Building a Leonardo da Vinci Bridge

Mar 18, 2017 1:53 PM

undercovergiraffe

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Building a Leonardo da Vinci Bridge

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKdQV2q5PRk

Are they pants or shorts or jorts or the kids pants

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Atta boy! Way to lift with your back. Strongest muscles in your body...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Looks like the kid knows what he's doing and dad is following around. Brillant kid

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I had a hard time watching this due to the mouth breathing retard holding the camera.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 4

Does that kid even lift? Such bad form.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What an awesome dad.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

@OP, the real challenge is to build a Leonardo DiCaprio bridge!

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 1

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

but the manpree's.......

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lovely, now build an Einstein–Rosen bridge, please

9 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 1

And for easy carrying, turn it into a Bose-Einstein condensate.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This is what (potentially ) keeps kids outta prison and of the heroine. ..

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

When I was a kid I always wanted to be in the heroine... still do.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Depends on which one..ones a good fuck...the other 'll fuck ya good!#!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I wish my co workers were as useful as that kid.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What an awesome activity for a kid love it

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What happs when he cant lift it up anymore?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Longer boards for more leverage, or some kind of mechanical assistance.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The final act is complete. The Destroyer comes to scorch the world in fire, preparing the way for the cycle to begin anew.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I knew it!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My father wouldn't have kept going for his life apparently im always doing somwthing wrong.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Wat?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Daddy issues. If you're asking about grammar: I' m spanish and drunk.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Source?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In description now, took a while to show up for some reason

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Cool thanks!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If you try this this, you might want to notch the 2x4s. Otherwise it all relies on there being enough friction from outer dowels to not move

9 years ago | Likes 386 Dislikes 4

I thought the same. I figured the pieces were going to spit out when the kid walked one. You notice daddy did not walk it. very cool

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Technically only need to notch the ones on the end

9 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 0

Isn't that part of the point?

9 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

Friction is a property of the wood being used, not the design. And Da Vinci probably didn't use perfect 2x4s or perfect dowels.

9 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 1

Wood grows with friction

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Neato

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Da vinci was an alien

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I don't care what people say. Gru is a great dad.

9 years ago | Likes 739 Dislikes 2

Actually it's Michael Symon

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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Disposable comment, +1

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

genuinely made me laugh +1

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

*dispicable, auto correct grrr

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*despicable, manual correct grrr

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9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

10/10 Would fuck up and have my dad beat me out of disappointment.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

With jumper cables?

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

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This looks nothing like leonardo da Vinci....take my down vote

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Can imgur have a fast forward option for gifs. Pleaseeeee

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

folder[Insightful]

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Listen here you little physics witches..

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Kid needs to learn to lift with his legs

9 years ago | Likes 196 Dislikes 12

Was thinking the exact same Thing!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Nice soft lower back. Kids going places..

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 7

If i've learned anything from Peter Griffin the key to lifting is to put it all in your groin and your back, take your legs totally out of >

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

the equation. Lift with your lower back in a jerking twisting motion.

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

Kid needs to make his step-dad work harder if he wants to bang his mom.

9 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 4

...did I miss something here?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

At least the kid was doing the lifting. Nice to see a kid working hard on something like this.

9 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 1

Nice to see outdoor activities, but those are wood not lead. So working "hard" isn't how I'd put it.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 5

I bet you also think the dad's choice in pants was a good one too huh?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

It's a KID!!!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Kids aren't jellyfish. They have muscles. My number of down votes must say something about how incredibly weak most of you are.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

there is a Popsicle bridge competition at my college for the engineers... i kind of want to build this now, see how it preforms..

9 years ago | Likes 1494 Dislikes 3

I'm good friends with the guys who hold the max weight record at that competition. From McMaster.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Performs*

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Maybe just stack tons of popsicles together as thick as you can, using a simple design. Saw it work in a competition hold more strength than

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Other bridges despite the weight as its just |-| and not doing the usual thing, Triangles everywhere.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's not going to preform you're going to have to form it yourself

9 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

Do it.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm really interested in this, would you make a post about it?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

if dell conagher was there he would have killed it

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

with sentry guns even

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'd rather just see how it performs

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My college too!, mine held 700lbs, 37 tongue depressors, 2 hot glue sticks, DM if you want the specs and maths @shveet

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also im the new record holder at my college, beat the other guy by 150lbs

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It being Leonardo DaVinci this shit could probably hold a tank.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

When in HS I entered in a state wide bridge building competition,came in 12th out of ~1,200. Teacher still didn't like me.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

When I was taking engineering we did the same thing with spaghetti and hot glue. Mine held over 314 times it own weight before coming down.

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

I did it with popsicle sticks and rubber bands before in high school. Honestly not sure if a single popsicle stick would've done the same.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So it held a pies worth of weight?

9 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

You know, I never noticed that before!

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Damn! My 250g spaghetti bridge held like 11kg before it snapped only because I coated that thing in epoxy

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Gotta ask... since it's already been designed, isn't that kind of cheating to put it in the contest?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I don't think this will qualify if the competition states it must be a truss bridge

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh, ok. That's interesting. I was honestly just curious on the rules. I'll have to look up truss bridges! Thank you! :)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

my school had a balsa wood bridge challenge, and I made a bridge that would collapse without breaking so it technically would support the(1)

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

weight for the challenge. I was the only one with the idea to make axels entirely out of wood, and the teacher allowed it for kicks.(2)

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

on the way out the door on the last day I tripped and fell and it shattered. Middle school me cried so hard. I was so proud of it. (3-end)

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Here. Give one of these to middle school you next time you're time traveling. You can keep the other one.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I had to re-read that. your sentence fucked with me

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As a person who did this in High School, wood is strong under compression not tension, and trianglular shapes are your friend.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Actually it's the opposite, we've tested tongue depressors at my college with a strength machine ,tension is like 3x stronger

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You could build it just for the experience, not necessarily to win, since everyone is talking up the trusses.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

it's not the strongest design, but it is very beautiful and does work better than some of the more complex designs.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I did this for a popsicle competition when I was in high school. Got 3rd place! It's super strong too

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Badly. This bridge is designed to not use fasteners. It is not an actual efficient use of material, strength-wise.

9 years ago | Likes 134 Dislikes 4

Fasteners aren't what gives a structure strength...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This bridge is supported by the sheer strength of those dowels. Wood, like most materials, has a far lower shear strength than tensile (1

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

strength. Most bridge designs focus entirely on tensile strength, with very little shear. Wood is especially bad at shear because of the (2

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

grain structure of wood.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hooray for google. Except we're comparing a structure that is held together by adhesive vs one that distributes the load throughout itself

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

(2) Statics is the branch of engineering you should be looking up.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I have a mechanical engineering degree.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'd imagine it has a different application, like as a temporary structure or in the case of limited manpower or time.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

I believe it was to help soldiers cross streams, but I'm not sure. It'd explain the lack of fasteners, as it could be taken down and reused.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A lot of Da Vinci's ideas looked really neat, but they were just ideas I'd assume. I doubt he was selling these plans, he was just creative.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Da Vinci was kind of the original genius, so you're probably pretty safe.

9 years ago | Likes 493 Dislikes 5

DaVinci didn't come up with this but it was written in his journals so they named it after him

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

OG

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I don't believe he was the original. But genius non the less. His ideas were from birth of renaissance from the East in Europe.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Actually, when he was younger he worked at a patent office and stole most of his ideas from a guy named tesla. History is amazing.

9 years ago | Likes 330 Dislikes 10

Lmao

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

And then he electrocuted an elephant.

9 years ago | Likes 142 Dislikes 2

Actualy it was Edison that electrocuted the elephant to prove alternate current (by Tesla) was dangerous.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Right, and Einstein worked in a patent office. The comment is a jokey joke mish-mashing different people.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A tiny elephant that he took with him when he presented his idea for a dinosaur park.

9 years ago | Likes 55 Dislikes 1

and f*cked his pidgeon...

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

'Performs.'

9 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 4

thanks for the correction. but we're engineers, not English majors.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 7

Engineering students* not engineers

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 4

Engineers should still know how to spell.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

"Thanks for the correction, officer, but I'm pretty sure only professional drivers are expected to know traffic laws."

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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Horribly, the dowels would shear before there was much of a load. Just go with a Pratt/Howe truss for simplicity.

9 years ago | Likes 77 Dislikes 2

Fir has a max shear strength of 1,500psi. Looks to be 1/2“ dowel in double plane shear. Totalling a max yield of 1500lb. P1

9 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 1

He's talking about popsicle stick bridges though, I'm not shitting on the bridge in the video. Also you're forgetting the moment about 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

the dowels, those 2x4s are levers, so a smaller weight could definitely shear the dowels.

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

It's a simple supported load, no transfer of moment. It will literally hold its capacity.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Assuming no safely factor but an 80% reduction natural factors, and self weight ( 100lbs to be safe) I would say it could hold 1000lb p2

9 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

Those are probably pine 2x4s.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He is literally build a bridge in their back yard with no fasteners to explain physics so that his kid might become interested in it, chill.

9 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 3

Actually, if you watch the video, the kid is teaching the Dad how to build the bridge. I don't even know the kid and I was super proud! Lol

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

But this was a conversation about its performance in a competition?

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Why is he wearing his wife's jeans ?

9 years ago | Likes 686 Dislikes 55

They look like plus-fours in denim.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Thats kids not married...

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

its a pretty normal look in germany/europe

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Because they fit and look great on him, obviously.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

"Let's play gay or eurotrash!" ... what that just Conan or is a universal thing?

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 3

Euro trash, I like that. It is indeed a garbage continent

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

They're comfy and his butt looks great in them

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 5

European men don't get wounded masculinity over man bags and crops. Generally.

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We wouldn't want you to feel insecure about your masculinity.

9 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 6

Sweet capris

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

He is the wife.

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 2

Europe

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Girlie man?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 9

I would love to see you say that to a Scot in a kilt. Your face would be so flattened haha

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

its a pretty normal look in germany/europe

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

THANK YOU. fuck I hate those pants on dudes

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 5

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who noticed this.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

You've never heard of guy capris before?

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 4

You typed 'u' instead of 'a'.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Fucking help us all, it's the fashion police..

9 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 9

Or the gender role police. Could be either.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

You will never take my right to wear trousers away from me, sir! NEVER!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Many men in Miami wear capris according to a teacher of mine. It's just how it is; everywhere is different.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

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Your poor, ignorant face would be so offended by 90% of Europe. What a joke.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

If you read my comment you'd see that I was NOT hating on the man capris, but ok.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Jokes on me. I misread you. Carry on. I'm in the wrong.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

A friend of mine christened those 'crafty butchers' - implying one who sneaks meat in by the back passage.

9 years ago | Likes 110 Dislikes 8

Hunter?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Why?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ha!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Haha gay men wear fashionable clothes hahaha. Sick burn

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 7

Haha, overly sensitive, liberally educated, urbanite, strait men feel the need to tumblrize everything? Great job bro.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

I'm not sure what point you're making but it's likely stupid...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

I'm not sure this has ever really been fashionable. That said, I'd never really considered it in that light. I suppose it is potentially...

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

..offensive. I'd never really considered it as a 'burn' though, I just liked the allusion.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Not that men fucking buttholes is some problem. It's just a stupid assumption.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

What allusion? That men who don't conform to straight stereotypes wanna fuck buttholes? What a stupid 'allusion'.

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