[Mark Rober] is an uncle to three nieces and nephews, and when there is snow on the ground he faces the relentless onslaught of three elite juvenile snowball aces. Lesser men would face the fact that they are over the hill when it comes to snow-based combat, but not [Mark]. He has brought technology to his aid, and with the help of his brother created a snowball machine gun capable of firing 13 snowballs at the unruly youths in half a second.
Power for his creation comes from a leaf blower, and the gun itself is made from ABS pipe fixed onto the blower outlet. Magazines made from pipe with its top section cut away are loaded via a 45 degree junction fitting, and the rate of fire is set by how fast the operator pushes the line of snowballs with a wooden block. He has made full build instructions available as a PDF, so assuming you are reading this in a part of the world where it snows, what are you waiting for! Those of us who live in paces where it rarely snows and what snow we get is wet and slushy can only look on with envy.
The video below has the full story, complete with gratuitous destruction of fruit, youngsters cowering in their snow forts, and finally [Mark] receiving his snowy comeuppance.
[Mark] has appeared before here with his investigation of egg drops, but his is the first snowball machine gun we’ve featured. Perhaps you’re all too busy riding your snow-bikes or jet-powered snowmobiles each winter to consider snow-based weaponry.
Thanks [Itay] for the tip.
That’s awesome!!!!!
This is sweet! The only down-side is you need to pre-form your balls. Build a machine to make your balls to go with it. Yeah… Balls.
You could use a bit of pipe the same as the magazine with a concave insert inside, then you could just stab it downwards on snow to make the balls.It might not be perfect but I think it would work.
Then you could just pack snow in and have it form and threw the balls. Then get a power snow shovel to feed it and. you have a snowball mini gun thing. might give you a chance in hell :)
Yup. Clearly, the next effort should be a snowball making machine to load the magazines.
Want not just a corkscrew conveyor that, can be mounted in the snow and, will automatically deliver the snow to the blower for an infinite ammo supply?
Man I wished it snowed here just so I could have one ..
Maybe if I Made a snow machine that fed into the machine gun……
I think that would punch a hole into an alternate universe.
Nah, just modify it to fire water balloons.
@saabman
From Massachusetts.
Be careful what you wish for.
No joke, last year sucked so much…
@saabman
From Quebec.
Be VERY careful what you wish for.
Watching this video makes me want to eat a Taco sooooo BAD!
Seriously, the crave has never been stronger than after this video.
So that’s how Buddy the Elf did it!
I love the “banana for time scale”
“snowball sten gun”
actually disappointed, i was hoping for a good ol’ PVC pressure vessel based device, and 99 pages of comments
Aww crap, HackADay! Now I’ve got another great YouTube channel I have to watch! I’m never going to get anything done around here…
You may want to check out Grant Thompson’s (The King of Random) channel if you don’t know that already.
Thanks for the excellent suggestion, but I already spend way too much time there also! :)
Oh, Holy crap, I just burned 2 hours I’ll never get back. Thanks.
Awesome doesn’t even begin to describe this. I was going to cancel my internet connection because there was nothing useful on it and now I’ve changed my mind.
This is such a cool thing, I would love to get and just blast the hell out of my brothers.