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Yes Jim, simple jaw, though I don't know exactly what the offset of the eccentric shaft iis. And yes, the drier the clay - the better it crushes. When screening the fines out & piling the lumps for a period of time again helps shorten drying... but there is some lumps with a bit of moisture within & it does build up near the top of the fixed jaw, I scrape with a wooden paint stir stick. The jaw opening is about 1/4... could go down as narrow as 1/8, but crush time could quadruple, depending on amount of rock quantity & size.
I don't know the conversion on Celsius vs Fahrenheit either... quick google tells me 42C = 107.6F... the hottest temps I've ever been in was during the early 90's of my harvester days, 117F; we circled back to NW Kansas in late July after they had 17" rain in 17 days, I spent more time outside slinging chains being stuck - then getting back into an ice cold cab... I caught the worst summer cold of my life to date! :eek: :( That 40 heat wave caused a lot of crop damage this yr resulting in mega $ losses for what otherwise could of been a lottery yr. :rolleyes: Thanx Tom :) Majority harvest completed a few days ago, currently very wet outside, back in the Lil Giants workshop today tuning up digging equipment & headed for the basement here shortly to resume basement digging activities once again, haven't done any digging in nearly two years. Still have about 5 cubes of dirt to haul outside before winter in a few months. |
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Getting ready for the winter dig season
https://i.postimg.cc/05DWzJzb/002.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/HW90G0J4/003.jpg Swing motor had a bit of wobble in its mount plate https://i.postimg.cc/tCzB5Qtb/004.jpg Added some blue locktite to the bolts & let dry before installing bolts https://i.postimg.cc/HLFzxpHw/011.jpg Not sure if I got a leak or if I'm just pushing the oil too hard making it weep every so little from somewhere... couple yrs ago I changed Jung pump from model# 4002 to 4003 increasing flow 30% to 1.8L/min, a definite improvement to move boom - stick - bucket simultaneously with good speed & no cavitation. Not touching pressure from where it was set with older pump, the pressure did go up to nearly 40Bar... Lots of Q-tips & toilet paper, I got it pretty clean again. Can't see any notable leaks & have never had any significant volume drops in short periods of time the last yr. https://i.postimg.cc/g2n36fgN/005.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/zG6Kw0M5/006.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/k5S8TW3S/007.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/jd8z2s4D/008.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Ssp93jkv/009.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/ZKY8J9pk/010.jpg Put it back together & it's off to the tunnel to finish digging out the walkway area... year #8 for the Beast :cool: If I were to guess the hrs, something close to 1600 |
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Joe, I always enjoy seeing the posts about breakdowns and maintenance just as much as everything else!
Question: you are using postimage to host and display photos? Seems to work okay from my perspective, any special setup fees or other info about the service? Not sure I have heard about this one yet, is it fairly new? Carry on... Jim |
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Thanx Jim. I just go to the postimage site, choose my picture size, set expiration to Never, choose pics to upload, grab the hotlinks for forums to paste here. I've never signed up/registered to anything, don't have any saved album on the site, I haven't clue where to search on the site to retrieve photos I have uploaded... don't care either.
Had a great idea today... used long grub screws for guides to mate upper lower halves together, this was always a bytch lining everything up & my lower back would be aching by the time I got it done... this time 2 minute job & no hunching over it... as I get older I'm starting to get a lil smarter :lol: https://i.postimg.cc/Z59WQCKP/001.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/d3t1j0xy/002.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/W4gh2CZh/003.jpg |
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Off to work, 1st stop is to finish the tunnel
https://i.postimg.cc/c4y3LcSB/001.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/3JXv4Dr5/002.jpg Almost to the same day as 2 yrs ago, crazy weather... most farmers in the area are 90-100% done. ... you don't have to go very far northward & that rapidly changes to 50% or less completed. :eek: https://i.postimg.cc/zfBbctC8/007.jpg |
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i am thinking that your ramp down must be compacted to concrete lol
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Lil giants, needing an Hourmeter on rc equipment since 2005...
With the excavator cleanup, are things sealed well enough to try using Brake Cleaner to punch through the oil & grime? Wow, snow already? Glad you got the crops knocked down. |
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It's certainly as hard as concrete Jack when the dense clay dries out, looks like concrete too when dry with the salts in the soil coming to the surface.
Electrical cleaner works very well frizzen to clean the oil - grime away... I mistakenly grabbed an aerosol can of brake cleaner once to clean the boom on the old 850 & it took the paint off the cyls & wrinkled the paint on the boom. :( Got a new employee for the Lil Giants Constr Co, his name is Ty https://i.postimg.cc/fWmJ1826/002.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/VLF5kdcg/003.jpg ...a friend of mine's grandson, Ty's parents are ranchers running several hundred beef cows about 100km west of me, Ty is 12yo now, 4 more yrs till a driver's license & maybe then he'll become an avid regular to the quarry. :cool: |
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A good excuse to repaint the hardworking and well deserved 850!
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Hello Joe that construction company is growing got an employee now you can take a vacation. Ed:bounce::bounce:http://www.rctruckandconstruction.co...mileys-593.gif
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I do have a new boom for the old JD850, as the current boom, the pivot at the stick is getting pounded out & wobbly... I'm sure it will last a couple more yrs yet Shawn. ;)
"New employee" lives 70 miles away Ed, & no drivers license, I'm not ready to quit yet anyway. ;) Cleaned up the north side of the basement http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psovymeotc.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psjjdrccub.jpg Quite a hunk of iron this old dirt lump crusher is... what to do with it??? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pshc4gccnc.jpg Started digging in the NE corner, super moist here, easy digging, this is where I had a 3/4" plywood that the dirt lump crusher conveyed its spoils onto. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psx58jubjc.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pshfcd2xnt.jpg Haul the wet dirt over to dump in the deep pit in the SE corner http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psauh7i9ng.jpg Gonna start digging around the pit soon, using a hand drill with a 1/2" bit, drilled holes into the rock hard clay so I could rip & dig a trench for water soaking. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psajdttzdv.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psoevm2uxe.jpg Rain showers in the SW corner too :D start digging here again soon. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psbbjbnf5c.jpg Had a lil blow out with the left track drive last Friday, bout killed me to carry that heavy bytch all the back up to the shop for repairs... broke an ear off on one side of the dog clutch, somehow caused a total lock up & smoked the motor in mere seconds... fortunately I got all spare parts in inventory, rebuilt the track drive yesterday. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psudu7cxi0.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psvgwjc8ix.jpg After having spent much of the wkend flat on my back from carrying that JD850 to the workshop, start building a lowboy today for the 4206 to pull to haul it back. ;) :) |
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Hey Joe, Happy New Year! Considering the JD850 weighs as much as the PC700, i can imagine being a pain in the back carrying that upstairs. Ask me how i know? I live on the second floor (18 steps) with no elevator... i really need those crazy expensive dolly's that can climb stairs.
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HAH! you're half my age, should be a breeze for you Shawn :p I took the counter weight off, that's 14lbs I don't have to carry. ;)
Just about done... wire up the motors & make removable side rails tomorrow, then video time taking the JD850 back to the pit. https://i.postimg.cc/65hQMmXc/001.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Vv6K2hht/003.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/QCxzhCFH/004.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/6qmMK0sm/005.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/dt3ff7Mf/006.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/LsK0hNqd/007.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/BbYV63FN/008.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/pdfcjz8m/009.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/0QZtWvVx/010.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/VL2KHDWS/011.jpg I'm sitting on it, 215lbs, very stable & nothing bent. :D https://i.postimg.cc/XNHH9VZk/013.jpg |
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It loooks likw the wagon has powered wheels. What motors did you use to do that?
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I love that your sandbox is big enough, and toys heavy enough, that transporting the equipment from the shop to worksite turns into a logistics issue and needs big trucks with wide load trailers.
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www.mfacomodrills.com motors with planetaries, these particular ones are 940D with 100:1 reduction. Fumotec supplies all his trk models with these motors or his custom made mini brushless motors. I prefer the brushed motors b/c you can put as many motors as you like on one esc; the brushless needs 1 esc per motor & then tuning them all to work together, brushed motors travel faster & have better braking too. I use a 2x25 Sabertooth in the 4206 with mix in esc off but mixed within radio programming. I like to drive with my right thumb, so the tractor is on elevator ch, trl is on throttle ch... tight turns, pull back on throttle so trl doesn't push the tractor sideways; steep hills more throttle so the tractor doesn't spin.
Indeed frizzen, some days I get a lot of exercise playing with my toys :D Lowboy works awesome... need more practice side loading, a little scary the first time. I added 1/2 inch steel angle on the edges so equipment can't slide off in transport, they're bolted on, take them off in the future to load/unload. ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUx3a-WbOx4 |
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A suggestion from another forum, a slight mod to the side rails makes loading the big hoe much quicker with no worries of tip. ;) :cool:
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Thanks for the info, Joe!
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Where can we sign up in order to make your government get your area some proper internet? I want more videos :)
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Love this last picture! Top work as usual Joe, I wonder how much weight is on the back axle of the little bell? :thinking: ;) |
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Anytime Anthony :cool:
Funny Emil :D ...maybe someday it'll get better, cheaper... not holding my breath for it though Thanx Calum :cool: A guess? 20-25kg It's good to be digging hard ground again :cool: https://i.postimg.cc/28zbb4GY/001.jpgbaby boy names and meanings 2015 |
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Axle and 5th wheel are doing well with that weight on them!
Be interesting to see if anything lets go ;) |
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I like that new trailer you made Joe, I will need something like that in the future as well!! Great idea!!
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2nd last vid I was standing on it, going for a ride Calum - probably 50kg on gooseneck & rear axle, still straight as the day I welded it... my welds aint pretty & they never break either ;) :D
Still got all your CAD from the 777 KP? Just make another tractor to pull trailers... what is the weight your front shovel getting to now? Goodies in the mail Friday :) https://i.postimg.cc/Y9M6B8zp/001.jpg |
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A quick bit of kit to put together... had to epoxy one piece into place, everything else bolts together.
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I agree with your reasoning on the brushed over the brushless for the drive motors. Several years ago when I built my B50 no one was using Brushless motors on machines like these for the drive, so that was my only choice. I am glad that is how it was. As commented you the youtube video, love the lowboy by the way.... Eddie |
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What did you use for belting on your conveyors
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Eddie, I doubt you'll ever need to change one, as much as I've tortured them the past 4 yrs I've never had one fail. The motor I just changed in my 850 is a 942D (I think) with a 516:1 head.
Frank had those mini brushless motors custom made to fit the narrower axles on his B4206 & WA500 loader. The brushed motors are too long. My other B4206 with hyds, they have brushless motors in them that I had to file down the "bells" to get them to fit, there's literally 1mm between the two of them, they run a lil faster & a lil more powerful too, bigger diameter bell. I hope you can find time some day again soon Eddie to get back at 'er with your hobbies... and prod your neighbor Ayoub while you're at it, he's been dormant a long time too. Evan, these conveyors came from https://rcmodeldesign.com/ I saw them listed in the description of RC Sparks Youtube Gold vids. There a lil over priced for what you get... the vulcanizing on the belt splice was near perfect, can barely tell where it is, that's about all the positive I can say about it... if I do buy any more conveyors it will be the TeleTracs from Model Tech Winter in Germany, I'm sure you've seen his vids on utube & facebook. |
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Getting some digging done, time for some more "soaking on the north side.
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Looks great joe! Really like the progress and processing of materials. Great inspiration! I’ve got to get some walls and heat in the barn project. Really missing being able to sit down and let the machine do some work via my fingertips!!
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So that's this summer's build project, eh? ...insulate & sheet rock the barn. :D
Yeah it's great, having an indoor sandbox. :) ...though I'm running out work. :( |
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-27C this morning :eek: Got a B train coming today for brown mustard, hope my auger starts. :p
My utube channel got mentioned on some one's "stream" last Sunday, picked up 3400 subs & 600K views in the last week... utube kicked me out of their "Partnership Program" a yr ago b/c I didn't meet one of their requirements, 4000 watch hrs/year... they didn't pay me the $1100usd in ad revenue I built up either... probably missed out on another grand or more this week... my channel is on several news sites & blogs again last week, everybody making money off my hobby & I've never made a cent! Did some digging & hauling yesterday, filled up the X4 HiTec charger in just a couple hrs. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psloag1a5d.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psmby3xofp.jpg Now I have maxed out my Data for this month, 4 days before the next reset. :eek: https://youtu.be/RE_dSJh5bvQ |
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That sucks! Any idea who decided to make it go viral again?
Sounds like good indoor digging weather. |
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I seen on a few bookface groups I'm in they where sharing your story about digging "your basment" with rc rigs.
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Both phones, the internet went dead bout 8:30 last night, reset today :bounce:
frizzen, this guy on stream.me... language warning, the guy is pretty crude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ5IIKtRAkY&t=1038s -35C yesterday morning, need a warm coat in the basement, it's just the bit of heat that radiates from the furnace that keeps it somewhat warm down there. drip drip drip ....soaking up the next cut on the north while I widdle away on the south http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psz8ccuvqa.jpg |
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I dropped the pup, then bound the two B50's together on a DX8 radio & drove them up the incline simultaneously :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJlBg7F8-Go&lc I learned something from this video... 4 brushed motors on one esc, like a front loader or tractor, works fine; but 6 motors on one esc in the ADT, kinda wonky! I always thought since the 1st run of the newer B50 that it didn't seem to pull the incline quite right; and now without the pup I see why. Time for some rewiring. ;) |
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Great video Joe
Took me a minute to think how both ADT's were moving, then I remembered you'd done this before on the tamiya trucks :cool: Great to see the little 450 being used, any videos of the screening bucket working? Calum |
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