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1872 Amoskeg Fire Engine - Big Dave - 04-23-2018
Hi, Guys
I finally finished a project I've been working on - off & on - for several months. Every piece had to be made in the shop (some of them more than once...
). I'm posting in this forum due to all the turning this project required. I definitely learned quite a bit more about turning while doing this!I figure I've got about 60 hours in it and 17 different favors of wood...
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Thanks for lookin'!
As always, questions & comments are always welcome...
Dave
RE: 1872 Amoskeg Fire Engine - badwhiskey - 04-23-2018
That's a real stunner. Did you buy a plan, or come up with it on your own?
RE: 1872 Amoskeg Fire Engine - Big Dave - 04-23-2018
(04-23-2018, 06:25 PM)badwhiskey Wrote: or come up with it on your own?
That's funny...
I bought the plan a couple years ago. It took me a while to get up the nerve to start on it...
RE: 1872 Amoskeg Fire Engine - Arlin Eastman - 04-23-2018
Dave
It has been awhile since you posted something and this project is just wonderful. Are you keeping this or giving this to a young one?
If giving it away you will have to make another just for me urr I mean you.
What all woods did you use and where?
RE: 1872 Amoskeg Fire Engine - Big Dave - 04-24-2018
(04-23-2018, 08:46 PM)Arlin Eastman Wrote: What all woods did you use and where?
Thanks, Arlin!
I'll be hanging on to this one, I think...
As for the different woods, there are 17:
Ash Frame, floorboard, air chamber base, seat frame, steering box, springs, fire box, wheels, hand brake, hose brackets
Black Walnut Boiler, pulley shaft, spokes, pump wheel shaft, foot pedal, boiler & pump mounting pegs, hose bracket standards, axe mounts
Cherry Pumps, water tank, bell post, hose brackets, pressure gauges
Birch Steering column
Maple Pumps, wheel hubs, air chamber
Rosewood Seat
Redheart Driving lights, axe head, air chamber finial, toolbox
Hickory Axe handle
Boxelder Lantern globe
Holly Boiler, bell, toolbox latches, pressure gauge faces
Ebony Hoses, nozzle pipes
Yellowheart Nozzles, couplings, driving light lenses
African Blackwood Axels
Bubinga Forward & rear pulleys, rear wheel standoff
Purpleheart Steering wheel
Paduak Pump wheels
Bloodwood Lantern
I think that's about it...
RE: 1872 Amoskeg Fire Engine - blackhat - 04-25-2018
Given my shop status these days, if I started a project like that I would be in a never ending cycle of make parts, lose parts, make replacements, lose previous....... Nice piece of work.
RE: 1872 Amoskeg Fire Engine - gtwhite - 04-27-2018
(04-23-2018, 07:24 PM)Big Dave Wrote: That's funny...
I bought the plan a couple years ago. It took me a while to get up the nerve to start on it...
Big Dave-
Would you share where you bought the plan? Incredible workmanship!
RE: 1872 Amoskeg Fire Engine - Big Dave - 04-27-2018
(04-27-2018, 09:31 AM)gtwhite Wrote: Would you share where you bought the plan?
Gladly!
Here ya go! Amoskeg Steam Powered Fire Engine Plans
RE: 1872 Amoskeg Fire Engine - woodhead - 04-28-2018
That's cool! I have to finish the thing I'm working on...been on the bench too long!
Al
RE: 1872 Amoskeg Fire Engine - Gary G™ - 04-28-2018
That’s super; a real beauty.