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EXPLODING BOWLING BALLS WITH HYDRAULIC PRESS!! (HYDRAULIC PRESS vs BOWLING BALL EXPERIMENT)

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A bowling ball meets 100 tons of hydraulic force, and only one of them walks away intact.

JustDustin’s latest crushing experiment throws a solid bowling ball under an industrial hydraulic press to see exactly how much force it takes to turn a regulation lane fixture into shrapnel. The 19-minute video, titled “EXPLODING BOWLING BALLS WITH HYDRAULIC PRESS!! (HYDRAULIC PRESS vs BOWLING BALL EXPERIMENT),” pairs the bowling ball test with two lighter-hearted crush jobs on slime and a Spider-Man action figure. It’s the latest entry in a genre that YouTube can’t seem to get enough of, and Dustin’s channel has built a real following doing exactly this kind of high-force teardown.

• The video pits a solid bowling ball against a hydraulic press, documenting how the ball’s dense core and hard urethane shell hold up before fragmenting and shattering violently under extreme downward pressure.
• Beyond the bowling ball, Dustin runs the same press against squishy slime and a Spider-Man action figure, contrasting how a flexible, pliable material deforms versus how a brittle solid ruptures.
• The upload had racked up nearly 2 million views before the end of July 2019, another solid number for a channel built around crushing, thermal, and kinetic-impact experiments.

Physics Behind Bowling Ball Movement

Bowling balls aren’t simple plastic shells — they’re engineered from a dense inner core, usually reactive resin or polyurethane, wrapped in a hard urethane outer coat designed to survive repeated impacts on a hardwood lane for years. That combination is exactly why they make for such a satisfying press test. Under normal use a bowling ball absorbs shock after shock without a scratch, so watching it meet a force it genuinely can’t survive gives the video its payoff.

As the press bears down, the outer shell compresses first, holding its shape right up until it hits a breaking point Dustin’s camera catches in slow motion. Once that shell cracks, the compressed core has nowhere to go but out, and the ball doesn’t just crumble — it detonates, sending fragments and a sharp popping report across the shop.

The outer shell holds until it can’t, and then the core doesn’t crack — it explodes.

Slime And Spider-Man Get The Same Treatment

Where the bowling ball segment is about brittle failure, the slime and Spider-Man action figure tests flip the script entirely. Slime has no rigid structure to fail — it just spreads and squishes flat under the plates, oozing outward instead of cracking, which makes for a completely different kind of visual than the bowling ball’s violent shatter. It’s the same press, the same tonnage, but a totally different physics lesson.

The action figure sits somewhere in between: rigid enough to hold its shape at first, plastic enough to flatten and crumple rather than explode outward like the bowling ball did. Running all three objects back-to-back is what makes the video work as more than a one-note stunt — it’s a side-by-side comparison of how different materials fail under the exact same industrial force.

Part Of A Bigger Trend

Hydraulic press channels have been a fixture of YouTube’s stunt ecosystem for years now, and Dustin’s version leans into the same crowd-pleasing formula that’s fueled other viral crush-and-destroy content across the platform. It sits alongside the kind of large-scale stunt and challenge videos that keep pulling big numbers, the same appetite that’s turned things like World’s Largest Challenge! and World’s Most Dangerous Escape Room! into reliable hits for creators chasing the same audience.

Safety is a real part of the presentation, too. Crushing a bowling ball under that much pressure sends debris flying, so the setup relies on a safety barrier between the press and the person operating it — a detail that matters given the amount of stored energy released the instant that shell gives way.

Dustin’s channel has built its identity on exactly this kind of test, and the bowling ball explosion is the sequence viewers keep coming back for — the loud pop, the shell fragments scattering, the slow-motion replay that shows precisely where the shell failed. With the video already closing in on 2 million views before the end of July 2019, it’s a safe bet the next object under that press won’t be announced far in advance, but it’ll draw the same crowd looking to see something get crushed that probably shouldn’t be able to survive it.