Loads for wagons

Granitechops

Granitechops

Narrow Gauge 1/12th scale on 45mm</br>Quarrying &
Was looking at gn15 forum recently, and was inspired by Steve Bennetts ( Black dog Mines, & Pepper 7) fruit boxes & crates, so decided to play with microsoft publisher , using rectangles & several of the tools there I came up with this,

as printed ficticious product & location

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Ficticious or not, they look real to me - great job Don.

Mick
 
Korm - I like your site and its' pages!

Mick
 
Interesting site Gordon (I've bookmarked it) - thanks for that. I've had a go myself in the past for N Gauge buildings and 1" scale for kids. Very enjoyable and all done in "Word".

Mick
 
Thanks for the link, Korm, I can see that it looks like you have used beads for some fruit, but what about the ?onions? look like mini dried goosberries, are they wild berries? or hand made?
 
These are printed on white card, 160 gm per sq m., for 1/12th scale, 8 to an A4 page. For strength sealed boxes have either polystyrene ( for large stacks, say on a pallet ) or wood cores for weight to stack stable when single placed
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I dont know if apple boxes would be loaded on this type of pallet, I did read somewhere they only stack the boxes 4 high for stability & crushing, so cant see how they could put one pallet on top of another without crushing, unless they use cage pallets instead ( hey thats an idea!!! ) but for now this is a NG outfit, so 1 pallet high is probably the limit for in transit stability, I did not want to glue the cartons together for the pallet load in case I later wanted to resite them, so I used a modern method of cling wrapping them using, yes, cling wrap. finding it neccessary to use sellotape to seal the ends & also hold the load to the pallet with.
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Don,

i like your inventiveness. specially the sealed pallet looks very nice.

the tomatoes and lemons are these small beads, that grow, when thrown into water.
the grapefruit and melons are ammunition for toyguns.
the onions or "whatervers" are green pepper. (the left box untreated, in the diapersack treated with furniture-polish and the right box treated with black ink)
the boxes are veneer and matchsticks.

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Granitechops said:
I dont know if apple boxes would be loaded on this type of pallet, I did read somewhere they only stack the boxes 4 high for stability & crushing, so cant see how they could put one pallet on top of another without crushing, unless they use cage pallets instead ( hey thats an idea!!! ) but for now this is a NG outfit, so 1 pallet high is probably the limit for in transit stability, I did not want to glue the cartons together for the pallet load in case I later wanted to resite them, so I used a modern method of cling wrapping them using, yes, cling wrap. finding it neccessary to use sellotape to seal the ends & also hold the load to the pallet with.
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Commercial packers do use a type of clingfilm to wrap up varying kinds of goods just as you have done. Nice idea to think of it in our scale.

On the real thing I remember a real locomotive that was wrapped in an Industrial Cling Film for transport abroad so that the locomotive would be kept in pristine condition when loaded as Deck Cargo. Now there is an idea for a Model Dockside Load!
JonD
 
Ah Ha, matchsticks, most of the wooden fruit /veg trays we used to see had the corners reinforced with triangular wood, yes matchsticks ( long cooks type ) sanded down must try it
Thanks Korm

trouble is someone on 7/8ths forum posted his efforts with roller conveyor, would look good under a few apple boxes
 
korm kormsen said:
Yessir! that looks the part.

now you will have to "plant" an orchard...
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Yes, that crossed my mind, but 1/12th? trees 20 actual inches tall? maybe just two to frame a rail spur coming down out of the orchards,
yes . . . . no . . . .yes . . . . no . . . .,
probably chicken out,
hey,
now theres an idea,
hens in the orchard & an egg packing facility as well! :bigsmile:
well eggs in boxes
actually I have some scale eggs somewhere, but not enough to fill a 30 doz egg box :rolf: :rolf:
 
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