Hi Tim! The whole railway series never gets old. I love it! Before long you'll have to charge $ for a ticket to ride. That cutie Gulliver looks like your first fare!
6:23 Haha! "I own a cordless angle grinder." Was a substantial consideration in a recent job application of mine. I got the job, and WOW am I glad I brought spare batteries too.
I love the simplicity of your railway it show you don't need to spend 1000s on proper 15 inch narrow guages railway track when you can make it yourself at relatively low cost.
Gulliver reminds me of one of my favourite goats, Skluntz. He rather enjoyed going fencing with us, sleeping in the shade of the fence post, chewing on hammers and fencing staples (we soon put a stop to THAT!), and jumping up on the back of the truck whenever we went to get tools.... I almost taught him how to hold a hammer, though he wasn't particularly interested in using it! Seems to me if we paired Gulliver and Skluntz together they'd have all our farming jobs done! I am loving the railway project Tim, trying to justify building one here to move round bales and feed cows without having to start the tractor in the Canadian winter! Merry Christmas to you and Sandra!
@@millomweb I've got a drawer full of battery powered drills and drivers that are "dead to the world". I've reverted back to corded drills and drivers. The drivers are very powerful and I love them. Will never buy another battery powered tool again. They're fake in my opinion. I'm unlikely to risk buying an electric car for the same reason. But might consider a reliable trolley bus 🤣🤣🤣
@@BrassLock A hybrid - trolley car ? Nuclear reactor car ? Involved with amdrams making sets and stuff. There were non-brand 4 battery screwdrivers and a Bosch corded. One use of the Bosch and I was hooked ! (It got nicked a few weeks later :( ) But for the big screws...pneumatic impact driver. 6" long and something like 3/8" O/D of the screw. Even my battery charger is mains powered ;)
@@BrassLock Mind me asking what brand the drills are? I've shelled out big money for a Makita 18V set 10 years ago. Everything still works, the batteries as well. And I don't treat them nicely on my farm. Dropping, overheating, leaving them out in the rain by accident. Everything still works. I'm not advocating for the Makita brand here, I've seen several other old battery tools my friends are using for years and years from other manufacturers. You only have to pay the high price once for quality tools. At least in my experience.
@@schwuzi Drill: Ryobi "CD 1882, 18 Volt" (13 mm chuck), Driver: AEG "SH 4.8 Volt 300", Driver: Black & Decker 6 Volt. And another Drill/Driver which was for light duty, which I disassembled and thought of recycling the gearbox, but that's in the too hard basket. I now have 3 corded Maktek Drills of varying capacity and a Pumpkin corded 300W 10mm Drill/Driver which simply works powerfully whenever I want it to. I have a 3 corded angle grinders: Makita GA 4030, Black & Decker KG 100, and a "PA6-GF30", which is at least 15 years old, but the name-tag has fallen off. All 3 work well.
I definitely think if you want to keep the ties off the mud, you will need to do more tamping- a hand tamper is really a long tool with an angled "foot" at the end- the idea is to use it to push down onto the ballast, and work it under the sleepers- under the rails, it should be picked in especially snugly. You will likely need to add more ballast as you work, so having some handy to shovel in small amounts is good. It seems unlikely you will have any especially heavy trains, to the extent that the ground could not support them without tamped ballast, but it would help with drainage and prolong the life of the sleepers.
I think you've reached the point now where there's no need to improve the design of your points (assuming you still have the space for these long ones) but I guess only time will tell how they hold up and how they work with a loco if you make one. I think they're a very robust design and it's really interesting to see the improvement process since you started
I love the design of single points, very practical and easy. Everything about this build is the same as ant railroad in history. They built their own ties, trucks and tools. The only thing they didn't make was the rail itself. And like railroads, they cut in points at will. Look forward to seeing more progress.
Excellent. You could simplify further by doing away with the crossing vee, you would need to move the pivot pin on the blade a foot or so down the blade. As the blade pivots the short section beyond the pin acts as the frog (hopefully this makes sense).
You can make it even simpler Just weld a flatbar iron from the point of the V and skip the pivot axel. And put some screws in the sleeper down at the other end to act like a locking mekanism when the blade is switched.
@@millomweb in that length and whit 10 deegres angel it shud be whitin what the metal can flex whitout damage. Thats how a real switch works. It is fasten in the crossover and just flex when you switch track.
Leave it to you to make it SMOOTH ! Lol. I’d build a railroad also but I haven’t anything to transport on it , 3 acres of trees and grass is all ! So I’ll stick with my antique outboard motors and dream ! Merry Christmas to you and your family from Minnesota !
Just a thought on a future engine: How about using the motor out of a propane fuel fork lift? Should be cheap ones around with worn out bodies & lift gear. Oh & you & Sandra have a wonderful Christmas.
You should put something to stop the blade from flexing at either end of its travel so that under heavy load they wont bend and perhaps derail perhaps just some simple screws into the sleepers at the appropriate points. Also my vote for a loco is definitely an electric one with cheep lead acid batteries you can charge from solar. Love your work
I hope you are still reading these comments one year on. I have a suggestion for a closed frog design for tighter curves. I watched your construction of one of your other set of points with an open frog that requires check rails to prevent the flanges ‘picking’ (going the wrong way) when running through the points. I can’t find a video of this design so I’ll have to try and describe it. Here goes. You set up the two outer rails the same way as you have here. The curved one having what ever tighter radius is required for the location. Now for the tricky bit. You need two running rails about a foot longer the the point tip to frog dimension suits. We’ll deal with the straight rail first so it’s easier to visualise. Just as the point running rail in this video, this running rail comes off the main, runs up to the frog, and the extra length ‘wings’ off to lie against the CURVED side of the frog. The curved is layed up similarly but the geometry gets tricky. These two running rails a tied together with at least three spreader flat bars. One to hold the switch points so only one in against the running rail. As in normal two rail points. One plate that acts as the pivot point in front of the frog (distance by trial and error) and any other spreader bars in between to hold gauge and geometry. This whole section moves as one. Operation. With the points set for straight, the running rail is continuous point to frog with the curved (out of use rail) held away from (and giving flange clearance) the outer running rail. When kicked into the diverging position, the inner mechanism pivots to pull the straight running rail wing away from the frog and close the curved wing up to the frog. The now outer curved running rail is continuous point to frog. Whew. I could have drawn this in 30sec, as it is I’ve taken an hour of dyslexic rewrites to get this far. Hope it makes sense. Cheers.
Man, you can really weld! Nice beads. The original coal train rails were wooden.........but the adoption of coal mining and the bessemer process revolutionized steel production......which revolutionized railways. Steel is a massively superior product to cast iron, and these videos explain in very simple but graphic detail why that is.
We just love your channel.We love what you do we think your marvelous Tim .We love Ireland as well.So Merry Christmas ⛄ to you and Sandra and a Happy New Year hopefully it will get brighter.look after one another.🎊🎊🇮🇪🎅🤶🎊🎊⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄🌈🌈🌈
Very appreciable creativity. I thinking How is passing train by one tungu rail into two crossing of railway tracks? This experience is given from in this video. Very Excellent practical work ❤️😍 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Everybody talking about a locomotive. I am seeing what it could be not only a pretty, strong and loyal animal, but the rebirth of the horse-drawn (Or donkey-drawn?) railway. Edit: Mispell
WAY TO GO,TIM!!! YOU'RE MY UA-cam HERO!! IF BY SOME FHANCE,I CAN EVER GET AWAY FROM THIE NEIGHBORHOOD AND AM BLESSED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY SOME LAND. ILL CERTAINLY HAVE MYSELF A FIELD RR TOO! LOVE THAT SO MUCH OF THIS CONTENT IS EXPERIMENTAL AND TRIAL AND NOT ERROR,BUT TRY AGAIN.LOL!! JUST FOUND YOUR CHANNEL A FEW DAYS AGO.INSTANT SUB & BINGE WATCHING!! LOVE THE HAIRY MONSTERS THAT LIVE IN THE FIELD!! ALL THE BEST TO YOU & YOURS!!
I saw your video about how you were a vehicle for the railway and I thought of an idea that could be used for a short while until you made a better vehicle. You need to take the engine from an old tractor, or lawn mower and hook it to a cart that can fit it. I'm not smart enough to know how to hook the wheels up. Next so you can drive the engine keep all of the main components of the tractor like the pedal and the gear shift. And make a small consolation which can hold the controls (excluding the pedal) Then attach another cart via a chain link or a wire so you can stand or sit and control the train. To drive you would simply use the stick shift and pedal to drive, not sure about the brakes tho. Anyway this was just me dumping out an idea that could give you a temporary train to help you move along the tracks, though I probably just suggested something that would be a pile of crap and wouldn't work.
It's not crap F.L. I think it would work, but it would still take a long time to do. So I'll keep pushing my wagons for now, until I decide which is the best design to put lots of time and money into
Interesting, you could live your best life if you would look into purchase of a reciprocating cordless saw the variety of blades alone will double the lifespan of your grinder.
Getting on well. You'll be putting an engine on there next. I still suggest something electric. Use an old car alternator and a battery or perhaps make it pedal powered.
I thought of you the other day while going down a UA-cam tangent. A couple videos back, you were experimenting with a flash steam boiler. I know you were wanting something that burnt charcoal/wood, but I think you should perhaps lookup and at least consider using a “smudge pot” style burner. It uses waste motor oil/diesel/even cooking oil to burn for a long time, very hot, and with air flow adjusted, pretty cleanly and efficiently. It’s also very simple. With one of these burners I think you’d have more success super heating the water through your copper coil idea.
@@johnblair8146 ok, he could use FREE used motor or cooking oil, without burning up his own product. And I don’t think he’ll be sticking his face over the exhaust huffing fumes, adjust the air and they burn pretty clean.
@@JC_Young You lost me at the word oil. If he wanted to use satan sauce, he could just get a small tractor and a couple small carts for haulage and use your smudge pot idea. BTW, why do you think they call them smudge pots?????
Hey Tim! Looking good. You're a few rollingstock shy of a railyard! I wonder if you use landscape cloth before putting the gravel down if it will help keep the weeds at bay so you don't have to do as much weed wacking. Charles
There is a design flaw in your wheel design because they are flat circles where as real trains as far back as the beginning of steam used wheels that where designed more as sawed off cones to reduce derailment and to keep the cars centered on the track and to reduce a problem they had going on turns which was really quite ingenious but since your cars are so small from what I’ve seen (this is my first video) it really shouldn’t matter with the derailing problem but it should have a problem with the turns if you have that problem
my dad loves everything trains and rails!!! how about you build a tabletop mini-modell-sized-garden-railway on your lazer-cutter for your online-shop?! greetings from germany
@@ralpha679 Seriously, Ralph, that's a very kind suggestion but I have all sorts of spanners already. Of course you can never have enough, but I'll manage with what I have.
Hi Tim! The whole railway series never gets old. I love it! Before long you'll have to charge $ for a ticket to ride. That cutie Gulliver looks like your first fare!
I think Gulliver will be his first loco ! - Half a horse power ?
looking great.....we must build one on our farm in France
I would love to volunteer for that!
6:23 Haha! "I own a cordless angle grinder." Was a substantial consideration in a recent job application of mine. I got the job, and WOW am I glad I brought spare batteries too.
they're great, aren't they?!
Please make this videos longer. Can't seem to get enough of this brilliant rail system.
I love the simplicity of your railway it show you don't need to spend 1000s on proper 15 inch narrow guages railway track when you can make it yourself at relatively low cost.
That stone wagon is so simply genius. No need to make things more complicated if you don't have to!
Gulliver reminds me of one of my favourite goats, Skluntz. He rather enjoyed going fencing with us, sleeping in the shade of the fence post, chewing on hammers and fencing staples (we soon put a stop to THAT!), and jumping up on the back of the truck whenever we went to get tools.... I almost taught him how to hold a hammer, though he wasn't particularly interested in using it! Seems to me if we paired Gulliver and Skluntz together they'd have all our farming jobs done!
I am loving the railway project Tim, trying to justify building one here to move round bales and feed cows without having to start the tractor in the Canadian winter! Merry Christmas to you and Sandra!
So it's not just our donkeys - good to hear. Happy Christmas to you and yours too, Morgan : - )
Cordless angle grinder changed my life. Rusted bolt? Zippy Zap. Stripped head on lag screw? zippy zap. Def part of my kit now. So easy.
I prefer corded - endless consistent power.
@@millomweb I've got a drawer full of battery powered drills and drivers that are "dead to the world".
I've reverted back to corded drills and drivers. The drivers are very powerful and I love them.
Will never buy another battery powered tool again. They're fake in my opinion. I'm unlikely to risk buying an electric car for the same reason. But might consider a reliable trolley bus 🤣🤣🤣
@@BrassLock A hybrid - trolley car ?
Nuclear reactor car ?
Involved with amdrams making sets and stuff. There were non-brand 4 battery screwdrivers and a Bosch corded. One use of the Bosch and I was hooked ! (It got nicked a few weeks later :( )
But for the big screws...pneumatic impact driver. 6" long and something like 3/8" O/D of the screw.
Even my battery charger is mains powered ;)
@@BrassLock Mind me asking what brand the drills are?
I've shelled out big money for a Makita 18V set 10 years ago. Everything still works, the batteries as well. And I don't treat them nicely on my farm. Dropping, overheating, leaving them out in the rain by accident. Everything still works.
I'm not advocating for the Makita brand here, I've seen several other old battery tools my friends are using for years and years from other manufacturers. You only have to pay the high price once for quality tools. At least in my experience.
@@schwuzi Drill: Ryobi "CD 1882, 18 Volt" (13 mm chuck), Driver: AEG "SH 4.8 Volt 300", Driver: Black & Decker 6 Volt. And another Drill/Driver which was for light duty, which I disassembled and thought of recycling the gearbox, but that's in the too hard basket.
I now have 3 corded Maktek Drills of varying capacity and a Pumpkin corded 300W 10mm Drill/Driver which simply works powerfully whenever I want it to.
I have a 3 corded angle grinders: Makita GA 4030, Black & Decker KG 100, and a "PA6-GF30", which is at least 15 years old, but the name-tag has fallen off. All 3 work well.
Thanks Tim &Sandra
Merry Christmas, Sandra and Tim.
Thanks, Bill. You too!
The narrow angle frog really makes a difference in the smoothness of the turnout.
exactly
Not mad this was in my recommendations. I needed this though I know not why.
an old mobility scooter would be a decent source for locomotive.
If only I had a reason to make a railroad in my yard.
I love it! Especially the ingenious drill squasher. you've certainly got a creative mind. Keep them coming, Tim. I wish we had some of your rain.
Thanks, take as much as you like : - )
I definitely think if you want to keep the ties off the mud, you will need to do more tamping- a hand tamper is really a long tool with an angled "foot" at the end- the idea is to use it to push down onto the ballast, and work it under the sleepers- under the rails, it should be picked in especially snugly. You will likely need to add more ballast as you work, so having some handy to shovel in small amounts is good. It seems unlikely you will have any especially heavy trains, to the extent that the ground could not support them without tamped ballast, but it would help with drainage and prolong the life of the sleepers.
I think you've reached the point now where there's no need to improve the design of your points (assuming you still have the space for these long ones) but I guess only time will tell how they hold up and how they work with a loco if you make one. I think they're a very robust design and it's really interesting to see the improvement process since you started
You can only see the improvements once you've made something that isn't as good as it could be : - )
Happy Christmas Tim and Sandra
Thanks, Mark - you too!
Verry great. Best regards from germany. Jens
Thanks, Jens : - )
Your inspiring me to build my own Railway!
Hoping that you all have a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year!!
Thank you for these fun videos!
Cheers from Guam! 🇬🇺
Very very good! 👨🔧 I am a bit jealous.
I love the idea of a single bladed points.. I’m considering building one for my 7 1/4” gauge railway..
Very fun to watch your little rail line come together! Keep it up Tim!
Gulliver either had to supervise or still wanted to learn the trade. :) Friendly guy.
I love the design of single points, very practical and easy. Everything about this build is the same as ant railroad in history. They built their own ties, trucks and tools. The only thing they didn't make was the rail itself. And like railroads, they cut in points at will. Look forward to seeing more progress.
Excellent. You could simplify further by doing away with the crossing vee, you would need to move the pivot pin on the blade a foot or so down the blade. As the blade pivots the short section beyond the pin acts as the frog (hopefully this makes sense).
I get what you mean - so both ends of the blade changes tracks ! Nice one !
You can make it even simpler
Just weld a flatbar iron from the point of the V and skip the pivot axel.
And put some screws in the sleeper down at the other end to act like a locking mekanism when the blade is switched.
I suspect it would be stronger this way with the two facing vees. I do like this idea though, it could be worth someone exploring.
@@44121ss1309 Wouldn't that give you a bent rail. I think a pivot is better.
@@millomweb in that length and whit 10 deegres angel it shud be whitin what the metal can flex whitout damage.
Thats how a real switch works. It is fasten in the crossover and just flex when you switch track.
Leave it to you to make it SMOOTH ! Lol. I’d build a railroad also but I haven’t anything to transport on it , 3 acres of trees and grass is all ! So I’ll stick with my antique outboard motors and dream ! Merry Christmas to you and your family from Minnesota !
Thanks, Dave, - you too!
Hi Tim, Im writing this from Australia on Christmas day!
Merry Christmas!
"That's mad, Ted!"
You're getting better!
Brilliant Tim. Simple but very effective.
You could maybe use old car brake discs from waste for wheels.
Looks very good for the purpose to me.
So much simple ingenuity!
Really nice project what you're doing. Friendly greetings from Germany.
Thank you V.T. : - )
Just a thought on a future engine: How about using the motor out of a propane fuel fork lift? Should be cheap ones around with worn out bodies & lift gear.
Oh & you & Sandra have a wonderful Christmas.
MUCH better to get parts from an ELECTRIC forklift.
Thanks, Gargler - you too!
Brilliant. I can sit and listen to you all day.
6:54 I love my Ryobi cordless angle grinder!
Very satisfying when a plan comes together ingenious like you video’s.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
When you hit one mile of track, we will need to have a celebration when you drive the golden spike in. CCHHEERRSS
Ha! That would be something, wouldn't it?!
Get a pipe section and some gold spray paint…
Re-aligning the alignment, as we say in that England
I like it!
Thank you for sharing your amazing journey with us. Merry Christmas and happy new year. God bless you and your family.
You should put something to stop the blade from flexing at either end of its travel so that under heavy load they wont bend and perhaps derail perhaps just some simple screws into the sleepers at the appropriate points.
Also my vote for a loco is definitely an electric one with cheep lead acid batteries you can charge from solar.
Love your work
Yes, electric loco. And its much simpler: The time saved can be invested in railway expansion and other fabulous projects!
I think the reason he uses angle iron instead of flat bar for the switch point is for the strength
Love the narration/storytelling with proper old school editing.
By the way, awesome Y switch design.
I hope you are still reading these comments one year on.
I have a suggestion for a closed frog design for tighter curves. I watched your construction of one of your other set of points with an open frog that requires check rails to prevent the flanges ‘picking’ (going the wrong way) when running through the points. I can’t find a video of this design so I’ll have to try and describe it. Here goes.
You set up the two outer rails the same way as you have here. The curved one having what ever tighter radius is required for the location.
Now for the tricky bit.
You need two running rails about a foot longer the the point tip to frog dimension suits.
We’ll deal with the straight rail first so it’s easier to visualise.
Just as the point running rail in this video, this running rail comes off the main, runs up to the frog, and the extra length ‘wings’ off to lie against the CURVED side of the frog.
The curved is layed up similarly but the geometry gets tricky.
These two running rails a tied together with at least three spreader flat bars. One to hold the switch points so only one in against the running rail. As in normal two rail points.
One plate that acts as the pivot point in front of the frog (distance by trial and error) and any other spreader bars in between to hold gauge and geometry.
This whole section moves as one.
Operation. With the points set for straight, the running rail is continuous point to frog with the curved (out of use rail) held away from (and giving flange clearance) the outer running rail.
When kicked into the diverging position, the inner mechanism pivots to pull the straight running rail wing away from the frog and close the curved wing up to the frog. The now outer curved running rail is continuous point to frog.
Whew.
I could have drawn this in 30sec, as it is I’ve taken an hour of dyslexic rewrites to get this far. Hope it makes sense.
Cheers.
Man, you can really weld! Nice beads. The original coal train rails were wooden.........but the adoption of coal mining and the bessemer process revolutionized steel production......which revolutionized railways. Steel is a massively superior product to cast iron, and these videos explain in very simple but graphic detail why that is.
Thanks I appreciate that my idol in locomotive design #road to 1 Million Subscribers.
We just love your channel.We love what you do we think your marvelous Tim .We love Ireland as well.So Merry Christmas ⛄ to you and Sandra and a Happy New Year hopefully it will get brighter.look after one another.🎊🎊🇮🇪🎅🤶🎊🎊⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄🌈🌈🌈
Thank you from argentine
Very nice job you have done there Sir. Looking forward to what you come up with next.
Very appreciable creativity. I thinking How is passing train by one tungu rail into two crossing of railway tracks? This experience is given from in this video. Very Excellent practical work ❤️😍
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Ooooh smooth 😊
Sweet, a nice update. Looking good.
Absolutely genius. I think Gulliver agrees!
Can’t wait to see more progress on this project! Hope all is well with you and your family Tim, love this series!!
Well done Tim. A good job done.
Best wishes to you and Sandra, and all of the animals for Christmas and New Year from Oxfordshire UK
Thanks Doug, you too!
Awesome! My weekly railway fix :) We need many more tracks!
I'm going as fast as I can! : - )
in the field where the 'hairy monsters' live
Your railway is coming together nicely 👍 Merry Christmas everybody 🎄🎅🤶
Thanks, you too!
Everybody talking about a locomotive.
I am seeing what it could be not only a pretty, strong and loyal animal, but the rebirth of the horse-drawn (Or donkey-drawn?) railway.
Edit: Mispell
Even a donkey powered winch would do well
Lovely
Merry Christmas! Here on this side of the pond, the railway stones are called BALLAST! Thanks for the video. Jon (Sean)
I had an idea for Wheels. Go-kart split rims
Looks awesome! I really like how your track system is working. Hopefully I can copy it some day
WAY TO GO,TIM!!!
YOU'RE MY UA-cam HERO!!
IF BY SOME FHANCE,I CAN EVER GET AWAY FROM THIE NEIGHBORHOOD AND AM BLESSED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY SOME LAND. ILL CERTAINLY HAVE MYSELF A FIELD RR TOO!
LOVE THAT SO MUCH OF THIS CONTENT IS EXPERIMENTAL AND TRIAL AND NOT ERROR,BUT TRY AGAIN.LOL!!
JUST FOUND YOUR CHANNEL A FEW DAYS AGO.INSTANT SUB & BINGE WATCHING!!
LOVE THE HAIRY MONSTERS THAT LIVE IN THE FIELD!!
ALL THE BEST TO YOU & YOURS!!
Good luck!
Great video brother thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise and hello from Detroit Michigan USA brother 👋
Duuuuuude!! I love it~!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🌟⭐⭐🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🤩
Yay a new railway video :D
Merry Christmas to you all :)
Well done Tim. Nice welds
Thanks, Frank. Yes, I'm getting better : - )
I understand that longer videos would take more editing, but I would love to see some longer content about the field railway.
Love this channel 👍👍
Great Stuff.😀👍
Merry Cristmas,, 🌲🎅🎁
I saw your video about how you were a vehicle for the railway and I thought of an idea that could be used for a short while until you made a better vehicle. You need to take the engine from an old tractor, or lawn mower and hook it to a cart that can fit it. I'm not smart enough to know how to hook the wheels up.
Next so you can drive the engine keep all of the main components of the tractor like the pedal and the gear shift. And make a small consolation which can hold the controls (excluding the pedal)
Then attach another cart via a chain link or a wire so you can stand or sit and control the train. To drive you would simply use the stick shift and pedal to drive, not sure about the brakes tho.
Anyway this was just me dumping out an idea that could give you a temporary train to help you move along the tracks, though I probably just suggested something that would be a pile of crap and wouldn't work.
It's not crap F.L. I think it would work, but it would still take a long time to do. So I'll keep pushing my wagons for now, until I decide which is the best design to put lots of time and money into
It's looking good
silky smooth
I love your bevel gage. :)
Another fantastic update, thanks Tim :)
a four-legged track inspector and they work for hay
Looks marvelous!
Thanks!
added benefit of the drill pusher thing is, it looks like it collects most of the metal chips, so no unsuspecting donkey will add them to their diet!
You should Try your hand at a Stirling engen
YAAAAAAAAAAAY RAILWAY VIDEO
i wish you all a very merry Christmas!
Interesting, you could live your best life if you would look into purchase of a reciprocating cordless saw the variety of blades alone will double the lifespan of your grinder.
I'd love one but they've always been too expensive
Just love it!😊❤️
Getting on well. You'll be putting an engine on there next. I still suggest something electric. Use an old car alternator and a battery or perhaps make it pedal powered.
Converting a car alternator isn't an easy task.
Use a STARTER, NOT an alternator!!!!!
@@johnblair8146 @beni Could even use a 12v washing machine motor like the Sinclair C5.
@@raisagorbachov Not enough muscle. A starter from an old American V-8 would be just right.
@@johnblair8146 Depends on the gearing. It doesn't have to run like a rocket. I imagine 8mph would be about the maximum speed for that railway.
I thought of you the other day while going down a UA-cam tangent.
A couple videos back, you were experimenting with a flash steam boiler. I know you were wanting something that burnt charcoal/wood, but I think you should perhaps lookup and at least consider using a “smudge pot” style burner. It uses waste motor oil/diesel/even cooking oil to burn for a long time, very hot, and with air flow adjusted, pretty cleanly and efficiently. It’s also very simple. With one of these burners I think you’d have more success super heating the water through your copper coil idea.
He produces charcoal. besides, who wants TOXIC oil fumes?
@@johnblair8146 ok, he could use FREE used motor or cooking oil, without burning up his own product. And I don’t think he’ll be sticking his face over the exhaust huffing fumes, adjust the air and they burn pretty clean.
@@JC_Young You lost me at the word oil. If he wanted to use satan sauce, he could just get a small tractor and a couple small carts for haulage and use your smudge pot idea. BTW, why do you think they call them smudge pots?????
@@johnblair8146 he’s literally discussed using a gas or Diesel engine... and you’re being a bit dramatic about all this...
Thanks, both of you - I appreciate the input!
GREAT !
Hey Tim! Looking good. You're a few rollingstock shy of a railyard!
I wonder if you use landscape cloth before putting the gravel down if it will help keep the weeds at bay so you don't have to do as much weed wacking.
Charles
You could be right, Charles, but I think it would only work for a year or so, after that it would only hold more soil in the stones
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 that's true! And it's more money for the cloth. I just got done landscaping so it's fresh on my mind.. cheers!
There is a design flaw in your wheel design because they are flat circles where as real trains as far back as the beginning of steam used wheels that where designed more as sawed off cones to reduce derailment and to keep the cars centered on the track and to reduce a problem they had going on turns which was really quite ingenious but since your cars are so small from what I’ve seen (this is my first video) it really shouldn’t matter with the derailing problem but it should have a problem with the turns if you have that problem
my dad loves everything trains and rails!!! how about you build a tabletop mini-modell-sized-garden-railway on your lazer-cutter for your online-shop?! greetings from germany
Crushed stone, rather than washed stone would lock together and be more stable.
Can you train the donkey to haul the railcars along the track?
Do you lift the sleepers up and get stones under them? It looks like they were still packed into the mud where they would rot fast
One of the previous videos he was packing under the sleepers with a mattock
I do lift up the sleepers, tgwags - sorry if that wasn't clear.
Why didn’t I think of it sooner 😬 you don’t need a loco, just couple a donkey or two. Donkey Engine
will the donkey be drafted to power the chip carts??
Better F bars than F bombs! LOL
Awesome might your railway electrified in future?
Tim, get yourself some ratchet spanners.
Yes, please!
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 I'll see if I can send you a set. They're life changers, honestly
@@ralpha679 Seriously, Ralph, that's a very kind suggestion but I have all sorts of spanners already. Of course you can never have enough, but I'll manage with what I have.
Funny enough it's the same design I wanted to suggest a few months ago, but UA-cam didn't allow me to post links.
Very nice....but is there enough space fore two wood chip cars next to each other? It looks kind of close in the camera angle.
He had to move the shed door wider by a little bit in a previous video. It’s measured to just fit two wagons through the door.
I'm glad Andrew's paying attention : - )