DIY Cheapest Dana Dolly System - How to Build a Professional Track Dolly, with track for under $350

How to build a Dana Dolly for under $200 using wheels from ProAm and a complete system with aluminum speed rail tracks for under $350.
You can get ProAm products from their website www.proamusa.com
Everyone wants a Dana Dolly to get those perfect shots, but the cost is just too high.
We built an entire system for $350 and it only required drilling 11 3/8 holes with a hand drill.
Why spend $1500 or more when you can get nearly the same quality for a few hundred dollars?
We show you how to make tools at a fraction of the cost of buying then new or used. While most DIY videos are on the super cheap, we try to show you how to duplicate the pro equipment for much less.
We find deals on things like wheels and test them and make sure they work before we build something sucky.
We do this to share what we do and help newbie film makers like ourselves save money and grow their equipment in a professional way that they can actually afford.
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[@bsandbeertahoe]

Excellent video! Loved the fact that you show people different options. Learning a lot!

[@mrdogpoopstudios]

Maybe if Mr Dog Poop fires me, I can et a job as a teacher.

[@PaulooPZ]

Just found your channel and its amazing! You look like my dad, making everything yourself while holding a beer. Thanks for that!

[@mrdogpoopstudios]

Mr Dog Poop requires beer in every video, it started last year when we started making our comedy videos www.youtube.com/@mrdogpoopunleashed/videos and has been a rule ever since. Glad you liked it.

[@nyambe]

Are glide gear products not good?

[@mrdogpoopstudios]

Glide Gear has some great products you can check out some deals on a video we did about those: ua-cam.com/video/_pHIVpy0Vrg/v-deo.html
The only product we hate is their wheels and anything that uses their wheels. They are so bad they are completely useless. They need to get some new wheels, they are junk. We did an entire video about them.
But they sell some of the same products as other companies and some of them are very useful and inexpensive.

[@dennypilot9856]

What are the advantages of the original Dana Dolly over this solution?

[@mrdogpoopstudios]

None. This is just a cheap way to make a Dana Dolly, the Dana Dolly is definitely superior. But it is also more than $200 or $350 with track.
So far we have not seen any cheaper Dana Dolly copies that have been any good, so this is just an easy way to make one and get good results.
Of course when you build it, you can make any changes you want, size, weight, track width or any improvements you may need.
But if you have the money, buy a Dana Dolly for sure.

[@dennypilot9856]

@@mrdogpoopstudiosthat's what I'm trying to find out - in which way is Dana Dolly superior? Is it overall smoothness? Or are there features absent in your dolly that are present in Dana?

[@mrdogpoopstudios]

@@dennypilot9856 First, let me say we have only been making videos for just over a year now, before that, we were a DNA testing lab, so this is all new to us.
So, I have never used an actual DANA dolly and cannot make any use comparisons. But I have done quite a bit of research on the construction and the Dana Dolly is well done.
Also, we used a simple 3/8 bolt to connect to, the DANA dolly has all types of adapters available. But it you added something like the Mitchell mount, you could adapt a DIY dolly to anything as well with readily available adapters from anyone, rather than having to buy from Dana Dolly.
Dana Dolly also machines the wheels, so I am sure it is slick as shit and very smooth rolling.
The tracks are exactly the same, the holders we made are basically identical, so doing that saves money.
If you are working in the film industry on paid jobs, you probably want the Dana Dolly, just because people know it and expect it and some people are pretty snobby about home made stuff or cheaper brands.
But essentially, they are both just skateboards on rails. I don't see spending $1000 on a skateboard when you can get the same thing for $200.

[@KingFreshism]

Why u are not my grand Pa ?! It is people like u who gives the capacity to think that everything is possible !

[@mrdogpoopstudios]

If a guy Named Mr Dog Poop can make movies, anything is possible.