The Unofficial Colin Furze Fan Thread
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@dcon has he found the Balrog yet?
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@boomzilla said in The Unofficial Colin Furze Fan Thread:
@dcon has he found the Balrog yet?
Looks greedy enough but his angle is a bit shallow.
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@dcon That is a huge amount of work. I'm impressed by Colin's work ethic as regards pointless-but-awesome-evil-villain-lair-creation.
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@PotatoEngineer said in The Unofficial Colin Furze Fan Thread:
@dcon That is a huge amount of work. I'm impressed by Colin's work ethic as regards pointless-but-awesome-evil-villain-lair-creation.
Maybe mad science isn't dead.
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@PotatoEngineer said in The Unofficial Colin Furze Fan Thread:
I'm impressed by Colin's work ethic as regards pointless-but-awesome
That's basically Colin's MO.
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He's baaaack... with a backpack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u3mzBWG9zo
Seems it's all part of a FarCry 6 sponsorship, so afterwards he fabricobbled a motorized bike:
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Tunnel part 5:
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And the actual reason I found this thread:
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@JBert how is something literally everyone has, a secret?
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@JBert For completeness, the link to part 6 which hasn't been posted here (yet):
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Part 9 was posted today, and I'm sure you'll all be utterly shocked to learn that Colin did not get planning department approval before he started digging the tunnel. He has approval now, but not prior to starting work.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Unofficial Colin Furze Fan Thread:
Part 9 was posted today, and I'm sure you'll all be utterly shocked to learn that Colin did not get planning department approval before he started digging the tunnel.
No!
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@HardwareGeek shocking. I’m almost more impressed that some jobsworth at the council didn’t combust on the spot over an insistence to put it back how it was.
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@Arantor said in The Unofficial Colin Furze Fan Thread:
I’m almost more impressed that some jobsworth at the council didn’t combust on the spot over an insistence to put it back how it was.
That would have involved more work as someone would have had to have been scheduled to go and check.
If it's not too deep and doesn't make the surrounding property/buildings unsafe, the council will probably prefer to do a retrospective permission (things get more complicated if you build upwards). The really big NOs are all related to doing anything that might collapse and/or hurt people (unless the building is listed or it's a conservation area, but Furze's house doesn't seem to be anything like that). Since it was within an existing domestic plot, it also wouldn't have triggered any green belt rules.
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@dkf because tunnels have no history of collapsing but yeah, that’s consistent with my experience too, I was just raging at the jobsworths in my area because conservation.
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@Arantor said in The Unofficial Colin Furze Fan Thread:
@dkf because tunnels have no history of collapsing but yeah, that’s consistent with my experience too, I was just raging at the jobsworths in my area because conservation.
Yes, the council will almost certainly want to send a building control officer round at some point to check safety (if they haven't already). If Colin's got in concrete, brick or stone shoring in by then (wood's trickier as it can decay in a
damndamp environment) it should be fine. Hydraulics won't do at all (despite being great while doing the work); it's too expensive and too likely to fail long term.Most people never build down simply because it is expensive. I've heard of billionaires in London putting in multi-storey cellars by hollowing out underneath their property; they can afford to do it properly and safely. I've also heard of people tunnelling out under roads without sufficient shoring, and that's in "genuinely terrifying" territory. Don't want passing vehicles at risk of falling into a man-made sink hole...
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@dkf said in The Unofficial Colin Furze Fan Thread:
If Colin's got in concrete, brick or stone shoring in by then
He's already got steel and concrete; he's been putting it in a section at a time as he digs.
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@dkf said in The Unofficial Colin Furze Fan Thread:
wood's trickier as it can decay in a damn environment
That depends, is the temperature of Hell high enough to cause damage to wood?
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Also it once more looks like only odd episodes get posted here, does some have anything against Colin's even ones? So here's part 8, which I actually found more entertaining than part 9 as he finishes linking his tunnel with his house:
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@PleegWat I wait until this thread gets updated and work back from there if I've missed something.
Complicator's gloves, half broken workflow and . The perfect TD solution.
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Since apparently people are worried about colin furze videos not making this thread.
Have a colin furze video.
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Here's a video of a neighbor visiting Colin's construction site:
I love how Colin censors using animal sounds, and I can't help but laugh when it turns into a menagerie.
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It's done? How can it be done?
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Children's toys for adults.
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Colin Furze: The Tunnel: The Movie
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Furze's project for this year's Makers' Secret Santa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK9wYzIEk_gThe playlist of all 9 2022 Makers' Secret Santa projects:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBsfTOjKcQe9Kw8hLmO8mmNIpraOUF-c7
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"Parkouring, bullet-jumping, space ninja":
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@HardwareGeek man...living dangerously in this build. No safety tie.
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The tunnel is back!
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@PleegWat "This is proper sketchy." Especially when you're not wearing your safety tie.
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More tunnel
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@PleegWat More Tom Lamb!
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It's YT Maker Secret Santa, and Colin has made something with fire again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK3jLYR-aC4
It's just missing a "pull my finger" joke somewhere for American audiences, but this video will do anyway.
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Found a Colin fan (tho they never mention him)
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