1/16 Bucyrus-Monighan Walking Dragline

[dirtpusher9]

Wish you could work on this thing all the time, I'm ready to see it finished. It's going to be sweet.

[9W Monighan]

Here are some photos of the walking machinery. I can't seen to find more. I wonder if that roll of film is still in my old camera that quit before I used digital.

Mock up of the upper and lower pices


Rough Milling the kidney shape on the matching half's




Final finish and rounding over the track


Profiling the T shaped pieces that that cam pushes against





More milling and drilling



Cam Milling




Matching the square drive on walking shaft for a perfect press fit

Milling the mount on the shoe


Milling the taper and bull nose on the bottom of walking unit


2 almost completed walking units