giant coal mine shovels, or pulley/cable pieces
sriesch
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Has anybody seen anything vaguely similar to those giant coal mining shovels, including the big top pulley and associated rigging?
I don't actually need the entire thing, I'm really just looking for parts similar to the crane, pulling and rigging, but without the effort of manually wrapping a poseable cable around a wheel and lining everything up. Kitbash parts are fine. period can range from antique, steampunk through modern.
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There is a coal mining shovel in the following vehicle group, but I suspect it is smaller scale than the ones you have in mind:
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/10-low-rez-industrial-vehicles/108260/
I couldn't much, most of them are expensive, 100 to 300 dollars. Did find one free one but it lacks a lot.
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/vehicle/industrial/rope-shovel-7495hf
http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/rope-shovel-7495hf-3d-model/730239
http://www.creativecrash.com/downloads/search?filters[downloads-][display]=list&filters[marketplace-][license]=freeware&page=3&per_page=20&search=loader&type=search_tags
http://www.hawthornecat.com/sites/default/files/content/download/pdfs/Surface_Mining_Extraction_Equipment_v1.1_03.13.14_Part_C.pdf
Most are CAT machines - I worked there before I retired - Underground Minining.
Not what you were looking for I suppose, but I hope it helps some. You might try the CAT site, they have lots of pictures in case you have to do it yourself.
DreamlandModels have a Dock Crane at Rendo and DigimationModelBank have a Coal Charger at Vanishingpoint and Contentparadise that could provide some useful bits for kitbashing.
Hey, I actually owned the Coal Charger, but it was broken. But prompted by your comment I took another look, and one fix appears to be editing Runtime\Libraries\Character\Digimation-IndustrialCoalCharger.cr2 to replace "DDigimation" with "Digimation", that got it to actually load, then for now I'm just skipping the missing material. It is actually pretty close, although it didn't have the giant pulley wheel on top I could probably fake it by adding the pulley manually. It appears to have two smaller pulleys, so there's a straight section of cable that from a distant view you can't tell that the cable actually goes through instead of wraps around. I attached a quick 2-second test. Obviously I'd need to line things up and add some supporting bits to hold the center of the pulley, and from an engineering standpoint it wouldn't be right, but I think it will work out for what I need it for.
Thanks everybody!