Barn or garage find

[Frank S]

A friend of mine of 35+ years called me a few days ago to tell me of a lathe he knew of belonging to a lady whose husband had passed many years ago. She had tried to sell it a few times but was unsuccessful due to its age. One guy went so far as to say she should just have it hauled for scrap.
Determined that this piece of yesteryear iron would not wind up in China she called my friend who called me.
Armed with only 2 pictures of the lathe we decided to make the 210 mile trip to Ft Worth. The wife also decided to take advantage of the trip to visit her DR to renew a prescription which would soon require the trip anyway.
Bob my wife and I showed up at the lady's house this morning around 9 Am This was when I found out in order to get the lathe out we first had to remove a Knee Mill, which I found out was also part of the deal.
The mill is called an American Vertical



I ead going to remove the entire upper part of the mill to lighten it up for lifting but to do this I would have needed to remove the hand wheel then the worm screw so the top half could come off here is a pic of inside the base tower

It turned out it wasn't necessary after all.
Now everyone knows why I put those little cranes on the rear of my trailer.

the lathe turned out to be another LaBlond this makes 3 I have now but this one is at least 20 or 30 years older than the other 2