I think the local 7-1/4” model engineering society railway track should be used for rocket-train races, so I will always say yes. You appear to have a dragon?
Seb deserves massive credit not only for lateral thinking but also avoiding any physical assistance whatsoever. Remind me to send glass cleaner for Seb's back.
Seb is short for 'sensor light' he only works when someone walks past. Or perhaps 'Blister' - only appears when the hard work is done. The man's a genius for making Jack do all the work
I offered but I was told to stay on the camera. All to happy to oblige 🫡 Send that glass cleaner after I was made to get on the bar though, could do with a polish up 👀
Having lived in a farm cottage for nearly 10 years in the early 80's I can confirm the decor is generic and spot on! I had a BSA A10 and a Triumph Tiger in my Kitchen for a while as I didnt have a V12 tank engine at the time. Good times!
Same here (A10, T25, C15 and others) but it all came to a dismal end when I cooked a rear chain in hot melt chain lube on the cooker and the bottom fell out of the tin. Shades of Jasper Carrot and “me mum won’t let me fix it in the kitchen” from funky moped
Yeah, same. I lived with a group of dedicated bikers, the Heavy Metal kind, and the taste of engine oil has never quite left my palette. Every room, including mine, and I didn't ride at the time, had engines or forks, petrol tanks and chests of tools. One of the chaps rebuilt his bike in the attic room...then discovered an issue. Fun times.
You know this used to be a more common thing in Europe around the mid 40's . Farm House , Tank engine in the front living room . Of cause it usually came with the rest of the Tank and crew attached . Oh they knew how to have fun back then , they made their front doors back then !!! . Nice to see your keeping that tradition alive .
Here in the states, there are lots of stories of bikers, assembling motorcycles in their living room or kitchen. However, I think you guys across the pond have demonstrated that we are certainly behind you! A tank engine in the living room definitely trumps a motorcycle.😂 Cheers😊
Half of us is thinking "when was it ever a good idea to put a tank engine in your livingroom?". The other half is thiknking "but now there´s no tank engine in your livingroom?"
I think the house was built to sheter a tank. Someone dimantled the tank...but couldn't get the engine out as they did not have a manual hydraulic ram press!
That was sooooo fun to watch!!!!! My brother and I are of the same ilk. We were notorious for building 429 interceptor motors in our upstairs apartment. I built a killer 650 Triumph up there too! Never did get the smell of the 90 weight gear oil outta that place. Didn’t get our deposit back either. Our friends would come over to help us drag the latest build down a rickety wooden flight of stairs. Someone always got something pinched or smashed in the process. It all made for great memories. Your video put me right there back in time. Awesome production!!!!
Not that I've ever done this before ;) but fence post across the door frame and a winch mounted on it works a treat for dragging big stuff down corridors.
Just what I did to drag a new freezer into my house by myself. Worked like a wizard. No torn up flooring or door frame damage wither. Come-a -long & 4X6 worked great.
I think you should have taken the window out and lifted it out with the Crane on the Foden 🇬🇧👍🏻 Wait till one of the Grown Ups come home and see all that damage, I think you will be sent straight to your bedroom and no tea 🤣
Only blokes will live in such a dosshole and the idea of having a bloody great battle tank engine in one's living room is hilarious!!! Keep it up lads......brilliant stuff.
Have you ever tried a sack barrow at both ends? Very effective! Lift with the sack barrow then drop in a timber block between sack barrow and load to keep it on the wheels! It works!
An alternative method of extraction, start up newly acquired little yellow crane. Attach extended lifting beam, poke it through the top opening light on the front window, attach suitable lifting frame to engine. Take the strain giving clear hand signals, hook up Foden to the rear of little yellow crane. Then on count of select reverse on both vehicles and 3 hit the accelerator pedals simultaneously. Sorted
this really does feel like one of those drunk stories about how you get so wasted you wake up and there is a ladder in the front room which cant fit threw the doors and you have no idea how you got it in there
a bunch of us where out drinking and we found a scaffold pole which seemed to fit inside a stranger's big letterbox. wonder if they enjoyed it as much as we did 😉
What a swerve on your pumpkin past Seb's, Joe! Class pumpkin bowling skills. Definitely a bit of finger bias I'd say. Crown Green (erm tarmac) bowling at its finest.
If I may add my personal opinion, I think you should just park an entire tank in the living room this Christmas Day. Best of both worlds there, you could decorate the barrel it’s basically a tree(ish)
The real question is how the engine got there in the first place. Who put it there if removing it was such a difficulty ? Did he move in with the thing already part of the decor ? Was the cottage built around the engine ? Did he rent it specifically because the engine preexisted his tenancy ? As a young guy my living room was graced with a motorcycle engine in the winter. Spent evenings polishing the thing after rebuilding it so I understand why such a thing would grace the place with its presence. But there are unanswered questions here.
Great you're Madness fans!. However one question, how the f*ck did you get that engine in the house without doing the damage it took to get it out again? Bril!. Nuff said 🤣
@@MrHewes Bonkers!, but! Loveable!. Keep doing what you do! We'll keep watching!. Always an education on mechanics!. Mindyou your dear old dog needs a 'treats' raise.. Nuff said!. Need a fifty something apprentice? 🤣
With all the crap going on in the country, this crew reminds me why I’m still proud to be Brit’, ❤ ‘Through the mud, through the blood, to the green fields beyond’.
That was awesome. I once winched a Kawasaki triple engine up the bedroom stairs, the rope (washing line) snapped and the engine rolled back down through the front door.
Well I did have a vintage Atco motor mower in my bath for a while in one of the houses I had. The bath itself was half full of red diesel which was supposed to loosen off something or other so that it could be more easily removed. When i sold the house the mower was still there and the buyer didn't even ask about it.
Another great video guys, shame to move the engine out, I liked it there! I'm not going to ask where the tree came from, but after meeting jack today, I have a good idea!! Keep up the good content... 👍
The big Model V-2 Model V-2-34 38.8 L engine easily weigh around 600 kg and was quite reliable and easy easy to maintain. It is perfect for indoor decoration aside some smashing here and there! 🤣😅
Someone I knew had the same problem but he had radial engine in his dining room.he had to chop up his dining table and chairs and burned them on his log burner to get it in. He completely wrecked his patio doors taking it out. Ripping the frame from the wall but the guy who bought the engine helped him board the patio doors up. He went to B&Q in his van to get some sheets of plywood when we got the engine to the front driveway for it be loaded into his van. His miserable wife stormed off to her mother's as soon as the glass in the patio door exploded. Moral of story is. Send the Mrs shopping when your moving big engines in or out of the house. They simply don't understand anything more than shopping. Clothes. Make up. Mobile phones. Anything past them just confuses and annoys them.😂 PS the engine was a Pratt & Witney light aircraft prop engine. 12 cylendars. He kept the propeller for his wall up the staircase. Used it as a handrail which I thought was a stroke of genius by him. His Mrs hated it. She kept catching her nails on the locating bolts. Women eh ! They're not together now and the guy seems happy about it. He replaced the engine with a pinball machine and a motorbike. More room now. He replaced the Mrs with a scruffy mongrel dog from the shelter and named it Christine the same name of the X Mrs funnily enough..see him walking it all the time. Big grin on his face 😂
The engine removal looks even better at playback x 2 speed, Benny Hill's theme tune and a bottle or 3 of beer. I am mightily impressed the floor boards stood the weight of that Meteor. Nothing wrong with those tiles a bit carpet won't fix.
It all started when I sprayed the frame of my bike and put it in the Front Room for the paint to harden. Yes, you’ve guessed it - the entire fully-built bike ended up there! Oh what fun we had manoeuvring round the bends in the hallway and through the kitchen (door frame removed) to get it out!
Hi Mr Hewes, Seb and Jack, this the maddest, as in crazy clip on YT I have every seen, Ozzy Man, eat your heart out. Please keep it up, but keep safe, life is precious and can end suddenly.
Think a young lady defo deserves that meritorious medal & can see her boots off policy was being observed 👍 🎄 she did a good job getting that Xmas tree in the farm house I’m sure Ted approves ! 🐕🦺
"Can we stop with the paedophile jokes? I'm not even that bad"
That took the tea out of my mouth and put it on my keyboard
Every man watching this sees absolutely no problem with having a massive V12 engine in their living room
How'd it get in there I'm thinking 😂
Every man should have one.
Even some of us girls think its a fantastic idea 😂 might put a rover v8 in mine
@@maxxod1 noticed you didn't say Wife......
Yup.
And I’m not even a man. 😂
I appreciate the 'no shoes' in the house policy, last thing you want is dirty boots in your front room when lifting a V12 engine out. Safety socks on!
Who thinks pumpkin races should be a thing? 🤔
I think the local 7-1/4” model engineering society railway track should be used for rocket-train races, so I will always say yes. You appear to have a dragon?
Yes! Eat the cheese and roll the pumpkin!
"Pumpkin" could be a description of a very wide definition of "contestants"
I'm on board 👍
I think that you should build a trebuchet and see how far a pumpkin can fly. The addition of wings is optional. 🤣🤣🤣🎃❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎃🤣🤣🤣
Looks hard work but why in the house 🏠 after all that work hope it runs And pumpkin soup it's very nice for lunch in the field
Seb deserves massive credit not only for lateral thinking but also avoiding any physical assistance whatsoever.
Remind me to send glass cleaner for Seb's back.
They have winch him outta bed
His new nickname is "foreskin". Disappears when the going gets hard.
Seb is short for 'sensor light' he only works when someone walks past. Or perhaps 'Blister' - only appears when the hard work is done. The man's a genius for making Jack do all the work
I offered but I was told to stay on the camera. All to happy to oblige 🫡
Send that glass cleaner after I was made to get on the bar though, could do with a polish up 👀
@@philipyeo7535 and such a sign of loyalty when they put them straight back under. Hence I call mine Samson the Sodbag
Having lived in a farm cottage for nearly 10 years in the early 80's I can confirm the decor is generic and spot on!
I had a BSA A10 and a Triumph Tiger in my Kitchen for a while as I didnt have a V12 tank engine at the time. Good times!
I used to keep my '69 BSA lightning in the living room in the winter to make sure it stayed toasty warm and cozy!
We allways had a bike in the kitchen as it was warmer than the garage 👍
Same here (A10, T25, C15 and others) but it all came to a dismal end when I cooked a rear chain in hot melt chain lube on the cooker and the bottom fell out of the tin. Shades of Jasper Carrot and “me mum won’t let me fix it in the kitchen” from funky moped
Unique smell 😂
Yeah, same. I lived with a group of dedicated bikers, the Heavy Metal kind, and the taste of engine oil has never quite left my palette. Every room, including mine, and I didn't ride at the time, had engines or forks, petrol tanks and chests of tools. One of the chaps rebuilt his bike in the attic room...then discovered an issue. Fun times.
Only the “power of love” could cause a man to replace a tank engine in his living room with a Christmas tree.
You know this used to be a more common thing in Europe around the mid 40's . Farm House , Tank engine in the front living room . Of cause it usually came with the rest of the Tank and crew attached . Oh they knew how to have fun back then , they made their front doors back then !!! . Nice to see your keeping that tradition alive .
I particularly liked how careful you all were to take your shoes off so that you didn't damage the floor. Very considerate!!!
I think there is a young lady that deserves a meritorious conduct medal there! Well done everybody!
I am at a loss of words! The tiles, the door frame.......the engine in the living room. Great video. Now lets see the engine running.
This channel is definitely “The grand tour” for tanks
Mr Hewes = Clarkson
Seb = James May
Jack = Hammond
Keep up the good work lads👌🏻👍🏻😂
UA-cam eats the BBC
The Grand War?
Here in the states, there are lots of stories of bikers, assembling motorcycles in their living room or kitchen. However, I think you guys across the pond have demonstrated that we are certainly behind you! A tank engine in the living room definitely trumps a motorcycle.😂 Cheers😊
Nice to see Ted branching out from project management into film production.
Chiselhead is one lazy bastard though, eh? No room for passengers there, boy.
Half of us is thinking "when was it ever a good idea to put a tank engine in your livingroom?". The other half is thiknking "but now there´s no tank engine in your livingroom?"
Let's have a round of applause for the old school traditional farm house parquet flooring! That stuff was built to last!!!!!
Bloody brilliant Episode Chaps, Madness was a perfect choice for this hilarious Video.🤣🤣🤣
I suppose its best not to ask why that engine was there in the first place 😂
The engine was there before the house judging by the damage caused during removal
Actually, enquiring minds would like to know why. 😊
As Jack said, it was brought in on Xmas day, so Santa must have brought it down the chimney! I hope he wrapped it well.
I think the house was built to sheter a tank. Someone dimantled the tank...but couldn't get the engine out as they did not have a manual hydraulic ram press!
@@TachyonDriver firstly, one has to consider the question "why not?"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Everyone needs a little Madness in their life.
Good thing Jack had his safety socks with him
"Right Saud Fred that there door is going to have to go". for some reason that song is running round my head watching this !
Between you and Colin Furze you are the mates we all wish we had,
We've got WhistlinDiesel though who incidentally hung out with these fellas when he bought his Challenger tank.
I suspect the quiet persuasion of a woman behind this engine move... like a glacier, creeping but with the power that can carve out a valley.
Great song! Got the album for my 16th birthday!
That was sooooo fun to watch!!!!! My brother and I are of the same ilk. We were notorious for building 429 interceptor motors in our upstairs apartment. I built a killer 650 Triumph up there too! Never did get the smell of the 90 weight gear oil outta that place. Didn’t get our deposit back either. Our friends would come over to help us drag the latest build down a rickety wooden flight of stairs. Someone always got something pinched or smashed in the process. It all made for great memories. Your video put me right there back in time. Awesome production!!!!
Thing i dont get is why you'd want a tree in your house 😂😂😂
Not that I've ever done this before ;) but fence post across the door frame and a winch mounted on it works a treat for dragging big stuff down corridors.
Better yet you could have parked the Forden out side and winched it lol
Just what I did to drag a new freezer into my house by myself. Worked like a wizard. No torn up flooring or door frame damage wither. Come-a -long & 4X6 worked great.
Just another day of smooth sailing at the chaos factory 😂😂😂😂😂
You guys are the best. This made my day. Good to see the Christmas tree going up. Now I’m motivated to get mine up tomorrow. 🇨🇦
I think you should have taken the window out and lifted it out with the Crane on the Foden 🇬🇧👍🏻 Wait till one of the Grown Ups come home and see all that damage, I think you will be sent straight to your bedroom and no tea 🤣
Only blokes will live in such a dosshole and the idea of having a bloody great battle tank engine in one's living room is hilarious!!! Keep it up lads......brilliant stuff.
Have you ever tried a sack barrow at both ends? Very effective! Lift with the sack barrow then drop in a timber block between sack barrow and load to keep it on the wheels!
It works!
An alternative method of extraction, start up newly acquired little yellow crane. Attach extended lifting beam, poke it through the top opening light on the front window, attach suitable lifting frame to engine. Take the strain giving clear hand signals, hook up Foden to the rear of little yellow crane. Then on count of select reverse on both vehicles and 3 hit the accelerator pedals simultaneously. Sorted
this really does feel like one of those drunk stories about how you get so wasted you wake up and there is a ladder in the front room which cant fit threw the doors and you have no idea how you got it in there
🤣
I know I'm late to the party but I still have questions as to how it got there...
Alcohol could be both the cause and solution to this problem.
a bunch of us where out drinking and we found a scaffold pole which seemed to fit inside a stranger's big letterbox. wonder if they enjoyed it as much as we did 😉
Minute 1:35 - mannual human push ram ..... with precision navigation 😁🤣🤣😂
Also handy to get the Christmas tree in to the living room corner, after decorating it😅
Plan C - get the Foden to pull the house off of the V12 engine… great vid boys!
Did you take your shoes off in the house in case they got dirty??😄
Was expecting Bernard Cribbins singing "Right said Fred"
Always think of the 'Benny Hill' music on the fast forward parts..
The great pumpkin escape. Well done for getting it out with absolutely no damage whatsoever... to the engine.
Plan B: leave the engine in the lounge and decorate with tinsel and lights.
For Christmas😂😂
it would be the Rolls Royce of Christmas trees !
This!...There are six Christmas Trees on the window sill already 0:51...Madness!!
Brought tears to me eyes such beautiful sight to behold.
What a swerve on your pumpkin past Seb's, Joe! Class pumpkin bowling skills. Definitely a bit of finger bias I'd say. Crown Green (erm tarmac) bowling at its finest.
Ahhh. Another day in the life of simple country folk.😜
Absolutely hilarious video! Just love watching you guys and Ted too ! Keep it up
If I may add my personal opinion, I think you should just park an entire tank in the living room this Christmas Day. Best of both worlds there, you could decorate the barrel it’s basically a tree(ish)
I had an operation for a hernia 35 years ago, watching this brought back some painful memories!
The engine is a thing of beauty and would grace any gentle persons abode👍
I am shocked you didnt arrange some pulley blocks and a foden to winch it through the house
The real question is how the engine got there in the first place. Who put it there if removing it was such a difficulty ? Did he move in with the thing already part of the decor ? Was the cottage built around the engine ? Did he rent it specifically because the engine preexisted his tenancy ?
As a young guy my living room was graced with a motorcycle engine in the winter. Spent evenings polishing the thing after rebuilding it so I understand why such a thing would grace the place with its presence. But there are unanswered questions here.
Maybe it was put together in the living room, in the winter when it was really cold outside...
FFS , don’t give him ideas!
@@paulmanson253 if you look back I think Joe has a vid of him putting it in there
Just drag the house off the engine..... 🤔😂
Best laugh I've had for a long while! Only started watching recently,I find the tank work informative and a giggle! Keep it up lads,ooer missus!
I’m glad they don’t squander the family fortune on interior decor…..not if one is keeping an engine in the sitting room…..😂
You boys are delightfully feckin bonkers and I absolutely love it
That was an extremely funny video to watch and those frames suffered bad but all in the name of Christmas 🎄 Merry Christmas all 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
Wouldn't of been Merry if the whisky bottle had smashed 1:10 ...I know that box colour even if it is on fast forward! 😄
thank you very much for good entertainment. good job guys.👍🤗👍🇸🇯
Great you're Madness fans!. However one question, how the f*ck did you get that engine in the house without doing the damage it took to get it out again? Bril!. Nuff said
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I got the engine in by myself last year on Christmas Day 🤣 I’m an incredibly determined person
@@MrHewes Bonkers!, but! Loveable!. Keep doing what you do! We'll keep watching!. Always an education on mechanics!. Mindyou your dear old dog needs a 'treats' raise.. Nuff said!. Need a fifty something apprentice? 🤣
@@MrHewesput that vid up will ya
Great choice of music. That was complete and utter madness. What a pity the BBC can't write comedy like that. Looking forward to the next one.
Some things are better if it’s real.
I had to watch that twice. Then I downloaded the song. Thanks guys and Merry Christmas.
With all the crap going on in the country, this crew reminds me why I’m still proud to be Brit’, ❤ ‘Through the mud, through the blood, to the green fields beyond’.
That was awesome.
I once winched a Kawasaki triple engine up the bedroom stairs, the rope (washing line) snapped and the engine rolled back down through the front door.
Bloody brilliant lads! Did you build the house around that engine!?😂 Also is Jack 2 inches shorter now
Great choice of music to go with the mayhem, the whole thing was Madness!
……..and I’ve watched a few videos of how the Pyamids were made. Easy for you chaps🤣
Music choice was very appropriate. Maybe Madness will write you a theme song.
Well I did have a vintage Atco motor mower in my bath for a while in one of the houses I had. The bath itself was half full of red diesel which was supposed to loosen off something or other so that it could be more easily removed. When i sold the house the mower was still there and the buyer didn't even ask about it.
I've never thought I'd laugh at a pumpkin but here i am lmao at a pumpkin rolling down the road loving the content keep up the good work
Best and most appropriate soundtrack for a post. Every!
The Merlin/Meteor were actually designed to fit through a standard 30" doorway.
Another great video guys, shame to move the engine out, I liked it there! I'm not going to ask where the tree came from, but after meeting jack today, I have a good idea!! Keep up the good content... 👍
That first pumpkin escape made me laugh so much more than it should have!!!
Cheers boys!
The big Model V-2 Model V-2-34 38.8 L engine easily weigh around 600 kg and was quite reliable and easy easy to maintain. It is perfect for indoor decoration aside some smashing here and there! 🤣😅
the legs in the air at 01:28 are incredible
Suprised you didn’t used the Foden.. forklift, perfect 👌🏻
Someone I knew had the same problem but he had radial engine in his dining room.he had to chop up his dining table and chairs and burned them on his log burner to get it in. He completely wrecked his patio doors taking it out. Ripping the frame from the wall but the guy who bought the engine helped him board the patio doors up. He went to B&Q in his van to get some sheets of plywood when we got the engine to the front driveway for it be loaded into his van. His miserable wife stormed off to her mother's as soon as the glass in the patio door exploded. Moral of story is. Send the Mrs shopping when your moving big engines in or out of the house. They simply don't understand anything more than shopping. Clothes. Make up. Mobile phones. Anything past them just confuses and annoys them.😂
PS the engine was a Pratt & Witney light aircraft prop engine. 12 cylendars. He kept the propeller for his wall up the staircase. Used it as a handrail which I thought was a stroke of genius by him. His Mrs hated it. She kept catching her nails on the locating bolts. Women eh !
They're not together now and the guy seems happy about it. He replaced the engine with a pinball machine and a motorbike. More room now. He replaced the Mrs with a scruffy mongrel dog from the shelter and named it Christine the same name of the X Mrs funnily enough..see him walking it all the time. Big grin on his face 😂
I think you all should go into house removals you would be mint at it 😂
Madness......Solid 80's music choice!
House removals, are you going to do chandelier removal as well?😂
Pumpkin 10 pin bowling is the new national sport then.👍
Best TED production ever! Submit it to Cannes next year!
Jack pushing the V12 with his socks and no shoes 😂bloody hilarious
The engine removal looks even better at playback x 2 speed, Benny Hill's theme tune and a bottle or 3 of beer.
I am mightily impressed the floor boards stood the weight of that Meteor. Nothing wrong with those tiles a bit carpet won't fix.
Great content guys. I thought for a minute the v12 was going out the window 😂
House of fun was a good choice of track. I love the fact that some kid in the future is gonna look at this resto and think wtf. 😁
Going to see madness tonight, just stopped listening to them to watch this video and what's playing?? 😂😂 What's the chances lol
Love to see the the data plate to find where & when it was overhauled
Great bit of content chaps! Should’ve fired that engine up in the living room first 👍
A V12 In a living room that is so wonderfully ridiculous that this video deserves to have a million views.
It all started when I sprayed the frame of my bike and put it in the Front Room for the paint to harden. Yes, you’ve guessed it - the entire fully-built bike ended up there! Oh what fun we had manoeuvring round the bends in the hallway and through the kitchen (door frame removed) to get it out!
2 questions, how did you get in the house, and why.
It's very entertaining watching you guys getting it out of the house.
I can't believe Monty Python NEVER thought of this bit.
You guys really did that the hard way. Shoulda just ripped it through the wall with the Foden.
If Jack was full size that engine would of been out in one leg press... Great video as always
Top job , installing a bit of patina makes houses more attractive … was that a STUDEBAKER M5 express pick up I saw ?
Hi Mr Hewes, Seb and Jack, this the maddest, as in crazy clip on YT I have every seen, Ozzy Man, eat your heart out. Please keep it up, but keep safe, life is precious and can end suddenly.
That’s why I make sure I don’t waste a moment of it
Jack should have been on the trolley and your lanky frame should have been doing the yoga move 🤣🤣
Just amazing.......its coming out now sod the doors, frames, tiles....time for a pint of tea me thinks
Think a young lady defo deserves that meritorious medal & can see her boots off policy was being observed 👍 🎄 she did a good job getting that Xmas tree in the farm house I’m sure Ted approves ! 🐕🦺
Next time I want to demolish a house I plan on calling you guys. 😆😆
We all need friends like this...
30 secs in and Madness is playing. Winning.
too me too you too me too you 🤣😂😅😂 chuckles
This year, I have decided to call my Christmas tree ‘Amy Winehouse’ because it will die in the sitting room, and leave needless all over the place.
Haha funnyv that
16:02 Definitely a new sport be good to see you make a dambuster pumpkin in the pond the stolly was in 😂