[WIP] Electric Rope Shovel

[gvo25]

Dear all,

It's a long time ago that I ventured myself into a new moc. So here it is....

A Rope Shovel used in the open mining industry, i'm using  an example from P&H

Here's what i came up with so far, I reused the tracks and the quadrant gear racks from the 42055 BWE and also a large part of the body is reused. It has until now 5 motors, I'll use standard IR receivers

As always comments are always welcome, I would like to have the operator cabin built in system bricks in minifig scale, But I would be grateful if someone could make an LDD drawing of that cabin with system bricks or technic bricks.

I'm planning to make a video when the bucket is attached and everything is more or less operational

Edited April 17, 2018 by gvo25
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[jorgeopesi]

It looks good, I love the small size.

[Thirdwigg]

I agree, this will be pretty cool when it's done. The scale is great, and the functionality seems to be heading in the right direction. Looking forward to more. 

[gvo25]

UPDATE

I added the bucket itself, the valve on the bottom side is not yet functional, all is working more or less ok, still a lot of finetuning to do

that's all for now

 

[Aventador2004]

Very nice progress!

[gvo25]

Hello everybody,

After many, many tryouts and failures I've finally found a solution to open the door of the bucket. It requires a little bit of skill on the controls to have everything working together smoothly but at least it's functional. It's operated by a m-motor and a clutch gear. Also I was trying out the colour scheme for the body. I came to the conclusion that constructing a nice body will be the most difficult thing to do.

The shovel has now a total of 7 motors.

 

That's all for now

Any suggestions are always welcome

Edited May 10, 2018 by gvo25
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[gvo25]

Dear All,

With the advent of the Liebherr excavator, I wanted to give a new go to build a new rope shovel excavator, which I'll name rope shovel MkII. The last crane remained unfinished, I stopped when I had to do the panelling.

This time I'll use the trackbase of the Liebherr and the shell of the main body, the rest I'll try to build myself. For now the main boom is in an advanced stage of completion. The goal is to use the new motors later on. For testing I Installed an L-motor but this is not definite.

Here are the first pictures

The next picture is sort of a MOC-up

Comments are always welcome

[gvo25]

So it's finally done... I have finished my electric rope shovel mkII. I must say it looks quite good, the body houses 2 electric motors, one XL which drives the winch and one L which drives the winch for the unloading flap, the third L motor drives the arms or the 'sticks', this one sits in the ladder itself. The excavator uses the 2 control+ hubs and all is controlled with the Buwizz App. In the end the upper structure is still well balanced, and the weight is distributed evenly.

I hope you liked the MOC/MOD

 

Edited March 22, 2020 by gvo25
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[suffocation]

Love it, and the Liebherr livery really suits it

[Dylan M]

Wow that was nice ??? 

do you have instructions for this?

Edited April 29, 2020 by Dylan M

[gvo25]

On 4/29/2020 at 10:58 AM, Dylan M said:

Wow that was nice ??? 

do you have instructions for this?

Hello, glad you liked it, but i don't have instructions

[jorgeopesi]

There are a lot of learn with this MOC, I always wanted to build one by my own.