Colin Furze features on More4 as part of David Jason's Great British Inventions
A YouTube inventor featured on television as part of a series presented by an Only Fools and Horse actor.
Colin Furze, from Stamford, featured in David Jason’s Great British Inventions on More4, which was aired on Wednesday (February 12) evening.
The 40-year-old said: “It was good and he was a really nice bloke.
“Some of these TV presenters are paid to present and sometimes the technical side of what I do can pass them by but he was really interested in my inventions.
“I think he used to be an electrician and make things himself so he knows his stuff.
“He does say some things where you think ‘that’s something that Del Boy would say’ so he was either like him before or just became like his character!
“It was made in August time and when he came round, he went in the shed and also got a bunker tour.”
The episode centred around the lightbulb, which was invented by American Thomas Edison in 1879 in his shed and Colin thought that was why the production company came to film him as he also does his inventions in a shed.
Colin, who reached one billion views on his YouTube channel in January, is working on his current invention: a Russian screw tank.
“It’s a bit of a challenge because it’s powered by hydraulic motors which I haven’t really worked with but I just like making things I have never made before.”
The screw tank, propelled by two moving screws, is at the testing stage.
Colin celebrates one billion views by announcing he's making a tank.
