Apple coring/peeling lathe worker - GIF

[Haroun]

My first real job in high school was working on an OLD apple peeling machine, it had been belt driven & was converted to electric motor. It was a huge iron contraption that was basically an armature to hold & provide motive force to 2 peelers much like the hand crank ones you can buy today. How no one got impaled on the coring bit I'll never know, it was the most dangerous thing I would ever see till I ran into a guy who has a 24" belt driven planer converted to electric from back in the days when safety guards were your eyes & common sense