Installing a Ballast Tipple on the Stoddard Hill Farm Railway
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- Опубликовано: 25 окт 2022
- Bill got tired of loading his ballast cars with the tractor bucket and decided to build a ballast tipple for the Stoddard Hill Farm Railway. Unfortunately, I didn't get any video of the construction or painting but Bill asked me to film the installation. So, let's show you how we installed the ballast tipple and how it's used.
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29:51 😂😂😂 he looks excited.
That's about as excited as I've ever seen him.
This is one hell of a train set.
No so much a train set as it is a tool for transporting stuff around the property. Still a lot of fun, though.
Always enjoy your videos, and seeing both Millbrook and going over to Stoddard Hill and always watch to the end, which was a bonus as we saw Bill smile and say he was 'very pleased with it' he has such a great engineering mind
In the future for Mill Brook RR, you could locate/buy an old derelict single pull behind farm grain hopper that unloads from the side similar to this, repair & paint it. Then build a base ever how high you want, then remove the wheels & hub assemblies from the old hopper. Finnish by mounting it on your prepared base at or near your tracks similar to Bill's. It will only have one chute, but it would work & you wouldn't have to build & possibly get one at a reasonable price or even cheaper than the treated lumber & time invested in designing, building & painting. It shouldn't rot or rust as long as you keep it primed & painted.
Not a bad idea. Thanks!
could be a fun video of a crew of 4-6 with a second Train and some preparation to see how much track can get laid in a day.
That would be fun.
Mr Stoddard has a beautiful property !! And what away to spend your free time 😍
There is an actual purpose for the railway. As soon as enough track is in, it'll be used for forestry management.
To avoid hitting the stack on the caboose, turn the caboose around so the stack is away from the ballast tipple. Great Fun! 🙂
Paint reference marks on the load carriages and on the tipple. Then hang another mirror so that you can see it from the locomotive. Then you don't have to gesture to stop right in front of the right filling slide.
One word....solid. The whole operation. Well done Mr. Bill!
Thanks
Really looks great! You guys work together really good creating great things for the railroads! Have a great day!
Well done. It will be a good asset for future track building.
Looks great!
Looks good. Hope to see more of loading dump cars and spreading rock on the railroad. Have a great day be safe
Good job.👍
Very nice.
Enjoyed the video bro. Safe travels
I think some light cable, run through pulleys and a counter-weight would be the preferred method of controlling the chutes.
That can always be added later.
neat addition to the tracks, I remember when the ballast cars were made.
now it is complete with the stone tripple , nice video and interesting seeing how
it is done, what is the capacity of the stone tripple? all 2x4 with 4x4 supports.
have a great day.
Love the Tipple, brown paint sets it.
Random thoughts:
Spin the caboose less chance of toppling the chimney.
Brown canvas tarp to cover the Tipple.
Personal feelings
Hate the tipple cars, look very European.
But I love their operations, looks ez to load and tip.
Yellow is sharp.
I love the American looking hoppers, love to see them used.
Overall NICE set up.
Well executed.
Very cool and I love the Vt. Vibe it feels MN/Wi like to me.
Hot black coffee with maple sap.
Mint!
Very cool! :)
Looks good, would of used 4x8x16 cement pavers. Nice tool for your operation. 👍🎅🏻
looks good. I'd be concerned about freeze and thaw and settling and so on.
if it does settle and all that, i think I'd go back with concrete footings.
i don't know how deep you have to dig there to get below the frost line, but it'd be a one and done deal, i think.
keep up the good work.
i get a little inspired to build my RR evetime i watch one of your videos.
keep on keepin' on my friends.
Concrete will also settle and shift unless you dig down to bedrock.
Too bad about no build video. That would have been fun to see.
Should build another one, you know for RUclips land. :)
I think you're right.
Having your own M.O.W. train is just so cool. At Stoddard Farm, what do you grow/raise?
Stoddard Hill Farm has alpacas. You'll also find Mill Brook Farm on this channel, and that's an old fashioned free range chicken farm.
@@MillBrookRailroad Alpaca's, Now that not a new everyday raised animal.'
I will have to look your farm up for meat.
I miss read the title I thought it said tripple not tipple... so when the video showed the "tipple" I was like there's only two shoots on that not three lol
After a couple of winter seasons of freeze / thaw would settling be expected?
Probably some but it's on crushed stone so adjustments won't be all that difficult.
Is there anywhere I can find a map of both the Millbrook Railroad and the Stoddard Hill Farm Railway? i'd love to get a better feel for the lines as a whole
The Mill Brook Railroad is on Google maps. The Stoddard Hill Farm Railway doesn't have a map yet and isn't visible from above for to the trees.
Greetings. To you gentlemen My question to you did you build your Ballast tipple Is the tipple going to stay where it is or is it a temporary device for receiving your quantity of ballast but one thing I want to point out you have got a beautiful Railway is the gauge 7 1/2 inch or 7/14 inch Yours Jeff Melbourne Australia
It is a permanent structure. It gets filled with ballast as needed.
The northeast United States and eastern Canada are 7-1/4" gauge. That accounts for about 10% of the people in the hobby in North America and that's where we are.
... and if you look for Shady Pines Railroad on this channel, the owner is originally from Westgarth in Melbourne.
this tipple will eliminate hand loading of the ballast cars. The tiper cars are designed from similar cars from around the world, most made in England and shipped worldwide, including some in the US. Used on brick making or mining railroads....
Thanks, Bill!
Just my opinion but wouldn’t it be more useful if you had it on a siding instead of the main or was I not seeing everything 👍
The track ends just beyond the tipple. The main line ends in the yard. This is the ballast spur off the end of the yard lead.
You didn’t watch to the end, where it shows it’s a siding.
the track is a point to loop, the tipple is at the end of the main line. Because of the hills there is no chance of the track being connected end to end. The plan is to run up the hill to a loop and then come back down on the same track and turn on the turntable..which is yet to be built..