New video: putting the explosive bat to the test (Patreon)

While making my explosive bat I accumulated a long list of things that I really wanted to try out. I decided they were likely interesting enough that it could make sense for a video. This is the result. I attempted to do a very different format in this video as a challenge to see if I could, as well as to fit the content better. Basically me and my wife having fun pushing the bat to the limits. The result is a pseudo Mythbusters spoof that was a lot of fun to make. Hopefully you enjoy it as well. 

I was scared of the bat before, but now I'm terrified. I was truly shocked at how much carnage it did to the hand. I knew in theory that the bat was pushing with the energy of a gun, but it is a whole different thing to see in slow motion. Yikes.

Given how reliably the bat would hit baseballs I was expecting apples, hands, golf balls, and axes to go off without a hitch. It seems I got incredibly lucky with the design of the bat just working with the masses and speeds involved with baseballs. I would estimate that about 70% of all the time I put into this project was just trying to make the dang thing fire. I cut a lot of the trials and tribulations from the final video because it just got boring. I ended up making lots of new parts and taking things apart and putting them back together so many times.

One example I had to cut was trying to fire the bat with string for the bananas and the hand. I went through about 10 different arrangements + different types of cord and string until it would finally fire. It was a very delicate balance of things not being too strong and launching the bat I was using to trigger things but not immediately breaking. Three loops of 100 pound test kevlar cord turned out to be prefect. 

Let me know if you have any specific questions. This is likely not the last we'll see of this bat. Though I am quite scared of it now... There were tons of good ideas in the comments for my last post on the bat, many of which I'm dying to get to. Well hopefully not dying...

There's lots of exciting high speed shots in this video - getting the high speed was only possible with your support. I think it made this video 10x better so thank you so much for the support!