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dpull

Well-Known Member
Hello Tournadude,
In the early 1950's the Nylint Toy Co. made a Tournarocker toy in 1/16 scale that dumped just like the real ones. Neat Pictures!
dpull
 
PbBelly

PbBelly

Member
A LeTourneau Tournarocker beside the archaic haul truck it was replacing. The photo is labelled circa 1950 and is from one of St. Joe Lead's underground mines in Missouri's Old Lead BeltDiesal Underground Haul Truck(circa 1950)-Croppe.jpg
 
CM1995

CM1995

Administrator
That's pretty neat, never saw one before. Looks like the forerunner to the arctic truck.
 
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Scrub Puller

Senior Member
Yair . . . tournadude or any one . . . what is the tipping mechanism on that beast. In picture three there is perhaps some cable but it is unclear to me how it functions.

I have seen a small front dumper setup with similar geometry where the axle was locked, the bowl unlatched and you just continued driving forward.

Cheers.
 
ScottAR

ScottAR

Senior Member
Love the pics!
Are there any films of this machine? I'm assuming you are the same Tournadude from Youtube...
 
old-iron-habit

old-iron-habit

Senior Member
Scrub Puller said:
Yair . . . tournadude or any one . . . what is the tipping mechanism on that beast. In picture three there is perhaps some cable but it is unclear to me how it functions.

I have seen a small front dumper setup with similar geometry where the axle was locked, the bowl unlatched and you just continued driving forward.

Cheers.
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I was studying the same thing. I am speculating that the cable you see is positioned properly so that it lifts high enough to have gravity complete the dump as the weight transfers back. It looks like the bed sheaves assembly may pivot on their mount so the same winch pulls it back down until gravity again takes over to lower it the rest of the way. The cable would have to pull to start the dump and then released when gravity takes over to complete raising the bed. Someone will know.
 
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