Wagons

[Amber]

I know this is not an exact diagram of what Gorean wagons look like, but I figured this might help with an actual visual, and it allows the user to click on certain parts for a better description of what each part is.


http://library.thinkquest.org/6400/wagon.htm

Going to see if I can find something to describe the yokes and traces used to harness the bosk to the wagons as well.

[Taryn]

Am confuzzled, as I had a post about what a wagon looked like, as they call them yurts, I have a picture of it on the laptop, which isn't what I am using... So we are using covered wagons instead of those? That would mean things were a lot smaller than I was lead to believe...

Here's a link to the picture I had before...

http://www.prweb.com/prfiles/2008/08/13/721474/yurtwheels.jpg

[Amber]

I didn't post it so that people could see exactly what they look like, I posted it so that people can learn where parts of the wagon are.  But yokay.  You got a more accurate picture of what ours are supposed to look like -shrugs-  Thought I would be helpful so that people can actually learn about wagon parts, and I get told I am wrong.

[Raziel]

Technically speaking, a yurt is merely a circular tipi constructed of latice work and skins originating with the nomads of central asia.  It is not a wagon and normally not on wheels.  The picture Taryn has produced is a one of a kind yurt on wheels, like the chariot yurts of china.

The Ubar's wagon:

"The wagon itself was the largest in camp, and the largest wagon I had conceived possible; actually it was a vast platform, set on numerous wheeled frames; though at the edges of the platform, on each side, there were a dozen of the large wheels such as are found on the much smaller wagons; these latter wheels turned as the wagon moved and supported weight, but could not themselves have supported the entire weight of that fantastic, wheeled palace of hide. The hides that formed the dome were of a thousand colors, and the smoke hole at the top must have stood more than a hundred feet from the flooring of that vast platform. I could well conjecture the riches, the loot and the furnishings that would dazzle the interior of such a magnificent dwelling."—Nomads, 41

Read that carefully...

http://www.thebarkers1.com/images/World's%20Largest/Lg%20Covered%20Wagon.jpg
This is a fake but imagine the size....and this is small

http://www.tsereteli.ru/files/objects/1618/1618.jpg
This is nearly 100 feet tall

Puts things in perspective doesnt it?

Raz

[Lilac]

thank you for posting that Raz.. I mean.. you can read it.. but to see something that is the same height.. well.. yeah it does put things in prospective

[Amber]

Yeah.. that's huge. -blinks-  Ya fall off of that and you're squish