Pedro Antunes

@Alasdair Ryan Not that vehicle but the same principle, what you're mentioning is what I already have... what I need it to be able to rotate the claw by RC but also have it rotating freely just by itself. The claw on that skidder can be rotated by the operator but also rotates on his own when its dragging stuff, that's what I need. @chorlton The clutch gear is too tight... @Dluders Thanks, that will really help... lets see what I can achive based on that.

But if I attach a motor to it then it stops moving freely

Thanks DLuders but that does not helps... you see in that video the claw does not rotates freely (by freely I mean by hand) since its connected to the motor and only the motor action can make it move. I need it to move both ways... with motor action and with simple inertia, my claw serves to pick stuff and drag it as the truck is moving that's why I need it to move freely, just like a truck trailer for instance. Since I'm draging stuff I need it to move around just by itself following the truck movement (think of the stuff I'm dragging as a trailer), but I need to rotate it once its in the air before picking stuff up.

Hello EB community I'm planning for a new MOC and I'm going to need 2 XL-Motors and 5 M-Motors. From the LEGO website I can read: Ok, so this is my question, can I connect the 7 motors all to the same battery assuming I'm only going to use (at most) 2 of them at the same time? Or does the LEGO sentence actually refers to only connect 2 XL (for instance) and nothing more to a single battery? I think that I can connect all the motors I want to the same battery as longs as I dont use them all at the same time, so if dont use them simultaneously there should be no problem as they only use the battery when they are running (right?) Sorry if my question sounds confusing

Thanks tim

I'm planning to build one of those soon: http://www.tigercat.com/images/stories/model_imgs/skidders/635D/635d_skidder_swamp_2.jpg It will be on a large scale and with use of pneumatics... Still waiting fir a lot of parts. I too love those logging machines =)