Hi guys
I am building a sawmill and just finished a wigwam burner. any one seen some kind of smoker to add a little more action.
Thanks for your help.
Dave M.
Thanks for the smellmory … 1957 lazy smoke drifting up the Columbia River. Slash burner incense!
Some of the smoke oil brands have the wood scent.
I’d suggest a loco’s smoke unit, unless you want to bug the neighbors and then there’s one the ship builders use…
If you can’t find one, I have a old/new in drawer, smoke unit I pulled out of my C-16 for a battery install. I could be persuaded, me thinks(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-money-mouth.gif), but me needs (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)…
Oooh. I need a wigwam burner too. Any build photos to share?
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Dave,
I have built several slash/wigwam/teepee burners in the past for club members ect. We tried using smoke units from Bachmann Locos with limited success, even using two units in a burner just didn’t produce a believable amount of smoke and it didn’t last very long. We had the best luck using a unit and chips intended for a smoker, if you do this make sure to only use it outside(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif). I think it is Dave Bodner that is developing a smoke unit using the workings from the electronic cigarettes, judging from his videos it looks like it would work pretty well for a Teepee burner.
Rick
Jim,
Just about any size and any shape will probably match a prototype burner somewhere(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif). They weren’t very consistent in size and design especially in the early days. But later with the introduction of the “air cooled” burner the tee pee shape that we all are familiar with become pretty standard.
In building model burners most of us have a tendency to build them way undersized. A small burner for a mill producing a 100 k board feet of lumber during a standard shift would have to be a minimum of 40 foot diameter at the base, 20 foot diameter at the top and 40-50 foot high. The slash input carriage should be enter about 2/3 of the way to the top.
A good starting point is to go to a store and find a 6-8 inch steel mesh domed sifter with a steel wire rim. This gives a perfect top screen. Then all you have to do is build the paneled sides, the cat walks and safety rails a
slash carriage to feed it and of course the saw mill(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Rick
Not looking to build a burner anytime soon, but Dave’s e-cig smoke system is very cool and inexpensive (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)I might be adding working chimneys to a few buildings next year.
When I was a kid we lived in Humboldt county in 1964-65. Back then logging and lumber industries were still common, and the teepee burners were everywhere. I still get a little nostalgic when I see one in photos or on someone’s layout.
Ray Dunakin said:
When I was a kid we lived in Humboldt county in 1964-65. Back then logging and lumber industries were still common, and the teepee burners were everywhere. I still get a little nostalgic when I see one in photos or on someone’s layout.
Ray, I also remember them well. From 1962-1965 I lived in Siskiyou County and we drove by them all the time. I can still smell the smoke from the burnt sawmill sawdust.
Thanks for the help. really some great ideas
Dave M.
Ray Dunakin said:
When I was a kid we lived in Humboldt county in 1964-65. Back then logging and lumber industries were still common, and the teepee burners were everywhere. I still get a little nostalgic when I see one in photos or on someone’s layout.
Ray,
As we have discussed before I lived in Humboldt County 1946-1963 mostly in and around Arcata. One of my favorite childhood memories (8-10 years old) is spending a rainy Saturday or Sunday playing inside a Teepee burner. We would sneak into the burner at the G.L. Spires sawmill and spend the day in the warm and dry burner interior. On weekends they would just have a small fire going, not much more than a good bonfire.
It seems like now, that we did it a lot but in reality it probably only happened a few times. I do remember well the day the watchman caught us in there and threatened to kill us all if we ever came back(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Another memory from that time is waiting for boards to fall from the conveyor and snagging them from the fire to use in our tree fort construction. As memory serves the lumber that was sent to the burner then was far superior to anything you can buy at the lumber yard today.
Yea, as John said, lots of memories.
Rick
Megs Steams has smells that will end having you saying Hhmm
Great product !(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Go to Michael’s or Hobby Lobby and get a small incense burner. Makes believable smoke, and, if you burn the cedar incense, makes a believable smell.
Don’t know if anyone is interested but,
I dug through some old discs and found a picture of a Teepee burner and mill scene I built for a friends railroad back about 07 or 08. This is the one we ended up using a smoker unit in and got great results. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a picture of the smoker in operation.
Just for size reference the top of the burner is made from a 6 inch metal kitchen sieve so you can get an idea of proportion from that.
Michael Kirrene said:
Great link, lots of awesome photos!
Ray Dunakin said:
Michael Kirrene said:
Great link, lots of awesome photos!
Thank you, Ray. Glad to know I contributed something worthwhile.