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Next step: Make tank gloves and a turret backpack to go with them and become one with the tanks

Hey, a figure skater and rollerblader here. The balance problem can probably be dealt with by changing your stance. You should have much better balance by putting 1 foot forward and one foot back. That will give you a much longer base forwards and backwards and allow you to deal with the hill and obstacles much better, as well as stop you tipping over when you stop

I’m impressed with how many ideas you have come up with and that you can actually build it.

Now that’s how you grab someone’s attention with just a title. Love the content.

Bootlickers: 👁️👄👁️ I’ll take your entire stock

You've got the right idea, they're just too short- make them longer like skis and drop your feet down lower by using smaller 'road wheels'.

Bro just revolutionized travel, he's just being modest

I do, in fact, read these lol. Also maybe take a page out of a halftracks book and mount two wheels in front that you either swivel with your feet, like a bike handle bar for your feet, or freely rotate. These would provide some much needed stability and keep the military theme. Good luck man!

I would add a wheelie bar at the back and footrests further in the front, and probably incline the back of the seat a bit.

Great video! If you made 2 mini tanks and a bigger frame to connect them, you can have a giant longboard tank!

Tank Boots + Gravity jetpack is great. Also track chairs are perfect

Longer Tracks. If you quadruple the length of the tracks it will stablize them. Then bring in bindings down even with the center line. Final idea would be to replace the ridged plastic wheels with small pneumatic wheel barrow/cart tires. Should be more like walking in mud. Use an arduino to control the tire pressure based on terrain type. Thank again, loved the episode.

I believe the drill you used has a special feature which brakes the drivetrain when the trigger is released. You might rather use one which doesn't have this feature, so that the motor winds down more gradually.

There is potential with this to be great. I'd say the biggest way to improve these would be to make them shorter but longer, like skis. Using smaller wheels and a longer platform would have greater stability and less risk.

The fact that I never really realized those $40 drills are a crazy good deal is kinda funny. Now I’m wondering what else I could power with them. You could make some insane power wheels upgrades for like $100

I really appreciate the way you are always able to push your projects right up to, but not over, the line of safety. As much as I enjoy learning about engineering through your projects I enjoy learning about your process even more

“Like a hesitant monkey at a computer” joel you kill me 😂 Sick video dude!

Great invention, Joe! I invented a similar silly thing with the same snowblower track. A motorized Swiss sled. Instead of a power drill I'm using a bicycle hub motor. If you are in Switzerland, feel free to try it out :)

I think to get the kind of use you seem to be looking for out of tank boots they'd have to be longer tracks, like short ski's rather than everything directly under you like skates.

You should send these to Eddy Burback and he can compare to the moonwalk shoes he didn't like.

Great video Joel! This invention is ahead of its time. I would LOVE to see foot pegs and peddles for tank steering + throttle! If you want try more with the boots, maybe find treads on a smaller wheel base. You wouldn't go as fast but the surface contact would be identical.

🎵 The shin bone is connected to the ... ski boot 🎵 the ski boot's connected to the ... tank tracks 🎵 and that's how we move around 👐👐

All new all-terrain roller skates BABYYYYYYYYYYY And almost we got it working but hey at least we go a chair tank or butt tank or mini tank

Top tier craftmenship! Make an RC mower! but one that can mow anything at full movement speed!

Un-motorized tank boots have been around for a while! Some crazies back in 80s decided they wanted to ski, but there wasn't any snow. So they made tracked skis for usage on grassy hills. Definitely not great to use, but better than not ski-ing I guess.

you made a tracks platform, now maybe try doing robotick tank platform? some drone to transport maybe supplies, or wounded people at lockal airsoft field

i think if you built this based on rctestflight's snowcat design it might work better, implying the tracks and frame can somehow take the weight. the snowcat looks a bit slimmer and you can adjust the tracks to be wider to have a lower center of gravity and a wider base on each boot

That comment about offroad skis, along with a comment in the comments section about attaching ski poles to the controller handles got me thinking... What if you adapted this concept into actual powered offroad skis? Make the treads much, much longer and flatter, a bit skinnier, and well just generally ski shaped. Attach the controllers to ski poles, and keep the ski boot system. Boom, now you've got skis that can go on a lot of surfaces that normal skis can't, and they'd also have their own power so cross country might actually be fun for once.

Love it Joel! Great Job!

Standard tank treads can articulate up and down for getting over rough terrain. Maybe a V2 with some articulating joints and longer tread to make bumps easier to handle?

What if you added stabilizer wheels to the front and back? I think the main thing causing you to fall over is the short wheelbase.

Uh oh, he put on the hat at the end. Wisconsin Winter Joel is coming.

How to learn to Rollerblade .... Hahah

I have some ideas. 1-adding some back wheels that are slightly above the groind on the back will help catch you when falling 2- making a longer front to rest your legs on seems like a good idea for comfort Great video though!

I think the tank chair might benefit from having the controls affixed to the sides, at about the position you were already holding them, so you can use them to hang onto the chair.

These will be perfect for use at my local ski club where a 10min walk across a feild is required before skiing! - I can go straight from ski tanks to skis with 100% compatability with my own ski boots. No change of footwear required!!! AWESOME!

i feel like the only way they could work as boots is: wider tracks and wheels, the front wheel being the drive wheel and possibly a longer frame with a middle suspension bogie to not only keep the track tight against the ground, but also to possibly help get over things, but then again im not all to good with physics i just love tanks

looked very fun at the end. good work.

I think the best improvement you could make for the tank chair (patent pending) is if you could stretch your legs out. Extend out the front to include some foot rests on top of a large swivel caster

From riding EUCs, I'd say the number one issue here is your locked ankles. Not being able to actually lean forward to keep your center of balance correctly, that's a big issue. Considering I want to make a vehicle with similar features though, this is... actually a pretty useful video for me. I shall learn from your failures and learning experiences!

Very good call on the safety call-off. I knew a guy who died instantly falling backwards on rollerblades and banging his head on the pavement. Also, honestly, scale it up, put a chair on it, replace the off-road wheelchair that some company made that was great but broke too easy and they never supported properly (iirc)

You could mount the triggers to the sides of the “mini tank” to give a more stable feel to it and then you could also add a canon to the front

Really cool project, thanks Joel

once the complete mini tank is done, make it modular to convert back into boots

Absolutely epic man

These are so cool! Would it potentially solve the balance problem if you were to add a layer of more flexible materials like springs or a gimbal-like mechanism where your feet go so they wouldn’t be locked to staying parallel with the treads?

That hill in Elver Park doesn't seem steep until you're lugging a sled back up to the top for the fifth time that day :D

Hey brother, first video I've ever seen of yours. The algorithm really knew me when it suggested this video. I cannot wait to see tank chair v2. Please keep making things. I can't wait to see you on the Safety Third Podcast in less than a year because that's your crowd for sure!

from bad rollerskates to fun moving chair, what a journey

This is beautiful

awesome video thanks joel

I have that same snowblower! I'm slowly working on making it radio controlled.

This is Awesome!

That second configuration where you sit on it reminds me of the Goliath tracked mine from WW2.

as the words of my favorite blue genie go "INFINITE COSMIC POWER, itty bitty living space" very accurately describes the prototyping phase and i love it

At the start of the video right away I could see the main issue is that your center of gravity is too high, I have an idea that would solve that and still be boots. You'd have to source new tracks.. but two tracks half the width, but on both sides of your boot. with a platform maybe level with the wheel bearings, or a little lower, like a real tank. I feel like this would give you much more of a Grounded feel.

you made me laugh more than I laughed in days thx

I mean, the next logical step is a tank sled/luge. You just need one more mini-tank and a gurney, basically.

these are insane, just imagine if hese able to make them as long as actual skiis you genuinely could skii in any place or season

YES! Please make it into something radio controlled awesomeness!

Elver! I haven't been there in years. Super fun video!

my thoughts at just about every step of the way are that you need to just put heavier wheels inside those tracks to ensure bigger surface area as well as lower the center of gravity. if that's not enough you can drop a couple weights in there too

they also make a ride on attachment for those hover boards would give you a place for your feet and a stable sitting platform

8:13 "let's take these to the steepest hill in town" jump cuts to literally just a field with a 1% grade

you need a skeletal structure that goes from the base of the boots connected going up your legs and then wraps around to a small seat when you bend your knees the skeliton locks and becomes a seat to balance out your weight this plus kick stand wheels that shoot out backwards when you lean to far back. With this you can add more speed.

Mount the controls to the mini tank on short metal standoffs and that would give your body leverage over the rotation of the vehicle and stabilize your upper half a bit. An extension out the front with offroad caster wheel(s) and a tray for your legs would further stabilize it and move the center of gravity slightly forward to negate backwards rolls. It'd basically be a tracked truck like those old WW2 vehicles.

I love that you’re right by my home for these tests, I sled on that hill every year :D!

I think the idea was really cool and fun, i also think that by modifying the design of the tank treads you could make them easier to use and reduce the "tipping" that you were experiencing. There is definitely a way to optimize this to make it useable and practical but of course that would cost significant amounts of money and you'd have to make this your main project for a long time before coming out with a viable version.

So fricking cool!!

Trapazoid the wheels some, add a foot rest and (and arguably or) tip the chair back a bit to allow easier leg extension. For standing (or sitting) the use of a bracketed set of smaller wheels to the frame to allow some rocking would assist with a ridged double hinge (to allow bending) in the foward and aft sections would also help with stability.

Try putting the tank seat on your lower legs and separate ones on your hands so you can crawl on your hands and feet/legs. You will have more traction, more stable since you got 4 contact points and lower center of mass

Fantastic title. Fantastic redesign

Perhaps longer tank tracks could helpfor the boot design? Like their current length x2, bringing it closer to those very short skis. Though that might bring some other problems with it.

add some kind of stirrup to put your feat in attached to the seat and put the controls in the foot pedals

brilliant

I didn't think I needed any more channels like this. I was wrong.

now he is THE TANK MAN

looking forward to tank mini

I think having some ski poles with the controllers in the handles would work a lot better. Neat idea!

mini tank chair goes hard

LOL!! I'd almost forgotten what it was like to laugh so hard at ingenuity while still being outrageously impressed! I love your channel!

yes, we do read that part Joel

They need to be longer.

This dude just made the Manntreads irl

sick bro

With these boots you should make them into a real mini tank

The perfect level of genius and ridiculous

Maybe add two sets of tracks on each boot for balance purposes. Although the idea isn't bad. This would be good for SAR purposes. I could see this working.

Super fun! Maybe grab you one of those mechanics boards they use to slide under cars and slap those treads to it?

Nice save with the chair. Ya. It’s a winner

9:47 YAY THE HAT

footrest, wheelie bar, and mount the triggers to arm rests

Super cool dude👍

Very cool

I love your videos!

My knees hurt after watching this video!

Full rebuild. Extend the track two inches on front and back. Use boots that will let your ankles flex back and forth. Then you can stagger your stance and have your feet more in front of, and behind your center of gravity.

i literally had a dream about boots with snowmobile tracks 10+ years ago and ive been thinking about how to make them for so long now. i thought of them as rollerskates for snow. i imagined them to be essentially in neutral until you apply power to them, kinda like a boosted board. i also thought of implementing balance controls like a hoverboard, but on two feet i dont think that would work. something like a wireless remote with a throttle and brake system might be the way to go imo. i think im gonna try to make the design ive been thinking about all this time now that ive seen someone else try it lol

Awesome.