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shipto:
Been a little quiet lately however I have not been totally idle.
A while ago I purchased a smalley 5 towable digger which was modified for severn trent to use for clearing weeds from the rivers etc. This meant it was almost useless for doing the jobs I needed to do with it but it was cheap so whatever.
Anyway I got around to dismantling it and am now starting on rebuilding it to make it more useful to me.
so today (in between rain showers and hail) I welded the mounting for the slew ring.

sorry for the massive pictures now been altered

shipto:
Managed to dodge the showers and get a bit more done today,
started with the base sides (pic 1) which I had put two stop pins (pic 2) and the slew ring base I did last week and made them into the main base (pic 3). This just needs a final support for the back of the slew ring base and then cleaning up and painting and I can bolt the slew ring to it and get started on the more interesting stuff. I still have to work out how the out riggers on the front are going to fit to this base but that should not be a major headache. I really should get it all done before painting but if I do that I will start using it and it will never get painted.

The final pic shows a bit of the adjustable rear axle in place which I am praying to the god of rain I will be able to get done tomorrow.

shipto:
Got a decent bit done today. Did some more work on the adjustable axle to the point of getting the wheels mounted.
Although I got the one wheel welded on the wrong way around  :Doh: which will require a strip down to put the brake the right way around now.
when I first started building this one of my first thoughts was to make it able to roll out of a gateway so pic 1 shows the wheels how they will be to get in and out of a garden gate during normal use they will be the other way around. I am planning to put two 16mm pins in each side to hold the wheel assemblies into the axle but I will wait until I have it on the wheels and front supports to drill the holes for those.
I also added the rear slew ring support and painted the base too (pic 2) tomorrow I will bolt the slew ring itself to this.

Stilldrillin:
Hi Shipto.

I'm finding it hard work, imagining what you are working on.  :scratch:

Have you got an original pic of the digger, assembled?  :thumbup:

David D

shipto:
I never got around to taking a picture of mine before i started to dismantle it but there is a similar one on this vid now just imagine the same thing with twice the reach and yellow and you get what i had  :D

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