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Concrete Truck

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A Concrete Truck with power functions.

About this creation

This. Was. Hard.
I worked on this for a long time. It took five months to build. There were many challenges and problems. It was originally supposed to have suspention but after 4 attempts (including trying to copy one of Sariel's design) I gave up on that. There were so many problems with the power functions I nearly gave up on the project twice. You are probably wondering why it says SLUG on the side. That is the name of the Lego club I belong to SLUG - Saskatchewan Lego Users Group. We recently put on a show in Moose Jaw. This truck was popular with the crowd which was nice considering the amount of work that went into it. You can see video of the functions here. There are many gears in the chassis which required building it far less ridgid than I would have liked. I may improve that someday. I decided to make the drum with exposed studs instead of slopes because it was getting expensive and I wasn't sure how it would work out. Overall I am happy with how this turned out

Power Functions:
2 IR recievers
1 XL motor for drive
1 XL motor to turn the drum
1 M motor for steering including working steering wheel
1 M motor to raise and lower the chute
1 M motor to move the chute left and right
working headlights

Manual functions:
opening doors
opening hood
fold down ladder

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Dennis Bosman

January 25, 2013

I'm not a very regular MOC pages visitor but since I posted my latest MOC I'm hanging around sometimes up here. It's the first time I see this MOC. I know these kind of trucks because I went to Canada a couple of years ago. When I saw the first four axle rigid like this I thought it was a little odd in combination with the conventional outfit wit a hood. Nice model. You indeed could make the drum a bit more smooth but then you've to decide to invest in tiles or something like that. About ten years ago I built something similar. Would like to try it again but then at bit different.

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Ray Jacobs

November 15, 2012

"I would have loved to have seen this in person!" The way you worded this makes it sound like you live near me. If you find yourself in Saskatchewan I still have this assembled.

Quoting Paul Beach I've been stalling on building something like this for a long time. Nice job, I would have loved to have seen this in person!

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Ray Jacobs

November 15, 2012

Thank you very much. It is hard to predict what will get a lot of views. The drum has a frame of studed technic beams and is built out ward.

Quoting Andy L This is incredible. That drum looks like a very complicated build. This deserves more views and comments. It is a masterpiece.

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Andy L

November 14, 2012

This is incredible. That drum looks like a very complicated build. This deserves more views and comments. It is a masterpiece.

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Malte Dorowski

September 15, 2012

ravishingly beautiful!

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geoffrey boulton

September 12, 2012

just watched video on ytube love it it must weigh alot

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geoffrey boulton

September 12, 2012

wow this is massive i have thought about building one of these my self 5/5

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Ray Jacobs

September 3, 2012

Quoting George Staples Haven't seen one of these in this scale before. I think you did a excellent job with it. All those power functions are fit in there tight. I was going to say to use a pendular suspension design, but it looks like you have way too many motors in there and the double steering would be hard to fit suspension into. Great work!

Yes, there are too many gears and motors to fit suspension in as well. I tried and tried. Maybe I will try that on a future truck. Thanks for the feedback.

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George Staples

September 3, 2012

Haven't seen one of these in this scale before. I think you did a excellent job with it. All those power functions are fit in there tight. I was going to say to use a pendular suspension design, but it looks like you have way too many motors in there and the double steering would be hard to fit suspension into. Great work!

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Chris Melby

September 2, 2012

Very cool!

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Harrison McNeill

September 2, 2012

Speechless! Absolutely Amazing!!!

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TheLegoNoitAll .

September 2, 2012

wow thats the 2nd most complicated build i ever seen! the first is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXK5a6IcjLE&feature=endscreen&NR=1 , all those different functions, its just amazing!

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Ray Jacobs

September 2, 2012

Quoting Ape Fight Wow - what a beast! Looks pretty good (although a tad blocky), and those Power Functions features are superb - I'm amazed it drives with one XL Motor - it must weigh a ton! Anyway, a great build, 5 stars : )

When you say it's a tad blocky, are you referring to just the drum? Because that was intentional. I may change it to slopes in the future. One XL motor drives it well enough and it is heavy.

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Marcus Paul

September 2, 2012

This. Is. Huge. An amazing truck, I love its overall shape, the steering and the lettering.

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Ape Fight

September 2, 2012

Wow - what a beast! Looks pretty good (although a tad blocky), and those Power Functions features are superb - I'm amazed it drives with one XL Motor - it must weigh a ton! Anyway, a great build, 5 stars : )

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El Barto !

September 2, 2012

Massive!

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