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Model Forum / General / Railroads / March 2008Model This!
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v517/Archdean/Backhoe%20photos/?action=view&cu rrent=926b6ccd.pbw >http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v517/Archdean/Backhoe%20photos/?action=view&cu rrent=926b6ccd.pbw That sequence is utterly amazing! That smacking sound you just heard was my jaw hitting the desktop. -- Ray > That sequence is utterly amazing! That smacking sound you just heard > was my jaw hitting the desktop. Well, I'll tell you; I've run more than a couple of backhoes in my time, and I frankly thought the pics must be fakes until I looked at them closely a second and third time. I wouldn't try that trick myself on a bet! -Pete >> That sequence is utterly amazing! That smacking sound you just heard >> was my jaw hitting the desktop. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > -Pete It's not your run-of-the-mill backhoe, it's been modified to suit the task. If you look at the first couple stills, you'll see the brackets (for lack of a better term) on the front bucket and right behind the front wheels. Here's a link to the "Cartopper" web site: <http://www.herzogcompanies.com/rrservices/cartopper.php> Stevert >>> That sequence is utterly amazing! That smacking sound you just heard >>> was my jaw hitting the desktop. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > It's not your run-of-the-mill backhoe, it's been modified to suit the > task. I know. That was what I noticed when I watched the sequence the second and third times. -Pete > It's not your run-of-the-mill backhoe, it's been modified to suit the > task. If you look at the first couple stills, you'll see the brackets > (for lack of a better term) on the front bucket and right behind the > front wheels. Here's a link to the "Cartopper" web site: > > <http://www.herzogcompanies.com/rrservices/cartopper.php> Thanks for that link - it's better to know it's a regularly available mod, not the inspired shade tree mod I initially thought it was.  SignatureSteve That takes balls of steel. I don't think you could pay me to do that >> It's not your run-of-the-mill backhoe, it's been modified to suit the >> task. If you look at the first couple stills, you'll see the brackets [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Thanks for that link - it's better to know it's a regularly available > mod, not the inspired shade tree mod I initially thought it was. >> That sequence is utterly amazing! That smacking sound you just heard >> was my jaw hitting the desktop. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > I wouldn't try that trick myself on a bet! Imagine if the lawyers for whoever that backhoe operator works for saw that stunt. Or an OSHA inspector for that matter. SignatureRick Jones Remove the Extra Dot to e-mail me The Lake Erie & Oregon Railroad http://www.geocities.com/seventysixinchesoffun/ An armed man is a citizen; an unarmed man is a subject. Hmm, checking the model railroading magazine index, I see that Trains did a story on this in the July 2004 issue ("How does a backhoe climb atop a gondola"), but I could have sworn that Model Railroader itself did a photo-article much earlier - perhaps it was in one of the various back-of-issue columns. Yes they did. Sometime in the 1980s or 1990s > Hmm, checking the model railroading magazine index, I see that Trains > did a story on this in the July 2004 issue ("How does a backhoe climb > atop a gondola"), but I could have sworn that Model Railroader itself > did a photo-article much earlier - perhaps it was in one of the > various back-of-issue columns. |
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