You have made a good start Ken, would the original have had wooden skids as thats quite a section to have been cast solid?

I'll did out a build of another steam Donkey later as it has quite a few ref photos of existing donkeys though mostly by American Hoist.

J

Edited By JasonB on 18/12/2015 13:15:27

Hope you were not planning on doing much today as these two are quite long.

Jerry's Donkey and Brian's Donkey

You will get a few adverts on teh page unless you have the same level of membership of that forum as I do but still worth a look.

Edited By JasonB on 19/12/2015 08:09:23

Ken, I built a couple of steam donkeys from the book by William M Harris, "The Steam Donkey Engine", published by the Village press Publications Inc in the USA and obtainable in the UK. This has full drawings of his model based on an American Hoist and Derrick Company engine. This book is well worth a look for fleshing out the details and proportions. I am just adding the final details to my models, and will take some pictures when they are complete.

Chris Gunn

Hi Ken,

Interesting project, I look forward to further progress. I was very much taken with this logging engine seen on my recent trip to New Zealand. It is parked outside the (really excellent!) kauri museum.

Cheers,

Rod (still horribly jet lagged)

Hi Roderick,

I saw this engine at the kauri museum myself quite a few years ago, good to see it's still there,happy memories of N.Z.

Regards

Graham.

There is a wonderful blondin winder abandoned above the Nantlle slate quaries

**LINK**

It would make a wonderful, if complex model as it has two independant drums to control lift and travel, with clutches and brakes and all sorts of other wonderments. It's a pity that the Llanberis Museum haven't rescued it.