Now there's something that hasn't been seen in the "Texas Chain-Saw Massacre's", - - yet!
Art
How doea it work, i have a lot of experience with bending rail and it doesn't look too good to me. ie does it operate in a smooth and continuous fashion?
Rgds Ian
Looks to me (from the pics) that it's on one of those 18" gauge amusement park trains. The track on them isn't really all that heavy, and a couple of tons of hyd force applied like that should work nicely. The trick would be maintaining the gauge around the curve!
Really wouldn't take all that great and heavy a ram, and a porta power unit like on the jaws of life that many fire companies use could easily do that job.
Very interesting piece of equipment!
underworld
Definitly a homemade jobber, look at the welds, there can't be that much pressure needed to make the bends. I would think it could be done with a 3 ton ram by hand although using air would be a LOT less work.
It's a slick set up in any case! Good thinking on the part of the designer.
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Yes but why would you want to do such a thing?
Rgds ian
To make the train go round the bend and not intrude on the neighbor's property!
To make the train go round the tree and not have to cut half the tree away for the train to go thru it!
To drive Ian round the bend!
Capt Bob Johnson wrote: To make the train go round the bend and not intrude on the neighbor's property!To make the train go round the tree and not have to cut half the tree away for the train to go thru it!To drive Ian round the bend!
Thank you gentlemen, for those remarks; however i do not think you have thought the matter through properly.
What was wrong with the old and original way?
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