Chris' Build of a Lombard Hauler Engine

[b.lindsey]

Those are great Chris. Makes me wish I was close enough to come. Great venue and looks like nice weather for it too.

Bill

[crueby]

Those are great Chris. Makes me wish I was close enough to come. Great venue and looks like nice weather for it too.

Bill

Weather Saturday was perfect, Sunday had a couple of showers but didn't stop anything.


Herb just put up another video:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rey2uPtVzzY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rey2uPtVzzY</a>

[Dave Otto]

The pictures that Terry posted are very nice!
Also over on Smokestack he posted a video.
https://www.smokstak.com/forum/showthread.php?t=172532&highlight=Lombard

Dave

[crueby]

The pictures that Terry posted are very nice!
Also over on Smokestack he posted a video.
https://www.smokstak.com/forum/showthread.php?t=172532&highlight=Lombard

Dave

Yup, thats the same video I pointed to on YouTube in the "Back home" post. Terry's a great guy, super knowledgeable about the haulers! I've learned a lot from him.

Oh, and the photos are from Herb Crosby, I didn't make that clear in the first post, sorry.

[crueby]

Okay, time for some photos from the trip up the Maine Forestry and Logging Museum this last weekend. First, a couple shots of the model with its big brother - 1:12th scale model to 1:1 scale big brother!










Paul Breton had his 1932 gas-engined Lombard Auto-style Tractor-Truck hauler there, it was running with the steam one both days. It has a slightly different track system, but based on the same ideas. Lombard produced both types at the same time for quite a few years. There were several versions, one with a dump bed. It also normally ran with the skids in front, wheels just for summer moving.





I got a chance to drive that one as well!

View from the drivers seat:

Plenty of time driving the steam one, did at least a couple dozen trips around with it during the weekend. On Sunday we got some rain, so the ground softened up a bit and the steeering was much easier - they have had a very dry fall and on Saturday the ground was very hard. We took 6 or 8 people per trip around in the woodbox part of the cab, many times another passenger up front too.



View of the engineers postion inside the cab, taken from the woodbox. This is Paul Breton at the controls:

Here is the crew:

They were also running the line-shaft machine shop, full of great old machines.

Brian Barker and his son were running the machines. Ron Ginger was there on Saturday as well - thought sure I had a photo of him but now I can't find it. Rats!

Great details in the machines:

And I think this is where Zee was staying, but I didn't see him around. Looks like a hat he would wear....


Full set of photos up on this album:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/gXXuXEifSHKvS3ev1

Videos are still in the works, will upload them in a little while...

[b.lindsey]

More great pictures Chris. Going back to the first video link you posted, I had no idea pickled eggs were big in Maine. 

Bill

[crueby]

More great pictures Chris. Going back to the first video link you posted, I had no idea pickled eggs were big in Maine. 

Bill

At least with that group! I prefer the seafood down on the coast myself. At least they also brought donuts for the volunteers every morning!

Videos are editted and are uploading now...

[crueby]

Some videos from the weekend show...

Steam lombard:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsapkG91sVA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsapkG91sVA</a>

Gas powered Lombard and a smaller Cletrac tractor:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLxfuAWVgBo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLxfuAWVgBo</a>

Water powered sawmill:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eix-6SaT45w" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eix-6SaT45w</a>

Shingle mill - powered by part of an old Toyota truck!
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs5vG43OIB4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs5vG43OIB4</a>

Line shaft shop:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWPgTH_SdNg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWPgTH_SdNg</a>

A log splitter - powered at front by a small hit/miss engine, looks like the splitter portion was built from the frame and crankshaft of a larger hit/miss engine, clever:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TebQ-U4sMJo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TebQ-U4sMJo</a>


The model ran well at the museum - one thing I think that I am going to try out is deepening the grooves that hold the o-rings in the pistons, bit too much friction there. Once that is done, I think I am going to call this one complete! I demo'd it both days on the concrete floor of the visitor center at the museum, the soft gravel and stone dust area in the barn and the gravel/dirt roads were too much for the small wheels on the front axle. Ran well there, but I've been noticing that turning the crank over by hand takes a lot more force than my other engines, think I made the o-ring fit just a little too tight. Nothing a minute on the lathe won't fix!

[zeeprogrammer]

re: photos in post 2180...Fantastic! 

P.S. I used to have a beard like that. We could have been twins. But daughter convinced me to go goatee.
Even so...I'm down to shaving once a week. I don't care how I look at work at the end of the week. 
Actually...I don't really care how I look...anymore.

I still care how I smell though. 

[crueby]

re: photos in post 2180...Fantastic! 

P.S. I used to have a beard like that. We could have been twins. But daughter convinced me to go goatee.
Even so...I'm down to shaving once a week. I don't care how I look at work at the end of the week. 
Actually...I don't really care how I look...anymore.

I still care how I smell though. 

 

[10KPete]

re: photos in post 2180...Fantastic! 

I still care how I smell though. 

Then you're not far enough!! 

Pete   

[Flyboy Jim]

What a great trip Chris. Thanks for the videos and update. 

I'm looking forward to your next project............looks like a good one!

Jim

[steamboatmodel]

Got sent this shot from my time steering today...

You need to do a model of that driver for your model.
With the gas one was the clutch on the left, brake on right and hand throttle?
Watched them all on U Tube, like the sound of the shaper.
Gerald.

[crueby]

Got sent this shot from my time steering today...

You need to do a model of that driver for your model.
Gerald.

Its on my woodcarving todo list - needs to be wearing coveralls and field boots rather than t shirt and sneakers though!! You're right, would be a good spot to sneak in a cameo, not as sneaky as Hitchcock used to do but fun.


There was a family there that brought along thier elderly father, we took him for a ride on the seat next to the steersman, his grin was huge!


There's a quick design project for this week, the linkages at the sawmill there that advance the log trolley into the blade on each stroke needs to move half as far as it does now without changing all the gears and such, I came up with a plan to add another set of pawls to do the job with just a couple of simple parts and moving a link pin on a wooden lever. Should be fun to see that in action, will post details as that unfolds. I'm drawing it up for their blacksmith to whip up. They had been thinking about changing gears and or ratchet wheel, much more involved.

[fidlstyks]

You have to like the duo of big and small. Would love to see them. Maybe some day I can go to the show .