LEGO moc 0035: tipping trailer

LEGO nr.:

0035

LEGO year:

2009

LEGO theme:

Technic

Description

After finalizing the Slurry Injection Tanker I thought it should be easy to reuse the chassis for the development of a tipping trailer, which was easy to do. The only challenge was the tipping construction itself, because the technic linear actuator can only extract 5 studs. This was achieved by building a 'helper trailer bed' which has two functions: a) make sure that the trailer bed can extract much more then 5 studs, b) gain more momentum on the trailer bed itself in the first phase of the tipping process. Important is the axle 7 which connects the linear actuator to the 'helper trailer bed'; the axle ends do push in the first phase to the bottom bricks of the trailer bed (see red arrow on last picture of this page).

Created by:

Han Crielaard