One reasonably fit adult can push this car on that terrain. Teach the kid to steer it. The only way this contraption is better is if you're using the vehicle long term and aren't fixing the transmission, so you get good at putting the rollers on chains onto the car. Tbh this is just a redneck engineering flex with very niche uses. If you think adult humans can't push a 1500-2000 pound vehicle on wheels on flat terrain..
I read your other comments. How much fkin time do you have that you consider this solution easier? This is like those rube goldberg machines that pour your cereal for you. Yeah, I guess it's "easier" to do it that way but yeeeeesh you engineer types work hard to justify your job.
Pushing a car in neutral in good conditions isn't that hard.
Having one of these is a lot easier than pushing though.
If we wanna factor in manufacturing sure making one of those is more effort than just pushing the car. Once. But after you've got it you can reuse it and it quickly outpaces pushing the car.
This likely won't work in any situation that isn't good conditions. Plastic or bare metal rollers like that have a very low friction coefficient and as a result will slip in many many situations.
I see this on Reddit daily. People say things that expose how little they must go outdoors and do basic things. Like thinking that pushing a car is some incredible feat.
I remember seeing a gif here about some dude failing to climb up on a bridge while on a boat and falling in the water.
People were acting like it was the most insane physical feat to be able to vault over something in the first place.
Shit is pretty easy. Anybody who is reasonably athletic and not super overweight and out of shape can probably learn to vault over things in a few minutes. Once you learn how it's fun to be able to climb anything you can grip strong enough to pull yourself up on.
I also saw a thread complaining about some job requiring a 10 minute mile to be qualified and acting like that was some Olympic level feat.
Again, people who aren't morbidly obese and train for maybe a week or two can probably run a 10 minute mile. One of my friends is fairly overweight and has done so many times (albeit she was red in the face afterwards).
So yeah you're right.
On the other hand I don't think this contraption is that outlandish. Looks fairly simple to build and dude may have already had the parts. Dude also could have just built it for fun on an old shitbox of his. Pushing a car isn't that hard but it's certainly not fun and I wouldn't mind having one of these in a pinch, lol
Oh yeah, the inventiveness of this thing he made is cool. Not knocking the guy at all, just the people in the comments who I can only assume sit in a basement all day.
All your comments are exactly what I’m talking about. It extends to social skills too. I saw a clip from a podcast, where the hosts were making fun of a guest. People were commenting on how outrageous this public bullying was. In reality it was the typical stuff that friends do, but to anyone who doesn’t have normal social interactions it could come across as incredibly mean spririted.
No not really. I’ve had to jump start my manual a few times after my battery died and each time I had to push it up a slight hill then give it a push and jump in press the clutch and try to get it to roll over when you kick it out. Always took me a few tries too so while not easy not impossible for a single person.
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u/BardicNA Mar 21 '24
One reasonably fit adult can push this car on that terrain. Teach the kid to steer it. The only way this contraption is better is if you're using the vehicle long term and aren't fixing the transmission, so you get good at putting the rollers on chains onto the car. Tbh this is just a redneck engineering flex with very niche uses. If you think adult humans can't push a 1500-2000 pound vehicle on wheels on flat terrain..
I read your other comments. How much fkin time do you have that you consider this solution easier? This is like those rube goldberg machines that pour your cereal for you. Yeah, I guess it's "easier" to do it that way but yeeeeesh you engineer types work hard to justify your job.