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I love how occasionally we see the solar rover running in the background.
Its like the channels autonomous mascot
Yup. Would love to have seen a single blade mower head attached to the solar rover.
Need to keep it going as long as this channel is, would be a neat mascot/inside joke/running gag.
@@willtwilson Why not just get a push mower and attach motorised wheels?
I read this at 10:10 lol
If there ever was a YT video perfect for being sponsored by Manscaped, it would have been this one....
Ouch...
That is terrifying
If there was ever a perfect comment this would be it.
@@MrVasshwilson Aw, thanks 😊
I can’t pull myself to like this it’s at 369
As a landscaper of a few years now, I'd like to point out that it might be way easier to have one large motor spin two blades instead of all the smaller blades. This will disperse the grass farther out and will have a much higher speed at the cutting edge, meaning that it would cut more effectively even when dull. It would probably save battery power too. Hope you read this.
To add to this the blades in weed whackers/lawn mowers are heavy, probably for momentumn reasons.
I thought of using electric weed wackers too, and replacing the string with those metal blades I've seen on tv.
i was thinking something more like those old rotary movers Way back int he day. or maybe a hedge trimmer style with high torque, and a chain rake to move grass to one side. or, mimics a combine harvester mechanism
He is also using this in super long grass, which even for commercial mowers can present a challenge at times, especially when wet. It's pretty impressive it somewhat worked, I was expecting him to use it on like 3 inch grass
Always wondered what a lawn mower designed around hedge trimmer blades would do.
Super cool! I have 2 questions: Do you have the 2 blades on the left running counter-clockwise and the 2 blades on the right running clockwise? This would help clear the cut grass out of the way better. Do you have plans for an autonomous mower??? That would be super cool!
There are 2 ways to create RC lawnmower: 1. add grass cutter to RC car 2. add RC car to grass cutter
3. Fly drone upside down and very low to the gound
4. Have a child, name her Remote, give her control of a regular lawnmower when able
Or add roomba electronics to electric self propelled lawnmower.
5. Add rc cutter to grass car
heres how i did mine kzhead.info/sun/e7ipkdmlgnx5fY0/bejne.html
Landlord: Your lease agreement says you have to cut the grass every week. Daniel: I'm developing a test platform for one of my engineering projects. Landlord: My lawn looks like a meadow. You need to get it cut.. Daniel: Just as soon as my 3D printer finishes up...
So cool! Brilliant! Can’t wait to see more of your projects.
Steven King could make a scary movie about that mower with razor blades chasing down 3rd graders in science class.
Incoming: Federal regulations for "land drones" after spinning razors of death drone seen on youtube.
Karen is constantly vigilant, making the world safe for Unicorns and Fairies.
Autonomous lawn mowers have been a thing for at least a decade. If it was just him, then they might pass a law but there's a built up industry, and therefore, a lobby to prevent any regulation on them.
Blades broke off? Put some lasers on your drone to show them all!
ha they cant stop my 25 mph RC bom I MEAN UM FIREWORK yeah RC firework
@@crazycarl864 Lobbies promote regulation to make sure they're the only players in town. The government will pass laws precisely to stop the "just hims" to make sure the corporations can make bank. Did you know that the 1968 gun control act was envisioned by Thomas J. Dodd, a Connecticut politician with ties to the Connecticut gun industry? Connecticut was home of Colt, Winchester, Savage, Stag Arms, Mossberg & Sons, Sturm Ruger, etc. and the gun industry was suffering from the competition of war-bringbacks and surplus. Millions of rifles already bought and paid for during wartime that were sold to importers for pennies on the dollar were much cheaper to sporterize than buy factory new. That's just an example that's fresh on my mind because I learned it in a podcast the other day, the point is that corporations write laws that they know they can follow but stifle competition.
Hear me out.... Autonomous weed-eater that circles your properties border keeping the weeds in check ;)
Shut up and take my homeowner's liability insurance!
Yes. This
@@BillGatliff Small RC scale, with safety guards... It may actually be interesting!!
It better use the biomass as fuel!
weeds, cats, small children...
I'm not able to mow my lawn due to a stroke and ever since I wanted to build a robot lawn mower. Hence the reason I'm trying to learn how via DIY videos. I'm glad I came across your video. I'm going to order the Hobbywing QuicRun Fusion Brushless System Motor & ESC 2-in-1 1200Kv / 1800Kv 540 Waterproof For RC Crawler you suggested. I was quite impressed on how well your mower performed. Thanks for the video.
Very cool project. I live really close to you so I know that the winter grass around here can be a serious challenge to cut. So I am super impressed at how well the mower did at the flying field.
Rediscovering modern harvester head design. Class 1.
I was really curious as to why my man was trying to recreate the wheel here.
A snow blower would be REALLY cool, maybe even a single stage. I made one for my 1/24 crawler and it seemed to work good on powder snow.
Wow I figured maybe on a 1/10 like the plows but I didn't think someone would do it for a 1/24 lol
I think start with a regular snowblower and automate it.
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Yes revisit this project please. Great idea. Whilst watching it seems the biggest problem is with grass cuttings building up around the cutters. I was wondering if something like a hoovering system could suck the cuttings away and blast them out evenly behind the machine? Once this machine has been perfected your next task will be to automate it. Then you can relax with your tea and a scone whilst watching the show.
you should make an autonomous rover that charges a lipo with its solar panels to activate the cutters once a week, with that you should be able to make some cool sattelite art in your field after a few months
i don't think his current cutter design would be up for the task... but the idea is really awesome
I wonder if reversing the rotation on half the cutting heads would help feed the grass out and prevent clogging.
.. or positioning the cutters in a V-shape, plowing the weeds out to each side.
@@grimfpv292 Yes, I was thinking that too.
Just made a similar comment. I like the v idea.
I don't care.
You could possibly angle the blades themselves to act like a propeller and fling the grass away
I have that Fusion in my Axial Wraith. Love it. Great low speed control
Interesting project! Seems like your proof of concept works quite well! I would think that your next major step would be to put larger diameter wheels on your 'car' and move the cutter to the center. Try using some spare TPU filament as like a 'weedeater line' type cutter, or even better yet pick up a weedeater head and some line. It will handle the rough scraggle much better than those spinning xacto blades of doom.
Awesome project! Development seems to never end with this since the ideas keep coming up for improvements. Been working out the bugs on a moss pellet sprayer quad to keep me from crawling on the roof, seems the Washington rain really benefits or the pellet granules roll off the roof after the last couple test hops.
This is an awesome project! One thing to keep in mind- if this were to go on tour autonomous vehicle and run every day, it wouldn’t be mowing down tall grass. The grass would only grow so little, those little blades would be great! Take for example all the autonomous lawn mowers coming to market. Their blades are super tiny, but that okay because they’re only cutting a few millimeters of grass a day.
That blade embedded into the cover tells us everything we need to know about how much energy is present.
Awesome content!!!
Brian!!!!! Whats up!!! Say hi to the" camera crew"
This is the worst video I've ever seen on this channel. He tried to reinvent the lawnmower instead of simply adding RC to a regular lawn mower (which would have been easier, cheaper, and far more effective).
you need to add a auger on top of the blades in front and one behind the blades in the shroud. look at hay mowers for examples. the augers clear all the buildups
I think lawn mowers are "lawn mower size" for a reason.
For cutting large swaths of grass and longer lengths. The Husqvarna robotic lawn mower uses razor blades and works on a higher frequency of cutting, but shorter cuts are required.
@@user-dr2pg8fk2i Uhh... Did you see what he was trying to cut? 😆
@@bwxmoto yeah, I commented in my own post that he should get the lawn to optimal height first, then have the bot do frequent cuts to maintain
I think lawn mowers are optimized for humans, so they are about the size a human can push while still being big so it's faster work. For something that's autonomous, the time won't matter as much so it can be smaller. Weed whackers work just fine and are smaller. I think the largest issue here was that there was nowhere for the cuttings to go - it needs to push them to the side or something.
@@EmersonPeters Or be BIG enough so it doesn't matter. 🤔
Greetings from Finland! I think it would make a ton of difference if the blades weren't heading straight into the direction of movement, but to position them in a V-configuration like an old-fashioned snow plow. Then also implementing clockwise and counter-clockwise movement to reduce the amount of built up grass. Really cool project!
Exactly what I was thinking. Also the motors on one side of the V could spin one way and on the other side the opposite to spit grass out.
@@guritche Precisely!
More cutting ALWAYS, ALWAYS = MORE BETTER!!! Now scale this up, and take my order!!! Nice work 👍🏻
Since discovering FPV I've ALWAYS wanted to build something like this so I could sit in a comfortable chair in my backyard and mow both my front and backyard and still have a bit of fun. This is the closest I've seen. I always envisioned using a self propelled mower stripped down, a couple of big servos for steering and actuating the propulsion mechanism and a big lithium ion battery.
same I wanted to make the idea so it be worth our investment but this guy stole it feel the same way
4:03 gave me straight shivers
Damn that thing works pretty good for what it is. Nice job dude.
This was fun as heck to watch, man!
Ahh cool, been waiting for the new season of Black Mirror to start.
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I could legit watch time lapses of a rover cutting tall grass for hours.
"make mowing fun AGAIN" Should of been the title...Cool stuff!!!
This is a super cool idea. It'd be good for disabled people who can't use a push mower or transfer easy into a riding mower. Heck, I'm in a power wheelchair and I'd totally use something like this to help elderly or other disabled people by mowing their lawns people's yards. You can have fun using an RC car AND be productive! I know they make grass cutting but those are at least $1000 and for small yards, it might be more beneficial to have a human that can navigate weird obstacles anyhow. You're channel is both entertaining but also very eye opening to what's possible
Why not try to implement how actual mowers work where the blades are covered and the blades have a slight angle of attack so that it creates a gust of air pulling up from ground and causing the grass to to be pulled up perpendicular to the blades and the same air gust blows the grass out the side.
That gadget discovery club sounds pretty bad. I think we should not buy random items in this age of overconsumerism .
Just looks like a bunch of non branded crap from Ali-Express
Made from 100% child slave mined cobalt and non-sustainable lithium!
Completely agree - absolutely horrible idea
Sounds awful, random kit you don't need - and a total gamble as you don't know what you're going to get anyway. Appreciate the need for a sponsor etc ... but meh
"Removing the man in the middle" are they not exactly that? ^^
Couple things i noticed, (long time landscaper) I would suggest taking a look at commercial lawn mower decks. Look at the grass "pathway" tothe exit shoot on the right. They purposely have it all going to the same exit point and use the front edge of the deck as a channel. The smoother the spot that the grass travels at, the better it will expel. Also would suggest angling the deck upward in the front. Sounds odd, but I think if you had say 15% angle(?) on it it would help. So you would essentially set the rear at the desired cut height. This allows the front side to start cutting at a slight higher cut height and finish lower in the back. May help, and really just a thought. One really big thing i can say is, even with a $25k commercial mower, they dont easily go through grass above 5-6" let alone if wet. Starting at like a 4" cut height would help a lot. Also what if instead of exacto blades, try it more like a weed wacker?
Maybe extend the top cutter out further and half the distance above the bottom one.
idk why but I find it hilarious whenever the rover gets a cameo, just doing its thing
This is so cool. Just did a school project where I designed a similar trimmer line testing rig. Designed to cut 24" tall wheat. Would love to show you how similar it is and how I aimed to avoid some of the issues you had. Keep in mind this is a huge rig that uses 14" strips of trimmer line. Lmk if you'd like to see it
Post it public - everyone benefits!!!
"No one does this" Autonomous electric lawnmowers are commercially available. Awesome vid tho, keep em coming mate, well worth the wait for each one.
But they're autonomous, not RC :)
Most of them are also overpriced and pretty shitty.
@@KZheadAdministrator how can it be shitty if it’s cutting grass before it gets too long to be too much for the mower? And do you own one? The reviews I’ve read are pretty good on certain brands also they’re not that expensive if you’re about to spend the equivalent on a lawn mower.
They have autonomous mowers and commercially available units you mount to a full size commercial zero turn that are used for big fields. There are rc controlled units used for ditches and steep inclines as well
@@shadyknolllandscapes1781 Hey, I really like the idea of using RC units for those dangerous areas! Glad to learn something new today.
I can see u building a rc mower that has waypoints and mows the whole yard,, tc roomba mower, u would sell alot,, keep up the great content, love ur channel, from a 62 yo closet nerd 👍❤
“Hey, Szalinski, your lawn is beginning to look like the Amazon!” Great video!
I think you've just made a " grassdozer " 3:28
Definitely don't wanna walk barefoot in that field now XD
It was so funny to see the other vehicles going in the background autonomously testing
That was great. High tech toys. Looks like a lot of fun building and flying. Nice catch.
"Because It never stops raining here in Washington" Lol I can say that is true.
More rotating mass on the cutters might help. And designing the cutters to have a lot of vertical airflow to help "pull" the grass upward might also help. Might be worthwhile experimenting with a cylindrical blade. Similar to older manual push mowers.
Nice Rock Crawler Mower
You should put a stone guard in front to protect the blades. When you see it stop, there is an insurmountable obstacle.
*Most nonchalant voice ever* "So I made a trailer for my automated rc tank that has two propellers with razor blades on the end spinning at incredibly high rpms just to see what happens."
Got that too. Steven Wright of inventing.
You need fingers on the front, like a corn combine.
This! Make em barbed (like arrow heads) to help direct and control the tall stalks. A RC lawnmower that cuts a lawn regularly as it starts to grow in shouldn't have issues with regular trimming. Its that "I'm too lazy to cut my lawn so its massive now." kind of cutting that will have issues.
And some gaps at the back, for the cut grass to leave the cover.
The problem with this idea is that while corn is planted in fairly symmetrical rows, and thus grows as such, grass doesn't grow in any semblance of order. The fingers on a corn header just help to direct the corn onto the cutters and keep it from folding away; meanwhile, on a self-propelled mower, there's a big wheel like on a wheat head.
@@cbpercy06 sounds like you have some farming background and your points are valid. I know current mowers generally use the vacuum created by the blade to lift the grass. Maybe a pre-rake before it hits the blade(s)?
With all your autonomous vids, this begs for it!
the weedwacker is the first thing I thought of with this. the blades you used while sharp are hard and likely to dull very fast in this setup, while also being expensive compared to just putting on some weedwacker string. admittedly the string will wear faster and you will need a solution to keep it at length to extend past the shroud covering it.
should have just used a weedeater head, would have made a pretty effective mower. still really cool project though
34 seconds ago? i've become feared amongst men
One thing that holds this back is the blade geometry. Normal lawnmower blades have a angled part at the rear of the blade which causes the chopped grass pieces to fly up into the mower deck where they are bounced around until they make their way to the outsides of the mower and ejected. With completely flat blades, the mowed grass chunks fall back into the mower blades where they are rechopped and gum up the mower
AWESOME project, my fellow Washingtonian!
Subsequently banned after the "Washington Petting Zoo Incident" where the autonomous version suffered a compass error and went amok. ;-)
yo i was just thinking u should do this
probably my new favourite channel
Use 4 blades per head (make them as heavy as possible) and place them at an angle like a propeller. Put them at 2 different heights, the lower to cut, the upper to chop and clear the grass out of the shroud (optionally add a strip to the back of the top blade to increase airflow). This top pair of knives can be hidden fully inside the shroud to increase airflow efficiency and should just mulch and expel the grass. Use pairs of 2 heads and have them counter rotate, and attach them to 1 motor so you can have them overlap while never hitting each other. This will make the result look better and help expel the grass from the shroud. And most importantly, add holes in the back of the shroud where the grass can exit the shroud. Augers like some suggested shouldn't be necessary, they are used when sucking up the grass and moving it towards the vacume or for processing like in a harvester. The faster you can get rid of the mown grass the better it will work. The more airflow the better. The shape of the shroud can help, make the "tunnel" towards the exit taller the closer you get to exit as there will be more grass on those locations. Final suggestion, use 2 heads in front as wide as the crawler, later you can attach additional mowers on the side, 2 between the wheels and if you want 2 on longer arms at the rear.
Those lines are my father’s worst nightmare. Just wait t’ll he sees it, he said he was getting some milk, he’ll b rt back.
What about a mechanical push powered mower? The old school cylindrical ones with bent metal blades. Then you can eliminate 4 motors and save battery
Imagine how quiet that would be with a vehicle as slow as the solar rover he’s got.
Honestly, he should have just added remote control to a regular gas powered mower.
That was impressice! As someone who has thought about making an RC mower so I could turn the drudgery of mowing into a video game, ME likey!!!!!!!
The concept is sound. But take it from someone who has been in lawncare for 30+ years. This would be great for a maintained lawn but you're trying to use it as a brushcutter. A few design changes I would make are as follows: - Pitch the trailing edge of the blades to about 15 degrees. This will provide airflow to help lift un-cut blades of grass, and to blow away the cut ones. -Take a look at most lawn tractor mower-decks which use multi-blade setups. The front of the deck is flat, while the rear is curved to hug the blades. Additionally, notice how the front of the deck increases in height toward the discharge chute. as the first blade cuts grass in its path, it will throw the grass toward the discharge chute and over the second blade down the line. The second blade also cutting ad discharging grass over the third, and so on. with each pass toward the chute, more clippings are being transported, thus needing more room to transport them. Hence the raise in the top-front edge leading to the chute. The top-rear of the deck can remain flat. Basically, build a mower-deck using the design from a typical lawn tractor deck, while adapting it to use your 4-blade configuration. Side note, The swing-away blades are a nice touch though. You'll see those on brush-hogs to allow the blade to deflect off of a hard object rather than breaking or bending due to being rigid. Another idea, one that I have wanted to try for a while is a rear-discharge deck. That rise toward the cute would begin on each outer side of the front of the deck and peak in the middle.then carry rearward to a rear-facing opening. however, the leading area two sets of blades would each need to rotate toward the center so the clippings can all be transported toward the chute, and thrown rearward. However it would be good to add a wedge at the front to the deck, between the the two centermost sets of blades to prevent the right side from trying to throw it's clipping into the left side & vice-versa. Helps to think of mower decks as centrifugal fans. think of airflow or fluid dynamics, and where you want it to go. Hope all that made sense.
When I was a kid I cut off the tip of my finger with a quadcopter prop so this literally terrifies me.
Spinning blades that can easily be touched while they spin. Yeah. That's horrifying. I wonder if a weed eater style cutter would work better. as I feel the lawn mower blades have mass and torque on their side.
Was it some 6S beast with carbon props? I never feel any danger from 1-3S motors with plastic props
@@georgewashington1621 believe me there is. I've had the fun of grabbing into a full speed 5inch prop that was only on 2s in a wing launch scenario. Those poly carbonate props go through skin like butter
@@georgewashington1621 No, it wasn't anything crazy like that. I want to say it had 3S motors but it was a while ago. I was writing a flight control firmware for it and I made a mistake in the code that made all the motors spin up to 100% and, like an idiot, I tried to grab it to disconnect the battery. Still have the scar to remember it by.
thats sad. when i was a kid i cut the front of a lawnmower off so the blades were exposed so i could cut down taller grass. also cut a hole in the top so i could feed in sticks to chop them like a woodchipper still have all 11 fingers
I would've bolted some steering onto a real lawn mower and power drive the wheels.
This would be way more effective. He tried to reinvent the whole thing, from the ground up and did a major fail.
As a farmer I can inform you that cutting thick brush in your case with such small scale you don’t use speed you use momentum with a heavy blade but if you mow your yard regularly your little rig will work good and if you look a a lawn mower the blades are angled to throw the grass away
Please make a sequel this was very entertaining!
reminds me of my custom chariot back when i was a gladiator in 270 BC.
Boomer
Ah the good old days.
Dude just get those weed eater plastic blades. Why mess around with razor blades? Potential for serious injury pretty high here. I
I think he is making up for the lack of torque with sharp blades.
Super low mass, the blade will Peter out after 5-10 feet.
It's oddly satisfying watching this cut through grass.
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I'm thinking some Hedge Clipper bar mounted to the front.
Exactly what I was thinking. If he would put a sicyle bar on the thing he'd drop the grass in long stalks. Question#2. Now what? Feed the fallen stalks into a chopper like a document shredder.
Currently working on making my own Tip to anyone reading this : hacknife blades are really easy to mount on a bldc cuz of the small hole on the side, but they're very brittle and break easily, so make them red hot with a blowtorch and let them cool down slowly to make the metal more flexible
i got those same exact tires on my scx10 jeep, love those tires, got the best grip ever out of all the tires they got for those rock crawlers
i love my exceed mad torque the motor on axle setup is awsome and pretty much unstoppable
This is just cool, clever and creative!
Ditch the spinning blades! What you REALLY need is a scythe blade mounted at an angle up front, statically, and just drive it through the grass. Where i live we don't have flat ground or grass so i can't do it, but i bet it'd pretty cool to mount a couple of scythe blades on a FAST RC truck so they part the grass and full send it through the field. See if you can cut grass at like 50mph with a big fast 4wd truck and toss clippings into the air with a wedge shaped body. THAT'D be COOL! Thumbs up if you want to see him build this!
I actually use a RC mower on a daily for work mowing banks that ride on mowers and or reach mower tractor units can't get to. it uses a gnarly track system that is similar to an excavator. for the mowing head it uses a rotor with flail and roller design which mulches the grass so that It can mow through grass that has been growing for 10+ years with no trouble. the model I use is a energreen robogreen. really appreciate the video!
While visiting Sweden in 1995, I went on a tour of the Ringhals nuclear energy facility just north of Varberg. As fascinating as the nuclear plant was, I was amazed by the autonomous lawnmower that was mowing the grass around the plant. It was manufactured by Huskvarna.
That was probably before this guy was born. I'm sure theirs actually works, too.
This seems like a cool new way to make Crop Circles!!!
This guy is building an RC Lawn mower...next thing you know he is deep in the fields cutting knee high wet nasty bushes and sh!t...mad respect man!
You should look back Into a tow behind mower. I live on a hay farm and the hay bine that we use has a rotating tongue so that it cuts new to the tractor. This is very effective in a clockwise direction as the tractor stays in the already cut grass allowing for just the cutter to interfere with the tall grass. This would help with you lack of power/traction issues.
Definitely about to make an rc weed whacker to trim around some trees with lower branches
To stop your tank flipping relocate the the hitch to the lowest point on the hull as your moment is to high. Lower the better ! Edit: instead of angling forward angle up as I believe that will help chop up the grass and less build up due to cutting high then low as the first blade hits the apex high then low points. This will have an effect on the motors really you need a full width blade. Cool build.
You have the front of the shroud open to allow the grass in, but why did you leave the back of the shroud on keeping it in? You need to let the grass out, it would help prevent the grass from clogging up the shroud. A side discharge is okay but since you won't be walking behind it to push, you don't really need to put it to the side. Plus if you want to make picking up the grass easier too, a rear discharge might be the simplest solution as you can add a drum with spokes (like a combine harvester) in front of or above a bag or collection bin to automatically pick it up for you. You'd definitely have a solid machine, and with the new motors you have the torque, so why not use it? just make sure to add better protection to the lower sections (maybe a plate or two either flat or at an angle) for the gear assembly housings, driveshafts and linkages.
That thing will scare whatever grass it isn’t cutting 💪 sounds horrifying I love it!!!
One or two big, slower blades with more inertia might work better, then it can fling the longer bits or just chop them up more effectively
The amount of rainfall that you seem to get where you live has seriously impacted the end product of your videos. I know it's not something that you can easily change, just saying so you know what I found negative about your video. Great work all around. Very inspiring stuff.
*Damn! This project is awesome!*
What seems to be a necessary thing is probably having the cutting edge at a 45° angle either direction like a snow plow blade. Also a necessity would be a form of smaller diameter drone blades that blow downward to eject the loose grass sorta like full size lawn mowers. 👍
I love the fact that you keep your yard grass extremely long, as a testing site for you mowers ! Lol
This video reminds me of Uncle Shortfinger. I met him a couple of times, but I never learned what his real name was. He was our introduction to lawnmower safety. I thought of him during the scenes with bare fingers cleaning up around the blades.
Definitely revisit this project
Just a suggestion, make the front like harvester (half cones) and the cutters like those Blk & Decker lawn trimmer/edger.
Pretty satisfying! Wow