One of our articles on man unboxing Chinese mini excavator went so big it helped him get an invite to the factory in China

One of Supercar Blondie’s most unexpected viral stories started with an impulsive Chinese mini excavator purchase and unboxing and ended with an all-expenses-paid trip to China.

Norwegian engineer and YouTuber Ove Frengen bought a Chinese mini excavator online, filmed the delivery, and uploaded it just for fun, because buying and using it was in line with his YouTube projects.

That video went mega viral and ended up pulling us along for the ride, too.

Soon after, Frengen found himself on a plane to China after the manufacturer invited him to tour one of their massive factory operations, and he got an almost presidential welcome.

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Chinese mini excavator unboxing that changed everything

Ove Frengen is a Norwegian YouTuber known for his ‘overkill’ engineering and tech projects on his YouTube account, and he recently blasted off to YouTube virality.

In an interview with us, he told us the whole thing started casually:

“I bought this mini excavator. I almost didn’t know anything about it,” he said.

He added that he simply thought it would be ‘quite a fun thing to unbox and maybe make a video of.’

Then the views hit hard:

“It went from, for my scale, it went very viral,” Ove told us.

“As of today, it has over 4 million views.”

At the time, he had around 10,000 subscribers, but just three to four months later, he said the channel had grown to ‘61,000 or something,’ all thanks to one slightly impulsive purchase.

Even the Supercar Blondie coverage surprised him.

“I just searched my name… and then it popped up, and I was a bit shocked,” he laughed.

The welcome from the factory in China was unreal

In Frengen’s YouTube video, he explained he wanted answers, especially around quality and production.

“How can it be that the Chinese manufacturers… are able to produce and sell them so much cheaper than the competitors?” he said. “I traveled all the way from Norway to China to uncover the answers.”

Except, as he joked:

“Well, almost. I was actually invited there.”

“They just said, ‘Relax, everything is sorted out,'” Frengen told us.

He and his friend had no idea what to expect, then suddenly they were in a ‘five-star hotel’ with a private driver for the week.

But the welcome at the factory was the biggest shock.

“They’re waiting 30, 40 people just to welcome you,” he said.

In the video, the team even told him that he was ‘very famous in our company.’

After seeing huge warehouses, welding robots, and even a ’26-meter-long CNC cutting machine,’ he said the trip changed his perspective.

“I was really impressed by everything,” he told us.

“This was not some small backyard company.”

The mini excavator might have launched him into the algorithm stratosphere, but Frengen’s channel is full of projects that feel like they belong in Doc Brown’s lab.

His favourite build isn’t even the excavator, it’s a remote-control snowplow, also known as the CyberPlow.

“It’s actually my best project. It’s a homemade snow plowing machine… radio control,” he said proudly.

And Frengen loves taking things slightly too far in the best way.

“I try to do it a bit overkill all the time. Just slightly over the top,” he admitted

One thing’s for sure, Ove’s projects will never be too overkill for us, and there’s no doubt that Frengen Engineering is establishing dominance in the world of engineering YouTube.