Cable excavators of the 1940's and 50's

[rustybucket]

Hi Jens, Sorry I mised you and thanks for your interest. With a bit of luck we'll have a chat at this years show when I hope to have a lot more progress.

[modelman]

Hi Geoff-any progress on the "Limaron Shovel"?

[rustybucket]

Hi Jens,
Thanks for you comments and your interest. Sorry I missed you at the show. Perhaps we will meet up this year when I hope to have a lot more progress. I did send a reply to you posting a while back but it seems to have got lost in cyber space so you probably didn't get it. Where are you from. If you are local give me a call when you're in the area.

Geoff

[JensR]

Thanks Geoff
You posted to the thread all right - I forgot to reply
I'm from Bath. I hope to have my grader painted this spring, but who knows...
Looking forward to your progress!

[rustybucket]

Why is this forum so hard to get back onto and upload fresh pictures. All I get is a notice saying I don't belong to any groups. How to I belong to a group. Most of them are trucking I am not. I have been absent because of slow progress on my project but now, like Arnie, I'M BACK' . But I cant upload. If this state of affairs carries on I'm gonna throw my rattle out of the pram.

[JensR]

Hi Geoff,
I wouldn't know how it works, I have my images stored on another website and just link them. Hope someone can help you!

Cheers
Jens

[Lil Giants]

I see you have 60 pics in your album now... as far as I know we don't offer unlimited storage here.. it's a convience to get you started, but at some point you'll either have to delete old photos in your album before adding new ones or use a photo host site to link photos to the forum.. like photobucket.com. It's free to use.

[9W Monighan]

Please hurry and get a photo sharing site started. I use Imageshack for mine. I'm anxious to see your latest progress.

[Jared]

Ditto what Steve said! I use Photobucket.

[Dieselholic]

Wow that looks amazing

[jack van]

This is going to be got to see this all the way to the end

[bartles]

Between Rustybucket, modelman, and 9W's work I am beginning to get cold feet about my little 3/4 yd dragline project! Just kidding, what wonderful craftsmanship guys! I agree, the cable machines from the US built a lot of miles of interstate, autoban, and countless other highways around the world. They required great skills to build and to operate them.....we sort of lost out to joysticks and hydraulics along the way!!

[shedgnome1]

I was on the forum some while ago with pics of my hybrid 1/8 scale Lima/Marion cable shovel. For some reason the got deleted and I couldn't get back onto the forum. I'm here now in disguise as a shedgnome. Some progress made since last time which I hope to post now or very shortly

[modelman]

Nice to see you back at work j-er-I mean shedgnome1. Keep the pictures coming.

[sparkycuda]

I remember the original thread - very impressive work. Keep up with the work and pics!

Ken

[shedgnome1]

Thanks guys I'll try and put some more pics up shortly. Last time there used to be a way of creating an album but I don;t see it this time? I also have two other queries.

A request to be a friend which I have tried to respond to but I'm not up on social media and the instructions on the page are confusing ?

I have over the years accumalated a surplus of excavator manuals and other books etc. Now willing to part with two shelves full at reasonable prices to give me some space. Is there a facility onthe forum for such exchanges - Huh?

[kerst]

That looks really nice. Beautiful machining.
At which exhibition were these pictures taken?

kerst

[Lil Giants]

What was your prior username & name of project thread?

[9W Monighan]

Very nice as expected from you. I too was wondering why we have not seen any updates on your build.

[shedgnome1]

Thanks once again for your kind commments. My former thread was cable excavators of the 1940s and 50s. Rusty bucket was the name but like I said all the pictures got wiped so there's nothing there anymore. Progress has been made since then although some of the jobs have taken a long time, like developnent of the sideframes which took over 12 months. The pictures were taken at the annual Bristol model engineering exhibition which once again will be in August. I hope to be there but now have a smaller car with less room and Limaron is getting very heavy and it may be difficult getting there since I don't belong to any clubs.

In the meantime I will put up some random pictures while I get on with a couple of components for the front drumshaft which also carries the propel gears and dog clutches for selecting crowd or propel drive. Watch this space.