I built a mini semi truck to ride!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ย. 2023
- This is how I built my semi truck from a John Deere 115 ride-on mower. We were building a float for a local parade. The theme was Tim Burton "universe". So naturally the thought process was swift, and goes as follows; "Hmmm, ok let's re-use the carcass from our sea serpent to make a sandworm from Beetlejuice! Great Idea! We will have a proper float! Let's put it on a trailer and everything.....Oh and let me pull it with a mini semi truck, driven by LARGE MARGE from Peewee's Big Adventure! Can we actually pull this off?" The rest is recent history! (Sorry for the skipping music in parts of the video, that was an accident)
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If this video reaches 100K views, I will treat myself to Taco Bell.
Good apatite
You NEED to make a trailer for that, would look sooooo cool
I think you are right. What should I haul on it? Willing to build. I think a UFO with a tarp blowing off it would work...
@@thethinkerer That would be perfect
Awesome looks like a 1980's Ford cabover! Badass!! 👍🏼👍🏼
Awesome project! I absolutely love what you did here. 👍👍👍
Hey thanks for letting me know that!
Yep, that’s pretty cool
I am thanking you and a few others for teaching me for my own build
That is awesome to hear! I didn't foresee me inspiring anybody with this build but it is incredibly rewarding when I get feedback like this.
Pretty stinking awesome!
If this is what you can do with a lawn mower, like to see what you can do with an old pick up truck
There's a company somewhere in the U.S. that takes pickup trucks (pretty much everything but the cab) and using a custom mini cab they literally make a mini peterbilt or kenworth aka lil' Pete and lil' Kenny. Just Google mini Peterbilt or lil' Pete lol Check them out, they are really well designed and come as a complete kit (definitely need professional installation unless done at their shop) 👍🏼
so beautiful truck
You did exactly what i wanted to do as a kid. 10/10 build
Thanks, that means something to me. When I was a kid I wanted to build a 3 wheeler out of a pile of junk, also I wanted to build a roller coaster/theme park in the back yard. I guess I ought to start those projects back up...
Treadmill Belt Sander😮 great. Now I can’t live without that.
Not just to say I done it... I use it often!
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And yes, a matching trailer would be so cool!! 👍🏼 HAPPY HOLIDAYS and MERRY CHRISTMAS!! 🙂
Underrated creator
Nice job
Another set of rear wheels to replace the front for equal size will help with proportions.
For a quick parade entry, not bad!
I felt the same way, I had a pair of narrow wheels from a motorcycle trailer that I planned on putting on the front originally, but I then would have had to modify how the rear axle mounts to keep the frame level, and since I had a deadline I opted to forego that surgery and let the size discrepancy remain!
Such a cool idea!
Wow my brother that's a Nice job and great work of Art❤️💯👍
Makes me want to cut and chop my riding mower up and build me a K100 Kentworth COE and paint it like BJ and the bear. I use to draw that truck and trailer in school all the time circa 1976, I thought that was the prettiest truck at the time on the road. Until Smokey and the Bandit, lol.
Very cool!!
Thanks! Had a good time building it!
Just found your channel and subbed. Love the project
Awesome man
Super creative build. Great job!
Very cool. Looking at this, I was thinking 1 of thoughs 1960s VW cargo van.
Simple perfect mini semi
You need to have some mesh behind the grill so you have some airflow both for you and the motor
It couldn't hurt! also the grill would look better with some cutouts I think.
Great lawnmower/semi but I would have got another transmission for re axel
The thought crossed my mind! Also the extra traction would have came in handy the other day when I pulled a triple axle trailer out of the shop with it!
Cool you made a ride on Hotwheels Thunder roller. The Thunder roller also had odd looking small wheels on the front. I love that you made it a ford 9000, my favorite cabover.
Holy crap, you are right! I see some new ones that have the same size but it looks like maybe the older ones had smaller wheels in the front! This is awesome for me, as a kid I was almost obsessed with bigger tires in the back, I thought it made cars and trucks cooler. This project it was just easier to not change the fronts, as I had a deadline for the local parade, someone else in the comments here even mentioned the tire size discrepancy, but now if anyone asks I can say it is just a Thunder Roller haha!
Very cool. Seeing you work that sheet metal brought back memories. Btw, new sheet metal has an oil on it. Use vinegar to clean it and the paint will stick forever. Years ago when my daughter was little, we were at the local annual parade when she saw kids riding in the parade on four wheelers. She said I want to do that. I explained to her that four wheelers were expensive and we really didn’t have a place to ride them since we lived in town, but I could probably build her some thing That we could ride in the parade. That seem to appease her.
Next year rolls around, we are at the parade again, she gets quiet, and then she looks up at me and tiny little voice said “you know, you never built me anything to ride in the parade”
Yeah, you can guess how that made me feel. So I was determined to live up to my word. Working 58 to 62 hours six days a week. The following year was not really conducive to building anything for the parade. And then one day it dawned on me that I actually had two weeks before the parade . I blurted out the fact at work and one of my coworkers, who was also a pretty good friend asked me what was the matter, and I explained the situation. He laughed and said basically there’s no way in hell you can build something to put in the parade in two weeks. I told him I thought I could. He was still unbelieving and even made a bet that he would buy me a steak dinner if I could pull it off. That wasn’t the main reason, but it was further incentive to get to work. So I found an old electric golf cart, chopped and stretch the frame, added an old Wisconsin 20 hp engine right in front of the rear axle. Made framework to support the body. Bought a bunch of brand new galvanized sheet metal like you used. And went to work. What ended up happening was a lot of late nights, a few cuts, and bruises, and the making of an 8 foot long 3 1/2 foot wide, 1932 Ford roadster that had rack and pinion steering, a working drivers door that locked, chrome swing arm, front suspension, 12 inch rear, and 8 inch front tires with baby moon, hubcaps, 6 V bucket headlights upfront, a stainless steel mesh grill, and an awesome blue paint job that was sprayed on the night before the parade. Of course, I had to have photographic proof in order to win the bet so that happened as well. Got there early the morning of the parade, staged in order and waited until we finally started moving. it started pouring down rain right as we began moving into the parade sequence. A young Friend of mine had helped with the build and was there riding a ten speed along side of us. He ran into a local store, where I knew some of the workers and grabbed an industrial size black trash bag, which we poked armholes and head hole in for my little girl as a makeshift raincoat. After I was good and drenched, the rain stopped. 🙄 We decided to take the trash bag off because she was getting hot. In the process, I touched my elbow against the spark plug that was sticking up out of the body right behind the driver seat, grounding out my rain drenched body and the magneto. You want to talk about a shocking experience. As we went a little further, it seemed like the engine was missing, but it was a single cylinder so I thought that was odd. When I turned around to look, I saw that in my flailing, after being electrocuted, I had actually knocked the spark plug wire completely loose. It had been running the whole time by arching a quarter inch across an air gap to the spark plug. We had the beast for several years after that. Occasionally, I would get it out and drive it around the small town just for fun. It was pretty fun to drive. With the rack and pinion steering you could be doing donuts to the left spin completely around to doing donuts on the right all with one finger. One day an old man showed up and asked if I wanted to sell it. The kids were getting older, and it took up a lot of space in the garage, but I was still hesitant. Then he told me what he wanted to do with it. There was a pretty big parade that was held in July in a small Kansas town and he wanted to enter it as a parade float. So I relented and made him a very good package deal for it and the trailer. He came back later and told me he had bought brand new tires and fancy wheels, for it, entered it into the parade, and won first place. that was the last time I talked to him, and I don’t know what happened to it. All that’s left now are the pictures and the story.
People sometimes act shocked that I build what I do for the parade, knowing it is a fifteen minute fame thing, and putting all the hours in. They get surprised when I tell them I don't make any money. Sort of a chalk drawing before a rainstorm. Well this build is a little more robustly built by comparison but what I am trying to say is this; I really appreciate you sharing your story here. It gives me a sense of community, and validity. I don't have any children, but I kept the Imagination from back when I was one, and it is nice to see all the faces light up, young and old, when I roll/walk/crawl by in one of my creations. What a story, thanks!
You are very welcome. As I stated there are photos of the old roadster still around. my daughter has the actual photos. I’ll probably be seeing her the day after Christmas. I’ll try to get a couple of the good ones and put them on here so people can see what we are talking about.
Incredible bro❤
The amount of effort and skill this had to have required is just insane and admirable!
You could do it all on determination alone!
I really like it always love cab over when I was a kid..... It'd be cool if you're your head wasn't showing like the cab cover you up
@@claytonwilson5646 Yup plan A was to sit down low but I ran it in a parade and had to show off my mask! So I popped out the top like a shriner.
More like jealous!
hi mate greatings from across the pond, totally love this, i built one out of an electric wheel chair 10 years ago, when i seen your video, i was expecting to see some guy build an rc truck, but man you rock, totally love your thinking, i am a new sub too, great video
Thanks! I always feel humbled when something I make reaches someone far away!
well, not sure what to say. Nice job. Just curious what you do for a living? Seem to have some free time which is aa good thing
I run a CNC machine in a diminishing American corporation. And I daydream half the time. I make time for my at home projects, since I have so many Ideas, I just itch to get them out sometimes.
@@thethinkerer love your projects. Thank you for your videos. I know it takes a lot of time to film, edit and post
I so admire your work it is incredible. Just my personal wish if you made one for me I need it to still cut grass. I have a ford ranger and a zero turn help me make this happen. It would be my happy place.
My plan A was to keep the deck to hookup after! But I did something, maybe the fake fuel tanks? I don't remember but I had a turning point in there somewhere to forget about the deck. But yeah to mow with the semi would be hilarious, maybe I should look into it again...
It would be very cool
nice truck you made a Ford CL9000 a Cabover ford does not make trucks but they are still legends
Yup! I was going to put the 9000 across the grill but ran out of time!
lol this is amazing how do you only have 200 subs
Not true! I have 242! haha
@@thethinkerer your right lol. also surprised you made that cl9000 look as good as it does
I always wanted to do something like this I hope I will in the future great content to sir!
YOU CAN DO IT! See the short story from blue68chevelle posted here in the comments!
Thanks
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I know this guy and I love him
what kind of metal did you use to wrap around the cage for the body of the truck?
It was galvanized steel flashing from Lowes!
@@thethinkerer Thank you, as I wanna do something similar and this inspired me and my cuz to do something like this I cant thank you enough!
What in the fuck is this sound track
Avoiding those cookie cutter free electronic music at all costs, I reached into my personal vault of music clips, assorted recordings of me plunking around on guitar, bass, piano. Sometimes I think I should have tried harder, but I didn't know this video was gonna balloon the way it did. But other days I am proud of how odd it sounds haha!
This is awesome great job and creativity i wouldhave neverimaginedyou can make a cab over out of a rider..you have inspired my next project..check out my monster truck go kart on my page if you wouldn't mind
Yours has shocks!
That music was annoying a little
That is fair. The skipping part was an accident during rendering. I normally only get 30 to 300 views on a video. I would have done better if I knew it was going to reach so far, I think...
@@thethinkerer it still sounded okay. It started to grow on me deeper into the video
Very kool man, how many hour did that take approximately
Ya know, I have tracked hours on past projects but not this one! Maybe 30 hours? Just to guess...
It is pretty good I have definitely seen a lot better 👍
Yup the thought of making it out of cardboard crossed my mind. Glad I went with metal though, now it can survive the rain!