Vintage work crew photos

[Toolmaker51]

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]

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]

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]

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.