Anyone have an N-scale or preferably a Z-scale sawdust burner for a mid-sixties sawmill I'm building. Thanks! :teeth:
Kurt, None in Z that I know of. The N one is WAY too big for Z. It is around 42 N feet high and would need some extensive kitbashing. Can't find the link, but someone will post it. Jim
I have a design based off a 40' burner I found up near Portola, that I will be making into a resin, laser cut materials, and brass mesh screen kit with an LED wired for 12v. There is just one problem, I have absolutely no time to work on it until after the NTS in July. It's similar to this prototype except it has a single dust collector instead of the dual smaller ones I used on my module: The problem is I am training 8 new guys at the day job, working 6 days a week, and keeping a schedule of MTL kit deliveries at this time. I also have committed every Friday after work to the Niles Museum layout, and while the laser is cutting parts I am working on my module to get it ready for the NTS. I want to make a super detailed hollow resin casting for the cone, resin dust collector, rastered catwalks at each 8' panel level, and I need to make a tool to form the screen spark arrestor cones without having fold marks on them. The LED's are just 12v wired warm white T1's dipped in Tamiya Clear Orange to illuminate the correct glow I remember seeing as a kid.
Ha! You don't know how many times I've staired at this pic, trying to figure something out! Store security at Fred Meyers asked me what I was up too, when i was looking for ANYTHING to use as one while roaming every isle! I was at the United NW show in Monroe last weekend, and an N-scale layout had one that was plaster cast and painted with chalks, real nice one, but the guy didn't know where it came from! Let me know when you get close to pumping one out!
Kurt, Remember that in Nn3 only the locos and rollingstock are smaller. The burner still will be pretty big in N scale. Robert's is in Z I beleive. Jim
There is actually a preserved burner at Fort Missoula Park, in Missoula, Montana. Some day when I have time and am in the area, I will measure it... Boxcab E50
I bought the Yesteryear Creations N Scale burner, and although it is a real nice model, and just the style I wanted, but when mine showed up, I thought it was too big for my sawmill. Even though it scales more like 60' in Z, it's just too big around at the base, dwarfing my small sawmill. If they would do a Z Scale shrink of that burner, I would not have bothered making my own.
I know the kit you are referring to Kurt. I believe it was made by a company called crabapple models or roadapple models, if I remember correctly. I have not them in years, so I am not sure if they are still in business. They were a resin kit that came in a plastic bag. BTW, when you were at the UNW show did you see the mill that I built for the UNW legacy layout? Also, I got my SNCT decals for the SW units while I was at the show too.
It was perfect, cause it looked a little small for N. I asked the guy watching over the layout, but he didn't know who made it. I was gonna' give him $35 bucks if he'd rip it off the layout right there and then!! mg:
This is one of those areas where I'd love to see a variety of models. I have a Yesteryears Creations kit. It is based on a burner somewhere near the central coast of Oregon, if I remember correctly. It is a large prototype, and would be immense on a Z layout. For me, it works out fine because it is still a bit smaller than the Oregon-American mill's former burner.
Yes that is the one I was talking about Kurt. It is made by road apple or crabapple models if I remeber right.
.....and it's about as rare as a $3 dollar bill! I've searched everywhere-they're extinct! GRRRRRRR!!
FYI: Road Apples is now Lineside Models. They bought all the tooling for the N-scale cars and some buildings. AND, they also offer some Z-scale boats!! I shot them an email to see if they had the sawdust burner, and if so, would they consider releasing it again! I gave 'em the "Z-scale market" is growing, and we need detail items such as this, so we'll see.
Has Moose found his slash burner yet? I have one in my "surplus" box since I have gone out of the forest industries business. I dismantled my East Texas Piney Woods layout 3 years ago, to build my Texas coast island seaport. I have a "Guts, Gravel and Glory" brand #308-1151 in the 1998 Walthers N scale catalog. Sold for $6.98 then. It is cast in Hydrocal plaster, 2 11/16ths inch tall, 2 1/4" diameter. I want to dispose of it along with my forest industry stuff- N scale skeleton logging cars, pulpwood cars, etc. Send a personal message if interested. I will make and email a photo if I have your email address but I am not going to put it on my Railimages album to post it here. Just for laughs: before I got this slash burner, would you believe I "made do" with one of those minature chapagne bottle confetti poppers painted metal color?
