The logs shown came with the chains attached from Micro-Trains ... Good question though. Might behoove a moose (or human) to ask Micro-Trains where they source them. Moose has checked at bead supply stores (beading being one of Mrs Moose's hobbies) and never found anything that small.
Moose love your work. There is suppose to be a moose about 70 miles north of us by Moab but haven't seen it and another wandered out of Colorado last year to about 30 miles south of us to the San Juan river but missed that one also. So except for some moose I saw while living in Wyoming you are the only current moose I know . Could you let us know how many links per inch there is for that chain. I found two sources for 40 links per inch that comes out to a link being about4 inches long ( HERE ) and ( HERE ). Probably both selling the same chain. Sumner
@Sumner Thank you very much, good sir! Hmmm, yeah, Moose's originally from a place near Garden of the Gods in Colorado, but the familia immigrated up to Yellowstone, Wyoming. Did have an uncle that was keen on mt biking, so that explains the one near Moab... Oh! And, Moose is a big fat liar, sort of ... Moose just checked moose inventory list, and Moose has [somewhere] some of that A-line brand 40 link/inch blackened chain, p/n 29219. Moose checked as best as a moose can, and the Micro-Trains chain is around 45 links/inch. They're sooo tiny, so it could be more or less.
Maybe Moose has a hard time counting past four since he has no fingers to help . 45 would work out to .022 or 3.5 N scale inches vs. 4 inches for the other chain that Moose must of left in Colorado . Not sure I can see 1/2 inch in N Scale. I wonder if Moose can see .003" difference since Moose are not know for seeing very well. Reason why if you are in moose country you don't want to come across one in tight foliage that has baby moose with her. She might run you down Sumner
When Moose did the logging disconnects, did you have to turn couplers over?? I recieved 20 cars(10pr) for birthday. EVERY coupler was installed upside down!! I kid you not, this is how I recieved my cars:
Yes, one coupler on one truck was upside-down. Additionally, another truck had one coupler broken off at the pin.
Thank you, good sir! Moose keep going down rabbit holes on various projects, which, as you must know, it is a tight fit under the best of circumstances, which probably doesn't answer your question, but suffice to say, Moose has been distracted by other projects, and so disappears from time to time, and -- uh oh, Mrs Moose is giving Moose "the eye", so best get back to helping take down on the holiday ornaments!
This is from the factory? If so, yikes. They pride themselves on quality, but this would be quite the QC error.
I do remember hearing and reading about the upside down couplers from several sources. It seemed to happen alot with those cars.
Moose mostly done with painting & assembling 20 disconnect log cars and has commenced with the fabrication of loads of log loads for the log cars. Here are 13 cars and several nearly complete log loads. Some cars-not-appearing-in-this-post still need brake wheels and the loads quite obviously need chains to hold them in place on the cars!
Those are looking great! Now when is the Moose going to have his li'l meese working on the chain ups? I really want to see them hooves working the chains!
@badlandnp Thank you, good sir -- errr, what? Do you know dag'gum difficult it is to work chains when yer all hooves? Ya'know, you just might be lookin' fer a moose stampede yer way, moose-thinks...
There already was a Christmas Moose stampede here a few weeks back! Somebody confused moose and reindeer, but it was fun! Two stuffed moose showed up and added to the Christ-moose cheer!!
Your logs look very good! This apartment dweller needs to figure out a source for those future logs which will be needed....
Thank you, good sir! Well, to make yer own, you'll need plenty of space, some large redwoods, spruce and/or Douglas fir trees, and an assortment of wood lathes ranging from 16" to 200' capacity. Oh, and some place to store several tonnes of wood chips...
