Unit Cable Hoe

[SmallHaul]

Jared, Thank You so much far all the info! I think I understand all of the cabling now after looking at the first diagram.



The only problem is the routing of the cables are compounded 2 times which would reduce the drum speed twice and that would slow everything down too much. In my second video loading the Mack truck with the pulleys added the cables are compounded once (cutting the speed in half) and the digging speed is just right. So, I'll just have to setup the jack boom a little differently on the model.

Joe, thank you very much.

Map gas burns a lot hotter than butane or propane and when brazing aluminum it sucks the heat up real bad as you can imagine. Even using Map gas it took a while to heat the hoe bucket up enough to flow the alumarod.

[9W Monighan]

Scott I'll be sending you an email with several pages from a 22RB operator book. And several photos from a 10B 14B 15B parts books. I need your email.

[SmallHaul]

Steve, that would be great. PM sent.

[SmallHaul]

Steve, the pics you sent me look great. Thank You.

I was going to start making a nice looking boom & stick next but, I am going to make up the Jack/Auxiliary boom first and get that working properly. The more I look at all the info I can see why the hoist drum cable is compounded 3 times...it is because the pulley at the top of the stick is so close to the pivot point you need 3 times the power to pull it up and it will rise 3 times as fast because it is so close to the pivot point. But....when I tried moving the pulley attachment closer to the pivot point it made it much harder for the stick to extend all the way? It could be the fact that I am running it without a Jack boom (hoist cable too low of an angle) that is causing the extension problem. I'll keep experimenting.