Tipping lorry @museum.de

When we walk from one of the open workshops, the Hundelbuden, over to the collection point of the brake track, it's a short walk of two minutes at most. But for the stone cutters, such a distance was huge, because granite stones are heavy to carry. For this reason, a small light railroad was built to transport the stones from the workshops to the braking track. Once the paving stones or kerbstones were finished, they were placed on different wagons and transported to the braking track for further transportation.

Oops! I remember that. My fox children took great pleasure in riding between the stones. How often did I explain to them that it was dangerous. But they kept escaping from me and jumping onto the wagons. Take a look: this is a so-called tipper wagon. They used it to drive the cobblestones over.

Oh, that was really dangerous. Because, as the name suggests, you can tip a tipper truck. This is particularly useful for unloading the wagons: you simply tip the thing and all the cobblestones tumble out.

Our tipper wagons were tilted to one side. The principle of this silly children's game was simple: as soon as they had loaded a tipper truck at the workshops, one of the little foxes jumped up and hid between the cobblestones. When it was time to go, they jumped onto the stones and enjoyed racing like the wind to the braking track. But then they had to be careful and jump off quickly enough to avoid getting caught between the falling stones. Fortunately, everything always went well. But I got upset every time.