1/2"-Scale Lumber Stacker

[Ken Hamilton]

Wow....I just can't get enough of this wacky equipment.
Thanks, Marc.

[RoughboyModelworks]

Another very cool truck model Ken... well done. What scale is it btw?

Paul

[Ken Hamilton]

What scale is it btw?
Paul

Thanks, Paul.  It's 1/2" scale.

[Frederic Testard]

Really a lot of unusual great trucks on this thread. I had fallen, while browsing Flickr albums, upon the truck in Oregon with a second engine posted by James, and seem to remember that balance was also the proposed explanation. Just can't remember if it was the poster's guess or something he had been told.
Ken, this last truck is another beauty.

[marc_reusser]

Ken,

Hope you don't mind if I Hijack a few posts here on this thread...but all these images just made me think of you....and I didn't know where else to put them.

M

[marc_reusser]

I thought the lumber carrier design below was really a beautiful piece of equipment.

M

[Ken Hamilton]

Hijack away, Marc.  This is the perfect place for those pics.
In fact, that little "T"-motor gives me another idea for the stacker diorama.
Thanks...........

[marc_reusser]

Hijack away, Marc.  This is the perfect place for those pics.

Thanks...........

Whew...that's good...'cause I keep tripping over them on my HD......

A railtruck

[Marc988]

PLEASE keep hijacking !!
I see at least 2 potential new project 

Do you know what's on the back of the half-track ?? It looks like a crane maybe to load logs on road or railway equipment ?! _{now where did I leave that halftrack kit ??}  


Do you by any chance know what type of tracked tractor is pictures in one of the last pics ?
based on the position of the friver and the type of roadwheels it almost looks like a fieldconversion ?!

[marc_reusser]

Marc,

I have no idea on the tractor. Looks to be reversed track set-up from standard armour....note the drive sprocket in image is at rear.


The half-track appears to be a conversion to a log loader; being used for truck loading (deduced not only from the setting and set-up, but also from the time period...post WW2...when most logging had already gone to truck). Note the guy wires in the image that are being used to stabilize the main spar/mast.  from what I see in the image it does not look like they were using it to yard logs....but what do I know.....that is the only image I have of it, and I can't recall where it came from on the web.  Would give me a reason to buy one of those ugly looking US halftrack models.


MR

[Marc988]

Short off topic reply 

The halftrack could be a relative simple conversion 

Start with a Dragon halftrack http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/vehicles/dragon/dr6329.htm (includnge reviiew)    .......    use http://www.k59.hk/products.html detailing set for detailing the tracked drivetrain section    ........     several options for etched detail sets (Lion Roar, Eduard etc)   ......   top it of with a very nice resin http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/vehicles/lionroar/le35088.html

[marc_reusser]

Ken,

Found some more stuff on my HD that seemed up your alley.....




MR

[marc_reusser]

This top one is not lumber realted...but it had that Hamilton look! ...the lower one is from Condon & Kinzua Pine Mills, their Jitney/Railtruck.

[danpickard]

Marc,
Gotta love the "KH1" image a couple of posts back...how many different types of wheels did they have scattered around the yard when they knocked that one together.!!!  Would be really funny if the right side of the vehicle had a different combination again.

Dan

[Ken Hamilton]

Wow.  Keep them coming. Marc.  They'll keep me building for years.
That roller has a wonderful "WTF" factor that only a mother could love. 
It would make a GREAT model!