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[Stuff]

lol! Remember, Call Before You Dig!!

[ihbuilder]

Joe, which company did you get the middle tire from ? looks perfect for something I have in mind .

[Lil Giants]

The blueprints only show one honey line below ground Rvjimd, everything else is above ground.

Steve, I got them from ric when I was at his house in Jan '06... I don't know where he got them... I only have the four.

[JDH429]

That's a nice size boulder you unearthed there. I'm sure when you first hit it you felt a bit excited to see if the 850 may have a challenge in its path. But doesn't look like it broke a sweat.

[Lil Giants]

The excitement ...I guess it does make me smile at the abilities that this model has... I haven't touched the pic axe in two yrs!!!

[WhiteWolf McBride]

Mebbe Ric would chime in and identify it...

I agree as well, that tire looks favulous for a few ideas, got any specs on it, like OD/width and rim it would fit on?

I'm looking for alternates for my Robbe 6x6 amphib, and that looks sweet for my project.

Then again, so does the smaller one on the right...

WhiteWolf

PS: that pipe along the wall looks rather rusty... may wanna look into replacement before it 'lets go' on you and floods you in YUCK.

[Lil Giants]

It's cast iron! it's not going to corrode.

[Stuff]

Joe! I went through the whole thread but I think what I am looking for was back on the garden forums...

The green globe, It looks like you are using a F350 transmission? or did you combine one with a stock semi transmission? I am working on a 6x6 globe as well. did you have to change your mounts for any axles?

[Lil Giants]

I'm just using the rear plate to bolt the F350 transfer case to the back of the stock trans.











RC4WD offers a better option nowadays with a wee bit more reduction over the f350 case & you probably won't have to lift the trans quite as much for clearance.
http://store.rc4wd.com/T1-Disruptor-...ing_p_859.html

I just drilled the stock leaf springs to bolt the TLT's directly to them... used a dremel on the axle to make a divet for the leaf spring rivet, help center the axle over the leafs before drilling the holes.

[Lil Giants]

Finnished digging across to the wall last wkend






I have a bit of a hump in the middle where the water didn't penetrate deep enough, didn't want to make anymore mud at this time.




... it's been snowing or raining all week, so no hauling out. I had a little bit previously crushed dirt to dump into the wall, using the loader with the new bucket it now fills the KH 2.5 scoops! previous spade bucket was a little more 4 scoops.

This one scoop!


And what's left of the 3rd that doesn't fit.


I have this here radiant heater, starting using Tues to dry down the moist dirt quickly and have been screening since Wed... half the pile is seperated already, with the lumps dumped behind water heater & the fines added to an already massive pile.



Gosh!!! talking about snow thru the wkend, I don't see double digits yet in the long term forecast even... my air drill is still sitting in a snowbank!!! This time last yr I started seeding on the 21st of April. Too wet & cold to do anything productive outside and running out of space to do things inside.

[Rvjimd]

Ya, the wx stinks here in Iowa as well! When is it gona warm up?

Anyway, Joe, you could make a quick little video for us. That might make everyone a bit warmer inside

Jim

[Stuff]

thanks for the pics Joe!!

I have both transmissions, so I guess I'm making one heck of a tranny like yours and one backwards looking one if i got enough parts left over lol. I plan to put a planetary up front and you just cant do that on a HL stock tranny.

and yeah, snowing like a bugger here today!! its half way through friggin April!!

[Lil Giants]

Video? that just eats up too much of my data cap, which if I hit my cap for the month, it sends my speed back to the dark ages & makes navigating this forum even, extremely painfully slow! The videos will be few & far between till an alternative comes along. :/ Thanx for your interest though Jim.

Dean, the HL trans has a huge amount of reduction built into it already and there's far more choices nowadays for various torquey motors to pick from... which would make installation far less complicated than what I have done and still have the same power cap.

[Stuff]

well i do have a rc4wd 80t in it.. im looking at the pile of parts on my desk and looking at the pieces from each tranny.. im really thinking ill stay with the stock f350 tranny. lots of parts dont exactly line up very well lol.

sucks they have you capped so much. you on that line of sight high speed thing? lol could always mail me the SD card lol! :P

[buzzy16]

What's been going on joe? You've made it to the second page of the construction thread
I have been missing seeing your updates, and ofcourse the pictures and videos

Hope to hear from you soon, buzzy.

[Lil Giants]

Spring planting Buzzy! Started putting in crop a week ago, prepped all the necessary equipment the week before that. Another week should get it done, but there's rain in the forecast starting Tues... which will be a welcome sight b/c the surface dryness & dust flying as I rip the ground is getting a bit intense at times. A half inch to inch of moisture this week would be perfect for what I have seeded & to mellow the ground for the 2nd half I have to seed next.

It's summertime here man! A time to be outdoors & being productive to make lots of cash$ for activities indoors 6 months from now!

Thank you for your interest.

[Stuff]

we had rain in the forcast to. now its gone! can't trust the weathernetwork!

[tracksntreadslou]

Jeeze Joe I had to go all the way to page 3 to find you ..Been quite some time ..thought I would say hello anyway cause I saw you lurking on another thread a short time ago ..Guess you must be spending any spare time getting the inside of that new shop all buttoned up (any updates ) and getting ready for harvest ..Need a Farmhand ?..I can operate almost any machine ..Well in 1/14 scale anyway ...lol..It looks as though I may be alberta bound soon anyway and headng for the patch ..Anyway Missing the ole farmer

[Lil Giants]

Hi Lou, I've been doing some tinkering in the basement since spring, but it has been raining nearly every week since late May making it difficult to get any dirt outside, which I haven't hauled not one load out this summer. Working on a conveyer system to make export yr round - so the weather, no matter wet or cold or windy, the conveyer system will be totally enclosed to keep the weather out.

The shop is coming along, in stages... June was the building, then July was the door, then spray insulation. Yesterday the cement crew was here to pack gravel, get it the area ready to pour cement next week. Then it'll be me & whoever I can talk into helping to do the interior after harvest. And finally the electrician to finalize everything... hopefully November sometime and I can start using it for what it was built for.







Here's a couple of snaps of more excavation from the floor this summer, a semi circle around the outer edges, though some of it filled back in with dry fines.









Right above this loader is the window opening, where a pit built into the wooden roadway will be installed & 3 various lengths conveyers will be installed. I cleared this dirt away into the hole of the previous pics so I can stand/work in this area for the conveyer installation.



This is the corner that started the idea of my basement excavation, and seems most vulnerable with soaking up during wet summers, which the darker colored soil is rather damp, to drive on it with the trks - the tires would ball up with clay & make it dangerous driving on the steep wooden roadways. I scraped back the wet dirt surface a few times in recent wks, then with the screener on the JD850 sifted the crushed rock over it, it kinda works like floor-dry, but maybe not as well.



I found this lil beasty last Spring just before seeding, it arrived in late May. The opening is 2x2 inch, an inch or so rocks break to dust pretty well within it... they have bigger laboratory crushers available, like 6x4 would be sufficient for what I would want, but too big to put in the basement. This lil crusher will be ideal for crushing small rock & brusselsprout size lumps into finer material to go through the conveyer system to outside. Bigger stuff will just have to be trked out separately on occasion when the weather is agreeable.



Got a big pile of wet lumps drying out under the west porch, things to do during the winter, then start digging again to fill 'er back up.



Brought the JD850 upstairs a week ago, the pump needs some attn.. whether it's the bearing on the pump gone out again or the cog belt needs replacing or both.... I've got nowhere to tear this machine down right now, the workroom in my house is too full of everything! no benchtop space, and no where to put that stuff to make room... it seems. I'm looking forward to get that shop done and back to building, rebuilding, improving models once again soon.




Anyways, it's finally a bit breezy this afternoon, the high humidity of the last couple wks seems to have finally subsided, gonna try another moisture test on my hard wht right now to see if it's ready yet, then maybe combine through wkend by myself... I told the hiredhand last Wed to not come back till Monday and maybe then we can finally get harvest underway.

Thanx for your interest, talk to ya in a month or so.

[woodhog]

Looks like you have been pretty busy Hope harvest goes well some people down here are shelling corn and in 2-3 weeks most everyone will be under way. hope yeilds are high price is high and fuel and lobor low