol.
Why is all this old top gear so much better
I suddenly have an urge to watch "The Gods Must Be Crazy."
The climb begins at 2:20
god bless you
Mynameislong Sameformylastname thx bae
I'll drink you
Mynameislong Sameformylastname thank you
towing*
Wow..amazing
Just watching Hugh Jackman driving Land Rover over dam.
Guys this is Fake af 4:15 he is saying that he is very scared but if you look through the window he is clearly on the ground xD
+First name Last name Why ?
+First name Last name nope hes one of the "fake and gay nazis.
no, no he's not
+PiNKiS Good job by removing my comment
First name Last name I didn't remove your comment. Really
still trying to cash in on the best host you ever had huh
You know what you're right. In fact they should remove every single video with these three in it from the Internet. That way they're not making any ad revenue off of the the guy who assaulted a coworker...
+Alisha Moss You think YT money actually means anything to BBC?
+Jason86906 soda money...
+Alisha Moss still butthurt
+pbfloyd13 Clarkson was entertaining; he was never meant to be a baseline for morality.
Sounds like the Cyclops under pressure strain when the cable strains
“We added some bits” Most British thing I’ve ever heard
"I'll have to steer between these rocks that stick out! I have to read the surface!" *stares at the Rover's hood*
He truly is a brave man, no helmet or nothing. lol
no amount of helmet will save him so why bother?
Pretty sure this was faked, if you look at the shots when hes in the car it doest even look like it was 10M of the ground.
But 6:40 looks so real
Yeah, cuz a helmet sure is gonna help you from cracking your head against the buttom of a dam after a fall
Ya reckon the wouldnt have second cable so he wouldnt die?
Girls: why do we live longer than men
Men:
This video is more about the winch and less about the car! Incredible winch
This video gave me tingles.
Lots of them.
+UnboxTheWorld ASMR Same
+UnboxTheWorld ASMR did you.. did you just comment on your own comment?
+UnboxTheWorld ASMR Lyfe
Amazing
5:02 haha! he's trying to provide facts while shitting his pants. This was really funny.
Its too damn bad there will never be another show from these guys:(
They're making a show for Amazon you big drama queen.
pbfloyd13 no shit, I meant on Top Gear...DAMN!
Acc0rd79
We're getting Chis Harris, Sabin Schmidt, & Chis Evans, screw those guys.
+pbfloyd13 You'll grow to like them. Would you believe me if I told you that people initially disliked Jeremy and Richard when they shifted to the new format back in 2002?
Pope-Eye
I meant screw Clarkson Hammond & May. If I wanted to watch three middle aged idiots screw around I'd watch the three stooges.
going down would scare me even more
R.I.P Richard, you were amazing
you could do this with a honda civic
It would be easier on the winch cause it is so much lighter. Also, a fuel injected engine would run at that angle. So my daily driver stock 01 civic I bought for $600 is perfect. Add that same winch with some structural bracing and I am ready to go.
Also I would hook the winch where I could go over the top. Still good entertainment
+Evan Moon actually it depends on where the fuel pump picks up the fuel and where the oil pickup is. If you don't get fuel the engine dies if you don't get oil the engine seizes
VTECH POWER!
+Evan Moon you paid $600 for a 01 civic
agree ... does the winch come with the land rover or not ????
The really scary part here is that you can clearly see that Hammond is not even wearing a high visibility jacket.
Did you even watch this show? It's a joke on the BBC health and safety.
A really great winch 🙂👍
Hammond is definitely my favourite of the three
if you say "i expected him to deive up, without a winch" have you taken any science classes in your entire life?
Speed is everything.
@@sebastiaandewit159 I have a mental image of Jeremy shouting "Speeeeeeeed" and crashing head on into the dam.
@@sebastiaandewit159 Actually, the normal force is what's most important here. The steeper you try to climb, the less grip your tires have simply because a smaller amount of force is holding the tire onto the surface you are driving on. If you go too steep, the tires lose all grip and you fall down. As for the stunt cars that do loop-de-loops, those are specially shaped ramps to maintain a minimum amount of normal force based on the centrifugal force created by the car changing direction (upward in this case).
high speed and with enough downforce you could theoretically do it. That being said that’s highly unlikely. However, doing it with wench has nothing to do with rover, you might as well attach a cart to the wench and you ll have the same results
Imagine if they forgot to record 😂