Homemade hovercrafts + shuffleboard = shovercraft!
Get your motors running, put your safety helmet, ear protection and safety glasses on, steady your fire extinguishers and prop open your first aid kit… Now you’re ready for he ultimate in diy sports – Shovercraft! Combining all the thrills of a personal hovercraft with the targeting challenges of shuffleboard, shovercraft is the ultimate in frictionless fun!
Go download the instructions and make your own. I can’t wait until people start posting their hovercrafts to the make flickr pool!
Here’s an mp4 that plays on pretty much everything. If it doesn’t let me know! Here’s a giant hd size quicktime mov for those with quick download speeds. Here’s a 3gp and 3g2 for people who like to watch on their phone!
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I like the first guy, he’s hilarious, sounds like a pirate!
Humans must be protected. They must go down the stairs. –shover robot
This is delicious, you should start a league of Shovercraft racing. Someday We’ll have a movie “The Fast and the Frictionless: Seattle Drift”
shovercraft+pulse-jet engine=fast
I’m willing to bet Mr. Fight Club in the video doesn’t have true Fight Club ‘nads to get on a shovercraft behind a car on a tow rope.
If so, please video for America’s funniest home video’s….
I’m willing to bet Mr. Fight Club in the video doesn’t have true Fight Club ‘nads to get on a shovercraft behind a car on a tow rope.
If so, please video for America’s funniest home video’s….
I’m willing to bet Mr. Fight Club in the video doesn’t have true Fight Club ‘nads to get on a shovercraft behind a car on a tow rope.
If so, please video for America’s funniest home video’s….
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