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Forum: Construction Equipment 09-18-2023, 03:43 PM
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Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

Thanks everybody....
Yeah there are some Huina conversions out there to make a shovel but not many Buckeye clippers....
Forum: Construction Equipment 09-16-2023, 12:01 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

OK... bout time to wrap this one up... the weather is cooling off a little so I'll be spending a little more time outside...
Just as a refresher this is what I started with...
Forum: Construction Equipment 09-13-2023, 03:24 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

Well... yeah... sort of I guess.... but I'd like it to look close to correct... LOL...
Forum: Construction Equipment 09-12-2023, 11:56 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

I don't think I'm going to get to "wrapped around the axle" on this.
I went back and looked at all the reference pictures you guys found for me and there seems to be some variation to the...
Forum: Construction Equipment 09-11-2023, 12:00 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

I've thought about it.... You would still have to take the cover off to get to the battery...
Not sure how I would do a sliding door because the side isn't flat.. I'll ponder it for a while...
Forum: Construction Equipment 09-10-2023, 11:00 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

Just a little update... been dragging my feet a little on this one, but I do have some mundane updates....
I decided to make "pins" to replace some of the bolts in the boom area....
I just took...
Forum: Construction Equipment 07-03-2023, 08:30 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

LOL I did better before I turned the camera on...
The string is just cotton string it's pretty flexible but it's just for testing I have some black Kevlar string I'll use...
The dipper needs some...
Forum: Construction Equipment 07-01-2023, 12:56 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

OK don't judge the operator he sucks....
First time outside in the dirt, it was really humid and everything seem to "stick" so it's not very smooth ..
I do realize I need to add as much weight to...
Forum: Construction Equipment 06-26-2023, 02:51 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

:D I might have tried it a time or three....It works really well... I was surprised and the speed of the servos and slew motor are almost perfect ... to me anyway not to fast and not to slow.... I'll...
Forum: Construction Equipment 06-25-2023, 11:26 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

OK, I changed the rigging, this is more inline with how the clipper was cabled, still not exact but getting closer
I moved the boom hoist out to the boom tip...
Forum: Construction Equipment 06-24-2023, 12:30 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

Thanks to everybody who helped find this stuff... I searched Buckeye clipper but never saw any of this... So thank you ..!!!!
It's made me re-think a couple things I was going to to....
I've...
Forum: Construction Equipment 06-23-2023, 03:32 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

It does ... a lot... I think that MEVAC ad is the one Frizzen was talking about.. Thanks guys..
Forum: Construction Equipment 06-23-2023, 01:10 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

Sorry Frizzen not sure what I'm looking for with those leads... you have to 'splain it to me
Forum: Construction Equipment 06-21-2023, 03:04 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

That's kind of what I have in mind, plus that's more in line with how the Buckeye was cabled...
Forum: Construction Equipment 06-21-2023, 09:51 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

Time to figure out the cabling.... I made a pattern of sorts for a yoke to hold my boom and bucket sheaves, it's pretty basic since I'm not exactly sure of what I'm doing LOL...
Forum: Construction Equipment 06-14-2023, 03:12 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

That's what I thought also....I may have to take some artistic liberty with that....
Those are about the best pictures I've seen....
Forum: Construction Equipment 06-12-2023, 10:51 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

Frizzen... I plan on a micro servo slipped in the dipper arm, I'll 3d print a latch similar to the orginal-ish and just pull it with some "cable" with either gravity or a spring to help push it back...
Forum: Construction Equipment 06-11-2023, 08:28 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

That was kind of what I was thinking... It probably didn't need them but it seem like a good idea....
Forum: Construction Equipment 06-10-2023, 11:26 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

I made some progress on the drum assembly... I started this part almost 2 weeks ago just took me a while to get it posted...
I started this before I saw the drawings for the Buckeye clipper so my...
Forum: Construction Equipment 05-23-2023, 03:27 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Re: Cable Shovel Build

I keep going back to all that data you posted, looking at the way the different machines were configured. I feel like I have basic idea of how I want to reeve it.
Nope not much to it.
Forum: Construction Equipment 05-22-2023, 11:17 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 38
Posted By jerry56
Cable Shovel Build

Well it's time to start building this.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52917320910_f3d409fe3c_z.jpg

I feel like I've learned enough to be dangerous so here goes my first cable machine if I...
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