Large Scale Central

Logging operations part 2

Modeling
#1

I started this thread last summer with the portable sawmill etc… I decided to bring it back under a new thread. I have been working on the loader/spar tree. Its turning out to be a fun project. I still have some detailes to work on but so far this is what I have. Im sure it needs a little improvments but not sure what yet. Next is to add either a high line to the spar tree or just do a simple log skidder using the spar tree. Either way both will be easy to do just waiting for ozark delivery. The cables need to be tightened but I have to secure the steam donkey to the ground to keep it tight. The steam donkey is a bachmann one but I made a wooded skidder for it.

#2

That’s women’s work!
:slight_smile:
Nice job!
:wink:

#3

OK Shawn what did you use for your cables? I used Button and Carpet thread and it doesnot look right! It should be heavier.

Paul

#4
E. Paul Austin said:
OK Shawn what did you use for your cables? I used Button and Carpet thread and it doesnot look right! It should be heavier.

Paul


Jolly Green Giant dental floss?

#5

Paul I used picture frame wire. It is identical to a cable but much much smaller. You can get it at walmart. It also weathers nice when left out for a month or so.

#6

Nice work Shawn you might need to notch the stumps your guy wires loop on to keep the lines in place :slight_smile:

#7

Shawn,
Looks like you have been keeping busy.
Looking good. The lighting too.
Ralph

#8

Shawn, your railroad shows a lot of ““Character””, with the improvements you have been making, including the lighting…

#9

Very neat looking. What are you using for the lines?

#10

Thank you Shawn, I did not think of that material. I shall try it out. David, God will get you for that one!

Paul

#11
Bruce Chandler said:
Very neat looking. What are you using for the lines?
Thanks guys. I cant wait to start the skidder or high line and more detail. Should add to the scene. Bruce for the lines I used picture frame hanger wire. Walmart sells it in a roll and looks just like real cable but much smaller and weathers nice when left outdoors.
#12

Logging operation is looking great.

And so is the lightin., Now you need a scale-sized campfire!

#13

Shawn,

That sure looks good. Nice job modeling a most interesting part of a logging operation.

#14
Shawn said:
Bruce Chandler said:
Very neat looking. What are you using for the lines?
Thanks guys. I cant wait to start the skidder or high line and more detail. Should add to the scene. Bruce for the lines I used picture frame hanger wire. Walmart sells it in a roll and looks just like real cable but much smaller and weathers nice when left outdoors.
Let me know how that works out. I was thinking of something like that for some of my lines, but I found some blackened copper wire at Michaels and went with that.
#15

Bruce I used the same wire for a steam donkey I made last year. So far the wire has held up well and rusted very nice. Its been outside for over a year now.

#16

To give a tight look to the cables, the inside guys would use a elastic thread. Outside that probably wouldn’t hold up to the ultra-violets. Wonder if you could find some solid rod small enough to look like the stabilizing wires? As far as the cable on the winches, you might just try a heavier weight to hold it taught. Actually a piece of led hanging from the rig,may tighten everything up.i I have thought about this a lot, but have never proceeded as far as you have Shawn, so I guess I really don’t have a right to give advice. Your example is inspiring and looks real good. I had once thought of making the spar tree out of a painted and treated copper pipe to look like a tree trunk and then solder a large flat copper plate to the base about 2 foot square at what would be ground level with the stabilizing cables at 3 of the 4 corners and the spar tree continuing below ground as much as above to anchor and stabilize the whole thing. Then Jan had a dwarf alberta die and I transplanted the dead trunk to the proper location, but proceeded no further with the rigging. I call it one of those “retirement jobs”. Who knows if it will ever get done. :wink: Once again, nice work Shawn and great subject to post.