10-ton steam shovel - photo

10-ton steam shovel from the 1900s.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...075#post172161
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...074#post145186
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...569#post136169
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...4845#post80690
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...985#post160484

Rivets and chains. And SPROCKETS.

I know a guy who used to install hot rivets. He's deaf in one ear because that was the side that faced the rivets as they were being hammered.

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Originally Posted by nova_robotics

Rivets and chains. And SPROCKETS.

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And scored drum chain wheels......I'm sure, moving 12 x 12 crane pads was all kinds of fun