Making my dog a treadmill (so I can harness her ENERGY mwuhahaha) - Part 1
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I love how when he was measuring her she was just standing there with cardboard in her mouth lol.
If you've seen her previous appearances on the show, you'd know that Crazy is crazy for all things cardboard.
Postal packages beware...
What's so cool about that? I don't understand.
Please tell me you'll be adding wheels and a 2"x72" sanding belt off the side of this thing.
personally i think it should power the powerhammer
at least a 3" belt to get some more working area to slide work side to side to keep sharp without wearing a spot on the belt
This. Absolutely this, although one dogpower might not be sufficient to grind steel
@@TheMegaross91 horses produce more than 1 hp on average, i bet you crazy makes way more than 1 dogpower haha
@@TheMegaross91 gears can make it possible
Alec: "Ehhh, I don't want to bother with putting on the four-jaw chuck."
Also Alec: _fabricates parts to hold his piece in the three-jaw_
Alec is the probably the best civilian Belgian Malinois owner I've ever seen, they are NOT easy dogs to have as pets. Nothing against them, but as Alec said, they're high drive working dogs with a ton of energy. Side note: Crazy is an absolutely gorgeous dog. Well done, Alec, I love that you're making something for Crazy!
-a veterinary technician and dog trainer, I work with my local municipal police department's K9 unit in a veterinary technician capacity so I know Mals and GSDs, and I'm very impressed.
You should see some mals I know I would say they are similar to border collies in drive just way smarter
@@BadlydrawnBen 100% agree. Border Collies are unbelievably intelligent, but Mals are scary smart.
@@cleverusername9369 that is what I'm saying 👍 I'm rather envious of my friends Mal it can get beer out of the fridge or cool box 😳 most the Mal owners I know chose them because the German shepherd breed has been completely ruined
Maligator! 😬
Alec is a high drive person so such a dog suits him very well.
Well at least if there's any dog that won't be immediately scared off by the noise of the treadmill it's going to be one that lives in a metal fabrication shop!
I'm intrigued to know if either of them will run on it.
Malinois have no fear.
Jamie has outdone himself in this one, the sync and the pitch on the center punch and the welds. OMG. AWESOME
I really like that one of the top comments on most of Alec’s videos is about an appreciation of Jamie’s craft, Alec does an amazing job in front of the camera but the fact people enjoy Jamie’s work too is heart warming.
I know. That editing made me chuckle.
It would be great to see a video on Jamie editing a video! 🎶
@@saginawdan he did actually do a live stream ages ago and posted it to YT. I don’t have a link but I’m sure you’ll find it
There's an absolute stonker of an edit done by Jamie. Track down the video where Will made a knife in his garage early lockdown. From memory I think I was a Damascus video. But yeah, so so good
Hey Alek, quick tip with cutting nylon one of my mentors taught me a way back: use HSS instead of carbide. preferably a duller/radiused bit. just manage the heat and it'll be cutting much smoother
A more radiused tool sounds like a good idea. Wouldn’t it be good to keep it sharp because the nylon is soft?
@@MawoDuffer yeah as a hole sharper the tool is better least what I was told
@@greevsy01 I don't agree with that. Rule of thumb as softer the material duller the cutting tool. Dull=blunt=radiused . Hence why you have to "manage the heat" because a dull cutting tool will cause a lot or friction. This is not exactly the same but think about side clearance and rake angles when cutting aluminium or copper compared to cutting something a lot harder like stainless steel.
@@haydnupfold73 @Wayne Beck. Gentlemen, Gentlemen, Gentlemen... using your own method to get to a finished (respectable looking) usable part is no need to squabble over semantics. When tooling polys or any light weight (non-combustible or volatile) just break out the high power shop vac. 5k miles of nylon string in a 5 gallon bucket.
@@PC-vu6nz That.. Is genius
Pretty sure Alec's about to become a dad, because dad jokes like those don't come from nowhere!
Your name tells me Skandinavien danish? And if halløj
New house new baby......so the saying goes.
That’s true, when I became an uncle the uncle jokes came up
to be fair, Alec has used Dad Jokes off and on, but you have a point, his dad jokes are improving
@@tomclarkson6078 better than New House New Spouse, although they havent been married that long so new-ish LOL
Hey Alec you should collaborate with the HoofGP and try your hand at making a hook knife. 👍
Yes I think that'd be a great idea
That would be awesome! Good idea
It can be made out of Damascus
Yes indeed.
Those are illegal I'm some areas
Alec: “May become one of my most accurate fabricating projects to date!”
Says the guy who, not too long ago made a mountain bike from scratch…
Yeah, I forgot about that 😅😅
I taught my dog to run on the treadmill when it was too cold to go outside. One night I'm putting in some miles on the treadmill and he decides he's joining me. I ended up on my ass and he had a nice run lol
A friend of mine had an idea for a doggy treadmill years ago and I laughed at him. He also thought about having various scents blown at the dog’s face for their enjoyment.
Now I’ve got egg on my face.
you were right to laugh at him. Leashing your dog into a treadmill is the PEAK of human laziness and lack of proper care for your animal companion. No debate.
It's always good practice to take the chuck tool out of the lathe. If you were worried about the wheel coming out of the lathe you could have used the live center for the extra security. Keep up the good work I love the content!
since there's a bearing in there you might get away with a dead centre
@@jonathanshaw6784 You're totally right. Either would have been sufficient!
would have gotten a steel rule across his palms where I work😂 Seeing Alec scared of the spinning wheel really makes me appreciate my larger work more
"All my problems in life can be solved by buying things and receiving them..." Ooof, wasn't looking for a personal callout there Alec
The wheel-puns had me laughing out loud haha 🤣
you mean they had you lol?
@@stormwallwarrior6095 Exactly 😄
@@gf1829 Yeah, he was certainly on a roll there with the puns!
I wheelie enjoyed them too!
Not me...I got tired of them.
For a high energy dog, Crazy is able to be very calm and quiet, + she's super cute!
I am looking forward to the rest of the build + more dad jokes + more bloopers and amazing editing!
Dog Gone! To stop a belt pulling off a pulley, dome it's running surface to the middle, might appear counter-intuative but the tighter centre continues to pull it back to true. Just ask an old steam shop engineer
Came here to say the same thing.
Thank you for the comment - what do you think about the effect of needing to straddle a belt between two convex pulleys would have? My worry is it wouldn’t be able to self centerr on the convex wheel as it’s on the edge of the belt not the center?
@@AlecSteele I'm not sure how running a belt on 2 convex pulleys would work, to be honest.
Your current set-up should work, but will require both axles to be exactly parallel to each other and perpendicular to the frame. No pressure!
It might be worth designing something into the build where you can adjust the axles fore and aft to compensate for any run-out on the belt.
@@AlecSteele I don't think straddling a full belt with only pulleys on the outside edge, especially with a dog-sized load on-top of said belt will work whatever the shape of the running surface now I think about what you're attempting to do with the trolley wheels... But I'll wait to watch your build, I'm sure you'll figure out how a treadmill works lol
Alec, while the runout you ended up with on the nylon wheels is probably fine for a dog treadmill, another method you could have used to turn them down would be to mount them in the lathe on an axle using the installed bearings. That way, the turned edge of the wheel would be concentric with the axle and bearings. You would need to use a lathe dog (or similar) however to keep the wheel rotating with the axle instead of spinning on the bearings.
i hope people appreciated the Wheeley and Pulley puns, so elegantly mixed in at 4:50
The centre-punching to the rythm of the music was just MUAH! chef's kiss
I’ve seen how this plays out in Rick and Morty. Soon enough your dog will find a way to create power for itself.
As someone who used to do plastic machining, use a shop vac to deal with the strings
Real British humor. Its so good. The use of puns and jokes has been incredible since you went back to the UK.
A dog will always love you no matter what. As Alec is ready to part with a few thousand dollars of material, parts and man-hours, I believe that this dog is equally loved in return, no matter what. Thank you for sharing both the build and the testimony to this wonderful friendship.
Hello friends 👋
I'd love to see some friction drilling in your thiner tube steel. It's such a cool process to watch
My god you have a fantastic editor syncing everything up to the music
I was just about to post the exact same thing. And this is far from the first time he's done it.
With the latest videos I have the feeling Alec is back in his old shape. I Love it! Its great humor, great learning and you can clearly see his skills improving over all these different projects.
don't you dare think the "wheely interesting" pun went unnoticed.... it was definitely appreciated XD
I love how this channel has gone from tongs to swords to a doggie treadmill
So cool. Really admire what you've done Alec. Love watching your stuff.
I'm surprised someone so young and not dog sport oriented has such a good malinois. Bravo to you man
It’s the small things. I was super excited about the drill/tap/countersink bit. Had no idea those existed. That’s awesome.
Alec, this is the stuff right here!!!! I feel a golden era for the channel with the awesome stuff you've been doing lately!
So so so so so happy to hear that 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Alec definitely has a favourite when it comes to his dogs.
I love how alec's humor has evolved as hes gotten older, absolute pleasure seeing this lad work
Is it just me or is this the funniest smithing/crafting/building channel in youtube?
I laughed at every bad joke you guys made :D
He totally would have done everything in one video had the springs not been wrong lol
I too have an insane German shepherd.
Is she a German shepherd or a Belgian malinois? Crazy, either way...
Alec, when you've got your bars tacked at 200mm gap, tack some bits of steel across at both ends, tack your second upright bar then weld it, cut the bars off when all is cooled.
Then for second frame just clamp it all down to the first frame and tack it up and weld
Also an good idea. Heating it on the opposite side of the weld with an oxy-propane torch would work as well.
Awesome idea!!!!
@@joernforbest693 Oxypropane might get _too_ hot. I think a regular MAPP torch would work just fine and have a smaller risk of permanently warping the part.
@@richardmillhousenixon You are right but only if you hold it to long at one point. I´m using this method daily at my job and from experience you have to drag the torch roughly twice as fast as the welding gun. If you do it wrong the carbon in the steel burns of an the steel starts melting.
@@joernforbest693 If the metal gets yellow hot, it will warp quite significantly when cooling. A MAPP torch is quite good at getting somewhat thin metal to a dull cherry red without too much risk of overheating it
Terrible puns, and that metal shooting around the shop. I love it!!!
this is gonna be an interesting one
Can we take a moment to address the fact that THERE ARE ZERO GOOGLY EYES ON ANY POWER HAMMERS
"Worst case scenario we die" xD that was so nonchalant it had me in stitches, I'm stealing it.
This project reminds me of a fun history fact. In the 18th century there was a dog specifically breed for turning meat over a fire, it was called a Turnspit dog and walked on basically a treadmill or big hamster wheel that was connected to a mechanical rotisserie, aka spit roasting.
“I don’t think we’re trying to commit rocket surgery here.” That’s my favorite quote.
About to say the same thing
Wow keep up the good work 🙏🏻😁
If you have a wheel you want to turn, just machine a boss for the bearing, with a threaded hole on the end, put the wheel on the shaft, and tighten a cup that sits on the wheel's wall. You can use a holesaw for the cup. This also helps with stringing, since you can cut thicker cuts and make it easier, even without using the proper plastic tooth.
put a shopvack just above the cutting tool, where the stingy nylon flies away, it will suck the "filament" right in. You won't have a single piece of plastic in your shop. + it's super satisfying to watch.
Alec! Stop and start the power feed when you're cutting nylon to avoid the swarf getting so long
Was gonna mention that. Although with the volume of material he needs to remove it was always going to be a hassle
I am not sure what this video is gonna be but I am sure that it will be 😊
I love this. Malinois are my favorite dog breed and metalworking is my favorite hobby. This is such a good idea for a video
I have this breed and I think this will be PERFECT! Well mine will only be a treadmill not a treadmill generator. Thank you for sharing it!
Perfect 🇧🇷
Rocket surgery 😀
heads up, when you use those combo bits (drill, thread, and countersink). its really easy to snap them when you hit the threads after going full tilt for the drill aspect, be aware!
If you ever have to mill a Plasti thingy like that again you can grind a or cut a groove down to the desired circumference so the shavings will only ever be one circumference long
What happened to the golden lab ???.
Nothing - she usually spends the day with Mrs Steele while I'm at work with this dog!
I love the editing on this one great job!! favorite part: 9:03
Pure poetry
Ooof, those dad jokes were way too under appreciated
I had to turn acrylic once. Didn't notice until a half hour in that my arm was bleeding from being sandblasted by tiny Sharp chips. You have my sympathies Alec
I miss yogo
who came from the tiktok comment 😭
“Now this is about to get wheely interesting.
I’d you aren’t following me, let me pulley you in the right direction.” -Alec Steel…
AKA The Goat
Dogs + Forging in one video?! Oh yeah!
Jamie, your editing is SUPREME! 💚💚💚
excuse me, would this not be the perfect project to do with someone who can actually do engineering, like furze
If you manufacture "soft jaws" for the lathe out of a softer metal you can just cut the jaws with a normal tool to make it perfectly hold your part. It's how these precise holds are done at volume.
Metal will usually shrink down the middle of the weld joint. So adding a super thin shim or two in between your blocks and letting it cool while clamped should get you the results you are looking for. Preheating the whole area that you are welding is another way to help.
The sync on the punches was one of the most satisfying edits I've ever seen.
Hey you could hook that upto the workshop power and crazy could power the whole shop while she runs !!! FREE ENERGY! 😂😂😂
Hi, welcome back to the workshop! today i'm gonna try to exploit my beloved pet
I was just few days ago searching the interwebs to some plans for dog treadmill, and I cannot believe that you are making one.
I also have a malinois and during the winter we can't really go outside every day because it's very very cold, I think I'm gonna be doing this treadmill for her,
Thanks Alec
Hopefully my design works otherwise I wouldn’t follow what I did 😅😅. I’m in the same boat as you, hard to get the dog exercised enough with how early it gets dark in the winter 🙏🏻
@@AlecSteele Let us know before I order rollers and all the materials if I should just bite the bullet and buy one 😂😂
Yeah 4:30 it's already dark, hopefully they stop changing hours and leave it at summer time
If someone made this video out context it would just be "clipidy clopidy clip"
I'm a wood Turner, and I frequently do resin in my work. I love playing spiderman 🤣
The pohl barn productions does a lot of resin projects. It's fun to watch.
Alec is slowly becoming a mad scientist and I'm excited about it
Alec went through what every single resin UA-camr deals with in every project.
steel, fabrication, welding, some engineering puns and a cute dog. you earned my sub
Alec there is an Amish blacksmith near my town that powers his entire shop from two horses on a giant treadmill like this
A treadmill for dogs........ FANTASTIC!!!! We just use to use the human style treadmill for our first dog and he loves it. Looking forward to the rest of the build 👍👍👍
I had an old retired K-9 unit growing up. she loved to run when she can but also could sleep through a home burglary.
As a dog trainer with a Mali I love what you are doing for your dog! Keep up the good work!!
Machining nylon is fun. Use a sharp hook with a long handle to grab bits of the swarf and pull it away to break. Cut from inside to outside. Compound moves away from work piece.
as a machinist, i had a little panic attack when you started turning that plastic... my worst experience on a lathe was turning PVC... the birds nest grabbed my mag back dial i was using for a z zero reference and launched it in to orbit at Mach 1.1 denting the ceiling and absolutely destroying the dial....
the way i would have gone about turning that wheel would have been: take a piece of scrap roughly 60mm round, 40mm long, face one side and center drill it for the live center. flip the part and drill 20mm dia about 20mm deep. chuck a piece of 20mm bar stock in the 3 jaw with enough sticking out that it will have 10 to 15mm sticking out past the bearing when the wheel is slid over the bar. put the wheel on, then the scrap chunk will slide over the bar and then use the tail stock to pressure turn the part. there is no way it can come off or out of the chuck and is a very safe way of doing it... i hope that helps for next time. your probably done the other 3 lol...
also, don't leave the chuck key in the chuck!!!
love the videos, keep it up! ive been watching since you had about 7000 subscribers and haven't missed one yet lol...
Ive been looking for a proper video of the calibre for about 6 years now...thank you so much!
Breaking chips: just plunge groove every 10mm, then feeding across the diameter, the chips will disconnect at the grooves
I can't wait for part 2, doggy will be running for hours :)
We have 3 of those dogs, active I mean, which wear themselves out, kind of. Somehow running around all day with each other, still leaves them with more energy then I could ever have at the end of the day. Lab and GSD just don't stop.
Hey congratz Alec, at 6:43 you just made yourself some yards of nylon fishing line! Go catch some food with that!
7:21 the time Alec was thrown a surprise bukkake party. You should have seen his face. Everybody came
I just.... 'sigh'... Jamie. You are an artist. Minute 9 was just... Chef's Kiss.
omg the cardboard piece in her mouth looks so cute 0:45
One of Alec's best ever. Can't wait to see if Crazy will run or just stand there.
Just earlier today I was thinking "I want to make one of those cat treadmills for my future cat." Good timing!
STOP LEAVING THE CHUCK KEY IN THE CHUCK! thank you.
Ps that's how chuck keys end up in people's arms
You look exactly like the German youths in my 90's era German to English study guides and I think that's incredible.
What a beautiful pup!
For sure, 1/2" HSS bar, big chipbreaker in the topside, lots of rake top front and side and a radiussed tip. Run it through a couple of cuts on some scrap ally or nudge it with some 2000 grit to just take the fine edge off it so it doesn't bite the nylon.
Certainly got more than enough grinding equipment to make a good go of homemade tooling.
Or just get some cheap tips made for ally. That works too. Not great, but better than the nubby little rake on those tips!
The right feed is tricky. You keep pushing it harder and harder, then it'll suddenly get easier and may start chipping if tool geometry is spot on. That is the perfect feed. Unfortunately, a teeny bit harder than perfect it'll chirp, then bite, then either stall the machine, break the tool or launch itself across the workshop...
Fun stuff.
If you want the worst stuff, either small items in Macor, or anything remotely precise in PTFE.
Or any quantity of annealed pure copper...
Your editing and use of music soundtracks is still one the very best on UA-cam! Your work is interesting and gorgeous too, but I just wanted to say that
Some Machinist may be terrified but I typically cut items like that plastic wheel by pushing it against cast iron plate with a tailstock and live center. Works fine and is well centered.
If you don't have a cast iron plate, it seems you chuck claws are straight, so you just use them.
Friction works well with sharp hss or even with normal carbon steel tools and plastic and tailstock prevents the piece flying away.
By the way, it would be nice to see how some high quality razor sharp Damascus steel tool would cut plastic. Plastic should be machined with so low rpm that it don't melt so hss is not needed. With a sharp tool you get shiny and smooth surface.
I think we need more dog projects!