Backhoe Front-wheel drive

Today I’ll share the front-wheel drive of my backhoe and show how it works and how I used a hydraulic pump and actuator to control the wheel’s direction.

After a couple of months of drawing using Fusion 360 and testing everything, I can now share how it works. Here are some pictures of it:

Here’s a video of it:

Backhoe Front-wheel drive demonstration using hydraulic cylinder/pump to control its direction

I’ll share in the next post, how I created the wheels and also a stress test :)

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