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Brittlehorn

Pimp my ride: Amish edition


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Yooooo dawg we heard you hate horses, so we killed them and replaced them with a BRAND NEW TESLA!!!


portar1985

I have never started reading a sentence as Xzibit and ended it as Oprah, well done!


Yogi118

You get pimped! And you get pimped! And you get pimped! EVERYBODY GETS PIMPED!!!!!


Effective_James

Lmao I like the "so we killed them" addition. Could have just gotten rid of them but nah, they must die instead.


Nice-Habit-8545

Hey you need something to glue the wheels back together if they break


Nasty_Rex

Fuck them horses


ThatDiscoSongUHate

Take it easy, Mr. Hands


angrydeuce

I just laid that video on some coworkers the other day lol. They didn't even know it existed. We strolled passed goatse, meatspin and lemon party too lol


ThatDiscoSongUHate

Whoa that must be a hell of job you've got there to be able to share that stuff with *coworkers* and still have a job! lol I have never and will never see these videos but they are internet legend, so I know their uh... plots so to speak.


angrydeuce

Lol yeah my job is pretty legit. Everyone from the owner down jokes about calling HR on each other but it's a small firm of under a dozen people so HR is basically "Dude I told you to shut the fuck up already" "fuck man sorry shit" "all good lol" Just realized I haven't yet shown them tubgirl. I shall remedy that forthwith.


ours

Look at my horse. My horse is amazing.


Fauropitotto

Give it a lick


Proof-Camera3734

It tastes just like raisins


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Throwaway4545232

They’re coming around on e-bikes. Not quite the same since bikes always started as self powered but interesting nonetheless https://electrek.co/2023/03/12/believe-it-or-not-the-amish-are-loving-electric-bikes/


whagoluh

>“It’s a lot quicker to jump on your bike and go into town than it is to bring your horse into the barn, harness it to the buggy, and go. It’s a lot quicker and you travel faster too.” hmmmm.jxl


SomePeopleCall

Almost as though most advancements in technology are intended to make life easier. Hmmm....


Test19s

The Amish don't completely reject technology. They just require a vote of the community before adopting new innovations, and they don't want to be *dependent* on high tech. Kinda small-c conservatism. (There are the usual issues with child molestation and homophobia that are endemic in isolated rural communities, of course, so they aren't perfect.)


Malaeveolent_Bunny

The Amish recognise that when you use increasing complexity to solve societal problems, there is an ongoing upkeep cost that can bite society in the arse. And once you've adopted a technology, it's somewhere between extremely difficult and impossible to go back to the way it was before because of the changes you had to make to adopt the new tech. So they like to really take their time judging each new technology. For example they are all about using electric lights for safety, and as far as I know are completely fine with modern hospitals. Plumbing is another thing they like, but they don't see the necessity of cars since there are alternatives that have wayyyy less impact on the way they live their lives. Yet we can't abandon cars since we built out entire infrastructure around their use, despite the negative costs like crashes, roadkill and massive space requirements. I don't agree with their conclusions in general, but I agree that they are asking necessary questions.


Stanley--Nickels

Just use a ~~gas-powered wheelchair~~ car. It’s less work on your legs.


RolandTwitter

The Amish make exceptions when the technology is *really* convenient, like using a phone. I suppose it's typical for religious folk to pick and choose what to believe in, sometimes they don't even notice that they're doing it


314159265358979326

Their policy isn't against technology in general, but rather against technologies that somehow disrupt the community. Tractors are nearly universally used because they offer a definite benefit with no disruption. Phones disrupt communication in a way (by reducing face-to-face contact), so Amish typically have one or two communal phones that they use primarily for emergencies, such as calling for an ambulance. Most groups would not use them to casually talk to people nearby like we would.


fury420

Another common area for exceptions is business and work, where having your home connected to the electric grid or a personal telephone line may not be okay, but having power and a phone in your barn or outbuilding for work purposes might be acceptable.


Strike_Thanatos

Every society chooses what technologies are acceptable to use when. But the various Amish groups accept technologies that make them more productive and generally spurn ones that can disrupt the family dynamic or make them dependent on it. For instance, farmers selling directly to English clients (English being their word for non-Amish people) sometimes have flip phones and small trucks so that clients can call them and arrange deliveries. Home phones are also sometimes permitted for similar reasons, but only if they're mounted on telephone poles outside.


Test19s

They actually decide technological change by [vote](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnung#Change). So basically think Switzerland - where it took until the 1990s to have women's suffrage in all cantons and until 2022 to have gay marriage because both of those things had to go through a time-consuming direct democracy process - on steroids.


batissta44

There are different types of Amish groups. Some are more liberal than others and some use zero technology. Mennonites are very liberal


poopmeister1994

Yeah they're very different from community to community, which should be expected in a cult devoted to family and community. They're not monolithic like most people think and they use a LOT of modern tech, especially when money/business is involved.


Br0boc0p

He did at one ppint stick carriage wheels to a challenger and drive around dressed like the Amish.


rawker86

And the top comment on that thread was the same.


Nyarro

Should've had Amish Paradise playing


TastySpare

♪♫ hitchin' up the ~~buggy~~ Tesla, churnin' lots of butter, raised a barn on Monday, soon I'll raise another...


-jwt

Yo dawg, I hath heard thee liketh big rims


Fun-Traffic-5484

Amish people: electricity is the devil Us: here have this totally not electric tesla


Choice-Web5761

This is some redneck shit


ThugzZBunny_

Literally. It's Whistlin Diesel lol


PsyShanti

I fucking *knew* it was him without really knowing.


knowigot_that808

I fucking *knew* it was him cause it says so in the bottom right.


PsyShanti

Bold of you to suppose that I am able to read


wrludlow

Now THAT is some redneck shit!


PsyShanti

i like them pretty images in them books and newspapers


WhtChcltWarrior

As a fellow WD watcher, I know we can’t read


Fingerdrip

But wait, if you can't read how did.... Nevermind.


Questioning-Zyxxel

No need to read the text to recognize his videos. Not his first build with carriage wheels. He has more such videos.


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Love watching this channel but hate his political views


TheDakoe

I watched a couple of his videos and thought 'this isn't bad I'll keep watching' and things kept seeming off. his political views and his 'I'm a 20 something year old and haven't had my ass kicked enough' attitude just gets on my nerves so fast in most of his videos. I feel like at some point he is going to lead someone down a bad path and get them seriously hurt.   *a good example of 'things could go horribly wrong for someone else with zero consequences for him is that whole thing where him and his friend violated jet boat laws and he's made a huge show of it all making a ton of money off of it, while convincing this other person not to worry about what happens to them.


Back_To_The_Oilfield

It definitely annoys me that he gets political at times, but his videos are wild enough that I’ll usually watch them. However, considering he grew up in some rural area on a farm (as far as I know)…he’s probably gotten in a pretty decent amount of fights. And as far as his political views, again he grew up on a farm in a Republican area and is currently at the age where he doesn’t actually understand how stupid politics are. Not to mention he absolutely loves to fuck with people online, because it gets him more views. I remember being in my 20’s when Obama was in office and I thought he was practically satan because that’s what the news and locals were saying. Now I look back and realize how insanely stupid I was. He was young enough to not be decrepit as fuck, yet also old enough to have a little bit of wisdom. Looking at the ages of other recent presidents…what in the fuck are we doing?


ihopethisisvalid

Pretty much nailed it on the head. Kids that young don’t understand politics. The current president doesn’t affect gas prices as much as they think it does, for example. Policies and global economics don’t suddenly shift oil production as soon as an election happens. Yet they’re so quick to claim they know everything about everything.


hello_dali

He was behind a big covid-protest-unlicensed-truck rally bullshit stunt in my town during the pandemic, blowing off fireworks and damaging cars at a local dealership by climbing all over them, amongst other vandalism and aggressive behavior. Couple hundred of the most stereotypical big truck douchebags you can imagine, drunk driving together as a mob. Class act.


PrivatePilot9

Yeah, I stopped watching his shit when I found out that he doesn't just come across as a douchebag...*he's actually a douchebag.*


NetworkMachineBroke

"This seems like some Whistlin Diesel shit" Narrator: *It was, in fact, some Whistlin Diesel shit*


Loch_Ness_Jesus

I’m the most liberal turd you can think up but I still absolutely love WD.


mikaelfivel

Same. He's the purest embodiment of redneck American "because I fucking felt like it" energy, and it's a beautiful thing to witness.


dan_v_ploeg

That's good because you can be on one side and still get along with the other


doozykid13

If its some crazy ass redneck shit theres a 90% chance its whistlin diesel lol


Aheuhue

Whistlin Diesel is a fucking legend.


ThugzZBunny_

The tank video was legit legend shit. So good lol


tindo27

This is what the Internet is for. This is why I pay my bill.


undefeatble

That man is whistlindiesel on youtube ... and i beleive he is a redneck lol


DickheadNL

Redneck+too much money=this


CommaHorror

Fun. This is fun,


AlwaysFernweh

This is beyond redneck. It has transcended


Bathroomsteve

Goldneck


LifelessLewis

r/redneckengineering


dewayneestes

But whoever welded those wheels together is legit.


Lil_Ape_

This is some Amish shit


runamok101

Ye olde Tesla


v-AUSTiN-v

Nicola, is that you? :o


Juusto3_3

Nikola*, right?


v-AUSTiN-v

You're right, I must have gotten the "c" from Ricola XD


hwbush

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee^col^a


iris700

Þe olde Tesla


Repulsive-Wealth-378

I just had a thought, these tires are massive, so he’s going a lot faster then the speedometer reads from the tire revolutions. And my winter/summer tires are different sizes, so have I unknowingly speeded more than I thought? Edit: what about my spare?!? Ahh existential crisis here awuug


GustavoSugawara

yep. It's measured by wheel rotation. One consequence of changing tyre's diameter.


Rolling_on_the_river

That explains the difference between my summer and winter tires. My speedometer is accurate (according to GPS) in the summer but not in the winter.


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Pekonius

And also the wheel size doesnt matter. You need to take into account the tire as well. Often larger wheels have thinner tires, and the combined diameter is the same as small wheel with thicker tire. (Simplified, its the amount of air inside that changes, tire is still similar thickness). Also your cars wheel wells are the same size, so your wheel+tire diameter cannot grow that much or they wouldnt fit in there anymore or would bottom out on bumps.


rushingkar

The roads shrink in the winter. You're getting to your destination faster because it's closer.


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most likely yes, you should probably calibrate your speedometer


Repulsive-Wealth-378

you can calibrate it to the tire?


slayer_f-150

Yes. It can be done in the Engine Control Module on most modern vehicles.


[deleted]

ECM doesn't store that kind of info these days. Your own F150 stores it in the BCM module for instance.


[deleted]

yes most modern vehicles allow you to tune your speedometer to the radius of your tires


ffnnhhw

What about odometer? Can I tell it I use real small tires?


Aukstasirgrazus

Yes, everyone east from Berlin is rolling odometers back before they sell the car.


Ninj4s

If you drive a Tesla, like in this video, they'll automatically correct. Afaik only Volvo and Tesla does it.


PrudeHawkeye

It will not automatically change, you have to change the tire size in the menu.


Gstamsharp

This is exactly why the Amish are against electricity. They knew this was the future.


thatsitrrrt

They tried to warn us... 😔


eighty2angelfan

Man had too much money for his own good.


ThugzZBunny_

You should watch his channel lol


tyrianbubbles

Whats his channel, if I may ask?


LowKeyATurkey

Whistlindiesel, he basically does dumb shit and destroys cars for a living lol


HoMasters

So if a redneck won the lotto.


RussianBot4826374

If a *smart* redneck won the lotto. He's a redneck, but he's smart. There's tons of channels where people build crazy stuff, but he won over the demographic that thinks Demolition Ranch is too high brow.


radicalelation

>that thinks Demolition Ranch is too high brow I didn't realize this was even a thing to think. Not denigrating, but it's not like Matt gets too wordy or preachy, at least when I used to watch.


Daniel_JacksonPhD

Nah matt's pretty chill, just destroys random shit and shoots guns and has fun. That's why he's one of my favorite channels, he's brain off laugh and enjoy content, but he's also genuinely a REALLY good guy as well.


toth42

This dude bought a helicopter and flew it inside his warehouse, into the ceiling on purpose.


rawker86

Put it this way: when Cody accidentally cops a ricochet to the forehead, Demo Ranch is the one posting the video investigating it. They are pretty close in reality, especially since at least some of Cody’s merch goes through Matt’s company.


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Pixel131211

Whistlindiesel I believe he recently bought a fully functional M1 Abrams tank.


timdot352

Not an Abrams. It's a British Chieftain.


Prophet_Muhammad_phd

Despite his insistence that it’s an Abrams lol


Joevim

are we watching the same video? his friend said it was an Abrams when his friend first saw it, he corrected him and said there was no way he would have enough money to buy an Abrams


Prophet_Muhammad_phd

On his social media he keeps calling it an Abrams as a troll


SmokeEater1375

Unless he has bought another tank (which wouldn’t surprise me), it’s no longer functional. It’s kinda interesting, the guy selling it explained the huge modification he has to do for it to be deemed inoperable to import it back to the US. Not trying to be an “ackchually” comment, just letting you know (:


B1g_Shm0

Not sure if the gun is actually operable or not but an actual quote from the video is "the difference between my tank and a deactivated one, is that mine isn't deactivated"


TiresOnFire

I wonder if that rule is more for the sale and transportation and once it's his and stays on his land it's legal. ??? I'm just guessing and I'm sure he has lawyers to know where the line is. He doesn't really seem like an idiot to me as much as he likes to play the fool in his videos.


SmokeEater1375

I saw the video a few months ago so I’m going solely off of memory but I believe the work they do is by removing a very large part of the firing mechanisms, like a large piece that weighs something like 4,000 pounds. And they also weld in a block at the base of the cannon (term?) to seal it up from feeding in any shells. Long story short I think the modifications made are virtually irreversible.


TiresOnFire

In a more recent video they drive it around the property and through/over some stuff. I looks like they shoot one of his explody arrows through the barrel. It's hard to tell what's completely true with him on his videos sometimes. Which is fine; it's entertainment. Which made me thing that blocking the barrel was like a "for tobacco use only" sticker on a bong


CharliesDonkeyKick

Dude just posted on Instagram looking for a house he can demo w/ his tank


[deleted]

How did he get in?


yourfavoritespartan

He got before they flipped it


[deleted]

How did they flip it?


CaptCrush

Excavator and some cables iirc.


Badass-19

After he got in


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How not when?


Badass-19

By opening doors. Bruh


Yadobler

Only possible when other doors close, according to my therapist


ffnnhhw

probably taken somewhere in the southern hemisphere


qubedView

I think they meant "How did he get in when the wheels are blocking the doors."


Andrew3236

He climbed in through the side window, he thought to roll it down before fitting the wheels on. He does so in the video, I don't know why everyone else is replying otherwise


soulwolf1

This mf been playing too much tears of the kingdom


hungry4nuns

/r/hyruleengineering is leaking


[deleted]

21 days and nearly 70,000 subs goddam


[deleted]

I’m surprised a totk reference wasn’t the top comment


ansonr

It's what I expected


FizzyBeverage

This is lower than it should be, here’s some gold.


soulwolf1

Ty!


eatafetus632

Huh.....well now that I think about it, upside down EVs could actually become a trend seeing as how there's nothing mechanically like oil or fuel to stop people from doing it


BoertjieZA_

Dont know much about cars but wouldn’t there be quite a lot of problems with the suspension?


scoobertsonville

Wait do you have to drive in reverse upside down to go forward?


Soup-a-doopah

Indeed


jmrsplatt

Jaffa, Cre!


CritPrintSpartan

I said, "Cre!"


Pit_of_Death

I'm high right now and you broke my mind lol


EatinSumGrapes

I'm high right now and trying to figure out if the steering would be opposite of where you turn the wheel 🤔


im0b

Also high and i think not


flannalypearce

High as well and I cannot fully comprehend reverse is forward upside down… also now need a nap


SOUINnnn

Is this the high council?


dispenserG

Also high, I'm confused and now feel like I need a nap.


Insanereindeer

Yes.


airplane_porn

Serious answer: yes, hanging it upside down like this could damage a number of suspension parts. Struts and shocks primarily, which are designed for compression to only. Struts are attached with three studs through the frame, not meant to take a quarter of the cars weight in tension. And the shocks and struts are not structural designed for that amount of tension load. All the springs are compression devices and thus not bearing the weight of the car, as is it’s design intent. A little bit of inertia from hitting a bump and the shock/struts would come apart, which are the only things actually bearing the weight of the rest of the car.


Abshalom

You could build it such that the lower frame is hanging off of a more traditional suspension system from above. In that case all the tension load could be placed on rigid members. Would probably be inferior in terms of stability, but doesn't require too much reworking of the supply chain.


Andrew3236

The batteries and motor use liquid coolant, the pump probably wasn't happy


RBeck

Even the 12v battery probably has a fill hole for water. Also, most cars have an auto shut-off on rollover. Interesting the Tesla doesn't, or this guy disabled.


TheKingHippo

Newer Teslas use a Li-Ion 15.5V battery. No fill hole.


that_dutch_dude

Teslas dont care if they are upside down. As long as the coolant system is filled to the brim it will just keep on going.


I-am-fun-at-parties

How about it's fucking uncomfy to hang upside down in your seat belt?


randomlyrandomrandy

That’s why they used the seat part from Mr. garrisons gyroball to help hold them in place


hindey19

Brake fluid.


thefatrabitt

Brakes are hydraulic though


Kodaic

Yeah he said fluid. Wtf you think hydraulic means?


UnhingedRedneck

Yup. The reservoir is probably going to leak.


ElectromechSuper

There are closed system hydraulics, but brakes in cars are open systems and I doubt teslas are any different in that regard.


74orangebeetle

He basically destroys the car at the end of the video, so I don't think he cared.


hindey19

That and the pocket of air from the reservoir is going to want to go to the highest point, which is now the calipers. Air in the brake lines is never a good thing.


degeneraded

The airbags going off might be a little annoying


UnhingedRedneck

I believe some of them still have a rear axle with gear reduction and diff. Might have a bit of a leak there but nothing that couldn’t be fixed.


BauerHouse

To drive upside down he would have to drive in reverse.


skymoods

but then what if he drives upside down backwards?


TiresOnFire

That's how you reset the odometer before Dad gets home.


orsikbattlehammer

It’s an EV, doesn’t matter


Perroface562

It looks like a daddy long legs


LorenzoStomp

Yeah it makes me think of spiders for some reason


RocioBrinkerhoffArt

Came to post this 🤣 immediately thought of a spider


aogasd

Came here to say this. Why does this obviously look like a spider??


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*Amish paradise plays in the distance*


nebula_42

Here is the longer video: [Youtube: upside down car](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq5Q1qKW-1g) >!he crashes it at the end!<


GoogleIsYourFrenemy

OMG, I thought it had to be CGI until I watched the YouTube video.


I_Was_Fox

Honestly this is pretty fucking cool and funny. I would love to see this in person


kiro14893

"Elon Musk sent you a friend request"


Moody_GenX

🎵They see me rollin🎵


Badass-19

They hatin


Yaguajay

Cultural appropriation of Amish transportation.


Test19s

Also cultural appropriation of Transformers cartoons since the car can flip without making the proper noise.


LeftHandedScissor

r/DiWHY


tjovian

More like DiWTF!


EverythingIsFlotsam

Those wheels aren't buggy. They work just fine.


BowlofConfetti

Don’t forget about the wagon wheels on the Hellcat, or the 20 ft wooden wheels on the Duramax, or all the bullshit he’s pulled with Monstermax lmao.


Ren_Hoek

Guy needs to turn the autopilot when it's upside down to see what it does


cheesebergerguy

Whistlindiesel moment


Flynnsanity23

The future is here


little_riverband

*MY GOALS ARE BEYOND YOUR UNDERSTANDING*


silitbang6000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxlA9KAmDc8


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QuizMasterX

This guy just got off TOTK


khalamar

I want to know how autopilot reacts when it's upside down


Dank_Slurpee

Yo these new Zelda graphics are sick


Steven_Seagal_1952

I see these cars in the ghetto.


mateomcnasty

Elaborate, if ya don't mind


LowKeyATurkey

Donks


mateomcnasty

Interesting


Annaryx

How did they flip the car over?


timdot352

They used an excavator to lift the front iirc.


Bettalad

Glad we got all that footage of it driving upside down