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What are you using for bolts

Hehe he yeah those squirrels get carried away. Like idea of a front winch, works well on the heavy haul theme

Looking forward to your Cortland Cadillac

Nice job ! The Cat D8 will look perfect chained down on the deck w the Husky pulling

nice progress Sam!

@Petriedish- thanks for posting the tri drive, that's an impressive work truck for sure!!! Feel free to post a few more photos of the trucks if your allowed to , we would all love to see them. Hopefully the Cat is still around

Awesome work

Nice little pup engine ! Good plan doing more outriggers, they take few minutes work but worth the effort

Fantastic results, love the colors

Scott - thanks ! Ours has the 2.3 turbo engine. It's very smooth and a really comfortable ride, albeit the interior space is much tighter than the condo I was driving. We've been seeing around 23- 25 mpg so far w mixed driving

Nice job on your 1st engine

Shortened up the walking beam after photos posted earlier , really like the look better. Removed 6mm(1/4" ) out of each.The wheels are loosely attached here While working on suspension parts. I installed the metal hubs and steering links. After a few minutes researching twin steer steering designs, I settled on a bell crank pull- pull set up for simplicity and I had enough of the angled arms to run that type. Now the brain cells can get a work out lol. Heres the drivers side. The steering rod hasn't been installed yet Any feedback or ideas I appreciate them, this is new territory for me

Looks good w pledge gloss coat Looking forward to your progress

Looks fantastic so far A mechanical tech I work w uses Fusion 360 for his hobby making atv parts. He loves the software

Sorry its been a few days since the last update. I decided to experiment with a different vehicle, so the hunt was on. My loved Ram 1500 was burning thru the strategic oil reserves faster than I liked..so it was traded. I honestly can say that was the toughest truck to sell off I've ever owned, and our new family member has some enormous shoes to fill. I happen to find an available vehicle, and we ran to dealer to try it out. Everyone liked it, so I left the Bighorn keys w them and brought the 2022 Explorer XLT home. Hopefully they don't get upset about the box of squirrels I left under the tonnue cover lol .

Great work The few times I've built these type trailers, the foot that pushes against truck frame caused me a few sleepless nights.

Yes those are the SDS drives . I use them on almost all my builds

Nice printed trailer

Its a good cab for building something more modern. I have a few pics of the mounts still to fabricate. I started getting all the new wheels and tire combos together last night. The front will have wide floats from gw trucks, along w his 10 hole Alcoa wheels. The rear tires are also gw trucks rubber, using his 22 inch sds drives . The wheels are scenes unlimited 2 hole budd w drive hubs . The metal steering axles will add strength up front and allow me to pose it The front floats , I really like the off road tread on these .

Picked up a huge batch of goodies for the Cat yesterday, planning a few hrs of bench time later to get this build rolling along

Really going together now ! I always enjoy those 1st mock up shots..makes all the work worth it

Pictures don't even come close to showing the amazing detail Tom has built into this. I had the pleasure of drooling all over it yesterday ( sorry Tom) at the spring thaw show. Great time hanging out and chatting models too!

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You've really knocked this out of the park

phenomenal scratch building, love the gear work..then my jaw dropped when you said it was all going to work!!! course after your Gallion roller and the paver nothing would surprise me , can't wait for updates