Bell B35D Dumper

[Azonic]

**** thats a nice dumper, crazy details!!

You can even control the diffs?

Did you sell the B50?

Congrats!

[jetdog]

That is one very cool dumper an the show you went to looked amazing.... wish we had those here..

[elliot330]

Thanks for all the positive responses... I waited a long time for this beast.

To answer some questions..

Under the hood is very crowded - Battery, pump, valves, 2 speed gearbox and transfer box and all the electrics.

Drive is achieved via an 80watt brushless motor into a 2 speed gearbox. The gearbox has a transfer box built it, so out the front is a very short drive shaft to the front axle - out the rear is a double jointed driveshaft to the rear axles.
All the axles are remote lockable - so has really good traction.
1st gear is slow enough to crawl and has plenty of torque - 2nd is almost too fast.. but is good for bits of straight road.

As you can see from the photos, the scale detail is amazing.

Ref the electric drive verses mechanical question? The b50 with electric drive is much more powerful... but I don't like the way it spins a wheel ( like crazy ) when it loses traction. Again, the b50 had a tighter turning circle due to not having a drive shaft between front and rear. And yes the B50 is now sold, it was a little too big and heavy for me to carry to shows etc plus a good friend also wanted to buy it.