Re: Hauling Dirt out of my basement (present day)
 

Hi Lou, I've been doing some tinkering in the basement since spring, but it has been raining nearly every week since late May making it difficult to get any dirt outside, which I haven't hauled not one load out this summer. Working on a conveyer system to make export yr round - so the weather, no matter wet or cold or windy, the conveyer system will be totally enclosed to keep the weather out.

The shop is coming along, in stages... June was the building, then July was the door, then spray insulation. Yesterday the cement crew was here to pack gravel, get it the area ready to pour cement next week. Then it'll be me & whoever I can talk into helping to do the interior after harvest. And finally the electrician to finalize everything... hopefully November sometime and I can start using it for what it was built for. ;)

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Here's a couple of snaps of more excavation from the floor this summer, a semi circle around the outer edges, though some of it filled back in with dry fines.

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Right above this loader is the window opening, where a pit built into the wooden roadway will be installed & 3 various lengths conveyers will be installed. I cleared this dirt away into the hole of the previous pics so I can stand/work in this area for the conveyer installation.

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This is the corner that started the idea of my basement excavation, and seems most vulnerable with soaking up during wet summers, which the darker colored soil is rather damp, to drive on it with the trks - the tires would ball up with clay & make it dangerous driving on the steep wooden roadways. :rolleyes: I scraped back the wet dirt surface a few times in recent wks, then with the screener on the JD850 sifted the crushed rock over it, it kinda works like floor-dry, but maybe not as well.

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I found this lil beasty last Spring just before seeding, it arrived in late May. The opening is 2x2 inch, an inch or so rocks break to dust pretty well within it... they have bigger laboratory crushers available, like 6x4 would be sufficient for what I would want, but too big to put in the basement. This lil crusher will be ideal for crushing small rock & brusselsprout size lumps into finer material to go through the conveyer system to outside. Bigger stuff will just have to be trked out separately on occasion when the weather is agreeable.

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Got a big pile of wet lumps drying out under the west porch, things to do during the winter, then start digging again to fill 'er back up.

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Brought the JD850 upstairs a week ago, the pump needs some attn.. whether it's the bearing on the pump gone out again or the cog belt needs replacing or both.... I've got nowhere to tear this machine down right now, the workroom in my house is too full of everything! no benchtop space, and no where to put that stuff to make room... it seems. I'm looking forward to get that shop done and back to building, rebuilding, improving models once again soon.

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Anyways, it's finally a bit breezy this afternoon, the high humidity of the last couple wks seems to have finally subsided, gonna try another moisture test on my hard wht right now to see if it's ready yet, then maybe combine through wkend by myself... I told the hiredhand last Wed to not come back till Monday and maybe then we can finally get harvest underway.

Thanx for your interest, talk to ya in a month or so. :)

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Looks like you have been pretty busy ;)Hope harvest goes well some people down here are shelling corn and in 2-3 weeks most everyone will be under way. hope yeilds are high price is high and fuel and lobor low:D

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Hi Joe

Hope the harvest runs to plan and all is well.
Look forward to some update from the new shop when all the 1:1 work is out of the way.

Regards

Mark

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Brrrr it's cold outside, a high of -3 :eek: and I've already have my 'change of seasons cold' :( good reason to stay inside & get busy with the hobby again. :)

Last week I fixed my JD850, DESTROYED the cog belt, worn smooth & the motor pulley too, the bottom pulley has some serious wear as well. Good to have spare parts on hand, it's running order again & back in the quarry. Used the 850 a few hrs over the wkend, 1st time since mid Aug, gotta be a new record for me - no rc for 2,5 months! :eek: :D

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The loader needed a little attn., the bolts that hold the cyl mount fell out, relatively quick simple repair... just the kind that I like! :D

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And here's one of about of six conveyers nearly completed, I got this far just before harvest. I have the rollers turned for two more much longer conveyers. This one is just over 12inches, it'll be the pit conveyer. I sourced the belt from a front garden tractor tube, width of cut is 65mm.

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Your getting the most out of our machines.
What will power the conveyor belt?

Re: Hauling Dirt out of my basement (present day)
 

Joe you can definitely find all the weak spot even if it takes a while. What is the shop situation is it finished yet? Cold, it was 22 degrees here the other day but almost 60 today and then going down again good phenomena weather snow not far away. Ed

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Hi Joe-looks like you have a very nice workshop almost completed. You seem to have a lot going on right now but I was wondering if we were going to see the D-9 at work anytime soon.

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Nice conveyor belt!

****, that upper pulley was worn out for real! :)

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People complain how expensive the RC heavy plant is to have, the amount of enjoyment I get from mine makes them not expensive at all. :D

Probably be a 15rpm spur gear motor, bevel gear coupling.

Not really a weak point Ed, that's what a couple 100hrs @ 30 bar digging hard ground does to belts & pulleys. :eek: :D

Yes I did have a lot of irons in the fire this summer and not much time or ambition for the hobby Tom, I didn't even haul not one load of dirt outside. I have to redo all the hyd plumbing & electronics within the dozer... such a large model, I didn't want to do it in the house. I'm looking forward to my new workshop to tackle such projects. ;)

Sure was Kalle :D

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Glad you are back at it, I know there are lot of lurkers like myself that have been going through basement withdrawals. I hope the harvest was a fruitful one for you. I cant wait to see what you have in store for us with the conveyor and the new workshop. It looks like the new shop is close enough to the house that a nice little tunnel could be built to connect the two. May only take a couple of years of excavating to get it done. :D

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Harvest this yr was a mixed bag of nuts, income will be lower b/c of lower prices & lower quality, but still in the Black. By the end of next week I'll have half of it off the farm already, which is huge improvement over last yr. :)

Way ahead of you there! ...in thought anyway, I've been eyeballing that idea since June. Right behind the water heater, make a right turn 10* grade up to the NE corner of the shed... probably call Goodon so I can get matching materials. That'd be a good job for the D9 & pan to dig out. :D

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Way ahead of you there! ...in thought anyway, I've been eyeballing that idea since June. Right behind the water heater, make a right turn 10* grade up to the NE corner of the shed... probably call Goodon so I can get matching materials. That'd be a good job for the D9 & pan to dig out. :D[/QUOTE]

so can we look to see a scale tunnel boring machine at work soon?
you will need two so they can work from each end and will need a way station halfway so you can branch off at a later date and go out to another building
lets see it could be called Lil Giants Big Dig sort of like Bostons big dig lol

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On the Carscoop site that featured my basement story, somebody mentioned tunnel driller in the comments...

I lmao when I read that. :D :D :D :p

I was thinking I'd tunnel under the house cement foundation & keep a 10* grade to get back to ground level so I could drive the equipment out under it's own power, it's all getting so freaking heavy nowadays to pack up the narrow stairwell. Add a lean-to structure to the east side of shed. The added interior space would also be a good spot to add a hotub. :)

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looking good Joe glad to see that you got some of your fleet up and running. i was tolde that mc mastercar will deal with Canadian and ship to Canada if you need new drive line pulles and pelts there would be a great place to shop

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Thats great news Mog..About time Some things I would like toget from them ..wonder what their Taps are like?

Hey Joe hows that crusher working ..have you used it much ?..would like to see some video of it working if you have some

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Shawn mentioned last Spring that was he able to buy directly from McMaster, they sure do have a lot of nifty goodies for our hobby which will be a snap to get now. I spoke to them once upon a time ago and their response was b/c of homeland security issues... go figure?

I've crushed about a 5ga pail full of rocks with it Lou, but with careful hand selection feeding them in b/c of it's small opening (less than 1,5inch material), and some rocks just wouldn't break. Keeping the jaw box full worked infinitely better than one rock at a time.

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Hey Joe, have you thought about building a feeder bin/conveyor to feed the crusher with???? http://www.rocksystems.com/machinery...loader-hoppers
Cheer's, Neil.

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hi joe new to forum but i am a big admirer of your work and how smooth at operating your machines i was thinking if you would get a couple of cheap security cameras and set em up out side hehe you could maybe do dump runs even in winter or atleast not have to ever leave the basement lol.i had a security kit that had 4 cameras for it and it would connect to the computer and be 4 views on 1 mon you might even get to do dump runs in winter

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Thank you Jack, I do like play most of all, never get bored with that aspect! :D Walking up/down the stairs as the trks haul outside is a good form of exercise to keep my winter fat to a minimum. ;)

Here you go Lou, a quik vid of my Geneq jaw crusher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qLCtBQQx-I

And another vid of the activity I'm currently working at, crushing lumps from last winter/summer's floor dig. And towards the end of the vid, making use of the crushed stone for pot hole repairs. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LADs-ig47ZI

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You should find a way to run the rocks through the crusher on a conveyor, or at lest so you can fill it with the wheel loader and the conveyor running to a hopper.

Awesome videos by the way i'm glad i found your youtube Chanel when you where articled on Hack A Day. :D

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I guess I forgot to answer that question when Neil asked it earlier (sorry Neil), probably would be best to have a feeder conveyer/hopper to keep a steady stream in the jaw crusher FullMetalFab. Make another short conveyer like on the previous page & probably wire the conveyer motor to a variable rate device to vary flow depending on material size at the time.

I saw that posting on Hack a Day... the concept of having a radio controlled hobby seems to fly over the heads of many... computer hackers & their Arduino controllers yadda yadda :D

Here's the last vid for the month showing the tight quarters the JD850 is currently working in. :eek: Probably close to half the pile gone already in a couple of weeks, the 850 makes short fun at just about everything.

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Any chance you could share more pics of the D9 ??.....always interesting to see how many of us build the same thing in so many different ways!!!
KP

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That is a very tight area to run the 850 in Joe. That machine just keeps on running like a Deere. You must give it 2 thumbs up !

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Kordell, here's Joe's build thread of the D9 with lots of pics. ;)
http://www.rctruckandconstruction.co...tpusher9+dozer

I wish I would have had this big daddy 850 when I started the basement excavation Greg, would have been a lot more fun than swinging a pic axe for the 1st 20cu yd. :D

I got my RCP57 gravel boxes on Friday, one for the green GL & the other is for the pup trl it will pull. These boxes are as described, direct bolt on to existing stock Tamiya holes in the frame, solder the motor wires & run them up to an esc & you're good to go!

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You got the length I requested Reg dead on, I didn't need to slide it back at all. ;)

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Now to get busy with the pup... not a lot to do, but making my own beefy pintle loop & hook will take some time.

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Very nice setup!:cool:

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You went silent for a couple days Joe and I was getting worried! I didn't know if you were Happy, Happy or cursing me!lol I Am glad the GL box fit the way you wanted! I like the way you reshaped the rear plate too. I took your suggestion and widened out the bottom of the V on the last couple I made too.

Now I can rest a little easier tonight!lol

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Thanx Trucker Jo

Well Reg, I guess you were what motivated me to get 'er done quicker than I might have otherwise... :p

The bottom is 28mm, about the same as the KH & similar in shape to the plate on my R too. ;)

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Reg did an excellent job making those. Can you show a comparison picture of the new one to the old one?

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Update, Update :bounce: We need update :D

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go watch his youtube! he put a new video up today

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Very smooth. Keep it up.

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I seen those when he posted them, i'm more interested in the upgrades he made to the dump truck and pup trailer. :D i really want to see how they work.

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I started the upload before bed last night, takes several hrs for a couple of vids... been gone since early morning hauling grain... you guys spoiled my thunder. :( :p

Like I've already mentioned, last summer's rain every week from spring thaw to fall freezing, I didn't get any dirt hauled out & I am now out of space to do any new digging... everything has pretty much come to a halt with no free space to pile! So I'll pail this small pile up the stairs & out the door & soon start doing some new digging.

This dirt I'm loading into the pails is powder ash dry, to dump the dirt in at the top of pail creates a mushroom cloud of dust to rise above *cough cough*

Reaching down to the bottom to gently place the dirt to minimalize dust has created an interesting challenge to not move the 20L pail with each bucketful. I have less than half inch clearance at the four corners of the excavator bucket. This is pails #14 & 15 and I haven't had a flawless run yet. :D

Probably have another 10 pails to practice with to clean this up and then dig out this small area that is close to a cu/yd of material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAYFVHmXgXI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlBiEyULwb8

I haven't done anything with the pup yet, been tinkering with other projects. The GL screwdrive dump has been working great, finished backfilling the wall a few weeks ago.

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Sorry about beating you to the punch line man, the videos you uploaded last night really gave me a good look at how big the deer really is.

Are you not worried about all the dirt getting in to the screw drive on those dump units :confused: All the fin dust would acted like sand paper on them even if you cover them in grease of thick oil.

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The screw is tucked up under the box & sheltered well... there's no lube on the screw to attract dirt to it.

I was kidding about the thunder, thanx for your interest.

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Question Joe,

The rear rims and tires you have on your Green GL pictured above? Do you have the same tires but differnt rims on the front axle? You may have already posted this info, but it would take days to read this whole thread to find it... lol
Rear Tires - are from what model or who makes them. Rims also? Have to do any mods to make them fit?
Front Tires / rims ?

Thanks,
John

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Hi Joe

Glad you are OK and back to posting some updates. Makes my day frequently to find out how progress is coming along.
Thanks for posting.

Regards Mark

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John, same tires all around, and I think they originated from the Pajero jeep kit. The front rims come from the Hummer and the rears don't I know what they're from. The inner rims are a bit narrower than the outers & are bolted together. The hollow tires are a very hard rubber & they grip really well, especially with each one packed solid with air rifle BB's, I think it's more than a lbs per tire, adds a lot of weight to the trk. The trk gets around great when it's empty.

I tried on Tower Hobbies last yr to find more of these tires, but they didn't have them... might be discontinued. But here's the narrow & wide rims
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXGL03&P=7
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXGL04&P=7

Wild Willy put me onto to this combo a decade ago and has a write up about them on his website.
http://www.customrcmodels.com/id306.htm

These tires are quite wide dualed up; if you were eyeballing them for your dump trk, they'll stick out 25mm each side (225mm vs 175mm stock). The box I got from Reg is 230mm width.

Cheers Mark. :) When I get my garage/workshop done hopefully by summer, next winter my hobby should be in full swing again with regular updates of new projects & new activities.

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Thanks Joe,

Yes, I was eyeballing them for my Wife's dump truck, but 25mm is too much sticking out, I don't think that would look too good. Maybe a future Mack build...

Like your JD Excat? That thing is huge, watched your video loading the 5 gal buckets
and you can barely fit the hoe bucket in there.

Opinion: I'm trying to decide between two different pieces of equipment:
1. The Fumotec PC490. Same builder / designer I believe as your JD, right. Seems like a nice kit, just not sure on the power and noise of the hydro system, hate it when they have that loud high pitch whine.

2. The Carson Track loader. They are supposed to come out with a 4in1 bucket for it that would make loading 'normal side height' dump trucks much easier since the loader doesn't have the bucket height needed to load a taller truck correctly / fully.


John

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Luv my JD! :cool: I wish I would have started my basement project with it...:rolleyes:. The GP bucket is 50% greater width that I made, but same depth as stock.

I would take the excavator, I just enjoy running that particular type of model equip more than anything else. The mic on the camera amplifies the sound much more than it really is, you're probably going to be outside 90% of the time, right? You'll hardly hear it.

The 490's track drives & hyds are virtually the same as the JD, but its overall size is 20% smaller & half the weight. Don't tell anybody, I got one coming, it'll probably ship sometime in the next week, but I won't be starting on it till next winter.