Homemade dolly tests... clips in queue

Here is a test video my dad and I made with the new dolly we built over the last few days. The dolly works pretty good, but if it isn't on a flat surface you get a little bit of bumpyness.


http://www.vimeo.com/1767351
https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/244753

another one

http://www.vimeo.com/1770408

Looks cool Scott.
Do you have a photo of the dolly you built?
can't wait to see the videos you have in queue.
Jake

You can kinda see the whole thing on the vimeo video of my dad and I. It was made with 8 roller blade wheels, 1.5" angled aluminum. I used the bolts from the roller blade wheels and just put 5/16 nuts inbetween the rail and the wheel to give it more space between so the wheel would ride more on the 90 degree opposites of the pipe. I'll take some pics of it and post them. Construction took about 1-2 hours, about $ 50 .

My Idea may not work for some of you,
A motorized (battery operated ) wheel chair will do a pretty good job. Specially when you are shooting indoor. If you lower the air pressure a bit, It will be smooth and fluid. and its goes any direction you may want.

Theiven

Sweet..! I am working on a few other concepts also. Got my foldable one in yesterday and may order another to make a couple of variations. One with fixed wheels, and one with loss and twistable wheels.

Hey your dad is almost as good an actor as Jake ;)

Yea, I saw the talent when he did the scary walk around as if he was going to rob my house.

Or were you implying that Jake is my real dad?

And the emmy goes to..........
Yep, your dad is a pretty good actor.

Nice tripod Scott.
And I can't claim to any elses dad. Too many people are trying to come to me with that thinking there going to get my millions LOL

Hey guys, I have power back at my place. I have a back log of work to get done here and upload. Man, its good to be back in the real world.
Jake

The tripod legs are older bogens. The fluid head works pretty good, its an mk2 or something :-). I need to buy more track for my system to get some longer roll shots.

To anyone who has one of these, I have a question:

How do you keep the track underneath from 'creeping' or slipping. Sometimes in a scene I can feel like the pvc 'settling' in the ground. I usually run it by 2 or 3 times to try and get it out of there. I was thinking some sort of rubber foam along the bottom side of the pvc?

I haven't used mine outside yet but I have heard of people putting 1x4 boards under the PCV. Kind of like a railroad track.

Jake