Hairba11’s hc4 tonka big tow

[chewyscool]

awesome!!
Lets see a recovery!

[350TacoZilla]

Looks great man! It looks like it has a nice weight to it just in the still shots, how does it look when driving? Like nice "heavy lumber" to it and such? lol

[hairba11]

Yeah. This pig is at 12 lbs so far.

And what’s a wrecker without some outriggers.
Copying a manual set from the m816

Showed up and inside a box beam

this whole thing slides out and then unscrews at the collar near the joint.


And mine in the stowed position


And out and down


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[hairba11]

Little more progress


Whipped up a towbar for vehicle recovery


Used the hc4 bed with homemade frame and axle and some BuddyL wheels to make a m105 trailer.


Also added a bench vise to the front bumper


A Jerry Can in the stock front step location


And a Hobart motor welder in the bed.


The Hobart is hiding an air pump which will get its own esc and run the smoke unit I’m working on.


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[danielk]

Hell yes. I'm loving everything you're doing here.

[hairba11]

Thanks!
And with everything going into this truck, the tires were going flat.

So I picked up some deuces wild foams from crawler innovations which are good for rigs over 8 lbs.


Changing the tires like a boss


So many wires.
Changed from my 3ch radio to a 6ch. The air pump is on ch3 which is a dial on this radio. It’s program mixed to ch2 so it speeds up with throttle input, but it’s also manually adjustable so I can make it chooch while parked, or idle up for winching.
The shift servo is ch5, and I found a receiver controlled switch for ch6 to run the smoke box so I can turn it off or on, uh remotely.











And I ran it around a little.


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[frizzen]

Nice job, the m35 is looking great! I'm loving all the details and functionality you're adding. Those outriggers are really cool.

I might redo the towbar you used on the chevy, for a more wrecker style lifting drawbar.
If you put a set of D-ring shackle mounts on the rear bumper, you could remake the K shaped bumper-lift tow bar with the pivot at rear. Then you'd be able to swap between shackles, the bar, or leave the eyes empty

I see the winch lines have the snatchblock hooks, are the top attached to the boom equipped with hooks also?

Have you seen the led beacons?

[hairba11]

Originally Posted by frizzen

Nice job, the m35 is looking great! I'm loving all the details and functionality you're adding. Those outriggers are really cool.

I might redo the towbar you used on the chevy, for a more wrecker style lifting drawbar.
If you put a set of D-ring shackle mounts on the rear bumper, you could remake the K shaped bumper-lift tow bar with the pivot at rear. Then you'd be able to swap between shackles, the bar, or leave the eyes empty

I see the winch lines have the snatchblock hooks, are the top attached to the boom equipped with hooks also?

Have you seen the led beacons?

I get what you’re saying about the tow bar. My design was loosely based on the military’s towing setup. They use a tow bar that either has feet which attach to the front bumper shackle mounts for flat towing, or attaches to axle clamps that clamp to the front axle and a wiffle tree (spreader bar) attaches to the towed vehicle’s shackles and provides a center lift point for slung towing.

Yeah the original winch hooks are hanging from some m2 cross bolts I put under the upper pulley to make it a 2 part line (10 pounds) so I can unhook and have a one part line (5 pounds). Ideally I’d have a ring on top of the hook pulley so I could do a 3 part lift line (15 pounds). I might have to put a longer line on the winch for that. I already put double pulleys on the tip of each boom for 3 part line.

I have seen them, but I already have a 10 pack of 10mm yellow flashing LED’s prewired for 6v so that’s what I used.
They look about right based on the convoy lights on some of the 1:1 trucks I’ve played with.


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[hairba11]

Little more progress.
Got smoke out the stack and headlights are white now

This little piggy is 6.8kg!


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[RCJEEPBUILDER]

Nice work Tim..

[hairba11]

Thanks!

Did a Labor Day run with some people
















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[Willezcr8]

Awesome tow rig! I especially like all the little do-dads you added for detail, very cool!

[frizzen]

Looks like a beast, how'd it handle the trail?

Get to do any offroad recoveries?

[caprinut]

Awesome looking rig