Here is a shot from Kinsey’s book.
That shows how one logging company in Washington State did it.
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Um…
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Not nearly as long as I’ve been working on my feed mill or Snow Dozer…
Did you start either of those threads before April of 2022? Actually, that was the restart of the project, which I began the design for in 2013 (or thereabouts).
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Dec 2014 was the start of the thread here, but again I started this before my wife and I got married in 2009…
I started posting in 2019 on that but I started it when my wife and first got married in 2009…
I think they both got started over at MLS… Now that would require some digging.
Okay so here’s the feed mill thread from MLS. 2009
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nope.
untill you have sawed/shortened some o these strips…
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Craig dude, I think you win this contest. 
Indeed. However, here’s the longer explanation:
I should have said, until someone guilts me back into the outer diagonal braces that I no longer want because a) when leaves go in, they’ll never come out and b) I’m digging the thought of avoiding all that work. But if I gotta do those braces, I’ll need to stain that strip stock (which, btw, is of different dimensions). I didn’t on this round, because if I don’t need it for this I’d like to leave it unstained for a different project.
But, yep Korm, I gotta cut and install all those other bits first. So, from both ways around the barn, we’ve come to agreement.
Well I’m hoping to work on (notice I didn’t say finish) the feed mill this winter. I say that every winter and not much progress is made but I have a little bit for fire underneath me now. I’ve been asked by folks running the NMRA national convention for 2027 to have my layout on tour/host potential ops. I really really want at least one major scene done.
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Well, I’m here in sunny Florida, and I found the book under the floor in back of the SUV. Here’s the pic.
I’m assuming the ‘skyline’ is an overhead wire and they just moved them into position.
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Well i guess its progress, a little slow, but progress.
A skyline is a logging term for a cable that reaches from the top of a mountain down to the valley floor. You attach a skyline carriage on the cable, and from that hangs the cable you put the logs on. When your ready the carriage is pulled back to the top by a different cable.
It’s still used today with heavy equipment doing the lifting.
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Would be amazing seeing those bents flown in. Maybe there’s some footage somewhere.
I put everything back together and trued up the bents, then built the areas that bridge over the two lower tracks.
Tomorrow hopefully some stringers between the bents.
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B u m p f o r p o s t c o u n t
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I’ll try to remember that Rooster!
I didn’t get nearly as far on as I expected today, only the inside stringers.One side went in fine, with plenty of access for the pin nailer. The other side, no room for that, so I gradually pinned each piece by hand.
I’d initially planned on butting the stringer boards on eash post, but decided I needed all the contact & support area I could get.
So I alternated them, stacking their ends.
The outside stringers should go a LOT easier, plenty of room for pin-nailing.
Yeah, Sean;
But Cliff is much more of a planner than most of us, and I admire him for that. Most of the time I have an idea in my head and just go for it. Sometimes I have to Jerry-rig, simply because I did not anticipate changes to my supply line, like the nameplates for Aragorn, below.
Best, David Meashey
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Have I brought up the water barrels?