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If you all enjoy digging hobby tunnels, then can I interest you in someone excavating their basement using only miniature remote control construction vehicles?

Digging & hauling: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=He00d6Gpxs8

More recent rock crusher: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TSaqSzziaE8&t=3m31s

(There's 16 years / 379 videos so far, if you are into RC earthmoving ASMR)

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The channel is definitely one of the most out there channels and simply delightful isn’t it? It takes this whole pattern of civilization, digging, and just turns it into absurdist theater. I love it.

And this channel has been active for 16 years already (the first video was posted in Dec 2007).

Because I was curious for context, YouTube was launched in 2005 and bought by Google in 2006.

So amazing the creator has been continuously posting on one topic on the platform for that long.

Oh my. I’ve fantasized about this for years. I assumed that physics would not be on my side for this one. I am going to be watching these tonight.

$5K for one of those models!

HN Automate it?

You need lots of construction bots, so get your green circuit production working better

It's the 21st Century already. We just add processing modules into everything.

This was a wild recommemdation

How interesting.

I stumbled across it years ago, and it's always struck me as quintessential original-YouTube content: someone, somewhere, doing a thing that makes them happy and they'd like to share.

That is my favorite era and genre of YT. Someone doing something they love and recording it.

I don't mind if the channel grows and gets better editing or whatnot. I just like the purity of it.

You still can find a lot of stuff today. The "culture" of YT has changed a bit but you can still people doing their passion.

I'm currently watching Andrew Caramata. He does heavy machinery / property restoration and was previously working on a container castle but now has a mountaintop in upstate NY and is currently using the exact same tools you showed off originally - crushing some rock to build out some roads. Now that I think of it, this autoplayed after your video! I've followed Caramata for years though so nice seeing him still making progress.

I had [a YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/howchoo) that hit 25k subscribers from only about 20-25 videos. I worked happily at it for a few years off and on, but the economics of YouTube didn’t make sense for the amount of time I was spending, despite loving doing it. Love is not enough; I love doing a lot of things but only have so many hours in the day. It would’ve been great if YouTube paid enough for me to do it full time without having to chase likes, subscribers, and sponsors. Then I would be at a few hundred videos. So yeah, screw YouTube.

But I learned a lot and got to invent a lot of cool stuff—like turning a Furby into an Amazon Echo, building a rugged arcade cabinet in a case, being the first to put a Raspberry Pi into an NES cartridge, etc. Hoping to return someday with a new channel once I can afford to not get paid anything to make the videos (albeit on a new channel; we sold Howchoo, and the channel was sold with it)

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