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Re: Combines and loads (was Re: New poster by Larry Pieniazek/MTW
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Sat, 16 Aug 2003 09:52:57 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote:

Mornin' Larry,

[width of combine)
Rather LESS! :-) The combine body, when loaded on the drop center flat has to
fit through the same tunnel on my layout that my previous MTW-1004 Transformer
on Drop Center model has to fit through. So the body, when rigged for travel
(meaning some of the things that stick out are removed and stowed for shipment,
just like in real life), is just a smidgeon over 8 wide. The only place where
it's over is by the thickness of the clip parts of a 1x1 plate with top clip,
minus half a plate because it's on a recessed hatch, and that only on one side.

Similarly, the combine head (and tyres) when loaded on the other flat, is also
(almost) within 8 wide dimensions.

Ok, from the 1024x768 poster I was not too sure about it: I just saw the 6-wide
cabin and the 2 studs mudgear on each side of it. Obviously these are wider than
the body of the machinery. In this case I agree: it fits to your car (and would
even fit better to "my" 7-wide cars (getting back on topic of splitting
hairs...;-))


You could theoretically do a different head and as long as you matched the gear
position and pin position it would all work.

Yeah - for e.g. a corn head would be nice.

What sort of things should such a head have? I don't know heads all that well.

Check out this side:
http://www.harvesting.com/combine/cat/photos/ralf.html
I like the dirt and the halftrack combine in the mud....
Harvesting grain happens in late october which might mean it takes place after a
rainy period (at least that's the average weather in Germany...).


[snip]
old - from the beginning of my 7-wide carieer):
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=11093

Yep. "Older" meaning it's an older prototype, not that you modeled it ages ago.
It's sweet.

I like this model of mine a lot. Reminds me on my childhood and I think it uses
lots of quite complicated building techniques.
For eg. it can rise up and down the cutting table in the front as well as the
"spindle" above it. And I enjoyed to build it not parallel to the ground, but in
a mix of different angles and widths (4-wide, 5-wide + 6wide).

For another LEGO® combine you might want to check out this site:
http://sfall.bei.t-online.de/Lego/Drescher/DrescherStart.htm
That guy has lots of up-to-date farming stuff from Germany in a typical
oldfashioned village style around.

Leg Godt!

Ben



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  Re: Combines and loads (was Re: New poster by Larry Pieniazek/MTW
 
(...) A bit of trickery there... :-) The cab is 6 wide at the top (the hinged part) but the stationary part is only 5 wide, using tiles to handle the mismatch. The stationary part sits on a 6 wide plate base which is offset 1/2 stud from the frame, (...) (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)

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  Combines and loads (was Re: New poster by Larry Pieniazek/MTW
 
(...) That's OK... I love splitting hairs! (...) Rather LESS! :-) The combine body, when loaded on the drop center flat has to fit through the same tunnel on my layout that my previous MTW-1004 Transformer on Drop Center model has to fit through. So (...) (21 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)

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