I wonder how many hours it took to grease all those rollers, and how often they had to be greased.
I wonder how many hours it took to grease all those rollers, and how often they had to be greased.
an industrial supply company's dream come true. 1000s of bearings miles of belting hundreds of gear reduction transmissions equal number of electric motors.
After I returned from the middle East I stopped in at the bearing & chain and supply to meet an old friend of mine who I used to buy those very same items from back when he first started at the company in 1979 a young salesman fresh out of college I may have been one of his first regular customers Back then we bought so much stuff that they would open up at midnight to fill a requests.
When I walked in that day by then he was the branch manager and was telling some of his salesmen some things they needed to do then he saw me and said there is a guy you need to find to really set your careers in motion this is Frank and he bought BEARINGS buy the tons
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Lackawanna Iron Ore pier, Buffalo NY c.1900
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Check out that 'Whaleback' freighter docked up alongside!
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Farquhar 15-25 farm tractor c.1918
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Somehow I think that is an original condition machine. The lugs, treads, or spades were usually supplied in a case and added later to suit the ground the machine was working on instead of being bolted on at the factory. Any of the old timers I asked about the iron wheel tractors always said how much better the pneumatic tires were and told me even with the big spades on the iron wheels they would still get stuck. Many of these old tractors were used more as an engine to drive other machinery like threshers instead of used for pulling ploughs. The old guys told me they often hitched the horse to the threshing machine to pull it from one farm to the next and thought they were doing good if the traction engine could move itself. Sometimes they had to use horse to move the engines too. The spades did prevent the engines from sliding toward the threshers or mills as they worked so there is that to it too.
Not being old enough to have ran one I have to trust what my Grandfathers told me about them.
My father grew up on several hardscrabble farms. On one they had an old farmall 10-20 with iron wheels. If it hit soft enough ground with heavy enough load he said that it would just start digging with those wheels till the diff hit the ground. If things went well it would slowly chew its way out. If not they went n hitched up the mule to help pull it out.
Eric
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Crane used for moving gun barrels at the U.S. Naval Gun Factory, Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C., c.1909
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"...one day when the oil barons all drip dry...
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Lanz tractor. Described as "6-cylinder, 1918".
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Yikes what a behemoth. 6 cylinders indeed, maybe for each wheel. Or a single engine and oil drum sized pistons...
The size of that tool box might tell you some thing about the maintenance.
Eric
Looking at the picture the cylinders and heads seem to be bolted to the block in 2 cylinder units.
I am having a hard time imagining what this big of a machine was made for, but by the picture dated 1918 I suspect it was for dragging artillery around. I also suspect this is a captured piece of equipment.
Lanz was a German company, does anybody recognize the uniforms or weapons the soldiers have? The soldier on the right has his shoulder patch and rifle.
I came across a Video on youtube of cold start after 45 years of Ursus C-45. Did more searching and I almost fell in love with it. I love it how the steering wheel is the start crank too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanz_Bulldog
That's a big'O 2 stroke. "cylinder capacity of 10,300 cc" (628 Cu. in.). Wonder what the fuel was?
When the engine starts, a grown man literally jumps for joy.
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What I was told was crude oil, but I think they meant any sort of diesel or vegetable oil. Wikipedia says the Ursus 45 tractor was an unlicensed Polish copy of the German Lanz D 9506 Bulldog tractor.
Yes, I was noticing the smokiness too. My safety sense was screaming about ventilation instead of asphyxiation.
You realize it is a hot bulb engine instead of a diesel engine. While a diesel ignites the fuel with compression heat the hot bulb starts burning the oil inside the hot bulb. Since hot bulbs do not need compression to fire they can run with less than 5:1 compression ratios. Hot bulb engines can burn almost any kind of oil as long as it is thin enough to get into the bulb on the intake stroke of the engine unlike diesels which have to be able to pump the oil into the compressed cylinder as a fine spray.
Yes I did. Hence the fuel oil thought as it's a relatively thin, low grade Distillate fuel and #6 (thinnest) runs vary sooty and would likely work in a bulb, especially once every thing warmed up. That was a pretty good size torch he used to get it started.
However my brain thinks of diesels as 4 stroke for some reason, although I know there are 2 strokes from way back...and that they are called Diesels because the burn Diesel. Wiki or other searches didn't say much about the kind of fuel this engine burned, so it guess and by-golly for me. Could have been Kerosene just as well back then but much more expensive and more of a premium in Poland I would think at that time.
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Detroit Diesel produced engines for heavy trucks that were 2 stroke diesel. They had ported cylinders to get fresh air and had exhaust valves to get rid of the burnt stuff. They are "interesting", were very popular, and I believe copies are still being made for industrial use.
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Type F Brown Hoisting Machinery Co. locomotive crane with 40 ft. boom, 1918.
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If you blow up the photo the block and hook are defiantly an added in drawing
The bumpers and chains on the rail car are drawn in too.
Maybe they were drawn over the real things because they were unable to capture the detail, those parts were washed out/overexposed. It was common enough then to spawn a joke that goes something like:
Customer takes an old family photo to a photo store and asked them to remove grandpa's hat from the photo. The clerk asks "What color was his hair?". The customer replied with "Won't you find that out when you remove his hat?"
Neil
I'll try this again as I Oxiduntly errasticated my first post.
I think these were probably done later and likely with modern techniques. It is possible they were done back then but this type of enhancement didn't take place very much until a decade later when inks were developed to work with either the prints or negatives, then reprinted/developed.
Close inspection of the crane I would say that the crane itself (selected) was enhanced with at least with contrast, brightness and perhaps exposure to highlight the crane over the rest of the picture (background washed out). Huge amount of lint/scratches close up that were resolved in the crane itself. The boom, although still grainy definitely has contrast adjustment and some clean up. The cabin was more so enhanced using a clone stamp or some minimal opacity brush work and the arc of that light/shadow does not fit the lighting profile...scratches are maybe 20% of the background.
As for the block/hook, note that the back of the neck of the hook has and over-spray/brush mark of lesser opacity. The block could have easily been added and the use of a clone stamp or Bandaid tool used to make it look old with the smear. The bumpers and turnbuckles and the top hat on the cabin were similarly produced with small brush work and on the rear bumper there is (obvious to me) cleanup/clone stamp work around it and inside the step bar. The top hat is much more subtle, again lighter lint/scratch and the use of opacity and spray-brush to create the reflective effect.
I probably deleted the first one subconsciously to minimize my usual spewing syllogistical thesis so I will stop here.
Thanks Jon for another rabbit hole of wonder.
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PJ
to minimize my usual spewing syllogistical thesis so I will stop here.
Ha ha I'll have to remember that one judging from the length of most of my posts
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Steam hammer used for forging steel at the Midvale Steel Company, c. 1905.
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Installation of the Gargamelle chamber body. Placement of the chamber in the oblong shaped magnet coils. January 1970.
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George A. Van Biesbroeck (1880-1974), astronomer at Yerkes Observatory observing Mars when it approached close to the earth in 1926, and using the 40 inch refracting telescope, the largest of its kind in the world.
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With some spare time; I'll make up funny labels for all those handwheels. I count 7...Sure, they're for mirror alignment, but that's boring.
Real special label for the one with the wad of string (?) In the middle ;-)
Tactile identifier?
Eric
It's a refractor so mirror alignment isn't much of a problem. (The components that always work flawlessly are the ones that aren't there.) Regardless, I'm very impressed by the ability to precision grind a 40 inch lens back in those days.
You've got me wondering what is being controlled with all those ship wheels. I suspect most of them are controlling mechanical rather than optical properties of the instrument.
More on the Yerkes Observatory here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes_Observatory
Avery 40-80 tractor. 1917.
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Fageol heavy-duty tractor and trailers. 1918.
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Seems trailer chassis have a LOT of plumbing, quite similar to the tractor.
Looks like the boxes are capable of side dump? Latches at the bottom, hinges atop.
And I'd want to be the fly on wall, for sales pitch on [non-existant] forward and starboard visibility. "Well sir, good point; but top speed is only 8mph, left hand turns are easy, and texting hasn't been invented yet."