Forest whim.

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Seeing the pictures, placed at the top, at first I thought it was a fake, a photomontage, very much disproportionately young people look at the background of a giant "carts", which stands somewhere in the woods. But it turned out that the pictures are real, and they - the chassis of the truck-timber Steam whim - «Steam Caprice", built by Australian engineer Stephen Harry (Harry Stephen) in 1897.

Stephen machine designed for the transport of huge logs with a diameter of over one meter and a length of over 15 meters, and its maximum capacity is 19 tons. Machine length - 12 meters, diameter of the rear drive wheels - almost 3 meters, the power of a single cylinder steam engine that runs on wood - 80 hp A total of 1897-1901 years built four such timber are slightly different in design, in particular, one of them was entirely made of metal, including the wheels.
Trucks have worked in the lumber camps of Western Australia, in the area of Pickering Brook, there is not cut down all the commercially valuable timber. Then, with their engines dismantled for use somewhere else, and the chassis just thrown because another application for them was not. The remains of these masterpieces stimpankovskih technologies rust on the edge of the forest grew again until now.

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