[0.17] Cargo wagon loader/unloader, 4 (full) blue belts per wagon
Been seeing some talk on loading 4 blue belts per wagon (notably in my last post here on cargo wagon loaders) and decided to show one way to load and unload 4 fully compressed blue belts per wagon. Some of you may recognize the design concept it's based on, as it was referred to it in my last post. I don't have any use for this myself as I don't require such density so it's more of a proof of concept not a proper blueprint (you may add your own buffers etc). Loader is ugly and neither loader/unloader is very compact. Here it is regardless.
If I were to spend more time on it I would try to make the loader more compact. You can theoretically use only 2 inserters to fill the chest chain, seeing as chest-to-chest is only around twice as fast as belt-to-chest but you probably need to strip the near lane since inserters pick up from the further lane faster.
Posted May 6, 2019, 5:25 PM UTC
I like to use another cargo wagon oriented perpendicular to the track.
Love your flair :) Yeah I had experimented with perpendicular wagons in other designs but had scrapped it because I ended up preferring more compact loaders. Hadn't considered using wagons for this, actually sounds much better.