1/16 Bucyrus-Monighan Walking Dragline

[9W Monighan]

We walked up the planks, Scott,Ed and my son Mike all helped. Scott and Mike had to squeeze the shoes to the planks like when I stepped on the shoe in the video for traction. I had a low voltage problem too going up and couldn't get the cams to lift the machine,probably because we ran a little cord over 50' because we didn't have our own drop from the ceiling yet. Two of my buddies, one who worked on real draglines for years sat by and watched. They said; "when ever your ready Steve let us know I guess they wanted to help lift it up there
I'm going to do the math and see how I can remedy the hoist problem. I think I'm running right on the borderline with the current draw. When the point sheave is made it will be 3-5/8''dia. vs the 1-1/5'' one now that should help some. The dirt we had was really heavy too. I definitely need to make the cleats on the shoes and it should walk nicely on dirt then.