A Really Tight Curve And New Points! (For The Field Railway)
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- How to make railway points the complicated way : - ) But I got there in the end. Paddling through the mud didn't help either and I'm sure I've lost at least one spanner for ever...
This is all for the charcoal-making plan - setting up the infrastructure is going to take a while yet, but once it's in place things should get much quicker..
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This channel is like hidden gem of UA-cam.
Love the creative railway engineering ON A BUDGET you guys are doing!
I like the railway drill press!
Right! Make On!
Excellent idea put to work! "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes a/k/a Tim! 😜
So clever wasn't it!
me too! I've often had to drill sideways into somthing but I can't put much strength behind it because it is at an awkward angle.
Thanks, Ben. Very basic compared to your projects but satisfying none-the-less : - )
Many other UA-camrs would have mad an hour long episode out of this project, but your content is always to the point. No rambling, no timelaps, no annoying music, thank you, keep up the good work 👍
You couldn't have said it better! Tim and Sandra rock!
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Exactly, no annoying music, trains and rails have their own lovely music.That is all we need to hear I guess....and the good explanation, and mud and fixes.
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I remember seeing catch plates at points when I was a kid, and thinking they looked cool, but having no idea what they did. Thanks, Tim.
All the makeshift tools Tim makes are great, I like that mindset.
very talented!
Now that you've added the catch rail it's begining to sound like a piece of mainline track with that hissing scrape sound as the flange gets side loaded.
Thanks Tim, it's more difficult and time consuming than I thought, but your knowlege and tinkering always gets you through in the end, and that's why your videos are so interesting to watch!
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"In order to improve my railway I first have to expand my railway"
Love it!
Those bending tools would be called scrolling spanners or scroll forks
We mostly call them bending forks in the North American blacksmithing community. There are plenty of names for that type of tool though, all are perfectly valid.
You have a voice I could listen to all day.
They take more time & material but these new points look so much better.
I really like the new switch. You probably could mess with the frog some more to get it to work smoothly. Don't forget the levers and locking mechanisms for both switches, as they might vibrate out of position when your rolling multiple cars across them.
A bit late for now, but you may want to get a pipe bending press in case you have to make any more curved sections of angle iron. My dad has one (I really don't know why, to be honest), so I know they're not that expensive. And they work just like a bottle jack, so you don't need any special setups in the shop. You could even use it in that muddy field. Maybe something for the future.
Locking mechanism would be a weight on the lever traditionally
@@the_retag Usually it's just a pin or some keyed mechanism that releases when a lever on the handle is squeezed or depressed before moving the handle to throw the switch.
@@jackielinde7568 yeah, that also works. I was mostly talking about german switches that simply have a big weight on the lever just below where you grip it at the top, still fairly easy to move on the hinge, but the weight that has to be moved and lifted keeps the lever from passing the highest point in the middle on its own. Also once you have passed that point the swith basically falls into place. Added bonus is no extra moving parts
The simple guardrail is so deceptively elegant in practice.
There is quite a large gap in the frog that the wheels have to ride over. You could put a small, moveable piece of rail in that gap for a butter smooth ride.
I love how you make something daunting, like building a railway network, seem accessible for an average guy.
Possibly my favourite video on UA-cam. I would love build something like this.
gotta love how the man is just unbending steel with 4 bolts and two pipes. amazing
I use similar bars to that to bend rebar for concrete, amongst other things. We call them hickey bars
Found this by accident. Easy to understand without being condescending or arrogant. And the problem solving, such as the drill press, were inspired. Love it. Good luck with the build. And the mud.
Shims, straps, jigs and clamps, you sure know how to extend the reach of your two hands!
I've always been confused by points and switches but the way you built them has helped my understanding a bit, nice job
New tool: called a bending fork in blacksmith shops in the US. We use them a lot for both hot- and cold-bending. Great videos!
At 6:30, you literally have the ANVIL CHORUS, as the hammer strikes the steel. And it changes pitch to higher notes!!, so get that sampled on a hard drive, and you can mix up a great tune!!!!!
That looks like looks like a really good job there Tim. It’s also a fantastic example of why they used mini locos in the ww1 with all the mud
Imagine trying to drag a cart through that
Yes, exactly - a lot of light rail development happened in the First World War. Some still relevant today.
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 Just had real relevance with the upcoming remembrance day, watching your paddling around in that mud
I keep watching Tim and Sandra because I keep learning things that I would never come across in real life. :)
I'm a volunteer at the railway maintenance department of a standard gauge heritage railway and this is more or less the same way how we build the railway track there. We just use bigger tools and heavier rails and sleepers. Nice video.
Thanks, Floris.
Your straighten tool is just like the tool I used make on jobs to bend wire with, but my handles are of course much shorter. and I weld the bolts to the pipe instead of drilling holes thru the pipe. Been about 10 years since I made one but you definite brought back some old memories here!
Absolutely fantastic. I was transfixed and could not stop watching. WELL DONE MATE
Glad you enjoyed it : - )
First recipe vlog that I have seen, to build your own railway.
i can forsee an old ride on mower becoming an engine possibly.. erm maybe... lol .... i love this Tim...Thank you very much ;)
Wow! I do my own points for model railways but this takes it to the whole new level.
I quite like the simplicity of the wheel catch to fix the derailing!
Your just so clever. Nothing is beyond you!! 🤩
Ah man, I am in awe of your handiwork!
THIS GUY IS REBUILDING THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY ONE PEACE AT A TIME
I love the creative solutions like the sideways drill machine and the bendy bars! I'm learning a lot from you. Thank you!
I like the drill squeezing thing; I might steal that idea. Those tools you made are called “bending forks”. The plural of “radius” is “radii”. Nice work.
Your ingenuity never ceases to impress me, Tim. I like to think that I have a mechanically inclined brain/thought process, but yours is on another level. I love watching your projects whenever they are posted.
Ha! Thanks!
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 How did the Wheels derailed on the Switch Tracks?
Wow. So satisfying to see it work in the end. Well done 🌟 seeing all this mud makes a railway seem the only way to get along with it.
It’s so good that you recovered.
Not recovered yet, Silvia - but getting there : - )
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 all the best for you 🌈
The second tool you made to bend the rail back reminded me of a blacksmith's bending fork, but handheld instead of in a hardy hole on the anvil.
Hey Tim,
I just had a couple of ideas for your future locomotive I wanted to share :)
The simplest you could do would be a flat waggon with an engine mounted on it and some sprockets & chain to drive the wheel shafts with.
But another idea would be to find an old ride-on lawnmower or garden tractor and convert it to run on the rails.
And if you go for a gasoline engine, you could convert it to run on wood-gas and build a wood-chip gassifier to fuel the engine, that would then give you free fuel for the locomotive.
I'm also looking forward to see the ballast hopper cart you are planning. Will it have chutes to allow the ballast to both go down the centre of the track and to the sides aswell, or only one of the two?
I bet he could make it work with just an old push mower
@@andrewreynolds4949 perhaps, although I think the engine would be too weak. Especially when it has to move the chip cars around.
@@Gin-toki If a full train of three 1-ton wet chip wagons is about the heaviest it needs to pull, A free secondhand push mower engine can get up to around the same power as the stationary engine, so I think it would be good enough for most everything on this railway
The gadget used to bend rails is called a CROWE. and from it we get the term Crowe bar now meaning any long steel bar
. I used these things as a fettler on the NSW railways as a young bloke just out of school. 1960 seems a long time ago............
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You are a true metalworking artist! That new point looks superb, even if it was more of a faff than the single blade point.
And as for the new tools, especially the drill squashing machine, pure genius!
Working in all that mud would wage a psychological warfare on me. Good job overcoming it, and making a really fun, and completely functional RR Tim!
Tim is rebooting the industrial Revolution!
I was wondering how you could bend flat bar steel that much! This helped me, thanks!
Thank you for humoring us train nerds with a more conventional Switch, Tim! Always a pleasure to watch =)
The first one was legit, look at some of the slate & mine switches
This is possibly one of the best series on the telly! I am learning and I can't even feel it. What a trickster! Railways are a funny thing, they have been around in the modern form for over 150 years, with points and signals. Brunel had a line running with points switching 2 gauges at a time, 3 rails! It was all figured out on paper. But the big guns can't do it anymore. No new lines and all the old little ones taken up. However, nowadays a champion in a garden can lay more track singlehandedly than CIE! What a world! Excellent! Maybe Prodigious is a better word for it! With a capital P!
It’s amazing that you do this stuff
What a lovely little project! I, at one point, want to do things like this. It all ways seems so fun.
Fantastic build Tim
Thank you Craig : - )
Bending forks. I have a few pairs in my forge. Most of them made on the spot, when something needed bent.
WOW...Excellent Video! Thumbs Up!!!
Great job, Tim. Good grief, what a muddy mess. I would suggest you put a keeper rail on the straight side as well, just to prevent a derail if you should happen to push one of the cars unevenly through the points.
I doubt he really needs a check rail on the straight, it’s a small enough gap that it doesn’t look to be making a difference
These points are absolutely great! If you ever build a loco, you might want to convert old points and build new ones in this style only. Straight curves are really bumpy and poor.
This is awesome. I think you should probably stick with the single rail switch for the long stretch of tracks. If you ever have any short turns pop up again, you should probably use the more complex design. You are doing an amazing job and you are doing real working railways justice. I can't wait to see you build a new rail car design.
8:34 this is one of the things that I feared about with these cheap rails.
I still can't believe that it was possible.
Yes, I'm a little surprised at how well it's all working too : - )
pain in the ass to make the curved turnout for sure, but in the end, i think its very impressive and well worth the effort. That curve will be a point of bragging for years to come!! Great job!! Impressed here in Alabama USA!!
The track tweaking tool is generally referred to as an "F" bar.
One can see how it's called that. "F" ☺
Thanks, Robert. That makes sense.
TYAT CATCH RAIL IS A GENIUS SOLUTION!!
LOVE WATCHING THIS COME TO BE!!
That flat "drill press" you made to drill into the rail is a bomb idea sir. I hope you dont mind if i borrow that idea for my work. Haha
I think that’s brilliant Tim, I can appreciate that these points are a lot of extra work but aesthetically pleasing compared to single blade. How about building a “rocker shovel loader” to load your ballast onto your ballast wagon? That would be really cool!!
Yes it would!
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You sound like a Thomas and Friends narrator and I love it
I love watching these.
A friend asked... 'are you going to put a railway in your garden now?' Then realised, I already have one !
Just as amazing as the big lines,all in the backgarden, homemade, like back when it started
Looks like a great lot of fun!
Hi, there! That's a very cool thing, the backyard railroad! Now, when I see how muddy is the soil this becomes absolutely clear that you one can do nothing when it's rainy. And only the railroad helps. Good luck to you and your road!
wish i lived next-door to you big thumbs up keep up the good work
I'm exited about the next wagon :)
Nicely done, sir.
Excellent. Well worth the extra work. When you build a loco… you’ll need rods and levers for point operation…
What a soupy mess! I've had to work in conditions like that recently while building my post frame workshop, and it is miserable - especially if it's cold out (Wisconsin here, and it's very cold). 🥶 The railroad is coming along awesome! I was wondering if you would ever lay ballast, you can certainly use some!
I'm left wondering whether adding drain tiles under all that soupy mess might be easier... not as interesting to watch, though.
Yeah, Wisconsin mud sucks a lot.
spoken by a yooper... Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
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4m25s How come the dragging-through-the-mud did not erase your wax/chalk marks? I was waiting to hear you curse (grin); 9:00 I love the authentic railway sounds of wagons on the move, but there again, this IS an authentic railway; 10:40 "Now I could just use this ..." heralds, as usual, another nail-biting cliff-hanger. Tim. You are a perfect story-teller. Now, I'll just watch one more video, and then I really MUST get back to work. Another wonderful video, as usual. You make me hunger for being outside in mud, in my wellies, ...
Cheers; Chris
I had it the right way up!
8:53 WOW GENIUS
Love the horizontal drill contraption! Amazing how you find solutions to obstacles, ingenious! Great filming considering the mud
Fantastic as ever. Well done. The drilling jig is genius.
The tool is called a bending fork. Its often used by blacksmiths
I saw a comment on a cable drawn system, and in spite of your bendy route rollers could in theory be used, here in California old logging railroads used cable drawn inclines which used all kinds of methods to ensure the cable didn't destroy key infrastructure or itself, that mixed with some trolley car schematics that are popping up into my brain it could be really interesting while impractical and probably over engineered. I think the primary issue with such a plan would be switches if cost was nowhere to be found. Hopefully this provides some inspiration on top of what is already a captivating project. Love the stuff and I'll comment again if I can figure out a cost effective overhead electric system, lol.
Love watching your journey through life thanks for sharing 👍
Brilliant.
Looking forward to seeing how you lay the ballast.
You have a very good documentary type voice.
Engines, ballast wagons - when will you run your first passenger service?
I don't think I could find the courage to work like that in the mud.
This is wonderful. I reckon the two-blade design was probably essential in this space, I can't imagine the single-blade version working well with one straight road and another with such a tiny radius.
I’m only adding words here for your UA-cam $$: loved it, amazing.
That is just amazing what you have done. It maybe a small railway, but it is a really useful railway.
2:48, You just made something called a "Frog Rail". It's where 2 rails meet like an arrow.
I'm so happy!
For the next turnout, make the swinging point only about as long as the tie spacing out of angle iron and the closure rails( the ones between the frog and points like the rest of the track and attached the same way. These swinging points will need hinges or swivel pins to swing about, like how you did the point on the single-point turnout. This way you will not need to cut so many slots and have to hammer the angle into a curve.
You're right, Roy. Thanks.
That works nicely, well done Tim. I can see that a good pair of wellies is extremely important in West Ireland!
I learnt so much about rails in this one, amazing video, great work Tim!
Perhaps instead of a full locomotive you install something like a flywheel where you manually spin it up and the inertia provides most of the power when moving?
What are you going to name your railway? I suggest TMSL. 'Tim's Mud Skipper Line.' I think I may have spent a bit of time laying some of your stone prior to laying the sleepers for easier working conditions. But then I'm just a keyboard observer. Get cracking Tim! I'm waiting for the next video. Great stuff.
Always a thought provoking time - and a good laugh. Tim, you’re a genius!! Les
That's just ace. Thanks
Nice! Looks more like an industrial railway each time! If you use the ballast you have for the worst muddy bits, or as a sort of base, I’m sure you could get away with using the cheapest pea gravel you can find. I have actually seen it used for a yard on a standard size railway, so I’m sure it would be alright here.
I think pea-gravel would just disappear into the mud, that's why I've gone for something bigger
Really nice, great job on the home made rail project. Just found your channel(s), loving the content.
Welcome aboard!
Next life.
A motorised unit with caterpillar tracks.😂
I believe the word you're looking for is radii (pl of radius). AND, a brilliant bit of mucking about in the muck. 😉
P.S. -- This is one of better videos showing why rubber boots ('wellies' IIRC) are so popular in England.
.. and here in Ireland
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 Question: do they call them Wellingtons in Ireland, or is another colloquial name?
Manybe a Rail Debugger for rails that are ... needing attention. Then just add a wheelbarrow (without the wheel) to the trolly for the ballast wagon.