LilGiantsConstrCo

[Bo Wallen]

"Bo, the way youtube has changed it's resolution settings, my old gopro looks blurry even with it's hidef setting @ 200mb/minute, my video posting days are pretty well done with just a wireless connection, too slow & too costly!"

That sucks......ugh. Was hoping for more entertainment. They Don't make things easy for Guys outside town anymore. I was Googling High Speed Internet in Canada.......O'boy no fun reading at all........I understand your frustration.
Well there is one reason to start planning a road trip.......i wanna see more of this continent anyway. :D And your great project i've ben following for many years by now.

[Efroeh]

That sucks your not gonna be posting videos anymore. It is a Hassel to take the video, edit it, and then upload it. If you would mail your edited videos to be I'd gladly upload it to YouTube for you Joe. One bonus living close to a city is high speed Internet.

[Lil Giants]

Rural Canada is not great Bo, wireless is expensive & data restricted... about the only negative I can think of for the living in the country, but not that much of a priority to ever consider moving to town. ;)

How would that help me Evan when the video email needs to be of good quality to still upload to youtube?


My Izzy dozer tracks are wearing out!

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I had just enough slider travel to take out two links to reconnect the track. I put the lighter set of springs back in, it'll help lengthen the life of the tracks somewhat... but after trying it out the track is still skipping in reverse, not forward... strange :thinking:

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Shorten two links

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Before it was shortened two links

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I forgot to take a before pic, but before taking out two links the front idlers were another 12 to 20mm ahead so at certain positions of the blade near bottom of travel, the grouser bars were catching the eye bolts on the lift cyls.

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I need some new tracks soon Stevie :eek: :)

Operations in the lean-to last couple weeks, widowing down the lumpy pile.

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Pile the damp lumps on the adjacent wall... fire up the diesel heater once a day to a temp of 30C in the room to help dry out lumps quicker. ;)

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Pile the screenings in the back room.

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Last warm spell in early March I had a screening pile about half the size as above, dumped it out the back door of the shop, as the snow had melted away , bulldozed the fine dirt out along the north wall. It's been spring temps again this last week, couple more days will make it dry enough to do that again. ;)

[Efroeh]

How would that help me Evan when the video email needs to be of good quality to still upload to youtube?

Sorry I meant send me it on a USB or external hard drive and mail it to me ( good old canada post) then I could upload it for you.

[frizzen]

...Lives so far out that that he has to mail his internet usage.

Atleast it looks like you've got better lighting and more room to play out there than the basement had.

[JDH429]

Well congrats on finishing the big dig. How much material you estimate you moved out? Been taking me a while to get all caught up.. Oh and nice bucket! Very interested in seeing more of those new parts.

[hvy 1ton]

Amazon Cloud offers a service they call Snowmobile. A Trailer filled with hdd's drives to customer's data center, uploads data to trailer, trailer travels to nearest Amazon data center, uploads data to data center. I think they started it with a service called snowball which was you mail them a hdd. The theoretical bandwith is shockingly high.

If those were rails for a fullsize dozer i'd say they are well past done. Looking forward to seeing the rock bucket on the 963 and the upgraded screening bucket on the 850.

[Lil Giants]

Back in 07 when I 1st started putting vids on youtube I would take my laptop to town & drive around till I found someone's unsecured isp signal to pirate :D I might have to resort to those tactics again... I got 4G wireless in Fall of 10.

Yes it is frizzen great to be upstairs in natural light, & these LEDs lights are bright too. The basement dimensions are 18x28 (feet) with a lot of clutter in the middle, lean-to 15x42 & back room 18x30.

Thanx Jason, not quite done yet, but close. I'd have to remeasure as I took less than I had original planned... it'd be mid 20's cubic yard. The buckets are a treat to put together, everything fits so perfectly. :cool:

Interesting service hvy1ton, I'm sure it was conceived for remote construction sites...

Finishing up the loading bucket, just the leveling bucket & U blade left to do

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The 963 spade bucket in front, it's about 40mm narrower than the WA500 spade bucket.

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[DADSGARAGE]

Always like seeing your progress on the "dig"!! Those buckets look great!! Nicely done!!

[egronvold]

*envy* :D

[Lil Giants]

:eek: :eek: :eek: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/001_zpsfnxcso2n.jpg :eek: :eek: :eek:

:p

[frizzen]

Something big enough to break out the bottom of the crate?

What's in the box?

[doodlebug]

It's a new transistorised Turbo entabulator!

[rc13]

Not sure what is in the box, but the back of that truck looks like a Chevy Silverado...

[elliot330]

New dozer?

[jack van]

new internet lol

[Lil Giants]

Perhaps to make the "guess it" game a lil easier I should ask: What moron shipping company do you think it is that could blow the floor out of a wooden crate made from 1/2 inch plywood?! :rolleyes:

Here's what's in the box

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The steel belt pulley is bent! there's a slight wobble to it in one spot.

The jaw opening is 3x4.

[Mikem]

Is it a rock crusher ?

[sparkycuda]

Oh, look, it's a right-handed, molecular aggregate re-arranger! Shipping company must have used it incorrectly - usually material goes in the hopper instead of dropping the unit on the aggregate. Hope you get it worked out okay with them. Nice looking unit.

Ken

[Lil Giants]

You betcha Mike, a big rock crusher! :D ...it will break rock, needs a 3/4hp electric motor & I have one that use to run my 21 foot conveyor that I had in the basement nearly a decade ago... geez time flies! :eek:

Ken, the maker/seller told me to get a new pulley & he'd reimburse me the cost... the pulley is on a browning hub, I'm pretty sure I can find another like it in town. ;)

[Wiskybilt]

Cant wait to see how productive the rock crusher is

[JAMMER]

I don't know Joe that looks petty heavy a piece of iron for just 1/2 inch plywood with out some bracing in the floor under it with a sign saying this side up then this would not have happened. Then again I have seen some tow motor jokiest on docks that could tear up anything. Ed

[Mikem]

How fine will this crusher crush rock ? Stone dust size ?

[Lil Giants]

Cant wait to see how productive the rock crusher is

It'll probably be summer, maybe, when I get it operational... winter holiday just about over. :(

I don't know Joe that looks petty heavy a piece of iron for just 1/2 inch plywood with out some bracing in the floor under it with a sign saying this side up then this would not have happened. Then again I have seen some tow motor jokiest on docks that could tear up anything. Ed

Yeah, it could've done with some cross bracing, for sure. ;)

How fine will this crusher crush rock ? Stone dust size ?

I got the bottom adjuster screw all the way in, looks to be about 1/4 inch opening. The jaw faces are serrated. That other jaw crusher I got a couple yrs ago from Geneq has a 2x2 inch opening, runs on 1/4hp, that one will crush to dust powder.

[Lil Giants]

Widowing away at screening lumps from the pile at ground level... soon will have to start hauling out of the basement.

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Some time June maybe put the new jaw crusher to work crushing this pile of lumps, there's some rocks in the mix near the size of a hard baseball, it'll be interesting to see if new crusher can disintegrate them.

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[Lil Giants]

Looks like the majority of my problems trying to load to youtube was using my old laptop, this new laptop is getting 'er done & fairly quickly too, a gig/hr... probably not great compared to city speeds.

https://youtu.be/D7vMKtxpBmU

https://youtu.be/bKq3NtrAEDo

[Cooper]

Nice videos joe and glad you are able to upload some more. That's been the reason I haven't been posting any videos, uploading on my internet, well it sucks!!! Lol!! I usually take video on phone and then upload at night, sometimes a 5 min video may take three hours or more. Maybe if I load them to computer first now that I have a computer nearby. Anyway nice to see the equipment working and that screener works pretty well. Nice :).

[Lil Giants]

Those vids are still taken with my old gopro... I've never tried loading direct from phone, I'm afraid the pixel might be much too high... do you know what the data amount is with your 5 minute vids? Cooper, do you have a tripod mount for your smartphone?

The vibrating screener aint prototypical but it's high volume! :D

[Cooper]

Well that ain't the cure, I took some video, loaded it to computer, spent 20-30 min trying to get my password for YouTube. (I have everything between iPhone and iPad, just open and auto sign-in) who knows where or if I ever wrote down any passwords , am starting that now and going to chain it to the &$@!$? Computer!! It's been about 30 min and 6% upload. But it may be longer than 10min video. I always get carried away and forget video running. Guess I should look at some editing program :).

Yes I have a little tripod for the phone. I just milled a slot in some alum and taped a hole to thread onto tripod. And data amount?? Aw come on, it's me I don't even know how old I am!! Lol!! I only have a limited volume of memory , (my memory that is ) ,,,, next time I'll look but I did see something about changing the file to something else that will allow faster upload. More things to figure out!!! And that cnc thing has about maxed out my learning abilities for the summer!!

[trucker n]

hey joe nice operating how do u like the pc490;)

[Lil Giants]

Now that I've used the 490 (JD450) a lot lately, I'm really liking it! One change I made from the original kit was down sizing the Jung pump from 4003 (0,45ml/rev) to a 4002 (0,30ml/rev), with pump motor set to 6500rpm max, flow is approx 420ml/min making boom/stick movement a lot less springy, much easier to control with smooth fluent motion.

Tonite I put my Braeker lock on my track loader

http://www.tobias-braeker.de/

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This is a cool feature with this leveling bucket, you can push & pack with the heel of the bucket.

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When I bought this Scale Art track loader from Mitch Mignano in April of 2012, he had the model equipped with sound & lights via Servonaut, but it left so little room under the cab that the space left for a battery was a tiny 3s Life with a capacity of maybe 2000mAh... didn't last a day in my possession before I gutted that shyt out to fit a 4000NiMH. :D ;) Plus the for/rev esc was Servonaut too, swapped that out as well for a 2x12 Sabertooth, much better control. :)

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[Hofabooz]

Looks like the majority of my problems trying to load to youtube was using my old laptop, this new laptop is getting 'er done & fairly quickly too, a gig/hr... probably not great compared to city speeds.

https://youtu.be/D7vMKtxpBmU

https://youtu.be/bKq3NtrAEDo


Hi Joe

Great :):)videos caught them on my YouTube account first.

Thanks for sharing


over the pond in the UK

[Efroeh]

That bucket looks good with the quick connect how tight is it when it's locked on a bucket?

[RCLogger]

That track loader sure is sweet Joe. I am sure you will put all the new attachments to good use.

[Lil Giants]

Thanx Mark.

The buckets & quick coupler are made from stainless steel, everything is a snug, precise fit, should last a long time without any slop Evan.

It sure is Greg :cool: there's one like it for sale in the BST of the forum, you would never regret the cost of one after an hour of runtime, a very balanced powerful model. ;)

[egronvold]

http://s307.photobucket.com/user/ls_15/media/IMG_3616.jpg.html

Just missed you on my last flight as well... Need to talk to the airline ;)

[Lil Giants]

Just missed?.... by like 700 kms due east :eek: :D

[egronvold]

Just missed?.... by like 700 kms due east :eek: :D

Well, given the size of Canada, I feel I was pretty close ;)

[Lil Giants]

Last yr at this time I was third done seeding, but the weather this yr.... :rolleyes:

So I've been working on a few new projects in the hobby shop

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Broke all these stones except the big white one, once that stone split the color of the core was a dark purple & that color of stone seems to be the hardest of them all. After I fished the two pieces out, started up jaw again & tossed in one half, then the jaw broke it down. Then tossed in other half & it eventually crumbled too.

The small pulley on motor is only driving the jaw to about 290rpm, it says on the website not to exceed 375rpm... I'll try a bit bigger motor pulley & experiment some more to see if added speed helps.

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The crush size is a bit smaller than 3/4 minus road gravel

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[egronvold]

Super addition to your layout :)

[Lil Giants]

For sure Emil ;) :cool:

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I'm hoping with the added hopper that a full trl load will drop & go, it can hammer away while I'm reloading. :)

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[Hofabooz]

Hi Joe

Looking good :jaw:cannot wait to see it all in action.

[Lil Giants]

Me too Mark... almost there

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Went to town early this morning to use a welding shop's hyd roller bender to curve 1" square tube

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Over did the back side a lil bit :eek: :D

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A couple of empty test runs with the 4206 & trl, a lil hairy going off the back side... some asphalt shingles might suffice.

Just gotta wire up the crusher, but 1st I need a nap! :)

[egronvold]

Me too Mark... almost there

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/001_zpsaggdinwa.jpg

Went to town early this morning to use a welding shop's hyd roller bender to curve 1" square tube

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Over did the back side a lil bit :eek: :D

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A couple of empty test runs with the 4206 & trl, a lil hairy going off the back side... some asphalt shingles might suffice.

Just gotta wire up the crusher, but 1st I need a nap! :)

Just like the roads in Western Norway ;) Looking forward to some clips of this beast in action.

[frizzen]

That's coming together fast. Can't wait to see video.

The back side looks kinda sketchy, but your drivers have had it too easy since you stopped using the basement ramps up the walls and out the window.

I wish you had better weather for the farm, but i'm glad we can see this sooner.

[Lil Giants]

I've been working on site prep

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Might get a video uploading tonite with the jaw crusher

[Mikem]

I like the space saving parking technique in the first pic !

[Bo Wallen]

Church Crunch Film-time Popcorn ready..........Good job on the plant Joe :)

[Cooper]

I like the space saving parking technique in the first pic !

I like the nice fine material he's got down!!!

Nice work joe!!

[Lil Giants]

HaH! :D I stand it up like that to fish the battery out.

Here you go Bo, crunch away :p

https://youtu.be/D08ZXhfJngM

I don't know why there is no sound, 4 quick vids & not a peep in any of them... :rolleyes:

That fine dirt RW is like beach sand, you can drive flat on it, but you can't climb it, & stay away from the edges, it'll suck you in like quicksand! :D

The 850 caught fire tonite, the 2x25 Sabertooth for the tracks blew up, it was flash fire!!! :eek: I could smell that "magic smoke", so I lift the hood off & was feeling around to see what was hot, then POOF!!! Luckily one big breathe blew it out. That 2x25 would've been 6yrs old this July.

[hvy 1ton]

Good thing you caught it before it got into the Hydro oil. Have you thought about adding a grizzly to cut down on the fines going into the crusher?

[egronvold]

HaH! :D I stand it up like that to fish the battery out.

Here you go Bo, crunch away :p

https://youtu.be/D08ZXhfJngM

I don't know why there is no sound, 4 quick vids & not a peep in any of them... :rolleyes:

That fine dirt RW is like beach sand, you can drive flat on it, but you can't climb it, & stay away from the edges, it'll suck you in like quicksand! :D

The 850 caught fire tonite, the 2x25 Sabertooth for the tracks blew up, it was flash fire!!! :eek: I could smell that "magic smoke", so I lift the hood off & was feeling around to see what was hot, then POOF!!! Luckily one big breathe blew it out. That 2x25 would've been 6yrs old this July.

Better invest in a fire truck as well :eek: Strange how these things work and work, until suddenly "pooofh".

[Lil Giants]

What I'm crushing is what I've already screened earlier... though some of the dirt is not dried yet, the rocks going through will help keep the plates clean. ;)

The 2x12 Sabertooths just up & quit sometimes with no drama, but this was 1st 2x25 that smoked. I ordered a couple 2x25's a few weeks ago for something else, I got them from the mail today, so 850 will be running again today. :)

I was gonna start seeding today, but rain started about 7am :rolleyes:

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Took two hands to connect a battery to finish 'er off, by the time I grabbed camera the fireworks were over with

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Using the B50 to fill crusher, hauls twice what the bellydump does... need to go find some damp dirt to build up exit ramp... entry is 18 degrees - exit 32 degrees :eek:

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[frizzen]

Wow, atleast the 850 is ok. That's a pretty good run, i'm sure it's done a lot of yards.

The crusher video had sound for me.

Gonna need a sprayer truck now for settling and compacting all the fines.

[Cooper]

keeps getting better joe!! You got me motivated to make some sort of screening plant. I like the shaker table idea.

Is that fine sand stuff you are talking about just the dirt that's been processed? Or is it actual sand material. Around here we have decent soil but on the sandy side. Good for the plows but not good in between rains, drys out too quick. But this year it's been a swamp everywhere. Fields still have standing water, starting to kill off vegetation. Bee good for finding a bunch of baby snapping turtles this year :). ,,, perfect match for my wife's new little doggie!!! ;).

[jack van]

also need to replace the jerry can with a feul truck lol all these projects to do hehe :eek: :lol:

[Lil Giants]

The vid didn't play sound on laptop, but I hear it on youtube... made another vid with B50 dumping in crusher & same thing with no sound till uploaded to youtube. :thinking:

All that screened & crushed dirt is going outside... another build project after seeding, a set of bellydump cross dumps. ;)

RW, all that fine material is pure clay. Pour a glass of water on it & it would turn to snott in an instant! After it dried it'd be a brick! Vibra screening it when it's damp it balls up a lil bit & is kinda like grainy sand.

Shaker table... as in what I showed on my farmer thread? The problem with that idea is small rocks & wet dirt will block off the holes. Vibrator screen at a slight angle keeps that from happening. ;)

Yes Jack, lots of ideas, just not always lots of ambition to get 'er done :o

Using the B50 to dump into crusher working a lot better, haul more dirt per trip, dump & go. ;)

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That pile is about 25 B50 loads

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Made a good size dent in the lumpy pile

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https://youtu.be/S6dZpkYBY-k


Got started seeding this afternoon. no more hobby for a while... not looking forward to waking at 4am tomorrow. :(

[Lil Giants]

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[egronvold]

A propper trailer for that beast :)

[Efroeh]

That looks like a fun project Joe. How much bigger is it then the belly dump?

[Lil Giants]

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I intend to make another cross dump trl that'll piggyback on this one, and maybe another 3 or 4 more cross dumps in the future... it'll be great for long hauling, gravel my whole yard. :D

[egronvold]

Driven rear axles?

[Lil Giants]

Yes, but with needle roller clutches... 8x8 going forward, 8x4 reverse

[egronvold]

That's interesting. What about your trucks? Have they been retired after many years of service?

[Cooper]

Looking good joe, you need a way to haul stuff and I need a way to load stuff:). Lol!! Hope planting season has been good, two of our fields that a farmer is and panting have only been 2/3s planted. Lower parts are just too wet. Been one of the wettest years ever. I can't even get into the two fields to mow with the big tractor. Too soft and too deep.

[Efroeh]

That looks like a great project Joe. Look forward to seeing the progress of the build

[Lil Giants]

Retired I suppose Emil, the small tired vehicles don't get around that well, and the capacity is much less than the Fumotec trks. ;)

I updated my farmer thread last week Cooper... it was crazy wet 1st part of May, a lot of wheel slippage throughout seeding, got stuck bad at the end, now 6 weeks later it's crazy dry & my crop is coming up patchy b/c of excessive compaction during seeding & virtually no rainfall to keep the soil mellow... it's gonna be another yr of :rolleyes:

Here's more progress for you Evan

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/003_zpsae6qdpmp.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/004_zpsif4lapas.jpg

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/008_zpsv5da5fii.jpg

Get some 1 1/4" flat bar tomorrow to make the gates, plus another order of 1/4" square stock (5 joints) should arrive tomorrow to start making the next trl... took an entire 22 foot length of 1/4" to make this trl :eek:

A trip to the city on Saturday to the farmer sex shop to get tools & supplies for the Lil Giants shop & farm, I picked up this band saw on sell for $300, it'll make short work of cutting steel for the next 3-4 trls. ;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/010_zpsnpdk377b.jpg

Even has an attachment for it to make it a vertical bandsaw :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/011_zpsqoakem2y.jpg

[Efroeh]

Looking good Joe, I'm curious how you are going to attach the gate and make it move with the actuonix actuators.

[RCP57]

Looking good Joe. Most people don't realize how much material goes into building this stuff, especially any type of trailer! Are you coming out here in July?

[liftmys10]

Looks heavy duty! Nice work.

[Lil Giants]

About a month away, eh Reg? ...hadn't thought about it till now ...come hang with you this time or is Mario coming this yr?

I got to looking at my handywork with plastic sheet the next morning & 1st thought was what an incredible waste of space!!! cut my capacity in half.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/003_zpsxj6v4jwp.jpg

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Couple more roundy bits to make in the lathe & then see about how to make it all work with one actuator. :)

[Northern Farmer]

Nice progress! Your going to be able to haul a lot more material with this trailer :cool:

[Lil Giants]

That's the plan Brandon ;)

The doors work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G80Wmyuxcc0&feature=share

[Bo Wallen]

More Door's Haulin' This is just awesome. Love it ! Looking forward to the test-vid...........crunch crunch..........Do you got one other basement to dig out we don't know about ??? :lol:

[Lil Giants]

Paint shop 1st Bo, if I don't do it now it will never get done. :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/IMG_0574_zpsac9hgzji.jpg

[Efroeh]

That's looking good Joe. How much material will that sucker hold?

[RCP57]

The trailer is turning out great Joe. Yes the show is on July 15-16 I believe. I may only attend on Saturday this year but we'll see how things are going in the shop.

[TRUCKMAKER]

This is looking good Joe, how many can you hook and pull at a time do you think?

[Lil Giants]

In the last pic the trl is sitting on a 20L pail Evan, I'm betting it'll hold most of that. I made the height of the trl the same as the B50 adt so a loader can fill it, but I also plan to make 2" cheaters for more capacity with the hoe loading.

I guess we'll wait & see Reg...

Relying on just 8wd drive Kent? ...hoping two more trls, started on two at once again yesterday... if not, add more powered axles. ;)

Farted away the afternoon putting together the rear of the trl & trying to get two rx's to bind together... started with an AR8000 & AR610 (both DSMX), didn't work. Then tried the AR6115e with the AR8000, didn't work. Two AR8000's together, that worked... though that seems like kind of a waste... I came across some good deals on ebay last February, picked up AR9020's, AR8000's & AR610's for 40-70% off from hobbyshop listed prices. :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/006_zps5h6vwhwb.jpg

[Lil Giants]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXhjNn_rW3I

[Lil Giants]

The tractor is never gonna be this clean again!!! :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/protrker/Jan%2017/004_zpslp3p36at.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/005_zpsye79hp0b.jpg

Don't know why those lil plate covers don't come welded in place... they're around here somewhere. :thinking:

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Back to shop for repairs... can you see why?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/017_zpsevwmfh7w.jpg

One quick fix is to cover the hinges, just a bit of grit is stopping the doors from fully closing. I had the foresight to bevel the top edges of the doors pinch point, but that's not enough.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/018_zpsxdpre9vd.jpg

Gotta burn the paint...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/019_zpsgayse054.jpg

[Efroeh]

That looks great Joe. That's s very healthy amount of material it holds also

[RCP57]

She looks a bit like a really old horse in that one picture.lol Shame to ruin the paint with more welding but an easy fix with an added brace I'm guessing.

[egronvold]

It sure looks good! Looking forward to see it in action on YT :D

[doodlebug]

Try a strip of duck tape over that moving accordion .
Cheers!

[Lil Giants]

Ding Ding Winner Winner... that's exactly what happened Reg ;)

Masking tape Neil. ;)

Upload a vid tonite Emil. :)

Made some mods

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/010_zps4z3lchux.jpg

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Lowered the neck an inch

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/024_zpsdu4rgvyr.jpg

Lifted the rears 3/4 inch & shoved it forward 2 inches

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/023_zpsqwpa4wuu.jpg

Now the belly clears with room to spare

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/025_zpsgpf4wch6.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/027_zps5hq13ubm.jpg

3 not heaping loads on cross dump empties the screening bin vs 4 full loads & a 1/3 on B50

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/026_zps4b6q45su.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/029_zpsfszlpwyl.jpg

Part throttle, the front & rears will give & take fairly evenly... sharp turn at full throttle = CRASH!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/Jan%2017/028_zpsamvpwyn2.jpg

[egronvold]

Wow, didn't catch the fact that you've gotten one more Bell tractor :)

[Lil Giants]

Yeah, the other one has hyds. I will eventually make the other one a dedicated lowboy hauler strong enough to haul that 95lbs D9 anywhere. ;)

These Bell tractors are pretty cheap trucks.

[Efroeh]

Yeah, the other one has hyds. I will eventually make the other one a dedicated lowboy hauler strong enough to haul that 95lbs D9 anywhere. ;)

These Bell tractors are pretty cheap trucks.

you have a link to these cheap bell trucks? google is failing me

[Lil Giants]

http://www.fumotec-shop.de/modelle/zugmaschiene-bell-4206/index.php

Got my cross dump trl operational, works pretty good, but still have a few bugs to work out...

https://youtu.be/6IwFAgX6Yfw

[ihbuilder]

I'm not understanding what is included in the tractor kit . Hydraulics in the kit or not ?

Nice job on the dump wagon .

[frizzen]

Very cool, looks like that hauls way moro than the old dumps!

[Rvjimd]

Someone should invent a color flux core for welding so the paint doesn't get ruined! :p

Jim

[Lil Giants]

Steve, no hyds included with original 4206 kit.

Indeed Frizzen, move a lot of dirt per hour with this rig... but having issues with brushless motors in the tractor vs brushed motors in the trl, only at full throttle can I get them to work smoothly together... sometimes :thinking:

I was going to switch tractor to brushed, but the axle housings are too narrow for the longer brushed motor/gearhead... would rather have all brushed b/c then it will travel 20% faster & one 2x25 Sabertooth will control all 8 wheel motors vs trying to sync 8 individual escs/brushless wheel motors... currently only have one extra B50 axle for brushed motors, of course :rolleyes: ...just be a matter of having to drill & tap the B50 axle housing to bolt it into the narrower 4206 body. The tires will stick out a 1/4 inch more each side... ahhh, aint scratchbuilding fun?! :p :D

Your million dollar idea Jim, good luck with it :p :D

[Bo Wallen]

Hey Joe !
This is really fun to watch how you ditch the smaller units for the mega machines. but still in the right size of our " Hobby size sort of scale "
Crunch Crunch........The size of your real world day to day work might play into your Smaller scale world.......which makes me feel your coming down to Cabin Fever really soon in your own tunnel. Is that true Joe ? Please Please !
I'll meet you half ways. lol.:)

[Efroeh]

Hey Joe any update on your attachments from tobias braeker? How are they holding up quick attach still works? How's the glueing holding up?

[frizzen]

Oh my god, it's wores than i thought.

Photofucket filled his basement back in!

[Lil Giants]

My layout has gotten much bigger Bo, and it's on two levels now, so bigger equip - less walking. ;)

Evan, everything of Mr Braeker's products continue to work great! He sent me 2 bottles of Locktite super glue, haven't used up the 1st bottle yet :) Just built the last attachment, the U blade last weekend... might get another U blade for my Izzy dozer, it's the perfect width for it, just be a lil head scratching how to attach it.

https://s24.postimg.cc/ftkre3175/001.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/ftkre3175/)

https://s24.postimg.cc/p2mxo7a35/002.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/p2mxo7a35/)

https://s24.postimg.cc/k59d33841/003.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/k59d33841/)

Almost feels that way frizzen :( ...moving forward, try a new 3rd party service.

[Lil Giants]

Trying different links...

https://s24.postimg.cc/u00i9bc2d/001.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/ftkre3175/)

https://s24.postimg.cc/s9hh7tuj9/002.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/p2mxo7a35/)

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[TRUCKMAKER]

What photo service are you using Joe?

[Lil Giants]

Gave this one a try

http://postimages.org/

I didn't make an account, just uploaded pics & then grabbed the links to post here. Seems simple enough.

[TRUCKMAKER]

Gave this one a try

http://postimages.org/

I didn't make an account, just uploaded pics & then grabbed the links to post here. Seems simple enough.

Thanks Joe!

[JDH429]

Wow, and wow.. that dozer blade is a work of art. If this can help on your next assembly, I just saw something about baking soda can be sprinkled on loctite 495 and it will instantly cure. Haven't tried myself and not sure which glue he sent you but it needs to be a cyanoacrylate to work with the BS. Using small layers of glue and bs is supposed to be much stronger than just the glue alone... Good for filling gaps n such.

[RCTech9]

That new trailer is awesome Joe! What are the dimensions of the box? How are your crops? All of our wheat had Mosaic, so we had 30-40% yield, and ugly shriveled kernels.

[Lil Giants]

Thanx for the tip Jason :cool:

Thanx Parker. Trl dimensions... I think it's about 9"x14"... it'll hold a 5ga pail of dirt ;)

The past month occasionally been screening lumps from the basement pile, moved a couple of cubes by now. What a difference making the screener cage from aluminum, 5-6lbs less hanging out on the end of the boom, can really load 'er up & not tip over the hoe. :)

https://s26.postimg.cc/ldyzpeo4p/025.jpg (http://postimg.cc/image/g2k34p21x/)

https://s26.postimg.cc/6gqioeaw9/026.jpg (http://postimg.cc/image/x1t1jyd9h/)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2zJRY5GiYU

[Lil Giants]

Track trouble, 2mm pin shear on one side & good thing it happened b/c I discovered 2mm pin on other side slid out of place& was carving into gear case :eek:

https://s26.postimg.cc/eyjqhkyrt/001.jpg (https://postimages.cc/)

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Added 5" cheater boards to the cross dump today. Surprisingly stable, I thought it would wobble from being top heavy... maxxing out the 8wd power to ascend the dirt ramp, lead axle spinning while the other 3 are flexing sidewalls to the max, doesn't show up clearly in the vid... Parker, the dimensions of the box are 19"x9,5".

https://s26.postimg.cc/kqjuoq8ll/003.jpg (https://postimages.cc/)

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https://youtu.be/Eooj3fgCpps

[hvy 1ton]

Those are some serious hungry boards.

[frizzen]

The screener bucket is really neat, glad you got it working better now.

Wow, so the belly dump with the cheater boards is now holding like 10 gallons of dirt in a load?

[Lil Giants]

Screener bucket has been working very well! No, wouldn't be 10us ga... 8,5 - maybe 9, albeit the cheaters are the same height as the main trl sides, there's the capacity of the hoppers & the peak above the trl that is not doubled.

[Lil Giants]

Hauling out back of shop... sunny & 22, not many of these great days left before that ugly white stuff shows up again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKV3IeTX7q8

[TRUCKMAKER]

I was so engrossed in watching as you loaded that when you pulled away and the trailer started to slide in the fines I let out a gasp thinking the whole thing was going over.
Didn’t you have that set up as a set of doubles? Sounds like live stock in the back ground, thought you got rid of your livestock.

[Lil Giants]

I'm very impressed too Kent with the trl's stability, such a high center of gravity doesn't fizz on it much at all. :cool: The axles width is 11,5". That was the original plan, doubles - maybe even triples, but the current length of this trl is 33 inches makes a wide corner.

I sold my herd in Dec 2011, those are my neighbor's cows, close to 300 in the corral, just brought them over late afternoon, lock them up over night so they all find the only water source, turned them out this morning on 700ac durum stubble... my patchy germination was the worse in this field, it's the heavist land (gumbo) on the farm, what germinated later was shallow rooted, fell flat on the ground when it ripened too low for the combine to get it. Providing it doesn't get too cold too soon there's lots there to keep the cows fed for a couple months.

Moved out about 2/3 of a cube last night & this morning, about 2hrs total time

https://s26.postimg.cc/chls3pigp/006.jpg (https://postimages.cc/)

[Lil Giants]

Hauled out a few tons of dirt today!

https://s25.postimg.cc/aex4lbgin/002.jpg (https://postimages.cc/)

Just got this sliver of fines to do tomorrow

https://s25.postimg.cc/672cc3wy7/003.jpg (https://postimages.cc/)

And this pile of crush... big weather change come Sunday & they're forecasting snow for Monday - Tuesday :eek:

https://s25.postimg.cc/s68qzc0xr/004.jpg (https://postimages.cc/)

Get all this dirt out & then have a couple hrs of trimming to do with the dozer... STEVEY! when are you gonna start on them tracks for my dozers?!

[ihbuilder]

I was just going to text you about them . I've got some test prints coming then to to get a quote on precision casting verses my machining time . My machining will not have the detail of the bolts in them . I'm aiming to make the tracks last practically forever and you just replace the pins as they wear .

[Lil Giants]

Hauled a lot of dirt out of the basement last couple months

https://s18.postimg.cc/5e45ekdkp/015.jpg (https://postimages.cc/)

Used the ol GL to catch the lumps from the screener & pile in the opposite corner for the B50 to haul out later. The tunnel ramp is lil steep for the old GL, plus it only hauls half as much as the B50. Once the 'fines' pile upstairs got wide enough to use the bellydump again, parked the GL & hauled lumps direct with B50.

https://s18.postimg.cc/hsqxevxd5/012.jpg (https://postimages.cc/)

https://s18.postimg.cc/oj7eob53d/013.jpg (https://postimages.cc/)

Last couple days been crushing dirt lumps & rocks

https://s18.postimg.cc/eyns1fnh5/009.jpg (https://postimages.cc/)

https://s18.postimg.cc/6t5q39jsp/008.jpg (https://postimages.cc/)

Monster pile of fines

https://s18.postimg.cc/u7dpf66ux/007.jpg (https://postimages.cc/)

[Bo Wallen]

Very neat and organised operation. I like when the ole GL comes in to play. Kind of missing that one bopping around, old style. :D I saw the German guys have an elevator hoisting trucks between floors. Could save som AMP'S :cool:
Carry On Please :)

[frizzen]

Looks like you've been making some great progress down there, i kinda like "old time digging' that's not just the really heavy mining equipment


https://s18.postimg.org/6t5q39jsp/008.jpg (https://postimages.org/)


Oh no, somebody stole your bucket?

[Lil Giants]

Yeah the Tamiyas were good fun back in the day when my layout was much smaller. I don't need an elevator Bo, I got Fumotec tough equip ;) also, as I get older, my metabolism seems to be dropping, need more exercise :o

Frizzen, did you not spot my bucket in the 1st pic? :p

[carp]

nice vid joe, is that another 4206 you got sat on the table in the workshop?

[modelman]

Hi Joe-every time I look at this thread I am amazed at how much dirt you have moved with your machines. It would be interesting to know how much stick-time you have with your models but I am sure you enjoyed every minute of it. I really like the picture of the "fines" pile. That kinda gives an idea of how much work has been done. Keep at it!!!

[Lil Giants]

Carp, I have two 4206's, one has 3 valve hyds, the other has none.

Tom, stick time since 2002, indeed all good fun. :cool:

[frizzen]

I saw a bucket, i was just suprised to see an actual seat down there.

Wow, i didn't realize that's been going on since '02

[Lil Giants]

My seat is "up there", that's the back of my shop. ;)

I got my 1st my hydraulic construction model, Liebherr 922 excavator, from Stahl/Leimbach summer of 2001, finished building it Feb 2002. Basement enlargement project started winter of 04 - 05.

[Lil Giants]

Been working on a new B50 with a pup this winter. I went with brushed motors in this one, it'll run a little quicker than the old one with brushless.

https://s17.postimg.cc/alycbvq73/001.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/ose374123/)

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https://s17.postimg.cc/9wfjzmkjj/002.jpg (https://postimages.cc/)

https://s17.postimg.cc/5ajfra6q7/003.jpg (https://postimages.cc/)

The old B50 needed some attention a few weeks ago, had to pull the pump out to tighten the belt.

https://s17.postimg.cc/v636aenyn/010.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/qwyg88kp7/)

[Northern Farmer]

Another B50! :eek: Love the new pup setup, going to be a badass dumper :cool:

[JAMMER]

Looks real good Joe nice welds. Ed

[Efroeh]

looks awsome Joe. your fleet of trucks will beable to move alot of material.

[Cooper]

Thanks for posting the pics of the new truck. I’m sure this one will live a life of good use ��. And nice work on the hitch!!

[liftmys10]

Wow you built those 1.5 B50's fast!! Does it come painted? Looking forward to this beast hauling dirt.

[jack van]

just currious if you put all the dumper trucks in a line how many feet long would it be lol :D

[Lil Giants]

Fast?! What are you being funny? :thinking: :D :p I'm not fast, I got these 3rd week of July, spent a week degreasing all metal parts & painting so paint could cure fully while I do my harvest... threw my back out the next week & couldn't do much anything for 8days, leaned on my neighbor to load out 5B's for me & do some desicating on peas, got through harvest ok by myself, but my lower back issues have bugged me all winter, couple hrs in the shop a day hunched over working on projects is all I can handle... turning 50 this yr, feel like 80 most days. :(

Anyways, just about done with this adt & pup :)

I made a valve divider block from brass for the pup

https://s13.postimg.cc/okaooxsqv/001.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/u8gzftx37/)

https://s13.postimg./xglgsbthj/002.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/bhf254cn7/)

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This dump cyl was on the trk, right side... the flexible hose going to the "T" I think I made it a bit too short, box going up/down - changing angles tugging a bit on this fitting broke it loose from the tube. Pipe goes up to top of tube & broke loose from that soldered joint... buffed the paint off, resolder, repaint, put it on pup after dinner today.

https://s13.postimg.cc/ebi7il9on/004.jpg (https://postimages.cc/)

https://s13.postimg.cc/fdse145cn/005.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/t7gqq5xxv/)

Got the box on the pup, put oil to the cyls

https://s13.postimg.cc/shxydvhzr/010.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/tk84wf0sz/)

This is where the connection is for the pup hyds

https://s13.postimg.cc/njafzc6h3/013.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/4e76pkrsz/)

Got a leak, hoping I just over tightened the fitting & crushed the seal too much... put on a new fitting with some thread seal... give a couple hrs to set & try it again.

https://s13.postimg.cc/6irjqnlpz/012.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/6irjqnlpv/)

Made up some exhaust pipes from 5/16 Plastruct tube for this adt & the others

https://s13.postimg.cc/z8efncuvr/014.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/yvn1h6clv/)

This air cleaner is 3D printed, used an 8mm magnet to hold it place for pictures & filming, leave it off during regular use so it don't get so dirty.

https://s13.postimg.cc/8akillfdj/015.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/hicr2amfn/)

https://s13.postimg.cc/53pz1z2nb/016.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/qq4zj017n/)

And I'm motivated to get busy putting this WA500 wheel loader together next, it's only 4yrs next month that I've had it :eek: :D :p ...been using it for spare parts on occasion for other models that needed repairs, still missing a couple parts that'll hopefully show up next month.

https://s13.postimg.cc/dyqtcimav/017.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/dyqtcimar/)

Degrease the cyls today & paint them yellow

https://s13.postimg.cc/6irjqq6bb/018.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/4e76pn4oj/)


The drive belt on my lathe is toast :( ...having a hard time trying to find one locally.

https://s13.postimg.cc/yivnavzg7/008.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/u9qx8pw6r/)

I was looking on https://www.mcmaster.com/#drive-belts/=1booul2 (I see the link won't go directly to page I was looking at; it's the T5 series timing belt) My operators manual gave the dimensions 124 x 1.5 x 15 which is metric for teeth - depth - width When I measure the length I get 584mm & pitch is 5mm

Gonna be one of these 3 belts :thinking: ... would the difference in lengths compared to # of teeth be b/c of belt thickness? :confused:

T5-575-16 575 115 5 Urethane Gray -13° to 176° 1679K518 9.10
T5-610-16 610 122 5 Urethane Gray -13° to 176° 1679K545 9.51
T5-630-16 630 126 5 Urethane Gray -13° to 176° 1679K522 9.51

[Lil Giants]

Got er done... well except for the decals & a couple of other bitty parts that'll show up in a few months.

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Missing the fuel cap & fuel drain plug

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Off to get the 1st load

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Start painting the cab on the old B50 shortly... more than 50cy hauled in the last 3yrs

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Trying to pull the steep grade with pup in tow, the rims on the tandem axle were slipping bad in the tires, I had to pull hard by hand to get the truck up the hill... I really hate gluing tires... not sure what this gasket maker goo will do, smeared it on today, see what it's like tomorrow. :thinking:

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Broomed off the ramp, nearly 5 gallon of clay powder/dust, very slippery. Road is wearing down bad!

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Soaked the roadway with water, sprinkle on the fines, soaked it some more, rebuild the surface to make it smooth. Lay down some asphalt to protect the surface. ;)

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The fines pile grew a lot in the last week!

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[Bo Wallen]

Now that is a lot of goodness, and hard work done. Really enjoy watching the progress a lot, and with new machines on the plant new challenges shows up. Heavy traffic can put some roads on a test for sure. hope you can adjust for a smooth haul road and get it where it needs to go. I could not resist to mess with one of your pictures.........a drone pix of your site....looks like so 1/1
Hope you don't mind i did this.......https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4708/39818174844_6abe2693c3_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/23EAy8W)Gianr (https://flic.kr/p/23EAy8W) by Bo Wallen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/47955920@N04/), on Flickr
Looking forward to vids....crunch crunch.

[modelman]

Really nice work on the new truck Joe. I was curious how the dumping would work with the pup but now I see.

[RCLogger]

Thanks for the photo's Joe

You are getting some building done this winter... I would guess you powered up the trailer as well ?

greg

[Lil Giants]

Did you just zoom the pic Bo? It does look moreso 1:1 :cool:

Thanx Tom. The dump area is almost too small for this combo.

I do have a 2x25 Sabertooth in the trk & a power wire coming from the cab Greg to put power to the axles on the pup, don't really want to b/c cornering makes it act weird... I have some hubs with one-way roller clutches that I made up for the 8wd 4206 cross dump, but took them off b/c I discovered I sometimes needed 8wd in both directions with that rig. I can't make that alteration till I get my lathe working again... ordered belts from McMaster yesterday... the slow bus through customs. :rolleyes:

[Bo Wallen]

Hey Joe.
I turned the pic. counterclockwise a bit to most of the revealing wall was gone, and cut out the footprints from the Giant..........lol Would love a similar pic. with your New awesome haul truck in there also......keep snapping picture plz.

[Northern Farmer]

Came out great Joe looks awesome :cool: A serious dumper right there.

[Lil Giants]

Thanx Brandon, I like it too... get this rim slippage problem solved, then hammer down!

A vid showing the 963 leveling the fines pile, had to reload the vid b/c the original kept pausing for reasons I do not know :thinking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_xf_I581ug

[Bo Wallen]

Crunch Crunch. The reload works good, So does the dozer.......and i said it before.....Excavator Operator Extraordinaire...... Now i gotta say Dozer Operator Extraordinaire.......Very nice work !

[modelman]

Joe-I agree with Bo-that is very nice dozer work. The herky-jerky stuff I see on here sometimes makes me crazy. You and dirtpusher (d-9 joe) as I call him are the best R/C dozer operators I have seen. Speaking of the D-9. Will it ever work again or is it worn out?

[Lil Giants]

Well thanx Bo & Tom, much appreciated, I always try to put on a good show. :) Cooper puts on good show too with his D11. ;)

The 1/10th scale D9 still has earth caked on it from the 2012 St Louis meet, D9 Joe kept the radio for it & I haven't turned it on since... it'll last longer this way. :D :p

I asked Frank his advice what he uses for rim slippage, this stuff is the same (so I'm told by my autobody guy) as the pic he showed me.

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I thought I'd do my old B50 too, as I see rim slippage sometimes on the front axle when I try to back up a steep pile of lumps to start a new layer.

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Of course I couldn't help but wear some of it too :rolleyes:

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I found a nail in one of the tires, how's that for scale detail? :D

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[doodlebug]

Great idea Joe, will you be buying a caulking gun, to go with the rest of your cordless tools?
Cheers! Neil.

[JAMMER]

Hi Joe when are you going to get that big Cat dozer running? Ed

[bigford]

Thats some scale paint wear on that dozer blade

[Lil Giants]

No Neil, as little caulking as I do, the manual version will work just fine. ;)

Maybe when I retire in 6yrs Ed, this is an outdoor model... when it's nice outside in the summer I'm usually balls to the wall busy.

Yes Marc, the other Joe got a nice shine on it. :cool:

I let the joint sealer set for 36hrs, then tried to pull the grade loaded, the right two rears let go again :eek: :( ...initially I could see the front of the adt lifting a lil, so it's pulling hard on two axles.

So I took the axles from the cross dump, I already have the stub axles drilled & tapped for the hubs with roller clutches. Now the adt & pup runs up the grade like it were empty. :)

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[Snochaser]

I always enjoy the updates Joe. Thanks

[Lil Giants]

Thank you Ben... long overdue for you to do some updates on your own construction thread :thinking: :)

Quick vid of the 10wd pulling the grade

https://youtu.be/hdDON_fb86E

Presently working at cleaning up the last of the 'piled dirt lumps from the tunnel' from around the furnace.

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[Lil Giants]

Tidied up the last of the lumps around the furnace

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Piled it all in the opposite corner, easier to load out trucks to haul to the surface

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Screened it all the last 5 days

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Big pile of hard lumps & rocks to run through the crusher

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Lots to haul out this summer

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[modelman]

Great pictures and great construction site joe. You make it all look so easy.

[JAMMER]

Hello Joe been a while seance I have talked to you. You have the patients of JOB to do all that as long as you have done I would have gone nuts. I start something I like to get it done right away so I can see how it turns out. You have a great talent doing this. Ed

[Lil Giants]

Thanx Tom :)

Maybe it's my life's training in farming Ed, slow & steady maximizes profits :thinking: :confused: ...about a month away from 16hr days for weeks on end, stuck in a small tractor cab going round & round the same fields I've tended to the last 35yrs... that's getting harder to do each yr! :rolleyes: ...this hobby is not a "have to" everyday, it's a "want to" whenever I feel like it. ;)

Trip to the city today, new toy for the shop :)

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A forklift would certainly be handy :D

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[trucker n]

So new lathe Joe what brand?

[Lil Giants]

What made you guess that? :thinking: :p

10x22 King

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What to do with this one? :thinking: Unsuccessful finding a belt, pitch is approx 4.29mm or 0.1688... the 3 jaw is about the only salvage value.

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[trucker n]

I thought it was guess the new tool said bench lathe on the box

[Cooper]

Looks identical to my lathe. (Grizzly g(some number?) I have been happy with mine. Weather is starting to get better down here, at least more daylight. Been watching your progress and ideas with sorting material. Hopefully soon I'll be opening the screening site. Just have to build it ;).

[frizzen]

On the old lathe, have you looked at something like a 'PowerTwist Plus' or 'Accu-Link' V belt?

My dad was able to get my grandpas old lathe running again with one of those after the local places couldn't come up with an off the rack belt.

[doodlebug]

Hey Joe, any numbers left on the belt?
Cheers, Neil.

[Lil Giants]

I was fishing for guesses Neil, totally overlooked the lettering on the crate :eek: :o :D

I thought maybe you would have had the next size bigger on 220v Cooper? I might regret it someday on a big job having 30% less power... short term screening plant, the vibrating flat screen with 1/8 inch hole has been working great, but I hope to get ambitious someday & build a tracked mobile shaker with conveyers.

Thanx for the tips on where to look Frizzen, but I got rid of it a few weeks ago.

There was nothing visible for company or model # on the belt Neil, and the manual was quite vague too.

[Lil Giants]

Corrected my track chain skipping on my Izzy dozer, a local machinist suggested increasing diameter of sprocket to change the pitch. Original sprocket diameter was about 1.985 inch, 1st try at 2.125" got me nearly half there, 2nd try oh so close at 2.23", it still skips occasionally with a blade full going uphill... close enough for now.

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Been working on a 2nd cross dump the last month.

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Put one way roller clutches on this trl to make sharp turns easier to navigate.

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Put a 2x25 Sabertooth, AR8000 rx & a battery in 2nd trl, saves me about 20 feet of stringing wires to the tractor.

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Monster piles of fines to haul out before winter... didn't measure the pile, but I'd guess there's about 10 cubes here to move.

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On my 3rd load

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Put it through trails for a week or two to see what needs to be modified/improved, then tear it down for paint. Takes a pretty wide corner; was thinking adding a 3rd trailer, but is probably too long for indoor travels.

Next build is a side dump trl for the 4206, hope to tip it with two or three Actuonix actuators, box dimensions will be the same as the belly dumps.

[egronvold]

Just waiting for some videos now :) You got yourself a haul-beast :D

[Lil Giants]

You betcha Emil, banged out about 20 loads yesterday... now I got a couple hrs of trimming to do with the dozer, did the east side of shop just before dark last night, it was crazy hot here yesterday, 35C, do the west this morning before the heat returns.

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[Lil Giants]

Smoothed out west side Saturday morning

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Used the B50 & pup to fill in the holes along the walls

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Tonight I weighed out my cross dump train, the 1st try with plywood platform was doubled up & screwed together 3/8... not strong enough

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Screwed a 3rd layer of 3/8... weight of platform is 38lbs

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Loaded weight 219lbs (-38lbs)

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Empty weight 137lbs (-38lbs)

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[liftmys10]

Wow 82lbs of dirt!!! And the tractor with both trailers weigh 99lbs empty.
Are both trailers powered at the wheels?

[Lil Giants]

Wow 82lbs of dirt!!! And the tractor with both trailers weigh 99lbs empty.
Are both trailers powered at the wheels?

Yes, brushed motor at each wheel, 12wd.

[Zabco]

Watching your video I was wondering with all wheels being powered and as long as the combination is, do you have any kind of problem with the wheels on the last trailer when making a sharp turn as the radius is so much shorter than the other axles?

[Lil Giants]

Watching your video I was wondering with all wheels being powered and as long as the combination is, do you have any kind of problem with the wheels on the last trailer when making a sharp turn as the radius is so much shorter than the other axles?

Last post on previous page shows a couple pics of the uni-directional needle roller clutches I installed in the hubs of last trl. A sharp turn, like near end of vid, last trl is on rudder ch, all the way right reverses motors so they will not engage - free roll. Lead trl is on throttle ch (I prefer to drive with my right thumb on elevator ch), I have to pull back on left stick a bit to keep from pushing rear of tractor sideways.

Whenever I turn at about 45 degree or less, it's at half speed, the motors aren't working at full power they tend to behave like an open differential to some extent & usually no added tx stick movement necessary. Both trl chs on Slave are mixed with tractor being Master.

[Lil Giants]

Nearly finishing the 1st bench cut; I knew it was too high @17" with about a 2:1 slope, the hoe was 3" from the edge but it was always sinking a little as I reached out to fill the trls. Dozer time, new bench about 6" high will make loading much easier & SAFER! It'll be three more bench cuts to get down to the hardpan.

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Got a nice blast rain this morning @8am, 2/10's in about 10 minutes, a welcome cool down after four days of 35C... I forgot to put down my eave extension last night :o ... got some dump trk hauling to do to fix the road :D :p

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[frizzen]

Wow, that cross dump is a beast!

Glad to see you've got some time to play again

[Lil Giants]

Thanx frizzen, it has been an enjoyable couple of weeks in the shop, cross dumps have been working awesome, I like my redesign of the hopper doors on the 2nd trl, I think I will zip disc the doors off the 1st trl & make the same... after summer hauling. ;)

[bigford]

Hey joe estimated time till job completion

[Rvjimd]

Can't believe how smooth and flat you get the benches! More dozer videos please!

Jim

[Cooper]

Can't believe how smooth and flat you get the benches! More dozer videos please!

Jim

I agree jim, some blade skills,,

nice pics joe and the sorting sure makes for some nice material. hopefully before too long I get my screening project up and running. you don't get too much rock up there do ya, that crusher you have is that primarily used to break hard clumps?

[Lil Giants]

Ah moving out the stock pile Mark? Try to get it all out before the white stuff comes again... I finished clearing that lil bench today, it's been so incredibly hot here last 2 wks with a few rainy days too, spend early mornings doing odd jobs on the farm, hide in the shop during the heat of the day & some nights an hr before dark hauling out or blading... get it done in moderation, don't wanna be too fast at it :D

Thanx Jim :) dirt is quite dry & grainy, easy to blade smooth compared to the rocky/lumpy dirt you tangle with in your videos... make yourself a screener & crusher like me & then you'll have nice dirt to work with too. ;) That lil dirt pile took about an hr to smooth out, you'd probably be the only one patient enough to watch it all. :D

For sure Cooper, the screening & crushing activities add to the enjoyment value in keeping the equipment moving, ;) :D Not a lot of rock?... I guess that depends on what you consider a lot of rock... in my soil I have everything from garden pea size/sand to watermelons.... not far from home I have some fields with rocks the size of Datsuns, when they get to sticking out of the ground too much, I then get the local TLB to either fish them out & skid 'em to the nearest rockpile or if they're too big to handle the op will dig a deeper hole to roll the rock into to get it a few feet below the surface, I likely won't see it again in my lifetime.

Everything from hardball & smaller rock goes thru the crusher, anything else larger gets hand picked & hauled away in my Ranger. ;)

What's left for fines

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Some rainy days in the last week, crushed some dirt lumps & rock

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Got a big pile to put the thru crusher before winter :eek:

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[Rvjimd]

Ya, I would call that a big pile! :eek:

Jim

[egronvold]

I'm glad to see there's a possibility for more videos coming on Youtube :D

[skeeter]

Looks almost finished. Time to start hauling it all back inside again. Once it's filled in again, then you can dig er out again!

[Lil Giants]

Skeeter, the back of shop is my holding area from winter digging, got get it empty so I can dig some more... finally nearing the end of the dirt piled up from the tunnel dig a few yrs ago (about 28 cubes)... finish the tunnel this winter, cutting in the steps & get back to digging the basement floor.

A lot of hot days in the last couple weeks, last week in the 40's... the dirt lump pile just about gone

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East & west sides of shop are pretty to close to finished; now dumping on the north side, build up a sharp taper to the edge of trees.

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[Rvjimd]

Joe,

You probably already answered these questions, but is your crusher just a typical jaw crusher and are you running dry dirt thru it? Any trouble with clay sticking to the jaws? How do you have it set? Pretty close? Looks close from the fines you make.

40! That is hot even me, a Fahrenheit guy, thinks that is hot! The only few I have memorized is 0-32, and 28-82 so 40 is HOT!

Jim

[modelman]

Nice work Joe-enjoying the videos as always.

[Lil Giants]

Yes Jim, simple jaw, though I don't know exactly what the offset of the eccentric shaft iis. And yes, the drier the clay - the better it crushes. When screening the fines out & piling the lumps for a period of time again helps shorten drying... but there is some lumps with a bit of moisture within & it does build up near the top of the fixed jaw, I scrape with a wooden paint stir stick. The jaw opening is about 1/4... could go down as narrow as 1/8, but crush time could quadruple, depending on amount of rock quantity & size.

I don't know the conversion on Celsius vs Fahrenheit either... quick google tells me 42C = 107.6F... the hottest temps I've ever been in was during the early 90's of my harvester days, 117F; we circled back to NW Kansas in late July after they had 17" rain in 17 days, I spent more time outside slinging chains being stuck - then getting back into an ice cold cab... I caught the worst summer cold of my life to date! :eek: :(

That 40 heat wave caused a lot of crop damage this yr resulting in mega $ losses for what otherwise could of been a lottery yr. :rolleyes:

Thanx Tom :) Majority harvest completed a few days ago, currently very wet outside, back in the Lil Giants workshop today tuning up digging equipment & headed for the basement here shortly to resume basement digging activities once again, haven't done any digging in nearly two years. Still have about 5 cubes of dirt to haul outside before winter in a few months.

[Lil Giants]

Getting ready for the winter dig season

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Swing motor had a bit of wobble in its mount plate

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Added some blue locktite to the bolts & let dry before installing bolts

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Not sure if I got a leak or if I'm just pushing the oil too hard making it weep every so little from somewhere... couple yrs ago I changed Jung pump from model# 4002 to 4003 increasing flow 30% to 1.8L/min, a definite improvement to move boom - stick - bucket simultaneously with good speed & no cavitation. Not touching pressure from where it was set with older pump, the pressure did go up to nearly 40Bar...

Lots of Q-tips & toilet paper, I got it pretty clean again. Can't see any notable leaks & have never had any significant volume drops in short periods of time the last yr.

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Put it back together & it's off to the tunnel to finish digging out the walkway area... year #8 for the Beast :cool: If I were to guess the hrs, something close to 1600

[Rvjimd]

Joe, I always enjoy seeing the posts about breakdowns and maintenance just as much as everything else!

Question: you are using postimage to host and display photos? Seems to work okay from my perspective, any special setup fees or other info about the service? Not sure I have heard about this one yet, is it fairly new?

Carry on...

Jim

[Lil Giants]

Thanx Jim. I just go to the postimage site, choose my picture size, set expiration to Never, choose pics to upload, grab the hotlinks for forums to paste here. I've never signed up/registered to anything, don't have any saved album on the site, I haven't clue where to search on the site to retrieve photos I have uploaded... don't care either.

Had a great idea today... used long grub screws for guides to mate upper lower halves together, this was always a bytch lining everything up & my lower back would be aching by the time I got it done... this time 2 minute job & no hunching over it... as I get older I'm starting to get a lil smarter :lol:

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[Lil Giants]

Off to work, 1st stop is to finish the tunnel

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Almost to the same day as 2 yrs ago, crazy weather... most farmers in the area are 90-100% done. ... you don't have to go very far northward & that rapidly changes to 50% or less completed. :eek:

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[jack van]

i am thinking that your ramp down must be compacted to concrete lol

[frizzen]

Lil giants, needing an Hourmeter on rc equipment since 2005...

With the excavator cleanup, are things sealed well enough to try using Brake Cleaner to punch through the oil & grime?

Wow, snow already? Glad you got the crops knocked down.

[Lil Giants]

It's certainly as hard as concrete Jack when the dense clay dries out, looks like concrete too when dry with the salts in the soil coming to the surface.

Electrical cleaner works very well frizzen to clean the oil - grime away... I mistakenly grabbed an aerosol can of brake cleaner once to clean the boom on the old 850 & it took the paint off the cyls & wrinkled the paint on the boom. :(

Got a new employee for the Lil Giants Constr Co, his name is Ty

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...a friend of mine's grandson, Ty's parents are ranchers running several hundred beef cows about 100km west of me, Ty is 12yo now, 4 more yrs till a driver's license & maybe then he'll become an avid regular to the quarry. :cool:

[liftmys10]

A good excuse to repaint the hardworking and well deserved 850!

[JAMMER]

Hello Joe that construction company is growing got an employee now you can take a vacation. Ed:bounce::bounce:http://www.rctruckandconstruction.com/images/smilies/free-jumping-smileys-593.gif

[Lil Giants]

I do have a new boom for the old JD850, as the current boom, the pivot at the stick is getting pounded out & wobbly... I'm sure it will last a couple more yrs yet Shawn. ;)

"New employee" lives 70 miles away Ed, & no drivers license, I'm not ready to quit yet anyway. ;)

Cleaned up the north side of the basement

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Quite a hunk of iron this old dirt lump crusher is... what to do with it???

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Started digging in the NE corner, super moist here, easy digging, this is where I had a 3/4" plywood that the dirt lump crusher conveyed its spoils onto.

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Haul the wet dirt over to dump in the deep pit in the SE corner

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Gonna start digging around the pit soon, using a hand drill with a 1/2" bit, drilled holes into the rock hard clay so I could rip & dig a trench for water soaking.

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Rain showers in the SW corner too :D start digging here again soon.

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Had a lil blow out with the left track drive last Friday, bout killed me to carry that heavy bytch all the back up to the shop for repairs... broke an ear off on one side of the dog clutch, somehow caused a total lock up & smoked the motor in mere seconds... fortunately I got all spare parts in inventory, rebuilt the track drive yesterday.

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After having spent much of the wkend flat on my back from carrying that JD850 to the workshop, start building a lowboy today for the 4206 to pull to haul it back. ;) :)

[liftmys10]

Hey Joe, Happy New Year! Considering the JD850 weighs as much as the PC700, i can imagine being a pain in the back carrying that upstairs. Ask me how i know? I live on the second floor (18 steps) with no elevator... i really need those crazy expensive dolly's that can climb stairs.

[Lil Giants]

HAH! you're half my age, should be a breeze for you Shawn :p I took the counter weight off, that's 14lbs I don't have to carry. ;)

Just about done... wire up the motors & make removable side rails tomorrow, then video time taking the JD850 back to the pit.

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I'm sitting on it, 215lbs, very stable & nothing bent. :D

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[skeeter]

It loooks likw the wagon has powered wheels. What motors did you use to do that?

[frizzen]

I love that your sandbox is big enough, and toys heavy enough, that transporting the equipment from the shop to worksite turns into a logistics issue and needs big trucks with wide load trailers.

Did ya go for a ride yet?

[Lil Giants]

www.mfacomodrills.com motors with planetaries, these particular ones are 940D with 100:1 reduction. Fumotec supplies all his trk models with these motors or his custom made mini brushless motors. I prefer the brushed motors b/c you can put as many motors as you like on one esc; the brushless needs 1 esc per motor & then tuning them all to work together, brushed motors travel faster & have better braking too. I use a 2x25 Sabertooth in the 4206 with mix in esc off but mixed within radio programming. I like to drive with my right thumb, so the tractor is on elevator ch, trl is on throttle ch... tight turns, pull back on throttle so trl doesn't push the tractor sideways; steep hills more throttle so the tractor doesn't spin.

Indeed frizzen, some days I get a lot of exercise playing with my toys :D

Lowboy works awesome... need more practice side loading, a little scary the first time. I added 1/2 inch steel angle on the edges so equipment can't slide off in transport, they're bolted on, take them off in the future to load/unload. ;)

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[Lil Giants]

A suggestion from another forum, a slight mod to the side rails makes loading the big hoe much quicker with no worries of tip. ;) :cool:

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[skeeter]

Thanks for the info, Joe!

[egronvold]

Where can we sign up in order to make your government get your area some proper internet? I want more videos :)

[calum_scania]

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Love this last picture! Top work as usual Joe, I wonder how much weight is on the back axle of the little bell? :thinking: ;)

[Lil Giants]

Anytime Anthony :cool:

Funny Emil :D ...maybe someday it'll get better, cheaper... not holding my breath for it though

Thanx Calum :cool: A guess? 20-25kg

It's good to be digging hard ground again :cool:

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[Lil Giants]

Short vid digging in the NE corner of the basement

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[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 ;) :D

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 :)

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[Lil Giants]

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

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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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[rc13]

www.mfacomodrills.com motors with planetaries, these particular ones are 940D with 100:1 reduction. Fumotec supplies all his trk models with these motors or his custom made mini brushless motors. I prefer the brushed motors b/c you can put as many motors as you like on one esc; the brushless needs 1 esc per motor & then tuning them all to work together, brushed motors travel faster & have better braking too. I use a 2x25 Sabertooth in the 4206 with mix in esc off but mixed within radio programming. I like to drive with my right thumb, so the tractor is on elevator ch, trl is on throttle ch... tight turns, pull back on throttle so trl doesn't push the tractor sideways; steep hills more throttle so the tractor doesn't spin.

Indeed frizzen, some days I get a lot of exercise playing with my toys :D

Lowboy works awesome... need more practice side loading, a little scary the first time. I added 1/2 inch steel angle on the edges so equipment can't slide off in transport, they're bolted on, take them off in the future to load/unload. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUx3a-WbOx4

Hi, thanks for the info for the motors from a couple of weeks back. I just ordered some from www.mfacomodrills.com. I ordered them as a back up for my B50. I am always impressed with the power and reliability of these motors. I bought them as a backup to have on hand if I ever have one fail. But the current motors have been solid for many years.
I agree with your reasoning on the brushed over the brushless for the drive motors. Several years ago when I built my B50 no one was using Brushless motors on machines like these for the drive, so that was my only choice. I am glad that is how it was.
As commented you the youtube video, love the lowboy by the way....
Eddie

[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]

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.

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Work on the south side for a while

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Lots of hauling to do now.

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[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. :D

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

[Lil Giants]

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

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.

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

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[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 :bounce:

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

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-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

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[Lil Giants]

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[Lil Giants]

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

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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 :cool:

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.

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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. ;)

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[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.

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Sharpened them up with the side grinder this morning

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Getting the south side soaked up to chimney this week.

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

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Ripped a straight edge.

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Start the next cut trying to keep a level bench.

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Getting some screening done.

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

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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 :thinking:... 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.

[skeeter]

Bummer to hear the re-power option wasn't as effective as you'd hoped it'd be.

[Lil Giants]

Been playing with the settings again today & still not getting the even pulling power from the brushed motors anything like the brushless... keep tinkering.

Finished up the north cut yesterday

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This'll be the last pass in the NE to do, next month maybe

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Today I worked at cleaning up this big mess under the stairs

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These rocks to go to the crusher

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These rocks go to the pile in the lean-to, to be hauled away in my Ranger this summer.

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Used the lowboy too to cart out these cement blocks & wood

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Load too heavy for 8wd, had to give it a push by hand some of the way

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This load of rock was too heavy for the brushed motors, had to give it a helping hand up the dirt ramp too, but the trk backed up the steep crusher ramp on its own... making me wonder if I reverse the motor leads on the Sabertooth, reverse direction in radio programming, maybe I'll have more power going forward then :thinking: ...the Sabertooth is at the back of the cab below the steering cyls, I'd have to pull all the guts out of the trk to get to it. :(

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Brushed trk got demoted to garbage hauler

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Brushless trk hauled the next 6 loads of rock out to the crusher

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7 trk loads

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Used the 450 bucket to hand bomb a sample into the mini crusher... an rc activity for the JD450 next week.

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Gonna try & break these cement blocks with the Premacon jackhammer using the newer JD850, it has a 4th valve in it, just need to make a quick coupler plate to mount it.

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The 1st load of rock, I started to dump half the load into crusher & jammed it about 10 seconds, had to dig all the rocks out to get crusher moving again... dropped the rocks in by hand a few at a time after that. Made a couple vids while I was at it.

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This quick vid, one really hard rock that I was playing catch with... and the last rock jammed & I stopped the vid. After I got the rock out, I dropped in again & it broke right away...

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[Lil Giants]

Very generous of you Bo, thank you! :cool:

The design is simple & looks great! ...but a slight punctuation error :( :D

I need to check how the orange excavator appears on a construction yellow background, white might be better... then resubmit the order. :)

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2nd pass through the mini crusher is making some sweet "scale" road gravel...

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[Bo Wallen]

Any test result of the logos? You don't have to use them, was just an idea while I made my logos from a response from you, where you could think to do some logos.

[Cooper]

nice pictures joe, temps too cold for me to be doing any material moving, funny you are farther north and have an abundant of work and able to enjoy it!! well more jealous really :) I wouldn't say you are having problems, just pushing the equipment for more production! keep digging!!!!! you have a good set up and processing flow, something to reference in the quarry site engineering books ;) ive been looking at a lot of equipment pictures (mostly large quarry stuff) amazing how much planning goes into quarry design, road grades, road base material, distance to transport, ect,, your roads and grade angles even apply to our scale stuff, pretty cool in my opinion. id say you are getting the most in aspect to haulage,,, definitely when you load up the trucks ! don't dig too fast or before too long ill see you digging out for an underground hockey arena!! lol!

[Lil Giants]

No Bo, I haven't done any test prints yet... I need to paint a test piece to put a sticker on it, maybe later in the week.

You know what's funny Cooper... ppl say to me that since I sold my cows a few yrs ago, why don't I go south for the winter, somewhere warm... I tell them I built a new shop a few yrs ago, that's my winter vacation area... they tilt their head & look at me oddly... they don't get it :lol:

...yes, running out of work is soon going to be a problem, next phase in the planning steps... grain prices need to double from where they're at today to make it happen though... I hope to set it in motion in 2020... then I should be good for 5+ yrs before I need to dream up something else. ;) :D

[Lil Giants]

I spent the weekend carving out the 2nd pass on SE corner

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Some problems with the 850 that have been increasing over the last couple weeks... too much freeplay in the swing, erratic power in the tracks & a hydraulic leak... stripped it to a lot pieces yesterday & made a shopping list sent to Frank this morning.

Need a new slip ring

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New wiring... green oxidizing on the wires & they're pretty stiff too. Checked resistance, 1 to 2 ohms.

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Set screws on pinion gear came loose, but also a lot of side play in the planetary shaft again... gonna try using a 6x15 ball bearing in place of the hard bearing.

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But before I take that apart I try to figure out the hyd leak... some where in the front to do with the boom cylinders... either a bad seal on a fitting or a pin hole in one of the lines or ? ...what a greasy mess in a tight area to clean, lots of electrical cleaner, pressurized air & towels

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While waiting for parts from Germany, lots of other dirt work to do

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big pile of dirt to haul out from SE corner

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another pile from NE

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I hope to have my track hoe back together in two weeks to dig this up on the east wall

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...hope for the arrival of Spring in a month to get busy farming, last yr it didn't come till Arpil 20th, then a mad scramble through May... I hope it comes sooner this yr.

[sparkycuda]

Joe, your equipment looks just like the real stuff - a leak here and there with oil saturated dirt, worn parts from extreme use, and parts ordered from the manufacturer. Still amazed at the quantity of work you complete. I agree with Cooper, your crushing & screening operation would be the envy of any real company.

Keep on diggin'!

Ken

[Stuff]

after all these years you are finally going to put gravel down on the haul roads?? LOL

[Lil Giants]

Thank you Ken, I don't know what to say other than happy accident :D

I was thinking of using the gravel to cover the damp areas that I soak for digging, make for a dry surface to keep the tracks out of the muddy clay. ;)

The last time I posted was the morning before I went to the city to take in a seminar from a prairie marketing analyst; about 200 ppl attending & no doubt a few sickies in the group too, I just started feeling better this wkend. :eek:

Getting some work done on the old JD850 last few days... pulled the boom off to get a better unobstructed view of the boom lines to look for a leak.

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I capped the lines of the stick & bucket with Tamiya sized screws that fit snuggly to keep the oil from dripping everywhere... when I turned on the pump to pressure up boom cyls in both directions to see if a neoprene line had a pin hole, oil was coming out the other 4 lines past the screws :confused: ... that shouldn't do that :thinking: I pulled servos off & tried to hand center the valves, but the oil continued to flow out both sides of each valve... internal sealing issues ;) And the bucket valve (bottom valve in pic) has noticeably more oil atop it, I think that's where the leak is from. I'm gonna change all neoprene lines to new as well.

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Fortunately I got a spare 3 valve on hand & it's a steel one too.

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I cut open one of the oil filters, some grit in it

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It's so nice to now have a bigger mill to work on some of this stuff... my newer JD850 that I built the summer of '16, I drilled the swing motor hole large enough so the pinion gear would pass through, for the reason if I had any trouble with swing motor/gear I don't have separate the house from the u/c to get it apart... the mini mill I had before with a much smaller vise, the work piece popped out & I broke a very expensive drill bit :( ...simple job to do this time around :) I also slotted the 3mm holes a bit further to get tighter adjustment of pinion to crown gear ;)

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Got a new boom a couple yrs ago.. the old boom, upon close inspection, the steel shows very little signs of wear, but rather it's the GFR that is completely broken away from both sides is why the hole is so much bigger. When the kit was new in 2010, the left side of pivot, the GFR was broke out showing the plate steel. I tried to make it as good as new with JB Weld...

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Cleaning/repainting all the cylinders

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And a quick sand/wash/paint on these two items

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I hope my goody box from Germany shows up before the wkend, it's been in transit since last Tuesday... could have the old JD850 running again Sunday. :)

[Lil Giants]

3 WEEKS!!! ...parts haven't arrived yet :mad: ...probably sitting at customs in Calgary :rolleyes:

...anyways, had this idea maybe my lil 450 could handle my home made screener, and it can, quite well too... I'll be getting a lot more use out of this lil 450 now. :)

https://i.postimg.cc/859788Mr/006.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

2 loads of screened to 1 load of crushed

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Shot this vid with my IPhone & loaded directly to utube, a slicker way of doing things. :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4wrfzLYhcI&lc

[Lil Giants]

Quick vid of my old WA500 pushing the back of the pile closer to the 450 hoe - screener.

https://youtu.be/N5Ie50gmtdw

I did a tour vid through my shop just now, it's uploading, just about 2 gigs, probably won't finish till midnight :D post it tomorrow ;)

[Lil Giants]

9 or 10 video takes... 1st vid was like 40 minutes - 5gig whoaaa can't post a file that big! ...even with the last one, still made errors in what I said for different room dimensions, but got it down to 18 minutes... public speaking, not my friend.

Now using my IPhone 5s in the last couple videos vs 6yo GoPro, a better resolution & file size nearly cut in half.

https://youtu.be/w50byIqCBgg

[DADSGARAGE]

9 or 10 video takes... 1st vid was like 40 minutes - 5gig whoaaa can't post a file that big! ...even with the last one, still made errors in what I said for different room dimensions, but got it down to 18 minutes... public speaking, not my friend.

Now using my IPhone 5s in the last couple videos vs 6yo GoPro, a better resolution & file size nearly cut in half.

https://youtu.be/w50byIqCBgg

Nice video tour of your set up, good to see you have a few build projects on the go as well. Looking forward to seeing that D9 up and running again someday!! I always liked that dozer and the videos!!
KP

[Lil Giants]

Thanx KP, I suppose it's getting time to do the minor upgrade on that D9, as bench space is getting to be at a premium. :D

[Efroeh]

I really enjoyed the tour video always cool to see all your models. look forward to seeing that scraper move some earth some day. is there any other piece of equipment you want or have your eye on adding to your fleet?

[Lil Giants]

Thanx Evan. I've got a few ideas for additional trls for the B4206 to pull, might get a Carson track loader this summer or wait till next summer... haven't looked at the Euro exchange in awhile. I can't think of any thing else that strikes my fancy at the moment.

Talking with my "contractor" yesterday, who's also a farmer too, about my new house, instead of doing an RTM - a stick build is looking more economical, might start on the footings this summer & do the exterior after harvest... he's wanting to keep his guys busy when the farming is caught up... I'm thinking about putting the new house 2 feet directly in front of my old house, gives me somewhere to live while it's going up, when the new house is done, demo the old house, keep the floor to have a huge deck out back & cover the old basement. And of course that gives me a brand new basement to dig out, 50 x 32 x 7, have a short tunnel from old basement into new ... that should keep my fleet occupied for a while & present new challenges to do it entirely RC :D

Finally got my box of goodies from Germany today... from the tracking #, package sat in customs for 12 DAYS! Ridiculous. Going to Calgary tomorrow to visit my brother & maybe a short visit with RC Sparks on Monday morning on my return trip home. I wanted to show him my old JD850, but it's in too many pieces to get it back together that quick... it's been a long cold day already working on farm equipment.

[Efroeh]

awsome a new house is always exciting especially when it sets you up for even more rcing. the prices around here have dropped alot to try and keep there workers busy also. that's awsome your meeting with Aaron his gold mining episode are by far my favorite thing on YouTube. tell him I want to buy his 1/5scale loader I'm sick of shoveling my long *** drive way.

[Lil Giants]

HAH! if memory serves correctly, that 5th scale loader was like $12k :eek: ...and I've seen it posted recently that the creator of it is doing another production run this yr... I can find out who it is that's selling them?

Ran out of gas for the day... (ok, I went to settings, then albums, then saved 1024x768... now pics are linked proper size to the forum again, thanx for the tip of where to look frizzen)

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[Efroeh]

12gs that's spicey. I know the last I seen it on his videos was it was in peices and not operating correctly. I wonder if he's new run will have updates to fix that

[calum_scania]

Enjoyed the video of the shop tour Joe, lots going on and its looking great.

Have you started the fumo dozzer yet? Never knew you'd bought one?

[Finster]

Ok stupid question: Why does it say BANNED by your name? Is that just a joke or what?

[Lil Giants]

Evan, having visited Aaron today I didn't even spot the 5th scale loader in his shop, so much to see & talk about, 3 hrs went by in a flash... when we realized the time I had about 15 minutes to pull my stuff out that I brought along to show him... really a great visit, Aaron's the same upbeat happy go lucky personable fella off camera as he appears on camera, great visit.

I was surfing his instagram account Sunday night and came across photos of the loader taken apart & Aaron commented on one of the photos that the price was $5000cdn... my memory served me incorrectly :D

Aaron also gave me the opportunity to run his life size rc skidsteer, very smooth controls, easy to operate, sweet machine :cool:

Thanx Calum, I got the dozer late July last year, it's about half done... this winter I seemed to be sick a lot, didn't get much of any building done, perhaps I find some time after seeding to get it together, run it a bit, then tear it down for paint... got lots of painting to do this summer on several models.

I just being funny Brian :D :p

I loaded up my gear Friday morning

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Aaron pulled the JD850 out of my cab like it was a 20lbs model to have a look at it & then put it back in effortlessly :eek: if I did what he'd done I'd have been laid out on his lawn the rest of day, probably overnight too!!! :o

We put our ADT's side by side, weight of each is about the same, his box is about 1/2 inch longer, my box noticeably wider, both travel about the same speed...

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[rookie101]

I wish you guys would have compared your 850 to Aaron's 4200, I would have liked to see the difference. The 1/5 loader is still there, it's just covered up and still broken. The axles in it were really poorly designed and tear out a set of gears as soon as you try to turn. He's had hardened gears made and it didn't help at all unfortunately.

[frizzen]

Glad you got the pic size straightened out

I love the truck loading the big truck with machines. Was there video?

Do we need the forum to do a firemission to monitize your channel before something with aaron goes live?

[Lil Giants]

I knew I took these pics Rookie... though I couldn't remember exactly when & where I posted them, found them on another forum. I got one of the early 4200's when they 1st came out in 2011 & it was a bucket of shyt right out of the box, hydraulic leaks & failed electronics, RC4WD screwed me over on warranty & I eventually gave it away to another member who wanted to rebuild it.

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Thanx for the info Rookie on the 5th scale loader, totally know what you're saying about solid axles, especially in such a big - heavy model; either a differential or motor at each wheel would be the cure for different wheel speeds in articulated steering.

Something I just discovered frizzen with the recent pics loaded, seems I need to go to my settings "again" to preset out going pic size links before uploading or the pics will appear too large... I've been chatting with some one at photobucket, they say they're working on the issue.

I didn't video it frizzen, it didn't occur to me as anything eventful, the trks aren't that heavy & easy to put in the cab, but the problem with the track hoe is it's length puts too much forward weight for my lower back to handle, it walked up the quad ramps easily.

utube monetization... what a joke! utube kicked me out of their partnership program last yr b/c I didn't meet one of their "NEW" requirements, 4000 watch hrs per year... I got mentioned on a live stream.com this January & 20,000 watch hrs in a couple weeks... now 2 months later my adsense account still hasn't been approved... I did finally get my bank account "verified" last yr & Google did their test deposit of $0.58usd, but I haven't seen another dime... there was $1100usd in my adsense account... Google has made changes again & I don't know the path to find out whether the money is still there or not, and I've never found a phone # to call to talk a live person about it... whatever :rolleyes: ...I'll never be in the same utube popularity category as RcSparks anyway :)

[Efroeh]

looks like you had lots of fun Joe. that truck of Aaron's looks good and has me really wanting one. my adt build hit a wall just cant find the time to work on it anymore. the loader is cool I think axles from a snowblower with it programmed to unlock one axle when you want it to turn.

[rookie101]

Yeah the 4200 certainly isn't the best out there but after changing the electronics in mine it runs "okay". Still leaks all over the place though but that helps with the scale look. lol. That 850 looks like a monster!

I'd have to say my 4200 is quite a bit better than the Faroe track loaders we picked up though. They are terrible quality, but at the $1600 they were on sale for we took a chance.