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[Lil Giants]

Short vid digging in the NE corner of the basement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w0EE0aOPz0

[calum_scania]

Axle and 5th wheel are doing well with that weight on them!

Be interesting to see if anything lets go

[DADSGARAGE]

I like that new trailer you made Joe, I will need something like that in the future as well!! Great idea!!
KP

[Lil Giants]

2nd last vid I was standing on it, going for a ride Calum - probably 50kg on gooseneck & rear axle, still straight as the day I welded it... my welds aint pretty & they never break either

Still got all your CAD from the 777 KP? Just make another tractor to pull trailers... what is the weight your front shovel getting to now?

Goodies in the mail Friday

[Lil Giants]

A quick bit of kit to put together... had to epoxy one piece into place, everything else bolts together.

















Last December I run about a cubic yard through the mini crusher, what comes from the big crusher is about 3/8, lil crusher takes it down to 1/8 minus. But with all the fines in it too, it really slows capacity.

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[Efroeh]

What did you use for belting on your conveyors

[Lil Giants]

Eddie, I doubt you'll ever need to change one, as much as I've tortured them the past 4 yrs I've never had one fail. The motor I just changed in my 850 is a 942D (I think) with a 516:1 head.

Frank had those mini brushless motors custom made to fit the narrower axles on his B4206 & WA500 loader. The brushed motors are too long. My other B4206 with hyds, they have brushless motors in them that I had to file down the "bells" to get them to fit, there's literally 1mm between the two of them, they run a lil faster & a lil more powerful too, bigger diameter bell.

I hope you can find time some day again soon Eddie to get back at 'er with your hobbies... and prod your neighbor Ayoub while you're at it, he's been dormant a long time too.


Evan, these conveyors came from https://rcmodeldesign.com/ I saw them listed in the description of RC Sparks Youtube Gold vids. There a lil over priced for what you get... the vulcanizing on the belt splice was near perfect, can barely tell where it is, that's about all the positive I can say about it... if I do buy any more conveyors it will be the TeleTracs from Model Tech Winter in Germany, I'm sure you've seen his vids on utube & facebook.

[Efroeh]

Originally Posted by Lil Giants

Eddie, I doubt you'll ever need to change one, as much as I've tortured them the past 4 yrs I've never had one fail. The motor I just changed in my 850 is a 942D (I think) with a 516:1 head.

Frank had those mini brushless motors custom made to fit the narrower axles on his B4206 & WA500 loader. The brushed motors are too long. My other B4206 with hyds, they have brushless motors in them that I had to file down the "bells" to get them to fit, there's literally 1mm between the two of them, they run a lil faster & a lil more powerful too, bigger diameter bell.

I hope you can find time some day again soon Eddie to get back at 'er with your hobbies... and prod your neighbor Ayoub while you're at it, he's been dormant a long time too.


Evan, these conveyors came from https://rcmodeldesign.com/ I saw them listed in the description of RC Sparks Youtube Gold vids. There a lil over priced for what you get... the vulcanizing on the belt splice was near perfect, can barely tell where it is, that's about all the positive I can say about it... if I do buy any more conveyors it will be the TeleTracs from Model Tech Winter in Germany, I'm sure you've seen his vids on utube & facebook.

ok I know which ones you where talking about. I seen those before and acquired about them and his trommel. good to know about them thanks. I've seen those conveyors and wow are they amazing. I did price them out and they are pricey but I think would be worth it. also found the forum where he showed his first build of a conveyor.

[Lil Giants]

Getting some digging done, time for some more "soaking on the north side.



Work on the south side for a while











Lots of hauling to do now.

[Cooper]

Looks great joe! Really like the progress and processing of materials. Great inspiration! I’ve got to get some walls and heat in the barn project. Really missing being able to sit down and let the machine do some work via my fingertips!!

[Lil Giants]

So that's this summer's build project, eh? ...insulate & sheet rock the barn.

Yeah it's great, having an indoor sandbox. ...though I'm running out work.

[Lil Giants]

-27C this morning Got a B train coming today for brown mustard, hope my auger starts.

My utube channel got mentioned on some one's "stream" last Sunday, picked up 3400 subs & 600K views in the last week... utube kicked me out of their "Partnership Program" a yr ago b/c I didn't meet one of their requirements, 4000 watch hrs/year... they didn't pay me the $1100usd in ad revenue I built up either... probably missed out on another grand or more this week... my channel is on several news sites & blogs again last week, everybody making money off my hobby & I've never made a cent!

Did some digging & hauling yesterday, filled up the X4 HiTec charger in just a couple hrs.





Now I have maxed out my Data for this month, 4 days before the next reset.

https://youtu.be/RE_dSJh5bvQ

[frizzen]

That sucks! Any idea who decided to make it go viral again?

Sounds like good indoor digging weather.

[Efroeh]

I seen on a few bookface groups I'm in they where sharing your story about digging "your basment" with rc rigs.

[Lil Giants]

Both phones, the internet went dead bout 8:30 last night, reset today

frizzen, this guy on stream.me... language warning, the guy is pretty crude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ5IIKtRAkY&t=1038s

-35C yesterday morning, need a warm coat in the basement, it's just the bit of heat that radiates from the furnace that keeps it somewhat warm down there.

drip drip drip ....soaking up the next cut on the north while I widdle away on the south

[Lil Giants]

[Lil Giants]

I dropped the pup, then bound the two B50's together on a DX8 radio & drove them up the incline simultaneously

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJlBg7F8-Go&lc

I learned something from this video... 4 brushed motors on one esc, like a front loader or tractor, works fine; but 6 motors on one esc in the ADT, kinda wonky!

I always thought since the 1st run of the newer B50 that it didn't seem to pull the incline quite right; and now without the pup I see why. Time for some rewiring.

[calum_scania]

Great video Joe

Took me a minute to think how both ADT's were moving, then I remembered you'd done this before on the tamiya trucks

Great to see the little 450 being used, any videos of the screening bucket working?

Calum

[Lil Giants]

Thanx Calum Maybe next month have a vid of the lil screener, vibra screening large lumps & rocks right now.



If you noticed in the last video @9.10, the painted cab ADT struggled to get out of the hole? Reason being, all the weight on the middle axle and much less weight on front & rear axles allowing them to spin easily, stealing all the power leaving the middle axle with no power.

This B50 has a 2x25 Sabertooth in it b/c it was pulling a pup & I wanted separate power between the two axle groups for turning... now I've wired the middle axle to the 2nd motor driver and the front & rear axles on the 1st motor driver. The DIP switch on Sabertooth left in Independant Drive, radio mixed the two Sabertooth channels... problem solved! It'll likely walk up the long dirt ramp out of the basement better than it ever did before too.

[Lil Giants]

I put new teeth on my digging bucket June 2015, I was noticing the other day how much they've worn... same narrow teeth as the 450 bucket... about 4mm shorter now.





Sharpened them up with the side grinder this morning



Getting the south side soaked up to chimney this week.



North side has been drying the last 10 days, now I can drive on the surface & not gum up my tracks with muddy clay.



Ripped a straight edge.



Start the next cut trying to keep a level bench.





Getting some screening done.



Do some crushing next month, if the lumps are dry enough that it doesn't clog up my crusher plates.




Did some hauling a few days ago, my mod with re-powering the B50 axles didn't work as well as I had hoped, get a lot of weight on the center axle & it still doesn't have enough umf!! to get over the hump. A thought just come to me now... center axle is Slave on the mix, so maybe if I jack it to 120% so center axle pushes harder ... and I need to re-glue my tires to rims with that black tar crap again , I can see them slipping... yucky stuff to mess with.