Hi m c, I was going to telephone flowfit to ask their advice, a lot of helpful information from your side, thank you, I hope it’s just getting the right configuration but I am sure these guys shall be able to tell me what is going to work and not work!
Thank you, much appreciated!
It is going to be more of a toy, as for forward/reverse speeds it slow to normal walking speed would be ok, I am going to speak to the likes of flowfit to ask if they have high torque slow speed hydraulic motors, if I can get this information then I can look at a final drive solution, my biggest...
I was going to have the blade going up and down hydraulically anyway so I would need to incorporate a pump for that so I may as well get some hydraulic drive motors to drive the tracks via further reduction by using sprockets and chains, trying to pick up used hydraulic final drives would be...
Thank you for all the replies, I may go down the route of small hydraulic drive motor and then reduced with final chain drive but I still have to do a bit of research into the smallest drive motors I can get away with!
Hi Agrismith,
I was looking for a tracked dumper as this would make things a lot easier as you say but even scrap ones command high prices as used parts are expensive, maybe the small walk behind ones are cheaper complete but probably not man enough for what I want, I have got plenty of time so...
Basically I want to make a miniature fordson tractor crawler to take to steamfairs and vintage shows, having a blade on it to clear a bit of snow we get every two or three years would be a bonus!
Not that big knighty, if I was dozing anything it would just be a bit of snow, I would imagine a forklift that goes on the back of a truck like a Moffatt would have a similar setup!
Hi,
Looking at trying to make a miniature dozer and looking at inspiration for the drivetrain, I am toying with the idea of using a hydraulic marine gearbox for the forward/neutral/reverse which would be connected to an axle with differential and if needed further reduce through chains and...
Thanks Eddie,
I’ve only ever used the welder on cc mode for stick welding, for the feeder I bought it on eBay so no literature with it, I think going by the colour it’s an old Thermal Arc wire feeder, I’m going to have a word with my local welding supplier so that one of there engineers can have...
Thanks Mankul,
I was led to believe that the v350 never had a contactor built in to it and some of Lincoln’s basic wire feeders were live torch all the time and it was the LN25’s that had a contactor built into them, maybe I was wrong and it is just the way the smaller wire feeders are...
Hi Eddie,
Thank you for the quick response, I shall upload a few pictures of my wire feeder and the contactor that I am thinking about installing, I have also got a 14 pin plug without the cable hopefully I can make something that is useable with a little bit of guidance, I’ll upload a few...