JerryRtilt
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Lego ?
JD450A
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Just spat my coffee outLego ?
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Keif
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Did that other dude ever finish his book???
Lancs Lad
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Wondered that...maybe he's practicing
we'll see something on the news of a D11 running amok round the M25
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6feetdown
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Running on wind powerWondered that...maybe he's practicing
Bri963
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So what’s going to be your unique selling point/design feature that hasn’t been tried, adopted and patented or discarded over the last 90 years?Ha thanks for the responses guys! You are correct I have never driven a bulldozer... how many people have?! But I know people who work on nuclear subs... doesn't mean they've driven one! Gotta start somewhere!
Ours is going to be considerably better than this!
JD450A
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A electric kettle
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DHWALL
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Well i cant give too much away haha...
You'll be horrified to hear its electric, 9-12 hours run time, swappable batteries, huge amounts of torque/power, bigger blade than competitors, and visibility makes all ones on market feel like your in a pillbox.... it also is gonna look rather different to anything else out there!
You'll be horrified to hear its electric, 9-12 hours run time, swappable batteries, huge amounts of torque/power, bigger blade than competitors, and visibility makes all ones on market feel like your in a pillbox.... it also is gonna look rather different to anything else out there!
JD450A
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So it'll flop then. Bit like Melrows product..... Always worth knowing history and what has been tried before
Blade size is application dependant, not a selling point.
Bri963
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Boy, have you got a learning curve coming…
Bri963
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If you mean the Melroe 8x8, it wasn’t the greatest as a dozer, but someone bought two of them, took the blades off and used them as heavy haulage units for moving on-shore oil rigs.
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Brendan
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That will be a hard sell, if it's anything like the current crop of electric construction equipment, they are double the cost of the diesel equivalent and two are needed to do a full shift.
There is a reason blade sizes are similar at different weights as there is only so much max traction available at given weights, before that big blade becomes a big brake.
Besides that for something as power hungry as a dozer that's going to need some big and expensive batteries, plus some large and very expensive generators to charge. That's before the ball ache of changing the batteries by either self loading or additional machinery, then the additional sets of spare, expensive batteries that have now become a nice target for thieves.
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Lancs Lad
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Smiffy
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This one's cheap
App-Controlled Cat® D11 Bulldozer 42131 | Technic | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop GB
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Bri963
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I stopped reading (laughing) after the run times. If I read a time in the press I divide it by three. Think it was a Liu Gong shovel at Plantworx and they were conspicuously not running it, after claiming 9-10 hrs battery life.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
gonna get real boring without a decent 'soundtrack' sat in that all day - well 4-5 hrs anyway
Bri963
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Where’s he gone?
Mogman
What man as done, man can do, what never has,maybe
Bri963
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Just to follow up from this, I was trying to find any up to date information about the ML6. It looks like Lumina have disappeared. No massive surprise there.
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