Best way to figure out motors and gear reductions

[TylerDSAudi]

Thanks for the reply and lots of great advice. I’ve been watching videos on different speeds of gear motors and I’m looking at around 50-80 rpm looks like a good speed at full speed, than factor in the drag of slowing the motor down in digging sequence as well you won’t be full speed most of the time more or less 60-80% ratio.

I forgot the size of my wire rope I bought and I have read on forums that some have luck with it and other haven’t, I might try it to see how it goes, but I have used paracord like you said in my tonka dragline build and other models and it works great too. It’s very strong, has a good thick look to it and doesn’t have memory to it so it goes where it has too.

Plan is to order in some motors in the next few days some 50ish and 60ish rpm motors that are the same so when I do build the spoils and mounts I can change between the 2 to get the best fit and speed.