Update: Lidgerwood Tower Skidder in progress

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Have you ever thought about live steam? Could be interesting!

[tufftin]

WOW!
Fantastic building tech and then all the time to paint and weather this behemoth.
Great work.
Mike

[muleskinner]

Apr 22, 2011 7:08:23 GMT -5 @jimb said:

Have you ever thought about live steam? Could be interesting!

I've been talking to a few Live Steamers who are trying to get me into the process. Couple of them told me on this model, I would have to double the size of it to get the right preasure for all the working cylinders.

Maybe in the future.

[gatormarcstaug]

Bill,
This is great work. But I would stay with the plastic !@ Boilers can blow up!!!!
And twice as big. I think your wife might draw the line there!?

Gator

[muleskinner]

Apr 22, 2011 20:27:35 GMT -5 gatormarcstaug said:

Bill,
This is great work. But I would stay with the plastic !@ Boilers can blow up!!!!
And twice as big. I think your wife might draw the line there!?

Ggator

I think she already has with this build I'm doing now. It was like " "Now just where the heck are you going to put it when it's done?" I think she is eyeing the shed beside the house and trying to figure out how to move me out there.

[truckabilly]

;D ;D ;D I was wondering the same thing. Where are you going to display it? Find yourself a corner in the garden and plant some 1/25 bonsai trees around. But I don´t know what you´re gonna do with rain. Wow, that will be a huge thing when it´s done. And twice as big? That sure calls for a garden railroad so you can move the thing around. But that´s a different chapter.

Jarda

[loghauler70]

Awesome! Bill If you guys think the pictures are cool you should see it in person its bad ass to say the least.

Mark

[muleskinner]

Did some building on a section of decking to mount the Primary drive boiler on yesterday. It scales out to 14.5 Feet wide, by 50 Feet long, so I am well within my range in 1/25th scale for this build. The I beam I made from Evergreen and scales out to 1.5 feet wide by 50 feet long. The I beam will soon be raised into the air by the lattice work supports which can be seen in the previous Postings of the 1:1 at Camp 6.













Once the unit was attached to its flooring and had a chance to set up I painted and weathered the double diamond plate sheet (2) which make up the floor panels. Most of the rusting which was heavy was done at the attachment point where the floor and winching unit meet on the floor along with under the cylinders where their main blowout valves are located underneath on the main cylinder. This area has a huge accumulation of water as they have to be blown out occasionally for if the water builds up in the main cylinder it is subject to locking up as water with not compress in the cylinder.





The above shots are of the Hook Tenders side of the winches which I didn't include in my last posting, because I found some areas which needed Rivets and also I forgot to attach the Hand operated air driven oiler levers between the main lead and haul back winches. These can be seen in Black in the photos. The main drive and control units were riveted out and where the power transfer levers to the winches are attached below the horizontal bar of the Haul Back winch I had to do something to break up the blank space which was there so I added a oily grease rag made from Loggers Non Skid (toilet Paper) to give the area a little more life.

The six oiler levers will eventually be weathered to match the rest of the unit being so small and fragile. The oil lines will be added last of all which I will make out of stretched sprew. Having the unit mounted on the flooring will make it easier add the clutching and braking units to the Slack Pull and Transfer Line winches, at the front of the unit. yet to be added is the water level indicators for the hogger side of the unit and the hookers side for monitoring the water level in the boiler. These I will have to make and add last to this module because of them being of fragile nature.

[muleskinner]

Here are some shots of the tower legs which will be added to the next mudule of the build. The four basic parts which were cut from Evergreen and the I beam which runs up the out side leading edge.



The finished tower base section painted and riveted. Here again you can see the distortion of the riveting due to the lighting on the new paint.



Thats about it until the next installment. Any comments welcome.

[78KW]

Wow. Looking good.

[muleskinner]

Here are a few more update pictures of the LidgerWood after I added more to it. The tower is just sitting on it to give you an idea of how it is coming together during the build. It will actually set about four feet in front of the main winches as there is going to be a secondary winching unit below the tower and four small winches within the tower at the level of the top as you see it now.

I have added the right side raiser and will add the other raiser at a later time. Normally in operation the raiser would be set on top of old cut and ricked railroad ties to bring it to the right heigth for operation, but for now that will come later.



The hookers side of the winch on these shots were better than previous shots and shows the controls in conjunction with the winching unit and also the right railing which I also added.



An angled shot forward showing the tower.



Shot of the right raiser unit. The riveting detail still has to be completed on the riser. I built this side for the purpose of getting the left side in direct alignment with it.



Side view of the tower and the winching units. On the deck where the black paint ends is about where the rear tower leg will be mounted to the deck.



Side view of the main deck, showing the raisers, winches and tower.

The model is coming along very smoothly with no drastic hitches yet, but you never can tell when doing a project this large and with so much detail. Like always any comments and questions welcome.

[tufftin]

This is a "Riveting" experience.

Mike

[muleskinner]

Apr 26, 2011 9:27:17 GMT -5 tufftin said:

This is a "Riveting" experience.

Mike

It truely is Mike. I'm glad I'm making them and not buying them, otherwise the rivets would cost more than the Build.

[gatormarcstaug]

Bill,
I am amazed at the level of detail you are putting into this thing!
Totally awesome!!!


Gator

[muleskinner]

Apr 26, 2011 18:11:22 GMT -5 gatormarcstaug said:

Bill,
I am amazed at the level of detail you are putting into this thing!
Totally awesome!!!


Gator

I have to make it accurate as I can because a lot of the people who look at my models when I take a notion to have them at a show on display are Hard nose, Scrutinizing loggers who check for every little detail on models like this. Also an undetailed area on something this large is noticeable at first sight. Just something I have learned over the years I've been scratch Building.