Attention all loggers!!! THIS is a log!

[Bram]

Trees come in all sizes, there's no scale and the real thing looks soooo much better

 

[Mik]

Suggestion..... Try repainting the things. Darker, more greyish, and not glossy might help a lot.

 

[Zman]

Makes your eyes water seeing a log that size passing through!

 

[minimans]

Where I come from THAT is not a LOG this is a LOG............................................

Apologies to Croc Dundee................

 

[scaleandy]

What a pity that that log is a log, rather than a tree..

 

[chris m01]

From my observations most "logs" in road or rail transit today tend to be fairly thin ones. They are grown commercially to provide timber and so don't tend to be overly large. Wagons carrying logs tend to have a large number of thin, shortish logs. Don't know what the situation was back in say the 1920's cos I am much too young

I grow my own logs. The Buddleia [STRIKE]weeds [/STRIKE]trees grow nice reasonably sized branches which are fairly straight. I cut these evcery year and then glue them to a lightweight box thingy so what looks like a full load of logs is in fact hollow in the middle. This keeps the weight down.

 

[themole]

After endless trolling through search engines, I came up with this, the large LIGHTWEIGHT log!!

It is possibly a LITTLE out of scale and depending on your preferences you may find it AWESOME or AWFUL!!!!

Looks like a chocolate swiss roll with escape hatches!!!! Alyn

 

[dragon]

I take it that its a NO vote then?

Absolutely horrible and unrealisistic. Shiny logs are a No No. A quick application of matt varnish might help a little. A quick application of a wheelie bin would help a lot. ( Well. You did ask!)

 

[CoggesRailway]

Pretty awful to my eye.

I think on average people worry too much about the weight of real wood. Buddliea works well I do that too but so would all sorts of sawn large sticks, and even back in the day they would have moved lumber other than giant sequoias! Unless you are going to use small 1:1 logs then surely weight isn't so much of a problem. In fact it makes a train run more realistically.

My view is I see some lovely railways, beautiful locos and wagons and fake logs ruining the rest of it... but of course rule 8 - I do some pretty wacky things myself...

 

[Granitechops]

Where I come from THAT is not a LOG this is a LOG............................................

Apologies to Croc Dundee................

So, why did they drop a tree like that? to form a wind break? to make a bridge? I see there are horses on top of it!!

I doubt there would be a mill with a moving saw bench capable of turning that into planks!!

or would they cut it into 30 ft sections on site, saw it in to quarters or 16ths? & then drag it to the mill
take some horse power to move that
or was it a publicity stunt for bragging rights :thumbdown:

Paul, anyone, any ideas???

 

[steven large]

hi so can u able use a tree branches to saw off of yr choices...mine is on the flat load with tree logs..so wud u like to see it?,,,i got them from my area tree branches lying on the ground ..then pick up,take home,,,,measure the lengths of yr choices and then saw off......simple....i know it heavy but it real tree branches tht it come with dark barks,,,,,nice......

 

[Granitechops]

A closer look at that large tree - it seems to have already been sawn and re assembled. Look at the end (right) and the length. There seem to be "plank" lines where they sit on each other.
Could be wrong tho'

Well we were trying to work out how they cut it down, probably started with axes to open up a working slot, but unless you have an enormous wedge opening with that width of trunk, swinging an axe horizontally into a narrow opening would be very tiring & dangerous & uneconomic energy wise, so we thought that they then put wedges in to keep it open & used a long, ( 30ft ? ) 2 handled saw, which would leave those marks on the end, some of which are not parallel.
Whatever, it was a hard slog, & men were either Fit or Dead!

 

[vsmith]

Some weathering technics like painting the bark and adding inkwash over the whole thing and matte coating it could save them. as they are it looks like Roger Rabbit has been logging in "Toontown"

 

[chris m01]

Here's part of my mostly buddleia sourced log train. The wagons are standard mostly Bachmann flats with ends added. Wouldn't want those logs slipping off would we? Of the 9 wagons I now have 6 are standard, one was a Bachmann oil tanker and 2 are HWL.

As featured in my avatar. They are of course totally wrong for a standard gauge diesel but what the heck - they look ok to me.

 

[Gizzy]

Here's part of my mostly buddleia sourced log train....

Really looks the part Chris. I also use real branches of various trees suitably cut to size on my flat wagons.

Chris's photo reminds me of the wagons I saw being loaded on the Arosa line earlier this year....

 

[CoggesRailway]

To anyone thinking of plastic look no further than chris m's piccie!

Funny i trod (i know clumsy oaf) on a bachmann tanker that is now a flat car stacked with timber...

 

[Shawn]

Wow that log looks fake. Logs come in different sizes depending on where they come from. Eastern US the logs tended to be smaller then those out west. Same is true for logs cut in different time periods. Logs tend to be bigger earlier on then today because today is usually second growth. Just use branches from local trees. Anything will work like apple, maple etc.... They dont add that much more weight.

 

[beavercreek]

Where I come from THAT is not a LOG this is a LOG............................................

Apologies to Croc Dundee................

Yeah? I reckon that those folk are all g scale with a 20" log!

 

[Rob s]

I think any thing that makes a load is ok,

But i must admit some look better than others

So untill i have enough time to do all the things i want to do
any thing goes. (well any thing i can get hold of)

And if any body has any Resin or Plastic logs they don't want
send me a PM i will be happy to accept any type
and happy to pay, i have another 5 log loads to make up
and all the bushes round here have already been stripped of striaght
branches

 

[beavercreek]

Wow that log looks fake. Logs come in different sizes depending on where they come from. Eastern US the logs tended to be smaller then those out west. Same is true for logs cut in different time periods. Logs tend to be bigger earlier on then today because today is usually second growth. Just use branches from local trees. Anything will work like apple, maple etc.... They dont add that much more weight.

Nice pic, great looking line