Projects "THE BEAST" giant snow skidder
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EyeStation
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HaHa! Thats gonna rip it up! Can't wait.
Graham Lawrie
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Have you tested it yet? 
Tony
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hahahahahahaahaha
wolfman76
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hey what the! !!!????? Lol
wolfman76
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Well unfortunately I am having trouble getting the first video to upload issues with my phone I have since made a fourth run with the BEAST which did not go well I will try to get the video of the fourth and final run uploaded soon as I used a different camera along with some photos all I think I will say at this point is I am unsure if it is repairable during the second run I was constantly having issues with the rudders coming off so I said to heck with it and got a straight away to try and see how fast it would go. I gave it full throttle take into consideration. I only had 1 Lipo pack and no extra weight in it at the time needless to say it never reached full speed when it lifted off!!! Yup you heard me right lifted off it lifted off about 4feet off the ground and did a full loop and stuck nose down in the snow like a lawn dart!!! I wish I was making that up... lol third run wasn't to much better but weight issue was solved I added the other lipo plus a 2 & 1/2 lb. Steel weight it would still bookit lil but at the end of that run I still wanted to find out how fast it would go so straight away and wide open she went again but with bad results yet again this time she stayed on the ground but before reaching top speed disaster yet again lost control hit a small snow hill and rolled over bust the foam motor tower in half. This is where the fourth and maybe final run may come in with video but not of the crash got almost 12 minutes in and ran out of space on memory card but I do have video but not of crash. At end hit a big snow mound and pretty much disentigrated the motor tower this time I have photos and will post all as soon as I can get on a computer...
Derek
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I look forward to seeing the video that you did get. One thing that I found with my Skidder is that I couldn't go full throttle right away. I had to add about 2 oz of weight to the nose and it really seemed to help balance things out. Now it seems to run pretty well...unless the snow is bumpy..then it gets bounced around pretty good, lol.
I hope you had a little bit of fun with yours before disaster struck.
I hope you had a little bit of fun with yours before disaster struck.
wolfman76
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Re: "THE BEAST" giant snow skidder
video uploading hopefully it works this time....
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here we go I am wrong it is actually the third run we got 4"s of fresh snow so it didn't want to turn easily I am changing out the rudder servo hopefully this will help It turn better
camera ran out of storage space so it cut off on us otherwise it would have been longer....
video uploading hopefully it works this time....
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here we go I am wrong it is actually the third run we got 4"s of fresh snow so it didn't want to turn easily I am changing out the rudder servo hopefully this will help It turn better
camera ran out of storage space so it cut off on us otherwise it would have been longer....
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