‘Tis the season of cutting down trees, dressing them in tinsel and watching them… er, slowly die. But mankind’s appetite for timber is year-round, and it is machines like this that keep the supply of wood coming.
This is a Scania R620 logging truck, complete with centrally-mounted crane and 4-axle trailer. Built by Zbiczasty of Brickshelf it has a huge array of LEGO’s most trick parts squeezed inside it. Working lights, remote control steering and all-wheel-drive all feature, plus – much like LEGO’s own flagship models – Zbiczasty has combined these with a pneumatics system for even more realism.
A Power Functions motor compresses air for the pneumatic cylinders, which power the stabilising feet, crane boom and the wood-handling grab. These are all mid-mounted between the tractor unit and the trailer, thus allowing logs to be loaded seamlessly onto both structures.
There’s a large gallery of excellent images, including some close-up photographs of some of the more intricate parts of the build, available via Brickshelf – click the link above to see more of Zbiczasty’s superb build.
Hello TLCB! Zbiczasty speaking – I’d say that my model is rather Technic than Model Team 🙂 Anyway, thanks for posting!
Hello Zbiczasty
Thanks for stopping by!
We agree that this is definitely a Technical build, however we tend to categorise our posts by the way the model looks – as otherwise 9/10ths of our posts would be ‘Technic’ these days!
It’s a big compliment for us to categorise a technical build such as yours as ‘Model Team’, as this means that the aesthetic detailing is beyond what we would expect to see in a typical Technic creation.
Hope that makes sense!
Kind regards
TLCB Team
It’s an honor for me that the category has been changed 🙂
Very best regards,
Marcin
Are these up for sale? My son is dying to build this here at home 😎 We ourselves own a logging company and he just wants to build one that looks like daddy’s. 😍 I have looked high and low to find one as authentic as yours, if you can tell me how to get it I’d be honored.
Sincerely,
Tina Challoner
Hello Tina
Thanks for stopping by.
Your best bet is to contact the builder directly. Try zbiczasty@wp.pl
Good luck!
TLCB
Hi Tina,
Please contact me via e-mail at zbiczasty@wp.pl
Regards,
Marcin
Hallo gibt es irgenteine Möglichkeit die Bauteile und die Anleitung für dieses wunderschöne Modell zu bekommen?
Hi, unfortunately there is no instruction. Regards!