So, after all, a mule is not stubborn and can works. From the common phrase ' stubborn as a mule'.
So, after all, a mule is not stubborn and can works. From the common phrase ' stubborn as a mule'.
I was imagining single-point threading that rod at the top.
HA, I just got that!!! Sometimes it takes me a while, depending on the day!! :smash:
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re post 836, the mule team and combine.
With no clue what's going on here, examining photo revealed some details. The hitch is just pulling the machine, and it's power plant to run the combine itself, plus what ever tasks of surprisingly large crew, including filling the sacks piled on left side.
Then wikipedia......The modern combine harvester, or simply combine, is a versatile machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops. The name derives from its combining four separate harvesting operations—reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing— to a single process. Among the crops harvested with a combine are wheat, rice, oats, rye, barley, corn (maize), sorghum, soybeans, flax (linseed), sunflowers and rapeseed. The separated straw, left lying on the field, comprises the stems and any remaining leaves of the crop with limited nutrients left in it: the straw is then either chopped, spread on the field and plowed back in or baled for bedding and limited-feed for livestock.
Combine harvesters are one of the most economically important labor-saving inventions, significantly reducing the fraction of the population engaged in agriculture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combine_harvester Article may have been written by an Englishman, as I Americanized spelling of ploughed and labour-saving.
This post demonstrated likelihood many are quite ignorant of goings-on 24/7/365 to keep us fed. Though a huge probability existed the mules were bred here in Missouri.
Recalling what we've seen of MESTA equipment, could be their compact model........
Compared to shears that descend guided at each end, this is a variety known (perhaps colloquially) as an alligator/ aka high angle shear. Both use the inclined blade angle just like scissors do. The blade clearance on the MESTA was probably not good for sheetmetal, but smaller bench shears do it easily.
Never sheared 7" but can report a 6' wide 'gator nipped hot rolled stock for welding coupons 1-1/2" and 2" thick, hardly making a sound. 25-30 minutes or so, would supply a big pile of them. Then handful of guys would eat 50 pound boxes of electrodes running multi pass weld samples.
Neither one a bill I'd like to foot.
You know you're getting old when you remember that black and white commercial for Twenty Mule Team Borax cleaner. Good stuff.
Dave, from Engels Coach Shop, (Youtube) built a full size 20 mule team borax wagon, (x2) and a water cart from scratch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9sy770g8EM&t=38s
The link is a brief rundown of the process but there is also a full series of videos on each step. Its a fantastic channel. I love his stuff.
Wow, the craftsmanship is awesome. Thank you for posting.
I remember the Borax commercials it was used around a western series, maybe early Wagon Train ?
Mesta Machine Company air compressor. West Homestead, PA. 1905/1925.
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I'd like to see the motors.
Mesta Machine Company air compressor. West Homestead, PA. 1905/1925.
It's been discussed before. But never having worked around bolts this large, these images fascinate me.
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Mesta Machine Company vacuum pump. West Homestead, PA. 1905/1925.
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The railing around the flywheel appears to be threaded pipe. If so, how did they assemble it...
Jim,
Biggest nut & bolt I ever dealt with
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Cheers Phil
oh great you found the ring gear bolt out of my dana!
Mesta Machine Company, unlabeled machine. West Homestead, PA. 1910/1920.
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Fageol Motors orchard tractor. Oakland, CA. 1918.
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Brown electric hoist unloading freighter. 1910.
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They had those operating in 1910 and it never occurred to them that, if the cargo was in similar sized boxes they could unload them to trucks/trains much more quickly. It took 46 years and a world war before that simplicity was "discovered".
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Not to mention the fact that the Greeks and Romans were doing containerized (amphora-ized) shipping two millenia before that.
Amphora; Extended height 'vases' with truncate tapered bases. WTH? They'd fall over!
Nope, their ships cargo hols had a bed of sand, the pointed ends penetrated into it, for near perfect load stability.
Another immensely used product emanating from WWII, you can't swing a dead cat without being near some. As the Navy established beachheads in the Pacific, an efficient method was needed getting various liquids, especially fuel & oil, ashore, and continuous resupply. Army mess had liked white gravy for SOS in that volume, no comment
Instead of welding pipelines, the piping clamp, rolled groove and seal were developed; it lives on today virtually unchanged as the Victaulic product line.
Works in carbon, stainless or copper pipe. I'm sure the heavy underground plastic also, but those grooved might have to be machined, metallic pipe is done with a 'groover', essentially opposite of knurling. Clearly visible to left in this terrific (sprained my arm patting myself on the back) photo, also visible are lips of the rubber seal. The 'carriage bolts' aren't square lugged, they are obround; more contact, less chance stripping the recess.
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Seal? Sure does, main method of assembling fire sprinkler systems, high pressure, resistant to vibration, to stringent codes of life and safety.
Here's one performing as a union; a close copper NPT nipple cut in half, grooved and joined by a Victaulic.
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Both these are headers for transfer pump skids, built where I'm visiting in Los Angeles. Proud having mentored this young man, figuratively before his Dad even graduated High School. No wisecracks, he was born 8 years later.
Amphora were often loaded horizontally laid interlaced (pointy end next to adjacent blunt end) lying on a bed of sand. Layers were cushioned from the layers above/below with straw, reeds or the like. Numerous sunken ships found in the Adriatic and Black seas still show this arrangement so the carrying form isn't mere speculation. Some short haulers had racks with holes fixed along the gunwales; amphorae were inserted in the holes. This technique was really only good for calm water - probably riverine craft only.
Farm Security Administration cooperative tractor. Box Elder County, Utah. August, 1940.
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Three men and one tractor... looks "productive." :rolleyes:
Reminds me of the story my Uncles would tell us about the Workers Progress Authority (WPA) during the Great Depression, which was a government "workfare" program. They'd say it was always 3 men watching the 1 man with the shovel.
Looks like 2 men and a boss, to me...The man 'driving' the McCormick-Deering, is far too clean!
Psst! That's is a bulk carrier!
Mesta Machine Company double helical tooth gear drive. 1905/1925.
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Is that a big electric motor on the right side of the photo? Perhaps driving a shaft with 2 flywheels, and a small pinion gear for that monster gear? That monster generates some torque!!!
You can see the commutators and brushes on the right. The motor turns a flywheel and the smaller gears. The large gear drives a flywheel and the machine on the left...
Mesta Machine Company boring mill. 1905/1925.
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Mill control panel at the American Steel & Wire Co. Donora Works. 1915-1917.
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Ya think?
DC not AC...
Open hearth ladle. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. 1930.
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Autoclave with multiplate bulletproof glass. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. 1940.
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Planer in the McKees Rocks Machine and Erecting Shop of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company. April, 1904.
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