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Hello everyone,
It has been a while since I posted a 'story' on Lugnet, however....
Here is the latest completed project.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=376306
A 16 wheel detachable goose neck low boy with a 16 wheel jeep and a fully
functional winch truck.
It is designed to haul the 8275 Technic Dozer.
For those of you who attended NWBrickCon 2008, and where chatting to me about
how to build this large yellow trailer.. here is the finished project.
I'm extremely please how it worked out. There was lots of tinkering and
rebuilding of the inner structure of both the low boy and the jeep(front
trailer) for strength and detail purposes.
I needed to lay down the rubber bumpers off of the hovercraft sets on the
trailer deck so that the dozer will grab on and not slip off. Wish there was
rubber pads that could click on to the technic links of the new track... Oh
Well!
The dozer will grab and walk on to the trailer deck from each end with no
problem(with a fully charged battery pack).
Total lenght of trailer, including jeep.. 48inches I believe...truck not
included.
The building of the jeep, seen here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3800775
was the most challenging part of the entire build, because most of the structure
is build from technic plates/lift arms that are half a brick thick.
Lots of pins and axles for this...
I needed to build it this way due to the correct placing of the roll bars, seen
here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3800789
They needed to be built BETWEEN the thickness of two technic brick put
together.. So the challenge was ' how to put a axle/tube/bar type thing dead
centre between two technic brick thickness, but not to sacrifice structural
integrity of the trailer.... And it must stay at a 2brick thickness, no more on
each side so the tires don't rub on any Lego piece....'
Very challenging.... But very pleased of the result.
So.... it is fully functional. working trailer legs on the jeep, using a gear
box to lock the legs.
The trailer neck:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3800790
is completely attachable/detachable. Locks into the deck of the trailer with one
14long technic axle that slides into the two yellow technic pieces at the bottom
left of the back of the neck.
The front of the neck flips over for when the jeep is not needed.
Walking beam suspension for all axles.
Locking fifth wheel.
The neck doesn't bend hardly at all when the dozer is on the trailer, which was
one of my main goals of this build..
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3800788
And the Winch Truck turn out excellent as well:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3845989
Love the chrome effect!!!!! Sure adds allot to the build...
More here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=380129
With a full view here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3846045
Total piece count... rough guess =2800pieces(there's over a 100 in just the
tires/axles to structure alone, both trailers)
So overall am very pleased with how the build worked out...
Hope you like it to!
Cheers,
Glen Bell
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| (...) I wonder why competative winching has bever been a sport? What you'd do is connect the winches on two trucks, and whichever drags the other to the mid point first wins. You wouldn't be allowed to connect the trucks to anything but you could (...) (16 years ago, 30-Apr-09, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic)
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