Post by Muleskinner on May 24, 2012 20:53:57 GMT -8
When I was living back in the 50's up in Yakk, Montana, I had my first run in with logging trucks, which would leave a lasting impression on me for the rest of my life. Especially the big CBE Kenworths which prowled the roads between Yakk and Libby, Montana. They were big and monstrous brutes which showered you in water as they came down off the mountains loaded. On many of my journeys to and from the fishin hole on the river, I had to walk along the road which these monsters frequented and would stand in Aw as they passed making the ground rumble under my feet. I remember I would wave and the drivers would honk their horns as they went by me with a roar. So the other night I decided to reproduce one of these monsters in 1/25Th scale for my collection.
The base for the project was a K-123 which I cut down with a razor saw. For the project I had to cut a slit the cab and then remove the passenger side and attach it to a shortened drivers side to narrow the cab. Then I had to make cover plate for the removed and open side of the cab. Also I had to shorten the tub down to hold the drivers seat and dash. The frame had to be extended eight scale feet and the rear axles moved forward abit to allow for a stinger assembly. Since this rig had to have water cooled brakes, I added one of my Cast period bunker water tanks behind the head ache rack. The exhaust stacks are made of jointed drinking straws. Since those rigs I remember had rounded reaches and heavy bracing to the trailers, I modified a AMT Peerless Logging Trailer the best I could remember into the configuration of the Montana unit.
No mud flaps were added and also no tail lights as I remember my Step Dad cussing them out every time we got behind one as you didn't know when they were stopping or turning. He later learned to give them a lot of length ahead so as not to plow into the rear of them when they stopped or turned. I remember listening to the drivers when they came into the Restaurant in Yakk for Coffee (The Dirty Shame, was its name) about driving these rigs and got to know a few of the drivers, some of who were about as friendly as a constipated Grizzly Bear. Well anyway enough of that below is the finished rig as I remember them from Yakk. Hope you like it
Sorry about the pics but its been raining here in Oregon again and out side photography is impossible.
William
The base for the project was a K-123 which I cut down with a razor saw. For the project I had to cut a slit the cab and then remove the passenger side and attach it to a shortened drivers side to narrow the cab. Then I had to make cover plate for the removed and open side of the cab. Also I had to shorten the tub down to hold the drivers seat and dash. The frame had to be extended eight scale feet and the rear axles moved forward abit to allow for a stinger assembly. Since this rig had to have water cooled brakes, I added one of my Cast period bunker water tanks behind the head ache rack. The exhaust stacks are made of jointed drinking straws. Since those rigs I remember had rounded reaches and heavy bracing to the trailers, I modified a AMT Peerless Logging Trailer the best I could remember into the configuration of the Montana unit.
No mud flaps were added and also no tail lights as I remember my Step Dad cussing them out every time we got behind one as you didn't know when they were stopping or turning. He later learned to give them a lot of length ahead so as not to plow into the rear of them when they stopped or turned. I remember listening to the drivers when they came into the Restaurant in Yakk for Coffee (The Dirty Shame, was its name) about driving these rigs and got to know a few of the drivers, some of who were about as friendly as a constipated Grizzly Bear. Well anyway enough of that below is the finished rig as I remember them from Yakk. Hope you like it
Sorry about the pics but its been raining here in Oregon again and out side photography is impossible.
William
I love it 
