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I Bet You've Never Seen One of These!

🕑 Added 2023-11-21 15:40:22 +0000 UTC

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Dwayne de Lung

You already have a volunteer 'test pilot' enthusiastically awaiting ignition.

IanH

You can work from home with it

Watch Wes Work

Yeah I need to prop it up!

Watch Wes Work

I emailed the professor. We'll see what happens. Thank you so much for finding this!

Watch Wes Work

Holy shit! That's it! I can't believe you found that!

Watch Wes Work

Break out the Geiger counter.

Tim Allan

It immediately reminded me of this https://youtu.be/pmEO1pxAsZU?si=57I921p5cVaR2NMT I am looking forward to the content you're going to make on this, remember to know how to stop it before you get it going. It might take something more than a few boxes of oil to stop it, if it runs amok!

Bruce Rose

I like it...interesting!

CapnMac82

From the reel of cable over the drag pinch, I'll give you even odds it's not "radio control" but "remote control"--that it uses/used a box on the end of a wire. Much like the crane on a service truck or concrete pump. Figuring out what wires do what is right up Wes' Controls work experience alley, too.

Noah Orr

https://heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-updates/dean-edwards Caltech research/business proposal. Scroll to the bottom and look at Figure 11.

Noah Orr

https://heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-updates/dean-edwards search the page for "forest crawler" - sounds like it may have been self-driving at one point. Super cool find.

Noah Orr

https://heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-updates/dean-edwards Sounds like a one-off prototype from a Caltech business venture that never went anywhere. Scroll to the bottom of this page and look at Figure 11.

David G King

I hope it didn't come from Chernobyl

Anders Lundgren

Even better, you woke up and the robotic mower unit has already driven the blower around the driveway during the night :-), granted it would have been more ideal with an electric machine since starting a diesel engine automatically and unsupervised can be tricky but it could be a fun project.

Anders Lundgren

John B Moore

The domain is someone else's, so they have probably gone out of business. I had to get creative.

John B Moore

https://www.inknowvation.com/sbir/companies/forest-robots-llc

Kowyn Hibbert (Warrior of the Rusty Wrench)

My gut says it's European, just a hunch.

Dennis Lesh

Yep, a whole new profession.

Kowyn Hibbert (Warrior of the Rusty Wrench)

I've got a theory, looking at it I could see it being used on extreme slopes if it was tied off to another machine or possibly for getting trees out of tight spots when selective logging, I'd lean towards the selective logging applications.

Watch Wes Work

It's kinda similar but totally different. I have no idea where this thing came from.

Watch Wes Work

Like a freelance mini log skidding business.

Watch Wes Work

Unlike the rest of the state, NW IL is pretty much all trees.

Watch Wes Work

I can't figure out who made it or how it ended up here.

Watch Wes Work

I have to make it driving first. And that will not be easy.

Watch Wes Work

That's what I was thinking when it popped up for sale!

Watch Wes Work

That's the kind of thinking that got it landed in my parking lot...

Watch Wes Work

I can plow the driveway from the heated shop.

Watch Wes Work

I have found nothing about it.

Watch Wes Work

Just for tree disposal.

Watch Wes Work

It's all mine baby!

Watch Wes Work

I bet this thing cost at least that much new.

Watch Wes Work

Just what I need!

Watch Wes Work

It's gonna be a project.

Watch Wes Work

I didn't know they existed 5 days ago.

Watch Wes Work

I think that's going to be the real hurdle here.

WILLIAM gilbert

Here's a google of Forest Robots; scroll down. Logg Dogg. https://www.google.com/search?q="forest+robots"+remote+skidder+diesel&sca_esv=584463452&sxsrf=AM9HkKnMYAN432BK7RaJVo4OGmqSuopzSA%3A1700617260835&ei=LFxdZYjNMsys0PEP95KNgAU&ved=0ahUKEwiIk-z9vNaCAxVMFjQIHXdJA1AQ4dUDCBA&oq="forest+robots"+remote+skidder+diesel&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJSJmb3Jlc3Qgcm9ib3RzIiByZW1vdGUgc2tpZGRlciBkaWVzZWwyBBAjGCdI2TRQkRFY9hpwAXgAkAEAmAFYoAGhAaoBATK4AQzIAQD4AQHCAgsQABiABBiiBBiwA8ICCxAAGIkFGKIEGLAD4gMEGAEgQYgGAZAGBA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

WILLIAM gilbert

https://www.pfanzelt.com/en/pfanzelt-in-the-press/forestmachinemagazine-moritz-remote-controlles-mini-skidder/

Dennis Lesh

You can bring it out here to Idaho........we have lots of trees.

sean

Very ambitious I’m sure you can do it but are there any trees left in northern il

Kowyn Hibbert (Warrior of the Rusty Wrench)

I'm a logger and I can confirm I've never seen anything as weird as that. Must have been a pretty specialized tool and it's time.

Roger Howell

You can make it self-driving!

Eric Corse

Way cool

RandomThingsKeithDoes

I so want this!!!

Anders Lundgren

Mount a control unit from a robotic mower and change the claw to a snowblower - presto robotic snowblower!

John B Moore

This will be interesting. Whatever the logo is on the unit, I can't even find the company that built it. Stupid search engine. You may have to find a programmable RC unit for it if the OEM doesn't exist any more or EBay lets you down. At least it's sheltered, so it should be in somewhat decent shape. My guess as to why it was idle probably has something to do with the RC controller, or user incompetence.

Peter Facey

Looks like a bomb disposal robot.

Bill Scott

Is that part of your Dad’s equipment stash?

KyferEz

Nope but I could use one for a day!

Jason griggs

Can't wait

Britt A Releford

My nephew had a remote control stump grinder. It looked similar to this machine but with a stump grinder head. It was over 50k USD new. I'm looking forward to seeing this machine's revival!