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From: "Paul Brezicki" doctorpb AT bellsouth DOT net
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:46:27 -0500
Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: Piggyback items redux
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Well, I don't know about passable. Here's a little Sideloader 101: have a
look at the attached photos. There are two basic types of sideloaders: boom
and mast. In the former, the lift apparatus is attached to a pivoting boom;
in the latter, it's attached to a vertical frame. The Walthers model is
based on a mast-style prototype made by the Swedish company Kalmar. The best
I could do here was relocate the cab and hydraulic cylinders, and add the
trailer lift arms to make it resemble a Taylor "Big Red". Compare to my
machine with the EL logo, I guess we'll call it a "Big Yellow". Compare also
to the UP Piggypacker, a more massive machine with the signature triangular
boom. Taylor produced equipment used in ports and got into intermodal in
1970 with container machines for CN. The trailer equipment came later.

Paul B


From: "toddsyr"
Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: Piggyback items redux

I thought it was one of the members on this list that took an already
available model and with some slight modifications made it into a passable
EL version??

Todd K. Stearns



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