03-28-2011, 12:42 AM
For those of you who are considering making a dumpster truck body to mount on a commercial vehicle chassis you have handy I would like to suggest the following sites for further investigation.
Classic Refuse Trucks classicrefusetrucks.com has lots of photos of various makes and models of US dumpster and garbage trucks from the 30's thru to the dumpster era beginning in the 60's thru to todays monster size trucks. Well worth a look and a bookmark on your computer under your model train resources so that your layout can be era correct and upto date with its sanitation responsibilities.
I would also like to suggest 1-87 Vehicles at 1-87vehicles.org as a good place to check out the different manufacturers and suppliers of HO scale vehicles.
I found both of these sites from reading threads here on this site, but it seemed like a good time to mention them for those that havent found them.
A modern dumpster truck body would appear to be a fairly easy project as the main body is basically a rectangle with surface mounted framing. The problem as I see it would be in the manufacture of the dump arms which could be fairly fragile as would the forks.
Most dumpster trucks that I see here in Melbourne are tandem steer, tandem drive axles and finding such a model could be difficult. There are however a small number of single steering axle dumpster trucks as well but I would estimate that it would be less than 5% of the total fleet. One arm bandit domestic bin trucks are mostly single steer, tandem drive, 85%.
Mark
Classic Refuse Trucks classicrefusetrucks.com has lots of photos of various makes and models of US dumpster and garbage trucks from the 30's thru to the dumpster era beginning in the 60's thru to todays monster size trucks. Well worth a look and a bookmark on your computer under your model train resources so that your layout can be era correct and upto date with its sanitation responsibilities.
I would also like to suggest 1-87 Vehicles at 1-87vehicles.org as a good place to check out the different manufacturers and suppliers of HO scale vehicles.
I found both of these sites from reading threads here on this site, but it seemed like a good time to mention them for those that havent found them.
A modern dumpster truck body would appear to be a fairly easy project as the main body is basically a rectangle with surface mounted framing. The problem as I see it would be in the manufacture of the dump arms which could be fairly fragile as would the forks.
Most dumpster trucks that I see here in Melbourne are tandem steer, tandem drive axles and finding such a model could be difficult. There are however a small number of single steering axle dumpster trucks as well but I would estimate that it would be less than 5% of the total fleet. One arm bandit domestic bin trucks are mostly single steer, tandem drive, 85%.
Mark
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