Saskatchewan man digs out his basement with remote-controlled mini trucks and tractors

This is going to take a while.

For the past seven years, a Saskatchewan man has been digging out his basement using radio-controlled scale model trucks and tractors.

The mini trucks move just eight to nine cubic feet of dirt per year. The man, known only as Joe, doesn't mind, as he's "in no hurry to finish."

"It's been a great hobby thus far, dreaming up—building all sorts of different miniature equipment from kits or from scratch for this 'mining' project. If it wasn't for this mining project I probably would have lost ... interest in [radio controlled models]," Joe wrote in a Scale 4x4 R/C forum post.

"What better place to have an all-weather playground than under your house? It's just a few steps away when I have time for it, it's a comfy play to be when it's —30° outside," he told Carscoop.

Watch a series of videos on Joe's basement progress here.