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W900L coal bucket
this was to be done for indy and just show up finished Well doo to reason beyond my control , I will not make it again . So @*&% it , I'll just share the build with you all . I'm going back to the days I started in this hobby and not finding a single component available to my liking ( well almost ) . a little history on the cab shield it was the norm for "coal buckets" in my area to have extremely large cab shield since they mostly hauled coal . I liked that feature , so I decided to meld it into a newer style body make and model of truck will still remain a mystery Well as I said :back to my 1st days " everything except : gears , bearings motor , pump , cylinder(maybe?) all electrics ,lights/bezels , and tires . will be completely built by yours truly . nuff typin
ps the cab is not the 1 to be used I'm scratch building that to . ------------------------------------------------- and Spudd said " werk a lil longer sleep a lil less "
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Re: mystery coal bucket
WOW Thats one large coal bucket. Definitely watching this one. Great start
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Re: mystery coal bucket
Looking great!! Sucks you cant make it to Indy Was looking forward to meeting you. I cant wait to see this truck come alive with your hands its gonna look sweet.
On another note.... that uh COE with the sweet grill on it marked for a chop and a tow body behind it???? Did you make that grill? is that another build or is it this beasts cab?
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Re: mystery coal bucket
Fantastic built! Great job on the axle housings!
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Yep I'm sold this is going to be sweet "like always" Steve you keep amazing me with what you can do..
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Re: mystery coal bucket
Looks great Steve! The pics on the phone that you sent me don't do this truck justice. It's nice to see another coal bucket
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Re: mystery coal bucket
Thanks guys glad you like it
Aaron , no that 1 was parked on the wrong side of town the stol the who chassis the new rails are sittin beside it there's only 4 of those grills in existance made by yours truly . the hood stays BTW Brian : the phone sends crappy pics so I just gave up sendin them yea we need more buckets not baby dirt buckets Like this 1
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Re: mystery coal bucket
Steve, you must be like me and never sleep! Awesome to see you're keeping busy. I can't wait to see another one of yours workin! By the way though, are you ever gonna finish that Mack and paint it?
Reg |
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Re: mystery coal bucket
It works and works well I'm afraid to tear it down to paint I'm trying to get to the Mack museum to get the paint code + take it for a visit
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Re: mystery coal bucket
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Re: mystery coal bucket
Nice job Steve. Always makin' what you ain't findin'. I think I can tell what "brand" truck the final product might be. Keep it up.
Ben
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Re: mystery coal bucket
Nice build Steve, not going to guess at the cab but the bucket looks identical to the 1:1's we had around the Elkhart Indiana area. It was a demolition company that had about 4 twin steer, quad axle Western Stars. They had a lot of other stuff but I always remembered those. Keep the pic's coming this will be fun to watch especially since its all you from the ground up!
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Re: mystery coal bucket
well I'm not 1 for puttin screws all over the place so I made a new floor
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Wow! Nice work. How do you keep so many irons in the fire?
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Re: mystery coal bucket
lookin good steve!
so how long before your producing dump boxes for sale, and how much? |
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Re: mystery coal bucket
thanks , Craig . It's not easy and it drives me crazy when they're sitten on the bench weeks at a time not gettin anything done to them seems every time I plan a few hrs for my stuff , I gotta go some where or the old man needs help . so I gotta make up that time when I want to doo my stuff .
thanks Goose , not anytime soon I did hear through the grapevine that there might be some coming out though .
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Re: W900L coal bucket
Great update! Glad you to see you made time for your own projects!! Its easy to look past them to get everything else done!!
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Re: W900L coal bucket
Steve, the bed looks great. I really like the sides too. Looks a lot like an East smooth side welded aluminum dump box to me. Whether or not that is what you have your sights set on, for modeling, I'm not sure. I don't know what the coal tubs are built from, but it looks really nice.
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Re: W900L coal bucket
thanks Nate , I kinda muti-bred this box most smooth sides around here have a narrowed/short cab protector - none .
the body is pretty much done , I got lil details to doo yet like coal shoot, steps, gate latches, and tarp . I'm not sure about polishing yet thinking of weathering it . I am getting a crazy thought about making the cab out of aluminum or brass body mounted with a temp. vovo t bar susp I'm still up in the air on the walking beam verses chalmers
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Re: W900L coal bucket
Lookin good Steve!! The box looks super scale.
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