My festive tree idea just went through the roof
AN INTERNET star is celebrating the festive season by putting a 26ft Christmas tree in his semi-detached house.
Colin Furze cut down the huge Norway spruce and managed to squeeze it into his three-bedroom house – with the tip of the tree poking out of the roof.
Colin, 38, is a YouTube personality whose 5.5million followers watch videos of his wacky inventions. On this occasion he wrapped rope around the branches to bring it into the house without scratching the walls.
He then chopped the tree into three and put one section in his lounge, one in his bedroom and the top part coming out of the roof.
Colin, from Stamford, Lincolnshire, said: “I’d never seen anyone do anything like this before so I thought it would be a fun Christmas project.
“My children, who are two and six, couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw the huge tree and absolutely loved it. We managed to get it into the house relatively easily, but it was hard manoeuvring it up the stairs and over the banisters.”
Colin had to move a sofa out of the lounge so he could fit the tree into the room, with the branches touching all the walls and obscuring the television. He then squeezed the second part of the tree beside his bed but found it difficult to lie down on his bed as the branches took up so much space. Colin secured the final 8ft of the tree on the roof and decorated the entire tree with fairy lights.
He said: “The tree dropped needles everywhere, but the result was really impressive and worked very well.” Colin has built up his YouTube fan base by showcasing his inventions, including the world’s fastest mobility scooter and longest motorbike. He has also previously built a jet bicycle and a giant Star Wars armoured combat walker.
In March last year, Colin – who was an expert on the Sky One show Gadget Geeks – won a place in the Guinness World Records when he built the world’s fastest bumper car with a top speed of 107.3mph.