i tried the offset thing you said... i kind of sent my excavator on a spinning ride to space :( any ideas how else i could do it?

If I remember correctly I had -16cm height offset for normal rotors and -32cm for adrotors. That seemed to reduce phantom forces to a minimum at the time
Key to attaching was to have a timer act as a function group. Once you had lined up the new part with rotors that are going to act as a joint. Set the timer group to attach rotor heads AND immediately turn off the rotor blocks. This way there's no torque anywhere and the rotors don't do anything.
In these builds the pistons do ALL the work, rotors do nothing but act as joints.

This is really cool, I love heavy excavators off all kind and am trying to build my own stuff similar to this, i was hoping to learn from your awesome creations but i just can't figure out how you connect something with a piston and a rotor, I don't suppose you could help? or even point me in the right direction to get help could you? If not I get it, anyways I really love you work its awesome, and just so you know if i do try myself i'm not going to rip you off, you've done something too awesome to be ripped off lol.

Yeah... maybe you could find a way to make a device that looks good and has the chain!

It would be difficult though...

Functionally possible? Sure. Appearance would be absolutely wrecked though

you could make a chain using rwheels to move a seperate grid (drills connected with advanced rotors), and every "x" chanins there would be a connecter that would transfer the recouses. So, just saying it's possible!

I seeeeeeee

@Leothehero2110 It already uses a conveyor sorter set to drain all from the front and out the back. They're just not fast enough for the vast amount of earth its moving. More is always better and in the future after I get a mining truck done I'll rework ALL models to work with it.

Also; can’t filters be used for forcefully pulling the weight out of the nose?

I can find a way to make this a pseudo-true chain excavator(I don’t care how correct this is language-wise): we can build a string of collector blocks and position them under the end of the HCE set to eject ores! Then all ores from the HCE are ejected and sent back to a processing facility!