As big as a car: Huge Slingshot Cannon in Action
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- On December 30th, 2010, The Slingshot Channel presented a functional "desktop size" slingshot cannon. It fires 8 mm steel balls.
Finally, the model was turned into reality! 10 times bigger than the model, it fires 80 mm steel balls now... with impressive force.
The huge amount of rubber (6 full Thera Band Gold stripes per side, 72 times stronger than "hunterbands" for conventional slingshots) propels a steel boule/petanque ball fast enough so it flies 200 meters (220 yards).
See how it smashes beer barrels and even a car... lots of slow motion is included.
The winch allows insane draw weights. Here, more than 200 kg was employed. In combination with the "barrel length" of 3 meters (10 ft), it achieves firearm like energy levels and the momentum of a giant sledge hammer.
This may be the strongest rubber based weapon presented on youtube ever.!
A "The Slingshot Channel" production.
The best part is their cheery manly German chuckles after every shot!
typical german laugh
Harry King their?
Nyan-chan yes, their
@@TapiKoks lmfao,arent you little bit late to reply xd
Joerg puts the man in German.
hey that's pretty good
+Bryson Merrell no it's a storm drain
he puts the GERRRR IN SWINGER baby YEAHHHH
that could actually be his motto
germa
i'm sad because he didn't say "let me show you it's features."
I was just thinking that
He didn't do it in his older videos I believe. It's something he made up later down the line
+kittehpowerx3 makes sence cus this one also isn't named
MrPoopyButthole69
I don't know what to put as my name 12291 haha butthole
Your just a big kid playing with big toys, I love it.
+Timothy Ryan Fisher: He's living the dream!!!
Big kid? Don't men just grow up get a job get money and buy dangerous toys and bigger toys
Timothy Ryan Fisher *you're
you're*
m0n3yb4dg3r a little late there mate :P
Mr Sprave, I made 4 of your "3 Pillars of Destruction" slingshots a year & a half ago for our camping trip in the Arkansas National Forest. We shot the HELL out of every dead tree in that damn forest!
I followed your directions to the letter, & had 4 of the craziest, most destructive slingshots I've ever seen or used!
You engineering talents are nothing short of awesome!! I thank you as a US Army Veteran, & an American!
Your channel is 1 of the most watched on my computer, as I never cease to be amazed by your creations, like the artillery slingshot cannon. That thing is a BEAST!!!
Here's to never growing up, & having a blast living our lives doing what we love doing!!!!!
yep i agreed with everything you said
Excuse me sir, Just wounderg did you serve in the millitary.
Joel Williams you could just thank him as yourself?
Who cares that you are a army (people murderer) veteran?
@@Jobanivrodnachui Blame the controllers that shill needless warfare. Blame the military industrial complex for unjust warfare, not the men who are courageous enough to fight those battles.
I find it funny that your crazy contraptions work more consistently and much more exciting-ly than any gun channel.
+Alex Barlow: He's an engineering genius, who loves what he does!!
Yeah, & his creations do work as advertised. You should take a look at his video showing how to make the "3 Pillars of Destruction Slingshot!" They bloody work like a machine!!! I made 4 of them...
+Alex Barlow He also doesn't do gratuitous testing on wildlife under the auspices of "hunting," like so many trashy UA-cam presenters.
+Geo T yeah so true ,they say their overun with pests then have to sit dead still for 4 hours an use special whistles to lure the ''over run with pests'' in from miles away .
What gun channel has videos about their guns being inconsistent?
That is probably because Bow hunting is illegal in Germany.
I'm pretty sure your laugh can cure cancer!
If it would work, I would make a compilation of his laughs and loop it until my cancer is cured.
+Victor Berkvens same here
+Victor Berkvens get medical marihuana with a high cbd value and make cannabis oil out of it depending on what kind of cancer u got it might cure you just google it and good luck
+Peter Lustig My mother read about it but I don't want to take drugs (medical drugs too) unless it's the very last option. It's probably better if I do it if it helps but I just never want to take drugs and drink alchol in my entire life. I'm now 18 years old, the cancer is discovered at age of 12. I'm going to start with chemo this tuesday. I've had a lot of operations 1 chemo and 2 medications but it's not cured yet :(. I hope I will have luck soon...
Victor Berkvens ay mate... u survived?
Now for the semi-automatic version
He had built many semi and fully automatic sling shots . His channel is really cool .
You'd need something like a 4 stroke gas engine to do that, but I could see that working.
It had to be a french car didn't it?
Sérgio Alves :D :D You made my day !
yes it looks like a citronen AX
The German car would have shot it back at them!
@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 That's true
Fiat would have already fallen apart on the way I reckon.
meanwhile somewhere in germany....
Adam Starhawk
LOL Joerg is awesome.
people get bored when theres no weapons freely accesable you know....;)
+Dave initiv Yeah but there is still a lot more safety you know...
Nobody complained about it.
Adam Mcknight *his laugh* whahahahaaa
If he was around during the 40s the axis powers would have won
what if he was a reincarnation of one of their top scientists of artillery?
He probably is
He's too nice to be in a war
nah, the medieval peoples had similar weapons in destructive power
their problems really were time and lack of resources, they were running out of oil, rubber, and everything else. the german engineers were trying to get tanks to run on burning wood, and they kinda succeeded. the rubber they were using was really low quality too, which could be why they made so many half-tracked and tracked designs for light vehicles
This is what guys are doing when girls think they're cheating.
Speak for yourself, I'm usually cheating.
ž đ oh no
underrated commentary
Because we like to have such toys around when we find our girls are cheating.
your not wrong:)
Stuff like this should really be featured in the walking dead
He plans on making a zombie movie dedicated to killing zombies with crazy slingshots etc
That would be hilarious!
Hes the walking dead
negan would shit his pants
Why would they use this when they have artillery canons that rip people to shreds in seconds?
I wonder how the tesla cybertruck would react to this
Pretty sure the door will bend like 1-3cm deep and the glass will break but it won't pierce the other glass
@@azekia like how they said it was bullet proof but shattered it during the demonstration?
@@geisterwolf397 bulletproof, not JoergSpraveproof
Well
@@chillpolecat4768 cant tell if you are an idiot or not. Three months after you said this.
This is approaching the 10 year anniversary. Man, this channel has done so many amazing things.
I KNEW IT !!!! THEY ARE TALKING GERMAN IN THE BACKGROUND !!!!!! AWESOME !!!!!!!
XD why are you so glad about it :D
Ich auch :D
Genau :)
Bin auch noch da :D
er hat mal gesagt, dass die meisten aus amerika sind
The nicest thing about your videos is seeing how much fun you're having.
When I was a kid we made canons that shot tennis balls using lighter fluid as a propellant.
Rip beer, always in our hearts
And the stomach
Liver
there is more kinetic energy in this amazing piece of rubber based artillery than the average high powered rifle........
This man could mobilize an army with just wood and rubber bands. The world is his ammunition.
that would hurt in the face
jordan cattrall I don't think you'd be able to feel the pain because the ball would destroy your head instantly :p
no it wouldnt, its just like a bb from a bb gun but bigger, lol ;-)
blades&militariaUK Let's see you use your head for the target then.
How to destroy a beer keg.
1) Consume and enjoy the beer.
2) Fill keg with water.
3) Shoot it with the shotapult.
Then it's easier to shoot it because you open it up and let the pressure out...
It's a ballista like weapon
Jup never waste a good beer
To minimize beer lost, shoot it while it's on a giant pool-sized metal dish, which has a drain on the side. Drink it up after.
@@vanthursday thus making it less explodey and therefor less fun. viel weniger spaß :(
I love their hearty laughter
shooting this at a MASSIVE block of ballistic jelly
Brother?
AVerylargePotatoOnATrainWithAManOnTop coley
finally united
We shall rule the world
AVerylargePotatoOnATrainWithAManOnTop coley awwwww yisssss
So cute BibleThump
I'd love to see it against ballistics gel.
+MakoRuu how about if he used a smaller lead ball? piercing power would go up.
+Jacob Ellinger yeah it would because that's more power on a lighter and smaller scale, wouldn't have as much surface area to cover so it would pretty much be a bullet
That's not the point, though.
You need to collab with the Slomoguys
the 50cal of the slingshots :)
More like an 80mm cannon!
Patrick Pogosian My calculations say this is 110850 joules, about 5.5x more energy
***** lel
88mm sling ball
37.5 cal
damn, this dudes building an army, i swear.
My calculations say this slingshot is 110,850 joules, the energy is about the same as a cannon and the kinetic energy of Joerg's truck at 34 km/h (he stated the weight of it in another video). Very powerful.
EDIT: sorry made a miscalculation don't what it was but this cannon is actually around 6,000 joules
EDIT 2: 5,883 joules
EDIT 3: So more power than a .300 win mag cartridge
***** How'd you get that number?
Smithy0013 Look in the description, 200 kg force on 80 mm steel ball accelerating for 10 metres is how I got the velocity, and the weight of the ball is easily calculated using the density of steel
***** I think there is something out of place though. Perhaps I am not using the data correctly but here's what I get.
If 200 Kg (2000 N) of force is the AVERAGE force acting on the ball, then the energy delivered amounts to F·ds = 2000 N * 3 m = 6000 J, no matter what the projectile is.
Now for the velocity. As you said, you can find the mass using the radius of the ball and the density of steel. The density of steel is something between 7.75 to 8.05 g/cm3 according to Teh Googlez, I shall average it to 7.9 for the calculations.
The ball has a 4cm radius, the mass turns out to be about 2.1 kg. The starting velocity is then given by √(2E/m)
which is about 74m/s or 268km/h (holy flying monkey shit). This sounds like a bit of an overshoot to me, to be honest.
***** If however we take the MAXIMUM force to be 200 kg (2000 N), and suppose that Hooke's law applies, we have exactly half the energy calculated before: 3000 J
This still translates to a fairly fast 53 m/s = 192 km/h of starting speed for the 80mm ball.
Alessandro Porcelli Yeah something is wrong there, it was a long time ago though so I don't know what
Nine - NINE! - years later this shows up in my recos... and it is still a blast.
The sound the thing makes when it fires is epic. "frrrusch... SMAk" haha
hell yeah hahah nuts
I love the way he says, "Let me show you how it works." I can just imagine him as a kid with his new slingshot saying that to all his friends...years later he builds heavy artillary and says the same thing to same friends.
You're having way too much fun. I'm jealous. Thanks for the laughs.
Joerg you really need to turn this into a javelin shooter and bring it back to the channel!
it's so funny that everyone has the same laugh
This guy is great! I love what he does with rudimentary physics, an understanding of mechanical engineering and a talent for fabrication. I'm an American. I love guns. I proudly and responsibly own dozens of them and thoroughly enjoy shooting them. This gentleman brings to light several clever means by which to approximate the challenge and thrill of shooting sports for folks in those repressive parts of the world where the individual's right to bear arms is infringed upon by cowards, bureaucrats and the otherwise, tragically stupid. Three cheers for this fellow! Long live this übermensch!
Looks really cool. I wonder what the effects would be against ballistic gel. Can you do another similar one with the gel?
For me that was the best slingshot you have ever made
Cosmas B ,is trying to imitate you brother , he may "TRY " TO IMITATE ,BUT HE WILL NEVER DUPLICATE YOUR AWESOME PROJECTS !!! LOL ,,,you're the greatest !!!
+Rick Guidry I rather enjoy Cosmas's videos.
+JoergSprave Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, after all!
JoergSprave where can i get these special bands for making slingshots and crossbows and launches ?
how can someone like slingshots so much that he desides to build a enormous slingshot like that?
he brings out the inner child in you? or just because of the destruction and mayhem?
Glorias
yes.
Glorias
Me too!
Me three.
That thing is scary! Scary awesome!
Thank you for the fun
This dude needs to enter a pumpkin chuckin' contest..
i bet the pumpkin wouldn't be able to withstand the force being the rubber lol but it would be bad ass haha
Yeah.. Might just obliterate the damn thing. Haha!
Ok, now I'm subscribing
Can I buy one my sister is vary annoying 🐥
same
Damn you're hella brutal
Not really..
I want an elephant gun sized one to take out my mom... ;-)
Motherbrain Jr well here we have another egdy rebel kid who doesnt know how to be grateful...
Great work! I can just imagine you setting this up on the side of a road and shooting through an entire bus with it. That's some mad power!
That description...
"It fires 8 mm steel balls."
"fires 8 mm steel balls."
"8 mm steel balls."
"mm steel balls."
"steel balls."
STEEL BALLS xDDDD
i think it's a 8 CM steel ball
Franek Kimono Maybe.
i got balls of steel that was what was going trough my mind when i saw the description
80mm, average size for military artillery rounds.
I've got balls of steel. Balls of steel. Balls of steel. STEEL. STEEL. STEEL. BALLS OF STEEL.
Show me how it works? I want to see its features!
The little car was surprisingly tough...LOL!!. I'm surprised with a steel ball moving at that speed,with that amount of weight and didn't knock holes completely through both doors!!.
I was not surprised that the steel balls didn't knock holes into the car. The balls may have been heavy but due to the lack of velocity, there was not enough kinetic energy to achieve this. Mind you, if that had hit a person, the person wouldn't be alive to tell the story of how painful it was. The result may not have been a hole but would have wreaked havoc on say, the chest area.
You spread joy
is this also classed as a "toy" in germany?
*_Made In Germany_*
Back then when he sounded like a genius and wasn't trying to sound badass.
Next step, genius badass - or badass genius? :)
+JoergSprave Maybe Both?
+JoergSprave I did not mean anything offensive though, sorry if ur offended.
I know. He's even cooler now.
+高山 Stop assuming everything offends everyone. It's annoying and ridiculous how politically correct everyone tries to be all the time.
It's very thick and probably tasty - Joerg Sprave, 2011.
t h i c c
Da taucht er plötzlich in den Trends auf und ich Feier jedes Video. Der verrückte Mann mit der unverwechselbaren Lache herrlich
Plz invest in a 4k camera - videos wud really benefit from it
+Dave Wright I have a 4k camera now, but I still upload in 1080 because UA-cam does not support 60p in 4k, only 30p. Lots of fast action in my videos, 60p is so much better for that stuff.
+Zeta 21 Gaming Not even HD?
+JoergSprave Aus welchem Bundesland kommst du eigentlich?
You should see what that does to ballistic gel.
Where can I get one?
It's $8,000
Waffle Spankz
Just build it! Its not a rocket scientists construction. Maybe finding the right rubberband is a problem.
+Kellerkind He uses theraband gold.
Ludvig Sundelius
Yes, I have seen it on his homepage now.
+Waffle Spankz earth.....
You’re a absolute madlad and that’s why we like you
This guy is gonna make an orbital and nuclear version of slingshot
That poor car haha, it's okay though because the steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car!
Justin F. They drive on the same side of the road as I do, the left....
JoergSprave The Egoista ? ;)
The Poor Rothaus Bier
It's not on the "wrong" side of the car. It's because cars made in America drive on the right side and steering wheel is on left
it's ok: it's only french
The sound is so intimidating, lol.
Joerg, when i say everything in your life looks very rustic,im meaning it as the greatest compliment,some people love the sun and beach,my ideal place seems to be under your every footstep..love the cannon,your slightly envious aussie fan
I'm calling the Beer Police for Beer abuse!!!!
Oui Monsieur!...I too do have mixed feelings about this video and ze machine itself. All because of ze wanton destruction of that bier. Why could not those three lads chug it down...then pee it back into ze can?
Amélie Renoncule Simple, the can would be open, and the..liquid would not be both pleasurable to clean up nor would it do any justice to the ammo, plus that would be a waste Monsieur
Scott Mathews
Obviously you have difficulty with your recognition of rhetorical quips...as well as gender differences, Scottie-.boy.
My apologies for not having a computer for not being able to render pictures at a tolerable rate (not sarcasm btw) and I was just making my point, though rhetorical quips are difficult to identify by text
Scott Mathews
Apologies accepted, Mon amour!
so basically it's a balista
+lolman15953 If I call it a ballista, one million wisebutts will show up and explain why this is NOT a ballista. I should probably call it Rosemarie after my mother. :)
JoergSprave meh, just saying. Anyways awesome work man.
I would like to see it fire some sort of grapeshot. That would be awesome!
+lolman5552011 I love how Americans over use the word "basicly" especially when they are explaining shit. Thinking it makes em look smarter. I can tell you that, NO not even in the pure basics of engineering Rosemarie can be called a balista...
Rem ko why not? you've got the similar loading and firing systems. How could it not be a ballista.
I love how so many europeans think stereotyping americans makes them cool. Not understanding a subject isn't exclusively american as you just demonstrated.
Those crazy Germans!!!
That was pretty badass. Good work building that beast
You know that vid where the girl tries to slingshot a melon that ends up in her face? I was hoping that wouldn't happen with your canon.
h31212 slingshotchannel.blogspot.de/2012/08/watermelon-woman-why-she-failed.html
JoergSprave How could I have ever doubted your evil genius?
JoergSprave They should have hired you to make that thing!
yahh
Imagine someone stood in front of that...
Joerg wins.
FATALITY.
Frostable flawles Victory
SuperiorLance HEADSHOT!
Shoot it and stop imagining there is a person there; You don´t need to.
Hands down in a zombie apocalypse, I'm want this guy to be in my group
killerkamikaze dont we all
12 years later this is still so satisfying to watch
Germans . . . .
germans are awesome. no one else could have lasted as long as they did against the whole world... and in such style too. their uniforms, weapons, aircraft, tanks... just beautiful. as a race they are physically attractive, intelligent and have a badass sounding language. they could have won... not should have, could have. and would have too if not for the sheer will of, well, everyone else.
Chris Ross Your comment will attract stupid hitler debates..but i totally agree..took half the world to stop a country the size of texas..and post war it just took a few years to rebuild
Chris Ross I am not sure about Germans being attractive there mate. Their women look like men and their men look like women.
Yossi Allen So does your countrymen..all ugly..
Attractiveness is subjective.
joerg how did you get away with this hahaha
The local Police was on annual leave, so the boys could get away with their destructive behaviour ?
Who cleaned up after the damaged car ? Glass splinters everywhere !
The council should force you to do it by ✋ hand, so as to pick all the rubbish out of the grass !
Not a good example, it's environmental hooliganism, right ?
Mach doch mal was, das Karotten schießt ( Try to make a something which shoots carrots )
T- Nixnux Versuch etwas zu machen Hexe schießt Karroten.
Good idea
Valansch ups ^^
Pinkie Pie :D
uni000ver000sal -_- Haha
This needs to be revived and you need to collab with the slow-mo guys hahaha
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?1?ONE? KIDS IN AFRICA COULD HAVE EATEN THAT CAR!
I would Bet BIG money . your grand kids think you are the coolest Dude in the whole world .
Noboby:
Cybertruck: 2:49
This still puts a smile on my face 12 years later! 🙂
meanwhile in deuschland
Neeeein, das gute Tannezäpfle :(( Hättet ihr nicht Öttinger nehmen können?!
Wasser wäre doch gut genug gewesen, oder ?
1:50 achtundvierzig los
48 go
Mawo Duffer More like "Achtung, Fertig, Los"(Ready, Steady, Go)
this just fills me with joy just watching fellow guys be happy at things like this
"Lets go shoot this thing at some power lines!"
ÆRational yeah, hold mein bier!
you are officially invited to my zombie apocalypse survival team
Cptrex742 Jörg was already on your team
AK Misc yes! *fist pumps*
Cptrex742 You better be excited!
AK Misc yeh man lets get this apocalypse over! if it ever comes of course
Das Bieeeer😢😢😢😱😱😱
Oktoberfest deleted
I love how he knows english and german. Makes me feel proud to know someone took the time to learn our language!
if you're american then its not your language xD but if you're from Britain, England ye know the place where English was made xD then its your language
Ach typisch grosse deutsche kinder xDDD
Hard to believe I've watched this channel for a decade
Yes, feels funny... sometimes I find it hard to believe that I have been doing this for 13 years now.
Reminds me of a ballista, cool design.
No way... That is just awesome! Congratulations on your cannon!
I do not often cry but when I saw that beer go like that I was close to tears lol.
George sparve I'm really amazed and impressed you have a great personality and a great mind you really know your thing love from Pakistan
This man knows how to have fun.
I am overjoyed watching Jorge just have fun
OMG! You've killed that beautiful beer barrel !!!!
Wow! Truly amazing. I could not stop watching. Bravo!
That's what it's like when grown men want to go back and experience some of the freedom and fun they enjoyed as boys in the past !!
no one is getting up from that, keep up the awesome work
This guy needs more subscribers
Joerg that's my favorite beer...Rothaus ..Pils..
I almost cried when you shot it..but a man has to do what he has to do...
after watching one of his newest videos then coming back here, I've noticed, over the years he's gained both weight and muscle, and oddly enough, his accent seems to have become stronger despite having been using english so often in his videos. In these older videos he seemed more like he was doing this for fun alone, now he does it for both fun and a living, all in all, I think the quality of his builds has increased greatly, and he's gotten a little more entertaining, he's aged well these past 5 years.
I love the look of this seige weapon.intimidating,leathal!