VOTE for 1 of 10 August Technic Challenge Finalists

[DLuders]

By August 31, 2010, please vote for one of the ten Finalists for the August Lego Technic Challenge. The "Lifting Cranes" theme has these MOCs to choose from -- vote on the website http://technic.lego.com/en-us/Competition/voting.aspx .

On the Lego Technic Designers Blog, Ricco Rejnholdt Krog wrote:

"The LEGO® Technic challenge - August"

"The 10 new Finalists selected for all of you to vote on.

"This month we have received a lot of cool pictures of Cranes. It’s really great to see so many of you submitting models for the competition; we are having a great (hard) time selecting the 10 models that you can vote for.

"Selecting the finalists is not easy as there are many great models among the entries. We are of course among other things, looking on the age of the builder as well as the model itself in this case the crane function.

"As always, these adult models, as well as others - will be selected for a full round of voting in a pure Adult-submission finale which will run after the grand finale in October - the winner will receive the same grand-prize as for the current competition, which is the full LEGO® Technic, 2010 Novelty Assortment (all new models in 2010).

"This month we desided to emphasize four Adult-submission : the 8288´s Big Brother because of its scale , the Pneumatic Crane Truck because it is based on very impressive building skills, the Crane ship because it is the first ship we have seen submitted in this completion and last the Self Erecting Crane because of its fold out function.

"Thank you all for your submissions - stay tuned for the September round!"

"Big Brother" submitted by Parax77:

"Crane ship" submitted by vargat32:

"Pneumatic Crane Truck" submitted by Waler93:

"Self eracting crane" submitted by user Frorider:

Here are the ten youth Finalists (in no particular order):

"lr1350" by legoblok1234 -- "I made a crane that led me interesting" :

"Vehicle Retrieval Crane" by oscarhennin -- "This folding crane lowers broken cars onto a trailer. At the repair shop, the car rolls down off the ramps. The truck has rack and pinion steering. There is a worm gear that raises and lowers the big boom. The gear under the chassis slews the crane around to line up with the trailer" :

"All-Terrain Crane" by mindstormmaniac1000 -- "This is a versatile heavy-duty crane. It moves using tracks powered with two XL motors at a 1.6:1 gear ratio. The boom can rotate 360 degrees with two regular motors at a 40:1 gear ratio. The crane can carry 4 tires at slopes of up to 15 degrees" :

"Caterpillar crane" by edgars9727 -- "It is my caterpillar crane. It can tower the telescopic crane and spin the cabin and crane 360 degrees. You can use the hawser with hook" :

"HD Crane" by Oecokley3240 -- "The crane has duel wheel steering a motor driven main boom actuator with the secondary boom being controlled by a motor driven cable. A hand crank for the crane cable and two front hazard lights on the truck. The truck and crane have independent batteries and switches with IR control" :

"OIL FIELD PICKER TRUCK" by TLT803 -- "This is my truck it has pneumatics for the outriggers and the boom. It can lift up to 1/2 lbs. and extend to twice its length. It also can rotate 360 degrees and the extending can be locked at any length.The truck also has twin steering controled by ether a knob at the back or the steering wheel" :

"Rough Terrain mobile Crane" by rushlight -- "The boom on my model can be raised, lowered and extended. The stabiliser legs can be raised and lowered. The crane can turn 360 degrees" :

"Tower Crane on Rails" by akulll -- "Three M motors are used to rotate the jib mounted on turntable, move the trolley along the jib and lift the load. Transmission includes 8 gears and 2 worms. Trolley and hook are handled with ropes" :

"Lifting Crane" by fasterskings -- "This is the crane I made. It`s completely remote control with 3 motors and 1 gear box. It`s height is 55 cm. Boom length is 53 cm max lifting weight 200 g max range 60 cm, total mass of crane 1,28 kg" :

"Rewiko's tower crane" by rewiko -- "Full fine adjustment remote functions tower crane with 3 motors (rotation, trolley, hook)" :

[Zerobricks]

Cant win them all I feel sorry for Grohl now, because his crane was the most unique one.

Edited August 19, 2010 by Zblj

[efferman]

maybe the sandhill crane is no crane in the eyes of tlg. and mine was maybe to primitive

[grohl]

I do not think they bother much when selecting the AFOLs' models. The only round that looked like they care about the older builders was the February one. If you take a closer look at the crane ship, the crane does not look very steady at all.

[efferman]

sounds like a lottery

[grohl]

sounds like a lottery

or "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe"

[Parax]

or "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe"

Or a language joke that does not translate so well. I really liked your model it made me smile, and I think just as many technic fans will have seen it on EB too.

P.

[DLuders]

From the website http://technic.lego.com/en-us/Competition/PreviousWinnerDetails.aspx?contentid=213835 , we learn that the winner of the August 2010 Lego Technic Challenge is mindstormmaniac1000: "This is a versatile heavy-duty crane. It moves using tracks powered with two XL motors at a 1.6:1 gear ratio. The boom can rotate 360 degrees with two regular motors at a 40:1 gear ratio. The crane can carry 4 tires at slopes of up to 15 degrees."