OK you NEED one of these on your logging line
- Thread starter Snowbound
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That could go a long way towards reducing the damage to the forest by heavy lugged tires and tracks used by current logging equipment. It's the damage from the roads that are built that takes longer for the woodlands to recover from.
It's a little too recent for use on my logging layout. Perhaps if it were steam driven? Hmmm....
Wayne
It's a little too recent for use on my logging layout. Perhaps if it were steam driven? Hmmm....
Wayne
Here's a variation - an excavator with legs:
http://www.stockerconstructionsitka.com/pages/spiderhoe.html
Andrew
http://www.stockerconstructionsitka.com/pages/spiderhoe.html
Andrew
Snowbound said:Ever see that movie... I think it was "Wild West"? Will Smith was in it. They had a big steam operated spider contraption. Put a boiler on it & you'd be all set.
Hmmm...the concept of a "steampunk" layout (one with Jules Verne-style 19th Century steam & metal based anachronisms, like giant steam-powered spider machines) is intriguing. "Wild Wild West," an updating of the classic TV show, also featured the Virginia & Truckee switcher "J.W. Bowker", although painted to resemble the Central Pacific's "Jupiter," the engine that represented the CP at the Golden Spike ceremony.
Neat widget--the Japanese are working on a similar device, but less useful:
http://www.sakakibara-kikai.co.jp/products/other/LW.htm
Mecha!!
Somebody with too much extra time, watched "eight legged freaks", and then "terminator", and then went to work designing a new SUV!