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today is the day it's finally happened mom I've made it I have a sponsored video with Lego look at the size of this thing it only took 600 videos worth of mentions to get it just like a little Lego done clips like a little Lego like a little Lego Lego style ribbon connector both unsnap like little Legos Lego lega lega lega lega lega lega lega occasions the squeaky wheel gets the grease I need an extra couple hands for this video you might remember cambrie she's here to help let's get started so this is one of Legos bigger sets this is called the rough terrain crane and it's one of the Lego technics which is a slightly more complex system of Legos you know for for people older than just children the 4,000 pieces we might we might be here a while we can't rebound what we think is the manual have any end pages back we're barely three step one but we already have some pretty intricate designs going and I'm not sure how this all fits together just yet but all of these little different parts that we're building just snap in together like a little Lego like a little Lego so we've been at it for about two hours or so this is the first instruction booklet and we are this far into it but it's been fun I feel like it doesn't feel like it's been two hours I lost track of time we've done 143 steps 144 pretty proud of this it's big but it's gonna be like 10 times this size so I'm excited to see what it looks like finished not exactly sure where this goes and the whole scheme of things but it should all come together in the next couple hours on to step number two back up to there so this right here I'm assuming is the front portion of the crane so we have this gear right here which turns the the steering and the wheels will be attached on either side here and as the wheels are spinning you can see the gears inside as kind of like a differential so if one wheel let's say this wheel up here is stopped spinning the other one can still function all by itself and they can work independently of each other that's the the purpose of a differential all those gears in the little housing right there pretty sweet okay so it might not look like we have accomplished much with the bags there's still a lot more steps left we just finished number four but the cool part is we just mounted this motor and you can see the individual pistons right there inside and so as the motor turns you can see the Pistons moving here's the fan in front but you can also see where the wheels mount right here they're turning as the motor pumps okay so we've been here for about seven hours working on this Lego project and we've gotten pretty far it doesn't quite look like a crane yet this is what it's supposed to look like this is where we're at right now it's kind of like a huge jigsaw puzzle and I think we've made it through half the pieces but the last couple of pieces are gonna probably be the trickiest because they're all the same color what's nice though is that we have these two massive books and they're pretty detailed this is the first book that we're in and we haven't gotten to that second book yet yeah even though we're not through the first book I still think we're probably halfway there just because by the time you get the second book you have less steps less pictures because you're adding on to the whole structure so after working on this for seven hours it's definitely not like a difficult project but it is very intricate and it keeps your mind and your hands active the whole time which brings me to one of my favorite quotes that I've ever heard by Harrison Ford anyone who stops learning is old weather at 20 or 80 anyone who keeps learning is young the greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young and I think building one of these LEGO Technic projects is a way to keep your mind active and to keep your mind young the wheels feel like they're pretty heavy-duty rubber so it should be interesting when we see them finally on the whole contraption we're making progress so when you turn this little knob in the back it rotates all four tires at the same time also fun little fact as its rolling forward and backward you can see the Pistons inside of the engine piston firing firing is the word of flame we're done so one interesting thing that translates into real-life construction equipment and traffic cones are these these indicators so if you see when they go on a piece of construction equipment like so they indicate by slanting down which direction you should walk or which direction you should drive your car to avoid the dangerous obstacles in the middle so it's nice to see that Lego is translating these real-life stickers onto their project alright this is day three hour how many hours we've been doing this 11 hours and we should be able to finish today we're on step ten and a half just to be clear we're halfway through step 10 there's no so on this crane there is some powered movement and it looks like it's all powered off with this one motor back here using a couple different switches like this guy right here switching you know to drop the legs down or to raise the boom and this motor connects to this battery pack right here if you remember those old-school Lego Mindstorms it has the same style of connector there's these little metal bits inside of the Lego plug and when it connects right here the whole thing is powered and you can go forward and reverse so really to see how all of the gears and contraptions inside of this LEGO Technic set work together when the motor and the battery pack are working so we're about to install the lift cable so it's powered on right now we have the battery pack here the motor and then this right here is a switch so we're gonna bring that over to the side this right here is a switch so we're gonna bring that back and now the battery is on and we're reeling the line in on this spool all automatically what's cool as you can see all the gears turning inside and I imagine if I were to switch this it would now drop the lever out and unspool the spool pretty sweet and I think it's gonna be more challenging to put it all together when it's all one color so we're done with step number ten and we have the whole base over the whole base put up and I think now we're gonna build the arm for the crane itself so still like the interior stuff but it should still it should look much more like a crane when we're done with it so we're 12 hours into it on step 11 cambrie right now is wiring up the the cable attempting to there's a series of pulleys that she's threading it through all right three hours later we finally have the the arm of the crane done down okay little burger instruction at its finest all-terrain we are currently on step nine hundred and sixty seven and we will be adding some exterior some clothing to the crane working now that we finished one of these I kind of want the whole suite of construction equipment ladies a pretty cool stuff all right we are finished how many days how many days that diggeth 17 hours five days it was worth it 17 hours of entertainment a week a Lego had eleven hundred and seventy steps but the steps were very detailed if this fell apart right now I don't think I'd be able to reconstruct it but with the step-by-step instructions it did make it a lot easier if I do this again the crane is pretty sweet and the other construction equipment but Lego also had a few cars one is a blue Bugatti which I think would be awesome to construct so if you do end up buying one of these LEGO Technic sets the price factors into the entertainment of building it as well as having something afterwards you get to play with and have like as a piece of art it's kind of like educational entertainment if you're interested seeing what kind of LEGO Technic sets Lego has to offer I'll put a link down in the description let me know in the comments which one you think is coolest and which one I should do next and I lean in towards the Bugatti maybe I can talk cambrian it coming over for that one it looks cool you have any questions leave in the comments like ice cream or something thanks for shopping bye I'll see you around know also know how we do it what is it thanks a ton for watching we'll see you around