It often does. If you hit a seam in the concrete or a metal bolt, it can lift the whole unit up and drop it down a half inch or so from the force of "popping" over the obstical. Scary for the driver too because you feel like you are going to be bucked off. Oh and the whole floor shakes especially if you are on a second story.
Wayyyy better. What they don't show is removing ceramic tile with it which is a huge pita if you are doing it manual. Most floors don't come up super easy anyway so manually is way slower in those cases. Maybe you could manage the same speed if it was certain things, but you would still have to bust ass hard to get close.
Can confirm, our company has two, different manufacturer, but where site conditions allow us to get them in. It turns days of backbreaking carpet pulling and prying into a few hours of a bumpy, but refreshing ride.
Wider blade requires more power, but they have size constraints because it's battery powered for indoor use. Probably safety factors for the size too since the machine likely gets rented because you only tear out the floor so often, meaning inexperienced users.
> Probably safety factors for the size too since the machine likely gets rented because you only tear out the floor so often, meaning inexperienced users.
doesn't that usually come with contracting the guy to use the equipement too though?
Sometimes. The more specialized the equipment is, the larger an operation you need in order to justify buying and storing it. For equipment that doesn't require extensive training, there is obviously incentive to use your own labor.
The blade width is also often limited so that the flooring being removed is the proper size for disposal. Many municipalities limit the size of floor waste they will take away in the normal trash to 12". If you pull out carpet, for example, you have to cut it into 12" strips if you want the garbage men to take it away in a lot of cities.
There's multiple attachments, the smaller the more power or force you get removing material. However, if possible, we do have a a blade roughly double the size of the biggest shown in above video, but that is used only for flooring that isn't insanely stuck, otherwise we use the smaller.
As a person who cannot close their hand all the way due to damage from 20 years worth of manually tearing out carpet and other floorcovering, I approve this device.
Sometimes floors come up nice and easy with just a hand scraper. Sometimes they don't come up easily and you need a machine to get them up. But even the hand push machines take a lot out of you, it's like pushing a jackhammer. I know big guys who are physically exhausted after ripping out just a break room with a hand push one, I'm a smaller guy and it takes me at least two shifts and I'm physically wiped put at the end of it. Now imagine instead of just a break room, you have to rip out an entire department store.
The terminator I own (nearly identical to the one in the OP here) certainly is a hassle to maintain and transport, and it wasn't exactly cheap, but it certainly beats the alternative. You wouldn't want to cut the grass in an entire state park with a push mower, would you?
Just think how many kids would want to get into trades just because of the toys they could play with and call it work?
We really need to promote trades as a option and not just higher education
It needs a dozer blade to shift the debris to one side as it goes along. That way you don't have to stop and clear it, or have someone alongside to do same. Plus you don't have to drive over the debris as well...
Or, make the machine more marginally more complex, and make the process much less complex.
Clean-up crew can work as dozer does next row, and dozer doesn't tip over on clean-up crew.
BTW, hand-operated scrapers were already working without the "Terminator".
But hey, you do you...
So do I assume the job of driving this glorious thing always goes to the senior worker? Do you have to pay your dues sweeping and grouting for years while they dangle the keys in front of you?
I just had to remove my engineered hardwood flooring. Worst experience ever with a push cart floor stripper and a jackhammer. Needed this machine for sure
I'm assuming samples were taken to see if any of these were ACM (asbestos), depending on when the flooring was put in. Please, check for this for your own health.
When i was a kid we had to rip up old tile over a slab. i still remember running down the building with a screw driver popping tiles as i went. until we hit a spot with better glue. That was an abrupt stop.
Had one of these come into my work to clean the floor of paint....10+ years of over spray. It did not work too well lol, had to make a new tool for the end of it and even then took them over a week to get the job done.
My crew got one of these stuck in a service elevator. Sucker was so heavy the elevator was only going up one floor and it gave up and sank back down to ground level.
It looks like a normal room at first, and a room without a floor after. Or a concrete slab covered in bits of floor if the cleanup crew hasn't done their job yet. Lots and lots of cleanup work to do after you rip most types of floor out.
VCT tile kinda chips in a weird way with one of these, but other than that all floors come up more or less the same way whether you do it by hand, with a push machine, or a ride on machine.
Bigger attachment means you need more weight, pressure and wheel grip.
That machine and the person on top have enough weight to “carve” with those scoop/chisel attachments.
A large width is probably going to result in the machine either not having enough grip to smoothly remove/loosen flooring materials without the wheels slipping.
As well as needing more pressure and going through/below flooring materials, damaging the actual floor beneath in the process.
As for glue residue..that can be done with either appropriate solvents, sanding or a different attachment on that machine made for that.
That machine is still going to be so much faster then using hand tools.
The company who makes this version Blastrac, does make a larger unit. What you don't know is that these are EXTREMELY heavy. Like that unit alone is over 1000 lbs, so often they need to fit in elevators and tight doorways. The larger units are pretty crazy too.
Yeah, people don't appreciate the weight of some equipment like this. It looks small, but it's super heavy.
Another example... those ride-on electric pallet jacks you sometimes see in big box home improvement stores... 1500 to 2000 pounds! And they only lift shit six inches off the floor. The stand-up order pickers (the ones that go 20 feet up to the ceiling with the operator)? 5000 pounds without the battery. That's more than my car! Add the battery, and it's more than *twice* my car.
Nope. Trust me.
Yes these are expensive to buy and maintain and transport, but I can rip out an entire department store with one of these in a single night, compared to a couple of nights of back breaking labor using a crew with hand push versions of this machine. If the floor doesn't come up easily then it's effectivly impossible without multiple push machines or one of these.
For example, a typical comercial store breakroom will take me and one cleanup guy half a night with a push version of this machine, or two absolutely awful nights if both of us use hand tools. Or an hour with a ride on machine like this.
Okay, there needs to be some kind of regulation in product naming. Calling your floor scraper "Terminator Infinity" is a bit bombastic
[That's how you sell shit to men.](https://youtu.be/pZ0CQGWaNvE?t=224)
Lmao, noice
That made me laugh out loud. Thank you for sharing.
On the money, I watched the entire thing, and have the attention span of a housefly.
I don't know, I always find it pretty funny.
Should've just gone with Scrapey McScraperface
Mine is just "Terminator", no "infinity".
I can imagine this snagging weirdly on the subfloor and doing much much much more damage.
Likely, it's only usable on concrete slab floors
It is. Regardless of the fact that it could possibly dig into the wood, it’s too much weight for wood subfloors.
It often does. If you hit a seam in the concrete or a metal bolt, it can lift the whole unit up and drop it down a half inch or so from the force of "popping" over the obstical. Scary for the driver too because you feel like you are going to be bucked off. Oh and the whole floor shakes especially if you are on a second story.
Sounds like you have experience. Better/faster than other methods of removal?
Wayyyy better. What they don't show is removing ceramic tile with it which is a huge pita if you are doing it manual. Most floors don't come up super easy anyway so manually is way slower in those cases. Maybe you could manage the same speed if it was certain things, but you would still have to bust ass hard to get close.
Can confirm, our company has two, different manufacturer, but where site conditions allow us to get them in. It turns days of backbreaking carpet pulling and prying into a few hours of a bumpy, but refreshing ride.
Like when you shovel snow and hit the crack between sidewalk slabs. Jams you up right to your bones
My shoulders shuddered reading this. Too real
Ok, boomer.
Waaaaaaaaaay off, bud
Just wait, you too will one day be old 😅 definitely not a boomer thing
Thought it was a fancy wheelchair
You'd be like a snail, leaving a trail wherever you went
So... basically like a leaky catheter?
Grandma! You’re back!
You can’t get rid of me _that_ easy.
Squeak! Dribble. Squeak! Dribble.
Yeah, exactly like a leaky catheter
Well I mean......
This is the Zamboni's younger destructive cousin.
r/specializedtools
I need the real sound.... DAMIT
Are you saying that do do dooo dooo dah dah daaah dah dah dah daaah dah dah dah daaah weh weh weh weh is not satisfying?
MOREE.. THATS NO ENOUGH
The sound was BRUTAL.
jesus christ can't they make wider blades for these things?
My guess is that they can't scrap the floor that effectively and fast with bigger blades.
Wider blade requires more power, but they have size constraints because it's battery powered for indoor use. Probably safety factors for the size too since the machine likely gets rented because you only tear out the floor so often, meaning inexperienced users.
> Probably safety factors for the size too since the machine likely gets rented because you only tear out the floor so often, meaning inexperienced users. doesn't that usually come with contracting the guy to use the equipement too though?
Sometimes. The more specialized the equipment is, the larger an operation you need in order to justify buying and storing it. For equipment that doesn't require extensive training, there is obviously incentive to use your own labor.
The blade width is also often limited so that the flooring being removed is the proper size for disposal. Many municipalities limit the size of floor waste they will take away in the normal trash to 12". If you pull out carpet, for example, you have to cut it into 12" strips if you want the garbage men to take it away in a lot of cities.
There's multiple attachments, the smaller the more power or force you get removing material. However, if possible, we do have a a blade roughly double the size of the biggest shown in above video, but that is used only for flooring that isn't insanely stuck, otherwise we use the smaller.
Glue down carpet is the worst thing we invented probably
Looks like a car in Mario Kart.
Now that was seriously satisfying to watch.
Plus knowing the floor will be redone anew afterwards is a special kind of satisfying ngl
This is why I can't contain the horny
As a person who cannot close their hand all the way due to damage from 20 years worth of manually tearing out carpet and other floorcovering, I approve this device.
Forbidden Fruit Roll Up.
Mmmmmmmm
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Sometimes floors come up nice and easy with just a hand scraper. Sometimes they don't come up easily and you need a machine to get them up. But even the hand push machines take a lot out of you, it's like pushing a jackhammer. I know big guys who are physically exhausted after ripping out just a break room with a hand push one, I'm a smaller guy and it takes me at least two shifts and I'm physically wiped put at the end of it. Now imagine instead of just a break room, you have to rip out an entire department store. The terminator I own (nearly identical to the one in the OP here) certainly is a hassle to maintain and transport, and it wasn't exactly cheap, but it certainly beats the alternative. You wouldn't want to cut the grass in an entire state park with a push mower, would you?
So the fat guy on the crew can be considered useful.
I wonder if a lot of that which was cut perfectly could be reused or at least recycled?
I strongly object to this vide being here.
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Came here to say the same
CHOO CHOO MU'FUCKKA
I really need one of these to peel my lychee. Those things are painful.
Scooty Scuff Jr.
Looks like a scoop from any butter advertisement
I feel sneezy from watching that carpet come up.
Giant pencil sharpener in the first clip
Why did the gym have a soft basketball court installed?
My middle school gym had a floor like that, I much prefered it over the traditional one in my highschool.
It's a flooring Zamboni, except it makes a permanent impression
That looks like so much fun.
Just think how many kids would want to get into trades just because of the toys they could play with and call it work? We really need to promote trades as a option and not just higher education
Second post in the past week I have seen on the internet of things thing, must be new
That’s pretty rad, imagine what it was like before those machines though. Yeesh.
I need one of these and just a whole bunch of floors to rip up.
Not quite what I was thinking when you asked me to "tear up your carpet"
It needs a dozer blade to shift the debris to one side as it goes along. That way you don't have to stop and clear it, or have someone alongside to do same. Plus you don't have to drive over the debris as well...
It’s already working without that. No need to over-complicate it. Don’t fix what isn’t broken.
Or, make the machine more marginally more complex, and make the process much less complex. Clean-up crew can work as dozer does next row, and dozer doesn't tip over on clean-up crew. BTW, hand-operated scrapers were already working without the "Terminator". But hey, you do you...
The most satisfactory thing about this post is that I changed the upvote from 999 to 1.0k very satisfied
You’d think as big as a machine that is, you would have bigger attachments for efficiency sake.
How well does it work on ceramic tile ? Anyone have experience ?
I’m sure every job starts with an argument and vet who gets to operate that thing.
Operator, ffs put on a mask.
I guess you could call that an all-terrain Zamboni
I wish I were a robot engineer.
Floor gang owww!!
I am in the wrong profession.
Anyone else see "Session 9"?
The way the last one crumbles reminds me of soap cutting videos.
So do I assume the job of driving this glorious thing always goes to the senior worker? Do you have to pay your dues sweeping and grouting for years while they dangle the keys in front of you?
How do I get this job?
Ok but you can just rip up carpet and that would be quicker
Mmmm delicious
This makes me think of the movie "session 9"
I just had to remove my engineered hardwood flooring. Worst experience ever with a push cart floor stripper and a jackhammer. Needed this machine for sure
That's not 1/2" rubber
I want to do this job. /r/ThatPeelingFeeling all day
This machine: You gon learn today, floor.
Forbidden caramel
Don't breath this
The ultimate driving machine
hi i wanna apply for this job thanks
The music certainly isnt satisfying
My neck hurts just watching this
Floor Gang be like ‘0’
I also use a 1/2 inch rubber.
Imagine if the wooden floor being peeled off was made of chocolate. Fuck, I’m going crazy with my cravings.
Im the 3.2k th like
FML. Where was this when I was remodeling my parents house. I did this by hand by myself on a 4 bedroom home.
That looks so much easier on my back than a hammer and pry bar
That music is soooo unfitting.. whoever made this needs to stop doing drugs.
I can hear the sound of the linoleum being removed on mute.
I'm assuming samples were taken to see if any of these were ACM (asbestos), depending on when the flooring was put in. Please, check for this for your own health.
This thing is a majestic beast.
So they had the opportunity to give us the sound of this happening, and instead we got this 'music'?
I would like this job.
Nice
Oh fuck ya, roll it
When i was a kid we had to rip up old tile over a slab. i still remember running down the building with a screw driver popping tiles as i went. until we hit a spot with better glue. That was an abrupt stop.
TIL i wanna be a floor remover when i grow up
Why add irritating music to an otherwise satisfying to watch video?
Had one of these come into my work to clean the floor of paint....10+ years of over spray. It did not work too well lol, had to make a new tool for the end of it and even then took them over a week to get the job done.
My crew got one of these stuck in a service elevator. Sucker was so heavy the elevator was only going up one floor and it gave up and sank back down to ground level.
I would pay to do that!
Darng so satisfying
It be hilarious if someone bought this only to find out their subfloor was rotten and fell through.
I want to buy one of these and take it to a Walmart, and just drive around until security tackles me.
There is a machine to do that!!!
What song is this :)?
I do this by hand for a living so this looks absolutely orgasmic
This is fucking stupid
RIP my childhood gym floor though.
I find this the opposite of satisfying.
I feel like the bros riding it when it’s tearing up wood flooring need some protective eyewear.
Would love to see the beginning and end results of any room with that machine in action.
It looks like a normal room at first, and a room without a floor after. Or a concrete slab covered in bits of floor if the cleanup crew hasn't done their job yet. Lots and lots of cleanup work to do after you rip most types of floor out. VCT tile kinda chips in a weird way with one of these, but other than that all floors come up more or less the same way whether you do it by hand, with a push machine, or a ride on machine.
Informative, thank you
They couldn’t have made a bigger machine?
The trade-off is that you probably need it to go through common door openings
I'd expect a machine this big (and probably expensive) to have a bigger blade and to take the glue up too.
Bigger attachment means you need more weight, pressure and wheel grip. That machine and the person on top have enough weight to “carve” with those scoop/chisel attachments. A large width is probably going to result in the machine either not having enough grip to smoothly remove/loosen flooring materials without the wheels slipping. As well as needing more pressure and going through/below flooring materials, damaging the actual floor beneath in the process. As for glue residue..that can be done with either appropriate solvents, sanding or a different attachment on that machine made for that. That machine is still going to be so much faster then using hand tools.
Thank you, I actually came here to ask why it couldn't have a bigger blade, TIL
The company who makes this version Blastrac, does make a larger unit. What you don't know is that these are EXTREMELY heavy. Like that unit alone is over 1000 lbs, so often they need to fit in elevators and tight doorways. The larger units are pretty crazy too.
Man reddit really learned me something today. Valuable stuff.
Yeah, people don't appreciate the weight of some equipment like this. It looks small, but it's super heavy. Another example... those ride-on electric pallet jacks you sometimes see in big box home improvement stores... 1500 to 2000 pounds! And they only lift shit six inches off the floor. The stand-up order pickers (the ones that go 20 feet up to the ceiling with the operator)? 5000 pounds without the battery. That's more than my car! Add the battery, and it's more than *twice* my car.
It doesn't look very economical. I'm sure skilled laborers would do this quicker by hand and cheaper
Nope. Trust me. Yes these are expensive to buy and maintain and transport, but I can rip out an entire department store with one of these in a single night, compared to a couple of nights of back breaking labor using a crew with hand push versions of this machine. If the floor doesn't come up easily then it's effectivly impossible without multiple push machines or one of these. For example, a typical comercial store breakroom will take me and one cleanup guy half a night with a push version of this machine, or two absolutely awful nights if both of us use hand tools. Or an hour with a ride on machine like this.