Cranes

Liebherr LR 13000 Crawler Crane

As I was very disappointed by the new Lego set of this crane I designed my own version!

 

Model description:

  • Size 70 x 40 x 190cm
  • Eight Control-Plus motors
  • Two Hubs
  • Number of parts about 8550

Model remote functions:

  • Traction and steering using two motors
  • Crane house rotation using two motors
  • All crane boom movement functions using three motors
  • Hoist function using one motor

Model manual functions:

  • Tilting the A-frame

Demolition Excavator

This demolition crane both has Control-Plus motors as Power Functions motors and receivers. The Power functions are used for all movements of the gripper and the cabin tilt

 

Model description:

  • Size: 45 x 25 x 75 cm
  • Four PF motors
  • Six Control-Plus motors
  • Two receivers
  • Two AA battery boxes
  • Two Control-Plus Hubs
  • Number of parts: 3400

 Model remote functions:

  • Traction and steering with two motors
  • Crane house rotation
  • Cabin tilt
  • All crane movements
  • Gripping, rotating and swinging of gripper

 Model manual functions:

  • Opening cabin door
  • Opening engine compartment (battery boxes)

Crawler Crane

This is a model of a large crawler crane, not based on a certain model, but designed using pictures of 3 different cranes.

 

Model description:

  • Size: 47 x 29 x 150 cm
  • Seven motors
  • Four receivers
  • Pneumatic pump
  • Three AA battery boxes
  • Number of parts: 3500

 Model remote functions:

  • Traction and steering with two motors
  • Crane house rotation
  • Cabin tilt (pneumatic)
  • All crane movements
  • Hoisting

 Model manual functions:

  • None