Great Dane excavating co.

[thebigo]

Originally Posted by Cooper

Ok put the cylinder back together with original piston, this time I removed the two washers I had on end and replaced with washer with rubber backing. Will prevent any leakage from bolt hole through piston. And it works now!! And to think I was thinking of getting into that valve assembly. Thanks for the input guys, helped a lot!!!

Sounds like your a little like me, 80% of the time I resort to looking at the most difficult part of the Job, vs, starting at the very simple things first.

Nice Job on the excavator, for some reason I can't find any pictures of the completed Model? Guess I need to go back through your posts.

[Cooper]

Some pics of her done with exception of boom lights and cab lights being hooked up.

[TRUCKMAKER]

Nice, but we need one more, it sitting on the trailer hooked to the tractor!

[Cooper]

I got the trailer rx/tx working and fail safes set so I was onto the dumptruck to change out turnigy radio gear to my frsky. Trying to streamline things with really only having two radios. Instead of unhooking everything I figured I would just work on one at a time. When it came time for the axle locking servo I didn't realize it was under stress and was playing with settings trying to get it on the switch I wanted. Smelled something, yup that unforgettable magic smoke smell. Next thing is see is the magic smoke!! That darn little servo was cooking!! Really cooked it melted casting, and was smoking pretty good for a micro servo. Before I could disconnect things I burnt both bec's on the motor esc and dump bed esc!! Don't need the dump esc to have a bec anyway. But had another hk $10 esc so had to get solder stuff out and redo what I had to. Took all the linkages off things on the second go and now I only have to get the three axle locker cables set for servo throw and should be done with dumper. (Few little things, mud flaps,,,). Moral of story, unhook linkages, ect when installing new stuff . I knew that just didn't do it!! Also moved the gas tanks back about 1/4" because fron tires would rub when turned whole way. But have everything set with fail safes (model match) so switching from one to another is just staying put in the lounge chair (again with beverage holder for those weekends down working at river with cold beer!!)



And these are the extral springs tempered installed in the Aeromax hauler.

[Cooper]

Originally Posted by TRUCKMAKER

Nice, but we need one more, it sitting on the trailer hooked to the tractor!

Coming up,,, I'll try and get time tonight to make a video of her working/loading but probably not upload till tomorrow morning. Evenings are really slow for my internet to upload videos. Sometimes at night a 2min video can take an hour!!!

[Cooper]

[Cooper]

Or the other load out.

[jack van]

So what are you hide from us all behind the backdrop hmmm spill it lol

[Cooper]

Lol!! It's a stupid cat condo thing my wife wanted years ago and it migrated out to my room ( the garage). Just used an old sheet as a backdrop lol!!!

[egronvold]

Job well done Interesting to see your tech sollution to the trailer.

[Chi-Noos]

You gotta put the d11 on there for that.... lol Great work

[Cooper]

Will do soon as I may be ban to the garage for a while . I had to move some material today with skid steer and home is just a short distance so I dropped off a small pile of cracker dust (screenings) in the garage. Some play time !! As long as it doesn't turn into a giant litter box- will have to get the air soft rc tank out if the cats want to dig in my sandbox!!

[TRUCKMAKER]

The combo pictures look good, I guess I didn't realize how short that tractor is. Not sure how you'll get it to turn when a 1:1 that short doesn't like to turn with the rears unlocked. Will the dozer fit on the trailer?

[bigford]

well how are the helper springs working? you still squating?

[Cooper]

Springs are about perfect for the excavator load, they aren't bottomed but sprung. But when unloaded the truck is pretty rigid.

I'm going to wait till I can get outside on some real ground to see how it turns. If the trailer is enough weight unloaded I may unlock both axles and see how it works in the dirt. Thinking it will get stuck like before. But if I have to I can put the locker axles in. I didn't want to use them for this but if I don't I'll probably have them for years by keep saying I'm saving them for something else.

[Chi-Noos]

Gotta see how the d11 makes the truck act lol. I have a cascadia that I plan to make tri drive but is currently just a twin drive with both axles locked right now. Surprisingly it seems to turn tighter then before.

[bigford]

locking you rears should make you track wider in a turn at least it dose my kenworth

[doodlebug]

Talk to Joe about shoe goo for locking diffs.
Cheers, Neil .

[Chi-Noos]

Originally Posted by bigford

locking you rears should make you track wider in a turn at least it dose my kenworth

honestly it very well could, I don't know for sure as I never measured.

[Cooper]

http://youtu.be/yujO8PJmF-s

Just a short vid of the ex. Working on some videos of truck, trailer, dozer, ex, dump, ect. Lol!!
Hope you enjoy. More to come.