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A steam crane, I wonder what the load limit was.
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OSHA would be all over that man in the top hat standing there.
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I'm just trying to work out what they are manufacturing.
That looks to be a gun barrel (large) being lowered into place on a railway wagon. Any support for that notion? |
I also assumed it was artillery.
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Only the military-industrial complex's grandfather, could afford that monster.
Look at this sumbitch, human powered tractor moving heavy stones slung underneath. Looks like the expected soft ground by the shoes on the wheels. |
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To Bring John Wayne to the silver screen, getting the action on film is only half the battle. You also need sound, then to marry the two smoothly. In the world of rug rats, aircraft and motorized toys, quiet is at a premium, that's why they build sound stages. But John Wayne doesn't shoot well indoors so the sound truck must go to the wide open.
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Big machine for a big job.
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I think Digr posted this picture before, but this is the lifting capacity of each crane.
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Never heard of these. Instead of steering skis, a steering track, kind of like four wheel drive. There is only one track and a complex system of bending it at the steering point. Probably didn't catch on because it's too complex.
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Two biggies, 50,000 ton presses. These were paid for by the US Air Force(you) for forging aluminum and titanium aerospace parts.
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T-Bird press...
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I love this thread.
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I think this fits here better than in rims...
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275hp from 270 cubic inches was no mean feat way back then. An excess of 1hp per cu in was, for a long time, the Holy Grail of performance.
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You wouldn't want to drive one of those Offy engines on the street though, really balky, like riding a high strung stallion.
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I heard one once. Choppy.
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As WW II wound down there were a lot of magazine ads by companies planning their post war strategy. The ads promised people they would have their pent up desire for consumer goods filled beyond their wildest dreams.
Willys' Jeep was born of the war effort and Willys decided they weren't going to pack up and fade away when the government stopped buying. |
The perfect post-apocalyptic ride. Unfortunately, we had like thirty years of economic growth after this came out. Maybe its time to buy the tooling for that? ;)
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That looks expensive, the trailer wheels steer, independent suspension, two trailer wheels drive, hydraulic everything. The only disadvantage would be slower hauling over the road, and you need a $150,000 tractor to pull it.
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When cars were lighter. Citroën did this from the factory on the DS.
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Jack-o-matic™ - The automatic jack that takes the last dirty job out of masturbating.
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Locked bumpers. I've heard of those, but was it really that common?
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Yes, even up into the 50s, although bumper guards helped some.
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If you want to look forkin cool...
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That. Is. Awesome. |
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This shovel in Golden New Mexico isn't like any I've seen before. It looks built in place, hanging off the side of that structure, and not mobile. It appears it's shoveling dirt into a hole on the far side, where a series of scoops on a conveyer carry it up to the second level, dumping the dirt into the revolving screen drum. The drum would dump larger pieces like rocks out the chute on the near end, and the fine stuff is going somewhere else, perhaps a smelter.
They must be bringing the dirt to the shovel with wagons, trucks, or railcars. |
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Conowingo Dam Turbine Hall in 1930, with 7 turbines generating 36 megawatts each, second only to Niagara falls.
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Yeah, we've had these on before, but, I haven't seen a self-propelled one before:
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Steam power...
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I'll bet my Uncle would have killed for one of these while trying to build a temporary airstrip when the Marines were hardly off the beach and Jap snipers everywhere.
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A fine Gentleman sent me these pictures of a Farmall Double A tractor.
http://cellar.org/2016/double farmall.jpg Researching it, seems it's a homebuilt one-off. Quote:
Also came across this dude. http://cellar.org/2016/garrat1.jpg http://cellar.org/2016/garrat3.jpg http://cellar.org/2016/garrat2.jpg Quote:
This shit is much more difficult than it seems, the guy has a lot of time and money tied up here. Probably his wife was grateful to get him out from underfoot, though. |
This is apparently a thing.
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What could possibly go wrong?
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I suspect there isn't much information in existence, at least in English, about this forge.
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I think I was still in High School when I read the Arms of Krupp, big fucking book, 400 years of Krupp.
Just couldn't put the damn thing down. |
That would be an interesting process.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_%28howitzer%29 'A total of 12 complete M-Gerät were built; besides the two available when the war started, 10 more were built during the war.[1][10] This figure does not include additional barrels; two extra barrels were already available before the war started,[1] and possibly up to 20 barrels were built, though some sources state 18.[3] As the war ground on, several Berthas were destroyed when their barrels burst due to faulty ammunition. Later in the Great War, an L/30 30.5-cm barrel was developed and fitted to some Bertha carriages to provide longer-range, lighter fire. These weapons were known as the Schwere Kartaune or Beta-M-Gerät.[6][11]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Gun "The Paris Guns hold an important place in the history of astronautics, as their shells were the first human-made objects to reach the stratosphere." |
Whoops, I was researching the machine and took the gun info from a sidebar, my bad.
Thanks Griff, the numbers are interesting, also the description of the mobile M gun. Oh boy, we can take it along on vacation. Where are you going? Any fucking place we want. What intrigued me was the referral to the inner tube of the barrel. I'd like to know how that barrel goes together. Also, I'm pretty certain in the photograph what they are doing is forging a huge steel blank which later will be divided up into a bunch of pieces. But I still would like to know more about that machine. Why? Damifino? :blush: |
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Don't know how I got the picture in there all over again, maybe glatt can remove the attachment from post #36.
Foreward... This tractor was the first one designed to use rubber tires, a huge leap forward, and 25 mph was car normal speed in Model-A days. Quote:
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Back in the early 1970s, when sophisticated electronics were huge, Segway a pipe dream, and radial tires were hey-buddy-you-got-a-flat, this was genius.
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This beast fits better here than rims.
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Six-wheel drive from two axles?:eyebrow:
Also, a nsfw warning woulda been nice...That one guy's plainly standing there with his tool in his hand. |
It said a 6-wheel drive, 6-cylinder was the biggest they built, not the only. The photographs and illustrations are a two axle and 4 cylinder engine so I guess they're not the biggest model, are they.
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Faegol(above) also made walking tractors. One being demonstrated and the crating dock at the factory.
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Like those rear wheels, bet they didn't get stuck much.
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Yes but you couldn't move it over a paved road, and would tear up an unpaved road. This is why the push to rubber tires in the '30s. A guy I grew up with travels all over buying up those spiked wheels and selling them to the Amish.
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There's been an obsession among the more-money-than-they-know-what-to-do-with crowd, to unearth hot rods, customs, and race cars that had 15 minutes of fame and restore them. They've even added a class for them at the big concours d'elegance shows. One group is car magazine cover cars, ignoring the fact that cover cars weren't necessarily the best of the breed, just good looking and available for a photo shoot before the go to press deadline each month. I think their attitude was, it ain't the best but it's better than yours.
This is one of those cars, the first cover car for Rod & Custom. |
It absolutely cost more to restore. Tracking down the old parts needed probably cost a small fortune. Not to mention the difference in labor costs vs. 1953.
And it's missing the towbar. Understandably. ETA: Nevermind the towbar, where's the radiator?!? Underneath, maybe? I've seen that a couple times. |
Yeah, the tow bar was only attached when towing and is more a part of the tow rig than the car. They had Gene Winfield do the paint on the restoration and ship it back to the shop doing the assembly. Coincidentally it was Winfield who made those water pipes in the '40s, and just happened to have an NOS pair hanging on the wall of his shop. He donated them to the project when he sent the body back.
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Although it has some historical significance and would be a good Museum piece, to who ever buys and restores the car it will be a trophy, a display of wealth, and a step up the social standing ladder in the small circle of high end collectors. Some of these guys make money on these acquisitions as the auction prices climb into the stratosphere. But the prices are at risk of collapse at any time. As much as they tout the value of this or that car, the reality is it's worth not what you paid, but what someone is willing to pay you.
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The whole thing seemed to be built on sand as the cars were bought and sold within a small pool of investors aka 'mugs' and eventually the market, such as it was, seized up and many suffered severe financial loss. I get the feeling that things are now back to normal, if you can use that word in this context, and it's now the domain of multi-millionaires once again. |
I think you're right although there are a lot more millionaires than ever. At a lower level, guys who's kids are out of college and daughter's weddings are paid for, want to own a car that they wanted/had that was cool when they were in high school. So the prices seem to ebb and flow along a timeline about 30 years behind that demographic except for a few milestone cars that are always popular like the '57 Chevy, or '65 Mustang.
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I can't even... :confused:
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There's Fageol again in 1922...
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A Jeep Liberty on fire. Watch what happens when the water hits the hot magnesium transfer case at 1:10.
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This shows the operation of a steam powered machine shop. It's 30 minutes long but the steam supply is at the beginning, then various machines in action. I salvaged a pulley and pilliowblock shaft system out of a shop that was powered by a 5hp electric motor.
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That's so awesome. The old DuPont water powered shop at the Hagley Museum looks very similar.
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The system I got, the primary wheel in the system, which was driven by the 5hp motor, became the base for my coffee table. The top is a wood grid like you've seen on hatch covers in sailing ship movies, has a metal tag on the edge that says "First Class Only". The guy in the van who sold it to me swore it's from the Titanic. :blush:
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Testing at the Bureau of Standards in Washington DC...
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