Vintage work crew photos

**Jon** · Sep 17, 2018, 09:07 AM

Forging press in the Krupp factory. Essen, Germany. 1928.

**Beserkleyboy** · Sep 17, 2018, 05:06 PM

Thanks, Jon for posting this! I just spent an hour starting at Wikipedia and realising where I knew the name from! They(ThyssenKrupp) are huge here in AUS with lifts and escalators and heaps of other heavy engineering and marine work. The site at Essen sent me back to a '92 trip to Germany, Czech Rep, Austria....Thanks again
Jim

**Toolmaker51** · Sep 17, 2018, 06:45 PM

Originally Posted by Jon

Forging press in the Krupp factory. Essen, Germany. 1928.

Using people of 90 years ago for scale is misleading, humans were shorter then.
So get a load of the wrench in lower left. Both guys could stand in it around their waists. Or the crane block, the chain has enormous pitch. I like the clamping collars supporting the upper casting. Imagine placing them and positioning them individually, not to mention 2 halves and studs tying them together.
Hard work but I'd have liked it.

**PJs** · Sep 17, 2018, 07:29 PM

Originally Posted by Toolmaker51

Using people of 90 years ago for scale is misleading, humans were shorter then.
So get a load of the wrench in lower left. Both guys could stand in it around their waists. Or the crane block, the chain has enormous pitch. I like the clamping collars supporting the upper casting. Imagine placing them and positioning them individually, not to mention 2 halves and studs tying them together.
Hard work but I'd have liked it.

Perhaps they built it at ground level after the stanchions were in place and pulled it up with that gantry system then tightened it then the lower section and so on. But the foundation and Pad had to be half again that big and a thing to behold being laid!

Randy Newman said it best I think...

**basil3w** · Sep 18, 2018, 08:11 AM

Originally Posted by PJs

Perhaps they built it at ground level after the stanchions were in place and pulled it up with that gantry system then tightened it then the lower section and so on. But the foundation and Pad had to be half again that big and a thing to behold being laid!

Randy Newman said it best I think...

Re: Randy Newman: Were you referencing the the 'shorter humans'?

**PJs** · Sep 18, 2018, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by basil3w

Re: Randy Newman: Were you referencing the the 'shorter humans'?

Yup, in follow up to TM51's comment about folks being shorter in those day...and me being 6'6" 25 years later and my dad being born in 27' and was 6'2" and therefore only applies to the anecdotal lyrics of a master musician/bard.

**PJs** · Sep 17, 2018, 10:51 AM

Oh My, Jon!! The housing castings for the stanchions (6'-8'Ø-Holy Kadoodle!) are incredible! Looks like Nasa stuff from 1928! Wonder what they are making with this.

On one of my trips to Germany I went by their HQ in Essen to an industrial park next to them that did ASiC chip design for a project I was working on. It's a beautiful old school campus. Wish I would have had time for a tour after seeing this.

For others first rabbit chase...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp

Thanks Jon, for another fabulous pic of "big" old school manufacturing and work crews (although tiny ones).

PJ

**Frank S** · Sep 17, 2018, 10:41 PM

I can't say that I have been the the Krupp complex that I know of. I'm sure I have probably been by it a few times because I have been to Dusseldorf and Dortmund many times and Essen is pretty much right between them.