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Motorized Knee , Iggy, Anybody? (milling machines guys, not bionics)
Well, I've had the Hurco working for a couple months now and I have made a
few parts on it. The splash enclosure works ok on the front and sides, but I still need to use portable guards to prevent losing coolant over the back of the enclosure where its lower. Anyway, I have just done a couple jobs where I had to switch from very long tools to very short tools. I found myself cranking the table up and down several times went. I was wondering if you had gotten around to motorizing your knee crank, and how it worked out? |
Motorized Knee , Iggy, Anybody? (milling machines guys, notbionics)
On 2013-09-25, Bob La Londe wrote:
Well, I've had the Hurco working for a couple months now and I have made a few parts on it. The splash enclosure works ok on the front and sides, but I still need to use portable guards to prevent losing coolant over the back of the enclosure where its lower. Anyway, I have just done a couple jobs where I had to switch from very long tools to very short tools. I found myself cranking the table up and down several times went. I was wondering if you had gotten around to motorizing your knee crank, and how it worked out? I motorized my knee crank and made it into one more CNC axis. http://igor.chudov.com/projects/Brid...ntrol-to-Knee/ i |
Motorized Knee , Iggy, Anybody? (milling machines guys, not bionics)
Here my powered knee:
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/camsof...olchanger.html I only move the knee to set tool length most of the time |
Motorized Knee , Iggy, Anybody? (milling machines guys, not bionics)
Karl Townsend fired this volley in
: Here my powered knee: I also hardly move my knee except to accommodate short or tall work. So, I just removed the crank handle and castellated drive hub, and installed a normal B'port-style auto-feed motor where the handle should go. "Handle up" for up, and "handle down" for down, with a speed dial. It almost seems like they made those motors for just that purpose! I had to drill and tap two 1/4-20 holes in the knee casting to mount the motor. Works a treat. The table/knee slide combo is fairly heavy on the Series 1 rigid ram machines, but the motor never strains raising it, even at 'creep' speeds. Lloyd |
Motorized Knee , Iggy, Anybody? (milling machines guys, notbionics)
On 2013-09-25, Karl Townsend wrote:
Here my powered knee: http://www.cnczone.com/forums/camsof...olchanger.html I only move the knee to set tool length most of the time I may soon need a motorized knee to get in and out of trucks |
Motorized Knee , Iggy, Anybody? (milling machines guys, not bionics)
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:46:28 -0500, Ignoramus4074
wrote: On 2013-09-25, Karl Townsend wrote: Here my powered knee: http://www.cnczone.com/forums/camsof...olchanger.html I only move the knee to set tool length most of the time I may soon need a motorized knee to get in and out of trucks Bet my knees are in worse shape right now. I'm not letting my very young picking crew use the ten foot ladder, only the seven. So, I'm doing all the tall old monster trees. This old fart has a hell of time with a thirty pound picking bag (when full of fruit) reaching for that last apple fourteen feet off the ground. In general keep up with teenagers is kicking my ass. karl |
Motorized Knee , Iggy, Anybody? (milling machines guys, notbionics)
Karl Townsend wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:46:28 -0500, Ignoramus4074 wrote: On 2013-09-25, Karl Townsend wrote: Here my powered knee: http://www.cnczone.com/forums/camsof...olchanger.html I only move the knee to set tool length most of the time I may soon need a motorized knee to get in and out of trucks Bet my knees are in worse shape right now. I'm not letting my very young picking crew use the ten foot ladder, only the seven. So, I'm doing all the tall old monster trees. This old fart has a hell of time with a thirty pound picking bag (when full of fruit) reaching for that last apple fourteen feet off the ground. In general keep up with teenagers is kicking my ass. karl 10' ladder? Yuck! Get a cheap used bucket truck from a cable company and start living large... |
Motorized Knee , Iggy, Anybody? (milling machines guys, not bionics)
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:16:05 -0500, "Pete C."
wrote: Karl Townsend wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:46:28 -0500, Ignoramus4074 wrote: On 2013-09-25, Karl Townsend wrote: Here my powered knee: http://www.cnczone.com/forums/camsof...olchanger.html I only move the knee to set tool length most of the time I may soon need a motorized knee to get in and out of trucks Bet my knees are in worse shape right now. I'm not letting my very young picking crew use the ten foot ladder, only the seven. So, I'm doing all the tall old monster trees. This old fart has a hell of time with a thirty pound picking bag (when full of fruit) reaching for that last apple fourteen feet off the ground. In general keep up with teenagers is kicking my ass. karl 10' ladder? Yuck! Get a cheap used bucket truck from a cable company and start living large... max 54" wide for equipment makes it hard. They do sell an orcahrd ape, three wheel hydraulic bucket unit for about 20K. They are very slow up down and unload apples to bin so not very popular. There is also a multideck harvestor with a conveyor system only $250K. Guess i keep the ladders. Karl |
Motorized Knee , Iggy, Anybody? (milling machines guys, notbionics)
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:16:05 -0500
"Pete C." wrote: Karl Townsend wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:46:28 -0500, Ignoramus4074 wrote: On 2013-09-25, Karl Townsend wrote: Here my powered knee: http://www.cnczone.com/forums/camsof...olchanger.html I only move the knee to set tool length most of the time I may soon need a motorized knee to get in and out of trucks Bet my knees are in worse shape right now. I'm not letting my very young picking crew use the ten foot ladder, only the seven. So, I'm doing all the tall old monster trees. This old fart has a hell of time with a thirty pound picking bag (when full of fruit) reaching for that last apple fourteen feet off the ground. In general keep up with teenagers is kicking my ass. karl 10' ladder? Yuck! Get a cheap used bucket truck from a cable company and start living large... He needs a Brownie: http://www.philbrownwelding.com/inde...d=1&Ite mid=2 or maybe better yet, a "Picking Platform": http://www.philbrownwelding.com/inde...52&It emid=66 of course I think he's hoping to retire someday soon and those machines sure won't help his savings ;-) -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
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"Leon Fisk" wrote in message
... On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:16:05 -0500 "Pete C." wrote: Karl Townsend wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:46:28 -0500, Ignoramus4074 wrote: On 2013-09-25, Karl Townsend wrote: Here my powered knee: http://www.cnczone.com/forums/camsof...olchanger.html I only move the knee to set tool length most of the time I may soon need a motorized knee to get in and out of trucks Bet my knees are in worse shape right now. I'm not letting my very young picking crew use the ten foot ladder, only the seven. So, I'm doing all the tall old monster trees. This old fart has a hell of time with a thirty pound picking bag (when full of fruit) reaching for that last apple fourteen feet off the ground. In general keep up with teenagers is kicking my ass. karl 10' ladder? Yuck! Get a cheap used bucket truck from a cable company and start living large... He needs a Brownie: http://www.philbrownwelding.com/inde...d=1&Ite mid=2 or maybe better yet, a "Picking Platform": http://www.philbrownwelding.com/inde...52&It emid=66 of course I think he's hoping to retire someday soon and those machines sure won't help his savings ;-) The local date harvesters use a specialized scaffold that goes 3/4 of the way around the tree and then drops down to close the gap. They move them with a forklift. |
Motorized Knee , Iggy, Anybody? (milling machines guys, notbionics)
On 9/26/2013 3:01 PM, Leon Fisk wrote:
He needs a Brownie: http://www.philbrownwelding.com/inde...d=1&Ite mid=2 or maybe better yet, a "Picking Platform": http://www.philbrownwelding.com/inde...52&It emid=66 I submit he needs one of these: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/06/robo_picker?currentPage=all My son worked on them as a college project. Karl can sip cooling beverages and listen to the sweet hum of machinery. Kevin Gallimore |
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"axolotl" wrote in message
... On 9/26/2013 3:01 PM, Leon Fisk wrote: He needs a Brownie: http://www.philbrownwelding.com/inde...d=1&Ite mid=2 or maybe better yet, a "Picking Platform": http://www.philbrownwelding.com/inde...52&It emid=66 I submit he needs one of these: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/06/robo_picker?currentPage=all My son worked on them as a college project. Karl can sip cooling beverages and listen to the sweet hum of machinery. Kevin Gallimore More than 30 years ago my grandfather and a group of other small grape farmers entered into a co-op to buy a USED automatic grape harvester. We could strip the grapes off of 10 acres in a day easily including setup. It took 3-4 guys to operate and do a good job. One guy drove the picker, one drove a tractor with a bin trailer in the next row and 2 guys would monitor the bins to keep the meat and larger sticks out. It was only suitable for juice grapes, but it worked. 4 guys could do the work of 20. Anyway, I suppose that there must be lots of technology out there developed in the last 30 years. You just have to find the right farmer to buy it. |
Motorized Knee , Iggy, Anybody? (milling machines guys, not bionics)
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:16:05 -0500, "Pete C."
wrote: Karl Townsend wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:46:28 -0500, Ignoramus4074 wrote: On 2013-09-25, Karl Townsend wrote: Here my powered knee: http://www.cnczone.com/forums/camsof...olchanger.html I only move the knee to set tool length most of the time I may soon need a motorized knee to get in and out of trucks Bet my knees are in worse shape right now. I'm not letting my very young picking crew use the ten foot ladder, only the seven. So, I'm doing all the tall old monster trees. This old fart has a hell of time with a thirty pound picking bag (when full of fruit) reaching for that last apple fourteen feet off the ground. In general keep up with teenagers is kicking my ass. karl 10' ladder? Yuck! Get a cheap used bucket truck from a cable company and start living large... There's a ratty old '78 chebby ladder bucket down the street with a $10k price tag on it. It has been there for going on two months now. If it weren't a chebby and were $3k, it might be worth it. -- Vidi, Vici, Veni |
Motorized Knee , Iggy, Anybody? (milling machines guys, not bionics)
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:24:40 -0500, Karl Townsend
wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:16:05 -0500, "Pete C." wrote: Karl Townsend wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:46:28 -0500, Ignoramus4074 wrote: On 2013-09-25, Karl Townsend wrote: Here my powered knee: http://www.cnczone.com/forums/camsof...olchanger.html I only move the knee to set tool length most of the time I may soon need a motorized knee to get in and out of trucks Bet my knees are in worse shape right now. I'm not letting my very young picking crew use the ten foot ladder, only the seven. So, I'm doing all the tall old monster trees. This old fart has a hell of time with a thirty pound picking bag (when full of fruit) reaching for that last apple fourteen feet off the ground. In general keep up with teenagers is kicking my ass. karl 10' ladder? Yuck! Get a cheap used bucket truck from a cable company and start living large... max 54" wide for equipment makes it hard. They do sell an orcahrd ape, three wheel hydraulic bucket unit for about 20K. They are very slow up down and unload apples to bin so not very popular. There is also a multideck harvestor with a conveyor system only $250K. Guess i keep the ladders. Or check on the efficacy of using jetpacks... THAT would be fun. -- Vidi, Vici, Veni |
Motorized Knee , Iggy, Anybody? (milling machines guys, notbionics)
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:00:18 -0700
"Bob La Londe" wrote: "Leon Fisk" wrote in message ... snip or maybe better yet, a "Picking Platform": http://www.philbrownwelding.com/inde...52&It emid=66 of course I think he's hoping to retire someday soon and those machines sure won't help his savings ;-) The local date harvesters use a specialized scaffold that goes 3/4 of the way around the tree and then drops down to close the gap. They move them with a forklift. There was an article about it (picking platform) in our local paper recently. See: http://www.mlive.com/business/west-m...an_invent.html I think there is a video there too besides some photos. Don't have enough computer oomph to view it though... -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
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