WE GOT A TANK! (POWER LOADER: PART 11)

Years ago I had a dream of building the world's first real

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charger for the movie Aliens. There have been setbacks, but we are finally settled in these fantastic facilities. We have an incredible team and we have some incredible sponsors on board, which means there is nothing. stopping us from building it   This video is sponsored by World of Tanks, a free game with over 100 million players, new players can use my Tank Mania code to get some awesome crates,

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charger, project started and stopped more times than me. I care to say, there have been setbacks from financial issues to programming, but we chose to build the energy charger in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are difficult, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one that we are not willing to postpone and one that we intend to win, and the others are too serious, although this project is quite an effort, which is probably why no one else will do it. has tried before.

One of the most important questions was how are we going to make the base? The way the legs were designed in the movie meant that the electric charger had a super high center of gravity and if it picked up something or even tried to take a step, it would definitely do so. falling over, the reason it didn't happen in the movie was because it was made of foam, it had counterweights, it had a person inside controlling it and the whole thing was suspended by wires like a puppet, aka it was completely fake, you see, the funny thing is that James Cameron actually intended for the Power Charger to have four legs, which would actually be possible to do in real life, but when The Empire Strikes Back came out in 1980, Cameron decided that the Power Charger would look too much like an atat walker. and redesigned the power charger. completely to be a bipedal machine, so the legs are outside the treads of the

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, as was the militarized version of the electric charger, but where do we get treads strong enough to hold a vehicle of more of 5,000 pounds?

We had to take a look at construction vehicles and what better heavy construction equipment company than Caterpillar itself, the current manufacturer of the p5000 electric

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in the future, fortunately, during my trip to British Columbia this summer to drive the Furion racing robot, Jonathan Tibbett introduced me to this guy Robert, who introduced me to someone else. via email who introduced me to someone else who introduced me to someone else who introduced me to Archie, who is the global brand creative director for Caterpillar, the man responsible for the amazing cat testing videos on YouTube where oversized construction equipment complete compete in unique and incredible ways. ways that when he heard about our plan to make a real life power

loader

from aliens he was at 110, so he invited us to visit a local Caterpillar dealer and see if we can find a compact track loader that will work for our project, so we're here at our local Caterpillar battlefield equipment rental dealer and we're going to look at some compact track loaders for our alien electric junk project.

Hey Rob, on our YouTube channel called Hacksmith, we have a series called Make It Real, Where We Go. Fictional ideas from comics, movies and video games and try to create prototypes that really work. One of our biggest projects to date is building the Alien Power Charger, as you know in the Aliens franchise, it was actually made by Caterpillar in the year 2100, so we were super excited when Caterpillar offered to

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ner with us on this project and invited us to visit our local dealer with you to take a look at some machines. Thanks for coming, very excited guys.

They would like us to show them a couple of machines on the market. yard that could really represent what could work for you, sure, let's do this right guys, I'm going to start with some of the models that we have here to offer at Caterpillar. Here we talk about horsepower and high flow. The 262 skid steer. It's a tremendous machine for many different applications, construction, landscaping, etc., size-wise, are we headed in the right direction? Oh yeah, this is pretty awesome. I really like those specs. I think we want to stick with the tracks just for that reason. lower ground pressure and you know, we need to make sure that we can go off-road and that they look a lot cooler than the tires.

We will work towards track machines here on our track machine. This is the biggest one. This is the great enthusiasm. It's the 299 d3 something a little bit smaller that we want to do sure we have that reach in front of us, but we want to make sure that we can clear the tracks, we want to make sure that we have the reach on the sides and the motor on this one is a little bit higher and a little bit higher. On the ground, you may have some issues with elbow room. If we go for something that big, you get something smaller.

I think the 239 is the better idea because you get the same amount of drivetrain horsepower and footprint, but less machine to push, which gives For you, the power you need should be the winner now that Rob us. is carrying through the machines. It seems that 239 is perfect for our application. It has adequate load capacity. It has a lot of horsepower. Lots of flow. And it has the free space we need to. power loader elbows, what do you say, let's pack it up, let's get it going awesome, just like Caterpillar's selection of construction equipment. World of Tanks has a huge arsenal of vehicles, from light artillery

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There are over 550 tanks to try out, ensuring a new way to play every time, try World Tanks today using my link below and you'll be helping to support this power charger project by doing so, so the guys at Tank Rental Battlefield teams also showed me how to drive this machine, so off I go. to teach you guys how to drive the compact track loader step 1 seat belt step 2 safety bars it's time to put the key in the first turn to the on position the screen will turn on and once it's loaded we're ready to turn on the Next, we turn off the handbrake, so now that the machine is on we can start using these joysticks.

The left joystick controls the drive system so if you push it forward the machine goes forward if you push it back we go backwards if you turn it like this it steers like a tank now the other joystick is the fun one this one controls the articulated arm, just pull it back to raise it, push it forward to lower it, now we don't have a bucket installed on this, but if we turn it it went left, we turn it right, it tilts and we turn it clockwise left, you turn it back up now, that might seem a little slow, so we turn up the throttle, in addition to the control trim, there's also an accelerator pedal, we also have the headlight controls and we can lock. the hydraulic system we also have a large rear view mirror that allows you to see around the caterpillar anyway I think that's it it's time to let bogdan play with it imagine being you I do it I can't see myself the system we chose has a diesel engine 67.1 horsepower capable of producing up to 26 gallons per minute of hydraulic flow at over 3,300 psi has a tipping load of over 4,000 pounds and is capable of traveling up to 7.6 miles per hour low pressure ground clearance of just 5.4 pounds per square inch and its performance-tuned suspension are incredible and the low ground and shoulder clearance would be perfect for our electric loader.

We just have to figure out how we're going to mount the electric charger on it. Here is a model of For the current upper body, the plan is to basically remove the track until only the tracks and engine com

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ment remain, then we need to build a support structure to act as the legs and be able to support everything the weight of the upper body. We finally have to assemble the cockpit to allow the driver to control everything, but before we get caught up in the numbers and all this design, I really want to see this move, so to do that, let's start with a shopping trip, unfortunately the guy The hydraulic oil we use to test our electric loader is not the same type of oil that Caterpillar uses in their machines, which means we must drain the entire system, flush everything, and replace it with the same type of hydraulic oil that Caterpillar uses.

Let's do it Now that we have changed the oil in our electric charger, it's time to do a side by side comparison to show you how much more flow the track has than our old pump. I'm excited to see it this time. What the track loader can do, honestly, it's pretty ridiculous how fast our electric loader is with the new jack, which means it's time to take it all apart so we can put it back together. We'll have to start by removing both arms. With the hydraulics and safety interlocks, we will also need to remove the bushings.

This entire cabin will have to be removed, but we have to make sure we maintain all the electronics well. This whole faceplate will have to come off and I'll have to relocate them, okay what are we waiting for? Let us begin. You realize it's just me. You may need help from the team. Oh, there are the first two pieces of the caterpillar. A couple of thousand more to go. Okay, so it's free. You know that driving this 239 compact track loader makes me feel like a real tank commander, but if you want to feel like a real tank commander, try World of Tanks today and you can take your tank for a spin in the open countryside.

Fields climb steep hills, cross the desert, and fight battles in industrial zones. There are more than 40 battlegrounds to choose from. Team up with your friends and destroy the competition. Many thanks to Caterpillar for giving us this compact track loader. The team did a fantastic job. take it apart and make sure it still works next episode. Hopefully, we'll finish that design and start manufacturing it, and if we're lucky, that means we'll be able to mount the electric loader on top of the compact track loader. for the first time I am so excited about you