Longer counterweight gives you more leverage so it doesn't need to be as heavy. Since your counterweight needs to be really short, you need to compensate by making it super heavy. But if it's heavy enough it will work.
Hydra's finally done. Thanks to Joeblo for the skin and Preytor for the flipper arm's skin:(Image removed from quote.)
You mean how did I get the skin on? I found an online program that converts images to TGA's
The only way to make servos lift is with counterweight. You'd have to make a really small custom component that weighs like 200 kgs and put that on the other end of the lifting prongs.
Revised Run Away - most notably I replaced the lawnmower blades with mor accurate representations of Run Away's blades. They have to be mounted a little high to not scrape the ground.(Image removed from quote.)