Exploring JerryRigEverything's Massive YouTube Empire

This is something I haven't shown on my channel yet, so you're seeing it for the first time. It's 26,000 square feet. That one has the big boy's toys. - All this? I will not do it. There's a line I have. - Everything I've been doing for the last five or six years has led me to this. Every brand deal, every video I've ever done, this is what it's building up to. - Thanks to Amaran for sponsoring this video. Well, we're back on another studio tour, and today, I don't know if this sounds familiar to anyone, there's a lot of crap on the table, but we're in JerryRigEverything's studio. - That's me. - Say hello.

You got a hot spot on your head when you walked through that light. - The lighting is a very interesting configuration. I think you will enjoy it. - Interesting is a complementary term for what, but you know what? I'll probably make fun of it a little, but it works. - He does. - Obviously it works, the channel works well, I like your content and that is my disclaimer to mean that I am about to be with your beloved Zack over here. I admit that it works well and you do a good job. - Thank you. - Well.

Now let the roasting begin. - Let's do it. - And, of course, today we have Patrick Tomasso operating the mobile camera. What are you running today, Patrick? FX30 again? - FX30 with 10-20mm as always. - You have two cameras and then two monitors, I think this is a smart way to do it. So the top one is obviously for the top and then down here we can see what's going on. Are these screens just any kind of random old screen or whatever? - This one is probably about 15 years old and this one is probably six years old.

But yeah, anything he can get. - Now, you may have problems with these if you try to shoot at 24 frames per second because older monitors don't accept film-like frame rates. But it looks like that's not a problem for the Mr. 59.94 60p video here. - Everything is 60 frames. I have a Panasonic GH6, 5K60 frames per second. It just gives me the most data to work with when I want to zoom in on really small parts. - Were you 60 years old before purchasing the GH6? - Was. - GH5 at 60. - GH5 and GH4 were always 4K60. - Very good, I don't think you really gave me a good answer.

You just said you like the 60s, but that's okay. - Only bigger numbers are better and 60 is more than 24. - You're not wrong. I thought you were going to tell me something like, well, when I shoot screens at 60, the refresh rate matches better and. - No. - Your screens don't even work when you're working on them. (Both laugh) - They don't last long enough for me to work. - When I film screens. What were you working on here? Toothbrush? - So that's a gold plate that you just hit with a pen is a gold plated toothbrush. (both laughing) And I took it apart. - It's 8,000 dollars. (all laughing) - I'll send you an invoice. - So thanks for that.

I was taking it apart and then obviously E Ink shows up- - Oh wow! - They are very sick. Isn't that amazing? - It's dense. - This is another E Ink screen that is actually still on, since E Ink is never off, which is cool. When I start a new project, I simply take the project, place it on the edge of the table, and then put my new project in the center. - It sounds like you're looking for a kind of no-spend-more-than-you-have kind of vibe. Good? - If it works, it doesn't have to be expensive. And that's been the vibe since I started.

If these, these lights here, they were probably $15 on Amazon and I bought them like seven years ago. - Lights are something I want to talk about. - Alright. - But okay, that's a GH6 and this... oh, so two GH6s now. - Yes. - That makes it easier if you obviously combine your cameras. - Yes. - And then this one, what is this lens, Patrick? It's a Lumix. Do you know it from the top of your head? - 7-14mm. - 7-14mm. - You just said what he said. (all laughing) I don't know, I honestly don't know what it is. - Nice and spacious. - Are they from 18 to 35? - That's 18 to 35. - With an accelerator? - Honestly, I don't know what those words mean.

I just know that that looks good at the end of the day. - Did you ever approach him? - I do it all the time. - Oh, the 18-35 zoom for a 15 year old lens. It's pretty soft. - Yes. - It's a pretty smooth zoom. - Yes. - I can't fault it for being a classic, except that it's mounted on a tripod upside down. - Yes. That actually. - With the DeWalt clamp. (all laughing) - So this came apart, what's holding it together. So now I just have the DeWalt clamp that I have, every time I get up I have to make sure I don't hit my head on it.

You haven't seen the most interesting feature yet. So to keep the desk spotless, this is a sheet of paper and I have a roll. - Applebee's or whatever it's not? Draw it with crayons. - Exactly. And I have a roll of paper on the other side, so every time it gets scratched or damaged I can roll out the paper and I have a new white desk. - It's a hospital bed. Is that what...? Basically, yes. - So tell me about this frame you have here. It seems like this is a heavy lift. - Yes, I knew when I did it, because I previously had it mounted on the ceiling, but this ceiling is a little higher than my old studio. - Good. - And I've been in this space for about five years.

So I wanted something that was super rigid because there are those arms that make noise and with the camera on the end. They just move all the time. That's why I don't like adjusting the focus and waiting for it to stop moving. So I bought this DJ Scaffold for $500 on Amazon. -Oh, he's a DJ scaffold. - And then the barn door rails that I bought at Home Depot and then I just stuck a tripod into the rail and so I can slide it left and right to get the photo I want. - And you put a little security at the end so that you don't like not being able to exceed it. - Yes. - He's actually quite intelligent.

I'll give it to you. - Yes, thanks. - I guess it's in the name of the channel, right? - Good. "JerryRigEverything." And then these are on Monopods. - We don't have to reveal what it contains, but are they notes or a script or something? - Yeah, this was basically for when I'm sitting here in this chair, I print out my notes, I put them next to the light, like to memorize what I'm going to say, say it to the camera, get the next one. period, tell it to the camera. So there's a lot of editing after the fact. - Sure. - But at least I'm able to make a coherent video at the end of the day. - How long would you say one of your videos lasts on average? - Hmm. - Where do you have to, you know, go back and forth from notes and stuff? - If I'm doing a teardown with an ad at the beginning or whatever, it's probably like 30 minutes talking to that camera.

And then the actual teardown process takes about an hour. Have a post-it note where I like to take notes and things I want to say. And then when I write the script once it's done, that's when I put everything together. - The disassembly is already edited to have a shorter duration. And then you put in the voiceover, the edited version, I guess. - Not even that. I just scroll through the footage, then do my script, and then edit them both together. - Oh great. - I have this fire extinguisher pump right here. - I don't work for the security department.

Do you realize that? - Just say. (Gerald laughing) So if there's ever a fire that spreads, you light a fuse and it explodes and puts gunpowder everywhere. It is like an automatic fire extinguishing system. - I don't think you have to worry about anything causing a fire here with these cheap lights you're using. Actually or maybe, maybe you should worry. Maybe we need more fire extinguishers because they are connected to the mains and you also have a ring light on. - Yes. - Because I assume this is your key light. I don't know what the light is, the configuration is like they are like a hexagon around you or the. - The only thing I wish I had, and I don't know what light this would be.

So this gold toothbrush, for example, I'm holding. - Yes. - But there is no light coming from above. - Yes. - And so the gold looks dark. So if I had a white illuminated surface above me, the gold would look better. Sometimes I hold a piece of paper and I want the reflection to be white. Does that make any sense? Am I making sense? - That makes a lot of sense. You are using a bounce. - I need a bounce light. - No, I say that the role is a rebound. - I need, I need. - But we will give you, yes, as you could, there are many things you can do.

Amaran has these tubes like T4C, T2C. We could put tube lights here. You should have two lights. They have the, what is that? The F22 which is like a light mat. It's like a big panel. - Yes. - Then you could have a big panel up here, control. - But then the camera would cast a shadow? - It would be, but look at this. You have these, you can run it, you could have this could be this whole space here on each side of the camera there could be panels like a big panel of that.

You could have this soft box. It just goes here, on this side of the camera, and then one here, on this side of the camera. And you could reduce them a lot. - You're onto something. - Very low power. And then from the edge you wouldn't have these shadows. A pair of P60Cs hit the wall and are in full color. So one day you didn't feel gray, you felt orange. You know what I mean? (Zack laughing) It's unlimited. Editor Gerald is back at my home studio to once again thank Amaran for sponsoring these studio tours and to tell you a little more about the new direction of the Amaran brand, including the launch of the new website: amarancreators .com.

Amaran understands the challenges content creators face and is focusing its efforts on innovating and expanding its ecosystem beyond lighting to better meet creator needs. Part of this new direction is that new website, amarancreators.com. So head over there to learn more about the products I mentioned in this video and check out the new commercial while you're there. Alright, Amaran, activate party mode. Thank you for your time. Now back to the tour. You were talking about editing, voiceover and all that kind of stuff. Do you do everything on your own? Do you have an editor? - So I have an editor. - Yes. - But he's just lived in Texas for the last six years.

He's a friend from high school, so I've known him my whole life. But he has been living in Texas and working remotely. We just send files back and forth, proxy files and then he finishes it like 80% and then I polish it and publish it. - I'm also obsessed with this as a guitarist. There is a channel called: Burls Art. Shout out to a channel that we must both clearly like. -Yes.-Guy makes guitars with whatever he wants. -Yes. And he looks so good. - They do. This is a colored pencil that he made that I saw when he was watching, yeah, the end of the video.

He says, and we will auction it, whoever wants it. And then I found out this guy bought it and I thought, hey, I know that guitar. - Yes. Yes. - Oh, so this is your voiceover setup? - Yes, I have a $60 Samson Meteor microphone. This is the same one I've been using for seven years. - There's a part of me that wants to make a joke that says, can't you take some of this money from Ridge or dbrand, whatever, and get a better microphone? But I also have to respect the fact that we've done a lot of studio tours where I get to see people spending a lot of money on things. "If so," go ahead.

Say the line. - "Does the job." (Gerald laughing) - By the way, what are we editing here? Super wide. I don't think I've seen a screen this wide before. What's going on here? - Yes, I love this screen because I can do it. -This man loves his timeline. - Yes. When I- - You can watch the full video. - When I edit with Premiere, the entire timeline ends. But if I'm just using a web browser or something, I can lock it to one side of the screen. - Sure. - I usually have my notes here, my research and then the entire timeline of the video. - And that's easy to do with just the Windows key, right arrow.

When you use Windows, am I right? I see we have a Windows user here. On every tour, what do we always see Patrick? Oh, I bought the Mac Studio with viewing screen. - No, I bought this entire configuration for less than the price of a MacBook. - What are we rocking down here? Did you build the PC or are you in a PC building? - I built them in the past, but I just bought this one. - Do you like PC cleaning? Because that's a farce. I don't know what that is, but. - Damn. - I'm going to take points off that dusty PC.

It sounds like you have some kind of system here to. - Organize, yes. Video projects. These are all formatted. - That's a fast and relaxed man. See if you accidentally like to leave it and it bounces. So you're playing fast and loose with it. - Here's the thing, there's no one else here except me. And if I sneeze, I point it somewhere where the SD cards won't move. - Except one sneeze and everyone flies. Public, do you agree? This is recklessly close between moving forward, formatting, filming and editing this project. Because you know there's a big brand deal and it probably hasn't hit the NAS yet. - It hasn't failed me yet.

It hasn't failed me yet. - Stillsneeze that your channel ends. (both laughing) - Whatever. All the footage I've ever shot is on that NAS. - Footage too? Not just him, so don't be left alone with the guardians, you. - I keep one hundred percent of everything I have filmed. - Because? Every time I hear someone say this, I'll ask you a question. Have you ever taken a 2021 clip of something of yours and put it in a new video that wasn't available in the finished video that you could have taken from that? - No, you haven't. - No. (both laughing) But it's tranquility.

It's good to have redundancy like we talked about before with microphones. - Oh, it's redundant. - Yes. (everyone laughs) - This is a motherboard from a Pac-Man video game. - Oh sweet! - Like an arcade game. That's kind of fun. -If we judge the age of this based on dust, it looks like it's from the same era as your PC over there. My man has a Blacktail Studio hammer. - Do you know your YouTube channels? - I think we are seeing the same thing. - Yes, one hundred percent. - Coming soon, probably mid-July. Let's fly and... - Dude, legit. - Do Cam's study.

Have you met him? - Not in person. He doesn't know it yet, but I want to collaborate with him. To make a table. -He doesn't realize that he's going to make that giant epoxy table. - Yes, the one with those $20,000 tables. Yes, he will do it for me. - Do you want it like walnut and epoxy or something like that? - I wanted to do it like a wheelchair. We'll talk about this in a minute, but I want to keep it somewhere with the factory theme. - That's great. - So this Hummer project took me like two years to build, took like 90 kilowatt hours of Tesla batteries and I threw them in the back seats.

I took an electric motor from an airplane tug and made a military Humvee that is all electric. I don't think most studios have one of these. - Yes, pretty good. There's a big hole in the ground you got there. - It's giant. - Very good, what else do you have? (Both laugh) Understood. - Yes, I'm not. Do you see all this? I will not do it. There's a line I have. There is no hazard pay. (Gerald laughing) If you take an elevator, I'll go down. - We're alone down here. - Yes, the elevator will be here soon.

Hopefully within two weeks. So what's interesting is that since we're so far underground, we're about 20 feet deep right now. During the winter the temperature underground was about 15 degrees higher than on the surface. It will then be fully furnished like a motorhome. So we're going to have a master bedroom, we're going to have bunk bedrooms, we're going to have a 100 inch TV right here that separates the sleeping area from the kitchen. The kitchen on this side and then the couches and stuff over here and then we have an EcoFlow RV battery system that we'll power everything with.

Basically, we can run cables and outlets like a house would. A combustible toilet that burns any sanitary material. (Gerald laughing) - I have a question. So I watched that whole series. I think I already said I loved it. I, if you guys have, if you're somehow new, we're talking about the "JerryRigEverything" series, which we're talking about: the Humvee one. The bunker. They're great. They are really good. Good observation. - Thank you. - But I was joking when I saw them at home. I was like, so this guy had to turn this into a six-part series because it's an expensive project and you know you have to do some branding deals.

You also sold junk and liked all kinds of things. Good? - Yes Yes. That was fun. - Trying to generate some income. Did you cover the cost of the bunker? - Hundred percent. Yes. And actually he did quite a bit more. That's how it is. - Oh really? - Yes, everything was to make money. Because we have a lot of other projects going on with my business Not A Wheelchair. - Well. We have seen this name hundreds of times. I could see it from the window. Tell me about this. It's not a wheelchair. - I basically met this girl six years ago, more or less. - He did everything for a woman. -And I did it all for a woman and I liked her a lot.

She has been in a wheelchair since she was 18 years old. And very, very, very quickly, like on the first date, I realized that wheelchairs are ridiculously expensive and that all-terrain wheelchairs don't exist. And then... How much do wheelchairs cost? Like five thousand dollars? -Wheelchairs cost five thousand dollars. Like the manual wheelchairs that you push and then the all-terrain wheelchairs were like $20,000 and I'm not going to drop that on our first date. But we were able to design our own and manufacture it for less than $5,000. And now we are building an entire factory to manufacture manual wheelchairs at 20% of the cost of the rest of the industry.

That's how it will be, it will be great. Do you want to see it? - Factory? - Yes that's fine. - This building right now is about 20 minutes from, you know, our studio that we filmed earlier. And I guess this building is more part of the research and development of our Not A Wheelchair project, which is kind of a contradiction because we make wheelchairs now. - Yes. Why did you call it It's not a wheelchair? - Because eventually, since we were not manufacturing wheelchairs, we are manufacturing something like all-terrain, because we do not want to be associated with the wheelchair industry because they cost a lot and it is so difficult to get and so difficult to repair.

We want to separate ourselves from them. - Understood. - We were able to make this one from bicycle parts and it only cost $5,000, which is much cheaper than anything else out there right now. But when we started manufacturing and selling it, we realized that wheelchairs are also astronomically expensive. The wheelchair my wife uses costs $5,000 and the materials for that chair cost hundreds of dollars and it just doesn't make sense. - That's just a wheelchair like this. - Good? They are not... - Of course, those who push. - Yes, okay. - So we decided to make our own wheelchairs and that's what this building has been for the last two years.

Research and development for that. And we have some pretty big toys that the YouTube channel has helped fund. - Really cool and noble where instead of, you know, spending money on something nice and pretty and cool that I really admire. - These are our durability testing machines. And right now Oren is coming out. We call this guy Greg, where's the top half of him? - Right here. - He's basically a 250-pound metal human replacement. - Well. -And he just sits in this chair while it is dropped 7,000 times with the drop test machine. And then these rollers here, what is this one?

Like 200,000 rotations? - 200,000. - Does the entire wheelchair fall or does the metal plate on the chair fall? - The entire wheelchair, everything. - Oh, wow. - And so these tests basically subjected the wheelchair to five years of abuse in just a couple of days. - Is the average life of a wheelchair five years? - Five years or so. It's just an arbitrary number that would be good if it lasted five years. - Yes. - And that's the abuse we put it to because basically we want to make a super cheap, durable product that people can use for a long time.

This is. - What the hell is that? (Both laugh) - So this is something I haven't shown on my channel yet. So you're seeing it for the first time. - Oh, we have the exclusive. - Yes. Our all-terrain wheelchairs are really good, but... - If you need to go to war. -If you need to go to war, you need something with extra traction like an athletics chair. You just can't compete with that. Additionally, this can be operated by a joystick which expands the potential audience size because not everyone can use their fingers. - Ah OK. - Or the strength to like driving and have a joystick-operated contraption, so we should do it.

I'll make a video about this on my channel probably in two or three months. Then you get the first look. - Nice. And if any of his other wheelchairs get stuck, then he brings the tracked wheelchair to get them all out. Good? - Exactly. - Yes. - We imagine ourselves as farmers and as if we knew people who live in remote areas or like Canada or something like that... - Totally. - It worked very well for us. - Wait, you called Canada the boonies? (Zack laughing) The implication bothers me. - And this is also something we haven't published yet.

This is a four-wheel drive version of what you saw before. There is a hub motor in each tire and, like this, it has over 4,000 watts of power at any given time. It can tow 300 pounds 20 miles. It is a very capable machine. We have a FabLight laser that is used to cut all metal. Just like in this trailer you see here, everything was cut with FabLight. The Fume Dog gets rid of harmful contaminants from the laser because you don't want to breathe aluminum dust that kills you over time. Tormach 15L Slant-PRO lathe. We also have the 1100 from Tormach and we make a lot of our own parts, like wheels, wheelchairs, tilt tubes and things like that.

A bit removed from the camera studio setup. - That's why I saved my clipboard. - Yes Yes. - Because there's nothing here for me, you know, I don't like the way you set up your Tormach, you know. - We bought this building two years ago and it is about 5,000 square feet and then we will move to a new building in about two and a half months, which is 26,000 square feet. And that one has the big boy's toys. We are now in the third building. I don't know what the best transition is for this. What did we say last? - We don't need a transition. - What's the latest?

Don't we need a transition? Well. We are here randomly in a new place. (Gerald laughing) Everything I've been doing for the last five or six years has led me to this. Every brand deal, every video I've ever done, this is what it's building up to. This is our new space that we are building right now. This will be a showroom for our new Not A Wheelchair building. We have like a conference room here. Glass walls falling between these two areas. The cool machines are here. This is another conference room where all the engineers will sit down and then leave for a second.

This right here is a 26,000 square foot wheelchair manufacturing facility where we will be able to have metal coming in one side and wheelchairs coming out the other side and finishing the wheelchairs in just a couple of hours. Whereas now, if someone orders a wheelchair, it takes like six months. Let me show you some of the machines we will be and if you have any questions. - It's just bigger than I expected. (Zack laughing) We were in the other space... I hear it a lot. - That other space seemed reasonable to me. So when you said there was a bigger air, a bigger space, I thought. - Yes, good.

It would be a little bigger. You know, this is huge. This is a Walmart or whatever. (both laugh) - The Walmart of wheelchair manufacturing, which is good. Economical wheelchairs. That's what we're getting closer to. So this machine here costs about $460,000. It is a Herber 350 left right multi-stack bending machine. - It is produced by the modial interaction of magnetoreluctance and capacitive diractance. - This head here can turn left and right, pinch the metal and run it through a die to shape it into whatever radius of curvature we're looking for. But it also has something inside it called a mandrel.

Because if you take, let me make this piece of drywall right here. If you try to bend a metal rod, it seems to break. But if you have a mandrel inside, it's like it fills the tube as you bend it so it doesn't bend along its bend radius. And this has the ability to bend the outside and inside of the metal at the same time, which is why it's so expensive, but it's also super fast. Which will make wheelchair manufacturing much easier. - Do you know that it was noticeable that Zack got very excited? He stopped talking to me during the tour and now he's really excited to tell people about it because now he's stuck in front of the camera. - Good. - And everything around him disappeared.

That's right, this is a crazy machine, man. - It's so good. I mean it took us a minute to pull the trigger. Because 400 and sixty thousand dollars is a lot of money. - I bet you must bet a little on that purchase, huh? - Yes. And this here is a Laguna laser. I think it's about four kilowatts. It is capable of cutting a half-inch aluminum plate. - Ah, you love Laguna, eh? Yes. - Yes, the Lagoon. - I have to go with Laguna. Yes. - Laguna makes some amazing tools. - Look how far we've come. Hey fam, we went from asking Potato Jet what kind of colored paper he's using on his backdrops to Zack telling us he has Laguna lasers in his space for his two-hour express wheelchair manufacturing warehouse, or whatever. whatever they're working on here. -Yes.-He is quite crazy. - The reason my LED turns on- - You're a YouTuber, right?

That's what this is. - Yes Yes. YouTuber. - Just some usual YouTuber stuff? Well. -But I save money by buying $7 LED lights so I can spend it on half a million dollar metal benders. - Here, I take everything back. - Here we go. -His initial system makes sense. I didn't see the forest for the trees with the $7 lights, you know what I mean? (bleep) - Basically everything JerryRig does...(air whistle) (bleep) I mean, elephants are really cool. (bleep) - Well, Cam, this is the first time I've actually held your hammer and it's... - Who's the real fan, who actually bought one? - This is the first time I've held Cam's hammer. - Wow.

I thought we were trying to get it unflagged on YouTube. (beep) - This is the door... the door right here. Yeah? Well. (Zack claps) - That's a door. Good job, man. (bleeps) - Gimme, give me a 180 on that and take this and put it on the 40-40 and then flip it over to, you know, put the reverse transmuter on there, I think. - Awesome. - If only. Yeah, just... Oh, that looks good. Yes. I think that will make a big difference. You're welcome, Zack. - Alright. That solved many problems for us. And/or created more. (bleep) - Can you imagine if you weren't, you weren't building it, you would just say everything I've done has led me to this? (Both laugh) This is it. - That's all. - And I'm pretty, I'm very happy with that.

I think this is... - Yes. It's finished. (bleeps) If I photograph everything myself, why does anyone else need to know where my stuff is? - Because it is, it is for me. Clearly. - You don't have an answer for this. (beep) - Editor Gerald here. He ignores everything I just said. Cut this. - Touch the exact issue. Touch the exact issue. (Geraldo laughing)