A contractor or building company usually have the 'the customer pays it' attitude so some little savings don't matter. But the other advantages your solar trailer offer cannot be paid by the customer.

You are so right about the generator! And the fuel price is a great added benefit 👌

Remote control kills dozers have existed since the 1980s most armies have them (small ones date back to WW2). Currently, a few are being used for mine clearance by farmers in Ukraine

@user-sv2it3tm6n

7 ай бұрын

As I know, farmers in Ukraine use old 4wd tractors, they use a big roller in front and try to put some armor on a tractor. They work with that, but it's so primitive. The signal from remote control riches about 1 mile or less, operator 3-4 meters abow the ground in a scoup of telehandl, somebody have to take off with tractor and jump out on go. PS sorry for my English.

The way you talk just makes me want get my class 1 and haul construction equipment. Never grew out of the sandbox 🤣

Remote killdozer. Marvin would be proud.

Kill dozer idea is f****** hilarious Yes that would work so well

That stuff is super easy to resell if stolen. Looked into slapping GPS tracking / remote options on it? Put motion detection/cameras on it and you'll have instant site security monitoring as well? Scale this up HARD, while you can!

@litkeys3497

7 ай бұрын

They already have the camera option as I recall. But also, it's designed for use in remote areas. Not a lot of people to sell stolen panels to in northern Yukon

@jblob5764

7 ай бұрын

​@@litkeys3497i completely disagree that seems like an ideal place to sell stolen panels, everyone could use a another couple kwh a day of free power out in the sticks where its hard to get things like fuel during the winter. But yeah those things are expensive and would be a good candidate for a hidden tracker inside the frame rail wited to the batteries

@dogefort8410

7 ай бұрын

@@litkeys3497 no need to keep it hidden away in the deep forests, though. This can be useful everywhere.

@EdisonMotors

7 ай бұрын

We have 2 GPS trackers and the camera gives live feed/position data

😁😁So I've been following Edison Motors for ~2 months. I've heard and seen some of light towers but English isn't first language so I had confused the words a bit. I thought they were replacements for light houses, like maybe for not so important places along the coast. Didn't seem to be such a big market for such... Now I see it's flood light tower for a workplace. The pieces comes together 🤣🤣

@WilliamHollinger2019

7 ай бұрын

L E D lights are long lasting they take years to blow.

Build the remote control Kill-dozer

Chase, you need to come to the UK sometime.. We have a chain of theme parks actually called (and I quote) Diggerland.... Have a guess what they have to play with there? - Yep fun for the whole family at Diggerland...

Communication and relaxation on a jobsite is a big deal.

Love the videos Chase. I saw a video that your "friends" at SC Carts posted, where they still claim that their Carts are "made in Canada" definitely worth a follow up

@RythmicRaindrops

7 ай бұрын

Did they show their production?

@EdisonMotors

7 ай бұрын

nope, They make a lot of claims, but still haven't made a single video still showing how it's made in Canada@@RythmicRaindrops

@teddymacrae

7 ай бұрын

​@@EdisonMotorsthey have added "What are the regulations on using 'Made in Canada' branding?" to their FAQ page so... That's something I guess

Love your content and your business model. I see you guys going far. Keep it up! Also, wall of kill dozers idea, 👍lol!

@EdisonMotors

7 ай бұрын

Thanks man! Really appreciate that.

I do really like Cat's mentality on getting operators out of dangerous work environments but I really hate how they chose to plumb their hydraulics. I wish they used servos on the joysticks rather than have solenoids to control the hydraulic flow. If they used servos they would fix everybody's biggest complaint, which you mentioned, which is no feed back from the machine. Remote control would be a little different but it would be like normal once you get back inside the cab.

@rolc8272

7 ай бұрын

I was saposse to help, Basically use RC servos and radio that clipped to the joystick and be remote control,

Could you make a video about the solar trailer? Like show the ins and outs, output, capacity, weight, do the pannels flip up on each side?

Imagine never having to never go to camp no more as an operator. Go to your shop, and operate a machine hundreds, if not thousands of miles away.

I hope Edison Motors can get a decent telehandler instead of the backhoe for unloading. What we have seen it's not so much regular loads on pallets and some uneven ground. Really cool would be if some marketing people at like Kramer could get work something out so they have a KT144e - the smallest handler in electric drivetrain variant. Edison are hardly going to work it enough to flat the battery out. And it could zip around inside the tent helping out with building the next truck. Practically maybe some bigger used tele handler is also good.

Cat pulled a glados: the cooler is a lie

@silverphoenix2450

7 ай бұрын

Yup, making a note here

CAT, GET THIS MAN A COOLER

@EdisonMotors

7 ай бұрын

One day…. A man can dream haha

4:00 Chace just discovered a new war crime. But as the old saying goes, it's never war crime the first time

@Farmboy1927

7 ай бұрын

Canadians are known for inventing new war crimes

@Spaltyslife

7 ай бұрын

It's brilliant!

@gavinatkins2671

7 ай бұрын

His Canadian ancestors are proud 🤣🤣🤣

@danielseelye6005

7 ай бұрын

I'll wait with baited breath for "The Fat Electrician" to do a video on Remote operated killdozers in a few years. 😆

@EdisonMotors

7 ай бұрын

To be fair, Canadians are experts in finding creative solutions to military problems.

3:30 They have been using remote-controlled diggers etal on clean up of power stations and esp nuclear clean up in power stations with decommissioning since the Chornobyl nuclear disaster when the West sent prototypes to Ukraine to test out and see if they worked.

Here is a million dollar idea : operator needs to be wearing some type of 360 view helmet so you’d feel like sitting in the cab

Armored and remote dozers do exist. Also israel even has some with the Trophy APS system installed. Also Most demining equipment is remote controlled

Underground mining uses a lot of remote control equipment.

There's a farmer in Ukraine who turned his tractor into an RC armored mine sweeper!

i think you got a bit carried away on the remote controlled dozer part XD

I love your attitude, wish I could work for you

Putting on a business class as always…..

Mine clearing dozer. M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle. Best wishes from Northern Manitoba.

You bring up an excellent point with remote controlled "Killdozers." Of all the arms packages we (the west) have been sending to Ukraine, there's been very little de-mining equipment. Having to manually pick apart the minefields along the southern axis is why it took so long for the "counteroffensive" to gain any traction, once it finally started (and THAT delay, due to how we'd dragged our asses in actually sending what we'd promised to Ukraine). Problem with sending a D11 is that they cost between $1-3 million, and for half a million you can send an Amtrak 400 or similar purpose-built device. So cost-wise, a Cat D11 isn't nearly as practical.

Maybe you should paint the frame yellow of that solar light so it kinda will go with cat brand if its cat licensed

What would be really rad for that excavator remote station would be to put the chair on a turntable that tracks the actual swing of the machine. Then put a tilt mechanism on the chair so when you pull on the stick, your chair pitches in response to the machine pitching forward.

@johnwenzel2003

7 ай бұрын

There's a theme park in that . 😊

@SkylarsTerribleMemes

7 ай бұрын

@@johnwenzel2003 oh my god a construction equipment theme park would be so cool

@johnwenzel2003

7 ай бұрын

@@SkylarsTerribleMemes Well . . . There is Dig Would in Texas.

One major point people don't think about w/ solar: deployability & maintenance...in our mines instead running utilities to pits & outfalls, deploy solar & boom power bonus no need to send a lube truck constantly fueling a genset

@EdisonMotors

7 ай бұрын

That’s a good point too actually

Back in 2016 New Zealand earth moving company Protranz converted four JCB excavators to remote control, for use in hazardous environments like clearing slips and rock falls where the risk to the operator for further ground movement way high.

Regarding the remote dozer removing minefields - Really good idea until the king of the battlefield politely makes it's presence known.... by covering the thing in enough high explosives and angry bits of metal to destroy a fleet of tanks.

Yah know... While Topsy is getting tuned up, the guys in BC could repack those cylinders... Actually, might make a good video, what do you do during down time now that you have some. Unless ya'll are already working on the next truck.

@EdisonMotors

7 ай бұрын

We have a few more of these light towers to build, fix up the new service truck. And then build a solar trailer. It never ends around here for projects

The problem with remote control and millitary operation is that the signal can be jammed and detected.

@robertroberts5218

7 ай бұрын

We have ways around that problem for the most part.

I was just watching how the truck is built u should try to make it to where people can sit on the right and drive it

my only concern would be the level of signal delay and lack of feel running a remote machine, but its amazing how far its come. and on the noise pollution, yeah less machine noise is always good

@robertroberts5218

7 ай бұрын

A bit of a price increase, but feedback resistance to the sticks could be programmed to some rams inside the armrest and apportioned to sensors on several parts of the hoe or blade or whatever the attachment is.

@e.lan.s

7 ай бұрын

Actually wireless tech has evolved at a level where you can have fiber optics response(in miliseconds) and throughput (over 1gbps speed). Wifi6 is really cutting edge! So the real concern might only be the force feedback on controllers... Especially having a building where you can put high gain antennas providing a good signal for the best wireless response

The problem is getting 40 D11 up to the front, fueled, coordinated, without knocking over your own logistics corridors, without taking artillery fire or jamming or Lancets or etc.

Killdozers in combat 🤔

Theron is a great Swag Model

@EdisonMotors

7 ай бұрын

🤣

4:00 they've done the remote control mine removers.

Are your trucks already available? If not, when do you expect them to be?

Canada didn’t let the cooler through customs

Coming soon: Edison defense systems LLC

Does anyone know if they run cat days in Australia? Looks like fun.

Does the A-frame fold up onto a singleplane - or are the bifacial A-frame intended to be positioned east-west to collect more hours of mean solar input?? Most heavy equipment is a piece of cake to make RC, there aren't all that many channels needed for the active work axes; Slew, Tracks-2, boom, dipper, bucket and thumb / hammer / tool.

@fettgummie9685

7 ай бұрын

in another video i think they said the designe is so you dont have to think about how you park it, it gets enougth power either way you position it

I would love to see a video collaboration of Jay Leno and Edison Motors Or Edison motors video on Mutha Trucker news

@EdisonMotors

7 ай бұрын

-Motha Trucker news has done a thing on me personally. #ClappertonRoll -Theron Danger

Get Finning to give you a backhoe?

Can you charge your power tools on the light trailer?

@johnwenzel2003

7 ай бұрын

Yup

Love your ideas and for sure future plans on EV trucks of many different types. You sure seem to hate your 90's model Backhoe due to many unrepaired issues it seems to have. If you'd sell it cheap I'd sure love to own and Fix it up. I rebuilt a late 1960s, maybe 1970s CASE skid loader because I really want to do some light dirt work for extra $$$, all after I was Crushed by one 19 years ago. When you're soon rich enough to buy newer machines please don't forget about me! I can fix just about anything, trust me. Plus I live in northern MN!;😅😅👍❤

Are you public? Can we invest?

It's running on Linux!

The remote control caterpillar just lowered the wage for equipment operators. You can run it from anywhere in the world and make a poor operator productive. Sounds like those jobs are on their way to China.

@joshuacheung6518

7 ай бұрын

Latency might be an issue

@chasler1741

7 ай бұрын

Wage is nothing, cost of life support and transport are the savings. If one guy can do 5 jobs in a week because he is not travelling, you just saved a stack of money. No milage payments, no car maintenance, no hotel bill, no food bills, no OT/travel allowances. Operator gets sick, just call someother guy up and offer OT if needed, or delay something non critical elsewhere. Doesnt matter where they are so much. Sure some truck minions are driving machines around, but they had to do that anyway. Might even save a bit if a machine can be left in place for a while. Saving pennies on wage for some Chinese guy over the now cheaper local operator doesnt matter. You need to deal with language and timezones to China, which is its own expense. Operator wages will come down, but some of the shit operators put up with wouldnt need to occur. More chances to see your kids, eat decent food, relax with friend groups instead of coworkers or sitting in hotel rooms.

These are so OBVIOUSLY better, it's hard to understand why anyone would buy anything else (if someone has a legitimate, compelling counterpoint I would love to hear it). But then, the stupidity and stubbornness of the average person knows no bounds. Look at the resistance to EVs in the US (I'm talking the M-3 and M-Y) people are spending way more TCO plus all the inconveniences of a smogmobile (and dealerships abuse!) because they lack the vision to understand an EV.

@tgould91

7 ай бұрын

I would gladly go the diesel electric EREV route for my truck. But 300mile range and 30min charge times for an ev on a 6000 mile round trip will not be happening

Farmers in Ukraine are using their tractors with remote control to remove the mines from their (reclaimed) fields.

6:12 ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD? Oh....just have to have internet access. Whoops. Sales people: lying til their dying.

@litkeys3497

7 ай бұрын

Throw in a starlink terminal and you're in business. Compare how much you'd have to pay an operator to move out to a remote, hazardous environment for who knows how long and it's well worth it.

@user-dr2pg8fk2i

7 ай бұрын

@@litkeys3497 Starlink is not available everywhere, expensive, and shits out under even moderate tree coverage.

@EdisonMotors

7 ай бұрын

Starlink, cell boosters, regular satellite internet. You can get internet almost anywhere. If you have the money to buy a fleet of brand new remote control CAT equipment you can afford the $100/month for starlink

REMOTE CONTROL GUY! HOW ABOUT R/C logging truck loading!

Oh no, your operations are in Canada. I'm sorry to hear this, your company is doomed to fail. Maybe you can transfer to America or China before you do bankrupt

For muricans watching, in real countries we take poisoning waterways and ruining nature seriously. Not really applicable to you.

@Xsiondu

7 ай бұрын

I'm fully aware that I live in a 4th world country. I will say that after 35 years of "save the bay" efforts the water is occasionally dark blue/ black instead of green/ brown.

@EdisonMotors

7 ай бұрын

That's progress anyways@@Xsiondu