My crane, Detritus mk-1, "Its not plagiarism! It's reverse engineering!"

[SofusRud]

This design owes a lot to Mareczex333's crane design, as found here :http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/88566-100-Reusable-SSTO-Cargo-with-Satelite-Crane-download

This design came about from seeing and being impressed by that crane. My kerbals decided that they had to have it. However, looking at it I came to the conclusion that a lot of parts were used on aesthetics, and being the pragmatic and utilitarian designer that I am I decided that this would not do.

As such my design has a similar mechanism but with a significantly reduced part count, 34 (I think) versus about 80.

Here it is:

For some reason the fuel lines attach to nothing after you re-load the craft

From inside

Picking stuff is a simple matter of placing the Claw above the thing you need to carry, and dropping it.

Action groups:

1- first set of landing legs (for lifting crane)

2- second set of landing legs

3- toggling claw

4- releasing claw

The download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ifcsju3l7tdb382/Detritus%20mk-1.craft