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Re: My first truck mounted crane
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lugnet.technic
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Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:14:43 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Ross Crawford wrote:
> In lugnet.technic, Alvin Brant wrote:
> > Seeing as how everyone and their brother has built a model of a Liebherr
> > LG-1550, I figured that I might as well give it a shot. I posted some teaser
> > photos of the first attempt:
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=151473
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> > I must say that it is much harder to construct a truck-mounted crane as opposed
> > to a crawler-mounted version. The pictures that are posted here were taken
> > inside, so once again, I must apologize for the quality of them. The model is
> > shown with only 3 feet of boom, and with no superlift or jib. When I set it up
> > on the table, and started to lift the boom, the outriggers gave way too much to
> > try to test it with anymore boom installed. I am planning to tear apart the
> > middle sectionon of the carrier where the outriggers and turntable are mounted
> > and try to come up with a stronger design. I hope to have this completed soon.
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> Welcome to the world of outriggers! Incidentally, some larger crawler cranes
> also have outriggers to raise the body as the crawlers are fitted or extended.
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> The LG-1550 certainly looks great! Hope to see pictures of the updated version
> soon!
Ross
Thanks for the compliments!
I finally received the last of my bricklink orders, so I have proceeded in
tearing apart the LG-1550, and am working on strengthing the outriggers. I hope
to have the crane back together and some pictures posted soon, so look for it.
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> (BTW my BRE-550M, based loosely on the LG-1550, is soon to receive both a
> telescopic boom option, and a brother, the BRE-550C crawler version, but shhhh,
> don't tell anyone...)
Cant wait to see some pictures of both of those models. Do you have any that
you could post of the progress so far?
-Alvin.
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| (...) Welcome to the world of outriggers! Incidentally, some larger crawler cranes also have outriggers to raise the body as the crawlers are fitted or extended. The LG-1550 certainly looks great! Hope to see pictures of the updated version soon! (...) (19 years ago, 28-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic)
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