Crane for 1960's Pulpwood Yard

The subject pretty much says it all… Looking for recommendations for a crane to use for a pulpwood yard.

Thanks!

If you can find one in the used market, IHC used to make an overhead gantry crane in HO #2059. Sometimes they show up at eBay.

Good Luck, Ed

Thanks, I was more thinking something like a Barnhart but that sat on the ground not rails. A unit like that is closer to what was used in this area.

If I had more of a lumber operation I’d want to have one of these on the property:

https://wisemanmodelservices.com/HO-Scale-HOn3/HO-SCALE-GERLINGER-STRADDLE-LUMBER-CARRIER

I know they’re not particularly suited to pulp operations but I thought they were neat machines.

Regards, Ed

Ed,

That is a neat looking rig!

Hello All,

Have you searched Walthers under “Overhead Crane”?

Though many of these kits are listed as “Out Of Stock” the ones available can be fitted with wheels to travel on rails.

Hope this helps.

Not a Barnhardt but a Brownhoist.

https://alexanderscalemodels.com/product/brownhoist-little-hook-ho-a-7519/

Rick Jesionowski

What I’ve seen in hostoric pictures, in northern WI. lumber mills, are cranes on rail, and track cranes. Nothing real big, maybe a boom 40" or so.

Some of the grocery stores up in Park Falls have historic photographs of the local mills.

Mike.

Are you loading pulpwood or unloading pulpwood?

Is the pulpwood the 5 ft or 9 ft pieces or the full size tree trunks?

In the area where I worked (E Texas) they used what looked like a backhoe type crane with grasping jaws to load and unload pulpwood. At the loading yards they were smaller and truck mounted, at the paper mill they were larger and often mounted on a pedestal.