For those who missed First Gear 1:87 International Harvester TD-25 sidebooms years ago.
First Gear is making more and will be available spring 2019 .
Great news !
Patrick
for people like me that aren’t sure what that looks like
I made the mistake of putting off buying a number of 1st Gear at LHS when they were there, and one day, POOF! Gone. Won’t make that mistake again on this one. Thanks for the heads up. Dan
Thank you Henry for the link.
Same thing here. I won’t make the same mistake again either.
This time four of these little beauties will make their way to my work bench. Bashed into wreck dozers .
Can’t wait !
Patrick
I found a two-part video showing two of these being used to lift a tank car for a wheel change:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPTlRjvdybA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=636&v=asBp-EBjQ84
Ed
I was rich enought at the time I saw one and have it on the layout retrieving a tractor’s trailer. The tractor backed it’s trailer’s driver’s side rear wheels off a road edge. When some cars went over the Rockville Bridge at Harrisburg, Pa. and down in to the Susquhanna River, I have a picture of a Hulcher Co. Dozer in the river going to retrive the cars. This is one cool piece of equipment. I want more. The "cable’’ is a pain when it tangles.
Here’s a cool site to see equipment. Your have to look it up, I don’t think we are to post direct links for a business’s sites on here. Hulcher Services
So a decade or so ago there was a forum thread upon the first release of these side-booms - here
At the time there was mention that the boom was too thin for railroad work, instead it was more the size of the ones used in pipe laying service.
Mention was made of a possible HO scale Cat sideboom by Norscott, but they seem to have made 1:50 only AFAIK. There are also some other models in 1:50, but again not usable in HO. Oh well.
That’s a neat discussion over there. The fact that these are actually pipe layers is fine for my intended purpose of loading concrete pipe sections on flatcars.