Received a kit for a 30 ton Erie crane with clamshell bucket this past week. Not cheap, but would seem to be a good fit for loading pulpwood from truck to rail, as I vaguely remember it being done in the woodyards of the 1950's. Will not need clamshell, but will use cable or chain to sling ordered pile of pulpwood and transfer from bobtailed truck to pulpwood rack.
The kit, from Model Tech Studios, was satisfactory, but not the cleanest castings I've seen.
Instructions suggested to paint after assembly. That would seem to be difficult unless spraying -- how would you get inside the boom? So, parts were laid out and painted:
The metal wire provided in the kit didn't seem to be a good fit for the red disc seen in photo, above, so a plastic rod was pulled out of inventory to use.
Just about assembled. Installing black sewing thread, I mean, cables was one of toughest tasks!
Detail parts came from LASER cut cardboard or something similar. Now will have to find small chain and some pulpwood. Have misplaced forklift previously positioned to load railcar so timing is right to add crane.
Closest picture to concept I could find, albeit rubber tired:
historypak, glad you enjoyed the blog. If "rent forklift" means you have some involvement in forklifts you may interested to know that my first choice for moving pulpwood from truck to train was via forklift. I just found the crane that I liked first. . . .
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