yoooo! there's actually a hop rod for sale right now on ebay if you want to break your ankles www.ebay.com/itm/256507704519 and whats up everybody! what should i do with the tesla coil?? 🤔

gotta enjoy how the water wiggle's strangulation capabilites are shown in the ad itself

That water wiggle straight-up murdered him. I'll buy 100!

it is very interesting how he tried all those different types of fuel but didn’t think of wearing a pair of boots

Man, the 60s were the Wild West for toy designers; no rules, no limits. Lol 😂

The Water Wiggle literally wraps itself around someone's neck _in the commercial._ Like, what the hell.

"It may seem safe, but upon closer inspection, it's actually a machete bolted onto a hard hat".

For the gas powered pogo stick, I think the fuel needs to have some kind of lubricant (like 2 stroke oil) mxed into it. It seems, from your description, to be two stroke engine with no crank shaft. It probably relies on oil mixed in the fuel to lubricate it, unless it has an oil reservoir somewhere.

the water wiggle scene that cut from you struggling to not choke to ACTUALLY being choked out by your dog caught me so off guard and i watched it like ten times I love this and thank you

I like how the dogs instantly joined forces with the water wiggle in attempted murder

I felt that brain damage joke 😂😂

"They all have some sort of mild brain da-- but let's take a break from that...." LMAO I'm dying that's freakin funny ...

My grandparents had one of these when I was a kid. It worked well once you got the hang of it. Unfortunately it broke one day and years later they tossed it out during a renovation

I Like How The "Swing-Wing" Is Essentially The Perfect Defense Against The "Water Wiggle"

Only took half a second into the commercial for me to see the IMMEDIATE problem with the Water Wiggle. Dear lord.

That thing looks pretty brutal. Toys in the 60s were survival of the fittest.

You know when people get rear ended, and they say they're fine right after, but then a day later have all these issues with their necks? I feel like the hop rod is doing the same jerking force but to your ankles.

I've been thinking about this for years. Hop Rod DEFINITELY needs an update, probably microprocessor control and a normal spark coil to give ignition AFTER the point of maximum compression, a much longer piston stroke and smaller piston diameter, plus some kind of spring between the engine and the pedals. When done correctly, you should be able to jump over parked cars with ease, and have no risk to your ankles because the cooling sytem won't have fins next to your ankles!

BYS: "A machete bolted to a hard hat." Joe Rogan: "I'll take six."

I love how it makes both of his ankles bleed from being knocked into the stick, but he still doesn't put on longer socks or anything.

This thing is freakin' sweet.

Colin furze: Yep...definitely gonna make this even more dangerous

This product just came up during lunch. I am an engineer with Chance Rides Manufacturing.. the same company that made the Hop Rod. I had seen this video last year and had no Idea that we made this haha. Just came back to watch and I am so amazed by this.

8:18 Nah, that's just from the lead in the air from leaded gasoline lol.

Hello. This is Pete. Thanks for the channel plug! I hadn't realized that you'd get it going that soon. Wow! you don't let any grass grow under your feet, do you!!! Impressive testing. I hope your ankles heal. Your video would have made a great operator's guide if Hoprods were still being sold.

Water Wiggle: "I can't understand why this is dangerous?" Actual advert, literally... *LITERALLY* showing a kid being strangled by it 0:54 : "No, me neither..."

"It may seem safe, but on closer inspection, it's actually a machete bolted to a hard hat."

Fascinating that your dogs instinctively attack the choking hose toy thingy.

The first 30 seconds of this video were WILD😂

The part where the water wiggle strangled him and the dogs went after it had me laughing so hard

This really helps explain why every older person I knew growing up complained about their knees

I love the fact that this guy has the perfect combination of genius with a good sense of humour.

The Water Wiggle is hilarious! Everything about it is hilarious, the inventor, the store selling it, the people buying it, the commercial, the people breaking it out at a party, etc....

1:35 "It may even be dangerous, and not even the fun kind of dangerous" Never have I heard words that rang so truly within me

His dogs biting the hose while he's being choked out by it is hilarious, cracked me up good.

Gordon Spitzmesser, the one on the patent on the left, is my uncle. He was a WWII vet and had a knack for inventing lots of things after the war. He moved to the Carilinas from Indiana in 1972 and set up his own tool and die shop, and then retired. I believe we still have the original of the patent, as well as the pogo stick. He was a tough and strong guy, so this to him seemed reasonable. Thanks for posting this!

I used one back in the 60's. Very hard to use. I couldn't jump on more that 3 times. I can see why it never sold for over a year.

I'm sure with a little more work and a licensing deal with Disney, the musical tesla could could be the hottest Christmas toy of the season! 🤣 So cool to see how the ankle breaker worked in slow motion

I've wanted to find and restore one of these for years! So nice to finally see in HD.

Wow, how interesting that it's a gasoline engine right down to the carburetor and spark plug, but just without the rotational parts! I guess this gives "new" meaning to the term "JUMP-start"! I never thought I'd see something like this! I guess you can hand it to the 60s to come up with something oddball-interesting like that! This is about the most fascinating oddball device I've seen in a long time!

My Dad (RIP) would take me to the auto show in NYC every year in the late 1960s and early 1970s. My grandfather would pick me up and we would take the LIRR into the city to meet my father at the show. One big highlight was right before we left he would buy me a copy of the AutoWorld catalog. I would read every page and order by mail some plastic models and parts for my Aurora HO scale cars. I remember seeing the Hop Rod in that catalog and wanting one but it was beyond the reach of my finances. And that was good because I would have broken some bones using it. Still, your video brings back fond memories. I still have all those old catalogs down in the basement. You said it was only sold for one year in the early 60s but I know it was in one of my AW catalogs from 1967 - 1973. I'll look through them later.

0:55 I love how you can literally see it strangle people in the commercial

Just wait, Kevin will become so pro at pogo that even General Kenobi won’t be able to beat his high ground

LOL I love at 1:30 when you have the hose around your neck and the dog starts pulling on the end I can just imagine him saying "OPPRESSED NO MORE"

1:22 Well played 😂

the 60s: "this pogo stick hurts to use and now my ankles are bleeding" "WE NEED THIS TO BE ON EVERY CHILD'S CHRISTMAS LIST"

The gas powered pogo stick looks like something from Fallout that you would need to craft a unique melee weapon.

"when I'm in the garage working late the last thing i wanna do is-" *sounds of something being sawed*. bro that got me in tears 🤣🤣🤣

This man pulls materials for things like this out of thin air

8:15 "I think I know what's going on with people in that generation too, they all have some mild brain damage!" I mean, this was the era of leaded gasoline.

"Now I can break all of my bones in new and exciting ways" Sounds like an Aperture Science advertisement

On 1:17, he was like, "all we gotta do-oooo is attach this to a flexible-..." 🤣

One of the coolest ideas for a toy ever

"so what can we do to make a pogo more costly?" "Well... We could replace the simple spring that they use with a gas-powered engine." "W-why???" "I mean, you said more costly, not more logical." "Brilliant!"

"Gas powered stick, Never runs outta gas."

The best of all videos i've seen in a couple of weeks. Hilarious and interesting. Thanks for that and please continue.

“Upon closer inspection, it’s a machete bolted to a hard hat.” - ahahaha!

Back in the 60's I had a regular pogo stick and I was determined to have the world record of pogo jumping. I got to a thousand and thought for sure that would be the record, but when I found a guiness book of world records the actual record was over 3k. BTW my ankles were super sore after that, I can't imagine what more than a few minutes of hop rod riding would do.

“Sooo how’d you cut off your hand?” “I screwed a machete on to a helmet and swung it around”

the room you filmed the hellofresh ad in is beautiful😊

Love the packing job!

A reminder: An engineer had to actually sit down and design this engine. Like, figure out the timing, stroke of the piston and how it would work. So... Dont let your memes be dreams I guess?

"Kids these days are so soft! Back in my day we had real toys!" The toys:

Awesome video. From being into engine’s! Looks like you could get more HP with a pipe. I’m surprised. I’ve never seen this before.❤️

A friend of mine has one of the pogo sticks. I never had one of the water stranglers, but I have seen the damage a 2 1/2" hose line from a fire truck can do. Remember Roxanne?

Wow!! That was my Hop Rod that sold at the 4:00 mark! This guy reached out to me on eBay to try and buy it for more! Wish I would have known what is would have been used for.

You know the water wiggle is out for blood when literally the first thing it does in the commercial is wrap around some girls neck

There's got to be some way to make it so the engine fires at the right time. Maybe with your own pogo stick at least. A contact sensor that detects when you start to travel upwards? Or maybe you should already be a bit into the upward trajectory before the thing goes off. 🤔 And the most obvious upgrade is to move the motor higher up on the stick...

1:34 the moment the dog tries to help but is actually garrotting the backyard scientist 🤣

I had the "Water Wiggle" in the late 1960's. I think it was a WHAM-O toy product, as were a lot of my toys then. I don't remember it being too terribly dangerous, but I think it knocked me in the face a few times. The bell covering the nozzle was a hard plastic; later versions were a softer material. This reminds me of a saying I heard recently that goes, "If you grew up in the 1970's and didn't risk your life at least twice a day, you didn't do it right."

I can only imagine the amount of micro fractures that it causes on your ankle bones with each jump

I don't know why I find all the potential injuries so hilarious 😂

The water wiggle had one issue back in those days, that was before we used water pressure regulators. So if you live in the mountains, your water pressure can exceed 100 PSI. Now you can understand why it failed. The problem wasn't the toy's fault.

An unpredictable strangle hose, a concussion helmet, and a gasoline engine right there by your feet and ankles pushing you into the air. I can’t imagine why these weren’t winners

Now you just need to team up with William Osman and make a better version that won't break your legs! Maybe pneumatics and some microcontrollers would help?

Love it! Never heard of this toy before but I totally think you figured out why they look so new being 60 plus years old! lol

Omg that Water Wiggle was hilarious! I saw it wrap around three people's necks in the commercial alone!

Omg lol, I love how the commercial literally shows the hose wrapping around a kids neck twice 😭😭😭

I would have thought the fuel would be similar to Cox airplane nitro fuel.

Man your publicity is better than any other youtuber out there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..... your really got it!!!!!!!!

When i was about 12-13, my friend and I built a compressed air pogo stick that worked well. It has a piston with a bolt in the center facing up and a ball bearing in the middle of the upper chamber. when the piston got to the top, the bolt pushed the bearing up releasing compressed air into the cylinder and up you'd go.. the top chamber just had a space as big as the cylinder and we fed compressed air into it. Shoot me a message if you have any questions..

"it's just a machete bolted to a hard hat" Well, I wouldn't expect anything less.

Love that the water wiggle commercial showed the thing trying to choke someone out

always great to see a video from TheBackyardScientist where he didn't blow up his own backyard

There was a "build your own nuclear reactor" 'toy' complete with forms to order extra uranium in case you ran out. Yes, it was a TOY for KIDS in which they would build a ligit nuclear reactor out of ligit uranium.

I got higher bounces from a regular pogo stick in the 90s. I’d jump so high with it, I’d get a little worried on the way down sometimes. This pogo stick is a cool idea, but the execution leaves much to be desired if it can’t beat a loaded spring

The water wiggle ALWAYS going for the neck is definitely the funniest thing i have ever seen 💀

Hello from Utah! Found you today looking at pogo sticks. Looks like you have a very fun life. 😊✌️enjoy that pogo stick

When I was a kid I thought that the Pogo Stick we had was just a toy version of something the military had, where they could jump like a whole city block at a time. Only later did I find out that what goes up must come down, and that coming down from a jump that high would be very painful. But back in the 60s and 70s the toys you mentioned were just the tip of the iceberg. There was one that was advertised in a science mag for kids where it was an actual working miniature NUCLEAR REACTOR. Not kidding. There were also various do-it-yourself plans for zip guns, explosives, all that. I had my own near-miss experience with a lawn dart that embedded itself in a crack in the sidewalk less than an inch from my foot as I walked past a certain house on my street. Sure, we had dangerous toys but at least we had FUN. Although when I look back at some of the dangerous things we did back then, I shudder thinking about all that could have happened.

I actually had this when I was a kid. We had to mix the gasoline with oil like the old lawn mowers. We got rid of it because I sprained my ankle twice in a week. I find it funny that our backyard geek is trying to redo this bad toy that I used to own. I want him to try with the fuel/oil mix that I had to run in my mower.

Finally getting to see a gas-powered stick

Also it's fun to see original hop rod was a proper gasoline engine with real spark plug. Because compression in hop rod chamber is high , you can get away with using diesel cycle and go without spark plug, just using special fuel which ignites from the heat of adiabatic compression. Interesting to see that even such simple idea can be made differently.

3:44 that sounds like the Pixar lamp

I had a Water Wiggler when I was a kid back in the 60's and it was a ton of fun. I never got hurt by it or injured while playing with it. I did not know it was a banned toy though. I remember the Hop Rod too but I never wanted one.

I most enjoyed the Cox line of toys with nitro-powered combustion engines. There were all kinds of vehicles including dune buggies, dragsters, chopper trikes, and my personal favorite, airplanes with a tether that controlled the elevators on the horizontal stabilizer for up and down control. You just fired them up and held on for dear life going around and around in circles praying it would run out of gas before you went dizzy, passed out and killed somebody with it. They were dangerous beyond belief, but were a hoot to fly... until you crashed it into a hundred pieces, usually on the first or second flight.

I respect this dude do much. I love your videos

The 1960s were a time to be alive. Imagine getting this for Christmas. I mean, that’s the best present ever.

Throw on some alpinestar tech 3 motocross boots. You’ll love that hop rod.

When i was a kid, around 1998, my dad got me a pewter model forge from toysrus (metal molder die cast factory)... u put pewter beads in the crucible lol, locked the lid, turned it on, i remember the burning smell, probably shouldent have used it on my carpet, then when the timer clicks you pull the lever to pour it into a mold... best toy ive ever had 110%, im also sure it was banned after a year

I was watching someone else’s modded kids toys videos and saw this one, this is the classic