Hercules Logging Truck A STEEL TRUCK OF 80,000 CAPACITY THAT HAS CARRIED 120,000 SAFELY
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Heavy Bar Shear
This is a steel frame truck, with cast steel bolster and bunk brace, and is here shown with structural bunk, but may be equipped with cast steel bunk of either the Hercules, McLafferty or Skookum patent, and also with steel draft beams, making an all steel truck.
33-inch Chilled Cast Iron Wheels and Steel Axles, with 4½ × 8 inch Journals. Height from rail to center of Drawbar, 25½ inches, and to top of Bunk, 40½ inches. Length over Draft Beams, 9 feet, 6 inches.
Automatic Couplers with Bottom Unlocking Attachments. Brake Shoes applied to all Wheels, with hand wheel at side or hand lever at end. Weight, approximately 18,000 pounds per set.
CODE "Hercules" Number 122
Equipped with Knight Patent Chock Block
Hercules Logging Truck (MADE IN ANY CAPACITY FROM 40,000 TO 70,000 LBS. PER SET OF TRUCKS)
Designed for heavy service and has proved its efficiency in handling the long, heavy timbers of the Northwest.
Our Standard Class A Truck Number 122, as shown in cut, is equipped with Hercules Patent Bunk, 9 feet long, and Knight Patent Chock Block. At purchaser's option can furnish our Patent Cast Steel Bunk, in either 9 or 10-foot lengths, of Hercules, McLafferty or Skookum Patent.
33-inch Chilled Cast Iron Wheels and Axles with 4½ × 8-inch Journals. 28 or 24-inch wheels are optional.
Height from Rail to center of Drawbar, 2 feet, 1½ inches. Height from top of Rail to top of Bunk, 3 feet, 4½ inches. Length over Couplers, 12 feet.
Automatic Couplers with Side-Unlocking Lever and M. C. B. Standard Draft Spring. Cast Iron Link and Pin Drawbar can be substituted.
Brake Shoes applied to all wheels with hand wheels at side or hand lever at end.
Truck Frame is the Rigid Diamond Arch Bar type with Steel Channel Spring Plank.
Bolsters of Red Fir heavily trussed.
Weight approximately 17,000 pounds per set.
The above Bunk and Chock Blocks are covered by U. S. and Canadian Patents and are manufactured exclusively by Seattle Car & Foundry Co., Seattle, U. S. A.
CODE "English"
To Couple with Standard Railway Equipment
