Think you’re an overpacker? Get a load of those two.
Finnish content creators Lauri Vuohensilta and Hanna Korpisaari comically compressed an enormous mound of travel items right into a single carry-on suitcase with help from a 150-ton hydraulic press — and with room to spare.
The dynamic duo shared their feat in an 8-minute video on their popular Hydraulic Press Channel, a YouTube destination that has racked up tens of thousands and thousands of views by enthusiastically — and ridiculously — squashing on a regular basis items like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, crayons and markers, a head of cabbage, bars of soap, a Furby toy and way more.
For his or her latest endeavor, which has topped 82,000 views because it was released last month, they desired to “explore the boundaries of packing efficiency and the strength of the suitcase,” based on the video’s description, by overpacking per week’s value of things right into a solitary piece of bags.
The video, clocking in at 8 minutes, contains a noisy, cylindrical press reducing dozens of packables to portable disc shapes, with your entire exercise actually taking a couple of half-hour, Vuohensilta said.
Among the many items crushed right down to packing size: a jaunty gray fedora hat, a big jacket, quite a few socks and shirts (which were declared “surprisingly easy” to compress), in addition to an assortment of curious, ultimately doomed items like a hair dryer, a can of Pringle’s potato chips and a flashlight.
After they were done, the travelers still had room for miscellaneous electrical devices that they deemed non-crushworthy.
Vuohensilta was especially amused by the machine’s expertise in reducing a jacket to a thick disc.
“I believe it’s going to be pretty straightforward to unfold,” he declared with amusing. “Just quick ironing and it’s brand recent.” (Even though it seems clear their hotel room iron is destined for quite a workout.)
Tons of of commenters marveled on the “very clever” spectacle, with one viewer calling it “an entire recent level of hilarity and awesomeness,” while several others offered the helpful tip that they might immerse the garments in warm water to unfurl them upon arrival.
One person, meanwhile, was curious how the Transportation Security Administration might react, saying: “I would love to see airport security undergo that searching for contraband!”
Not that the duo is definitely recommending the cheeky packing solution, as they provide this disclaimer within the video’s description: “Don’t do that at home!! or at anywhere else!!”
Looks such as you’ll still should shell out extra bucks for increasingly sky-high fees to envision your bags in any case.