1/16 Bucyrus-Monighan Walking Dragline
 

First time on this site some of you guys know me but I'm a refugee from Garden Trucking. This is my build of a 9W Bucyrus-Monighan walking dragline that I've been building for about 8-9yrs now. The dimensions are: 150''L x 45''H x34''W the boom is 120''L It weighs about 190lbs now. I have it operational now and still need to build the boom and finish the bucket. There are several pieces that need machined on the house also.
Here's a link to my videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/Scentlessapprentice9#p/u
Here's a link to my pictures:
http://my.imageshack.us/v_images.php
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HI Steve glad you made it .

IHSteve

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9W looking good saw some pictures on 4x4 of it. Ed

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Steve-your imageshack pics are not available to look at. I had the same problem trying to show my build pics on photobucket. I don't know how to fix it. Were you able to get any video at Brownsville?

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Here's all I got. (too busy BSing and operating) I managed to get these while my kid was on it. I have some video but not that great. I'll get to that later. I hope SmallHaul Scott took some.

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Looks like fun! Wish I had a load of dirt like that. My wife wouldn't like a load of top-soil piled in the back yard.:mad:

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9 W those pictures of it working look Poor scott, he looks like a miniature in comparison to yours. Ed

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Great to see it working Steve. Be cool to have the 9 there with it. Who's in the pic's?

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Steve I was so consumed with all of the full scale equipment I didn't take any pics of our RC models.:o

Ed, actually all of the rc models in that photo are 1/16 scale. But, yes the Tonkas like very small next to Steve's 9W.

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Hey Steve Looks great ...good photos and nice pile of dire ...your equipment probably got as much attention as the 1 ;1 machine and you can bet no one will ever bring a 9 W to the show at least the 1to 1

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glad too see you guys are having some fun with your toys keep up the good work. not that it would work for your but TWC collectibles has a very nice 8750 bucket that just came out and well you can get in CQMS there is only set up that i like see and that is esco but than i might be bias as we sell esco at work.

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Hey Scott, I'm glad you and your Dad enjoyed your selves so much. I figured once you got on some real iron you would get addicted:D How's the Mack tandem's bed look? I know it needs some new side boards. I hope I didn't chip it up too bad. Once we get one of those Specktrum radios I know this thing won't glitch:o I didn't take but 4 pictures all weekend (as usual) because I thought you were snapping some. Mike was watching your video this morning of you on Howard's Insley dragline. I never ran one piece of equipment all weekend because I was so infactuated with making my drag work in the dirt for the first time since my 8yr build:D

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I think your right Lou, My older son's girlfriend was there watching and commented "There's more people watching your dad's machine"
But the 1:1 1926 Erie B and 1913 Thew "0" steam shovels really get the looks.
One of my buddies,Scotty, said we ought to cut up all the big stuff and play with these because their easier to move:D Friday evening we had about 20 people standing around in the dark watching and running by pick-up truck headlights SmallHaul Scott's machines. A couple of times his trucks went over the "High Wall":o

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I looked one of those buckets over and they don't look like they would hold up and their not heavy enough. I would like to get all three and put them on my shelf with my other two dragline salesman samples. One is a Red Plastic 5-7yd ESCO witch I scaled for my 9CY steel bucket and the other is a very nice 4CY PAGE Engineering Patent or Salesman sample. Both are complete with all the rigging and I am going to scale those pieces too and even put the wedges in the sockets.

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Here's the videos I managed to remember to take. D9 Joe,That's my son Mike at the radio. He was just getting used to the operation and it's a little jerky:o
Once both of us got on to it,it would respond very nicely. By Sunday It was really producing material,We had a pile about 30'' high 65'' across -about 2900 scale CY. and I was able to load Scott's Mack without hitting the bed:rolleyes: My bucket is just big enough to fit in side his bed. It usually takes 2 full buckets to fill his bed.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Scentlessapprentice9#p/u

http://www.youtube.com/user/Scentles.../1/MMyO-kaMkng

http://www.youtube.com/user/Scentles.../2/mrUtgb-uPgE

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Hey 9W those are some nice videos. Ed

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Steve was that you running that for real dragline? Ed

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Unbelievable how well the models move dirt just like the 1:1's. When put in a true working environment, they look so real. Interesting, the comment about more people watching the models that the real things. Anything that is different and well done, people will watch and wonder. Great!

Ken Sharp

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Great videos steve-that dirt looks like perfect digging for models. Is their 110 power available there?

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Steve, There is only one little mark on the left side board. Actually I was hoping there would be more marks/dents on it so, that you can tell it has been used to haul dirt.:D I could mark it up with a screwdriver but, that would be faking it...not:cool:

It was funny, when someone rolled the old Ford tonka dump truck they felt horrible and I just laughed because the entire truck is metal except for the axle housings so, rolling it won't hurt anything.

I was amazed that after all of my equipment being run by so many people only the bull dozer broke. The dozer is an easy fix too, the left drive wheel just needs to be re-glued to the hub. We were using the 4x4 tonka DT to push the Mack up the hill a couple times and I lost one of the headlights but, when I unloaded the 4runner yesterday I found the headlight laying on the floor!:cool:

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guess I should have had the binder there to at least pull the mack around :p
Steve great vids

IHSteve

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HMMM, Maybe I can take care of that at York this winter:D I'm sure I can put some more nicks in it:D I saw on scale4x4 someone makes thin aluminum truck bodies and maybe he can make dump bodies out of a little thicker material, and then let me load it and turn Scotty loose driving the Mack:eek:

Tom, We have 110V now in the big green building in the background.

Ed, Which dragline? Orange? that's SmallHaul

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Absolutely stunning piece of equipment you got there Monigan. When do you expect to finish the superstructure with side panels and such? She will be even more pretty when she's got some paint on her. I will definitely have to see this machine in person someday. Keep up the great work.

Dan

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I am working on the boom but stopped for the summer. I should have most the superstructure done by January and hopefully most of the boom. I only want to skin half of the machine because I have most of the internal machinery near exact as a real machine. I've never seen this done on a dragline model before and I have seen the "Little Giant" stripping shovel at the Big Brutis museum in Kansas that has what appears to be all the machinery.

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sweet

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You guys are giving me a headache.

I mean that in the nicest way. I've loved big equipment all my life, and have modeled in 1/25 scale for most of it. I get plenty of respect for my work on the model forums, but I get here, what, a couple days ago now. I feel like such a runt! Looking at this stuff just blows me away.

This machine and others I've seen here makes me realize that I will have to considder this a whole different league than what I'm in, but I can certainly appreciate it none the less. Dan

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This machine gives me a headache now and then considering the thousands of hours I've spent designing documenting and machining. But when I took it out to show how it digs all that was behind me other than walking it into place. That gets a little tedious. It definitely needs 2-3 people watching what's going on. I know now I have to weld the cleats on the bottom of the shoes too. If it walks up much of a grade it slips especially if there's not enough dirt under a shoe.:eek: My owners manual says: not to walk a new machine up more than a 7% grade and once broken in no more than a 10% grade. I think we were a bit over that in spots.:D

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Here's a flashback to a time consuming job building my swing gearboxs. I still need to machine the second housing though but the machine performs perfect with only one. I have drawings of the real gearing and I made the gears exactly only 1/16th scale.

http://a.imageshack.us/img504/6130/9wmodel013lc8.jpg

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Are you a machinist by trade? everything looks SO professional.

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This is an outstanding build. Was watching it on Garden until it vanished. Hope to see it in person someday!!

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Southgate , Yes I have a small machine shop and fab shop.

tc1cat, You will need to make your machine operational so you can bring it to York, PA this January along with D9 Joe to do some pushing at the CabinFever Expo.

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9W excellent work I wish I could do that but just a dumb retired truck driver. Ed

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Awsome work 9W your shovel/ dragline???? is going to be sooooo sweet you don't see alot of those machines around here except at the old gravel pits and they have been retired and setting in the same place for decades lol very nice machine work i may have to try some of that on my next models after the scraper is done ....lol couple more years maybe sooner i donno nice job and keep up the great work

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That is one big toy! Awesome work!!

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coming along nicely! havent followed up on this thread since garden closed.

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I've been following this build and have always appreciated the workmanship and machining. But I completely lost it when you said the gears were made to 1/16 scale! The gearcase and inner workings are just a marvel of precision manufacturing. Thanks for all the pictures and explanations - they keep me inspired to keep working on my dozer.

Ken

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Thanks everybody.
I just got back from the Antique Caterpillar-ACMOC national show in Portland Indiana. I have some interesting pictures of a crane that you sit on to operate a clam bucket. There was supposed to be another P&H shovel one of my friends told me about but the flea market is so big I didn't go looking for it. I'll post some pictures tomorrow.

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Hey Steve,

will the boom be part of the final boom or is it just a temp one?

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That's just some 1/8x3/8 flat bar tacked together. Each bucket full weighs approximately 10 lbs. and it holds OK. The real boom I'm working on is made of brass tee bar I've milled from solid like all my "I" beams.

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Here's one of the first things I built back in April 02'
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