Hello

[rgrant]

Hey my name is Rusty and I've been watching this site like a theif in the night so I thought I'd say hello and offer my help and recive some I hope !!
first my spelling really bad and a can't get the spell checker to work please work with me !! next time will be better I promise
So a little back ground I did worked as a heavy eq mechine for around 15 years till I started my own consation co which has been closed about 6 years
I'm 50 and disabled and have huge amounts of time my hands not much money at all but alot of time
So I had this idea about 2 years ago to build a 1/4 scale D8K Rc with a pan/tilt camera ! I know almost every nut and bolt in a D8k I owned a couple of them earlier so I've worked on them alot and for other people. So if I can help anyway I'm a good welder and know alot heavy eq and trucks and have alot of tools and machines I've got a really good 375 miller mig/stick/tig welder and alot of metal working machines and metal
I want to get this out in front before starting anything
I'm sure not braging about what I'm or what I have because I'm not for sure !!
like I said I'm 50 and disabled now for about 6 years and my wife of 21 years died suddenly that was and still is hard to deal with But I'm not looking for a shoulder to cry on just to offer my help anyway I can and I'm really NOT strong in the electroincs and pc stuff ( think or know I'll need some help with this project for sure ) I've never build a scrath model before. I've messed with rc truck T_MAXX, revos airplanes _styders and heils but nothing like this !! I've still got some of these maybe do some trading !!!
Enough background
Main GOAL: A 1/4 scale D8K with a camera pan/tilt with a winch mounted on back to help balance also ! I want to make a KG Blade, angle Blade and a root rake
I want to do alot of underbrushing around my house Which I'm not able to do by hand with a saw ( the reason for all the background stuff ) HaHa But the idea is to have a camera with pan/tilt and the video trans. so I can sit in the shed or in the house while the snow is blowing and watch on a 55" flat screen and under brush around my house there is alot of it at least a couple acres,
I was thinking it would need to run 2 or 3 hours at a time on gas or longer the better
I don't have money to put in it I have alot of metal and stuff . A tractor hyd pump and a 12v hyd pump which I thought would be useful and a lot of other stuff like this after I closed the shop so junk parts are the way I have to go or no build I Have a good bit of rc electrioncs I plan on usinng to operta
I was thinking a small gas engine turning a hyd pump with motors and gear reduction and turn a alternator to keep battery charged
If this works I want to build a trackhoe to help brake up the brush and pile it to burn
Now that I can't afford to pay anyone or do it myself so this would be a great hobby to do and get the underbrushing done too , all at one time.
I may be able to get somebody to run the trackhoe for me in western North caroline mountains where I live for a plane ticket HAHA
If any body has any Ideas along these lines I'd really like your help with ideas
MR dirtpusher9 has a cool D9R I'd like to know more about it and I can't renenber his name but it was a 1/6 scale D11R that it has great power to weight ratio I'd like to know how he has it powered and mr can't remenberhis name he is on here the most detailed D11R model thurthly amazaing ! I've sence some really amzaming heavy eq models and trucks on here and you all should be very proud of what you have built for sure !!!!!!!!!!!
Well it is going to be a honor to build something worth putting on this great site IF I can HaHa
It will be alot of fun I think !!!