Piledriver project - Printable Version

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Piledriver project - jim currie - 01-04-2021

all i need to do is start another project but found this photo 
   
then while cleaning out some junk boxes i found this  and just couldn't help my self 
   
ordered some components from tichy will post up dates when order arrives. 
Jim

RE: another project - Tyson Rayles - 01-05-2021

Interesting.

RE: another project - nachoman - 01-06-2021

Uh oh. That's how it starts. Smile

RE: another project - ezdays - 01-06-2021

Jim, I would not do that full scale, Nope  too much work... Icon_rolleyes

RE: Latest project.... - jim currie - 01-11-2021

well got tichy order and have completed the basic body having no plans and only a photo of one side  i had to piece the body together , 
   
   

its sitting on 100 ton roller bearing trucks  . still need to shape body a bit will have to finish body before i can attach the support boom .

RE: Latest project.... - doctorwayne - 01-12-2021

Good start, Jim, and I'm looking forward to following along.

Wayne

RE: another project - Green_Elite_Cab - 01-13-2021

What exactly is that thing? It doesn't look like a typical big hook.

RE: another project - doctorwayne - 01-13-2021

It sorta looks like a piledriver to me, but not the same as others that I've seen.

Wayne

RE: another project - jim currie - 01-13-2021

it is a piledriver found a photo of a SP steam unit  that looks different from the ATSF one

RE: another project - Schraddel - 01-14-2021

Hello,

this is the prototype of your purchased model:
https://www.eisenbahndienstfahrzeuge.de/kranwagen/kran_ardelt/kran-ardelt-90t/kran-krupp-ardelt-90t.htm

And here "ist die Kacke am Dampfen*":
https://www.eisenbahndienstfahrzeuge.de/__%20BDW/bdw-index.htm


Lutz




* no translation, this is a family friendly forum

RE: another project - doctorwayne - 01-14-2021

While the German language was one of my subjects in high school, I was never very competent in it.  My German teacher was, I think, Scottish, and always referred to me as "Herr Todt!", rather than Herr Toth.

However, my long-forgotten instincts somehow kicked-in on your second offering, and a quick google translation pretty-well confirmed my interpretation of it.   Goldth

Wayne

RE: another project - jim currie - 01-14-2021

well back to square one  , using the original crane body was a bad mistake  it was six ways to sunday off square built the extension  boom  and it was so far off I gave up and started off making  with a new body even the swivel was off requiring me to set it up on mill to square it up.
Jim

RE: another project - jim currie - 01-24-2021

well the new body is 80% finished need to scribe in door and some more windows , the base boom is started though not connected to body the black patches are tichy rivet plates , will work next on boom .
   
Jim

RE: another project - ngauger - 01-24-2021

What a Cool idea!!!!! Looks good so far!

RE: another project - Schraddel - 01-27-2021

(01-14-2021, 11:18 AM)doctorwayne Wrote: While the German language was one of my subjects in high school, I was never very competent in it.  My German teacher was, I think, Scottish, and always referred to me as "Herr Todt!", rather than Herr Toth.

However, my long-forgotten instincts somehow kicked-in on your second offering, and a quick google translation pretty-well confirmed my interpretation of it.   Goldth

Wayne

Here is the Canadian version of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdtnVk2M3YU

@Jim
There are some interesting insights of the undercarriage too.

Lutz