| | Tracked crane, almost complete in 2 hours! Josh Baakko
| | | I've been thinking of building a tracked crane for a long time, I finnaly started it! I started with a 2 wide frame between the planned tracks (Dacta;-)), but decided upon 4 wide to allow room for the 4 wide turn table. The body is 8 wide, with a 4 (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | | | | Re: Tracked crane, almost complete in 2 hours! Josh Baakko
| | | | | (...) Add to that a CAT steam shovel, & a Mack Model U dumper. coming soon... Josh (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Tracked crane, almost complete in 2 hours! René Hoffmeister
| | | | | (...) Added in mind, mmmh... can't wait... Josh, send it in, the templates are done :-) Did you saw Holger Matthes' one? I don't have a link by hand. I'm curious how you solve the counterwight for the crane and how much it can support. Viele Grüße, (...) (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.town)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Tracked crane, almost complete in 2 hours! Josh Baakko
| | | | | (...) Its a fairly small model, Minifig sized, so far it is balanced perfectly with three 2x6x2 wight bricks. I still have to add more to the boom, & test weight, also have to take pics:-(. Yes I think I have seen his. Thanks for your interest. Josh (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.town)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Tracked crane, PICS! Josh Baakko
| | | | | | Here are the brickshelf Pics: (URL) the webpage: (URL) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.town)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Tracked crane, PICS! Jacob Sparre Andersen
| | | | | | | Josh: (...) a separation of the tracks. It would probably also look a bit more realistic, if the tracks were separated so much that they are visibly wider than the counterweights. Jacob (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.town)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Tracked crane, PICS! Josh Baakko
| | | | | | | (...) Not to make you feel dumb or anything, but that is only the base, minus tha tracks still;-) But, yes it can balance all ready. Josh (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.town)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Tracked crane, almost complete in 2 hours! Larry Pieniazek
| | | | | (...) Take a look at this one: (URL) has REALLY nailed the look. Colors, shape, proportions, everything are spot on for a small tracked crane. You may want to revise some of your shapes to be closer to his. In fact town modelers would be well served (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.town)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Tracked crane, almost complete in 2 hours! Josh Baakko
| | | | | yeah thats were some of my ideas came from, although i'd like to note,the boom section before the bend should have a small bend: (URL) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.town)
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