Large Scale Central

Log Barge

Here is something I didn’t know existed.

It would make a heck of a model, but take a lot of space, especially in 1:20 scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-PhsVu_mLo

that is a really cool way of dumping logs

Dennis

Rick Marty said:

Here is something I didn’t know existed.

It would make a heck of a model, but take a lot of space, especially in 1:20 scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-PhsVu_mLo

That is cool! Here’s a writeup of how they work [link], and an image of one in action:

1600 tons of logs! Makes that barge scoot out of the way pretty quickly as they slide off…

[edited to add the link to the writeup]

That put a log of loggers who floated logs to the mill out of work!