The man behind the channel is Lauri Vuohensilta, a 29-year-old who lives in Tampere, Finland. This guy crushes stuff with a hydraulic press and remarks upon how awesome the destruction is.
image/text credit: Hydraulic Press Channel
The first thing you see is a black and white montage accompanied by an infectious heavy metal soundtrack. A button is pushed, a lever pulled, a needle jumps within a pressure gauge. Then comes a male voice, thick with a Finnish accent: “Welcome to the Hydraulic Press Channel.”
The hydraulic press is a feat of 18th century mechanics. Why not use it to press your pack a suitcase with hydraulic press during your hurried 21st century workday? Hydraulic Press Channel put this premise to the test with a suitcase.Do not try this at home!! or at any where else!!
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The press descends, and you expect it to punch easily through the suitcase. Instead, it’s stalled by the sheer density of the clothes being bunched together.More than anything else, though, I think it’s the tension between the gleaming metallic brutality of the hydraulic press and the goofy nerdiness of Vuohensilta himself that animates the channel.
