1/16 Bucyrus-Monighan Walking Dragline

[Southgate]

You guys are giving me a headache.

I mean that in the nicest way. I've loved big equipment all my life, and have modeled in 1/25 scale for most of it. I get plenty of respect for my work on the model forums, but I get here, what, a couple days ago now. I feel like such a runt! Looking at this stuff just blows me away.

This machine and others I've seen here makes me realize that I will have to considder this a whole different league than what I'm in, but I can certainly appreciate it none the less. Dan

[9W Monighan]

Originally Posted by Southgate

You guys are giving me a headache.

I mean that in the nicest way. I've loved big equipment all my life, and have modeled in 1/25 scale for most of it. I get plenty of respect for my work on the model forums, but I get here, what, a couple days ago now. I feel like such a runt! Looking at this stuff just blows me away.

This machine and others I've seen here makes me realize that I will have to considder this a whole different league than what I'm in, but I can certainly appreciate it none the less. Dan

This machine gives me a headache now and then considering the thousands of hours I've spent designing documenting and machining. But when I took it out to show how it digs all that was behind me other than walking it into place. That gets a little tedious. It definitely needs 2-3 people watching what's going on. I know now I have to weld the cleats on the bottom of the shoes too. If it walks up much of a grade it slips especially if there's not enough dirt under a shoe. My owners manual says: not to walk a new machine up more than a 7% grade and once broken in no more than a 10% grade. I think we were a bit over that in spots.

[9W Monighan]

Here's a flashback to a time consuming job building my swing gearboxs. I still need to machine the second housing though but the machine performs perfect with only one. I have drawings of the real gearing and I made the gears exactly only 1/16th scale.