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Episode 1

Underwater Cars

air day: 2005-09-18

The problem

In this primary episode of the brand new sequence, Scrapheap is off to marvellous Margate the place a workforce of forklifting fixers tackle a crew of military helicopter heroes in a battle to construct underwater vehicles that may rip up the ocean mattress.

Apache Warriors

Ring-a-ding-ding-ding! The military boys Tom, Tobe and Oggs have landed and are available oozing with allure, charisma and precision in a approach solely our prime rating army can. The banter is suffering from innuendo; theirs is a cross between the varsity altering room and a Carry On movie. Helicopter pilots by day, these boys are all weapons blazing for a Scrapheap showdown!

Chess-playing Guy Seymour helps them out, bringing expertise in off-road machines and underwater automobiles to the heap. Brought up on a boatyard in Australia, Guy studied submersible automobile design at college and is at the moment a mechanical and enterprise techniques engineer for Subeo, a UK-based producer of submersible automobiles. Subeo are hoping to launch a small inexpensive submersible automobile onto the market quickly. Before coming to England, Guy was a military reservist for seven years, the place he was concerned with the upkeep of their 4×4 automobiles.

The Powerlifters

Neil, Mark and Dave are true Scrapheap! These boys love their drag racing and scorching rodding and are all forklift upkeep engineers in Essex. Bald, tattooed and pierced, Neil and Dave present the principle double act however light big Mark doesn’t appear to thoughts taking part in the autumn man to the duo. Energetic and with a variety of outdoor pursuits, The Powerlifters are hardworking, straight speaking, nice enjoyable, and declare to have the ability to tackle something Scrapheap can throw at them!

Expert Matt Cook began his profession as an apprentice at Land Rover and stayed with the corporate for seven years as a design engineer within the new automobile growth division. Matt has raced 4x4s since he was 17 and has even gained probably the most excessive off-road occasion on the earth – the Malaysian Rainforest Challenge together with his enterprise companion Simon Buck in 2002. Together they run the legendary Devon 4×4 close to Tiverton the place they put together and modify excessive off-road machines and fabricate customized elements for the game. Despite this busy life, Matt can be a certified potter!

The choose

Stephanie Merry is a revered tactician, navigator and helmswoman, with a profitable observe document in offshore racing at nationwide and worldwide degree. Commercially endorsed yachtmaster and ocean yachtmaster, Stephanie has gained numerous race titles and problem cups. She is the proprietor and skipper of Rollerskate, a Four-tonne race yacht which she sailed to victory in numerous challenges between 1992 and 1998. Stephanie is a earlier choose of Scrapheap Challenge, lending her experience within the mini-sub problem, again in sequence three.

Episode 2

Kung Fu Cars

air day: 2005-09-25

The problem

This week’s Scrapheap Challenge is a take a look at to see who can turn into a champion martial mechanic by constructing a kung fu automobile. The groups must assemble a moveable automobile complete with a karate-chopping machine. It’s gotta be robust because it’ll must axe its approach by means of six concrete slabs, half a metre of ice and at last an enormous hunk of wooden.

Lumbering Jacks

Tree-cuttin’ captain Baden and his fellow fellers Andrew and David are a prime Scrapheap workforce. They ‘say it how it is’, love their agricultural equipment and are eager off-roaders. A jolly workforce with an excellent rapport, a way of humour and a fantastic angle. With the motto ‘If it’s been constructed earlier than, it may be constructed once more’, this workforce have the potential to go far. Our forest-loving, axe-wielding males of South Wales are right here to chop their opponents right down to measurement.

Robyn Rushforth is the Lumbering Jacks’ professional. As an MOD-trained engineer with 16 years spent within the demolition trade, he actually has the know-how to smash stuff up. He’s additionally a flexible bodger and enjoys banging collectively something from rally vehicles to underwater ROVs.

The Haggis Bashers

Watersporting fanatics from Fife, these boys dive, water-ski and fish of their spare time. The workforce come from a largely agricultural background and convey a variety of expertise: Andrew has been in mechanics for 20 years and specialises in heavy farm equipment, Johnny is aware of his jet engines and Raymond is a woodwork and metalwork professional. Three totally different characters however all with that well-known Scottish dryness, these bonny boys are assured to present us greater than a Highland fling!

The Haggis Bashers’ professional is Essex boy Richard Keall. A automobile mechanic turned plant fitter, he at the moment works for one of many nation’s largest demolition corporations, holding the machines in tip-top situation.

The choose

When it involves demolition, this week’s choose, David Clarke, has seen all of it … nicely, nearly! After 25 years working in demolition, he’s at the moment president of the National Federation of Demolition Contractors.

Episode Three

Sharp Shooters

air day: 2005-10-02

The problem

This week’s Scrapheap Challenge is a take a look at to see who can construct probably the most excessive rapid-fire arrow launcher. The groups must construct a projectile launcher that may routinely load itself, in addition to shortly firing arrows far and precisely.

Stage Crew

The boys from behind the scenes! Our Bristolian bodgers Pup, Denzel and Jet are answerable for contraptions utilized in exhibits corresponding to Jesus Christ Superstar, Mary Poppins and Miss Saigon. Passionate, animated and enthusiastic is the one option to describe them. Captain Pup’s eyes gentle up when he talks engineering and he’s supported by the bearded Denzel together with his hearty giggle and Jet, so-called due to his love for jet engines. This workforce is used to the strain of getting to carry out and with their ‘The show must go on’ angle, is unlikely to disappoint.

The Stage Crew’s professional is a good friend of the present, Tod Todeschini. Tod started life as a kitchen product designer however he quickly obtained bored. He is now a medieval weaponry professional and maker of particular results for stage and tv. This is his third outing to Scrapheap Challenge and having beforehand tackled Giant Darts and Rapid Fire, this week’s take a look at needs to be a cinch!

The Big Dippers

The Big Dippers are Lancashire lads answerable for the upkeep of Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Dodgey (he loves automobile boot gross sales and ferreting in skips – needs to be at house on the heap then!), Steve and Brian (nicknamed Two-ey as he solely has two entrance enamel) have been mates for years and have a wealth of expertise. Dodgey comes from a household of mechanics, Steve is the electrics supervisor on the Pleasure Beach and Brian claims to have the ability to weld underwater. So in addition to offering a relentless degree of cheeky banter, these guys are right here for greater than the journey!

In The Big Dippers’ nook is professional armourer John Nixon. John spent 10 years studying his commerce as an armourer with REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers), earlier than splitting his time between armoury and mechanics. Nowadays, he’s more than likely to be discovered on a movie set making weapons for epics corresponding to Black Hawk Down and Saving Private Ryan. Let’s see if he’ll save the day for The Big Dippers!

The choose

Our choose this week is one other Scrapheap veteran, Steve Ralphs. Grand Master of the Traditional Bowyers Guild, Steve started crafting conventional bows and arrows 25 years in the past. He now spends most of his time instructing Hollywood actors within the artwork of archery (that is the person that taught Legolas how to attract a bow). When he’s not doing that he performs guitar in a band referred to as Phabulous Fondue!

Episode Four

AC/DC Dairy Dash

air day: 2005-10-09

The problem

Cornish, traditional Jag lovers the Beasts of Bodmin tackle The 7s, a workforce of easy-going Essex bikers. In an electrifying off-road contest, they race to assemble battery-powered milk floats able to conquering robust terrain to securely ship a dozen crates of milk.

Beasts of Bodmin

Mysterious and swish, stealthy but quick, nicely, these Beasts of Bodmin could not fairly be. However, the classics lovers spend greater than their justifiable share of time with that feline of the automobile world – the Jaguar. Enthusiasts and restorers of traditional Jags and motorbikes, captain Brian and his partners-in-crime Steve and Spencer get pleasure from nothing greater than a spin throughout Bodmin Moor. Tons of expertise and a steely dedication to seek out and tear aside their opposition, the Beasts may very well be ones to be careful for!

Their professional is electrical automobile fanatic Paul Compton. A self-taught electronics engineer who honed his mechanical expertise constructing package vehicles, Paul turned fascinated with electrical automobiles about 10 years in the past. Since then he has raced throughout America in an electrical Porsche 914 and constructed a number of EVs himself, together with his present VW Scirocco conversion. He not too long ago turned deputy chairman of the Battery Vehicle Society and when he’s not busy with all that, he enjoys driving traditional bikes throughout the nation.

The 7s

Slick (Mick), Axel (Steve) and captain Bob make up The 7s. They are so-called due to their affiliation with a biking membership in Southend of the identical identify. They are a bunch of leather-clad, beardy bikers from Essex. Into their Harleys and traditional vehicles, these guys love their velocity and have additionally constructed a sizeable trike, complete with 6-litre automobile engine, that may attain speeds of 180mph. Essex by means of and thru, charismatic, right here for fun and so they don’t care what we ask them to construct!

The 7s’ professional is Scrapheap veteran Nick Bell, who beforehand lent his experience on Backpack Cars and Locomotives. Nick is a contract designer of leisure transport automobiles. He’s labored on every little thing from monorail techniques to pier trams and was not too long ago answerable for the electrical floats on the opening ceremony of the 2004 Athens Olympics.

The choose

This week’s choose is electrical automobile guru Robert Fowler. Robert has at all times been fascinated with different automobiles. Previously vice chairman of an American hovercraft firm, in 1990 he turned his consideration to greener modes of transport and based the electrical automobile firm, AVT. From his workshop in Somerset, he now converts all method of typical vehicles into cleaner working, quieter sounding EVs. Oh, and he’s not too long ago invented a brand new lawnmower that shall be out there subsequent 12 months – you heard it right here first!

Episode 5

Polar Pinball

air day: 2005-10-16

The problem

In this week’s chilling problem, the groups must construct an omni-directional machine that may act as a pinball in our polar area. By notching up factors for precision prangs on our excessive scoring targets, the workforce that scores probably the most wins!

Lumbering Jacks

Tree-cuttin’ captain Baden and his fellow fellers Andrew and David are a prime Scrapheap workforce. They ‘say it how it’s’, love their agricultural equipment and are eager off-roaders. A jolly workforce with an excellent rapport, a way of humour and a fantastic angle. With the motto ‘If it has been constructed earlier than, it may be constructed once more’, this workforce have the potential to go far. Our forest-loving, axe-wielding males of South Wales are right here to chop their opponents right down to measurement.

Their workforce professional is a growth engineer and former bike racer from Staines. Do-it-all Duncan Hyde can be an enthusiastic member of the Hovercraft Club of Great Britain. Over the final 10 years he has made a minimum of 5 hovercrafts, which his son has raced nationally and internationally.

The Powerlifters

Neil, Mark and Dave are true Scrapheap! These boys love their drag racing and scorching rodding and are all forklift upkeep engineers in Essex. Bald, tattooed and pierced, Neil and Dave present the principle double act however light big Mark does not appear to thoughts taking part in the autumn man to the duo. Energetic and with a variety of outdoor pursuits, The Powerlifters are hardworking, straight speaking, nice enjoyable, and declare to have the ability to tackle something Scrapheap can throw at them!

The Powerlifters’ workforce professional is Colin Spooner, a design engineer from Norfolk who spent a few years working for Lotus as design director. He now runs his personal firm, creating improvements in automotive design and engineering.

The choose

Graham Drury is the person that single-handedly invented and developed the adrenaline sport of ice speedway. He’s spent years doing bizarre issues on ice, together with racing bobsleighs and wowing the crowds with spectacular ice-motorbike stunts, blindfolded! He now manages and promotes Workington Comets speedway workforce and in his spare time he is a Justice of the Peace. That’ll be why he is nicknamed The Judge then!

Episode 6

Caber Tossers

air day: 2005-10-23

The problem

A bravehearted bunch of rollercoaster engineers, The Big Dippers, tackle the furiously quick Skids in a Scrapheap-style Highland fling. The problem: to assemble a monster-sized cell machine able to tossing a large 300-pound caber.

The Skids

The Skids are our southeast speedsters – a racing driver and his pit crew, prepared for something. This joyful, chirpy and energetic workforce of captain Tony (a reincarnation of Dudley Moore, and Frank Zappa’s largest fan), Dave and Simon mock, banter and jest a lot by means of the day that it’s a marvel they handle to get something constructed! Confident there hasn’t been a problem thus far they couldn’t have tackled, these boys are relishing the prospect to get away from precision engineering and use their imaginations.

Team professional and bodger extraordinaire Tinker, aka John Naylor, has a background in mediaeval re-enactment. He runs his personal firm, referred to as Time Tarts, offering historic props and costumes for movie and TV. John is called ‘Tinker’ for his potential at simply that, tinkering.

The Big Dippers

The Big Dippers are Lancashire lads answerable for the upkeep of Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Dodgey (he loves automobile boot gross sales and ferreting in skips – needs to be at house on the heap then!), Steve and Brian (nicknamed Two-ey as he solely has two entrance enamel) have been mates for years and have a wealth of expertise. Dodgey comes from a household of mechanics, Steve is the electrics supervisor on the Pleasure Beach and Brian claims to have the ability to weld underwater. So in addition to offering a relentless degree of cheeky banter, these guys are right here for greater than the journey!

Team professional Roger Balls is a quiet, thought-about man from Bedford. A specialist in prototype agricultural engineering, Roger has a behavior of over-engineering issues and because of this will get referred to as ‘Roger-neering’ by mates and colleagues. He has designed and constructed many novel items of farm equipment, together with a ‘mangle’ for squeezing the juice out of contemporary cow manure!

The choose

This week’s choose is Berkshire boy Chris Reynolds, a particular results wizard who enjoys nothing greater than constructing machines to fling stuff! After an extended stint with the BBC’s particular results division, the place he was concerned in all types of bizarre and wacky creations, he moved to Robot Wars, the place he constructed and maintained all of the well-known home robots.

Episode 7

Drag Boats

air day: 2005-10-30

The problem

The problem this week is to construct souped-up drag boats able to a really fast journey alongside our aquatic drag strip. The profitable workforce will complete the 300-metre, straight-line course within the quickest time. A agency foot on the throttle and a certain hand on the rudder shall be important.

The Skids

The Skids are our southeast speedsters – a racing driver and his pit crew, prepared for something. This joyful, chirpy and energetic workforce of captain Tony (a reincarnation of Dudley Moore, and Frank Zappa’s largest fan), Dave and Simon mock, banter and jest a lot by means of the day that it’s a marvel they handle to get something constructed! Confident there hasn’t been a problem thus far they couldn’t have tackled, these boys are relishing the prospect to get away from precision engineering and use their imaginations.

Team professional Simon Woodpower is an ex-professional off-shore powerboat racer who builds lots of his personal boats. He has a number of marine companies, together with a Poole-based engineering firm referred to as Oval 316. Simon labored on the Virgin Atlantic Challenger boat that beat the earlier Atlantic crossing document (held since 1952) by greater than two hours.

The Rally Renegades

The Rally Renegades are motorsports freaks from the North. Captain Kate was 2002 British Ladies Rally Champion and Jason and Gawaine, demon drivers in their very own proper, now service and restore Kate’s automobile and assist her in races and championships. All three know their approach across the within a bonnet and see their workforce power as a fast considering potential to repair a mechanical downside utilizing no matter is mendacity round them. Jason is the ‘big’ character of the workforce, Gawaine is his cynical sidekick and Kate is the organiser that cajoles them into motion. They are a workforce with the drive to win!

Team professional Ted Walsh is a powerboat eccentric. He began his affair with all issues mechanical on the age of 16, when he rebuilt his first Land Rover. Ted constructed and raced numerous off-roaders over the next 12 years, earlier than shifting on to the water. A massively profitable racer, he gained the British Formula 2 championship on 4 separate events. Ted is now the commodore of Windermere powerboat membership and can be working as a Conservative within the native elections.

The choose

From the 1930s to the current day, the Campbell household have blazed a wonderful path for Great Britain. Gina Campbell is the third technology of this well-known clan and like her father, Donald, and his father, Malcolm, she too is a world record-breaking water whiz.

Episode 8

Car Fishing

air day: 2005-11-06

The problem

Tractor fanatics the Nuzzling Badgers tackle British Airways pilots the Flying Scotsmen in a fraught fishing contest. The groups compete to make machines that may retrieve three Minis floating on a lake. From dry land, the workforce members should decide up every automobile by the roof, with out hooks or grabs.

Nuzzling Badgers

Country loving, tractor tinkering engineers from Devon, the Nuzzling Badgers (named after their similarities to the furry forager) are Steve Hill, Steve Johnson and captain Gary. These guys are obsessed with tractors and have restored giant and small, previous and new, rusty and rustier tractors of all styles and sizes, together with classic fashions proper by means of to the massive, shiny beasts that roam right this moment’s farmlands. They’re jovial, straight-talking, succesful and right here to make an impression!

Team professional Nick Bunch is an skilled marine salvage engineer. He’s been a Scrapheap professional earlier than and has labored at Seastructures Ltd on coastal and river defences. Nick enjoys trekking and mountaineering.

Flying Scotsmen

Sky crusing, softly spoken Scotsmen on a mission, these British Airways pilots from Edinburgh can hardly include their enthusiasm for the heap! Gentlemanly and well mannered, Andrew, Andrew and Paul have nice workforce identification, workforce belief and a robust working ethos. Their expertise come primarily from their mutual curiosity in constructing package vehicles, buggies and trikes, however there’s additionally boating and agricultural information inside the workforce. With the spouse of every being referred to as Heather, it is a strongly bonded workforce that may very well be set to soar!

Team professional Andrew Downes has been concerned within the design, manufacture and set up of vacuum lifting and dealing with tools for the final 27 years. He has owned his personal enterprise for the final 10 years and his firm, Turbo Vacuumentation, has made lifting mechanisms for numerous excessive profile and prestigious tasks.

The choose

Bristol man Bob McGrain has greater than 30 years’ expertise within the discipline of heavy lifting. He is at the moment technical assist supervisor for one of many largest crane operators on the earth, Ainscough Cranes.

A spotlight of his prestigious profession was profitable ‘Lift of the Year’ in 2000 for the erection of a 900-tonne strain vessel in Venezuela. He was additionally thought-about to have tackled one of many prime three rigging jobs in 2004 – putting in a mast on the world’s largest yacht. More importantly, in fact, he was a Scrapheap Challenge choose in sequence 4 for Mobile Cranes.

Episode 9

Monster Drag

air day: 2005-11-13

The problem

In this semi last, these thrill seekers from Blackpool, The Big Dippers, meet Essex forklift fixers and fabricating fanatics, The Powerlifters, for one of many largest builds in Scrapheap historical past. The problem: to assemble a brilliant quick monster machine at the very least 5 metres lengthy and weighing at the very least 5.5 tonnes.

The Powerlifters

Neil, Mark and Dave are true Scrapheap! These boys love their drag racing and scorching rodding and are all forklift upkeep engineers in Essex. Bald, tattooed and pierced, Neil and Dave present the principle double act however light big Mark doesn’t appear to thoughts taking part in the autumn man to the duo. Energetic and with a variety of outdoor pursuits, The Powerlifters are hardworking, straight speaking, nice enjoyable, and declare to have the ability to tackle something Scrapheap can throw at them!

Team professional Steve Matthews returns to Scrapheap Challenge after offering experience for Off Road Rescue within the final sequence. His workforce’s machine famously broke in half, so we’ve invited him again for an additional attempt! Steve’s been constructing business restoration automobiles for the final 20 years – principally out of scrap. He is a bus and heavy plant professional, however can flip his hand to something.

The Big Dippers

The Big Dippers are Lancashire lads answerable for the upkeep of Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Dodgey (he loves automobile boot gross sales and ferreting in skips – needs to be at house on the heap then!), Steve and Brian (nicknamed Two-ey as he solely has two entrance enamel) have been mates for years and have a wealth of expertise. Dodgey comes from a household of mechanics, Steve is the electrics supervisor on the Pleasure Beach and Brian claims to have the ability to weld underwater. So in addition to offering a relentless degree of cheeky banter, these guys are right here for greater than the journey!

Team professional Andy Brookes owns his personal haulage firm and does all of the servicing himself, so he is aware of each nut and bolt on a truck. He has simply completed doing up a Ford Escort Mexico Mark I.

The choose

Mat Summerfield has had vehicles in his blood for years and has been racing them since 1999. As nicely as constructing his personal vehicles to race, Mat’s hobbies embrace restoring previous automobiles.

Episode 10

Steeplechase

air day: 2005-11-20

The problem

This week it is a problem to see who can construct a steeplechaser with horsepower within the Scrapheap semi last: Steeplechase. They should construct a automobile able to carrying your complete workforce over six 1.Three-metre-high hurdles, with out knocking them over.

Nuzzling Badgers

Country loving, tractor tinkering engineers from Devon, the Nuzzling Badgers (named after their similarities to the furry forager) are Steve Hill, Steve Johnson and captain Gary. These guys are obsessed with tractors and have restored giant and small, previous and new, rusty and rustier tractors of all styles and sizes, together with classic fashions proper by means of to the massive, shiny beasts that roam right this moment’s farmlands. They’re jovial, straight-talking, succesful and right here to make an impression!

Team professional George Wheeler from Bedfordshire is a chartered engineer and a completely certified automotive mechanical engineer. He’s been working at Nissan for the final seven years, primarily in engine testing but in addition in engine design and challenge administration. He as soon as featured in Motor Caravan Monthly becoming a turbo to a motorhome.

Beasts of Bodmin

Mysterious and swish, stealthy but quick, nicely, these Beasts of Bodmin could not fairly be. However, the classics lovers spend greater than their justifiable share of time with that feline of the automobile world – the Jaguar. Enthusiasts and restorers of traditional Jags and motorbikes, captain Brian and his partners-in-crime Steve and Spencer get pleasure from nothing greater than a spin throughout Bodmin Moor. Tons of expertise and a steely dedication to seek out and tear aside their opposition, the Beasts may very well be ones to be careful for!

Team professional Steve ‘Dewy’ Dewison from Essex is an automotive engineer and southern centre chairman for the Society of Automotive Engineers. He’s been designing within the enterprise for 35 years. Steve builds his personal racing sidecars and gained three British Masters Sidecar Championships back-to-back (in 1987, 1988 and 1989).

The choose

This week’s choose is Brian Hanley, an professional in getting folks over obstacles. As a biomechanics lecturer (at Leeds Metropolitan University School of Leisure and Sports Science), Brian has helped the nation’s prime athletes enhance their method. He is at the moment finishing his PhD within the biomechanics of hurdling and is a reliable lengthy distance runner himself.

Episode 11

Rock Crawler

air day: 2005-11-27

The problem

In the showdown of this sequence, traditional automobile nuts, the Beasts of Bodmin, tackle Essex forklift trio, The Powerlifters. Both groups have proven their mettle within the run as much as the ultimate, however how will they deal with one of many hardest challenges thus far? In a quest for Scrapheap glory, our finalists shall be making vehicles that may clamber over boulders – Rock Crawlers!

Beasts of Bodmin

Mysterious and swish, stealthy but quick, nicely, these Beasts of Bodmin could not fairly be. However, the classics lovers spend greater than their justifiable share of time with that feline of the automobile world – the Jaguar. Enthusiasts and restorers of traditional Jags and motorbikes, captain Brian and his partners-in-crime Steve and Spencer get pleasure from nothing greater than a spin throughout Bodmin Moor. Tons of expertise and a steely dedication to seek out and tear aside their opposition, the Beasts may very well be ones to be careful for!

The Beasts made it to the ultimate by first proving their value as milkmen in AC/DC Dairy Dash with a 4×4 electrical automobile conversion that noticed off a problem from The 7s. They went on to dismiss the Nuzzling Badgers in Steeplechase, hurdling to victory, once more, in a transformed 4×4.

The Beasts of Bodmin’s professional is engine aficionado John Carroll. As the editor of Land Rover World and 4×4 Magazine, John has an encyclopaedic information of all issues off-road. He is the creator of over 20 books, together with The World’s Greatest Tractors and The Complete British Motorcycle. When he is not writing, John will be discovered sustaining and working his personal fleet of traditional automobiles, which incorporates Jeeps, Land Rovers and Harley-Davidsons!

The Powerlifters

Neil, Mark and Dave are true Scrapheap! These boys love their drag racing and scorching rodding and are all forklift upkeep engineers in Essex. Bald, tattooed and pierced, Neil and Dave present the principle double act however light big Mark does not appear to thoughts taking part in the autumn man to the duo. Energetic and with a variety of outdoor pursuits, The Powerlifters are hardworking, straight speaking, nice enjoyable, and declare to have the ability to tackle something Scrapheap can throw at them!

The Powerlifters reached the ultimate by profitable their first problem, Underwater Cars, in a bodged 4×4 on the expense of the Apache Warriors. In their icicle tricycle, they then slid previous the Lumbering Jacks in Polar Pinball to satisfy The Big Dippers in Monster Drag Racing, the place they coached to victory.

The Powerlifters’ professional is monster truck maestro and Scrapheap good friend Oz Wickham, who beforehand offered experience on Wheelie Car in sequence six. Oz, a mechanical wizard, works for a staging firm that construct shifting platforms for rock concert events. He boasts a primary in having constructed the world’s solely monster Land Rover, christened the Fat Landy!

The choose

Our choose this week is one other good friend of the present, Dr James Brighton. James is a automobile analysis engineer from Cranfield University who has been concerned behind the scenes of each Scrapheap Challenge sequence thus far!

Episode 12

Flying Machines

air day: 2005-12-04

The problem

This week it is the construct to finish all builds. Returning champs from final 12 months, The Anoraks, tackle the brand new wearers of the Scrapheap crown, The Powerlifters. The groups have however 20 hours to construct what da Vinci himself couldn’t grasp – human-powered flight.

The Anoraks

Off-roading fanatics from Surrey, The Anoraks, Geoff, Lyndon and Marc, have been the champions of sequence seven in 2004 and are again to defend their title. Geoff and Lyndon work within the expertise trade and Marc is a 4×4 mechanic. They spend their spare time in Marc’s storage, constructing and restoring Land Rovers and different 4x4s. Lyndon claims he has damaged, crashed and sunk extra Land Rovers than he has had scorching dinners; Geoff claims to be superb at hitting issues with a hammer; and Marc likes to assume he’s the stabilising affect of the workforce.

Team professional Billy Brooks is chief designer and director at Pegasus Aviation, in addition to a pure genius and Scrapheap legend! Billy has beforehand been crushed by his rival professional Darren on Scrapheap Challenge and may be very a lot trying ahead to battling it out with him for a second time.

The Powerlifters

Neil, Mark and Dave are true Scrapheap! These boys love their drag racing and scorching rodding and are all forklift upkeep engineers in Essex. Bald, tattooed and pierced, Neil and Dave present the principle double act however light big Mark doesn’t appear to thoughts taking part in the autumn man to the duo. Energetic and with a variety of outdoor pursuits, The Powerlifters are hardworking, straight speaking, nice enjoyable, and declare to have the ability to tackle something Scrapheap can throw at them!

Team professional is British Airways captain Darren Arkwright. He met his rival professional Billy in Scrapheap’s first enterprise skywards, a problem referred to as Gliders. Darren beat Billy on that event and is aware of that Billy may be very a lot up for revenge!

The choose

Hong Kong-born Freddie To studied structure in London on the Architectural Association faculty of Architecture. He designed and constructed the primary solar-powered plane to fly in Great Britain, Solar One, which flew in 1978 and he constructed a human-powered plane, Phoenix, which flew in 1982. He has additionally developed and produced an inflatable wing for skydiver Yves Rossy, in addition to sneakers which let you stroll on water.

Episode 13

Punkin’ Chunk

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In 1986 a gaggle of males within the US have been arguing over who might throw an anvil the furthest. Hearing that some college students have been throwing pumpkins to boost funds for his or her faculty, the lads’s anvils turned pumpkins and punkin chunkin was born.

That 12 months solely three groups competed and a mere handful of onlookers watched. Bill Thompson and Trey Melson gained with a throw of 128 ft, 2 inches utilizing a machine made with storage door springs.

Since then the competitors has grown massively and 1000’s of individuals flip as much as watch practically 100 groups compete to throw pumpkins (or punkins as they’re identified domestically) so far as they will.

After 20 years, it is time for Scrapheap to participate – however underneath Scrapheap-style guidelines. So that meant simply a few days’ development time on the heap within the UK earlier than cargo of the machine by sea to the US, the place there could be a number of days’ tinkering time.

One heck of a problem, provided that the locals have an entire 12 months to create their machines. But who might rise to it? Only one workforce got here to thoughts ¿ The Scrapheap All-Stars in fact!

Episode 14

Scrapheap Challenge Roadshow

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The first-ever Scrapheap Challenge Roadshow wherein 20 groups are challenged to construct tomato-flinging machines of their garages.

Episode 15

Series 8 Best of Show

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Featuring all of the highs and lows and journeys and tumbles, this particular episode exhibits simply what the groups confronted, in addition to their many loopy contraptions.