First up - for those who say just hire a mini-digger/excavator/bull-dozer, please send money along with your suggestion. Do you know what those things cost to hire? We live on a shoe-string, remember?! And the same applies to bringing in more gravel for the lane - we’ve spent many hundreds already. We’re not short of gravel/fill, it’s just that it’s in the wrong places. But it’s not just about the money - I hope this thing will get into places bigger machines just couldn’t go. And repairing our lane is an on-going, never-ending job, so it would be good to have our own machine to do that work with. And I like making things. And, no, a garden rotovator would not do the same thing. Especially when it comes to harder conditons which I hope we will get to later. These are my thoughts on the design after this first test - It would be more stable if the wheel hub was set lower in the trolley. The leveling wheel worked really well, but the flat plate that it rides on was too narrow (and not fixed) so it ran off the sides. Needs improvement.. The engine/shaft/reducer/chain/sprocket arrangement worked surprisingly well. But ideally I would replace it all with a hydraulic motor. That way, the power source (pump) could be sitting on the ground and just two pipes would attach to the cutting head. Big money though. Of course it needs a second cutting head on the other side of the beam - but I’m having trouble getting matching bullet points… Potential uses for this sort of machine.. These would cost a fraction of the price of any kind of track machine, so that’s the biggest advantage - but they are more limited too, of course. They may be good at leveling sites/lanes/lawns/gardens though. Also clearing rough ground, laying down new railways, and trenching. (And maybe even some light tunneling!). Lastly - it needs a better name. The Long-Armed Mangolator isn’t exactly elegant, is it? Any suggestions gratefully received? Thanks, Tim
Hi Tim You know what you did wrong. Nothing man great invention. You have the brightest mind ;) The car jack was the best and it made little work in the end of the grey clay drive way.
That worked even better than I expected Tim. As a proof of concept machine it was very successful. Possibly also, the other end of bar stock attached to a couple of cheap circular saw blades would make a good stump grinder ?
Thanks, David. Yes, I like the car-jack depth gauge too. I was wondering about having it adjustable from far end.. 24 degrees here and it's too hot for us - can't imagine life in India!
I think both/either Sandra and/or Tim could narrate books! I love listening to their voices. Delightful and soothing. I, too, could listen all day, but gotta get back to work. :)
I agree about the voice. I have watched a few of your videos and am lulled by your lovely lilt of your accent. I am just a crass Yank from across the pond. Your voice reminds me of the fellow who narrated Thomas the Tank Engine. But yours is BETTER! Perhaps you can get some voice work for pay to help with your ingenious and innovative inventions! The execution of this device is well-thought out and wonderfully put together, considering your available parts and pieces. Congrats and I DO love your voice! Keep up the good work! I thought it was kind of funny when you were rotating the new machine and your goose was spinning along with it! YAY! Thanks for helping to make my day a happier one!
ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE YT CRITICS THAT SAY I WOULDN'T DO THIS,I WOULDN'T DO THAT,YET HAVE ZERO VIDEO OF ANYTHING. TIM,DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED BY ANYONE OR ANYTHING! LOVE YOUR PROPERTY AND WHAT YOUR DOING TO IT!!
Hi Tim, As a retired Engineer, I should be horrified at your Mangolator, but I love it, well done and keep up the good work. I've built a 7 1/4" gauge railway at the Royal Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey Essex, and your device would have been ideal for preparing the track bed, only problem, it would probably have given our safety office a heart attack. regards John
Innovative craftsmanship at its finest! You've done so much with so little for so long that at this point you can do anything with nothing! Its much more rewarding to take scrap and make a swiss watch than to take a swiss watch and make nothing.
Some of us collect materials, (junk according to my wife), and when a problem comes up, it's materials that create the solution. It's good mental exercise to create.
I noticed the chain jerking and my first reaction was that it needed a tensioner. It also looks like the bits on the end are hitting the chain. It could be from wobble in the rotating part.
Brilliant Tim! You made a ground planer. Don't let anyone discourage you, just keep up the good work. You fit right in with the blossoming maker community here. It's tough enough just surviving. You are a big inspiration.
I don't care if it worked like you planned or not. The fact that you envisioned it and then proceeded to build it speaks volumes of your character. Too many people sit on their asses and point fingers instead of actually getting out there and building something. I get more satisfaction out of a day in my shop building things then I do at a months worth at the day job.
I think it's brilliant! Of course there are improvements and upgrades. He who makes no mistakes makes nothing at all! I love listening to your voice. I knew a young lady from Ireland a long time ago...... Terry from South Carolina USA
Freshly subscriber here. I don't know which I was the most attracted to, your little railway or your wonderful accent. The BBC should snap you up for story telling on audio tape.
Your chanel is by far the best I found on the internet! I can't stop watching your videos and dream of how beautyfull you're both life must be with all the wounderfull animals, the farm, the land and the nice people helping each other!!!
Nothing like the sight and sound of a well spoken gentleman spending time with the missus getting up to the auld hobby of building what you need via up cycling various items at arms reach... long live mens/women's sheds... 👍..ps all I'll add is start at end of lane at road and work backwards to stay out of your own way of work. .. keep up the video's with the horses....
You don't need any help or suggestions, it's all there in your head as always, just crack on and get it finished and working. Just ignore the H&S commentators, no one who is in the slightest bit interested ever reads what they have to say. Well done again.
1 idea ALWAYS leads to another! Keep on keeping on (which means Keep on making things despite what others say) and it will lead to many beautiful things. Thank you for sharing...now I have an idea that I'm going to work on thanks to you.
I have been following you videos for quite a while. You must be some sort of genius, coming up with all these inventions out of essentially scrap. Keep doing what your doing and ignore both the safety folks (you have obviously thought through the safety stuff) and the hey do it my way folks.
long arm mangolater this is why l enjoy u tube it bring great invented and their invention's into our homes and life . you never know what you can make till you give it ago . it works very well . and made on a budget with great pride thanks for let see it working.
Another fun video and project Sir . As a back yard tinkerer , I have made a number of attachments for my lawn tractor including a heavey duty blade , a ripper to break up gravel in parking area that also rips sod up before tilling . And a tilt bed trailer that is electrically hiegth adjustable that has stake sides or be used as a flat bed . Keep in mind for projects where 12 volts are available , an automotive wiper motor has all sorts of torque for running screw drives etc . I will be waiting for tour next video from across the pond .
I absolutely love how you complicate a process by mechanizing, rather than just picking up a pick and a shovel to fill in that pothole in a tenth of the time. Still, this was certainly also 10x the fun!
After watching it several times I think you have done a bang-up job of it. The only two suggestions I have (other than the obvious guards) are: A) a spring loaded tensioner on the drive chain to keep the slack from "snapping" up and down. This will keep the chain from coming off as the cutter stutters. It will act as a shock absorber too. B) A lawn tractor transmission in the drive line would give you some speed choices and a reverse should you foul a wire or some fencing. I think it would stand up to the torque involved. Shame you can't find an old 2 stroke big bore motor cycle engine. That would have a gear box and they will run backwards. lol
that's bad ass, defiantly going to build myself one, been wanting a reason to tear apart that 70's rototillar, glad your wife wasn't hurt, very supportive lady, were all lucky to have one of them ...
Only one suggestion. A guard between the drive chain and the 'bullet wheel'. If there was a bit of distortion and the bullets caught the chain you could get the bullet! With your railway inventions you remind me of Rowland Emmett of Emmett's Railway fame. Great, interesting videos. I love the innovations. Keep them coming.
I am genuinely impressed. With the gravel and mud there would be no way to get a shovel in that. This thing seems to chew right through it! Great prototype. Can't wait to see how it develops. Soon you will have a full rail system!
Tim, you are AMAZING! I really do love the way your mind works. And from the comments, so do lots of other people. And you have a way of explaining things that even I understand. To heck with health and safety. Innovation like this is what has made this country great! Go Tim!!
I think it's brilliant. The gravel always piles up in the middle and on the sides of the drives and all you need is to spread it back evenly every now and again. Keep up the development and take no notice of the nanny state members who say whipping shafts and unguarded chains. They are the ones who don't use their imagination and never achueve anything. This is a lot more rewarding than hiring a mini-digger. I think it's great!!!
your creativity never ceases to amaze me...i mean you took stuff, rusty stuff, and made a thing that you wanted...a useful thing at that!!! impreasive. i have nothing to add but a name...rusty the rotoscevator, like thomas the tank engine but a little rougher aroune the edges. if you do use this name...it is mandatory that it gets a face on the front of it.
As an entertainment system for the goose and dogs, it can't be beat! The grading aspect is a nice bonus. I enjoyed this video immensely and not even sure how I got here! You remind me of a man I knew in my childhood, who could weld and rig and make anything out of steel and hydraulics and pulleys basically. He made crazy looking contraptions to skid and load logs, some made from old Model A cars I think.
Love it. Its insane enough it might just work. It moves so slow I might go with a bigger digger wheel. This would give you a little more digging depth and the larger diameter would give you a little more speed as well. . Other than a chain guard to keep rocks out of the chain/sprocket I say its a win.. Now you just need to run a permanent set of tracks down the middle of the drive. Ok, I admit it, I'm here mostly for the railroad.
To form a camber and smooth the gravel just hook up an old metal gate behind one of your horses and then after you’ve done that hook up a roller for a perfect long lasting finish 🙂 love your content!
Tim you did a bang up job on that little gravel digger I think it worked out fine and if it turns to fast then the rock will be every where you don't want it your next improvements will be successful and best of luck
I love Tim's inventions, amazing what you can do with a pile of scrap and a good imagination. I think a hydraulic power unit and motor would be fun but as you say a little bit too spendy. Unless you could find an old earth mover, or crane in a scrap yard...but then recycled hydraulics may not be the safest thing in the universe. The prototype is good :) by the looks of things all it really needs is a bit of tidying and a bit of ruggedisation...
This is like a mini milling machine. I have a milling machine that is an attachment for my skid loader and it cost well over $10,000 US dollars. It mills 3 feet in width and 4 inches deep. I really like the Mangolater as it could get into areas to where other machines could not. Very inventive and it could chew through just about anything as long as those welds hold up. All in all I love it, great job!!
That is really neat invention Tim. Make it fit a mobile frame on wheelbarrow wheels, that would make it a charm to move down the lane as you fix up the pot holes.
We live along a similar track to yours. Last round of pothole repairs involved several household members, and we agreed to keep our vehicle speed down to 1st gear, tickover if possible (7 vehicles) Guess what? Much fewer potholes. Great machine, though, made me smile.
Tim, I love the Long-Armed Mangolator (First Test). I grew up on a farm with a long (1/4 mile), river-gravel drive. We dragged it level with a tractor pulling a RR Sleeper (cross-tie), cocked like a road grader blade, or alternatively, a section of iron RR rail. It worked fairly well. The Mangolator can loosen the stones and the drag can do the leveling. Leveling by rake is too much work. With the amount of rain you receive, you may want to look into the road drainage or lack thereof. Avoiding pot-holes is preferable to leveling the road. You could use the Long-Armed Mangolator to ditch one side of the road and the portable railroad to cart away the cut material. In addition, you may need to cut weirs across the road. The weirs are narrow U-shapped, channels that carry the water off the roadbed in to the ditch. The weirs should be reinforced with something sturdy, like a concrete channel. They can be made with 2 x 4's initially to see if the placement is correct. The spacing of weirs depends on the grade or slope of your drive and the amount of runoff you receive. Planning, mapping the slope, digging, and dressing the ditch will make a great video as well. It would be interesting if you could find a way to use the rain to dig the ditch for you. The topo maps of your area may not be of sufficient scale to plan you drainage. A simple stake and water hose can help you establish a level line from which to plot your ditch gradient. Of course, all the runoff needs to go some where. You may need to use the Mangolator to dig a shallow pond. Let’s see that’s only about two years of work.
Deeply envious of the lifestyle and the invention (we are hoping to be doing much the same in 5 years). I suggest putting a sliding weight on the front to increase or decrease downward pressure. Maybe replace the end gear reduction with a small gear box from the scrap yard for increased speed options depending on the material being cut. Other than that, it looks a very useful piece of kit.
I'm not going to read through all the comments and it might have been mentioned, but a scarifier and box blade is made for scraping up and leveling gravel driveways/lanes. You have everything you need right there to build a rough one. If you have a tractor, ATV, car, truck, horse, mule......anything to pull it you'll be set. It's much easier and less stressful to run one and you'll be miles ahead in the end. I gave you a thumbs up because you made me laugh twice within the first 30 seconds. You belong here in the states in Appalachia.
It's kind of obvious that you were born to be an inventor, and I can only imagine what you might come up with if you had unlimited supplies. But what counts is that your prototype works, and I'm sure you'll only refine it from here out. Great video.
I love your pavement milling machine for refurbishing tired roads. I think you're 80% of the way there with what you've built. Just needs a bit of your excellent problem solving and mechanical experimentation to have your roads looking spanking new without breaking your back trying to shift crushed rocks that have been tightly bound together with vegetation, roots and fine grains of soil or clay (or possibly peat). I know it's pretty well impossible to shift crushed rocks around in the wet state by all the alternate means you discussed in your Introduction 'cos I tried on my property in Western Australia 30 years ago using a powerful 2 cylinder Bolens hydraulically driven garden tractor with a specially fitted blade. I never imagined anyone would build their own DIY version of a pavement surface milling machine!! Hats Off to you!!
You're onto something there I can see many great uses for such a machine as that such as wheeled, larger cutter, maybe even mounted on a tractor for personal use. Hydro would make it even better but if not found in the scrap may drive the price out of what the average DYI project builder might want to invest. Keep up the great work not every body understands the personal satisfaction of such projects esp on shoe string budgets.
If I had some little doubts before, if the rails have some practical use, now I see they definitely must have things, because they give freedom to create Frankenstein equipment and operate it with ease. Very nice.
Excellent job, Tim! Looks like you need a tension pulley on the chain to take up the shock loads and keep it on the teeth - it was jumping teeth like crazy when you were giving it a real workout.
Well it certainly made quick work out of the lane. Something that would be extremely difficult with a shovel. Good Idea, a tweak here and there and you'll really have something. Thanks for the video.
what a brilliant video! you're almost there with fixing your road now.. you just need to give some thought to road drainage, which should permanently cure your potholes. your contraption seems tailor made for digging ditches at the side of the road for instance, and crowning your road should prevent standing water forming too.
Wow! This is the first gadget I can remember that worked more or less as intended, first time out of the box. Congratulations! The only thing that strikes me as a weakness is using the spring clips to hold the teeth on. If one of those fails, finding the tooth is likely to be difficult.
The back half of a blown up tiller would be just the ticket & since 90% of the time the engine dies from sitting they can be had for nothing. If you cant find new teeth look into forging a taper on a piece of steel & drive it into the socket while very hot (you sir, need a forge) & either find a 1040/1045 high carbon steel (or salvage, say car axles) or touch them up with hardface rod. In a pinch you could fit them with the grinder instead of forging. Look into tapered keys, they will hold a sprocket in place like a wedge (most of the time.) Keep up the good work!
First up - for those who say just hire a mini-digger/excavator/bull-dozer, please send money along with your suggestion.
Do you know what those things cost to hire? We live on a shoe-string, remember?! And the same applies to bringing in more gravel for the lane - we’ve spent many hundreds already. We’re not short of gravel/fill, it’s just that it’s in the wrong places.
But it’s not just about the money - I hope this thing will get into places bigger machines just couldn’t go. And repairing our lane is an on-going, never-ending job, so it would be good to have our own machine to do that work with. And I like making things.
And, no, a garden rotovator would not do the same thing. Especially when it comes to harder conditons which I hope we will get to later.
These are my thoughts on the design after this first test -
It would be more stable if the wheel hub was set lower in the trolley.
The leveling wheel worked really well, but the flat plate that it rides on was too narrow (and not fixed) so it ran off the sides. Needs improvement..
The engine/shaft/reducer/chain/sprocket arrangement worked surprisingly well. But ideally I would replace it all with a hydraulic motor. That way, the power source (pump) could be sitting on the ground and just two pipes would attach to the cutting head. Big money though.
Of course it needs a second cutting head on the other side of the beam - but I’m having trouble getting matching bullet points…
Potential uses for this sort of machine..
These would cost a fraction of the price of any kind of track machine, so that’s the biggest advantage - but they are more limited too, of course. They may be good at leveling sites/lanes/lawns/gardens though. Also clearing rough ground, laying down new railways, and trenching. (And maybe even some light tunneling!).
Lastly - it needs a better name. The Long-Armed Mangolator isn’t exactly elegant, is it? Any suggestions gratefully received?
Thanks, Tim
Way Out West Blow-in blog great video, I love your cool ideas to make things with the trolly system to do stuff
Hi Tim You know what you did wrong. Nothing man great invention. You have the brightest mind ;)
The car jack was the best and it made little work in the end of the grey clay drive way.
Definitely needs a chain guard, it looked like the teeth were gonna catch the chain quite a few times. Good proof of concept though, looks very handy.
That worked even better than I expected Tim. As a proof of concept machine it was very successful.
Possibly also, the other end of bar stock attached to a couple of cheap circular saw blades would make a good stump grinder ?
Thanks, David. Yes, I like the car-jack depth gauge too. I was wondering about having it adjustable from far end..
24 degrees here and it's too hot for us - can't imagine life in India!
Haha, "light tunneling work." Looks like fun to me!
Hello!!
Hello master ,didnt expect you here 😂😂😂
I have been involved with a "little light tunneling." You quickly get in over your head.
@@SamDru me too
Nice 😊
I'd rather see someone use their brain and available resources to problem solve than just throw money at it. Well done!
Tim, you have a voice for narrating children's audio books - it dips and peaks and has a flow to it. I could listen all day :- )
An Irishman telling great stories now that is a novel idea. keep telling them, Ill keep listening
LOL, Walter Svandrlik, too droll
I think both/either Sandra and/or Tim could narrate books! I love listening to their voices. Delightful and soothing. I, too, could listen all day, but gotta get back to work. :)
Isn't he a Welshman though?
I agree about the voice. I have watched a few of your videos and am lulled by your lovely lilt of your accent. I am just a crass Yank from across the pond. Your voice reminds me of the fellow who narrated Thomas the Tank Engine. But yours is BETTER! Perhaps you can get some voice work for pay to help with your ingenious and innovative inventions! The execution of this device is well-thought out and wonderfully put together, considering your available parts and pieces. Congrats and I DO love your voice! Keep up the good work! I thought it was kind of funny when you were rotating the new machine and your goose was spinning along with it! YAY! Thanks for helping to make my day a happier one!
ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE YT CRITICS THAT SAY I WOULDN'T DO THIS,I WOULDN'T DO THAT,YET HAVE ZERO VIDEO OF ANYTHING.
TIM,DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED BY ANYONE OR ANYTHING!
LOVE YOUR PROPERTY AND WHAT YOUR DOING TO IT!!
Hi Tim,
As a retired Engineer, I should be horrified at your Mangolator, but I love it, well done and keep up the good work. I've built a 7 1/4" gauge railway at the Royal Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey Essex, and your device would have been ideal for preparing the track bed, only problem, it would probably have given our safety office a heart attack.
regards
John
Thanks, John. Yes, laying rail bed was the initial motivation, but the lane took priority.
Perfect for tilling the garden.
Innovative craftsmanship at its finest! You've done so much with so little for so long that at this point you can do anything with nothing! Its much more rewarding to take scrap and make a swiss watch than to take a swiss watch and make nothing.
The real trick is to take nothing and make anti-nothing.
Some of us collect materials, (junk according to my wife), and when a problem comes up, it's materials that create the solution. It's good mental exercise to create.
I love this thing, can't wait to see more about it!
another useless idiot
Nice, I think I would want a sprung tensioner on the chain, but other than that, I think you should call it the In-Tim-idator...
Ha!
Once you've got the lane under control you can call it the Bullet Reign.
I noticed the chain jerking and my first reaction was that it needed a tensioner. It also looks like the bits on the end are hitting the chain. It could be from wobble in the rotating part.
Brilliant Tim! You made a ground planer. Don't let anyone discourage you, just keep up the good work.
You fit right in with the blossoming maker community here.
It's tough enough just surviving. You are a big inspiration.
I don't care if it worked like you planned or not. The fact that you envisioned it and then proceeded to build it speaks volumes of your character. Too many people sit on their asses and point fingers instead of actually getting out there and building something. I get more satisfaction out of a day in my shop building things then I do at a months worth at the day job.
I think it's brilliant! Of course there are improvements and upgrades.
He who makes no mistakes makes nothing at all!
I love listening to your voice. I knew a young lady from Ireland a long time ago......
Terry from South Carolina USA
I like how the goose was briefed about this machine.
The "Long-Armed Mangolator" is something that only an Englishman in a shed could have invented. I approve. Bravo, Sir!
Freshly subscriber here. I don't know which I was the most attracted to, your little railway or your wonderful accent. The BBC should snap you up for story telling on audio tape.
This mildly eccentric channel has earned my subscription, I love this fascinating kind of stuff!
Your chanel is by far the best I found on the internet! I can't stop watching your videos and dream of how beautyfull you're both life must be with all the wounderfull animals, the farm, the land and the nice people helping each other!!!
Thank you, Josef - what a nice thing to say : - )
I recently discovered this channel, and I have to say, it only increased my secret longing for being blown way out west myself. Can I move in? :-)
ME TOOOOOO :-D
Nothing like the sight and sound of a well spoken gentleman spending time with the missus getting up to the auld hobby of building what you need via up cycling various items at arms reach... long live mens/women's sheds... 👍..ps all I'll add is start at end of lane at road and work backwards to stay out of your own way of work. .. keep up the video's with the horses....
I've no idea what you just did... but I enjoyed watching you do it!!
Congratulations. 1. visualising such a machine on a small scale.2 running slowly so debris is not ejected, I could go on. You are a very clever man.
You don't need any help or suggestions, it's all there in your head as always, just crack on and get it finished and working. Just ignore the H&S commentators, no one who is in the slightest bit interested ever reads what they have to say. Well done again.
1 idea ALWAYS leads to another! Keep on keeping on (which means Keep on making things despite what others say) and it will lead to many beautiful things. Thank you for sharing...now I have an idea that I'm going to work on thanks to you.
I have been following you videos for quite a while. You must be some sort of genius, coming up with all these inventions out of essentially scrap. Keep doing what your doing and ignore both the safety folks (you have obviously thought through the safety stuff) and the hey do it my way folks.
long arm mangolater this is why l enjoy u tube it bring great invented and their invention's into our homes and life . you never know what you can make till you give it ago . it works very well . and made on a budget with great pride thanks for let see it working.
Another fun video and project Sir . As a back yard tinkerer , I have made a number of attachments for my lawn tractor including a heavey duty blade , a ripper to break up gravel in parking area that also rips sod up before tilling . And a tilt bed trailer that is electrically hiegth adjustable that has stake sides or be used as a flat bed . Keep in mind for projects where 12 volts are available , an automotive wiper motor has all sorts of torque for running screw drives etc . I will be waiting for tour next video from across the pond .
I absolutely love how you complicate a process by mechanizing, rather than just picking up a pick and a shovel to fill in that pothole in a tenth of the time.
Still, this was certainly also 10x the fun!
After watching it several times I think you have done a bang-up job of it. The only two suggestions I have (other than the obvious guards) are:
A) a spring loaded tensioner on the drive chain to keep the slack from "snapping" up and down. This will keep the chain from coming off as the cutter stutters. It will act as a shock absorber too.
B) A lawn tractor transmission in the drive line would give you some speed choices and a reverse should you foul a wire or some fencing. I think it would stand up to the torque involved.
Shame you can't find an old 2 stroke big bore motor cycle engine. That would have a gear box and they will run backwards. lol
that's bad ass, defiantly going to build myself one, been wanting a reason to tear apart that 70's rototillar, glad your wife wasn't hurt, very supportive lady, were all lucky to have one of them ...
Only one suggestion. A guard between the drive chain and the 'bullet wheel'. If there was a bit of distortion and the bullets caught the chain you could get the bullet! With your railway inventions you remind me of Rowland Emmett of Emmett's Railway fame. Great, interesting videos. I love the innovations. Keep them coming.
You Sir, are a genius. I absolutely adore your way of thinking and how you turn those ideas into practise. Hat off to you.
I am genuinely impressed. With the gravel and mud there would be no way to get a shovel in that. This thing seems to chew right through it! Great prototype. Can't wait to see how it develops. Soon you will have a full rail system!
From a former operator of road building equipment, I have to commend you on this contraption.
Well done sir
Well done.
Thanks, Brian
Wow, public support from MENSA!
@@gurglejug627 Sorry pal. I refuse to join ANY organization that would have me.
@@briangarrow448 leaving us both disjointed, as well as disoriented and discombobulated ;)
I like the way the depth stop inadvertently bends to create a camber.
Just love your latest invention..... You do the stuff that the rest of us think of, but are too afraid to attempt !!!
Well done ...keep em comming !!
I love the brilliant use of wheel hub ! Clever..
Tim, you are AMAZING! I really do love the way your mind works. And from the comments, so do lots of other people. And you have a way of explaining things that even I understand. To heck with health and safety. Innovation like this is what has made this country great! Go Tim!!
I think it's brilliant. The gravel always piles up in the middle and on the sides of the drives and all you need is to spread it back evenly every now and again. Keep up the development and take no notice of the nanny state members who say whipping shafts and unguarded chains. They are the ones who don't use their imagination and never achueve anything. This is a lot more rewarding than hiring a mini-digger. I think it's great!!!
Thanks. Yes, that was the idea - just rearrange what's already there.. (The long-armed rearranger?)
that is just brilliant , well done ,as an engineer i applaud you all the best ideas start in a shed . and i love Sandra's sense of humour :)
Anyone can throw money at a project but who would want to watch those videos! Your inventions are great and much more fun to watch!
I like it, this very clever new way to fix a pothole problems. Thanks for sharing. Lee Noring
your creativity never ceases to amaze me...i mean you took stuff, rusty stuff, and made a thing that you wanted...a useful thing at that!!! impreasive. i have nothing to add but a name...rusty the rotoscevator, like thomas the tank engine but a little rougher aroune the edges. if you do use this name...it is mandatory that it gets a face on the front of it.
Reminds me of my tiller for the garden. Asome job have fun with it.
It's like having Dr Emmett Brown in your own garden :D
Hilarious. You are nuts in a wonderful genius way. Keep up everything you do. I'm so glad that I have found this channel.
As an entertainment system for the goose and dogs, it can't be beat! The grading aspect is a nice bonus.
I enjoyed this video immensely and not even sure how I got here! You remind me of a man I knew in my childhood, who could weld and rig and make anything out of steel and hydraulics and pulleys basically. He made crazy looking contraptions to skid and load logs, some made from old Model A cars I think.
Brilliant! You really are ingeniously inventive!
Love it. Its insane enough it might just work. It moves so slow I might go with a bigger digger wheel. This would give you a little more digging depth and the larger diameter would give you a little more speed as well. . Other than a chain guard to keep rocks out of the chain/sprocket I say its a win.. Now you just need to run a permanent set of tracks down the middle of the drive.
Ok, I admit it, I'm here mostly for the railroad.
I love your humour. I like the concept of the machine and look forward to the next version.
I am now going through the back catalogue and what a great find this channel was.
Oh thank goodness, I can go back in time and watch more jaw dropping ingenuity. And railways
To form a camber and smooth the gravel just hook up an old metal gate behind one of your horses and then after you’ve done that hook up a roller for a perfect long lasting finish 🙂 love your content!
I agree with you. Using the work horse will not cost him more. Adding more gravel is also needed to form a camber. I hope he read your comment
Tim you did a bang up job on that little gravel digger I think it worked out fine and if it turns to fast then the rock will be every where you don't want it your next improvements will be successful and best of luck
Brilliant....Heath Robinson sends tea and medals...does the job as intended.
I love Tim's inventions, amazing what you can do with a pile of scrap and a good imagination.
I think a hydraulic power unit and motor would be fun but as you say a little bit too spendy. Unless you could find an old earth mover, or crane in a scrap yard...but then recycled hydraulics may not be the safest thing in the universe.
The prototype is good :) by the looks of things all it really needs is a bit of tidying and a bit of ruggedisation...
I love the voice of the inventor / tinkerer / narrator. Fun video.
This is like a mini milling machine. I have a milling machine that is an attachment for my skid loader and it cost well over $10,000 US dollars. It mills 3 feet in width and 4 inches deep. I really like the Mangolater as it could get into areas to where other machines could not. Very inventive and it could chew through just about anything as long as those welds hold up. All in all I love it, great job!!
The effort you put in these machines is inspiring, well done Tim
That is really neat invention Tim. Make it fit a mobile frame on wheelbarrow wheels, that would make it a charm to move down the lane as you fix up the pot holes.
We live along a similar track to yours. Last round of pothole repairs involved several household members, and we agreed to keep our vehicle speed down to 1st gear, tickover if possible (7 vehicles)
Guess what? Much fewer potholes. Great machine, though, made me smile.
Looking real good..just keep at it and u will have a very nice driveway and no pot holes...
I think you are a genius! I love your inventions!!
Nicely done. As you stated it's a 'prototype' and I must say, as a proof of concept it's seems to work as expected.
Well done.
Those trolleys are coming in handy for lots of things now.. great to see.
very creative. You came up with an idea, put it all together, and made it work. Impressive!
Tim, I love the Long-Armed Mangolator (First Test). I grew up on a farm with a long (1/4 mile), river-gravel drive. We dragged it level with a tractor pulling a RR Sleeper (cross-tie), cocked like a road grader blade, or alternatively, a section of iron RR rail. It worked fairly well. The Mangolator can loosen the stones and the drag can do the leveling. Leveling by rake is too much work.
With the amount of rain you receive, you may want to look into the road drainage or lack thereof. Avoiding pot-holes is preferable to leveling the road. You could use the Long-Armed Mangolator to ditch one side of the road and the portable railroad to cart away the cut material. In addition, you may need to cut weirs across the road. The weirs are narrow U-shapped, channels that carry the water off the roadbed in to the ditch. The weirs should be reinforced with something sturdy, like a concrete channel. They can be made with 2 x 4's initially to see if the placement is correct. The spacing of weirs depends on the grade or slope of your drive and the amount of runoff you receive.
Planning, mapping the slope, digging, and dressing the ditch will make a great video as well. It would be interesting if you could find a way to use the rain to dig the ditch for you. The topo maps of your area may not be of sufficient scale to plan you drainage. A simple stake and water hose can help you establish a level line from which to plot your ditch gradient.
Of course, all the runoff needs to go some where. You may need to use the Mangolator to dig a shallow pond. Let’s see that’s only about two years of work.
As you say, it's complicated. I've been looking at the problem for 10 years and there's no easy solution, but the new contraption may help
Deeply envious of the lifestyle and the invention (we are hoping to be doing much the same in 5 years). I suggest putting a sliding weight on the front to increase or decrease downward pressure. Maybe replace the end gear reduction with a small gear box from the scrap yard for increased speed options depending on the material being cut. Other than that, it looks a very useful piece of kit.
That thing looks awesome and seems to do what it was ment for good job sir.
necessity is the mother of invention well done
I totally feel that - we live on a shoe-string budget thing..... you're doing awesome! And keep inventing... it makes for good youtube content!
I'm not going to read through all the comments and it might have been mentioned, but a scarifier and box blade is made for scraping up and leveling gravel driveways/lanes. You have everything you need right there to build a rough one. If you have a tractor, ATV, car, truck, horse, mule......anything to pull it you'll be set. It's much easier and less stressful to run one and you'll be miles ahead in the end. I gave you a thumbs up because you made me laugh twice within the first 30 seconds. You belong here in the states in Appalachia.
This is fantastic! I want to build contraptions like that! Loved the reference to the Slingshot Channel and Joerg's awesome catchphrase! 😊
Another ingenious invention. I like the goose having a gander at the end.
It's kind of obvious that you were born to be an inventor, and I can only imagine what you might come up with if you had unlimited supplies. But what counts is that your prototype works, and I'm sure you'll only refine it from here out. Great video.
I love your pavement milling machine for refurbishing tired roads. I think you're 80% of the way there with what you've built. Just needs a bit of your excellent problem solving and mechanical experimentation to have your roads looking spanking new without breaking your back trying to shift crushed rocks that have been tightly bound together with vegetation, roots and fine grains of soil or clay (or possibly peat).
I know it's pretty well impossible to shift crushed rocks around in the wet state by all the alternate means you discussed in your Introduction 'cos I tried on my property in Western Australia 30 years ago using a powerful 2 cylinder Bolens hydraulically driven garden tractor with a specially fitted blade. I never imagined anyone would build their own DIY version of a pavement surface milling machine!! Hats Off to you!!
So that's what it is - a pavement milling machine! Thanks, Dav
brilliant!!! just bloody brilliant !!! well done.
FIRST CLASS MAN. I BET YOU CAN FIX ANYTHING KEEP ON KEEPING ON. GREAT JOB THANKS
I am an old coal miner and this is a great idea! Yeah renting a machine is easier but not nearly as fun! Love it!
I can't find a problem with it . Just get yourself a tee shirt that says , IF YOU SEE ME RUNNING TRY TO KEEP UP 😉
You're onto something there I can see many great uses for such a machine as that such as wheeled, larger cutter, maybe even mounted on a tractor for personal use. Hydro would make it even better but if not found in the scrap may drive the price out of what the average DYI project builder might want to invest.
Keep up the great work not every body understands the personal satisfaction of such projects esp on shoe string budgets.
Absolutely luv your ingenuity!!😍😍
Inspired bodgery of the finest order, well done!
If I had some little doubts before, if the rails have some practical use, now I see they definitely must have things, because they give freedom to create Frankenstein equipment and operate it with ease.
Very nice.
Outstanding, very smart device. Thanks for sharing.
awesome ingenuity. I like seeing people build what they need.
This was awesome. Thanks for telling of the mechanic bits too. I was truly fascinated. 👍
bush ingenuity rules the world..well done mate
Excellent job, Tim! Looks like you need a tension pulley on the chain to take up the shock loads and keep it on the teeth - it was jumping teeth like crazy when you were giving it a real workout.
Not jumping teeth, Tony, just jerking the chain. The reducer slid down the beam a little, loosening the chain. I need to hold it on tighter..
Well it certainly made quick work out of the lane. Something that would be extremely difficult with a shovel. Good Idea, a tweak here and there and you'll really have something. Thanks for the video.
Your inventions are fascinating.
Really enjoyed reading your post. I like the name: MANGOLATOR!!!
Thanks, Yolanda!
what a brilliant video! you're almost there with fixing your road now.. you just need to give some thought to road drainage, which should permanently cure your potholes. your contraption seems tailor made for digging ditches at the side of the road for instance, and crowning your road should prevent standing water forming too.
Cool contraption, seems to work well!
Wow! This is the first gadget I can remember that worked more or less as intended, first time out of the box. Congratulations!
The only thing that strikes me as a weakness is using the spring clips to hold the teeth on. If one of those fails, finding the tooth is likely to be difficult.
That’s got Scrapheap Challenge written all over it, I love it!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The back half of a blown up tiller would be just the ticket & since 90% of the time the engine dies from sitting they can be had for nothing.
If you cant find new teeth look into forging a taper on a piece of steel & drive it into the socket while very hot (you sir, need a forge) & either find a 1040/1045 high carbon steel (or salvage, say car axles) or touch them up with hardface rod. In a pinch you could fit them with the grinder instead of forging.
Look into tapered keys, they will hold a sprocket in place like a wedge (most of the time.)
Keep up the good work!
Tim, the steel plate that the guide wheel sits on can flex. You need support across it's whole length. Otherwise FANTASTIC start.
i love the wifes comedy input hilarious thanks for sharing.
Well done Sir!
Love this stuff. Looks like fun. It is innovation and using what you have to solve problems. Nice job !
Her commentary was worth the price of admission