Testing The Woodchip Railway Wagon!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- Moving and storing woodchips is the challenge, and I made a mesh-sided wagon for the job. It fits on the narrow gauge field railway and holds the chips while they dry out...
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I can't think of anything I would rather do on a rainy evening (11:15 pm) in Vancouver. The practical solutions and inventions are endlessly fascinating.
Somewhere...there is a Health and Safety inspector, clutching his chest and struggling to breathe.
😂😂😂
Ireland is must beautiful country with most beautiful people in world . i miss Ireland
Good old 1920s safety features!
You mean BAD old!
When you modify the exhaust don't forget to make sure that you don't end up with an open, vertical pipe. You won't be surprised how much rain water can make it down a 50mm pipe and into your engine with disastrous results.
Or: Make sure you have an open, vertical pipe with a 45° "Y" joint, and a removable cap on the bottom. Remove the cap when you shut down, and the rain water will simply flow down the exhaust, away from the engine.
Or put a U joint at the top so the top isn't open to the rain. Yeah, that sounds much simpler.
Of course now, I'm thinking of those "\T/" shaped exhaust toppers. (text art approximate)
@@Kineth1 Apart from rain water you get condensation as well which can run down the exhaust towards the engine. Some sort of water trap where the water can collect will solve that, and the engine heat and fumes will quickly empty it when the engine is running.
@@Kineth1 I'd say use a 'tractor valve' (that's what Caterpillar call them) but the engine makes enough noise without adding a bit of rattly steel to the top as well.
Your y piece sounds good but I'd probably leave the bottom cap off and rely on the vertical bit acting like a chimney.
Perhaps a mushroom cap would do the job? You've probably picked up from the videos exactly how much it rains in the West of Ireland, what Tim hasn't said is that it rains sideways.
Now, if only there was a conveyor belt to feed the hopper. Ah bliss, this is my type of thing. Another great video, thanks 🙂
When he said "and ofcource I need to build a conveyor belt" I cheered 🎉
I think you need a t-shirt: Stick the fat end in! Ha. You are a fine gentleman and always an inspiration.
There's been a lot of 'keyboard engineers' (me included ;-) ) offering advice.
But you're the bloke that went out and built it. And it works!
I'm a software engineer by trade, but you follow the same mantra as me whether you know it or not: "The simplest thing that works, and no simpler."
Keep on keeping on! (And keep your bits well away from those blades! Safety first, second AND third!)
Always a joy to re-visit Trumpton...
Thanks for posting and sharing. I love the old stationary engine.
Excellent work👍👍👍. Thanks for sharing
I continue to be impressed by your ingenuity.
Love the video!
2 ideas jump to mind, maybe useful maybe not...:
1. Since the chipper seems belt driven maybe the chipper could be higher and output to a platform level upon which you could stand to load the cage?on which it’s easier to
2. You already have a clutch in the chipper in case it jams - could maybe refine this into a safety clutch by placing a spring moveable shroud around the input so that if you are dragged towards the input then pressure anywhere on that shroud to release the clutch might save your life?
Cheers from here 🇦🇺
don't ever stop making videos! i never gave railways much of a thought (i live in a place that there are few railways) but now i find it very interesting :) thanks Tim.
An auger might be easier to make than a conveyor belt, especially if you can find an old broken grain auger from a farm for the screw and pipe.
How would it work?
I love watching the whole wood chipping/railway project unfold! The stuff of my dreams! Fascinating inventions and a whole host of interesting skills to learn along the way
I can see a conveyor belt in the making. Keep up the ingenuity, loving every bit of it
One thought for a possible minor addition to the wagon. Where you oil the bearings if you were to taper the hole slightly oiling would be a little easier and and you could also put in a small cork in it to stop muck and debris entering the hole!? Just a thought!
Love following your projects...this railway one in particular.
I think he kept the bearings with a narrow, straight oil hole because he expects the bearings to slowly compress/wear away with use (take note of how the bearing brackets have slots in them rather than holes). If that were the expectation, then having the oiler holes tapered would mean that the oiling rate would increase as the bearings wear down and get to larger sections of the oiler holes.
Also, making a tapered hole makes them a little more difficult to make. Right now the bearings have one large hole through the side, two medium holes through the top, and one small hole through the top. Making the oiler hole tapered would mean having to set up and adjust a depth-stop on the drill press every time he wanted to make bearings.
Of course, if someone were to send him a couple dozen oil cups for his bearings, it might be worth a retrofit on his busiest carts.
I would like to be able to store many tons of chips, and process one wagonful at a time into charcoal.
Living the life!
Very very well! 👍
Hahaha. I was just going to
Suggest a conveyor system for the chips to load The wagon And then you said it.
Great film sir! Take care around the chipper, never put yer fingers where you wouldn’t put your ....
👍👌you are a brilliant person
So industrious!
Tim, as ever you are such an inspiration!
Don't hold on to it - good advice!
Pretty darn cool
Glad to see the hearing protection breaking out in the later part of the video, well done.
Small but mighty - the chunkinator, not you, Tim! haha! ! and the mesh wagon worked a treat - can't believe you got 17 ish loads in there!!! just brilliant :) x
I don't blame you Sandra for not joining in on the wood chipping for long! I've had to send branches through a chipper before too and it's a little terrifying!
I love this wagon, it reminds me of a Sugarcane Bin, but this is for woods and is for 15in but they're both the same design, its a nice Feldbahn.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 very impressed with the railway cage. I may copy your idea if you don't mind. I too will need easy manouvering of goods and the like to and from my farming site.
Thank you very very much for sharing
This was amazing and fun to watch.
Peace and Blissings
What a splendid channel
Will be very interesting to see your design ideas for a conveyor belt. I can't begin to guess how many wagons of wood like that would be needed for a winter here. (-40 sometimes)
as long as you have good insulation you don't need that much fuel,
The good thing is the material is not terribly heavy or dusty so a conveyor belt might be overkill.
A simple, slatted conveyer would be fairly simple to put together and, as another poster has said, the product isn't heavy so the load on the conveyer wouldn't be that high.
I'd take a look at the old 'Ideal Standard' elevators that were popular on UK farms before bales got too big to move by hand. These had a flat metal bed and the slats ran close enough to this that we could use it to place grain in the bulk drier at the farm I worked on.
If you dug a hole beside the chipper and had angled tracks and a sloping access to the hole leading into it you could drop the cart to ground level and fill it directly.
It sounds like a real train when it goes by! Very satisfyingly! RR Tim is a total win!
4:28 XDDDDD
Awesome - it's really coming along
A below grade siding might be useful.
When you’ve leveled the track, maybe build a platform to make tipping easier. Rather than lifting the box/trays over your head.
He mentioned wanting to build a conveyor
The wagon looks nice, very interested to see how the dump function works. On the chipper output chute, you could bend the bottom surface down and outwards a bit, that could help with the blockage problem.
Yes, more wagons. You could connect them together like a train on the tracks! What fun!
Height differences might get in the way.
How about a dumping elevator instead of a conveyor.
2 rails at a 45 degree angle from the output of the chipper to the top of the cart height. You could use a junk bike for crank and gearing. Use more bike chain to pull the dumper cart from the output to the top by just looping it over an extra rear wheel sprocket with a counter weight.
inspiring! I enjoy every second of your video
Well done…keep chipping away…be safe…
Looking forward to seeing the conveyor build. All the overhead tote box lifting makes my lazy streak itch.
Awesome work.
Cheers.
That chipper is a real beast!
It looks like your woodchip wagon is a success.
The wagon looks like it will hold up. Looking good. I look forward to seeing what else you come up with. Another wagon for sure. maybe even more!!!
You could make a winch. powered by your stationary engine. To pull the wagons to the poly tunnel
Can't wait for the next video! Love your content!
Glad you got your channel back!!!
You must be strong The lift those Tim and Sandra is probably working in the field
Hmm, you could move the chips using a large blower fan running off your lovely big engine?
Mount the woodchipper up high so it chips into the rail wagon.
Nice videos. Keep up the good work.
Wonderful and brilliant as always.
My only issue is that whenever you poured wood chips into the Woodchip Railway Wagon, a quarter of the wood chips slipped through the wires. It looks kinda inefficient in that sense, but I suppose it isn't that big of a deal.
A conveyor belt is exactly what you need. I am not entirely sure how that would work, but I know it would be brilliant.
@Garrett Smith Agreed.
@Garrett Smith I would use some kind of net in combination with the metal mesh. Only dust can fall out and it's cheaper than buying even finer metal mesh.
But nets could break if they are of bad quality.
@@schwuzi That is a very brilliant idea.
Great work, really interresting to follow your projects, thanks for letting us along :)
The conveyor belt would also help in preventing the chips from piling up in the exit of the chipper and not cause it to clog up.
Can't wait to see the conveyor belt build!
Buy a couple of old treadmills, remove the belts and combine them into one big belt. Boom - conveyor belt.
A lovely job once again Tim.
Very nice build so far , keep up the good work 😎
Seems we need to dust off that weed wacker contraption and see if it still works.
I am always amazed by your resourcefulness and your « brain power » to solve difficult mechanism. Now that you have demonstrated the sound principle of you invention, I would definitely use such talent to add more health & safety features to your invention (my sister in law had one of her hand crushed in an industrial machine; there is no way back to such an injury). While I am not an engineer, I would make the entry tunnel for branches about 30 inch longer than a arm length in order to avoid any accidental entry of the arm and keep the blades away from you finger tips. I would probably put the machine at waist height in order again to gain more leg control and also not me cramped at the receiving chipper end. Finally your clever clutch system should be adapted to be upfront in order to stop the whole damn thing, from te point of entry, if the machine goes nuts. Regards, Marc B
Thanks, Marc, but the clutch lever is already operated from the front - via a length of rope.
Raising the chipper would be a lot of work (to conteract the extra leverage) and would mean lifting all the branches higher.
Sorry to hear about your S.I.L but this is already safe, if you remain careful and never wear loose clothing.
Clamp wood risers to the end walls and mount push handles
Just had a thought concerning thr trapdoor, have you thought about making a sliding door that pulls to one end? Then you wouldn't need the extra height and the wagon would be a bit more stable. Don't know how well it would work with a load in the wagon but worth a try?
He’s previously said it would probably be too heavy to slide easily
Home made draw runners and a smooth metal base maybe an idea..!?
Yay! Another great project ^_^. maybe you need some kind of teeter totter with a dump bucket on one end, to help load your cart!
You could move up the chipper quite a bit so the conveyor belt does not need to surpass this big heigth difference. Also it would be a more convenient work height.
Working great! But for the love of Peter, please put some safety glasses on!
Nicely done! That wagon does have a bit of a lean, but it's a charming look really. Wonderful job all around, the chipper/chunker is impressive as always. It's fun to watch it suck the branches in and neatly spit out nice segments.
Think you know this Tim…you now need some kind of conveyor system to drop the chips into the wagon.
Looking forward to seeing the emptying of the wagon too!
Very nice. I’ve mentioned it previously, but feel I need to again. This project simply won’t be near completion without a locomotive.
That would be Hairy Henry's job.
Yes, but it would be really expensive, so that won't happen till it's absolutely needed.
Looks good, it's starting to come together as promised 👍
I don't blame Sandra.. those things are good people-getter-ridder-offers too. Hey I just realized something.. with you being Irish, does that make it a Paddy Wagon? :P
A simple crane to lift and dump the buckets may be easier and more reliable than a conveyer system, which would be far more prone to jamming on loose debris.
Great 👍 as always.
Please make the exhaust into a little chimney. It would fit the design of the hut and should not be to much extra work 🙂 it's great to see it all coming along
Or even a 45° small angle pipe to point it towards the corral. (Sorry horses!)
Or away from it.
You also need to build a crane and tipper to lift & empty the boxes with chips into the wagon!
And I’m sure you could dream up a scheme where you transport the chips to the tunnel, empty it into something and then reuse the wagon rather than building more wagons?
This from the person who can’t hit a nail straight of course
Otherwise I really liked Sandra’s too with the frilly sleeves.
And I want a podcast where you and Sandra say the words “railway” and. “Flora” a lot and then when I can’t sleep I’ll listen to that and I’ll be in a good mood
Aw! Sleep tight Elisabeth. Nighty night. xx
Maybe a raised platform for loading would be good and easier on your back?
Also, smaller squares on the mesh for less escapage of the chunks, to cut down on waste, would be worthwhile, I think?
Great project 👍👍
All a very nice system. I didn't see electric start though. I saw hand cranking.
Hand cranking just to get it spinning, then push the motor against the flywheel to get it up to speed - have another look..
2:25 - you'll see Tim handling the electric motor with a rubber wheel on a frame which he uses to press up against the large flywheel - you can see the wear area the rubber wheel rubs on the larger flywheel on Tim's side
Spectacular brother proper job 👍🏻you need more play time 🤗🤗🚂🚂🚂
Looks like Green Gurty got a good workout. Gobbling down those branches like a greedy pig and giving you wonderful chips. I don't think you need a conveyor belt, not unless you are going to be running the for hours at a time for days on end. You might want to build a ramp up and maybe a "Loading Dock" So you do not have to lift the crates over your head. Aside from that, the rail cart looks great. Might want to number your next few carts or color them different, but that is up to you. Work smarter not harder. You are doing well.
Really enjoyed this video bro. Safe travels
i love everything about this series :)
Tim, I love your builds! Perhaps a collaboration with Brothers Make and/or Precious Plastics for bucket lift or auger or chutes or ? Recycled flat stock in place of wood or steel would be amazing! Perhaps grant worthy?
Sandra, I'm with you! Scary!! I'd be much happier with an infeed chute longer than my arm!
Unfortunately recycled plastic costs too much for my budget : - (
The plasma-cut details around the car are perfect!
I'd love to see you make at least one rail car with poured babbitt bearings.
What are those?
Tim - If you have a short ladder lying around, maybe you could fasten some hooks on one end to hook over the top of the wagon and then use the ladder as a ramp to push the totes up the ladder so you can then tip the tote into the bin?
Too easy, Sam!
I like your channel
Please build a longer feeder chute - one that is deeper than your arm is long, Thanks!
This is like watching Thomas.
You might consider digging the ground out for the track to be lower so you can just let the chips fall down and slide into the car to fill it would be the easiest if you have enough room to be able to make a ramp track that the car can be pulled up without tipping the car. A winch would work for that to pull a car up or let a car down. The area of the track beside the chipper should be level crosswise like the rest of your track but almost level lengthwise of the track, a 1/4 to 1/2 inch fall in the length of the car would not be bad with a good bumper at the end of the track for the car to rest against while loading.
I bet that machine will soon start to speak.. "nom nom nom..."
Love it, thank you! When Sandra asks Tim to eat something and she encourages him to say "nom nom nom" it's one of my favorite times that really tickles the funny bone!
A crane that can ride on your track would be useful. One that can be moved and operated (also removed from and loaded onto the track) by one person, preferably. I once rented a large diesel chipper. I think it was 8". I wanted the 12" but someone had rented it for the week. It had a safety chain that would instantly disengage the blades and brake them. It was broken, though. I was almost pulled into the hopper. it was very scary. I had to figure out a way to not be standing beside the tree when it was pulled in. I was still whipped and bleeding all over at the end of the day.
Yikes! Glad you're still here to tell us that scary story!
You could reposition the chipper so you wouldn't need a conveyor.
maybe a 'blower' and/or 'scoop' with ducting will be easier than conveyor to chuck chips over to the cart?
Something tells me that it would be subject to clogs unless he had a jet engine exhaust providing the motive force! 😀
the odds are small but never zero of a branch nub hook catching a shoelace and pulling a foot close to the chipper? concerned fan :)
3:08 Oh dear, Sandra disappeared into thin air!
Channel saved? Wonderful to see, shame on the hackers for that.
Best tip, don't hang on to it :D
It works - result
"Stick the fat end in - and don't hang on to it". Time for a safety label like one of AvE's methinks.
3:38
limited wood chipping experience here but it seems you could raise it up off the ground perhaps above the engine and shoot the chips right it to your hopper cart? as all way love your videos there are breath of fresh air in a complicated world!
You need a conveyor belt to load the trolley now