The Build Phase
After the design phase (Day 1) was complete, Jesse James and his build team started to rip into the hearse and cleared it out.
That's when the show's producers started to "play" with the team. A series of distractions poured into the garage, ranging from a casket go-kart created by one of the build crew members, to a guy dressed up in a Halloween costume, to the original George Barris Batmobile, which even distracted Jesse.
The failure was a combination of the distractions and a flaw in the design. The hydraulic pumps that were used to power the used Bobcat Buldozer digger linear actuators was hooked up to the hearse's motor. The immense friction given off from the motor kept burning through the rubber belts. The hydraulics ceased to function. At one point, one of the members yelled out "we seized one of the pumps", which was not directly linked to the motor burning the rubber of the belt but that one of the pumps sprung a leak, which cut off hydraulic fluid to the actuators. At one point, the team got the arms working, which lasted only until the motor caught on fire. After that, Jesse admitted to defeat.
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“Builder, in building the little house,
In every way you may please yourself;
But please please me in the kitchen chimney:
Don’t build me a chimney upon a shelf.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)