Looking for dumpsters and a fortie or fifties dumpster truck.
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Pete.
Thanks for the info.
I forgot to mention I was looking for emptie dumpsters. Could use dremel to remove trash. Found trucks and dumpsters in HO.So be it.
Jim.
Thanks for the info.
I forgot to mention I was looking for emptie dumpsters. Could use dremel to remove trash. Found trucks and dumpsters in HO.So be it.
Jim.
Jim,
This might work for you. Paper, but it is a free download on the a wargamers website.
FREE Combat Storm Papercraft Building & Dumpster Download
The download with the dumpsters is about 2/3 down the page.
Larry
This might work for you. Paper, but it is a free download on the a wargamers website.
FREE Combat Storm Papercraft Building & Dumpster Download
The download with the dumpsters is about 2/3 down the page.
Larry
Larry.
That just might be what I'm looking for.
jim.
That just might be what I'm looking for.
jim.
Would one like this interest you (sans grime)?
Moonson.
I built my version of a firebox dump ares on my layout.Workers go down the steps to the ashes.Ashes are shoveled onto a coal conveyor(from st. charles model works) up to a dumpster.I would like a dumpster with no doors.Dumpster could be dirty and beat up.
Thanks for your reply.
Jim.
I built my version of a firebox dump ares on my layout.Workers go down the steps to the ashes.Ashes are shoveled onto a coal conveyor(from st. charles model works) up to a dumpster.I would like a dumpster with no doors.Dumpster could be dirty and beat up.
Thanks for your reply.
Jim.
$15.00 ea.
Latest batch...
Latest batch...
Murph, I really like the look of your dumpster. Did you scratch build it? Sirt, are your dumpsters cast from resin?
"Dumpsters" was we know them now were not around in the 1940s and 50s. They are basically a 1960s item as would be the trucks with specialized lifts and bodies for unloading dumpsters. Everything back then was put into steel trash cans.
Even as dumpsters came into being, ashes could not be put into them or loaded into a dumpster truck. Dumpster trucks pickup a number of loads and the prospect of any ashes possibly containing some live coals could easily start a fire.
During the 1940s WW II years, nothing went to waste. Paper, cardboard, tin cans, glass, tinfoil from cigarette packs, any worn cloth items (rags) - all went to the war effort. Table scraps became pet food, fruit and vegetable food waste, coffee grounds and egg shells too became compost for a home or a community garden for apartment dwellers. Food was scarce and rationed. Very little ended up in the trash then.
The ashes in question for a 1940s/50s scene could be left in a pile. Later some men would shovel them up into a dump truck. That's how I worked for two summers (1955 and 1956) digging locomoitve ashes out of what was left of the CNJ Communipaw Engine Terminal with my neighbor. He stockpiled them in an empty lot behind his backyard on Staten Island. The CNJ let you have the ashes for free but you had to be on a list of approved 'takers' and dig them out yourself.
He would sell the ashes as bedding to contractors putting in concrete cellar floors and sidewalks for new houses under construction. The two of us could fill his '48 Ford 2 ton dump truck in about an hour, using two big locomotive coal scoops.
I guess for that modeling scene, if there were enough ashes being generated it could warrant the cost of an expensive conveyor to load ashes into dump trucks.
Ashes from my father's coal fired bakery oven and our apartment above had to be kept separate form any other trash or garbage. There was a separate collection for them by the Department of Sanitation, who then dumped them into the city's
street and road maintenance yards. We usually spread our ashes over the dirt and gravel parking area behind the bakery. Roughly a large trashcan full per day. Never seemed to fill it up even after some 40 years of doing that.
Home onwers and businesses burning coal had ashes to dispose of. Their ashes would be picked up spearately by the City Department of Sanitation. Still, it was handy stuff to use on icy sidewalks in winter.
Ed Bommer
Even as dumpsters came into being, ashes could not be put into them or loaded into a dumpster truck. Dumpster trucks pickup a number of loads and the prospect of any ashes possibly containing some live coals could easily start a fire.
During the 1940s WW II years, nothing went to waste. Paper, cardboard, tin cans, glass, tinfoil from cigarette packs, any worn cloth items (rags) - all went to the war effort. Table scraps became pet food, fruit and vegetable food waste, coffee grounds and egg shells too became compost for a home or a community garden for apartment dwellers. Food was scarce and rationed. Very little ended up in the trash then.
The ashes in question for a 1940s/50s scene could be left in a pile. Later some men would shovel them up into a dump truck. That's how I worked for two summers (1955 and 1956) digging locomoitve ashes out of what was left of the CNJ Communipaw Engine Terminal with my neighbor. He stockpiled them in an empty lot behind his backyard on Staten Island. The CNJ let you have the ashes for free but you had to be on a list of approved 'takers' and dig them out yourself.
He would sell the ashes as bedding to contractors putting in concrete cellar floors and sidewalks for new houses under construction. The two of us could fill his '48 Ford 2 ton dump truck in about an hour, using two big locomotive coal scoops.
I guess for that modeling scene, if there were enough ashes being generated it could warrant the cost of an expensive conveyor to load ashes into dump trucks.
Ashes from my father's coal fired bakery oven and our apartment above had to be kept separate form any other trash or garbage. There was a separate collection for them by the Department of Sanitation, who then dumped them into the city's
street and road maintenance yards. We usually spread our ashes over the dirt and gravel parking area behind the bakery. Roughly a large trashcan full per day. Never seemed to fill it up even after some 40 years of doing that.
Home onwers and businesses burning coal had ashes to dispose of. Their ashes would be picked up spearately by the City Department of Sanitation. Still, it was handy stuff to use on icy sidewalks in winter.
Ed Bommer
This would be a neat truck to model. Here is what I found on ClassicRefuseTrucks.com site.
Here is another from 1957
quote:The firm's first true refuse truck was a bottom-dumping, short-haul lugger called the Liftainer, introduced in 1958. Very similar to the Dempster Dumpster System, it marks the first time the Cobey name would appear on truck equipment, having heretofore been applied only to the farm implement line. Litfainer would remain in production through the late 1970s.
Here is another from 1957
Ed
csx al
Appreciate your comments.I decided to just put a dump truck at the end of the conveyor.truck has a steel bed.A hot ash or clinker now and again wont hurt.
Jim
csx al
Appreciate your comments.I decided to just put a dump truck at the end of the conveyor.truck has a steel bed.A hot ash or clinker now and again wont hurt.
Jimquote:Originally posted by CSX Al:
Murph, I really like the look of your dumpster. ...
CSX Al, Roy Baker (website: bakersrailroadshop.com ,and his phone: 845-887-4596 ) carries them. You may have seen or met him at York, in the Orange Hall; he's just down one of the aisles close to your turntable display. The dumpsters are made of brass. I do the grime part
. - glad you liked it. Frank
I scratch built this one, and re-painted/decal the garbage truck to resemble the local area service I have here in Northern Chicago-land.
Pretty basic. Block of wood for the body, styrene sheet/rods for the lid, and sliced wood dowel for the wheels.
Pretty basic. Block of wood for the body, styrene sheet/rods for the lid, and sliced wood dowel for the wheels.
That style is also available from Arttista.
ATA-1203
ARTTISTA O Scale Miniature Dumpster.
ATA-1203
ARTTISTA O Scale Miniature Dumpster.
quote:Originally posted by CSX Al:
Sirt, are your dumpsters cast from resin?
Steve, are the dumpsters you are selling your own casting?
Simple blocks made from MDF.
Some better photos here starting with photo 189 - http://classic.kodakgallery.co...rt/main/my_new_album
Some better photos here starting with photo 189 - http://classic.kodakgallery.co...rt/main/my_new_album
