$3000 R/C Bulldozer with Saw Blades 

"Maybe in the future we'll have fleets of little mini bulldozers cleaning the trash our cities". Wall-E really did predict the future.

I am very impressed by the amount of product placement done in this video

I know we were supposed to ponder the question of why the market for this mini-bulldozer exists, but after watching this video I think I am that market

It may be more like a toe-cutter or insect and squirrel killer than a lawnmower

inwards rotation may cause more problems, but you gotta admit it's fun watching stuff get sucked in, then launched into space by the scoop behind the blades

Felt like I needed eye and ear protection just watching it. Great work and entertaining content composition. Thank you.

I like how daniel was like "Okay this thing didn't work like i wanted, how can i make it dangerous"

Perfect toy for children ages 3-5 years old

Well, congratulations, didn't you just made miniaturized killdozer? 😂

Tanks with loose track pins have a keeper, a ramp or angled piece that pushes all the pins that moved back in. It was located at the top front where the body or skirts start. This is an intentional design to have them free and they didn't move much in one rotation anyway. Simple rod design, they didn't even knurl the ends.

Theres some guy building an armored komatsu in his barn, watching this and thinking "thats a good idea..."

"Bored males with disposable income" 😂 No truer statement has been made.

8:01 use the T-34 strategy. Put the wider end of the pins facing inward, and weld a wedge to each side of the hull. The wedge will hammer the pins back in for you as you drive.

Dude, you have not seen "RU-vid GOLD".. or you would know what those dozers are for. They are very powerful.. lots of torque

Equipment operator here, that mini dozer is amazing. I know you think it's performance is underwhelming, but if you keep the scale in context, it's doing exactly the same amount of work as a full sized D6. Even in the big ones, you can't just dig that deep in hard soil, even the big ones get stuck. Exactly what this little thing was doing is how the big ones handle it, little by little. When you took it to the gravel heap and it collected half a blade in the first push and kept rolling it, you'd be surprised how easily that exact same scenario will make a 25 ton D6 skate like it's on ice. That little thing is cool as hell, but I can't justify paying that much for it, yeah I want my kid to be as obsessed with machinery as I am, but I just grew up around mechanics and machinery, my kids can do the same, they don't need ridiculously expensive toys to fall in love with machinery, but it is extremely cool and I do wish I was in a financial position where I could buy stuff like this and not think about the price.

Just as an Fyi even the big tree cutters tend to use a single large blade justfor the same reason you found, duel blades when cutting towards each other tends to just cause them to bite in and cause both blades to jam.

I’d love to see you make a snowblower attachment for the dozer.

Having only seen the thumbnail so far, this could figuratively never go wrong.

for your metal shop: There are mini lathe. They aren't cheap but they work, don't take up a ton of space and incredible fun to learn on.

Your engineering and design prowess never ceases to amaze me!!

This dude hates yardwork so much he taught himself to build an army of small machines to do it for him. I understand him deeply.

Petition to make a armoured rc bulldozer

12:24 I’m impressed you still have marks of the scaled rc car endurance tests. It was a long time ago.

That thing is adorable and impressive. Minus the weird controls, those /are/ odd, but I guess they went with a "cheap" remote and just went with tank controls and whatever was left after. I wonder how much effort it would be to change the controls to single stick for moving and steering, leaving the other for motion only. And regarding the tracks being the weakest point of the mini dozer: I wonder how that Tracked RC 'Platform' would do with those blades. That thing has more 'aggressive' tracks, which might avoid the issues that the mini dozer has. Either way, a really impressive "do not try at home" RC mower 👍

Don’t push this reasonable man to do unreasonable things.

for a flail mower to cut non-wood foliage, I've seen barrels with just steel chains mounted on them, each only a few links long. I think you could safely mount one to scale inside the bulldozer bucket. It wouldn't need much metal work either, because you can use the existing bucket, and just plow forward into the herbs. Find a thin but strong steel chain, maybe 4mm wire thickness on the links, 4-5 links long, and just screw the first link to the barrel in the right direction and stagger them around the barrel so that every area gets hit by chain... If you make a continuous spiral, it could (should) also propel the mulch sideways or at least to one end of the bucket.

the slow mo b roll shots with the out of place pop edm are *chef's kiss*

That's such a cool little RC Bulldozer

> its job is to entertain bored males with disposable income He said the quiet part out loud

I'm sure it would have made some very cool video footage if you had put a small camera in the cab. The GoPro 360 Go 3 would certainly fit in. ;) I kept imagining what the weeds would look like if they were 14x bigger and thicker.

Comgrow has been quite good to me so far. Awesome that they're sponsoring this video.

BRO I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS YOUR IDEAS ARE SO GOOD WATCHING THIS VID RIGHT NOW KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!

It's kinda cool to see that your yard still hasn't recovered from the RC 100,000 scale miles test

Imagine how terrifying this would be full scale...

You are an amazing engineer.

The mini bulldozer work montage warmed my heart

make it into a killdozer

Surprised you didn't start with brush cutting blades (some of which are pretty similar to saw blades). Seems you could also use a miniature version of the 'spear cage' referenced at 4:21

2 things, if your cutting lawn, switch to lawn mower cable? If your cutting woody weeds, angle the blades downward slightly so the stumps dont rub against the inner part of the blades. I know this was never meant to be commercial, but seems like an easy win. Love your vids!

Your videos always put a smile on my face

I`d love to see a vid of you building your own (and hopefully superior) set of tracks

i really like your crazy ideas ... maybe you can start a battle between this one and the laser lawn mower ^^

They're some pretty tasty slow-mo shots there. 😉. I knew it was going to be a great video when I saw the thumbnail 👏👏👏

This is definitely a different style than usual, but I'm likin it! Fun and lighthearted

OMG this is wicked!!! :)) Imagine if we scaled it up to the real deal.

@rctestflight Just a heads up, you should avoid using RC mowers in the evening or night because hedgehogs don't not move or run from threats, they ball up.

I love watching big brush cutters in action. Some of those rotating cylinders just have lengths of chain hanging all over it like some kind of motorized medieval weapon. It's insane what those do to trees and branches. Nothing left but wood chips. Makes overgrown areas look like beautiful playgrounds.

Amazing build

Please please make a version with super traction. Like 200lbs and big growser bars!

I love that the circle from the long term rc car test is still in your garden

This is one of the most beautiful robots I've ever seen

To hold those pins in place use green locktite, also known as "fixing compound" if you want them to stay in.

Kinda cool. I've been thinking of doing something like this with my rer snapper. I've got enough spindles and pulleys laying around. and some straight wall barrels to make a shroud if needed. You could take that rc toy and make a radio controlled rear engine riding snapper. pretty easy.

the issue of the tracks coming off easily are also an issue on full size dozers so its not just because its a scale model. also there might be a way to tension the tracks a bit more so they don't come off all the time.

Awesome Bulldozer. Amazing!

Nice episode. Love it. I understand why you put a block at the convergence point of teeth rings, to isolate bush trunks from jamming. But also block off bushes. Here is an option we could think about. Add a comb shape structure with a specific finger spacing pointing forward to pass in thin bushes and block off anything wider than the finger gap. Comb fingers also make the bush cutting much more effective. As an option: we can begin with a comb with one finger place in the middle front where the left/right teeth meet. What do you think?

use green loctite retaining compound on those pins if the red loctite doesnt work out. it's made for that kind of deal vs red stuff being specifically for threads

The build quality on that bulldozer is out of this world!

Imagine those construction dudes coming back to their site the next day and seeing super small bulldozer tracks lol

This video should be called ‘name dropping all my sponsors and expecting an rc-toy to be as rugged as a 7 figure industrial machine that has decades of design that I can’t comprehend’😂

Now that's some mighty fine entertainment. Laughed my ass off. Good show! Guessing you have more fun mowing than I do!

This thing is a bit terrifying. I love it!

I do love some good old RC videos

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Theres a company that makes great RC tanks called Taigen. Their tiger tank has pretty well designed and reliable track and suspension design. I modded mine to be an autonomous forest creature but the base could work really well as a platform for doing all kinds of stuff, including popping space shuttle tires! Anyway, awesome video!

I know I posted this on 2 videos before, but I still want it :3 Please: Take the handle off your (normal) lawnmower and make it radio controlled….. You can put ardupilot on in and have a self mowing lawnmover! Love your videos ❤ sooo cool props to you

Ridiculous , impractical , expensive !! I BLOODY LOVE IT

The thumbnail for this is going to give me Maximum Overdrive nightmares tonight.

I work for an equipment dealership and we sell basically a bigger version of this called a Prinoth Raptor 100. Turbo diesel RC tank with a mulching head. One of my favorite things to PDI 😂

This thing gives off Marvin Heemeyer vibes and I absolutely love it!

The flail mowers used for hedges use hammers rather than Y-shaped knives, that's how they can mulch trees. The safe distance behind is often 50+ meters.

Daniel, I think you've finally achieved your childhood dream of driving the RC lawnmower from "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"...

“And it’s made of 60 real pounds”….I don’t know why but that made me chuckle lol

I had a blast with one I had as a kid and it made smoke with 3in 1 oil. Mine had a remote but had like a 8’ cord. It had rubber tracks. One of my tracks was on backwards so one track had less grip and tended to turn toward the backwards track when working dozer lol. That must have been like 1987 when I got it although I kept it till we moved when I was 17. You couldn’t replace the track on mine either which was dumb

This was actually amazingly useful. You don’t have to walk around you just sit and mow your lawn if I wasn’t so poor and stupid I would make one.

At 2:25 without a size reference one could easily be fooled into thinking this is a full size bulldozer! Thanks for the video!

Just make sure Rick Moranis isn’t shrinking any neighborhood kids prior to use.

A future mower would be one of those plastic electric - lithium battery models but with your RC gadgets attached, then you could use it to cut your lawn while kicking back with a cold one. Still this dozer creation was pretty awesome.

At 2:35 I am laughing at the thought of you on the side of Aurora Ave in an abandoned lot piling up trash with a mini bull dozer in the middle of the night! God I miss Seattle.

You and Jamie Hyneman Mythbusters! The killer lawn mower😊

The RC heavy equipment market is in fact abundant with scale construction vehicles such as excavators, dump trucks, bulldozers, semi trucks, gold mining equipment, and much more in all sorts of sizes from very small to large enough that a small child could ride on them

That’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen

This is no toy anymore,but it's awesome!!! Keep up this good work!

Absolute 🔥🔥🔥 Song choice boys. Randomly watched this vid.🖖

The way this man threads sponsorships through a video is perfect lmao, get your bag homie

I love these weird builds. haha Also cool that we can see the track from the long-run tests. Next test when?

Always looking forward to a new video

Nice and smooth 👍

I like the idea of a flail attachment for the dozer

Thats a fricking battlebot, wiliam would be proud

That was fun! Thanks! :)

Awesome project

That scale bulldozer is like the toy a little kid version of me always dreamed of having.

I would like to suggest a HD string trimmer with the optional steel blade for maintaining you home, it will do wonders. Eye protection and PPE isn't a suggestion when cutting... brush.

Nice vid...enjoyed it, but just a couple of thing's........the tooth on the back is called a ripper not a plough, and on the real vehicle is for ripping up concrete and hard footings so the blade can shift it. As for the weeds, I did notice one thing this particular machine lacked that all bladed D9' dozers come with was teeth on the bottom of the blade, I think it would dig and push way more dirt around the weeds if you fitted them. also the groucher's (those horizontal blades across the tracks) could have been a little taller and more aggressive which would aid traction massively.

I was about to recommend building a flail mower for the dozer, but then you mentioned it. lol

You should enter battlebots with something like this. You certainly have the skills and technology!

what dolly did you use for the bulldozer shots in your garden? super smooth

Can you not reassign controls to make it the same as a real dozer? Travel and steer on the left, blade up down tilt on right?

As a wood and machine shop affectionado, your application is certainly a curious one. It'd be worth looking into the principles of cutters and material removal. For example, the jamming problem is easily apparent. Look at the angle of the teeth. Usually those kinds of circular blades have the table surface of a circular saw machine to keep material from getting sucked in, and the blades aren't so deeply exposed. A narrower exposure means the material gets pulled at a narrower angle more inline with the plane of the table surface, pushing the material AWAY from the saw. Every cutting tool has limits when it comes to what's called 'feed rate', which essentially translates into the volume of material being fed into the machine. When material gets forcefully pulled into the machine, you overload it's capability to cut through a material so it just suddenly stops. This is a whole area of expertise on its own, called 'speeds and feeds' (speed refers to the speed that the cutter is moving at), and every application has it's own unique set of ideal speed and feed setting. But a basic principle is typically that if you're getting jamming issues, slow your feed and/or up your speed! And that goes for your use of the flail mower! Tree stumps and the like are a lot denser in composition and thicker in volume! If you want to go through that you need to slow your feed! Munch through slower and you'll get through eventually! Anyway, as for your assembly issues of how to arrange what and where, take inspiration from pre-existing and very successful tools! Circular saws of various kinds already have all the right answers you're looking for. You just need to take those same principles and modify them a little to accommodate the different application and setting. (hint: use a wedge)