I love the re-engineering and customization. To have that much functionality, and be light, is not easy. Hope to see this thing, one day, flying in person.
Ole Bushwacker is looking good!!! I really appreciate how you think of the effect every square of a plane pertains to functionality. Then you make it neat and nice to look at too. Love the black paint!! I’m still in love with the Super Cub!!! The Maule is kinda like the old steady farm tractor of the two and the Cub a shiny new one LOL 🤠
@@mauleguy Still, I'm starting an annual on mine so I'll have to see what it weighs but I'm sure it's several hundred pounds more. Makes me want to tear a lot out of it and redesign at least the interior. And I love the gull wing doors. Really thoughtful changes and nice work.
Beautifully engineered plane! I'm wondering if you started with a certified maule or scratch built one. How did you make it experimental, is it exhibition experimental previously certified? I'm only asking because I would love to do something similar and have even considered scratch building a maule.
I love this aircraft and the modifications on it...If I could take the stock interior of a Maule M7 and couple it with some of the mods on this aircraft it would be my perfect aircraft.
Nice to see Bushwacker going again! You changed quite a bit...I love the changes. The similar controls for both planes makes sense. Did you put the flap handle on the left like a Cub? Also what kind of HP do you think it's making with the 10 to 1 pistons? Looking forward to seeing this baby fly some more. Oh two things...I love me some AC/DC as well and this is Adam...changed my channel name.
I can only guess at horse power but it is rated at 200 hp from Lycoming with 8.5-1 pistons. I believe it would be at least 210 hp now. It feels like a lot more then before but I never started using this engine fresh. It had 2800 hours when I hung it on Bushwacker and when you pulled the prop through the compression felt low although on a compression test it still showed better then 70 on all the cylinders. I planned on doing a top overhaul right away, I bought cylinder and pistons for it and then decided to wait. It made more sense to just do a complete overhaul. I flew it for a few years and then pulled it after my moose hunt this year. It feels like 30 more horses than before...
Love that plane. I can only imagine the amount of hours you put in building it and dreaming up and rebuilding things you did and didn’t like . Would you say it’s all ironed out? Or are you still working through some stuff and adjusting and still modifying.
No it is Stits Polyfiber with aerothane. Not really unless you want to dig. I was short a few this year in Alaska so I dug a couple back out. Not much fun to get them out.
1059!!! Holy cow no wonder that thing is such an animal. Really love how it’s similar to a cub. What did you set the incidence at? What paint and cover system did you use looks great? Also did you stick with 52 degrees flap deflection or go longer? I have a short bent flap handle in my cub but for the Keller flaps I’m going to keep it at 52 or around there stock since any more would be tough to pull I think.
Sorry that was editing mistake, it weighs 1359. I have 3/4" more incidence then the maximum on a stock Super Cub. I used Super Flight for fabric and paint. I have probably around 70 degrees I will check it next time I am there. I have played with different size gears on my torque tube which controls deflections.
That's some serious eye candy, what a beautiful job. Did you build the slotted flaps from scratch? and why not a cub style jack screw trim? can't wait to see how she does in the field.
I machined all the hangers and paid a gal that worked for Doug Keller to build them. This was before Airframes owned the STC. Doug Keller was the engineer that designed them for a cub and I made custom hangers to adapt them to a Maule hanger. I actually had extended the fuselage length 30" and included the jack screw tower. I was going to use Super Cub tail feathers and a Super Cub style over sized rudder. I spent a bunch of time agonizing over whether I was making too big of change to Bushwackers fuselage. Bushwacker worked very well as it was before the accident and in the end I decided that I would stay with a Maule tail. It is a lot of work to complete a fuselage and I did not want to have an airplane that was unairworthy when finished. I knew that the way it was before worked great so why take a chance. I cut off the tail at the rear bulk head and put the Maule tail back on. I go back and forth on the decision now just because I would like to know what it would have done.
That is one badass plane! Its really cool that you explained what all you've done to it..makes a great video...but what happened in the end? I hope you didn't pull a Cory Robin stunt in the river!!
I have spent more time behind toe then heel but in the end I like heel brakes a little better. There is never anything that really needs adjusted in order for heel brakes to work and be fully engaged. If you have toe brakes and are doing full rudder deflections it can sometimes be precarious to get on the brakes with out being almost against the firewall. It really does not matter if you have the toe brakes adjusted properly they work good too. I was bouncing between Cubs and Bushwacker and thought why not just make it feel just like a Super Cub so that is what I did. You can apply more pressure with heel brakes I think with less energy exerted. I think it takes a little longer to get the feel for heel brakes so if you start out learning toe brakes it might seem harder for a bit. Once you get the hang of them I think most people like them more.
@@mauleguy Ah Thank you for the clarification. Do you know approximately how long (Hours) it took to repair/convert? I'm also very curious on what your angle of incidence is, and any other effects it had ie. Tail adjustment, cruise characteristics ect. I would love to do something like this - its very interesting seeing how others do it and what they come up with. Many thanks!
I am building a Bearhawk 4 Place. Have you ever looked at them? I am curious what you like and don’t like as I am modifying it and would love your opinion on it. Do you say and. Empty weight of 1059?!!!! That is super light for what you have......I was shooting for 1300 empty on my Bearhawk with 0-540.
Awesome work. The olios Look a lot like bearhawk model a olios. In addition to the airfoil shaped horizontal. I will have to check out the flap mechanism you designed and see how I can fit it to the bear hawk that I'm Going to build. Also how much did you add to the mall gear height and width?
"The olios Look a lot like bearhawk model a olios"... Bearhawk is a copy of a Maule, anyway that is what I always thought. I added 5" to the gear length which translated to 4" taller and whatever that angle makes to the width. Just a guess probably 6-8 wider.
Looks like cub jumped the maul! Very nice. Nice to see how you incorporated cub things into it. Question I wish I could answer is, where do you find the time to do all this.
Bushwacker was down for almost 5 years during it's make over after the accident in Alaska in 2014. I have built 2 cubs and rebuilt Bushwacker in that time frame. If I want to I can do an airplane pretty easy in a winter. The changes I made to Bushwacker probably took me more like 2 winters to incorporate. I just like to be busy I guess. It helps to have the right tools also.
Lands a lot slower which means things don't happen as fast which is really nice. Take off light is about the same distance. Not as sporty as the cub but a better pickup truck for sure.
It is a 200hp engine to start with and 10-1 pistons should give an honest 10 more. I wanted to try and create a cub like feel in the cockpit. No on the wheels, I use to make them (2 or 3 sets at a time) but I can make a lot more money doing production in my shop then a set of wheels here or there. There are already two great options out there in production.
@@gregwatruba4541 You know I don't think it is recommended with the 10-1 pistons. I would in a pinch though. 21" mp and 2400 rpm around 9 gph at sea level and 105 mph. If I go to 8000 feet leaned out 20" mp and 2300 rpm around 7.5 gph and 115 mph. While I was breaking it in 27" mp and 2500 rpm at 3000 feet msl I was see 12.5 gph and 115 mph averaged out for both directions. It takes a lot to push 35" Bushwheels through the air:))
I wrecked the airplane because I did not have enough roll control to counter the wind gust close to the ground. The stock big wing that Maule built has 126" flaps and 54" ailerons. It is stupid to be frank. I shortened them to 120" when I went to double slotted flaps but that was barely a help. I decided when I rebuilt this wing to add another 12" to the length and shorten the flaps another 6" . With the Dakota style wing tips this gives me 114" flap and 79" aileron. If I was building any wing from scratch now I would never go more than 50% of flap to aileron ratio. I did not want to completely start over on the wings although I did in a lot of ways... It would have meant building new double slotted flaps and I did not want the expense so I used them as they were and shorted them another 6". This makes it a lot better than it was but still a compromise.
Okie dokie, good I did not paint it for you:)) The reason I painted it black was two fold, the first you already stated the second being it is one of the best covering colors out there. I probably could have gotten by with just one coat of paint it covers so well. ( 1 coat = 2 as a cross coat goes). Any way I have always painted airplanes a little different as you might have noticed.
@@mauleguy Hey, it's your plane...I just believe in painting airplanes(especially bush planes that operate remote) bright colors, so that if you do auger in or just need help, you are easy to spot. Your innovations are awesome.
Bushwacker just keeps getting better. I really hope it's just a teaser at the end!
Fantastic airplane! Built to be a work horse, but pretty enough to be a show piece. Cheers from Winnipeg.
Many thanks!
I do enjoy these morning releases, something excellent to watch whilst I have breakfast.
I love the re-engineering and customization. To have that much functionality, and be light, is not easy. Hope to see this thing, one day, flying in person.
Nothing to say except its EXCEPTIONAL. So many good ideas.
that is something else! fantastic!
Ole Bushwacker is looking good!!! I really appreciate how you think of the effect every square of a plane pertains to functionality. Then you make it neat and nice to look at too. Love the black paint!! I’m still in love with the Super Cub!!! The Maule is kinda like the old steady farm tractor of the two and the Cub a shiny new one LOL 🤠
You built a beautiful airplane. Thanks for the tour.
When you said it weighs 1,059lbs empty 🤯
Awesome bush plane!
I misstated, it weighs 1359
@@mauleguy Still, I'm starting an annual on mine so I'll have to see what it weighs but I'm sure it's several hundred pounds more. Makes me want to tear a lot out of it and redesign at least the interior. And I love the gull wing doors. Really thoughtful changes and nice work.
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I LIKE IT LOOKS GREAT no more camo wings i think i bought your first long props DVD back in the day had the sherpa too?!
Volume 2 had the Sherpa. Vol.1 was Loni Habersetzer and his Super Cub 749er and me with Bushwacker 1.0
@@mauleguy ALL GOOD STUFF Even then when this wasn't "A THING" (outstanding job on the new Bushwacker!)
Wow Greg.. that is one hell of a bird! Love all the mods -Todd
So much respect
Great plane! I sure hope that ending is going to turn out OK!
I've got to say that's a better place to sleep than a tent!
I would love to see it on skis one day! Awesome rig
I have a set, would love to get enough snow to make that happen or get to Alaska again during ski season.
@@mauleguy Amazing video, thank you for sharing my brother's info, permission to use the video again 🙏
Beautifully engineered plane! I'm wondering if you started with a certified maule or scratch built one. How did you make it experimental, is it exhibition experimental previously certified? I'm only asking because I would love to do something similar and have even considered scratch building a maule.
Awesome
I love this aircraft and the modifications on it...If I could take the stock interior of a Maule M7 and couple it with some of the mods on this aircraft it would be my perfect aircraft.
Nice to see Bushwacker going again! You changed quite a bit...I love the changes. The similar controls for both planes makes sense. Did you put the flap handle on the left like a Cub? Also what kind of HP do you think it's making with the 10 to 1 pistons? Looking forward to seeing this baby fly some more. Oh two things...I love me some AC/DC as well and this is Adam...changed my channel name.
I can only guess at horse power but it is rated at 200 hp from Lycoming with 8.5-1 pistons. I believe it would be at least 210 hp now. It feels like a lot more then before but I never started using this engine fresh. It had 2800 hours when I hung it on Bushwacker and when you pulled the prop through the compression felt low although on a compression test it still showed better then 70 on all the cylinders. I planned on doing a top overhaul right away, I bought cylinder and pistons for it and then decided to wait. It made more sense to just do a complete overhaul. I flew it for a few years and then pulled it after my moose hunt this year. It feels like 30 more horses than before...
yes flap handle is on left just like a cub
Your plane is well thought out
Wow 1059 empty! Shaved nearly 500lbs off that sucker and put a bigger wing with slotted Fowler’s. Amazing work.
I made a major mistake with that statement 1359 pounds is the weight
Haha 200 does sound more reasonable! But still nice work!!!
Awesome nice
Very cool aircraft. Any chance you are bringing it to AirVenture?
Love that plane.
I can only imagine the amount of hours you put in building it and dreaming up and rebuilding things you did and didn’t like .
Would you say it’s all ironed out?
Or are you still working through some stuff and adjusting and still modifying.
Don't tell me......🙈. I hope that ended well coz I was about to say that you have an awesome plane 👌.
Is bushwhacker 2 covering Oratex? Can the duckbill anchor be taken back out of the ground?
No it is Stits Polyfiber with aerothane. Not really unless you want to dig. I was short a few this year in Alaska so I dug a couple back out. Not much fun to get them out.
1059!!! Holy cow no wonder that thing is such an animal. Really love how it’s similar to a cub. What did you set the incidence at? What paint and cover system did you use looks great? Also did you stick with 52 degrees flap deflection or go longer? I have a short bent flap handle in my cub but for the Keller flaps I’m going to keep it at 52 or around there stock since any more would be tough to pull I think.
Sorry that was editing mistake, it weighs 1359. I have 3/4" more incidence then the maximum on a stock Super Cub. I used Super Flight for fabric and paint. I have probably around 70 degrees I will check it next time I am there. I have played with different size gears on my torque tube which controls deflections.
That's some serious eye candy, what a beautiful job. Did you build the slotted flaps from scratch? and why not a cub style jack screw trim? can't wait to see how she does in the field.
I machined all the hangers and paid a gal that worked for Doug Keller to build them. This was before Airframes owned the STC. Doug Keller was the engineer that designed them for a cub and I made custom hangers to adapt them to a Maule hanger. I actually had extended the fuselage length 30" and included the jack screw tower. I was going to use Super Cub tail feathers and a Super Cub style over sized rudder. I spent a bunch of time agonizing over whether I was making too big of change to Bushwackers fuselage. Bushwacker worked very well as it was before the accident and in the end I decided that I would stay with a Maule tail. It is a lot of work to complete a fuselage and I did not want to have an airplane that was unairworthy when finished. I knew that the way it was before worked great so why take a chance. I cut off the tail at the rear bulk head and put the Maule tail back on. I go back and forth on the decision now just because I would like to know what it would have done.
That is one badass plane! Its really cool that you explained what all you've done to it..makes a great video...but what happened in the end? I hope you didn't pull a Cory Robin stunt in the river!!
Great video!
Thank you
At last it is back !
i have a question; What made you go with heel brake over toe brakes? thanks
I have spent more time behind toe then heel but in the end I like heel brakes a little better. There is never anything that really needs adjusted in order for heel brakes to work and be fully engaged. If you have toe brakes and are doing full rudder deflections it can sometimes be precarious to get on the brakes with out being almost against the firewall. It really does not matter if you have the toe brakes adjusted properly they work good too.
I was bouncing between Cubs and Bushwacker and thought why not just make it feel just like a Super Cub so that is what I did. You can apply more pressure with heel brakes I think with less energy exerted. I think it takes a little longer to get the feel for heel brakes so if you start out learning toe brakes it might seem harder for a bit. Once you get the hang of them I think most people like them more.
@@mauleguy Ah Thank you for the clarification. Do you know approximately how long (Hours) it took to repair/convert? I'm also very curious on what your angle of incidence is, and any other effects it had ie. Tail adjustment, cruise characteristics ect. I would love to do something like this - its very interesting seeing how others do it and what they come up with.
Many thanks!
I am building a Bearhawk 4 Place. Have you ever looked at them? I am curious what you like and don’t like as I am modifying it and would love your opinion on it. Do you say and. Empty weight of 1059?!!!! That is super light for what you have......I was shooting for 1300 empty on my Bearhawk with 0-540.
Sorry that was a mistake during filming, I should have said 1359. Good luck on 1300 with a lycoming 540 and 1300
@@mauleguy a guy can dream can’t he?
Holly smokes the end got hairy.
1059 is pretty light 🌸
That was stated incorrectly by me 1359 empty
@@mauleguy keep up the good flying! ☀️☀️☀️
Awesome work. The olios Look a lot like bearhawk model a olios. In addition to the airfoil shaped horizontal. I will have to check out the flap mechanism you designed and see how I can fit it to the bear hawk that I'm Going to build. Also how much did you add to the mall gear height and width?
"The olios Look a lot like bearhawk model a olios"... Bearhawk is a copy of a Maule, anyway that is what I always thought. I added 5" to the gear length which translated to 4" taller and whatever that angle makes to the width. Just a guess probably 6-8 wider.
A lot of bear hawks use maule gear
@@mauleguy very true! I guess I forgot which one came first.
Looks like cub jumped the maul! Very nice. Nice to see how you incorporated cub things into it. Question I wish I could answer is, where do you find the time to do all this.
Bushwacker was down for almost 5 years during it's make over after the accident in Alaska in 2014. I have built 2 cubs and rebuilt Bushwacker in that time frame. If I want to I can do an airplane pretty easy in a winter. The changes I made to Bushwacker probably took me more like 2 winters to incorporate. I just like to be busy I guess. It helps to have the right tools also.
@@mauleguy Are you going to be coming to Nebraska in May for the stall drags in Wyane? I live like 20 miles from there.
Love it mate, how does the performance compare to your current super cub?
Lands a lot slower which means things don't happen as fast which is really nice. Take off light is about the same distance. Not as sporty as the cub but a better pickup truck for sure.
@@mauleguy Sounds a very practical aircraft. Thumbs up.
2:00 Problem with dirt getting under floor boards?
Floor comes out to clean each annual, all nut plated.
man that plane is very nice, i wanna see what happened doe
Очень красиво! Спасибо! Салют)
Thank you
@@mauleguy Thank you, I think.
1059 is amazing for that thing. What are your typical touchdown speeds?
1359 pounds is the weight (major misstatement by me), I wish 1059:)). Lands at 38 mph at sea level
@@mauleguy My jaw about hit the floor when you said that, I thought wow who needs a cub.
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How many H.P. ?? Why did you go with a stick and single front seat?? It looks cool. Are you gonna start selling those wheels??
It is a 200hp engine to start with and 10-1 pistons should give an honest 10 more. I wanted to try and create a cub like feel in the cockpit. No on the wheels, I use to make them (2 or 3 sets at a time) but I can make a lot more money doing production in my shop then a set of wheels here or there. There are already two great options out there in production.
@@mauleguy can you run mogas?? What's your fuel burn?? At what %?? Speed??
@@gregwatruba4541 You know I don't think it is recommended with the 10-1 pistons. I would in a pinch though. 21" mp and 2400 rpm around 9 gph at sea level and 105 mph. If I go to 8000 feet leaned out 20" mp and 2300 rpm around 7.5 gph and 115 mph.
While I was breaking it in 27" mp and 2500 rpm at 3000 feet msl I was see 12.5 gph and 115 mph averaged out for both directions. It takes a lot to push 35" Bushwheels through the air:))
That is a little more than just dipping your toes I think...
It needed washed since it was sitting so long:))
We're supposed to be moose hunting, not swimming. I hope.
Sick! Why did you shorten the flaps?
I wrecked the airplane because I did not have enough roll control to counter the wind gust close to the ground. The stock big wing that Maule built has 126" flaps and 54" ailerons. It is stupid to be frank. I shortened them to 120" when I went to double slotted flaps but that was barely a help. I decided when I rebuilt this wing to add another 12" to the length and shorten the flaps another 6" . With the Dakota style wing tips this gives me 114" flap and 79" aileron. If I was building any wing from scratch now I would never go more than 50% of flap to aileron ratio. I did not want to completely start over on the wings although I did in a lot of ways... It would have meant building new double slotted flaps and I did not want the expense so I used them as they were and shorted them another 6". This makes it a lot better than it was but still a compromise.
@@mauleguy Wow thank you for explaining "roll control" and "flap to aileron ratio". I'm a novice so you taught me some things
Why did you choose black? Alaska Airmen's plane was black. Is it hot with sunshine?
Black covers really well so it does not take much paint. It also gets rid of frost much quicker
Love everything but the color...Good for letting the sun melt the ice and snow, and maybe hiding her in the shadows, but, that's about it.
Okie dokie, good I did not paint it for you:)) The reason I painted it black was two fold, the first you already stated the second being it is one of the best covering colors out there. I probably could have gotten by with just one coat of paint it covers so well. ( 1 coat = 2 as a cross coat goes). Any way I have always painted airplanes a little different as you might have noticed.
@@mauleguy Hey, it's your plane...I just believe in painting airplanes(especially bush planes that operate remote) bright colors, so that if you do auger in or just need help, you are easy to spot. Your innovations are awesome.