Road Grader testing

[Paulie]

first trial run figuring things out

hope you like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY3YNIYNlsM

[lenny]

nice work.. would be a a great peice to add to any fleet. not to many belly graders running around out there. any plans for a rear ripper.

[rc_farmer]

Congrats, you did a great job building the grader, hadn't seen one like that before.

[Paulie]

Originally Posted by rc_farmer

Congrats, you did a great job building the grader, hadn't seen one like that before.

thanks!

[Paulie]

Originally Posted by lenny

nice work.. would be a a great peice to add to any fleet. not to many belly graders running around out there. any plans for a rear ripper.

Thanks

I have another build going on that pulls a small and beefy v-plow for ditching.

Lots of ballast and gear reduction so looking forward to testing it out soon!

[Lil Giants]

That works very well, congrats on a fine build

Got any pics to show how it was built?

[Stefan]

Interesting construction Looks fun to operate.

Stefan

[Paulie]

Originally Posted by Lil Giants

That works very well, congrats on a fine build

Got any pics to show how it was built?

Thanks Lil Giants, your work (along with many others here) is ever inspiring

As one can see the focus isn't on aesthetics or any kind of scale details. If it is durable and works like a 1:1 fairly well I am happy.

There's an ebay special planetary trans up top turning (2) 2.14:1 transfer cases and also 3 lbs of lead ballast inside the Alu frame rails. The rest is Gmade R1 axles, alu links and Traxxas driveshafts. The Panhard rod running along the top of the blade is key to eliminate blade shifting.

[Lil Giants]

Originally Posted by Paulie

As one can see the focus isn't on aesthetics or any kind of scale details. If it is durable and works like a 1:1 fairly well I am happy.

Me too, my kind of build.

This is on the to-do list someday

http://www.rctruckandconstruction.co...ad.php?t=10931

[frizzen]

Very well done, and it seems to work great.

I'm not used to seeing the cab forward ones, are they used in a specific thing?

[Paulie]

Originally Posted by frizzen

Very well done, and it seems to work great.

I'm not used to seeing the cab forward ones, are they used in a specific thing?

Thanks!
I dont think a real cab-forward grader exists its just where I thought the cab looked best

[Paulie]

Excellent conditions for grading some gravel this morning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvXAW4H7aJI