This makes me so happy! I literally laughed out loud. Only an engineer would spend hours designing and making apparatus for motorizing a scaffold to save a minute or two of climbing, then personally test the apparatus, alone, in a remote garage, while filming the whole ordeal. Such is the mind of genius. I sometimes wonder if Matthias does this just to irritate the safety ninnies. I hope so! Live long and prosper my friend!

Motorizing the scaffold. Full article here: woodgears.ca/scaffold/motorize.html

If this guy starts welding, the world will never be the same

another thing I never thought I’d hear: “This scaffold doesn’t corner very well."

The only words to describe this are "Trust me, I'm an engineer."

Most people don't understand the concept of " just to see if you can." Great job. Thats How Things Get Invented.

You are a genius or a mad man. Either way I love it

Whilst I could never in my wildest dreams aspire to make the stuff you do it does not detract from my enjoyment of watching your videos and marvelling at your inventive ingenuity. Thank you for posting them.

Amazing job! Didn't expect to work that good!

Matthias.... I love going back and seeing your older videos.. Its what I've been doing for the last couple of hours. This one always cracks me up. Thanks for the many many hours of entertainment. Russ

Matthias, I just wanted to thank you for all your content. You have provided me with a lot to think about over the last few years. I wish you and your family all the blessings possible!!!

Thank you so much for the post. Most people do not see home made tool construction as a creative art of its own, Yet the creativity required to DIY tools, Jigs and just genera home built retakes is more complex than a some other art. A tool Truly has a beauty of its own.

That is awesome. I think you may have just started a new craze. Scaffold racing !! You look to be in the Black and Decker class.

That is insanely Cool!

Watching this 6 years later I can’t like it again so I am going to comment. Great build. Like how you rounded the board. Creative...

Great stuff- doing the unthinkable again! You have the honour of having made at least 2 million people smile with your creativity- that is quite an achievement right there!

This is why I love your channel.

Oh, you know I want a ride!

That's is the first time that I've ever seen someone make a moving scaffold outta wood . And in my eyes that was beautifully well done !! I loved it and I'd like to try making one but first I'd need directions on how to follow your step's on making one . You are truly an outstanding teacher when it comes to following the way you build thing's , thank you you so much for the classes making a scaffold . Thank you Matt .

Why am I seeing this just now!? Besides the innovative aspect, it was very entertaining and a pleasure to watch! Safety aspect, Yeah I know, but really, I gotta give Mathias 5 ⭐️ for the pleasure he had and he brought us.

The scaffold does not corner very well....haha!!

Dear Naysayers, LIFE is not safe. Sometimes a guy has to make his scaffold move around. I really like the last words in the video "That worked out better than I thought". That is the best feeling.

This was the first of your videos I watched. One of the most intriguing video titles I've ever seen. Really glad to have subscribed back then, thanks for all of the great content!

Hi Matt, you are the closest thing to the venerable "mad scientists" I remember from cartoons in my childhood!! Keep up the good work! You are a hero!! ;-)

Changing light bulbs has never looked more fun.

My first thought when I read the video title was "you are mad"... I immediately jumped to watch the video. I love it.

O Lord, You are a wonderful artist Matnih every sense of the word. I was depressed and sad, but I watched this video become happy. Thank you very much

One man show. Everything is made out of wood. Steering, forward & reverse mechanism is excellent. Great work man. God bless you.

So what did you do this weekend? oh i drove around my scaffolding... you mean you moved some scaffolding? no I was driving around on my scaffold! BRILLIANT!!! I am so pleased I came across your channel.

656 OSHA inspectors disliked this video.

That's pretty impressive, Matthias! Hats off to you. I appreciate your ability to control your words too. There's lots of room for 'cussing the air blue' in some of those mishaps! I need scaffolding for installing gable end vents (1 1/2 story house), redoing the soffit, facia and eaves troughs, etc. I can rent it for about $125/week plus delivery, or I can make it myself. I think I'd go for 3" - 4" torx screws, metal angle braces, a pile of 2x4's and some PT plywood because I can reuse all these materials on another project--putting a concrete foundation under my 12'x16' shed. I'm sure to get some exercise climbing up and down, but then again, I could use a little exercise...

It is absolutely fascinating to me how you can achieve such complex cuts on a table saw. I'm embarrassed that I've only ever used table saws for cutting sheets of wood in half

This is the most ridiculous thing I have seen all week, and I LOVE IT.

That is the craziest thing you've done. Next you'll want to storm castles with drill driven siege engines. No more design work for you without adult supervision!

MATTHIAS THAT WAS JUST UNBELIEVABLE BE CAREFUL WE NEED MORE GREAT MINDS LIKE YOUR IN THIS WORLD!!! VERY WELL DONE!

"That was the last time Matthais was seen in his workshop. Police are trying to piece together the route he took when the drill wouldn't switch off..." Great, entertaining and I love the way you use the tools available. Keep up the good work!

Nice work. The wheels and gears in your head must be turning all the time! (that is a compliment)

@ 1.09 "slightly less dangerous... lol love it. very cool build

This is so hilariously dangerous and absolutely a work of creative genius. You are a world-class problem solver!

I think you are having a little too much fun with that scaffold.

Absolutely brilliant . I would not ride this if you payed me money, but it's an amazing project!

2nd grade i built a bench ouut of scrap . Im 62yrs now and by far thats the coolist thing ever ...that was my 2nd video... keep going

Most entertaining DIY project ever. I smiled the whole time. I was surprised the wood wheel had enough traction to move the whole thing, I would glue a strip of bicycle inner tube on the wheel to see if it makes a difference.

You are a health and safety nightmare, never stop! I wish I could use a motorized scaffold in ontario.

lol, don´t let your insurance see this footage.

That is awesome! I am so impressed. Your shop teacher must have loved having you in his class.

Love your ingenuity, Matthew. And you had fun creating it.

I can't believe I missed this video, didn't see this until you did your echo mediation, pretty cool by the way, but not nearly as much fun as this. I am surprised that the wheel didn't need some sort of traction enhancement, there are many painters of high ceilings that are very jealous today...

Matthias Wandel - The closest thing we have to a mad scientist ;) Love it

Congratulations Mattthias! As usual, veryyyyy interesting project! Every single part of your projects shows how you intelligently combine science and hands-on skills.

Why am I only seeing this now? Holy ****! I laughed until I cried. Now I am sure Matthias is too smart for his own good! And the comments made me laugh and cry even harder! Love this channel!

dude, you are on another level

Matthias, you're my hero.

I've been a fan of your work going back to your first bandsaw build. Then watched as you grew into your new shop which was about 12'x16', maybe a bit smaller. Wow look at this shop!!! I will be needing a scaffold for working up to 14 feet which is how I stumbled upon this jewel of a series, and was glad to see you are still building with your special tools and skills but I was completely amused when you said you were going to motorize the whole thing. Then I thought you'd hit a road block with the size of the drill, naturally you had already figured that one out as well, a variac. Of course, what was I thinking. Ha!!! You are still my favorite KZfaq mad scientist, and I hope you never change. Thanks for the great videos you made way way back because you already knew I would one day be needing an example to follow. Thank you for that as well. Just wondering, did you ever make another one so you could have drag races there in the shop? Ha! 🤓🤡

When it comes to carpentry/woodworking/construction, this project takes nerd to a whole other level.

This was the funniest thing I've seen in the last week at least. Hahaha what an awkward and awesome machine

"Lathes- who needs them?" -Matthias Wandel

Somehow, this reminds of a time when I was about 10, near the end of winter in mid-March. Three friends and I determined it would be a grand idea to scavenge a dozen or so mismatched, occasionally rotting logs and lash them together with scraps of rope to fashion a most seaworthy (not) raft. Upon completion of construction and duly christening said raft, with herculean effort, we slid it over, across, and through stream-side ice and snow banks, and managed to launch it into the frigid, swollen, and raging Class 7 waters of what was no longer a tiny brook. That we actually somehow boarded this contraption and cruised some few feet downstream - with our legs and booted feet slipping between the logs and falling on our wet asses - was a miracle, surpassed only by the miracle that we lived to tell about it. Any one or all of us could have easily drowned that day. I really don't think there are many differences between our rafting adventure and elevated, motorized wood scaffold riding.

Every step you do is refreshingly smart.

грандиозный изобретатель

Ну приколист! Здорово! Вообще, электродрель - классный привод: достаточно мощный, есть регулировка скорости и реверс, встроенный редуктор. Стоит недорого и продаётся везде. Я тоже использую электродрели в качестве привода на самодельных станках и в разных приспособлениях.

you can't please everybody..but its nice too see people think positively rather than the opposite..good job matt...

Oh ho ho ho! I'm 10 seconds in and you have me! Scaffold motorized so you can drive it from way up on top! Awesomeness!

I wonder does Matthias have those noments of wtf am I doing

I was actually holding my breath during part of the video. Every time the legs would hit the ground or the scaffold would sway, I was expecting a tip. Well done, very cool video and idea. I don't think I'll try it anytime soon though, mainly because I have a single-story workshop and hate heights. :)

My dad would love this. He was a drywaller for most of his life and had some questionable ideas about what constitutes job safety in so far as jury rigged "scaffolding" was concerned. I'm talking three 2x4s resting on the top rung of a step ladder with the other end resting at the top of a flight of stairs THEN putting a bucket upside down in the middle of this highwire to stand on. You'd think he would have broken some bones doing those stunts for forty years but he never did.

Matt you are one wild and crazy guy. Love watching your videos. You are the Geek of woodworking. your engineering ability is entertaining.

Matthias, you are absolutely *_WACKO_* !! LOL

put furniture sliders underneath the two legs near the motor

This is the best motorized scaffolding film I've seen since Mad Max And His Struggle Against The Killer Scaffold.

this is still one of my favorite matthias videos

You should build a car out of just wood and a motor.

What does your wife think of all these gizmos? You kind of remind me of the mad scientist from Back to the Future

Pure genius! I wish my shop was big enough to NEED a scaffold!

Matthias you're a crazy inventor. Glad to see it work so well. Even more glad that it didn't tip over with you in it.

you are the true mad scientist. i'm waiting for the wooden flux capacitor. :) :) :)

Crazy! But I love it!

This is one of the awesomest things you have ever made

Funny. Especially the scaffold chase scene. Marvelous work, as usual.

Can you make a scissor lift?

this seems like such a bad idea. I LOVE IT!

Dear Matthias, Whilst your work is advanced and you are a more advanced maker than I in many ways, I will have the temerity to make a suggestion as there is more than one way to skin a cat. I made a very large pulley this year for the countershaft of a rotary screen / trommel. The pulley was made of w.b.p plywood as it would be sat outdoors in all weather on my allotment. When I make discs or pulleys of plywood or indeed swing any arcs I invariably do this with a router compass. I have never bought one and just rustle them up from 6" x 1" P.A.R. softwood. Drilling two counterbored holes in one end of the board allows fixing of the router to compass. I then plunge a 1/2" rota-tip bit through the board. One can then measure from the witness hole to a centre and drill a 1.5mm hole to take a pin to act as a centre. A hole is now piloted in the material to be routed and the arc or circle swung. I find that a dust extraction spout useless for drawing dust up the close fitting witness hole and on the last compass which \i used to swing an arc of approximately 8' a square of softwood was attached to the side of the arm with a housing in the bottom back to the witness hole and a 34mm diameter hole in the top of the square to take a dust extraction hose. This was a great improvement. back to the pulley. Whilst the pulley was still in the form of rings and discs (It had to be thick as at this stage I had not established whether the pulley was to take a float or vee belt so I made it for both) I used a panel raising router bit to produce the two halves of the vee. This was then laminated together. All that was required then was to fill any inclusions, sand and varnish. I hope that this may be of some use and I hope that you forgive me for perhaps telling Grandma how to suck eggs. You can see the pulley in use on my ridiculously low fidelity film of the Lister powered trommel. Regards, Malcolm Tierney

all strong inventions are created from crazy ass ideas and this sir is totally crazy, love all your videos keep them coming and most of all stay safe.

It's your channel and your videos, go for it :-)

Now on Top Gear... We have to find out how fast it goes around our track, and of course it means handing it over to our tame scaffolding driver. Some say he once built a 1:1 scale wooden copy of Mount Rushmore with a pantorouter, and if they gave him enough 2x4's, NASA could put astronauts up in the ISS by themselves with no help from the Russians. All we know is... he's called the Matthias!

One never knows what to expect from you next....amazing creativity!

man..i've been going through your videos and i must say that i, for one, admire your ingenuity and creativity. Keep up the good work and keep the videos coming. I've learned a lot on working around problems with your help and the help of others like jay bates. Why buy when you can make your own tools!!!

Before I watched, I thought this might turn into a Darwin award.

Genius status achieved!

Ya know Matthias I have watched countless YT videos and laughed at a bunch of them but yours took the prize. I ended my career as a const. supt. for 33 years and started as a carpenter at times up 4 bucks on a rolling scaffold. I hated having to climb down to simply move another 8 feet or so. I thoroughly enjoyed this addition. LMAO big time. And yes I can see OSHA inspectors drooling to catch you on a jobsite. Keep rockin or I mean rollin. Thanks for this.

I am Egyptian, a furniture carpenter. You are really excellent, excellent, excellent

You are amazing...Just when I think u have done everything with wood..You go and motorize your scaffold..One of the most disappointing things about watching all your vids, was when there was no more to watch :)

Quite entertaining! :-) Did you later install a power outlet on the underside of the roof in order not to run over the power cord?

I can see lifeguards riding home from work in their highchairs lol Truly awesome innovation Matthias!

Matthias - I have seen you build many things since I discovered your KZfaq channel, and this takes the biscuit! Outstanding, mad as hell, but OUTSTANDING. (Just be careful please!)

Dude this is so entertaining. One man, one brain, a pile of lumber and a dream.

LOL, Now you need a 6.5 hp on that and take it out muddin.LOL

replace that drill with a circular saw and call Guinness set the scaffold speed record lol

You are a madman, in the best way there may be. I salute you sir!

your ability to fabricate normally cast metal parts out of wood is very impressive.