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This truck is like the big dirt contractors are going to. If you like to do woodiworking with a lot of miters and angles, this is the one for you, I never counted them but there are more than enough. Each wheel has 72 slots to make the thread.this truck is made of walnut,soft maple, hard maple,oak,hickory ,and 2 I dont know, because they came from recyeied pallets. In fact the whole truck is recyeled wood ,except the walnut in the wheels. About 3 weeks worth of time went in building it. I made 2 of them, at the same time. Comments apprecieated.
Chuck
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Grumpy
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posted 590 days ago
Excellent work Chuck.
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lew
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posted 590 days ago
How about those wheels! I made the articulated hauler. Took me a heck-of-a-lot than three weeks and I only made one.
Beautiful job!
Lew
ND2ELK
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posted 590 days ago
Great looking truck.
God Bless
tom
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Paul D
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posted 590 days ago
Chuck, WOW, those are some pretty nice dump trucks. Great job!
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Scott Bryan
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posted 590 days ago
Chuck,
I really enjoy looking at these models. Even though they can be viewed as “toys” it takes both skill and talent to build one of these. I have a great deal of respect for the abilities of any woodworker who is able to complete something like this.
Nice post, by the way.
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toyguy
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posted 590 days ago
Looks like a winner to me Chuck…..I think I like this new plan..
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romansfivefive
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posted 432 days ago
hi chuck, can describe how you made the wheels?
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wiswood2
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posted 431 days ago
The wheeis are cut out on the drillpress with a hole cutter , then sanded on a jig that makes them truely round,then they are indexed to a ceratin degree then they are cut on the table saw with the blade set3/16 th hi.the gig is set at an angle and they are cut on the index marks. then one side is drilled al the way thru .a 1/4 inch disck is gluded in between the 2 halfs a hub ie made an glued in.wheel is then sanded on the trueing gig on the discked sander.takes a lot of time.good luck
chuck
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John Gray
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posted 431 days ago
Great job! Thanks for the post!
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