Skeeters contracting services

[skeeter]

This project has been on my work area for the past few months. In my spare time I was working on converting it for a friend of mine. At PNWSTE 15 December gathering I was able to hand it off to him. Here's some pics of the build process, they are in no particular order.

CAT636#11 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

CAT636#9 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

CAT636#2 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

unnamed by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

unnamed333 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

unnamed (333) by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

unnamed (292) by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

20181202_171853 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

image0000091 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

image0000011 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

unnamed (6) by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

And here's the video of the initial test run.
Keep in mind that this machine DOESN'T have any weight added to it......YET!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOHb4SOTLyg

[skeeter]

We got a new delivery at the RC mine site!

https://youtu.be/9nBKUkZQAkg

[egronvold]

Nice bucket!

[skeeter]

Originally Posted by egronvold

Nice bucket!

Thank-you sir. Aaron did a good job fabricating that bucket for his machine. Tried talking him into doing more. He said it was a PITA, & he'd rather not do ti again.

[egronvold]

Originally Posted by skeeter

Thank-you sir. Aaron did a good job fabricating that bucket for his machine. Tried talking him into doing more. He said it was a PITA, & he'd rather not do ti again.

Haha, I know the feeling

[skeeter]

Making a new grizzly for RCland.
https://youtu.be/_1jsyktoEBE

[skeeter]

The weekly PNWSTE video. In this Video Skeeters Contracting Service put their RC4WD 4200XL Cat excavator to work. Two RC4WD 4200XL machines are working hard to keep material flowing through the Grizzly. Aaron's Hitachi RC4WD 4200XL excavator is hard at work to keep material flowing through the grizzly. ChrisCustomRC has an appearance with their converted Bruder Mack dump truck. It's just barely visible in the lower right hand corner of the video.

https://youtu.be/stLSvaHUBmM

[skeeter]

A friend of mine hand crafted in his garage this awesome Belly Dump trailer. I had the privilege of seeing it at the September PNWSTE gathering. Here's a lil video of er in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ViTknkWQo

[skeeter]

Here's the LAST bloopers real of 2018. Some are new, & the remainder are the ones I I have left from revios bloopers reals, that I could still find. Enjoy.

Here's wishing EVERYONE a Happy & prosperous New Year!


https://youtu.be/pR29AX6lTa0

[frizzen]

Blooper reel is great, looks like everybody had a bunch of fun

[skeeter]

Originally Posted by frizzen

Blooper reel is great, looks like everybody had a bunch of fun

Thank-you sir.

PNWSTE always has fun when we have our gatherings.

[skeeter]

Here we see a set of functional platform scales for the RC trucks. This scale is permanently installed in RCland. Shortly after this video was shot, the approach was reworked, & the scale was cemented into it's permanent position.

https://youtu.be/82GSoMLzyN4

[skeeter]

The NewBright tractor conversion works well, but I need a bigger machine to tend to all the crops! I stepped away from NewBright & Bruder for this conversion. I went with an Ertl model this time. I've got the drive function working, but still need to figure out the steering.

JD2 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

JD1 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

JD3 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

JD9 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

JD8 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

[skeeter]

I made some improvements to RCland the last few weeks. With the addition of the Faroe loader, the bunker area needed modified. The old area worked GREAT for the Bruder tracked loader conversion, that has a ZERO turn radius. The Faroe loader needed a bit more room to be able to maneuver. Where the Eco blocks are on the LHS of the pic, that's where the area use to end. I relocated the road a bit so I could do this.
unnamed by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

The OLD grizzly system was too small for the Faroe loader! It was alright height wise at the entryway, but the rear was a lil too short. Additionally, the old grizz wasn't wide enough. Every time the loader would feed the grizz, materials would fall over the side(s). I HAD to make a new grizz. The new grizzly does tricks too. New grizz is half again as wide, & half again as deep, with openings between the bars TWICE as big as the old version!

Since I'm no mathematician, I had to draw the design out, BEFORE I could order material to go farther. Once it was drawn out, then I could figure out how many grizzly bars I needed to make er happen.
New grizzly by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

Once the grizz was put into place, I decided that the hoe tha usually feeds the grizz needed to sit above the plant. This way WAY bigger loader could enter the plant to keep er cleaned out. The hoe was sitting on the floor level, & slightly protruding past the grizz entryway. I guess I need to make a retaining wall to make this new vision come to life!
New Grizz2 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

Now the hoe has a place to sit near the grizz, without being in the way of the BIG loader! I figure the hoe can feed, PLUS the loader has access the unsupported slope of the pile. That way the loader can help feed the grizz too!

The new grizz will be the ONLY grizz in this processing plant! Bye Bye to the other 2 grizzlies that use to sit next to the primary one! Now we just gotta work on getting a vibrating screen deck. HOPEFULLY if all goes well, we'll have a screener to farther separate the materials. Of course with a screen deck comes conveyors.............................This simple lil redesign of the Grizzly area just turned into a MAJOR project!

[skeeter]

The OLD system, & the "NEW" system
reatining walls2 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr


New grizz by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

[skeeter]

A sneak peak at the new trick that the new grizzly does. RcTruckAndConstruction is the ONLY place this sneak preview pic has been posted!
New grizz t by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

[egronvold]

How is the newloader? Lockong diffs?

[skeeter]

Originally Posted by egronvold

How is the newloader? Lockong diffs?

I LOVE that loader! So far it's proven to be a real work horse. In 2 hours of hard work it got more material through the grizzly than the excavator is able to feed in a 6 hour shift! The Pacific Northwest weather hasn't been too friendly to RC machines lately. As soon as the weather quits raining, & dries out a for a few days in a row, I'll have er back in the mine site producing more material.


The loader has open diffs. I sometimes wish they were locked, but I know that would mean an even bigger turning radius. Having previously had ONLY the Bruder tracked loader to work with, turning radius WASN'T a problem when the production area was originally laid out! With zero turning radius things were laid out close together to make for less unnecessary travel distance.

I've ONLY got around 4 hours of runtime on the machine so far. as we add more hours to that count, time will tell if this machine is durable & long lasting as hoped.

[skeeter]

I'd been having a urge to have some RC fun for the entire month! Keeping an eye on the weather reports, the time FINALLY came. We were all set to have a couple of dry days in a row. On December 15th, 2018 PNWSTE had its final gathering of the year. It was a last minute impromptu gathering. The phone calls started going out Thursday evening for a Saturday morning gathering. Since it was so short of notice we only had a handful that could make it to the meet.

In this weeks PNWSTE video, a friend of mine is operating my RC4WD 4200XL excavator. The other 4200XL was recently acquired used by a PNW member. He LOVES his machine. I was busy running other stuff, & passed the remote so all could have fun.

Here's the link to this weeks PNWSTE video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFUc6QSY2gc&t=3s

[skeeter]

This week we'll see the second part of the video that was started last week. Perhaps I'm a bit biased, but this is my favorite part of the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JO...ature=youtu.be