If you guys get a kick out of the old equipment catalogs, you might also enjoy looking at the following book from 1912 to see how this equipment was installed: “The Design of Mine Structures” by Milo Smith Ketchum. It is available for purchase from Amazon and also as a free download from Google Play. I’m using it to design an old coal breaker and tipple for my layout.
Bob
Cliff,
That Sierra Nevada Logging Museum at Arnold is a neat place, if your liking old equipment you will enjoy it.
Can’t add much to what the Museum page says about it except that it is a “Humboldt” Yarder with an extended firebox. Supposedly last used by West Side in their Camp #37 area.
If your interested I have 6-7 pages of specs and line drawings of the Humboldt yarder Circa 1925, should be real close to the same. If you want copies just let me know.
Rick
Thanks Rick for the additional info. Maybe “Humboldt” was a particular series of winches that Willamette made? And you bet, I’ll let you know. Thanks again.
For Surrey Parker log loader fans, here’s their catalog.
https://archive.org/details/steamloggingmach00park
A similar catalog from the Lidgerwood Company,
Not a catalog, but a neat article on aerial tramways of the West.
http://www.mininghistoryassociation.org/Journal/MHJ-v4-1997-Trennert.pdf
Risdon Iron Works of San Francisco, 1897 mine hoisting machinery. Risdon was a supplier of the Comstock mines, as well as lodes in CA & other western states. Fun catalog with lots of drawings, and some nice plans & elevations (e.g., p44 is a beaut).
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.73416338;view=1up;seq=54
I’ve always been a fan of Pelton wheels, and P166 has a huge one. It would be fun to make one and have it run some machinery, with water spraying around the wheel (which it did).
Cliff Jennings said:
Thanks Rick for the additional info. Maybe “Humboldt” was a particular series of winches that Willamette made? And you bet, I’ll let you know. Thanks again.
Cliff,
The “Humboldt Yarder” as built by Willamette was a compound geared donkey that all three drums; main, haulback, and strawline rotated in the same direction. A little different than other engines setup.
Rick
Thanks Rick, good to know.
Cliff Jennings said:
Not a catalog, but a neat article on aerial tramways of the West.
http://www.mininghistoryassociation.org/Journal/MHJ-v4-1997-Trennert.pdf
Great article!
Isn’t it though? I love that stuff. Ray, I forget, do you have an aerial tram on your layout? If not, you sure have the perfect setting!
(And congrats on your GR article, I just began reading it, and am really enjoying it!)
Cliff Jennings said:
Not a catalog, but a neat article on aerial tramways of the West.
http://www.mininghistoryassociation.org/Journal/MHJ-v4-1997-Trennert.pdf
That dude riding the ore car - mine aren’t quite as brassy as his are! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Thanks Cliff! I don’t have an aerial tram yet. I’d like to fit one in somewhere, even just part of one, but haven’t figured out where yet.
