Paul B Technic

Over the past few years I have built a few different trailers, these have varied between general purpose trailers, heavy equipment carrying trailers and logging trailers. Growing up I have always had a fascination with heavy equipment like this, many of my early LEGO Technic builds were of the various machinery I saw in use around me. After purchasing LEGO Technic set 42030 (Volvo Wheel Loader) late last year I designed and built a few different attachments, the details of these can be found on my blog. Late last year I designed and built an equipment trailer to carry these attachments, after a week I decided that I was not 100% happy with this so over the weekend I pulled this down and built a new / better trailer. This I am calling "Technic Logging Trailer MK3" as it is the third serious attempt I have made at building a logging trailer since I became and AFOL, I think it is my best so far. This trailer is designed for carrying logs out of forestry operation areas. It has a front set of wheels which lift and allow it to be connected to the back of the Volvo loader (I am planning on building another truck to tow this), it has a capacity of about 20 logs. I also made some modifications to my grabbing claw to now have forks which are used for loading and unloading this trailer. This trailer, my Volvo wheel loader and various attachments will be the main feature of my display at our Brixhibitions across the state this year.

Nice work :)

That looks like a really good start.

I just found this page which shows some good attachments: http://www.volvoce.com/dealers/en-au/cjd/products/wheelloaders/wheelloaders/attachments/Pages/attachments.aspx

42030 :)

Only LEGO for me, I have tried having other hobbies but I always come back to LEGO :)

Designing my latest MOC

That is a really good idea :)

Great work, I really like the look of this.

Thanks. This is what I have posted: "Sariel (http://sariel.pl/) has published a really good video review of LEGO Technic set 42030 B model. (VIDEO) His YouTube channel can be found here and contains a heap of really good LEGO Technic videos. https://www.youtube....vjan8wE6GWOrRJg"

Back when I owned LEGO Technic set 9398 I designed and built a camera mount for the roof, this allowed me to video this driving around, it was suitable for the task but didn't look very good (a mix of colours) and needed modifications to the roof of 9398 to support it. Recently I decided to try and design / build a camera mount which was more universal and could be used with different sets, the basis for this was the Volvo wheel loader (42030) but with a view to using it on other sets in the future. Last night I spent an hour watching the cricket on TV and building this. I am much happier with this version as it is mostly a standard colour (Black), can be easily installed and removed as the grey legs fit in the roof space and beside the cabin of 42030 to support it and finally it holds the camera at a good angle. Below are some photos and a video of this in use. Movie of this in use: http://youtu.be/VGDjYWhpVT4

Just a question, do you mind people linking to your video reviews? I have linked to your video review of the 42030 B model and just wanted to check this is okay?

Very nice looking set up :)

!MOC works for me ;)

This is really sad to hear :(

Yes, I am the only real LEGO fan in my family.

Really good work, I love how you have made the steering wheel.

Going back and reading this review now that I own this set I have to say that I agree with everything you have said, this is such an amazing machine.

That is a very cool idea, thanks for sharing it.

The B model of this looks to be much better than the A model, I am tempted to buy it now :)

You have a diff in backwards, turn one around :)

42030 is a lot of fun to play around with, 42009 makes a good display model.

LEGO Technic 42030 - MOD: Lift and Carry Crane Attachment Today I have finished my latest attachment for LEGO Technic set 42030, this is a lift and carry crane. The idea for this came about from a PDF file I found on the Volvo website which showed some of the attachments which Volvo offer for this model of wheel loader. This attachment is used for lifting and carry various items such as pipes, timber and building materials. A video of this in use can be found here: http://paulstechnic.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/lego-technic-42030-mod-lift-and-carry.html

This is really sad that somebody would do this to your videos :(

LEGO Technic 42030 - MOD - Tilting Dozer Blade I have just finished work on my latest MOD attachment for LEGO Technic set 42030 - Volvo Wheel Loader, this attachment is a tilting dozer blade. Last week I built a road grader attachment, this didn't work out as well as what I had hoped so I pulled this to pieces and used the blade from this as the basis to build this dozer blade. The remote bucket lift function lifts this and the remote bucket tilt functions tilts the blade backwards. It attaches to the Volvo wheel loader using the standard mounting points. More photos: http://paulstechnic.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/lego-technic-42030-mod-tilting-dozer.html