Pretty awesome Chris !! I bet your Papaw would have never thought , that the little boy he taught how to run all those machines , would one day be a "Celeb" for Volvo Machines !! I'm sure he's proud of ya !! Thanks for taking us along with ya, and showing behind the scenes of how things are set up for the show !! Great as always Man !! And, On too the Next.......

As I am a swede its great to hear that you actually recognize that some of the equipment is from Sweden, thanks a million.

@raycollington4310

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As a Brit with a lot of Volvo experience and trips to Goteborg, I love Sweden and its wonderful people. Fantastic country 👍

@AutisticDigger87

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you now they sold they volvo brand a long time ago right!

In Norway they have used remote controlled machines for cleaning up an old testingfield for ammo. There were about 6 machines on the site, and all the drivers were inside a building about about 1 kilometer away (if I remember correctly). They were sitting in copies of the cockpits looking at big screens, all in the same room, drinking coffee, talking sh*t and having a really good time while working on the site.

Thanks Chris, for being such a great Ambassador for the Great Volvo Co. Well done and what fantastic new machines they have. Greetings from Australia

What a fabulous tour guide you are Chris. Enjoyed your demonstration of the electric machines. Smiling and having a great time. Thank you so much.

Awesome to see all you guys together Chris - thanks for taking us along.

Really great to see you guys together! Thanks for sharing this, Chris!

You, Dirt Perfect and Deisel Creek have a million subs between you, so I'm guessing you'll be getting more than just a card at Christmas from Volvo! Thanks for the entertainment guys, looks like you are as much star material as the equipment!

Easily one of the most interesting episodes Chris has posted. It seems there's a lot of logistics and planing that goes into events like this. Including serious lead time getting equipment and other items staged well ahead of time. Thanks for the tag along Chris.

Chris, I really do appreciate you focusing on one booth at con Expo most channels give you just barely a glimpse of everything I very much appreciate you staying at one place, in this case Volvo and going through it piece by piece I really enjoyed it one of the things I learned it's where this stuff is made at that was eye-opening your whole podcast was very informative enjoyable thank you for doing podcast different from the rest I rate this 9] )-@#=]

Enjoyed every moment of it! Thanks, Chris, well done!

Hey Chris, cool show, thanks for taking us along !

Thanks for the video Chris 👍 awesome behind the scenes 🙂. Take care of yourself and Winston ❤️❤️👍.

Great Video Chris Thanks for bringing Us along!!👍👍

Nice to see you and D.P out of the dirt once in a while....Hope you guys had a blast...See ya on the next one !

The Haul trucks are produced in Braås plant in Sweden, really fun place to visit, I have driven A35 on their test track some years ago

I was really impressed with the remote function box. As you noted, it would take some getting used to but it's definitely a useful tool for the right circumstances. Nice behind the scenes of all things Volvo from the show.

Thanks for showing the show. I do hope you had as much fun as it looked.

Watching this excavator video is like watching a high-speed action movie. The way the machine moves and responds to the operator's commands is simply incredible

Nicely done Chris, thank you for sharing 👍🇺🇸

Thanks for sharing your adventures, Chris. Tobaccoville NC USA 🇺🇸

thanks Chris, that was a great tour you three did, Mike and Lars.

Hi, Chris from New Zealand. Thank you for the scenes of Conexpo and your videos.

Very interesting video Chris thanks for sharing it 👍

Looks like you had a fun time. Thanks for the video.

Great video Chris thanks for a look behind the show

That was pretty neat. Cool stuff. Enjoyed watching ✌️ 😎

Very awesome video.ty for sharing with us.really enjoyed it.some cool things coming to construction.

Thanks for the informative " behind the scenes " video. This is special.

That is really cool. Thanks for the walk through

They sure have an enormous amount of equipment crammed in that expo. It would be wild if you or Mike got an electric to demo cause you know all your viewers would like to see that happen. Maybe Volvo will see this post and think the same thing. 👋

THANKS!

Chris, GREAT VIDEO. Thanks for sharing it👍👍👍👍👍😺🫠🐺

@rabidbigdog

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Play-time-Chris vids are great.

That was enjoyable! Thanks

Thank you Chris!!

Great shots!

Excellent bro even the meet n greet looked to go well. Safe travels

That was really interesting. Thank you very much. 👍👍🙂🇨🇦

cool stuff, thanks for the video

well done Chris.. thanks

Nice job Chris. I enjoyed the behind scenes look at the show

Pretty cool vid Chris , well done !

Fantastic coverage of the Volvo 'new' innovations. How well they work on the job will be the proving ground. Great turnout for the meet-and-greet.

@tomrogers9467

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I’m hoping for a “Let’s Dig 18” electric loaner. Proof in the pudding so to,speak!

@heatherlane9270

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@@tomrogers9467 That would be good to see and have his comments on same.

Chris this is a great and informative video!!

Great to see you again Chris! Had a decent cameo there at the beginning of the meet & greet 😂 thanks again for all the time and energy you put into this! Now we have our first Volvo excavator also; they are a great company to work with.

Absolutely Awesome !!!!!! Thanks Chris you ROCK !!!!!😂

Thanks Chris for taking us with you wish i was there would like to meet you in person 👍😎

Mint selection 😊😊

If anyone can do it I would trust Chris to the task! Thankyou for sharing this version of your trip!

Ok fun times over, time for you two to get back behind the sticks😁. All kidding aside, its awesome that you and D.P. to take time from working to go and have fun and do the meet and greets. Just wish I could have made it to Vegas.

Great video😊

Thanks Chris 😊

That is interesting new technology at the Conexpo 2023, thank you for sharing it.

very awesome Chris

Chris is having way to much fun ,playing with the demo toys ,The meet and Greet looked awesome and all your loyal fans

Looks like you had a lot of fun , especially on that little kids excavator...lol. My little grandson, Siah, would love it.

Chris welcome to Vegas !!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩

Glad Mike is there with you!

Looks like fun!

nice video chris

It’s was nice seeing all the boys there.

Looks like you had a good time

Great content as always Chris. I’d love to see a time lapse of the setting up the expo.

The dump truck in the beginning looks like Uncle John's. Thinking maybe Chris will buy it to have one road worthy besides the off road dump. About to watch it now.

I've been waiting for this video wanted to make it this year but health problems didn't allow me thank you for such a indep Part of the show so we could see it all your a quite a celebrities thank you very much love you videos

thats awesome. i still think it would be fun for a big collab with all the volvo operators/creators from around the world working on some big project together.

First time on that remote machine, standing on the opposite side and bam, nailed it. What a pro.

Love the shot of the announcer practicing, that's the side of show-biz you rarely see!!

I can just see Chris sitting in a recliner operating the remote control excavator taking down trees 😆

This just proves that you are a great spokesperson for volvo!

Awesome video Chris. So much preparation goes into the show. I really like to see the new technology for electric & hydrogen fuel cell machines. Here in Australia our rail network is not so good, so we rely a lot on road transport. I guess the future 18 wheelers will be a little similar to the off road hydrogen fuel cell electric truck you showed. Take care & cheers 😊

You just made me super tired remembering the setup of our John Deere shows. The hauling, cleaning, shining the tires, waxing but we had a week to get ready but I did enjoy the days the show ran. This was in the time John Deere was buying all their distributors and keeping all the info correct for the customer. Your doing a super job especially with the remote machines.

Awesome video Chris, im just gonna be honest, not a fan of the electric machines, quiet and all but then ya gotta stop to charge, gotta hall the charger so that's another expense if you can't haul it yourself, but they are cool though, I'd be curious to see what the breakout force is, well Chris it's a good thing you just got your new one an you have the old one, thanks for sharing an I look forward to seeing the next video as always, God bless 💪🇺🇲🤙✊👌 Bucket list of mine is to go-to Conexpo, wanna meet ya at the show, maybe next show I can make it!

Hold on there Chris, you have AC on yours as well, just open the windows and doors. It's called rush-in-air. I had to pull your chain just a little bit. You did better than I was expecting stacking those 3 blocks.

Great video, guys! Just wish I could have been there! BTW, who got the best time on the post game?

very cool 😎

Voted the best LetsDig18 video ever.

It is Shaping up to be a Fantastic Expo - man oh man - all that New Equipment and Brand Spanking New Excavators with Air Conditioning - they truly Spoil You - wow - I think some of it needs "Deep Pockets" ! Thanks also for You Explanation on things and the Interviews - was soooo very Interesting indeed ! Love = Put Stick into Hole Game - ha ! The People Love You ! Many,many Cheers from Australia and like they say over here = GOOD ONE SON !!!!

Think they need to add a couple cameras and a VR headset to that remote unit. Then you could operate it just like setting inside.

That was cool. Most of us have no idea how much work goes into setting up things like this.

Danny Freeman is one big man Chris, 6’7” ? Thank you Chris for a great video . All the gang was there Clint, Mike and Matt . I follow follow them all.🥰

Some day I have to go to conexpo would be so interesting

Nice

Operator Chris is a natural presenter in front of the camera. The networks will come calling for sure.

The remote has all kinds of options. Say building a block wall you could stand next to the wall and make sure the block is level and inline. Then reach over get another block and keep going. I thought it was ridiculous at first but now no. you could build a block retaining wall by yourself if you had to.

The fossil free steel comes from a Swedish prototype steel plant which uses hydrogen rather than coke. Presumably the carbon in the steel comes from another source - haven't looked too deeply into it since I read the original press release last year. ETA Looking forward to seeing you guys try out the 230 at the customer centre.

@Dontworryboutit315

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But then you’re burning all the fossil fuels to ship all of that steel around! All about the perspective lol

@lacombar

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Do you know anything about steel making ? The carbon is not added, but removed. Ore is turned into high-carbon pig iron which is then refined to mild steel and other alloys.

@GARDENER42

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@@lacombar It may be hard for you to comprehend but producing pig iron is part of the steel making process & there's this thing called 'carbon steel'.

@lacombar

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@@GARDENER42 carbon steel is a refined pig iron (in oxygen rich environment, to burn the excess carbon, which produces CO2, btw).

@25:12 would be funny you'll make a pond by radio control. 🤣

I seen Brian from Brian’s Farming Videos at the end. Cool to see another KZreadr on your video

Plenty of pines on Mount Charleston 25 minutes away. But they are in a National Forest.

My personal opinion, they couldn't have picked a better public figure to bring out the what it's worth to their show.great job.

Hey, Chris @ 06:16 It's called " Rehearsal " ( thanks Spell Check )......lol......Thanks for the behind-the-scenes about the show.

I've been thinking about the electric excavator for a while. I still think it's an interesting idea and has a fair bit of potential to be had. Only limiter being run time and charge time plus the accessories needed. But at the same time, maybe make it more of a machine that has a fixed place, such as in a transfer station to feed a grinder/shear for garbage reduction. A longer stick and boom for a scrap metal yard to feed a hammer mill or load/unload trucks and rail cars. At the intake for a lumber mill to load bark/wood chips. Keep the batteries or cut down on the number of cells while having it attached to an umbilical power supply. If it needs to be moved, disconnect the umbilical use the batteries to move to a new location, plug back in. I can also see it being handy just with batteries for very niche needs that don't require extended usage. Especially when there is concern about noise and exhaust in a confined or enclosed space.

@lacombar

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if it's a mildly fixed machine, the battery is a waste, might as well fully tether the damn thing.

Would've never known Volvo bought out Ingersoll Rand rollers, good bits of info 👍

The small wheel loaders, wheeled excavators, asphalt layers and dirt compactors are actually from Germany ;) Great video, as usual.

What a Motley Crew. 🤣😂🤣 thanks guys I had fun checking out everyone's videos. If everyone goes to carbon free mechanics, I'll have to start calling yous guys "The Mod Squad."🤣😂🤣

I wonder if they are ultimately going to switch over to linear actuators for the electric versions .. got to be a lot more efficient

Chris besides the HX-04 did Volvo bring the TA01 autonomous hauler? I was supposed to be out there to meet up with a couple of Volvo CE engineers but couldn't make it. Nice video. The EC230 should dig just like your EC220 except no rumbling noise behind you.

I live not far from Shippensburg Plant. Yes, it used to be ingersoll rand. I didn't know wheel loaders are made there.

So Chris did you buy a new Volvo wheeled loader with a grapple??? Really interesting tour, thanks for taking us along!!!

The new EC500 is bit of a beast! Should be a good replacement for the old 480.