Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, FUNNY STUFF, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
Video: Extreme Rail Biking Looks Both Amazing and Terrifying At The Same Time – Check This Out!
Mar 11, 2019Brian Lohnes2
(By Greg Rourke) – Here we have something that’s a but quieter and a lot less powerful than what is usually found on these hallowed pages…extreme rail biking. Bicycling on former...
Watch An Idiot Truck Driver Destroy A New Holland Tractor And Nearly Kill The Farmer Inside
Mar 11, 2019Brian Lohnes1
Anyone who has ever lived or driven through a rural area dominated by farms has no doubt had to pass a farm tractor at some point in their travels. Yes, tractors are large and lumbering machines that...
Weird Science: Watch This Guy Fire Up A Small Engine Topped With A Wooden Cylinder Head!
Mar 10, 2019Brian Lohnes2
Sometimes curiosity gets the best of people and drives them to do stuff that may not exactly advance the collective knowledge of humanity but it does make for interesting stuff. Case in point is the...
Time Travel Video: Enjoy This Fantastic Look At 1980s Monster Truck Action
Mar 10, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Time Travel Video: Enjoy This Fantastic Look At 1980s Monster Truck Action
If you were a kid in the 1980s and you are now a regular reader of BangShift.com, chances are you were into monster trucks. Those trucks were nothing like the race machines of today, nope, they were...
Video: Watch This Ancient Holt Crawler Tractor Plow A Field – The Real Story Is How A Guy Hand Built The Thing From Scratch In His Shop!
Mar 10, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: Watch This Ancient Holt Crawler Tractor Plow A Field – The Real Story Is How A Guy Hand Built The Thing From Scratch In His Shop!
There are projects and builds that we have seem and had our breath taken away by but when you think about Don Hunter’s incredible construction of a turn of the century Holt crawler tractor from...
Watching A Locomotive Pull A Stuck Excavator Out Of The Muck Is Strangely Awesome
Mar 10, 2019Brian Lohnes1
Sometimes the place you are working makes for strange bedfellows. In this case we see a railroad crew trying to free a decent sized excavator that is hopelessly buried in the mud beside a track....
Watch This John Deere Pro Stock Pulling Tractor Make A Pull On A Hub Dyno
Mar 10, 2019Brian Lohnes1
Hub dynamometers are awesome machines that have gained lots of traction (no pun intended) in the USA recently. They have been seemingly more popular in other parts of the world but we know of at...
Cool Video: Check Out This Neat Australian Tracked Army Truck Being Put Through Its Paces
Mar 09, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Cool Video: Check Out This Neat Australian Tracked Army Truck Being Put Through Its Paces
Army trucks and vehicles are cool because they are designed and built to fix a problem, meet a need, or surmount some sort of obstacle that existing means can’t In this case we have a old video...
This Is Our Kind Of Drift Machine: Hot Rodded 1946 Seagrave Fire Truck Spins Smokey Donuts For Fun
Mar 09, 2019Brian Lohnes2
It is Friday and therefore we can run a fun little video that features a dream vehicle for lunatics like me, anyway. This is a bobbed, chopped down, slammed, repowered, and otherwise unrecognizable...
Engine Autopsy: Here’s A Look Inside The Ill-Fated DeBoss Garage 16-Cylinder Detroit Diesel
Mar 06, 2019Brian Lohnes1
About a week ago we showed you the DeBoss Garage video of the guys buying a junkyard Detroit Diesel V16 engine, getting it running, and then blowing the sucker up for fun. It was going to be crushed...
Life’s Not All Crushing Cars And Fun In The Life Of A Monster Truck Driver! Check This Out!
Mar 06, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Life’s Not All Crushing Cars And Fun In The Life Of A Monster Truck Driver! Check This Out!
How hard can it be to be a monster truck driver…really. You wake up, dress up in the kit, get into the truck, spend a couple of hours going balls-out for a screaming crowd, then you break the...
Big Fail: This Video Is Nine Minutes of Cringe-Worthy Dump Truck Fails – How?!
Mar 05, 2019Brian Lohnes2
Since I was a kid, I always wanted to drive a dump truck and for a while I got to do that. As a CDL holder and a guy who was hustling to pay the bills for a few years, I would pick up odd jobs and...
Historic Video: Watch How The Chinese Built WWII Air Bases By Hand in Less Than A Month – Incredible
Mar 04, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Historic Video: Watch How The Chinese Built WWII Air Bases By Hand in Less Than A Month – Incredible
The level of global cooperation during WWII among the allies was nothing short of astounding. It was the only way that the war was won, really as no single nation was well equipped enough to take on...
Roaming Once More: Reviving A 1947 GM Bus That Has Been Sitting For Decades!
Mar 04, 2019Bryan McTaggart1
There is something about the shape of old buses. They were meant to be one thing and one thing only: a place for a bunch of weary butts to sit down while the driver took them to wherever they needed...