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Thats neat, must be fun to load it and see it screen the gravel! :)

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Well you have done a nice job but all I see are stones and rocks were is the GOLD? Ed

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There is alot of moving parts there Lou

WATCH YOU DON'T LOSE ANY FINGERS....

greg

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Great to see you back in the saddle again Lou, cranking out innovative working machines. :cool:

Perhaps reverse the sprockets on the two conveyers for greater speed & capacity... gotta get that tonnage per hour up. :D

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Thanks ..Kindof cool to see it all come to life

Thanks Ed ..I may have to make a few sluice boxes to tag off the sides and i think my bro still has few buckets of concentrate ..be kindof cool to do that

One weekend greg and we all still have our digits lol ..Came close a few times ..

Joe things seemed to be sorting at a consistant speed and after a bit of power supply trouble shooting the machine ran the pretty much nostop full 4 hours on the sunday..I still have some mods and tweeking with the front conveyor ..Rocks would occasionlly jam between the drum and front conveyor on a few of the screws i had on the inside of the drum holding the flange on the outside ..i wil file those off ...there was also material falling off the sides of the front of the conveyor as it entered the trommel ..Some of this would get in between the belt so im going to have to seal that part up and carry on with the shute so everthing falls of the end ..If you see in the vid there is some rolling around the front roller on occasion ..and tighten up the belt just minor stuff

Im a little concerned that we may need a full time Mechanic to keep the thing running lol..Hint Rob

Thanks Reg


Heres a vid of it running with the 980 feeding ..That machine moves alot of material and we had the bruder mack filled in about 5 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLNK...yERHzA&index=1

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Whats next Lou !

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Reg that 980 has some good bucket height even with the bucket tipped all the way to dump. Ed

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Great video Lou! It'a amazing to see your trommel run. It does the job perfectly. Very cool!

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Hi Tracksntreadslou

Did you ever finish Making your Rc grader, if you did finished it I would love to see some photos of it?

Also did you make the INTERNATIOAL TD 25 Bulldozer or did you buy?

From Cameron

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Nathan Thanks Still a few bugs to work out yet but i think it will sort out alot of material in Gregs back yard this year ..lol ..It will give us more things to do and keep all of us pretty busy..Im still not sure what color of paint to use yet

Hey Cameron ..My wife and I split the sheets almost 2 years ago so a move happened ..I have that still all boxed up and have been thinking about it lots these days ..going to do something with it this year ..way to many projects now ..Greg Rclogger gave me another project to do too now ..lol

Greg guess the blizzard chassis is my next project ... Travis Fhhhstix has inspired me to build the trackdumper as well .. BTW Great build Trav ..Hoping to start that soon

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Lou,

Don't know how I didn't find this thread when I started researching my conveyer and screen? Very neat! I may need to borrow a few of your ideas.

Jim

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Greg and I managed to move a bit of dirt last weekend..took a few pics ..Logging trucks are ready to head out for a load.
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Lou, I'm getting really tired of you and Greg playing without me...:p Equipment is looking ready for the show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Lou,
I dont recognize the blue truck in your photos. I am curious about the third axle. Is it a jeep with a lift axle??? I have never seen a truck like that. can you give some more info, or point me to a build thread, or even a video of it.

Thanks

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Nevermind, I found your build thread. I dont know how I missed this one. That is one very impressive build. Thanks for sharing with us.

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Looks like a great time! Lou, I'm still waiting for you to build a Caterpillar 527 skidder!

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Great pictures Lou! Definitely a fine logging fleet. I hope to have a fabulous setup like yours in the outdoors one of these days.

Ben

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you better get you A$$ down here and help with Gregs construction Park

Lol the wifes seem to think the same thing but we have different alternatives lol

Glad you found the build thread ..really enjoying this one

Nate the skidder will have to wait ..A tracked dumper and grader coming soon ..Been rounding up some parts

Thanks Ben ..This is Gregs construction park ..He has some serious earth moving in the near future and plans on needing some Dozer work for back filling ..Been doing a few updates to the TD 25 so almost time to call a lowboy ..lol ..Thanks to everyone

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We Had Rob over to Help move some dirt ..I think He May have been drunk ..lol and Maybe the Hitachi operator as well
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Go home FWD your Drunk
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A few of logging as well
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some good pics, the truck on its side made me laugh looks like you were having fun, is there any video of the log loader in action?

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Thanks Lou for posting the pictures. Sure had a great time moving dirt with you two. The FWD is a tough truck and it survived the roll over, never even broke the mirror off. I'm pretty sure we moved about 42 loads until Greg put that big one on by packing it down. Those screw drives are tough tho, as it still lifted the box crammed like that. Go FWD!!!

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Got together with rob and greg yesterday and did some more work in Gregs big construction park Project ..greg had some radio problems with the excavator so we ended up double teaming with the two Dozers ..we backfilled the N/W wall for a while and I ended up getting stuck a few times ..The D8 can pull good too ..thanks greg
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took a few videos as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT0Rl25pgGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNNF5-HwiaA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYuarT9beQA

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Looks like a good time! Maybe I should come up on the long weekend hey Lou;).

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:D I think that pile of dirt would take a while with that big machine of yours ..I think Gregs away for the long weekend ..Be fun to have you come up though :bounce:

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Seems to me there is something else that I'm supposed to do this weekend...Oh yeah that's right, I'm getting married:eek:... I'll get up there sometime though....

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Cool videos, Lou. Your IH TD25 is a really nice model. I've always liked it. Something different then Caterpillar yellow machines, but Greg's dozer is a great model too. I'd be glad to own either! Looks like you had a good time.

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Excellent stuff, makes me really really want a vario!! :(

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Thanks guys ..I can easily kill 4 hours hanging out and moving dirt or logs with greg and rob ..As you can see i have been getting the dozer back into the operating mode ..i used to have planatarys in the sprokets and they wernt sealed enough ..They would get plugged up so I got rid of them ..some of the photos you can see the new hubs ..works much better but a little fast ..may order a couple sprokets and gear it down a bit more .I was also not quite happy with the blade up/down travel and finaly got around to swapping out the cycinders from 2" to 3" travel. much better
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I also started on a ripper ..nice having a cnc to cut parts
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decided to drag out and dust off this old prject I started a few years ago ..sure helps with cnc ..I gave it a try a making a circle inside gear and it turned out ok ..the pitch is a bit big but i was using a 1/8 toolbit so the was the radius I could use .
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Looks good Lou! I like how you have incorporated an old road sign into the frame. You better get busy though. Don't you have a gravel truck to build?

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Hi Tracksntreadslou

Your International TD 25 dozer did you make it your self or did you buy it as a kit off some one?

I like how it looks as is has a old school look to it.

Regards from Cameron.

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The parts look pretty crisp! :cool:

So how many hrs do you have logged learning your cnc to get this far Lou? :D

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Thanks

Its important these days to recycle ..too bad that guy drove right though where he was supposed to stop where the sign used to be ..lol

Thanks Cameron ..It pretty much all scratch built..the tracks were source From Fetchner ..Im pretty much old school ..Mabe a D9 G a few years down the road

Thanks Joe ..The little tag Has very little backlash..Im getting much more cofortable on the CAD program..Learning a few 3D parts as well..The main thing with these things you have to remember is the it makes mistakes if you tell it to..I broke about a half dozen tool bits learning ..I have about 200 hours on it now ..the first 100 took in setting up and installing limit switches ..Sure glad they are there ..Now with the way its set up when I first start the gcode program if there is some thing not correct in travel the machine wont start traveling ..Very cool ..im realy ejoying this ..I do want to have a bit bigger manual milling machine at my disposal one day ..

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Very nice, Lou. I thought you scraped this project many years ago. Glad to see you back on it I look forward to your progress.

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Good to see you following this build .I think you mentioned that you ran grader quite abit as well...wont be quite as detailed as Rob or Ari but i am hoping it will do the job heres a bit of progress


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As you can see I machined the slides in one complete peice so that everything would stay true when i bolted this to the blade ..i then cut the small tab off that hold the two slides together
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Found a chunk of 3/4 and got the taig hogging out
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Big 1/4 scales mounted for the articulation
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Thats all for now

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Lookin good!:D

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Coming alone very well Lou. How many functions are you going to have ? And how many are going to be spools?

Greg

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Awesome! I love the CNC machined parts! Maybe someday I'll be able to make something as cool as your grader. Looking forward to the updates, Lou.