An important question when he does go through the drive thru: How are the employees going to hear him ordering food over all the noise the hovercraft makes?
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We're gonna need bumpers on that, stat. Then it can go around the circle track at the factory. Also, Rotax has a turbo model of that motor... just sayin.
My first thought exactly - a hovercraft is a money pit. That's why he rebuilt it and sold it - let it be someone else's problem. Also cleeter didn't bother to do the checklist before "ripping it" unless it was off cam. Not shaming just saying - it'd suck to trash it on the 2nd voyage due to lack of patience.
I laughed when I saw the following warning in the Scat manual: "Anyone who does not, for any reason, have a valid license allowing the to operate a motor vehicle should not fly this craft." Yep, all the skills for my flying car transfer directly to this vehicle... like when I need to parallel park it ...d😊
In the words of Jeremy Clarkson when he was about to drive a hovercraft "Now, listen chaps, I have had the pleasure of driving one of these before and there are one or two things I need to tell you. First of all, okay, if you see an obstacle, like if we're going over there, if you see one of those trees coming towards you-too late, you're gonna hit it."
In my experience on a small hovercraft, pertctically your lean, but it's more a weight shift. You want the body to stay al level as possible, or you loose lift air on the high side. Also concrete is hard on the skirts.
Seller: You gotta read the manual as there's a lot to learn, you have to do pre flight checks to make sure it's all okay. Ol' Cleet: Rips it fresh off the trailer. 🦅
Just when I can't get any more mired in jealousy at Cleet having all the fun and toys I'd like to have, he goes and buys a hovercraft. Well played, Cleeter. Well played.
Not until Cleetus goes ripping by at 60 sideways can it be called freedom anything right now it’s a dog a overweight smoker can run faster then that thing will go .
"I recommend reading through the owners manual, there's a lot of important information" *Literally an hour later* Cleetus: RIPPING at full throttle in his yard fresh off the trailer.
Corey Spaulding well I mean I’m pretty sure the last few months have been dedicated to turning their fastest cars into bracket cars.. give them until after hotrod drag week when they will be allowed to go under an 8
Boosted boiz : We have a jet powered scooter! Cleeter: That's cute! Hold my bartle skeet! Edit: you need to bring the seller to the FF for a proper rip!! He did all that work and never got it wide open.
I was a Hovercraft pilot and instructor in the Rescue / Fire service. Once you learn to fly it you will find you have a whole lot more machine than you think. That Scat should once tuned right and the blades are tuned correct should do 35 to 40 on flat land and in the 50's on water and even better 60's plus on ice (which of course you will never see down there). Also watch out about to much running over concrete and as-fault because it will eat the skirts up, and even though the hard bottom should have skids on it landing while moving on concrete will damage it. Steering is a combination of steering, weight shift and throttle. You will find out that once you learn it you have to fly it way ahead of where your at and most of the time letting off the throttle is the wrong thing. If you are going fast the way to stop is to hard over on the steering, weight shift and full throttle and she will spin around and then stay on the throttle and the thrust will stop you in place. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
yes you r 100! this one is not set up right -YET but these guys will get it! but will they destroy it, ? they cant land this at 50mph going sideways and i feel someone will and it will be ashame cause you will mess it up 4 good and its really nice now with no stress cracks in the body he cant let nitwits fly this ! you are flying remember! even if really low to the ground! 0 brakes and nitwits dont mix lol! :)
Cleetus’ video titles “I bought a hover craft!!” Next video “We find a way to strap the hover craft to the dyno” (NITROUS WILL BE INVOLVED) Next video “I wrecked my hover craft”
At first I was like hmmm that’s a pretty damn good name. Then I realized it was the lawn care nut who said it. You sir are an American hero. It definitely needs to be named Marty now.
I used to work on SCAT brand hovercraft in the 80"s. What a beast. Pull that rotax apart and port N polish the intake. Match up port the exhaust side too. Plan on upping jetting (wakes up the old girl, throttle is crisper too). Bosen made performance reed blocks for it too (if you can find one). Till you had catastrophic front bag failure (4 or 5 bags +) blow at one time. Enjoy the pain.
"LS SWAPPING A HOVERCRAFT!!!" "WE PUT NITROUS ON OUR LS SWAPPED HOVERCRAFT!!!!" "DYNO TESTING OUR LS SWAPPED HOVERCRAFT WITH NITROUS!!!!" "WE BLEW UP OUR LS SWAPPED HOVERCRAFT!!!!!"
Man what a good neighbor that guy is. I wish my neighbors are like him. Ask permision to test my hovercraft. People like him make the diferent on this word, my respect!
@@AlloutATVing id assume its because you can't control it, he probably considered the fact itll probably end up in someone's car door if he just went out and ripped it in his neighborhood.
I remember having a remote control TYCO TYPHOON Hovercraft 2, back in the early 90s. I thought it was the most awesome thing ever. It even hovered over water. Very similar design as this hovercraft.
I had one of those they were sick, I had a tank with tracks too, used to light up and shit! batteries were a real problem back then I remember waiting for the batteries to charge more then I remember playing with it haha....
@Lassi Kinnunen Well no worries about ice/ snow here in hawaii. Lol. Except on the 14,000ft slopes of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa Volcanoes during stormy weather.
Seller: read the intrusions. It’s important. There’s a lot of safety precautions in there. Cleetus: - backs it off the trailer - I’m gonna be coming in out right here! 🤣
We have the same one on the fire dept I was on. Used them on Lake Erie in Ohio and they are amazing! We had two of them and used them for water rescue and ice rescues. We also would use them as a big ventilation fan when they are on a trailer for warehouse fires. Have fun Brother!
When a 2stroke is that easy to start I get suspicious that the timing is off so that its a bit weak. But doing timing on them can be a PITA. Super fun unit!
Just a quick thought. If you see yourself backing it up regularly, make something to fit behind the vanes on the back to deflect the air down, to the sides or round the front, kinda like jets do with the reverse thrust for breaking.
Needs "Variable Pitch" on that fan, so it can rev up and float on low pitch, then feed in more thrust as the ground speed picks up. Will also need to drift the banking at the Freedom Factory after rain storms.
A buddy of mine got one of these in the 80's. Took it to a lakeside park to learn how to fly it. As we were flying it across the grass, the park ranger got all po'd cause we weren't suppose to have a motorized vehicle on the grass. We tried to explain to him that technically, we weren't "on" the grass. He didn't want to hear any of that so we just flew it off into the lake, which ended up being a lot more fun. It is hard to maneuver, doesn't have any brakes and is *LOUD*. You gotta wear ear protection!! With no brakes, we learned to do what we called a "power stop". Spin it around so that you are going backwards and give it the gas! It was great fun.
i have seriously used mine as a massive leaf blower, no BS! its comical blowing a massive pile over on the neighbor when they gone to work! you stand in front of it and floor it and turn the steering to adjust the direction of the leaves
Previous Owner: I was afraid to test drive it, I didn't want to hit anything. Me: Have you seen any of Cleetus' videos? Do you even know what he is going to do to this thing 5 mins after he gets it home? lol
I used to operate the Navy's hovercraft (LCAC), they are a lot of fun, they like to drift to low spots and will scoot over the water real nice, They only steer good with a lot of airflow over the rudder, so no turning at low power and leaning won't do much good. Enjoy, have fun and be safe....
From what I was taught, leaning is a big part of handling these little hovercraft effectively. Lean forward & into the turn, drop the throttle, let the turn start and gun it & you'll really get a turn going. Only got to drive one for 5 or 10 minutes, but it was a blast!
@HoppersLab -- Respect! Those LCAC's are serious pieces of hardware- 180+ tons of mil-spec goodness for a measly $27M a copy. And with 25 tons of capacity- you could take every friend you ever had plus all their cars and household goods anywhere. Ya. I need one.
Cleetus: "I want it!!!, I want it!!!, I want it!!! 00:50 " (3 minutes after testing it, and watching his life play before him like on a projector... "I can see why they discontinued making these... 14:49 "!!! lol!!
I had one of these for years, found it in a junkyard and was never able to get it registered. Learned to sew building skirt sections for it. I got a few tickets with it driving down the street in a school zone.
"I can't wait to take it through the drive thru" is the most Florida thing you could have said.
An important question when he does go through the drive thru: How are the employees going to hear him ordering food over all the noise the hovercraft makes?
@@royn.1968 by turning the engine off!
Baja blast
NEEDS THE BIKE ENGINE OFF OF THE GOLF CART
How would one make that thing street legal to take it through the drive-through as what I’m wondering?!?!
"If you're a fabricator." he's talking to the CEO of McFarland fab.
But only the CEO, the real fabricator is MIA for this video lol.
Yeah but I hear they have a 6 month lead time on all new orders 😂
1 week later: We sent the hover craft motor to Texas Speed for a refresh.
Facts 😂
Dead ass lol 😆 or we are putting twin turbos on the hovercraft
Yep, after James hits it with the nitrous a few times
Comes back with a 427
Worse. He's gonna build a race pond at the freedom factory, get 20 of these, and hold a PPV race event.
When he said if your a fabricator 😂 guess he’s not familiar with McFarland fab 🤣
Well..... James is there...
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First stick shift hovercraft!
Faketaxi 🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣
how to run a 6 second pass in a hovercraft
you missed one
what is a waifu and why do i need one on my drift car?
Just seen boosted Boyz made a jet powered scooter, cleetus should have a drag race in the hovercraft.
Local news: “Giraffe seen in hovercraft, updates at 6”.
I damn near choked on an ice cube when I read this LMAO!
Good one lmao
👏👏🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
haha i'm done
Not you’re fault your 5ft6😂
Should definitely call it "Sea-roy" or something like that
Hover-roy... not to be mistaken for corduroy!
Searoy ha. Perfect
Mint👌
That stupid 😂
Float Boat
We're gonna need bumpers on that, stat. Then it can go around the circle track at the factory.
Also, Rotax has a turbo model of that motor... just sayin.
Turbskie?
it needs one or he was dogging it not sure
Is that a 4 stroke??. Okay it's a 2 Smoker....Get Some Good Exhaust, And Open It Up
I don’t think the guy selling it understood who he was talking to😂 “make sure u read the manual there’s all kinds of preflight precautions”
Cooper - where's that book?
Garret - do you think Dale ever read a book on how to drive his racecar!?
has tape telling him to turn on intercooler, still doesnt do it lol
FULL SEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He knew who he was talking too. That's why he made the point of "read the instructions" 😂
He knew. He was absolving himself of legal liability. 😆
Cleeter: we can't keep buying transmissions for Leroy, they're getting expensive
Also Cleeter: Check out this death trap we just bought.
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.
@@Fizzer99 nah brother! That's the definition of Merica!
@@Fizzer99 No, no, no! Doing the same thing over and over in different ways!
My first thought exactly - a hovercraft is a money pit. That's why he rebuilt it and sold it - let it be someone else's problem.
Also cleeter didn't bother to do the checklist before "ripping it" unless it was off cam. Not shaming just saying - it'd suck to trash it on the 2nd voyage due to lack of patience.
@@BEYTEK Single-handedly keeping the virus alive across the country.
Seller: "make sure you read all the pre-flight blah blah"
Cleetus: *daydreaming of chasing Cooper with the hovercraft*
His eyes were totally glazed over...he was somewhere else in thought
Hahhaa Thats all I was thinkin too!
2020 hovercraft: getting fixed
2030 hovercraft: competing at race week
More like 2020, 2021.
The jet engine is coming back boiiiii's
@@b18crx4 jezus christ😂
If it qualifies as an aircraft does it still need to pass car inspection or aircraft inspection? Hmm
@@b18crx4 it can be done but that fan is needed to force air into the skirt.
Coming next: we fit a Texas Speed 427 to Herbert.
Lol i was gonna say the same thing
HELL YEA BROTHER!!
Either that or Henry for sure.
7s baby LFG
Yes, please!
As the great Jeremy Clarkson once said of hovercrafts: "If you can see an obstacle, you're going to hit it."
Peter Merkle epic quote
Heard the voice, too. Amazing. 😂
I'll have to go watch the HoverVan episode again after this
I just heard that in his voice complete with his accent and all lol
I still can't believe he drove his craft where he did with minimal driving experience
A guy on your Facebook post called it "The Freedom Floater". Would work perfectly with the FF logo.
This deserves my upvote. Cleeter see this!
Turds float we want a freedom flyer
@. Scout You've been posting the same comment for 4+ fucking years... You need some new material.
I second that name
Goes Consistently 160+ mph at the track: " - - - " Goes 10 mph on hovercraft "HELL YEAH BROTHER" ;D
*moves hovercraft 1 foot* cleetus: ILL TAKE IT!!!
*moves hovercraft 1 foot off trailer*
cooper: Take it off a jump!!!
I actually LoL when he said that,and wanted to see it too.
I love how far this channel has come since the C7 turbo whistles.
Those were the good ole days... but glad we’re here now 😂
Been here since he "stole" the c7 and had a mower in it
That was my first video him putting them in
Duck call in the procharged leased Ram is what hooked me on this channel permanently lmfao
Or breaking glass with spark plugs...
Nobody:
2020: we put a giraffe in a hovercraft.
Jake Norris top fucking comment right there!!! Lmfao
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
LOL
Best comment ever 😂
Oooomg 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"I can see why people want to put SXS motors on these"
Coming soon from McFarland Performance...
Well he did break his sxs🤔 idk if he had it fixed though
@@michaelsclark yes he did
Hovercraft salesman: “READ THE INSTRUCTIONS”! Cleetus: “yeah for sure🤣”
Self-pans the camera to show that he is in fact NOT going to read the manual.
I laughed when I saw the following warning in the Scat manual: "Anyone who does not, for any reason, have a valid license allowing the to operate a motor vehicle should not fly this craft."
Yep, all the skills for my flying car transfer directly to this vehicle... like when I need to parallel park it ...d😊
" read the manuals, lots of instructions, ear protection, etc."
Sir, you have no idea what that crafts in for...🤣
At least he will have another restoration project 😂
"If you're a fabricator or something" Pffft! You're talking to the owner and operator of McFarland Fabrication!
Nobody:
Giraffe riding a hovercraft: WHAT A UNIT
"You should do the safety checks."
"yeah we'll definitely do that"
"let's take it for a rip"
LMAO!! I thought the same thing
Hahahhahaa
In the words of Jeremy Clarkson when he was about to drive a hovercraft "Now, listen chaps, I have had the pleasure of driving one of these before and there are one or two things I need to tell you. First of all, okay, if you see an obstacle, like if we're going over there, if you see one of those trees coming towards you-too late, you're gonna hit it."
I know, Sooooo Clarkson, love this. Lol. 🤣🤣🤣
He died that day. Rip J.Clarkson 1935-2005
I literally thought of this as soon as i saw the title 🤣
@@stijnpaspont after falling off a hovercraft
Jeremy Clarkson: I've been killed, I've definitely been killed.
This was my immediate thought as well.
Video title should be, “Florida Man Makes Most Florida Purchase Ever”.
That would be an airboat with a big block, not a hovercraft with that....thing. 😁
@@bepbep7418 nah, that's too obvious. 😁
I thought the race track was the most Florida purchase 😂
...yup! Lol
Westsidesnooker 2020 most miami thing
First the underwater car then this, McFarland Navy is coming along nicely.
In my experience on a small hovercraft, pertctically your lean, but it's more a weight shift. You want the body to stay al level as possible, or you loose lift air on the high side. Also concrete is hard on the skirts.
Ditto. started to post the same thing but looked at comments first :)
Seller: You gotta read the manual as there's a lot to learn, you have to do pre flight checks to make sure it's all okay. Ol' Cleet: Rips it fresh off the trailer. 🦅
I mean, at least there's video evidence of the guy saying I told you so.... Lol
I figure they mean before you take it out on water...
@@ND-yp3sk I figure they mean after you break something (yourself or the hovercraft) then you read the manual to learn how to improve.
I could tell during the conversation he didn't hear a word of it. He was already distracted by bald eagle screeches.
Cooper read it in the car ride back
“The HoverDale”. One rule of hovercrafts is if you can see it...... you WILL hit it. 💯💯💯😁😁😁
"David Hoverdale" Call it Dave. 🤘
Garrett pls put a 3 on that sucker it’s already black. 💯
“Couple burns never hurt” 🤣 as an 80’s kid who rode a ton of 70’s dirt bikes this is so on point
Yep.. both legs Are
Boostedboiz: "we built a jet scooter"
Cleetus: "hold my beer"
...you mean..."bartle skeet" lol
That is actually a fantasticly bad idea
Hahaha.... exactly what I was thinking!
"Read the instructions" "perform pre-flight checklist" does this guy have any idea who he's talking to? 😄
Is that a retorical question?
It's not a retorical question.... it's a fact. Saying Cleetus and checklist in the same sentence is an oxymoron 😀
When you have giant a fan rotating just behind your back it's probably not a bad idea to check, if there are no any lose screws in there
Cleeter bought this from mr. Safety, he's going to crap his pants when he sees this video 😂
Just when I can't get any more mired in jealousy at Cleet having all the fun and toys I'd like to have, he goes and buys a hovercraft. Well played, Cleeter. Well played.
Putting a Giraffe in a hovercraft is what we didn't know we needed.
Thats the name he needed. The giraffe craft.
@@madgreek253 I second that name
Thanks for spoiling it......
Butter needs to be the name, cause she's a smooth unit.
^^^
Yeah.,... this.
Growler.
Well its clearly the Freedom Flyer!
na Just call it Manual, because thats the only one that is going to be read :-P
@enigma9789 -- yep- best name I've seen yet. "Freedom Flyer".
Not until Cleetus goes ripping by at 60 sideways can it be called freedom anything right now it’s a dog a overweight smoker can run faster then that thing will go .
For sure best name 👍
@@neilreid9005 Freedom Floater perhaps? 😂
This brings back some memories. We built and raced a hovercraft in high school. So much fun!
Fans - “We want to see you attempt to cross the pond crossing again.”
Cleetus - “Say no more.”
Fans? Yeah it's got those!
Let's have it
Ez
I'm your 200th like
Guy is too scared to even drive it: Cleetus: drifts into garage
"I recommend reading through the owners manual, there's a lot of important information"
*Literally an hour later*
Cleetus: RIPPING at full throttle in his yard fresh off the trailer.
Im gonna adjust the blades for a little more freedom! - Cleeter :D
That guy is a puss he is scared of it you can tell that's why he sold it
@@ej2civicb736 he could be, these do take some knowledge and skill to fly
@@NomadicSociety I could just tell by the way he was talking and acting about the craft that he is scared of it
"Be careful with it"
20 minutes later
"I'm gonna come through here HOT"
Cleetus thinking to himself
- “Cleetus ain’t gonna read no damn instructions!”
I'm a really stubborn guy but i'd read them. A hover craft isn't something you can just rip around like a car
"yeah for sure" as he walks away smiling.
Next time on Cleetus McFarland: "We Bought a Running and Flying SR-71 BLACKBIRD!!!! ( mach 3 here we come)
Finally doing some sub 8 passes 🤣🤣
Lol
Corey Spaulding well I mean I’m pretty sure the last few months have been dedicated to turning their fastest cars into bracket cars.. give them until after hotrod drag week when they will be allowed to go under an 8
But they put Leroy’s old engine in it
Boosted boiz : We have a jet powered scooter!
Cleeter: That's cute! Hold my bartle skeet!
Edit: you need to bring the seller to the FF for a proper rip!! He did all that work and never got it wide open.
this. lol.
🤣
Yeah that would be really cool
Especially after a good rain and the skid pad is flooded.
Put jet engine on hover craft🤔
I was a Hovercraft pilot and instructor in the Rescue / Fire service. Once you learn to fly it you will find you have a whole lot more machine than you think. That Scat should once tuned right and the blades are tuned correct should do 35 to 40 on flat land and in the 50's on water and even better 60's plus on ice (which of course you will never see down there). Also watch out about to much running over concrete and as-fault because it will eat the skirts up, and even though the hard bottom should have skids on it landing while moving on concrete will damage it. Steering is a combination of steering, weight shift and throttle. You will find out that once you learn it you have to fly it way ahead of where your at and most of the time letting off the throttle is the wrong thing. If you are going fast the way to stop is to hard over on the steering, weight shift and full throttle and she will spin around and then stay on the throttle and the thrust will stop you in place. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
yes you r 100! this one is not set up right -YET but these guys will get it! but will they destroy it, ? they cant land this at 50mph going sideways and i feel someone will and it will be ashame cause you will mess it up 4 good and its really nice now with no stress cracks in the body he cant let nitwits fly this ! you are flying remember! even if really low to the ground! 0 brakes and nitwits dont mix lol! :)
First thing Cleet has purchased that he hasn’t done a burnout before buying!
Or is it always burning out
Your right 🤣
Lol Ruby was bought sight unseen
What about the x3 and ruby?
Cleetus’ video titles
“I bought a hover craft!!”
Next video
“We find a way to strap the hover craft to the dyno” (NITROUS WILL BE INVOLVED)
Next video
“I wrecked my hover craft”
The next video is actually gonna be “we putting a Texas speed 427 in the hovercraft”
after the nitrous... “I TURBOED THE HOVERCRAFT” 🤣
Yeah, that sounds about normal for Cleetus...
4th video. We put a hovercraft on a Crown Vic!
LMAO
For some reason, I think the hovercraft should be named "Marty" after Marty McFly.
YES
Underrated comment.
At first I was like hmmm that’s a pretty damn good name. Then I realized it was the lawn care nut who said it. You sir are an American hero. It definitely needs to be named Marty now.
I can get behind this.
Marty fits perfectly
I used to work on SCAT brand hovercraft in the 80"s. What a beast.
Pull that rotax apart and port N polish the intake. Match up port the exhaust side too. Plan on upping jetting (wakes up the old girl, throttle is crisper too). Bosen made performance reed blocks for it too (if you can find one).
Till you had catastrophic front bag failure (4 or 5 bags +) blow at one time.
Enjoy the pain.
Cleetus in 2039: WE BOUGHT AN OLD SPACEX ROCKET AND IT RIPS!
you mean 2021 launched from the centre of the freedom factory at Cleetus and cars
😳one of the greatest things I've ever...heard😜👍
Loool
BoostedBoiz: Jet powered scooter
Cleetus Mcfarland: Hovercraft
This is truly the future
Jet powered hovercraft
Boosted Boiz will come back with something WAY more sketchy
@@jacobwalls452 twin turbski razzle dazzle
K24 swap it
Driving a hovercraft is like steering a block of ice with a two stroke attached to the back, definitely plan your run ahead of time lol
Aveoxus just WING it lmfaooooo
Endless entertainment. A true gift to humanity here folks.
Don't overlook the fact that the engine on there has TONS of performance parts available from the Kart world
A rotax 277?
More power please
@@Patrick-zr8tv I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow to the knee
Seems like a job for old Father Timing, he's super into Kart racing, he probably knows EXACTLY what that thing needs to be a FULL RIPPER
@@blackmedieval2461 nice
"LS SWAPPING A HOVERCRAFT!!!"
"WE PUT NITROUS ON OUR LS SWAPPED HOVERCRAFT!!!!"
"DYNO TESTING OUR LS SWAPPED HOVERCRAFT WITH NITROUS!!!!"
"WE BLEW UP OUR LS SWAPPED HOVERCRAFT!!!!!"
DROPPING A TEXAS SPEED 454 IN OUR HOVERCRAFT
RACING RUBY IN A LS SWAPPED HOVERCRAFT!!!!!
I was wondering if a LS swap would work
"MY MOM SAID IT'S TOO DANGEROUS"
@@JG-eb2dx "I'M SCARED OF REAL DANGEROUS RACING BOYS, NO WATER SPEED RECORD, NO JET DRAGSTER, ONLY GERIATRIC RACING"
Man what a good neighbor that guy is. I wish my neighbors are like him.
Ask permision to test my hovercraft. People like him make the diferent on this word, my respect!
I also saw a cop in the background potentially his neighbor and the reason he asked, still went miles more than I would have
@@AlloutATVing id assume its because you can't control it, he probably considered the fact itll probably end up in someone's car door if he just went out and ripped it in his neighborhood.
Nah people that try to sell things and refuse test drives are just scammers. No way around it.
Garrett looking under the skirt “damn... that’s beautiful” ;)
Here he is buying and taking a hover craft across the pond, but still hasn’t gotten the tracker through it yet! #neverforgetthetracker
The tracker was much more interesting
I remember having a remote control TYCO TYPHOON Hovercraft 2, back in the early 90s. I thought it was the most awesome thing ever. It even hovered over water. Very similar design as this hovercraft.
I had one of those they were sick, I had a tank with tracks too, used to light up and shit!
batteries were a real problem back then I remember waiting for the batteries to charge more then I remember playing with it haha....
ezdfiant wait 8 hours to charge. Get 30 mins run time. I remember all those. I remember having a cyclone.edit: tantrum
Haha. We are all showing our age right now. Lol
@Lassi Kinnunen Well no worries about ice/ snow here in hawaii. Lol. Except on the 14,000ft slopes of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa Volcanoes during stormy weather.
Omg he wasn’t lying when he tagged James on IG 😂😂😂
What did I miss? I tried to find something but I’m not sure what you’re talking about? Thanks lol
Andrew Conte there’s nothing lol
It was on his IG story so it’s gone by now lol but basically it was one of those and they are going to make it fly with some sails and wings 😂
Seller: read the intrusions. It’s important. There’s a lot of safety precautions in there.
Cleetus: - backs it off the trailer - I’m gonna be coming in out right here!
🤣
When my wife hears Hell yeah brother! you're on the Cleetus Mcfarland UA-cam channel! Coming from the bathroom, she knows it's gonna be a while.
Same 😂😂😂😂
Bruh same
That was an epic shit!
Can’t stop laughing 😂 so true!!!!
Lol
We have the same one on the fire dept I was on. Used them on Lake Erie in Ohio and they are amazing! We had two of them and used them for water rescue and ice rescues. We also would use them as a big ventilation fan when they are on a trailer for warehouse fires. Have fun Brother!
Ohio represent! 🇺🇸
Jadon Wilkerson enjoy this damn heat wave if you are north side lol
@@tunermedia3233 Heat wave? It's only 108° down south in Arizona dew point of 50. Hot and sticky.
Dave Vincent oh dang. It hit a real feel of 105 today. Idk what the dew point was. Right now it’s almost 9 and it’s 91 with a due point of 69
@@tunermedia3233 northern ohio checking in can confirm its hot
Is this how you are going to cross the pond?!
Yes
@@CleetusM only way that rig is making the trip is if Texas Speed builds you an LS for it 🤷♂️
V twin
@@CleetusM still need to drive under the pond though, that is literally the content that made me sub to your channel
@@shannonhamilton9513 nothing screams freedom like an air cooled vtwin.
Those things were about every boys dream when I was young. They look so cool! Finding one restored this good is just awesome!
Boostedbois: has a jet scooter.
Cleet: Hold my beer.
Needs two jets on the hovercraft, needs two another throttle on the left side for the jets
16:09 I'm surprised James didn't pop out from around the corner carrying a nitrous bottle and say "Someone say nitrous?"
It would be very funny.
"Oh, that thing will go fast across the concrete..."
Next video: Hovercraft burnout pad drifting
Video in 3 months: Welcome to the Hovercraft 500
Now's there's a good PPV tv the hover500🤣😂🤣😂
"I've always wanted a hovercraft, there's no way around that." - ain't that the truth.
Oh brother... Twin turbo Hovercraft...
Quad turbo buddy
PLEASE paint it and call it the "FREEDOM FLOATER"
until they inevitable sink it because the engine blows up in the middle of a lake. or they let off on the power
That's perfect, considering it's already called SCAT. Scarcely Controllable All-terrain Turd.
@@Soli2deYT It floats with no power. do some research.
I’m scared for the Florida general public
as well you should be.
I scared of the average useful idiot that believes anything msm tells them
Sean Henry we can handle it lmao
Yea...we be some crazy fucks...
I’m worried here and a couple states away
love cletus's enthusiasm, he has the most fun and best friends around him.
When a 2stroke is that easy to start I get suspicious that the timing is off so that its a bit weak. But doing timing on them can be a PITA. Super fun unit!
It's a rotax dont they run weird port timing anyway I'm not sure why I'm asking
The total tend to be easy to start but dont stay running as long
Grab a bag of NGK plugs and your in!!!
my suspicion too....seems like the ignition timing may be slightly retarded and it seemed like it was a little lazy.little tweaking may be in order
Everyone like this comment so we can have a hovercraft race! I just got a hovercraft last week and live an hour away from our boy Cleet 🇺🇸🇺🇸
I DM’d his Instagram page, hopefully he will see it 🤞🏻
This is the American way. This has to happen
Do it
I can see this now...
The boys at TSP: " You need a 427 for a WHAT?!?! We'll have it there next week"
Next episode the vargas brothers build an rotary for my hovercraft 😂🤣
Lol shit it probably would be way cooler with a couple of jet engines on the back 😂
No one:
Cleetus: hey guys, guess what we have for the hovercraft on the way from Texas speed.
Imagine a v8 hovercraft
It needs a rotary
I can't imagine the Cleetus Mc INC budget meeting. "Now hear me out. ...James. How do you feel about working on a space shuttle? ". 😜😜😜🤷🏼♂️
"Pre flight check..."
Cleeter: ? "No I'm paying cash"
Just a quick thought. If you see yourself backing it up regularly, make something to fit behind the vanes on the back to deflect the air down, to the sides or round the front, kinda like jets do with the reverse thrust for breaking.
Needs "Variable Pitch" on that fan, so it can rev up and float on low pitch, then feed in more thrust as the ground speed picks up.
Will also need to drift the banking at the Freedom Factory after rain storms.
I see a variable pitch mod in the future...they must exist.
I'm sure they do exist but if not all you need is some industrial servos and a reostat to hook up to them
No harder then Collective Pitch on a Helicopter.
Introducing: "The Funhover"
YES!
Let's get this 5k likes🤣
I'm putting my vote in for this
Love it
My dad was the chief engineer at SCAT! We have a couple race craft, sent you a DM on insta
Replying to this comment so the algorithm thinks the post is interesting and should be promoted.
We will fool you UA-cam!!!
Bumping this comment.
Well, this could be an epic collaboration!
A buddy of mine got one of these in the 80's. Took it to a lakeside park to learn how to fly it.
As we were flying it across the grass, the park ranger got all po'd cause we weren't suppose to have a motorized vehicle on the grass. We tried to explain to him that technically, we weren't "on" the grass. He didn't want to hear any of that so we just flew it off into the lake, which ended up being a lot more fun.
It is hard to maneuver, doesn't have any brakes and is *LOUD*. You gotta wear ear protection!!
With no brakes, we learned to do what we called a "power stop". Spin it around so that you are going backwards and give it the gas!
It was great fun.
great story lol
i have seriously used mine as a massive leaf blower, no BS! its comical blowing a massive pile over on the neighbor when they gone to work! you stand in front of it and floor it and turn the steering to adjust the direction of the leaves
“I can’t wait to take it through a drive through” LMFAO
“Florida man takes a bald eagle hovercraft through McDonald’s drive thru”
chik-fil-a
Dairy Queen
Steven Allison yeah you’re probably right. They don’t have those where I live so I never think about that
“If you’re a fabricator” shiii boy
😂👍
I got a good laugh when the seller said " you should read the instruction manual " lol...
Previous Owner: I was afraid to test drive it, I didn't want to hit anything.
Me: Have you seen any of Cleetus' videos? Do you even know what he is going to do to this thing 5 mins after he gets it home? lol
I was laughing the entire time thinking the same thing lol
I like "Skeeter". It's black, it hovers, it's characteristic of Florida, and it'll bite you if you're not careful.
I used to operate the Navy's hovercraft (LCAC), they are a lot of fun, they like to drift to low spots and will scoot over the water real nice, They only steer good with a lot of airflow over the rudder, so no turning at low power and leaning won't do much good. Enjoy, have fun and be safe....
mind giving cleetus a engine and fan off one?
From what I was taught, leaning is a big part of handling these little hovercraft effectively. Lean forward & into the turn, drop the throttle, let the turn start and gun it & you'll really get a turn going. Only got to drive one for 5 or 10 minutes, but it was a blast!
@HoppersLab -- Respect! Those LCAC's are serious pieces of hardware- 180+ tons of mil-spec goodness for a measly $27M a copy. And with 25 tons of capacity- you could take every friend you ever had plus all their cars and household goods anywhere. Ya. I need one.
Cleetus: it could use some nitrous bottles on the back....
James pops in: I heard someone say nitrous?
A giraffe riding a hovercraft.... never thought I'd see the day.
Cleetus: "I want it!!!, I want it!!!, I want it!!! 00:50 "
(3 minutes after testing it, and watching his life play before him like on a projector...
"I can see why they discontinued making these... 14:49 "!!! lol!!
I had one of these for years, found it in a junkyard and was never able to get it registered. Learned to sew building skirt sections for it. I got a few tickets with it driving down the street in a school zone.
Lol sweet!!
U love America u should be watching Cleetus McFarland... amen brother
#freedom.