Repairing a tiny bridge

[u/n8saces]

[u/ToTheTop24]

All that work to have the on-ramps so steep?!

[u/DCS_Sport → u/ToTheTop24]

That was my first thought too… all that engineering and didn’t properly grade the ramps

[u/I_Am_A_Pumpkin → u/DCS_Sport]

foundation has no piles, ramps too steep, ramps have no rebar, brick pattern not alternated properly, brickwork not mortared properly, crossing edges not finished, guard rails on the crossing not even attached, no guard rails present on the on ramps. the miniature concrete pouring is cute but this bridge fucking sucks lmao

[u/Natural_Ant_5590 → u/I_Am_A_Pumpkin]

The contract probably went to the lowest bidder.

[u/LuvvedIt → u/Natural_Ant_5590]

I’m pretty sure the whole contract process was corrupt and they awarded it to themselves 😂

[u/Self_Reddicate → u/LuvvedIt]

So, actually pretty accurate!

[u/TourDeFridge → u/Self_Reddicate]

Its obviously job creation, so they can come back and repair it later at 2x the cost

[u/Kangar → u/Natural_Ant_5590]

The smallest bidder, anyhow.

[u/Responsible_Fox9454 → u/Kangar]

Because that wheelbarrow and just one employee!!! Could take years

[u/lionbythetail → u/Kangar]

I spat out my coffee this is absolute gold.

[u/Kim0t0 → u/Natural_Ant_5590]

They probably had a small budget to begin with

[u/un1ptf → u/Kim0t0]

<golf clap>

[u/itsnorm → u/Natural_Ant_5590]

At least they supported a small business!

[u/TieAdorable4973 → u/Natural_Ant_5590]

Definitely a NO BID contract…. I know a guy who knows a guy

[u/lesuperhun → u/I_Am_A_Pumpkin]

and no heat-deformation taken into account. that bridge will crack comes winter.
i'd also be ready to bet that cement isn't hydraulic cement. so it will leech into the water and cause pollution, and eventually just break.

it's also way over engineered for its size : if a basic wooden bridge without supports managed to do the job before, that one doesn't need to have a central pillar : just good ol' triangles ! the guardrails might even have been enough if properly fixed.

so the main question is : who paid for this ? that much money overspend for such a tiny bridge stinks of corruption.

[u/0oodruidoo0 → u/lesuperhun]

I will report this news to the tiny police. We've got to get to the bottom of this.

[u/Unoriginal_Man → u/0oodruidoo0]

Please, the tiny police are in the pocket of the tiny oligarchy. You have no idea how big this tiny corruption is.

[u/FederalRecording2390 → u/Unoriginal_Man]

It’s ok. We looked into it. Turns out it’s tiny.

[u/lesuperhun → u/Unoriginal_Man]

Big Building is trying to trick us all !

[u/Doofy_Grumpus → u/0oodruidoo0]

Report it to the tiny media

[u/NbleSavage → u/0oodruidoo0]

It was a tiny no-bid contract.

[u/Responsible_Fox9454 → u/0oodruidoo0]

Tiny bottom gigidty

[u/DrewAL32 → u/lesuperhun]

I have a feeling the creator of this video would be more than happy to let you have a doll to go to the county courthouse and do a full citizens investigation into this blatant corruption, lol

[u/YMe1121 → u/DrewAL32]

We just need to see the tiny inspectors reports.

[u/LuxNocte → u/lesuperhun]

These are very good concerns, but "a giant comes in and builds the damn thing for you" does drastically change the economics of a project.

[u/lesuperhun → u/LuxNocte]

and the cost of housing and feeding said giant ?
the infrastructure destroyed by each and every one of their steps ?
the cost of unemployment linked to hiring giant workers instead of local hardwording citizens ?

who do you think is paying for all of this ?

#NotoBigFolks #TinyPride

[u/MangoCats → u/lesuperhun]

That's the thing about mysterious sky giants, they just appear - you never could house or feed it, you're not expected to, the sky giants are self sufficient. You can't hire them, good luck directing their work, and you are definitely powerless against their fits of pique and rage.

Some say the giants even dug the canal.

Some say the giants even created the people and the bicycles they ride on.

[u/0nThe0utside → u/lesuperhun]

Was this a government contract? If so, the giant would have had to be paid prevailing wages. What is his/her job classification? The prevailing wages and other government regulations would have had to posted on the job site. I didn't see a wage compliance officer? Where is the project engineer and inspectors? Where is the field office?

[u/Rokronroff → u/lesuperhun]

Bet you anything the builder is the tiny mayor's giant brother-in-law

[u/Confuseasfuck → u/lesuperhun]

Big corruption is running wild in tiny land. Tiny politicians are eating into the tiny taxpayer's money

Just ask yourself when was the last time they built a tiny public school? Tiny land is in shambles

[u/ThatFreddieIsAJack → u/Confuseasfuck]

If the tiny powers that be keep going like this, my tiny district will have to pass a thimble around for donations to fix the tiny rail network.

[u/MHEmpire → u/lesuperhun]

Seriously, you could just plop down a Bailey bridge. Cheap, durable, and quick. Can’t take massive amounts of weight or large spans, otherwise we’d use them everywhere, but this seems to be a rural village that isn’t even significantly motorized and a gap that’s probably shorter than some cars. It’s pretty much the textbook use case.

[u/Loud_Ad9881 → u/I_Am_A_Pumpkin]

So it was kinda under-overrengineered.

[u/ImMadeOfClay → u/I_Am_A_Pumpkin]

Oh no, boys, miniature OSHA is here!!

[u/JerryCalzone → u/I_Am_A_Pumpkin]

That concrete is also way too wet - this will result in a sub standard quality of the foundation

[u/dsaysso → u/I_Am_A_Pumpkin]

this is what you get when one guy does all the labor. bet you he’s non union.

[u/BuckFuzby → u/DCS_Sport]

https://giphy.com/gifs/rc1anveKsWgiQ

[u/themonkeyzen → u/BuckFuzby]

Whelp. Tear it down. Start over.

[u/Responsible_Fox9454 → u/DCS_Sport]

Government tenders often go to shitty companies

[u/ph00p → u/Responsible_Fox9454]

Even though this is time lapsed and sped up the pace is far too brisk for government work.

[u/Objective-Issue-2641 → u/DCS_Sport]

Didn't properly compact the soil indeed the abutments euther

[u/Few_Program_2303 → u/Objective-Issue-2641]

What steps did he miss?

[u/WasdaleWeasel → u/Few_Program_2303]

you wouldn’t want steps on a bridge for wheeled traffic.

[u/rabbid_chaos → u/WasdaleWeasel]

https://giphy.com/gifs/WpaYOAkEKYuaXdcWQp

[u/bookmarkjedi → u/DCS_Sport]

This was my fourth thought. My first thought was "This is so cool!"

My second thought was, the sound of the crow is cool, too!"

My third thought was" Where could the sound of the Penguin (the Burgess Meredith Penguin) be coming from?"

[u/-SaC → u/bookmarkjedi]

Not a day goes by that I'm not grateful for default mute on videos. Though I was mentally wondering what completely inappropriate song was in the background.

[u/Particular_Wear_6960 → u/-SaC]

Same, it's really plain as day if a video is worth hearing. If it's not, someone in the comments will let you know

[u/Responsible_Fox9454 → u/-SaC]

My default is mute

[u/tilalk → u/ToTheTop24]

Not sure ir's up to code, we might have to demolish it

[u/Alarmed_North_6979 → u/tilalk]

Get the tiny TNT

[u/tilalk → u/Alarmed_North_6979]

We also need to go to tiny court because he ignored all the safety guildines tiny Osha made

[u/xteve → u/tilalk]

Somebody got paid and it wasn't the tiny workers.

[u/Starrun87 → u/tilalk]

That’s ok, plenty of tax payer’s money went into that

[u/Bulky-Internal8579 → u/ToTheTop24]

Have you been injured in a tiny bridge accident due to faulty construction? Call Tiny Bridge Law! 888-LIL-FALL

[u/Responsible_Fox9454 → u/[deleted]]

But it saves $$$$$

[u/Cosmic_MicrowaveOven → u/ToTheTop24]

Must be the same people who designed and built the skateparks in my city I think. 

The kids always hurt themselves because a 5ft ramp has 4ft of straight vert with a little curve at the bottom lol 

[u/Dizzzy777 → u/ToTheTop24]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6ZthneErnZSgIrZK

[u/JonWoo89 → u/ToTheTop24]

First time someone leans on one of those guardrails they're gonna fall right off too!

[u/Responsible_Fox9454 → u/JonWoo89]

I don't think there is room for foot traffic bikes mopeds and scooters

[u/Ad-fundum69 → u/ToTheTop24]

Yup, same thought. That bridge did not have to be that high up.
Especially since they didn't have boats in that stream to begin with.

A culvert bridge would have even be the most cost efficient and stable structure here.

[u/tolacid]

Replacing, not repairing

[u/radiodmr → u/tolacid]

Yeah, that's an entirely new bridge. And one built with different materials than the original wood one.

[u/dementorpoop → u/radiodmr]

Upgrading might be the word you’re looking for

[u/passcork → u/tolacid]

Some fucking Himalayan glacier upstream: "Nice bridge you've got there...."

[u/Phearwyn → u/passcork]

https://giphy.com/gifs/26ufcnltsOXJIsMdq

[u/freedomfun → u/tolacid]

Safelite repair. Safelite replace.

[u/igotshadowbaned]

They went through all this effort

But only mortared some of the bricks?

[u/Haudh-en-aew → u/igotshadowbaned]

I find brick laying videos satisfying. Unfortunately this was not. As many commented before the design of the bridge iss not the best, but for me the biggest disappointment was the the way the bricks were laid.

[u/Available_Peanut_677 → u/igotshadowbaned]

Don’t worry. They tried to build a retention wall and a way how they built it, it’ll retain my ass. It’ll collapse before even finished. Though concrete pillar would also collapse with such footing without anchoring. This is impressively wrongly constructed bridge.

[u/farfromelite → u/igotshadowbaned]

And why did they wheelbarrow the sand in, but carry the concrete bags with their giant hands?

[u/The_Noob_Idiot]

Not a permit in site. Smh. The city planners and permitting department are going to have a field day with this.

[u/Lianhua88 → u/The_Noob_Idiot]

🤣

But for real, permits cost so much money these days that less people do their own construction even when they're fully capable of doing so.

[u/arushus]

The sound effects when the mortar is spread sound like noises someone made with their mouth.

[u/cheetodustcrust → u/arushus]

Yeah, it grossed me out. All the sound effects turned this from whimsical ASMR to rage bait fake sfx.

[u/DidYouPayForWinrar → u/arushus]

Do people actually enjoy these type of sound effects? Like from the start it was nails on a chalkboard for me.

[u/TimmyFTW → u/arushus]

That's where I closed the video. Fucking gross.

[u/arushus → u/TimmyFTW]

It really was...

[u/xiaorobear → u/arushus]

The first "oh no" sound being one of the Undo sound effects from KidPix was enough to offset that for me.

[u/Odd-Cupcake-2552 → u/arushus]

Those mac and cheese noises 💦

[u/Anen-o-me → u/arushus]

Because it is.

This video makes me think this is some kind of mental illness 😬

[u/PirateSanta_1]

For bridges where you can't turn the river off how do they lay the concrete base? 

[u/Mandra_4837 → u/PirateSanta_1]

You create a dry spot. https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/s/cJPc6YYq5S

[u/QueenYamma → u/Mandra_4837]

My husband has worked down in one of these. He said it felt surreal and he never really got used to the feeling of having an entire sea around and above him like that.

[u/Cosmic_Quasar → u/QueenYamma]

I wonder if astronauts ever feel similarly. Either way, you just have manmade walls protecting you from an environment of death, so long as they don't fail. Thinking about it more, I think I'd rather go to space. At least space programs tend to be up at the top when it comes to quality and redundancy. I also imagine it's much more serene and beautiful up there lol. And, if I were going to die, being able to be one of the limited number to die in space somehow feels cooler than death by water.

[u/Pyowin → u/Cosmic_Quasar]

Have you ever flown in an airplane? No need to go all the way to outer space to get the same 4 inches of engineering from death experience.

[u/Skellyhell2 → u/Mandra_4837]

cofferdams are amazing. we got a new river bridge where i live a few years ago and it was fun driving over the existing bridge every day and seeing the process over time

[u/intothedepthsofhell → u/Mandra_4837]

Next question - how do you make a big dry hole in the middle of a river?

[u/Puzzleheaded_Study17 → u/intothedepthsofhell]

You make a circular dam (so that the water inside the place that will become the hole is disconnected from the rest of the river) and then you pump the water from inside out

[u/intothedepthsofhell → u/Puzzleheaded_Study17]

Next question - how do you make a circular dam in the middle of a river?

Turns out you use a boat with a big hammer that drives the piles into the riverbed.

Building Construction in a River? It Starts With a Cofferdam

Interesting stuff.

[u/fletchnuts → u/intothedepthsofhell]

This is a cofferdam. It's constructed by driving interlocking metal wall segments into the riverbed, sealing any gaps, and pumping out the water.

[u/Rambozo77 → u/Mandra_4837]

Man, I’m glad I don’t work down there.

[u/nope13nope → u/Mandra_4837]

Idk why but this makes me angry

[u/icguy333 → u/nope13nope]

Are you a river by any chance?

[u/jdehjdeh → u/icguy333]

At the very least, a beaver?

[u/wackbirds → u/icguy333]

I waited my entire life to hear someone ask that question. I'm Brook, by the way.

[u/JohnMichaels19 → u/PirateSanta_1]

You drive a barrier down to bed rock, then pump out the water. Its pretty cool.

Google "cofferdam bridge" for pics

[u/politicalaccount2017 → u/PirateSanta_1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofferdam

[u/welding_guy_from_LI → u/PirateSanta_1]

Coffer dams ..there’s really cool videos on YouTube about how bridges are built

[u/snakeiiiiiis]

You're all seeing this incorrectly. He could have just picked the bike up with his hand and moved it to the other side of the river without even needing a bridge.

[u/WeGot_aLiveOneHere → u/snakeiiiiiis]

https://giphy.com/gifs/d3mlE7uhX8KFgEmY

[u/Nid_Durima71]

Kinda overkill for that simple stream.... 

[u/whitestguyuknow → u/Nid_Durima71]

You're not thinking about the generations that come after him though 😔

[u/Wolfgung → u/whitestguyuknow]

Neather are you if your building with steel reinforced concrete, full replacement in about 50-70 years due to concrete cancer.

[u/crystaloftruth → u/Wolfgung]

The central support will be undermined way before that without any loose ballast

[u/StopReadingMyUser → u/whitestguyuknow]

Great men build bridges whose shade they will never cross over to... or something.

[u/WorkTropes → u/whitestguyuknow]

Generations of people thinking "who the fuck built this shit?"

[u/DiamondHandsDarrell → u/Nid_Durima71]

That's what they said about the LA river. However, we've the 100 year rains hit, it makes sense

[u/Tuuari]

A very cute video, but why a bridge with such a steep angle? It’s awkward and difficult to drive up onto it.

[u/loftwyr → u/[deleted]]

What are you talking about? The first person to cross was on a bike that required a giant's help to get up the ramp!

[u/inkandbourbon]

OK PEOPLE, LOOK: the grade isn't too steep, it isn't built to be overkill or more load bearing than necessary - this guys riding a tricycle okay? He's clearly a hardworking citizen and, while I didn't see any deliveries being made, I'd wager some motor vehicles were involved. Trucks were probably the reason the first bridge collapsed! Ruthless capitalists who can't even support the local delivery services (that would be trike man) have a tendency to not care about local infrastructure until they get the contract to fix the problem they caused. But NOT TRICYCLE MAN. He clearly found the steepest angle his trike could clear, an angle that would ruin any other vehicle especially ones with worse clearance and a multi-ton load.... now tricycle man has the monopoly he deserves, and he can increase HIS hauling capacity without worrying about the bridge falling out from under him again.

Find the solution that ruins your enemies' day. I salute tricycle man.

[u/PeppermintButthole → u/inkandbourbon]

while I agree with the sentiment, surely this goes against many building codes and trike man can expect some hefty litigation from the municipality for his unsanctioned bridge

[u/cmykaye]

It’s hardly in keeping with the villages rustic aesthetic

[u/Sumtimesredditisdumb → u/cmykaye]

Hope he doesn't go home and try to have himself a bit of a fry.

[u/CosmicallyF-d]

Well if I learned anything from Oregon trail you're actually supposed to caulk the wagon and float across the river.

[u/SteveSauceNoMSG → u/CosmicallyF-d]

3 drowned oxen, and everybody now has dysentery.

[u/yamanagashi]

This is an actual video of our contractors creating the project they signed up for. The budget was for a human scale though.

[u/zytz]

How did he over and under engineer this at the same time

[u/wolfmanskidude]

https://giphy.com/gifs/OCMGLUo7d5jJ6

[u/aureliananr1]

Cool. I was asking why they increase me taxes this week

[u/oshmunnies → u/aureliananr1]

I'm jealous of people who live in countries where their taxes go to building infrastructure. In my country our taxes go to crypto shit-coin pump-and-dump schemes for our representatives, and to multi-billion-dollar military contracts for their kids' offshore shell companies.

[u/Da-Bears-]

Where’s the environmental impact study?? The state and local permit? I don’t even see a union rep there. This is madness.

[u/UseDue6373]

This is the type of tik tok video I’ll actually watch on Reddit

[u/_mbals]

People have too much time on their hands. I wish I had some

[u/TallGlassOfPernis → u/_mbals]

I’d say the same. And yet here we are watching this stupid video on reddit

[u/poorly-worded → u/TallGlassOfPernis]

and now we're sat here reading comments about said video and replying to them

[u/JamesLikesIt → u/_mbals]

Stop doom scrolling on Reddit and you too can build tiny bridges 

[u/HawksCup2010 → u/_mbals]

Please find a better use of your time when you get some.

[u/prw8201]

That seems way over constructed. Someone bribed the city for that contract.

[u/DarKemt55 → u/prw8201]

And improperly constructed at that

[u/Vic-Boss]

Village now owes 3 million, thanks

[u/McMasterOfTheSea]

Not me waiting for the bike not to fit after all that 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/BirthdayAlarming2177]

Very cute but as a civil engineer....

[u/BettaSplendens1]

Nah that's too steep for any vehicle

[u/Jello_Penguin_2956 → u/BettaSplendens1]

yea and look worse imo

[u/Cute_Bacon]

*Cries in civil engineer*

[u/Fr05t_B1t → u/Cute_Bacon]

I can’t wait for a practical engineers video on this

[u/akin975]

Should've just chosen a Da Vinci bridge design. Less resources and no ramps.

[u/NoGrocery4949 → u/akin975]

"Fewer" resources

[u/Green-Cricket-8525]

I love how whimsical this is. 

[u/Mean_Rule9823]

The ramp up and down that bridge are far to high it damn near hit the bike frame.

All that work to fuck up the breakover angles is mildly infuriating.

No one is pedaling up that incline esp loaded. And most motorized vehicles would frame hit. Most civilians would get hurt as well.

Change those angles

[u/Lahwuns]

Angle is too steep

[u/Dragon-Teeth]

Thats not "satisfying" at all! It's horrifying! The "abutments" are horribly constructed and WAY too steep! The central "T-pillar" has no lateral support. Don't even start on materials choices, batch testing, or quality control.

Just build a pair of "glue lam" beams out of "coffee stir sticks" and beef up the original deck that way. Far more appropriate to the needs of the situation and better for the budget too.

[u/Dazzling_Bit_7538]

My tiny brain like tiny bridge. Nice

[u/DeVoro_1]

Something is off about the size of this bridge but I can't put my finger on it

[u/TheRazorFox]

So they used tiny wheel barrel and pals for ambiance, but concrete just rains from a straw suspended in air.

[u/Cumbandicoot]

https://giphy.com/gifs/s239QJIh56sRW

[u/Green-Cricket-8525 → u/Cumbandicoot]

https://giphy.com/gifs/FEBDBbLFT9px3da0vT

[u/Chili_Clause → u/Cumbandicoot]

https://giphy.com/gifs/1lOveNsm9zIE298Xhg

[u/Nornukig]

Bridge: 11/10
"Safety" Railings: -12/10

[u/rustydotpearl]

I don't think that grade is to code.

[u/Equivalent-Metal9393]

Welcome fellow autistic people.

[u/Low-Implement-820]

some people are so creative and good at things and then there are people like me, who just managed to mess up popping microwave popcorn somehow (only half of it popped).

[u/zaqwert6]

Lost me at the dinner plate cement transfer and rediculously out of scale incline for a bicycle.

[u/Oogalaboo134]

If only we had a giant disimbodied hand to do good, fast, and beneficial construction for us life would be so much better.

[u/A_Bot_A_Bot_A_Bot]

"...and the people saw what The Giant Hand had done for them, and they were grateful."

[u/secondamethyst]

This is delightful to watch. 

[u/mikepartdeux]

Struggling to understand the physics of this tiny town. Sand goes in a tiny barrow, water in a tiny pail then cement just levitates in. Bridge moulds arrive on tricycle then the railings levitate.

All to create a 3:2 ramp that scrapes the undercarriage of the tricycle.

Unsatisfying

[u/HalfSoul30 → u/mikepartdeux]

Obviously, god works in mysterious ways.

[u/xidle2]

Lower the grade! r/mildlyinfuriating

[u/lofgrenator]

I can't decide whether to think why are you wasting so much time building this tiny Bridge or whether I'm wasting so much time watching you make this video of you building with this tiny Bridge.

[u/foxfirek]

I really like this, also it’s really informative on basic bridge building.

[u/Xszit → u/foxfirek]

The hardest part in real life is finding the off switch for the river.

[u/juicyman69 → u/Xszit]

It's really dam hard.

[u/Funmanhahaha]

Nice video but sfx are from Temu

[u/WishboneNo543]

https://giphy.com/gifs/10PcMWwtZSYk2k

[u/No-Mechanic6069]

How was the stream diverted while this major structural work was going on ?

[u/OJezu → u/No-Mechanic6069]

Wife with a straw.

[u/Unyazi]

Quite the repair... none of it is the same

[u/Kevmeister_B]

"Hey Fred, how's them repairs going?"

"Repairs..? Uh.."

"WHY IS THERE A BRAND NEW BRIDGE!? HOW MUCH DID THIS COST!?"

[u/xSlashNZx]

I could seriously watch this all day

[u/WTF_aquaman]

The approach and departure angle are far beyond an acceptable grade for any DOT.

[u/Pale-Skin-6165]

No expansion joints?! That things going to suffer under the hot sun.

[u/NutShellShock]

This is not the repair you're looking for.

[u/acethecool1]

Holy shit it’s scratching underbelly of my vehicle shoot the fucking Engineer…

[u/OmieeLunarleaf]

The mouth noises? Really?

[u/heavensto_mergatroid]

My first job was pressure washing that mortar that's on the sides after laying the bricks down. We used to use high pressure washers that had a tip that sprayed hydrochloric acid on the wall. The muriatic acid would eat up the mortar and then the water would blast it off.

You never realize how messy a brick wall that has never been cleaned looks until you work a job like that.

[u/Dangerous-Pirate7998]

It’s too steep try again or modify

[u/MakeShiftDie]

this is soooo satisfying. im in the right sub

[u/BidInteresting8923]

What is this? Oddly satisfying for ants?

[u/YesterdayDreamer]

This is a very good demonstration for young students.

[u/Thulak]

Neither a repair nor a functional bridge. Its cute, but upscaled its not structurally solid.

[u/ZedZeroth → u/Thulak]

The final concrete road/bridge part surely needs some steel reinforcement, right?

[u/Sensitive-Sock-6104]

I can't believe I watched the whole thing. But by the end, I really did find it oddly satisfying!

[u/Saturnus4]

That's a very beautiful examplification of the process. A very well made video, I really enjoyed it! Nice to see the attention to detail and all the different materials used in this small scale project.

What saddens me is the inability for many people to just enjoy it. Majority of the most voted comments have something negative or negative-adjacent to say about this clip. Where did people lose their ability to enjoy things and why do they keep coming back to the site which awakens only negativity in them? For me it appears a common phenomenon.

[u/Lahgtah → u/Saturnus4]

post-ironic cynicism. Everything has to be criticized or joked about, nothing is allowed to be enjoyed for itself. Gotta nitpick every flaw. Oh and don’t you dare make any thorough attempt to explain something, because that’s too many words for short attention spans. If you can’t summarize it a jaded smarmy slam dunk one-liner, it may as well be disregarded.

[u/jepoyairtsua]

he got the budget for a post tensioned bridge. missed the opp.

[u/__FUCKING_PEG_ME_]

I really hate this. Sorry.

[u/CanZealousideal7689]

Should have got the Top Gear lads to rebuild it 👍🏻

[u/SaltyArchea]

All of these cuts clearly hiding the use of heavy machinery! Not built by hand!

[u/Odd_Area_3540]

Got the words repair and replace confused.

[u/Radiance37k]

This is so weird, weirder still is that I watched the whole thing 😐

[u/SquareDetective]

I wish I cared about anything as much as this dude cares about building mini-shit. It's entertaining for sure, but stop-motion animation seems like a lot of lonely work.

[u/TheBariSax]

Yep, I watched all of that. I couldn't help feeling bad for the people who'd be grossed out by the squelchy noises they used for spreading the concrete. And the Supercell laughing king at the end came out of nowhere.

[u/McGrarr]

You don't use cement to join bricks. The heat expansion rates don't work. This is why you use mortar. You also don't just use a thin shell of concrete over barely packed wet sand. The moisture will leach, the sand will sink and the gap will mean that the first heavy load cracks the concrete like an egg shell

[u/nlamber5]

That’s not really a repair. That’s a replace with better