Not Done on a Bot!

[chiloquinruss]

OK here is another post from the Da' Train Guy'. These pix are from Saturday and will show you just how crazy some of us hobby guys can get! Enjoy. (BTW it's -19f today! :eek:) Russ

Plowing snow:
http://hobby-tronics.lenzus.com/content/21775739/r/s_93375768.jpg

Spreading the snow to make a wider 'ditch':
http://hobby-tronics.lenzus.com/content/21775739/r/s_93395768.jpg

[genek]

You should have made you a snow plow to fit the front of the train,. ONE THAT WOULD HAVE ATTACHED TO THE COW RAKE.

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[mikeacg]

I saw the picture and wondered what kind of new-fangled snowmobile is that! Looks like fun Russ!

Mike

[sailfl]

Russ

What gauge is that?

[chiloquinruss]

Buried beneath the snow there really is a steel snow plow. The guage is 7 1/2 inch and the scale is roughly 1/8th scale. I'm going over today and I'll snap a couple of pix. The spreader is made mostly of wood which is actually a design feature. It will fracture before it hurts someone. Is very easy to repair as it is mostly 1x4 and some 3/4 inch conduit. Again nothing fancy but sure is fun. Everything else we do in the hobby is based on pretending, roll up the door and hit that snow bank and the pretending is over! :D Thanks for asking. Russ

[gene]

I have 1 question. Are you crazy! -19 F too cold for me

[jerry_stanek]

My older brother was in a steamers club here in Medina Ohio he had 4 engines 1 was an electric and the others were steam. One was smaller that had to be used on a raised rail. I never got into the trains myself.

[chiloquinruss]

Gene, I think it's one of those things that 'seems so good at the time'! :D The trains on the elevated track are usually 1 inch scale which is really making a strong comeback these days. Russ

[chiloquinruss]

For those interested:

http://hobby-tronics.lenzus.com/content/21775739/r/s_38084657.jpg

http://hobby-tronics.lenzus.com/content/21775739/r/s_89744657.jpg

Anf two different kind of snow blowers, a conversion and a rotary blower:
http://hobby-tronics.lenzus.com/content/21775739/r/s_60574657.jpg

http://hobby-tronics.lenzus.com/content/21775739/r/s_18874657.jpg

[scottp55]

So you do have snowblowers, I was going to ask. I like the guy's beard in the back. I wonder if it's snow? :)

[kevin]

You have snow wow

Looks like your having the time of your life .I hope when I retire I can have half as much fun

Keeping going maybe you can dig out Texas

[chiloquinruss]

Guy - that old dude with the white beard is yours truely! And yes sometimes its covered in snow. The pix of this plow trip is powder snow so pretty easy to plow. The deepeswt plowing requires plowing about 10 feet ahead and backing up a little and then bucking it again and again. The reaspon for the spreader is we can't go fast enough to get the snow from out of the ditch on a subsequent snow fall so we need to make the ditch wider for the next snow fall. If conditions are right you can plow at 5 to 7 mph (Oh, did I mention wind chill :eek:). Russ

[scottp55]

Russ, Can I borrow the choo-choo train, or an stl of the snowblower attachment for my wheelchair. Bare ground to 15" in 12 hours:)

[curtiss]

Around here people purchase... "75 watt electric" ...snow-blowers and then are a bit disappointed when they try them out...

Ran across this chart the other day for those who like fractions.

[genek]

Around here people purchase... "75 watt electric" ...snow-blowers and then are a bit disappointed when they try them out...

Ran across this chart the other day for those who like fractions.
thanks for sharing the fraction converter...