RC Junky

This isn’t your typical do it at home projects or anything you could play with in your back yard or on the street. But that doesn’t change the fact that I WANT ONE!!!

“This large, remote-controlled wheeled machine moves with either a crabbing or inching motion, and has a large vertical jaw mounted on the front that can grab and carry props. It has four wheels, though its overall shape is in a triangulated configuration. The front two wheels are separated like a normal chassis while the two back wheels are together, forming a triangle. The separated front wheels pull the machine forward; the crab-like action is a motion mechanism which works by opposing ratchets on the wheels that change directions in opposition. The machine can also reverse direction and .inch. along using the two back wheels. The gas motor is an industrial Wisconsin motor that drives a slave hydropump; the hydropump is the machine.s main power, creating the front end.s side-to-side motion, the neck of the vertical jaw, and the back and forth of the rear ends inching movement.”

Now isn’t this a cool pic? (click to enlarge a little bit more)

Here are 2 videos of the inchworm in action:

Mark Pauline operates inchworm and shows off its power by crushing a pallet

Mark Pauline shows son Jake what the Inchworm can do

source: The Inchworm

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