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Truly a Russian

If, you’re German, than you should be able to translate this, Du bist sehr dick.

do you think you could put a flash warning for people with epilepsy on this video? (i don't have epilepsy but 0:51 could maybe trigger a seizure in someone)

Great job. Will the commercial version of the Trash Train be easier to maintain? There are a lot of little parts that could wear down over time and become expensive to repair/replace. What is the life cycle of the product? Will there be a version that is usable even if there's a steeper incline? Will there be a manual version in case the battery or signal isn't working? What would pricing look like for different versions? Would your Trash Train company just handle holding the patent and selling the design or would it also cover B2C installation and include B2B app service? Let us know when there's a Kickstarter or website for later iterations of this project. Thanks.

yeah i 100% agree LOL

Guessing this didn't cost a single dollar! Euros, however....😬

Don't forget content generation and the add revenue thats comes in from us watching it here.

Composting and repurposing waste would reduce the amount of rubbish and yield greater beneficial results for the environment. Landfills are filled by people who live in homes and governments are also voted in by people who live in homes. Coincidence? Probably. All I know is the better we technologically become, the worse the outside world gets.

My trash service comes twice a week - so I would get to use this eight times a month, so much more cost effective.

Haha. I really had no other option. My physical energy is limited so I tend to think things through, so there was no better concept.

@@MaxMakerChannel heck yeah, work smarter not harder!

I made it past that to the line that they are only picked up once a month. this is peaklulz I think a tubular rail is a better idea, using a 40mm steel tube which you bend into the shape of the track. This allows you to use two opposed drive wheels in compression against the pipe in-between. Should be far cheaper and the train would not need to be weighted.

@@ohyou_6599 since its hsing rack and pinion now it doesnt need to weighted either

Well there is like 7 of them plus it's fun and a good vid.

"relieble train lines" and "germany" really do not go together into one sentence at all ^^ we have one of the worst Train infrastructure and reliability in Europe. its so bad, our ICE isn't allowed to drive to its stops in Switzerland because all the delays cause to much turmoil, so the have to stop just behind the border and turn around now

Yeah I'm pretty that this guy's trash can train is the most reliable train line in Germany atm.

@@TardThor been living in Germany for 4 years long. Your trains are quite reliable, believe me. In Spain every train will be always late (expect btw 20' and an hour of delay), or it will break in the middle of nowhere and you won't even get refunded. Also some of their workers like to beat up ticketless passengers. I don't think even Morocco could surpass that.

​@@TheDraggerPlaymost of Europe's train system is trash. If you look to the east or south or to the UK it isn't necessarily better 🫤😖

@@TheDraggerPlay Well, this ain´t furer´s times anymore but here in México we still got some German Trains they are bad ass F... but is all poor maintenance

If they don't you can just put the empty bins back on the carts.and then send the train back to home station.

@@kaspernbs 9:43 There is an overlap between people who can live independently and people who can’t lift garbage cans onto the carts. If a person’s lucky, their neighbour is generous enough to help every time; it’s not always the case and/or it can be difficult to ask. They don’t even have to be older to have troubles with this since mobility issues can affect anyone at any age. I hope you’ll be kinder when “just do it yourself” crosses your mind.

Empty bins are not heavy. Also you don’t need to lift it but just slide it onto the platform. Also the bins should be the other way around for easier removal.

Was going to suggest the same thing.. my waste management crew some reason every time will take the trash from the receptacle which i set on the edge of the lawn as does everyone else, but every damn time they put the empty bin directly in the middle of my driveway. So every trash day they come before i head out to work so I get to run into it with my car every time unless i remember to grab it before I go to work, otherwise i have a dent in my rear bumper that matches the corner of the bin.. I thought about making a 5th wheel and adding it to the bin so when i do run into it, i will just push it out of the way to the side rather than having to dig it out from under the car and buy new ones every so often..

@@volkhen0 lulz... At that point it's easier to just take the bin back myself. Added bonus: don't turn my front yard into a mid life crisis train hobby

AND a train horn! Temporarily a tugboat horn would be ok. 🤣

@@Stefan_Dahn And just for historical detail how about a large gun !? 🤣🤣

I would add a strobe light to the engine and lights to the rear car.

@@JoseMartinez-lf5fg Put rgbs on and make it a gaming set up

Hey beautiful, can I ride your train?

You could make a video about them!

to add a thought to this, another idea would be to space track vertically instead of horizontally so that it can run along a fence, but obviously depends on where a suitable fence can be placed, but I can imagine such a solution could be totally invisible until the trash-train comes riding along the fence. :D

Yep, trash can train takes a "minimalist" approach

@@sgtjonson quite literally by definition, yes this was a minimalist way to approach the problem and minimalism is not always about not having a ton of stuff, it can include environmental impact. the impact to the environment when creating something such as this or even our roads for example, all can be measured or quantified, so by taking the solution that makes the least impact you are taking the minimalist approach.

@@hhjhj393 there's a motorized cable crimper that runs on a thick cable while braiding another cable around and it hauls an ~20kg cable reel with it so maybe you can use it for this purpose but you may need something similar to tracks to keep the wagons in place either that or use hooks and trash bags instead of containers

@@hhjhj393 The track was the easiest part. The hardest was machining all the shafts and power transmission things without a mill. You really need keyways but without a mill its a struggle to find alternative solutions.

In Germany this type of Garbage Trucks are not really common, that’s why he probably didn’t think about it

You mean: it needs a selection / points / re-collect system... as in NL we are only allowed to have one container out at the time.... 🙂;-) I do like the one-rail-system (and one pair of swiveling wheels), rather than having a second rail in the pavement.

@@gijsgijs2365 no the truck has a big hydraulic arm that grabs the cans. The grabber part needs about 2ft of space in between the cans or it will knock the other ones over. If you still have a guy that goes and grabs the cans it’s perfect. But if the garbage truck has an automatic can grabber the distance between each can will very from 1-3ft to allow the hydraulic grabber to operate with out hitting the other trash cans.

@@jamesblinzler7421 Yes, similar to the trucks here in NL = we also have one-person trucks with hydraulic arms to grab the container. However, we ALSO have the requirement that only one container at the time is allowed to be at the street (and not the whole train)... This as 'on Wednesday even weeks' they will catch the green waste container; 'on Wednesday odd weeks' the rest garbage container and 'on last Friday of the month' the paper/tin cans container... Hence it needs a split/combine system with points halfway the track... 🙂 and in that case also solving the hydraulic arm issue, as there is only one container at the time to be grabbed. (I would expect that Germany has similar rules... ) But I definitely like the idea!

@@jamesblinzler7421 Oddly, we have a similar system with the trucks grabbing the bins where I live, but they don't seem to need anywhere near that much space between the bins (still need a bit more than the train seems to provide though). The problem is more that the bins need to be right on the edge of the curb. Running track on the public footpath is... not really viable.

That was nice to read this morning! I recommend getting Lego for him. That was always my favourite toy.

Oh yes it’s detachable!

@@MaxMakerChannel And a small wooden hut (garage) for motor partition which protects it and charging terminal. If that hut is light weight then it can be lifted easily if motor needs maintenance.

No, because I would totally get this installed at the house so we don’t have to keep bringing the trash out

As a german, your comment made me chuckle. The same thought crossed my mind when watching the video. 😏

Yeah, but are you the one outside in bad weather sitting cross-legged on the ground holding the drill?

Use a crank handle?

I think the tracks will be the most difficult thing to design. They need to be easily customisable but also cheap. You need straights, bends and inclines. That is a lot of different angles.

@@MaxMakerChannel You could try flexible rails with lawn pins to stick in the lawn or in gravel etc. Maybe make the wheels steerable and guided by the rail

@@MaxMakerChannel something like this? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jLBjm6dyp83WYpc.html *edit* hah i should learn to watch till the end

At that point you might as well make a self-propelled cart and forget the rail

@@MaxMakerChannel Make them like Brio wooden train tracks.

One of my favorite sayings is "automate the important" (a phrase I got from a former pastor)

This could easily be done with a raspberry pi. You could also programme it to open a garage door, wait for the open signal from a endstop, then drive out and close the garage again. Same for going back in. Also with the schedule.😁👍

I will but it needs a easy interface that I can just buy, install and add to my phone. Something that gets managed by a reliable corporation.

@@MaxMakerChannel Nowadays everything is Alexa and Google Assistant compatible. This is so gold. If you could somehow tap into a collaboration with a builder, new houses could be built with this system in mind.

@@MaxMakerChannel does that exist? Have you found a solution?

Thanks for watching! I am glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks! Its learning by doing.

This makes me want to switch from a software engineer to a mechanical engineer. Awesome video! Big things coming for your channel

@@MaxMakerChannel hey think this is ace, one problem I could for see is the switches being hit by leaves, a suggestion would have a very small positive air flow to clear leaves that can be turned on and off, summer would be fine but autumn would cause some issues, a small blue pipe with forward positive air flow could clear the track easily and stop your end switches being fooled. Amazing train, just disappointed you didn't put a train driver hat on the bin;)

@@An-Engineered-Journey best thing about software engineering is all the free material. It's hard to watch any mech eng videos without seeing all the dollar signs flying by

Thats a great idea!

true, but when youre on vacation, you arent filling your trash cans so theres really no use if you really wanted to you could just put them outside as you leave

😂😂 It only costs you 20k to take the trash out

Yep. There actually is a HUGE untapped market for this. The potential could be unlimited…

Not enough to put a timer, if this is going unattended you need all kind of safety systems to make sure it does not drive into someone or something.

I dare say a bigger and more lucrative market is Apartment blocks. They already spend thousands of dollars a year just to have someone come and 'put the bins out' and also return the next day to move them back, all because the residents can't be relied upon to do it themselves. But there are still hurdles to solve... around here the bins need to be placed on public land out front of the building... places where permanent fixtures, like rails, would not be allowed.

And we see from the end stop segment of the video it does have its inertia.

Maybe switching it to require the button to be held down for the whole movement would work - kind of like controlling a stair lift

@@nathansvlog that should safety any safety concerns, and is definitely the simpler solution (and with less components to go wrong). Just a bit less convenient.

Or people could employ common sense?

@@prodbybabygod7411 yeah... Good luck with that!

Danke für das Lob!

Ja , ich stimme dem zu - EINFACH GENIAL!

Glad you liked it! I really tried to make this thing reliable for many years. Still there were so many things that didn’t work. Like the belt alignment or clearance issues and so on.

I think programing a app would be too expensive. Also for the maintenance of it.

@@MaxMakerChannel integrating it into Home Assistant would be very easy. Of course, automation creates a whole bunch of new issues - specifically regarding safety. Great project!

@@MaxMakerChannel Ive seen many youtubers programm overkill apps for the stupidest things. Even i made a simple one like 5 years ago. It doesent cost anything (well maybe licensing does or something)

I really recommend looking at home assistant to help automate this. You can use esphome to script it with a very simple integration, and it would allow you or anyone else who builds something similar to automate it for their needs. You could even add wireless sensors to the carts to detect collision and stop the system.

@@MaxMakerChannel Super easy to integrate it with home assistant, and for safety I would add sensors in case a person or animal approaches

How about we check on our elderly neighbors and see what kind of help they might need? This is the kinda thing thats lacking in the new generation.. nobody cares about their neighbors or respect their elderly. Most end up selling their homes to go live in a assisted living because nobody helps them out with shit. Not even a neighbor who can roll out their track once a week as if that's a tough task

@@floofsale you've clearly made an assumption or you cannot read, either way, I didn't say anything about the elderly, so take your triggered rant elsewhere. Independent disabled people(under 50) don't always want help and it's insulting to them to even think that. Do you have any idea how hard it is to drag a full bin out, when your in a wheel chair?? Because I do. As someone who cooks cares and provides for my elderly mum, by myself. You can shove your comment up your misrable bum. ✌🏻

@@floofsale Almost like Capitalism and the growth of corporations means most people are being worked to death and can't afford to also be a caretaker, who knew.

@@floofsale ​ I mean, the new generation kinda has a school to go learn. So most won’t even be home to help out the elderly neighbor. Also, they have to help out their elderly mom or dad daily.

What happens if you get run over by the train and the misses finds you when it’s -30C at 3am?

yeah usually there are services for people to pick up the bins even some abled people pay a couple of bucks for garbage collection to get the bins themselves but yeah this solution would be a lot cooler

I'm glad you said something because all I do is sweep puke and I coulda told him that.

Now do it!

Or you could put them out the night before...

@@wyomins we tried that but what happened is that people drive around dumping their trash in other peoples bin. in our city if your bins get over stuffed you get fined.

@@Ourjourneyonline that is pretty low.

Fortunately most of us dont live in australia :P

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There he is! Perhaps he can make a sanding-gear that will dispense the grease while the train is in motion.

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Mortein surface spray is the stuff you want

Thanks for the input! Will check it out!

The system would probably include at least two batteries and a charging unit. Metabo isn't the only swappable battery manufacturer as theres Makita, Milwaukee, and Dewalt to name a few in the states. Definetly an interesting product that I could see people using when they have really long driveways as well. A friend of mine lives on a relatively steep hill with about a 50yd driveway which kinda sucks.

This would be amazing with programmable routines. Needing to be there to press the button makes it moot for someone who doesn't need it as an accessibility aid.

Its charging of course at the station. Also this is not just for the collection day, but every day of the week when I bring out the trash or others living in the same house.

@@epicrandomness2463 I see it the same as you. A cable system is better. Have you got ideas how the cables could go around corners?

@@MaxMakerChannel I'm not Epic Randomness, but I think that a good way to make it go around corners is using a ground-level power supply (the thing used in trams), idk if it would be affordable to build and commercialize this way but I believe it's the best way to connect it directly to the mains and without any cables being visible.

I've got an idea for that..... Massive magnets you can "turn on" to retrieve the bins to the tracks 😂

Yes ... our guys just throw the things back in the general direction of where they picked them up ... there's no way they would spend the 3 seconds required to set them back down onto a train system!

Somehow I think this isn’t a problem in Germany

@@mamba101 it is. not a huge problem, but i wouldn't trust these people to set the can back onto the platforms, the ones here sometimes set them back the wrong way around or just vaguely near where they got them

@@Maric18sounds like a skill issue

Well there ya go, just gave him another project idea to work on next 🤣 I would put one and attach it onto the back of my mailbox so when the mailman put the mail in there it just gets sucked up into the tube and the mail man would be confused af 😂

@@Styphoryte actually you put the mail in a large container that travels thru the tube. You just gotta train the mailman to push the send button. The large ones are about a foot in diameter. Believe it or not the usps used to use these in NYC back in the day to send tons of mail many miles between stations and the city has hundreds of miles of unused tubes underground that were abandoned when the usps quit using the system.

Wtf where I live we have parcel lockers

Couldn't agree more!

or even Hey Google take the trash...

Why not just have a chute from your house that goes down to the trash bins, including some fill level sensors, alignment sensors and gas sensors to avoid spills or prevent stink from building up.

@@zipp4everyone263 A chute? the trash bags would tear and it would end up making a mess everywhere

@@KiLLJoYKZfaq if you make it poorly, yes. If you make it so that the sharp bits are on the outside it shouldn't.

I noticed that too. And you're right.

As someone who has experienced Zinc chills, i strongly agree - wear the gear!!

there are millions of people engineering personally .. hence the views

@@TheDogGoesWoof69 nice troll

@@gmy33 Billions of people forgetting to put the cart out is why the views.

@@sandspar :-)

That reminds of a crypto call Iota that’s all about automation for smart cities ❤❤❤

did he ask for ur approval

@@kamkent7880 did anyone ask u to write anything

Well said!

No problem! It has current sensing on the motor. If too much current is drawn, it stops the train. So if your foot is in the way it stops already. Just like sliding gates do.

I agree, this is a really cool project! I was thinking something similar. It needs obstacle detection such as a laser or simple radar (think Lego mindstorm proximity sensors) as current sensing will offer some protection, but one small animal’s arm won’t make much of a change compared to 7 fully loaded bins.

​@@MaxMakerChannel If you tune it to move a train with maximum weight and then it moves almost empty and somebody is in the way, it wouldn't be able to tell the difference right? It could maybe do damage without exceeding the maximum work load, like dragging things (or children, animals) along.

It has a force shutoff. So when there is too much resistance it shuts off.

@@MaxMakerChannel You could play train sounds for the immersion.

As slow as it's moving, I think a bumper would be enough. Maybe a tilt sensor in case it comes off the rails. If you're feeling overcautious, ultrasonic distance sensors are about US$200 each and can detect objects about 400 mm away.

@@PrograError instead of a beeper, maybe a little tune? Like an ice cream truck

@@williamknight9379The garbage song!

Ditto to that!

We do, they are called sanitation workers, or automobile assemblers.... 🤣😂

it would make sense, but put the motors and control in the bins then you want fall over the track collecting the post!🤣

Yeah was wondering what would happen if it hit something. Would be good to have a safety kill switch connected to some kind of sensor

If it's a straight run, use a counter weight and cable.

@@TheRainHarvester Cable hauled inclines can also go round corners! A different issue would be that the weight of the bins would change depending on how full they were so your counterweight would need to take that into account. You'd probably need some sort of braking system on the rope/pulley etc.

Do it!

Because heaven forbid people get incidental exercise.

@@triarb5790 indeed, 'the new standard' is a bit much. Common enough that anyone who actually has good reason to have one can get it at a reasonable price, on the other hand...

@Laurence Fraser No, in the 2020s we shouldn't have to strain or toil. Let us be uploaded to the AI Singularity Hivemind and never move a damn trash can again.

Just wait until they digitally license-lock the batteries and accessories with this "Tools-as-a-Subscription Service" where you have to pay a recurring fee to keep using, buying, replacing, or recharging tools and accessories

@@the_1drummajor Put your tinfoil hat back on, stay off the internet, and go hide in the closet, or else the "5G Death Beamz" will get you... It must suck to live as a paranoid conspiracy theorist... 🤷🏻🤦🏻

Chris, you DO know that there are battery adapters available to use brand X batteries in brand Y tools, right? Not EVERY model out there has an adapter available, but a bunch of the popular ones do..

@@davelowets You want me to pull the cord, chuck the computer out the window and go jump off a bridge? That isn't a conspiracy theory, a pattern of what I just described about already exists with consumer brand companies like Keurig and their proprietary K-Cup pods and their 2.0 machines, Home Depot with their potentially worthless digital anti-theft embedment technology on their merchandising products, Dymo and their 5 series requiring proprietary paper to work with their printers, and possibly many others I haven't yet to name off the top of my head. If you don't believe me just look this all up. While I commend your brutal bluntness, I think you are the one that needs that tinfoil hat on and do your research bc you don't seem to know about this kind of stuff enough here to be making any sort of valid argument.

@@davelowets in the US? No, I did not know that.

Many thanks! I had to choose weather to design it completely in CAD or to do it in the workshop. There were so many unknowns that I thought it wouldn’t be worth it to plan it all the way through. Stuff like the required motor and friction.

But he has several garbage cans going to the dump!

Hopefully one day I can market this.

@@brianyoungberg9904 If it's anything like the situation around here, there will only be processing plants for handling certain kinds of waste (reasons vary, but it basically amounts to 'there has to be somewhere for the resulting material to go after the recycling plant and there has to be enough money in it to keep the lights on). Here, for example, basically any paper can be recycled... provided it's at least the size of a standard postal envelope. Anything smaller has a bad tendency to either blow away or come off the line and get jammed in the machinery. The prescribed solution for small papers is to shred them and put them in the greenwaste bin (for composting). For card packaging, most of it is treated the same as paper, but sometimes you'll get cartons with foil lining or other such things. There's no real practical way to process this, so it goes in the landfil. Plastics? A couple of types can be processed just fine, fortunately the most common ones... but again, the sorting machines can't handle bottle caps (even plastic ones), they tend to escape the line and jam up the machinery. Similar problem with 'soft' plastics. Some of the 'hard' plastics are just basically impossible to recycle. Oh, and if you mix the wrong plastics at certain points in the recycling process in sufficient quantity they explode. So a lot of That goes in the landfill too. (some other cities here have the ability to process More types of plastic, mind you). Aluminium cans are also recycled, of course. foodscraps and garden waste mostly go in the greenwaste bin. Gets composted on a grand scale, basically. Everything else? if you can't reuse it or pass it on to someone who can? it's going in the landfill. A fair bit of effort is being put into reducing waste packaging, but you run into problems when so many consumer goods are imported from places that just don't care. Oh, as an added bonus: one use disposable plastic shopping bags are Awful, no argument... but surprisingly, once you start taking into account the energy cost and environmental disruption of Making them, they actually beat reusable bags made of cotton in terms of environmnetally friendliness. Of course, strong, Reusable plastic bags are better still, and sturdy Paper bags that you can get several uses out of before they give up are better still. (and then there's bags made of, say, Hemp, rather than cotton, which is Much less damaging to grow on a large scale). Also, no matter what you do, you'd be surprised just how much waste accumulates over the course of a month.

Thanks, will do!

Suddenly I am a rail fan too!

That was my first thought when I saw it. Just the rain splattering on the ground will cover them in grit in a short time since they are so low to the ground.

Another (slightly more complicated) option would be to use inductive charging so that there aren't any exposed contacts

Fantastic! I don’t think he does actually, but now he does!