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General Category => Modellers At Work => Topic started by: lab-dad on December 06, 2015, 01:50:00 PM

Title: Quickie weekend project
Post by: lab-dad on December 06, 2015, 01:50:00 PM
Got to load the boxcar with something!

(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi263.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fii121%2Flab-dad-jones%2FHANDTRUCK_zpspqf4c9rz.jpg&hash=c01e3639d43db3c75ce36c6191bbd9f857b22836)

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-Marty
Title: Re: Quickie weekend project
Post by: Chuck Doan on December 06, 2015, 02:15:16 PM
Oh wow! love the joints!
Title: Re: Quickie weekend project
Post by: Ray Dunakin on December 06, 2015, 08:36:35 PM
Wow, great job on that giant hand! Almost makes that cart look like a model!    ;)


Title: Re: Quickie weekend project
Post by: 1-32 on December 06, 2015, 10:52:59 PM
very nice-yes tenon and mortise joints at least in this part of the world.
cheers kim
Title: Re: Quickie weekend project
Post by: finescalerr on December 07, 2015, 12:20:28 AM
Most satisfactory and a beautiful compliment to the boxcar. -- Russ
Title: Re: Quickie weekend project
Post by: Bill Gill on December 07, 2015, 05:27:27 AM
A great accessory for the boxcar, and has been said - nice joints!
Title: Re: Quickie weekend project
Post by: Allan G on December 07, 2015, 08:22:19 AM
Great. Are those through dado joints? ...Allan
Title: Re: Quickie weekend project
Post by: Scratchman on December 07, 2015, 03:32:25 PM

Nice job on the handcart. You need to add the back legs to protect the end of the handles.
Also the joints need to be pined or a couple of tie-rods from side to side on the top and bottom.

Here's a front and back photo of my three handcarts.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/671/23568452106_0062afbb4f_z.jpg)

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5761/23512082501_2fd66b72a2_z.jpg)

Gordon Birrell
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gordonbirrell/
Title: Re: Quickie weekend project
Post by: lab-dad on December 07, 2015, 04:39:13 PM
Yea I think I will pin them.
I saw lots of examples without the back legs and kind of like them without.
I guess yours have seen lots of loads of bricks!
I wondered if you masons ever took the easy way of moving bricks!
Now I I know!

Thank you!
-Marty
Title: Re: Quickie weekend project
Post by: Scratchman on December 07, 2015, 05:39:42 PM
Marty, that type of handcart is not a masonry tool. a mason would use a flat rack wheelbarrow. we also use a two wheel cart that would pic up a band of brick around 100 at a time, or a band of around 20 block.
http://www.starindustries.com/brick_cart.htm

Gordon Birrell

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gordonbirrell/
Title: Re: Quickie weekend project
Post by: finescalerr on December 07, 2015, 11:59:31 PM
Yeah, Marty. Everybody knows that .... -- Russ
Title: Re: Quickie weekend project
Post by: michael mott on December 08, 2015, 02:50:49 PM
Marty, very nice indeed at first glance I thought the picture was of the full size unit.

michael