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The tracks were bought on Ebay from (I THINK I remember his seller name correctly) MotoHillClimber

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Here's a link to the complete kit that he offerd on evilbay for the Bruder D10 conversions.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/bruder-dozer...ss!98032!US!-1

Since I already had Sabertooth 2X5 laying around, as well as a few servos, I opted to buy the tracks, sprokets, & bearings from him, rather than the whole kit.

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No work for me since Monday night! With the operating engineers Local 320 being on strike, we are locked out of work. Having the past few days off, I spent some time under the welding hood. I made another grizzly, JD Yellow one that has the Cat Yellow grizz near it.

reatining walls2 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

Also I made a few retaining walls from 16 gauge steel. I used pipe to weld to them, them pounded rebar into the ground through the pipe, to hold em in place.
reatining walls1 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

reatining walls4 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

Here we see the retaining walls in the background that are to be used for keeping the grizzly materials separated, BEFORE they were painted & unstaled.
reatining walls5 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

I had previously used scale Eco Blocks to hold things together. They work OK, but don't hold up if/when stepped on. Having time, I made some retaining walls of 14 gauge steel to place behind them.
reatining walls3 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

With all them grizzlies, I needed more room to store the finished products. I expanded RCland a bit to make an area for them. In this pic the new area isn't yet finished, but is roughed in with retaining walls, & rough filled with sand to bring it to the desired height.
reatining walls6 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

Tomorrow, I hope to get the remaining retaining wall made for the grizzly, as well as finish a fe wmore retaining walls. The area that already has Eco Blocks holding it back will get dismantled. I will install retaining walls, then replace the Eco Blocks in front of those walls. This way if it's accidently stepped on, it doesn't just all fall apart. At least the steel retaining walls will still hold it together if the Eco Blocks are knocked over.

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More video from 7-15-18 PNWSTE gathering. Here we have the RC4WD 4200XL excavator as well as the RC4WD 870K wheeled loader working hard. Between these 2 machines there was a mountain of material moved with the truck this meet.

https://youtu.be/mMM05cyJvrA

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The Off Road Haul Truck in the garage getting some modifications made to er.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCzvXsox5C0

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This week's video clip from a recent PNWSTE club gathering
https://youtu.be/M1ssCdnazmQ

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It's been a busy week in the garage!

I was trying to figure out a way to make sign holders. Here's what I came up with.
unnamed (3)33 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

unnamed (3)44 by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

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Along with that project several more in RCland were accomplished. Those pics will come later this week.

Here's this weeks PNWSTE video
https://youtu.be/FTtNGRLYdEI

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Cool videos. It's nice to see you mixing the operations more through the videos so it's more that just excavating, or just driving.

Your sight safety guy might want to give the dump operators a hard time about operating and cornering that fast with the beds up.

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Cool videos. It's nice to see you mixing the operations more through the videos so it's more that just excavating, or just driving.
Thank-you sir!

Your sight safety guy might want to give the dump operators a hard time about operating and cornering that fast with the beds up.
Safety director was on vacation when this happened. Its probably a good thing he wasn't there to see that happen.

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Here's the link ti this weeks PNWSTE video. This video is a lil late being posted by me. It was shot this weekend, 9-16-2018. Footage is of PNWSTE truck rodeo at the club gathering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phu7EhNz0BU

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Here's a neat idea for RC trucks that a good friend of mine did. Yes we know it DOES happen in real life, but neither if us had ever seen it done in the RC world before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnuSxfxSXAc



This weekend, PNWSTE had a TWO day event in RCland. I already posted some video from this meet. Here's some more video from it. We had a scavenger hunt, PNWSTE style! The video is a lil longer..................OK, a LOT longer (Like 4 times longer) than I normally make. I had over an hour of footage from the scavenger hunt. I tried to edit out as much as I could, & still feel like I gave everyone their chance in the spotlight.

https://youtu.be/X0bOcd6f2d0

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The latest project to hit my workbench! A friend saw my tracekd loader conversion & asked me to do one for him. I, at first decliend, & said I needed time to test out the one that I had made myself BEFORE I'd feel comfortable doing another one. I needed to make sure that the thang was in proper working order before I made them for anyone! I feel that after 40+ hours (that translates to around 600 scale hours) on the lil machine I feel comfortable enough to convert his for him.
9-20-18 Tracekd loader 4 chris by Anthony Kalnoski, on Flickr

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Last weeks video of the fun had at PNWSTE's new logging addition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axm8OKybOHI

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This weeks video, PNWSTE gets new equioment delivered to the jobsite. JMI trailers has a lowbed trailer featured in this video, that he builds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcmRiPQXfGo

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I've been slacking over here. All the videos I'm about to post have all been posted to Facebook. There are this weeks video, as well as the previous weeks that I neglected to post here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mfygoro79Q&t=2s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfCrvYCkXM&t=8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIn5jpsX9FE&t=1s

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This weeks PNWSTE video features the offroad VOLVO haul truck. Watch as we haul the first load in this awesome mini machine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnKzVKnFuEQ&t=78s

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Here's a couple more vids from past weeks. The first one, we'll show how to convert a standard servo to a continuous servo. I use this with my servos that have bad potentiometers and are no longer useful as a steering servo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfrqxVHMOOQ&t=38s



The second video.
PNWSTE is working late at the open pit sand and gravel mine. In our mine, LARGE boulders are common. We've affectionately come to know these as "GOLDEN NUGGETS". Join us as the RC4WD4200XL digs the biggest golden nugget to date.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzDSImx6QpI

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The weather tomorrow make sit so I get a 3day weekend. I'll be out in the garage tomorrow tinkering. Hopefully I'll have some pics of to add here. In the mean time, here's this weeks PNWSTE weekly video update.

We worked late to finish mineing out this mine site. The NEW mine site needed this excavation to be completed BEFORE it could open. The new mines roadway would run right through the area that we were digging in this video................Enough babble from me, Here's the video.
https://studio.youtube.com/video/maeE338iSIQ/edit

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Here's a coupl ePNWSTE videos. One was a bonus video on my YouTube channel for thanksgiving, & the other one is this weeks video.

Turkey day bonus vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTY71JqLq2k&t=7s

Last weeks video. This clip is slightly sped up to go well with the tempo of the music it's set to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cctyqbqULo&t=112s

This clip is this weeks video, it's scheduled to release at 2:30PM MST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcFF...G7eixw&index=4