"Realistic" log loads.....?
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"Railway weed" is fast growing when unpruned and two the year quite vigorous growth is about the right thickness etc. very nice blooms in a variety of colours and shades and an essential shrub for those who value butterfly and bumblebee presence in their garden. A major pest in some of the countries goods yards and along the quiet sections of rural lines where clearing it is quite labour intensive and often difficult. Our last years pruning of our Buddlija three year growth is happily drying off out in the shed. Nice relatively straight lengths as it was grown and trimmed for log loads in any case. Grows to about six foot and once dried sawn and sealed looks as good as anything else. We have four of these in the various colours and have lots of butterflies as a result and have plenty of logs of various sizes.
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At least the guy in the orange shirt seems pretty `armless! 
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Yep, he just stood too close to the blade.....
He had lost his arm somewhere else on the layout so I thought that he should be included in the sawmill as a notice to the other workers to be diligent around machinery.
I later found his arm and it is now resting on the floor in a bloody pool!
But as he was of the old school `stuff and nonsense` he just carries on working....they were men in them days......
At least the guy in the orange shirt seems pretty `armless!
Coat, h . . . . . .
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Yep, he just stood too close to the blade.....
He had lost his arm somewhere else on the layout so I thought that he should be included in the sawmill as a notice to the other workers to be diligent around machinery.
I later found his arm and it is now resting on the floor in a bloody pool!
But as he was of the old school `stuff and nonsense` he just carries on working....they were men in them days......
Jon,
I wouldnt worry about trimming trees for good logs. Twice whilst Ive been trimming elder trees, Ive had WPC in twos walking past and all theve done is asked what I was cutting them for and were suprised when I told them Model Railroad. I take the car and a log cutting saw, cut them to about 5ft and into a bundle of 6 logs and Im away. Once home I cut them into lenghts of 12 inch for the log skeles and I also cut a odd few into 18 inch lenghts for oversized loads where I use log skeles which have had the centers cut out of them to give me extended lengh loads.
Just do what you need to do without advertising it
Graham
I wouldnt worry about trimming trees for good logs. Twice whilst Ive been trimming elder trees, Ive had WPC in twos walking past and all theve done is asked what I was cutting them for and were suprised when I told them Model Railroad. I take the car and a log cutting saw, cut them to about 5ft and into a bundle of 6 logs and Im away. Once home I cut them into lenghts of 12 inch for the log skeles and I also cut a odd few into 18 inch lenghts for oversized loads where I use log skeles which have had the centers cut out of them to give me extended lengh loads.
Just do what you need to do without advertising it
Graham
Graham ASH said:
Amazing! How do you feel about people removing wheels from, say, other people's bicycles?
Playmofire
Are you joking ?? Whats bicycle wheels got to do with tree branches - on the back of a second class stamp please !!
Graham
Are you joking ?? Whats bicycle wheels got to do with tree branches - on the back of a second class stamp please !!
Graham
It's worrying that I have to explain. People who remove wheels from other people's bicycles are taking something which isn't theirs to take. Ditto with you and the buddleja branches.
If anyone wants any budlia or forsythia branches they are most welcome to come and help themselves from my garden.
Poundland are doing 1metre rolls of willow edging the trigs are about the same length and thickness of a pencil Had some Nequida gonduals wagon's which looked to Armerican for my layout so removed the bodie's (they are for E bay) added some stakes in the pockets provided and cut up the trig's as load's 1 roll will do one wagon
I use the Buddleiea from our garden, it grows so profusely that I don't keep cuttings anymore, light and to scale. Fetch your own, I might even pay you a beer if you trim back the whole damned bush [e]102[/e]
I have two replies, the first possibly more helpful than the second. For the train of scratch built log bogies I have made up logs by laminating cork flooring tiles then shaping with a Surform file (rasp) and a V chisel, dry brushed with browns and brown black to give some bark colouring. They work out to be a moderate weight. 
For other set of log bogies, which are LGB ones, I have used suitable prunings from what ever trees/bushes that are about the right diameter and straight enough, which is really is quite a vague unhelpful reply :-[
The logs in the train being hauled by Manawanui are the LGB bogies loaded with prunings. The two sets of log bogies being pulled away from the log skids by the Simplex are some of the scratch built bogies loaded with cork logs. The log skids are made from prunings which I have given a treatment with Metalex, a timber preservative, since they live outside permenantly.
For other set of log bogies, which are LGB ones, I have used suitable prunings from what ever trees/bushes that are about the right diameter and straight enough, which is really is quite a vague unhelpful reply :-[
The logs in the train being hauled by Manawanui are the LGB bogies loaded with prunings. The two sets of log bogies being pulled away from the log skids by the Simplex are some of the scratch built bogies loaded with cork logs. The log skids are made from prunings which I have given a treatment with Metalex, a timber preservative, since they live outside permenantly.
Hi Jon
If you want any Elderberry logs, I can get and cut you some up. How many do you want , I use 3 to each log skele, we can meet at a show or G Rail next March
Graham
If you want any Elderberry logs, I can get and cut you some up. How many do you want , I use 3 to each log skele, we can meet at a show or G Rail next March
Graham
That's a very kind offer, Graham - I'm currently investigating a few local possibilities, but if I don't come up with anything suitable then I'll certainly talk to you about it!
If/when I find something that I'm happy with, I'll be sure to post it here for everyone to see; thanks again for all the tips, ideas and photos that have been posted.
Jon.
If/when I find something that I'm happy with, I'll be sure to post it here for everyone to see; thanks again for all the tips, ideas and photos that have been posted.
Jon.
Thats ok Jon , I will wait out on that. I would like to post some photos of the logs but am unsure how its done
Graham
Graham
playmofire said:
A sense of proportion is a good thing.
We were not considering taking a felling axe to the b****y things!
I was thinking of dropped branches or those which are allowed to grow illegally obstructing a footway and which you are allowed legally to remove.