Junkyard Wars - Giant Mowing Machines

[Jet boater]

For those of you that follow the Junkyard Wars on "The Learning Channel" (TLC), this Wednesdays episode is "Giant Mowing Machines". I think its on around 9 or 10 PM ET, after the "Steam Powered Cars" episode.

For those who have never watched, it takes place in a British junkyard, where teams compete to build a "machine of the week" in a period of 10 hours out of anything they can find in the junkyard.

Then the next day, they use their creations in a competition to determine the winner. It's great!!!

The losing team is eliminated while the winners move towards the finals.

D. Tom

[accuratelawn]

Great show!

[Greenkeepers]

I love it when the bikers beat out the engineers!! Just shows who can think more logically....

[Vandora Lawn & Landscape]

I love that show! I never miss it!

[SMB]

I watched my first whole episode(s) last week, its great! It was really funny to see a bunch of science teachers cut some of their metal 1 meter too short, and some other material 1/2 of a meter too short! (Sorry for the metric, but that's what they use)

[Keith]

I saw the one where they built the guns. That's a freakin cool show :)

[dylan]

It is a great show. The compressed air rugby ball launcher was great. Reminded me of my egg launching project from physics in highschool.

[mdb landscaping]

it has to be one of the best shows out right now. i saw an episode where they built machines to knock down brick walls. im looking forward to that episode about the mowers. thanks for the reminder

[Vibe Ray]

You all are very right, its a cool show. I watch it whenever I have the time. Giant mowing machine? Sounds cool! Thanks for the heads up Jet Boater!

[cantoo]

Anyone else think the show is a little fake some time. The one where they built the flying machines and had to drop a bomb the closest to a target. The one team decided to build a hot air type machine and they "found" a full roll of the material they use to build ultralight wings in a locked car trunk. And the other team found a weed trimmer motor and built their machine around it before they even tried to start it. It wouldn't run so they put a battery drill onto it and it started and worked perfect from then on.... Seems a little far fetched to me. Oh yeah OJ Simpson was innocent too.

[Vandora Lawn & Landscape]

FYI- They admit to stocking the yards. However, the fun comes not from the "luck" but rather from the skills and ingenuity of the people putting things together. The boilers for example on the steam engines had to be tested and certified for safety. Check out the tlc website for more info.

[Lee Homan]

Has anybody seen the Battlebots? I think their on USA network. Pretty awesome stuff.

[morturf]

battle bots is on comedy central..tues. 10 east/9cent.

the junkyard war is on tlc wed at 9 and 10 east time. have fun...

[Vibe Ray]

Hey morturf, I was reading your post just as battlebots was coming on. Cool show. Thanks for letting me know about it. Hey do you guys know of any other cool shows???

[chrisbolte]

battleboots and junkyard wars are two great shows!

[MOW ED]

Watched the "mowers" last night. Sort of a let down. I'll stick with my Walker. Cant wait for the finals.

[Greenkeepers]

I missed it what did they make up?? I'm in the process of getting a satelite and I can't get TLC on my bunny ears :)

[Twotoros]

I've seen a lot of "wars" and these those were a couple of the worst machines built. But it is still one of the best shows on tv. I agree they stock the yard somewhat but 10 hours to build a contraption , you got to put on your thinking caps!!

[SMB]

The surfers would have won the mowing contest if their clutch in their truck wouldn't have blown up. The steam powered cars were much better. :cool:

[Vibe Ray]

I missed it too. So what happened???

[little green guy]

Oh man, I missed it!

I was out working all nigh tuesday and and then had to go to school. I didn't get to sleep for 36 hours stiaght so I went to sleep at 3 in the afternoon yesturday and missed the only show I wanted to see. Does anyone know if there's reruns?

[SMB]

The Brothers in Arms won the mowing contest against the Techno Teachers, and the Computer Nerds won the Steam contest against the surfers (I think), the last post of mine was wrong.

[jason2]

They should have renamed the episode "combines" instead of mowing machines. They had to build machines to cut and collect wheat, not grass.

Pretty cool episode. Both machines broke down. They had one hour to harvest as much wheat as they could. Don't know why they had them cutting green wheat. Wheat is tough to cut when it isn't ripe.

Both machines breaking down numerous times in an hour reminded me of the reliability of old Massey Ferguson combines. In fact both of the homebuilt combines were probably more reliable than the old Massey's.