unclelee
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Edited: 4/8/2009 12:30:53 PM by UncleLee
Yeah that is my setup. I'm pretty proud of the theory, however the entire setup you see in those pictures is gone now (including the backhalf, every single bit of it.) I came up with the theory, and JW Houk (jhouk2000 on here, one of my right hand guys at Heritage) designed it out. The beginnings of the setup that ya'll seen in the magazine was built by Ed Cain at Twist of Cain, but nothing more was done from those pictures. The truck is now at Parton's Hotrods in Newport, TN and we're redoing it all from the ground up. I'll link below to a couple of conceptual CAD drawings that we're sorta working off of. Cantilever arms were cut on a plasma burn table at JOY Manufacturing in Duffield, VA. The gears themselves are out of the cutting head of a JOY Continuous miner (if you're not familiar with Appalachian coal mining equipment, it's essentially a huge horizontal tiller designed to cut through coal seams).