Free Treadwheel Crane 3D Model

treadwheel-crane.glb
Wooden medieval treadwheel crane with a large walk wheel, mast and jib, lifting a stone block on a rope hook
Treadwheel Crane 3D model (Lightweight, CC0)

Medieval treadwheel crane with a large walk wheel, rope drum, oak mast and jib lifting a stone block. The wheel turns on its axle for building site scenes.

Free under CC0 for personal and commercial use, no attribution. Download without login as GLB, FBX, BLEND, USDZ or OBJ. Lightweight with 15,644 triangles and 2K textures. It includes 1 movable part as a separate object.

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Download GLB 1.8 MB

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Technical details

Quality tier
Lightweight Stylized, 2K or palette textures, game-ready
Triangles
15,644
Textures
2K (2,048 px) Base ColorRoughnessMetallicNormal
Dimensions
3.71 × 6.46 × 5.61 m (W × D × H)
Moving parts
Walkwheel Separate objects with their own pivot, ready to animate.
Published

Size comparison

Treadwheel Crane: 3.71 m wide and 5.61 m tall, next to a 1.80 m person1.80 m5.61 m3.71 m
Treadwheel Craneperson 1.80 mBounding box to scale, next to a 1.80 m person.

About this model

Before engines, castles and cathedrals rose with machines like this. Two wooden rims joined by spokes and close-set tread boards form a walk wheel big enough for a worker to step inside. It sits on an axle between two trestles on a timber sill frame, and a rope drum on the same axle winds up a thick rope. The rope runs over a pulley at the head of the oak mast and out along a braced jib to a rounded hook, where a stone block hangs in a sling. A small stack of blocks waits at the foot. Wheel, axle and drum form one separate object with the pivot on the axle, so you can turn them while the load rises. It belongs to the Cozy Medieval Kit and looks natural beside a half-built castle wall. Tip: sync the wheel spin with a walking worker for a lively construction scene.

Good for

  • Castle construction site in a strategy game
  • Animated machine in a medieval town
  • Harbour or quarry loading scene
  • Historical diorama of cathedral building

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Engine import notes

Unity GLB · FBX

Import the GLB with the glTFast package or use the FBX. 1 m in the file = 1 Unity unit.

Unreal Engine FBX

Use the FBX. The model is built in metres. Unreal works in centimetres and converts on import, so it arrives at real size (5.61 m = 561 cm).

Godot 4 GLB · FBX

Drag the GLB into the FileSystem dock. Godot 4 imports it directly, with materials. The FBX works too (Godot 4.3+ imports it natively).

Blender BLEND · GLB

Open the .blend directly, or import the GLB via File › Import › glTF 2.0.

Use it in: UnityUnrealGodotBlender

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