Unit Cable Hoe

[D8R]

Impressed! nice using servos for power and they are cheap, 11.70.
Did buy servos 2 weeks ago, thought they where cheap, Hitec HS-225MG at $32 each (at least cheap here in Sweden). Got to try to make a small servo powered model some day!
Saw that your servo source had servos with continuos rotation at 14 bucks, anyone tested those?
Dan

[SmallHaul]

Originally Posted by Stuff

it looked to be doing okay as it was in the video lol. This is gonna be a heck of a project of yours!


the boom line, is it just one piece from the lower boom to the servo then back to the top of the boom?

It works ok but, it still needs some tweaking.

No, there are two drums (servo driven) one for the top line (called a hoist line) and one for the bottom line (called a crowd line) to the bucket.

Originally Posted by RCTech9

Nice video!!! Looking good!!!

Thanks!

Originally Posted by JAMMER

Scott you got it working real good and when you get the teeth on it will be working better because the dirt will stay in the bucket a lot longer and you will reach the truck before any dirt comes out. Ed

Thanks Ed! Agreed..

Originally Posted by D8R

Impressed! nice using servos for power and they are cheap, 11.70.
Did buy servos 2 weeks ago, thought they where cheap, Hitec HS-225MG at $32 each (at least cheap here in Sweden). Got to try to make a small servo powered model some day!
Saw that your servo source had servos with continuos rotation at 14 bucks, anyone tested those?
Dan

Thanks Dan. The servos that are in this crane are HD-9150MG's that were about $40 a piece but, the ones I am using for the final version of the cable hoe have the same specs.