1/16 Bucyrus-Monighan Walking Dragline

[9W Monighan]

Originally Posted by SmallHaul

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. I could mark it up with a screwdriver but, that would be faking it...not

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!

HMMM, Maybe I can take care of that at York this winter I'm sure I can put some more nicks in it 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

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

Ed, Which dragline? Orange? that's SmallHaul

[CatdrvR]

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

[9W Monighan]

Originally Posted by CatdrvR

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

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.