Kenworth 850 Off Highway

[Mikem]

Great vids now my wife wants your blue digger thing ! Mike

[DieselKid]

Cool pics Reg! She's a beast!

Love those scale bridges of yours too, should have had you stuff one of those in the box with the dump trailer on its way down!

-Alex

[RCP57]

Originally Posted by Mikem

Great vids now my wife wants your blue digger thing ! Mike

Haha, buying that machine is the best money I have ever spent on a toy. It has saved us way more than what it cost just in excavating fees. Let alone it is sitting here ready to go when you have a job to do. It's a goofy looking machine because it's from Japan(grey market) but I am continually amazed by what it will do for it's size. You should want one too Mike!

Originally Posted by DieselKid

Cool pics Reg! She's a beast!

Love those scale bridges of yours too, should have had you stuff one of those in the box with the dump trailer on its way down!

-Alex

Yes this trucks size can be a pain but when you see it loaded in person cruising around it is fairly impressive. It showed no signs of slowing down on the uphill grades but I am a bit worried about the gears in the diffs under that load as well as the drive shafts. So far so good and I do have spares. I just don't want to break my pride and joy!lol The bridges turned out not bad considering I just threw them together. It would have been nice to cut scale sized decking for them but I didn't want to devote that much time. I think the 1"x8" planks kinda look like concrete slabs so it's good enough. They are wide enough to pass two trucks in 1/14 and barely wide enough for the KW850.

[RCP57]

I had this old girl out today as well. When I built the truck I didn't know how long I should make the compensator hitch. It turns out that the length I chose wasn't enough so today I tried to fix it. I added a bit more to it but then had some binding issues as you will see in the video I am uploading. I took it all apart since and welded the added piece to the original so that there isn't a seem between the two. Should be good now but will have to wait until the paint dries. Apparently, heating aluminum to it's melting point burns paint... Who knew

This load is really heavy! The logs are large fir limbs with very tight grain. I would say that it is at least 100 pounds. I took the truck out into the field to pick them up and went as slow as I could coming back across the grass. It held together so I'm a happy guy! When I was done playing I hauled them right over to my wood shed!







Video to follow...

[RCP57]

https://youtu.be/RbBnTXciZfQ