AERIAL TRAMWAY TOWER Encampment, Wyoming MEASURED BY BOB BOORMAN, NOVEMBER

so it will fit the terrain under the tower. The cable tram hardware and buckets are available from

tank with styrene bands, lumber for the tower, a pre-built ladder, a special white

Albert Mader's HO Willamette Tower Skidder Photos by H. Schinz

and some of the sheaves and blocks on the tower are from C.H.B. Models. 21 When [drew up plans for the Willamette...Tower Skidder, I was not sure I'd ever see them used to build a model. I thought the complexity of the subjectwould discourage...was right -- no one was building Willamette Tower Skidders, or if they were, they kept it a secret from me. Then

for $3.00. Plan sets for the Willamette Tower Skidder are available in HO scale for $20.00 and O scale...Paper Company standard Lidger- wood tower skidder was photographed at Cathlamet, Wash- ington, in...Cummings. Crown-Willamette Paper Company's tower skidder #3 set-up near Cathlamet, Washington

this skidder took downhill, the original tower was replaced with a Lidgerwood- style tower. The Washington Iron Works, of Seattle, not to be outdone...Depression hit, it was all over for the tower skidders. By the time the lumber market picked up again...Clark & Wilson Lumber Company Lidgerwood tower skidder, with her boom down, being moved by three Shays and

Thus empty log cars could pass under a tower skidder and be drawn forward as needed for loading. As the...error or miscal- culation in setting up a tower skidder for work-a good skidder location...they lost them, too. Crown-Willamette Tower Skidder #3 tumbled down a mountain side not once, ---- me

Washington, to construct and assemble tower skidders for their West Coast customers. While some tower skid- ders were used in the Smoky and Appala- . by Bill Roy In...to serve this purpose. Unlike spar trees, tower skidders could also be moved from loading site to loading...the high-lead yarding system A steel tower skidder set up and working in a Douglas fir forest in the

Tomato Cannery HO #083, Cincinnati Yard Tower HO #084, Kearsarge Truck-Rail Terminal

Mader, who built the beautiful HO scale tower skidder (see pages 21-23), lives in Switzerland

Shed, Company Store, Dining Hall, Water Tower, Kitchen & houses. Stripwood with 70 metal detail castings

MAY/JUNE 1987 cx SPECIAL FEATURE 16 Tower Skidders Giants of the forest. by Bill Roy VOLUME 13, NUMBER...73 78 Albert Mader's HO Willamette Tower Skidder Only 3,417 parts! by Bill Roy A Smelting Campaign

Please write FINESCALE FOREST 2960 Garden Tower Lane Georgetown, California 95634 or n MARCH/APRIL 1987

that the On3 Grandt Line semi- automatic Tower coupler is perfect for my cars. These couplers are inexpensive

Photo 3. mounting of the Grandt Line Tower couplers. A close view of the type 2 and type 3 car frames

Blacksmith Shop HO - #4012, Sand House & Tower O- #2010, Water Column The Structure Co. HO- #1003, Mt Princeton

information FINESCALE FOREST 2960 Garden Tower Lane Georgetown, California 95634 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1987

openings of the tower below the steeple But then the Parthenon in Greece is justa...joints. However, the front face of the tower, down to the doors, is 5-inch, unlapped, flat

the church is just a "barn" with a tower built onto its front end. 81 Aclose-up...author. Looking up at the North Waterford tower and steeple. Photo by the author. been signed up for repainting