Excellent instructions and good quality!

Still, this step I cannot really understand. I have browsed through the remaining steps and I cannot really see this 5L axle removed or being in the way,

and the friction axles w/bush (black) they are not flipped in any of the remaining steps and really seems to do a good work as it is, right?

I have built this and I can confirm the 5L axle is not needed. The black friction pins with bush can remain as shown.

Edited July 27, 20159 yr by Osuharding1

Hi, and thanks for taking an interest in this MOC

The reason I put in this annotation, is simply becauseit is, in fact, not needed, and takes up space in the rear that was later needed for the dump bed mechanism. The fact it shows in later steps shauld just be ignored.

I don't know if you're familiar with the process of making instructions using LDraw/lpub, but the way I (used to) do it, is I make the stepped model in MLcad, and then the instruction steps are fine tuned in LPub. I then export every step as a -png picture, and use PowerPoint to make a slide show where I add the necessary arrows and annotations, and then export that whole slideshow as a .pdf file. Seeing as replacing every picture in the powerpoint file is a fairly time consuming task, it's a lot quicker to just write a note on the steps that are changed or altered in the original instructions, as opposed to re-exporting the .pngs and re-making the better half of the powerpoint document.

If that makes sense. Bottom line is; making instructions like these are quite time consuming, so when I notice something is off after making the initial instructions, I tend to take the easisiest way to fix the problem, as I am at that point pretty fed up with the whole project .

This is also one of the reasons I don't charge any money for my instructions, because I know they're not perfect .

Hope that answers your question (the axle is not needed, and can be difficult to remove later without major disassembly, if I remember correctly), and I hope you enjoy the model!

Unfortunately I won't be making any more of the previously promised attachments to this so-called "modeular" design any time soon, but both the side tipping bed and the logging crane shown in various pictures should be pretty easy to replicate

Thanks for an excellent and nice answer!

very good, I will remove the 5L since, who knows, dump bed or something else may be added later..

I am so far only familiar with LDD and have never made any stepping but I can really appreciate the work you and the other guys lay down on creating instructions and we are all extremely thankful for this :)

Now let's see when the build can start. wating for a Bricklink delivery with some slopes and mud guards needed in the build. and the Aroc should be in my neighborhood in a few days..

Thanks for the PowerPoint tip! I did the finishing work with Photoshop, I will try it with PowePoint, maybe it's faster.