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Super cool, Louis.
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Deal me in, Lou!
Jim
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How many toothpicks ya think you’ll need?[:-angel]
Karl Scribner-Curmudgeon
Cedar Swamp
SW of Manistique, MI
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Thanks Bill, Michael, and Jim for comments and following along.
Louis L&R Western Railroad
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?????????quote:
Originally posted by k9wrangler
How many toothpicks ya think you’ll need?[:-angel]
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Pictured below are some examples of just how large these tree discs can be. A couple of fellers, and a women against a felled tree, and two men discusses the rings of a giant sequoia disc on display.
For my Wood Disc I have a weeping cherry tree in my back yard that I use on my L&R lumber railroad. For years all the trimming and cut-offs have been saved, and used for logs, tree stumps and other railroad usage on the layout. This is a nice colored hard wood that becomes firm and stiff, does not crack, and holds up well for modeling use. And, the extra benefit is, that my flowering cherry tree wood is great to use for grill smoking as well.
I cut a scale 12 ft. diameter piece, by a scale 3 ft. thick piece (second picture) for my special wood load from a cherry branch.
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Now I Know I'm gonna like this! Own Cherry from the Yard! Cool! :up:
Pete
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Cherry pickin’ the good parts, pithy...no splinter group here.
Karl Scribner-Curmudgeon
Cedar Swamp
SW of Manistique, MI
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Can you imagine using that saw to cut that tree!
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Can you imagine how tired they were at the end of the day!![:-sleep]quote:
Originally posted by Bill Gill
Can you imagine using that saw to cut that tree!
Jerry
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Well Pete, like young George Washington I cannot tell a lie. The cherry tree is one of those Japanese weeping cherry tree varieties, not the eating type cherry tree.quote:
Originally posted by Orionvp17
Now I Know I'm gonna like this! Own Cherry from the Yard! Cool! :up:
Pete
in Michigan
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Purely ornamental type here Karl.quote:
Originally posted by k9wrangler
Cherry pickin’ the good parts, pithy...no splinter group here.
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Yeah Bill, I'd say they would still be there cutting today.quote:
Originally posted by Bill Gill
Can you imagine using that saw to cut that tree!
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Jerry, that's what I'm thinking. Like an old Rip Van Winkle effect.quote:
Originally posted by TRAINS1941
Can you imagine how tired they were at the end of the day!![:-sleep]quote:
Originally posted by Bill Gill
Can you imagine using that saw to cut that tree!
Louis L&R Western Railroad
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The Kadee logging disconnect trucks are preassembled, which is a good thing, because after the couplers need to be put together, that is a headache in its own, without having to also build up disconnects.
Also, the logging bunks needed to be attached to the top of the log disconnects, as seen in the drawing. Following along with the Kadee #15 coupler drawing you can see the process of how they went together. Getting and keeping the metal spacer into the spring, while getting it into the coupler was the trick. The Kadee spring pic was a big help here. You could also use a small thin blade screwdriver for this tool.
For the tie down chains, after you put on the grab ring, you thread the chain through the log bunk hole using the wire like a sewing needle, and then glue the chain link end to the bottom end of the bunk.
If weight is needed, you can add weight to the bottom of the disconnects center beam using epoxy glue and buck shot, or cut roofing lead sheet 1/8" x 1/2" and glue onto the bottom of the center beam from coupler to cross beam on both ends at the bottom side. You want the weight as low as possible, so the car isn't top heavy, when you add the weight of a load above, or logs piled high above. All four logging disconnects are ready. The next build for this project will be making-up a “Rooster Pole”. [:-cowboy]
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