Muskrat skins I get, WTH is the work area paved with??? Oyster shells?
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Muskrat skins I get, WTH is the work area paved with??? Oyster shells?
What I like is the all knowing expression on the older gentleman's face as he watches the youngers stretch the skins. If you could hear his eyes they would be saying boys I've done this all my life now its your turn and you better to them right if you expect me to buy them.
While I've not trapped or skinned muskrat, Frank S's comment hit me. When I saw this a couple days ago, it had me thinking about my various mentors. Fishing with Dad probably first one, second one his boss. We'd spend weekends visiting their estate and Thoroughbred farm, 60 years ago we sat at his desk in trophy room. He pulled out a pocket knife and dissected a red paper 12 gauge shotgun shell. That's when my world of physics, design, and machining began.
In other news, today is TM51's birthday, wanting 60 ton iron worker or single end punch; well tooled.
I'll wind up with a cake and not even a picture of either one.
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I was going to wrap them with a nice bow, but out of time.
Don't have pictures of either but will extend happy birthday regards to you.Quote:
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Sure looks like it - the place is also an oyster shucking station. But what is the huge barrel on the left? Fresh water storage I would guess. How does it get filled?Quote:
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Aw shucks guys [shuffling feet, kicking at one shoe with toe of other] you're too kind. I do appreciate the salutations; I intend having P-L-E-N-T-Y more.Quote:
Originally Posted by hemmjo
No problems with good used equipment. The Edwards far too pretty; Kling, Hill-ACME, Buffalo, Mubea, Strippit are all old mechanicals, fast and full attention required!
I have that very same single end punch in ebay watchlist! Holding company has it listed at their site too.
Probably rain barrel.Quote:
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That barrel is interesting. Looks like was recently turned over. It seems to be wet by one of the bands, but the water seems to be running the wrong way.Quote:
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Also the bands seem to have been moved at somepoint in time, perhaps as the barrel aged.
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rising damp from joint weeping
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Phenomenal observations!
Jon. Here's a deserving awardee for newly minted 'Sharp Eye' trophy. May I suggest deerstalker cap and calabash pipe.
Good observation. I never noticed.Quote:
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Threshing crew. Hungary, 1910.
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Shipbuilders. Swansea, NSW, Australia. 1899.
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Always wonder how they drop hull lines building big boats outdoors, not to mention rolling it over afterward.
I wonder those things also. All of those old skills are or have already died off along with those who knew how to do it. I am sure, if we had to, we could figure it out. Only thing is, we would just get the laser out and shoot it that way.
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Quarrymen, Whiteman's Quarry, Waratah, New South Wales, 1885.
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Why would they need to roll the hull over?Quote:
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John Lennons first band was bigger than I imagined..
Many boats, at least smaller wood boats, are framed and planking begins upside down. I am guessing that one is 100 feet long, I doubt it was flipped. Too much risk of breaking it.Quote:
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Work crews change out the propellor of the SS Leviathan, a German ocean liner, while others paint the hull. 1910s.
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Don't you just love the safety protocols 1 guy looks to be hanging onto and standing on bolts another is painting while on only walk planks no railings cables or any other form of barrier in the event of a miss step, too many things to mention that no one would even consider working in those conditions in today's world
Not here in the USA. I do not know about other developed countries. I have seen way more dangerous work sites in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Jon has posted a few photos showing dangerous work sites. That one of the concrete deck collapse comes to mind right off.Quote:
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Something that caught my eye is the length of the painters poles, the small size of paint cans, and how close the cans are to the painters. Makes me wish it was a video.
LOTS going on in that photo!!
Looking at the gent who is dressed better than the others, left side, middle. I wonder if he is possibly the Captain of the ship?
Yes, a lot going on in the photo. On the floor, under the ladder on the lower left of the photo, is that the wrench to take off the propellor lock nuts?
I wonder if the guys with the long brushes have wire brushes, rather than paint? Maybe prepping for paint?
Worse...I don't think those are bolts...I'm pretty sure those are rivets. Domed head and all...Quote:
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Snow removal - Ford Motor Co. (Fordson) tractor, Pennsylvania Avenue. Washington, D.C., 1925.
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There are so many safety wrongs going on in just this picture, a person can't even imagine how many safety wrongs under and around and the ship.
...an interesting history
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Possibly, though more likely the First Bos'n, or Engineering Officer.Quote:
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Like Scotty on Star Trek, without all the frenzied "...but Captain...!"
The better dressed guy looking on is why everyone else is trying to look busy.
That does make more sense. I've never spent time aboard anything other than my 14' fishing "yacht", so I have to admit my ignorance when it comes to the chain of command. I was kind of thinking Engineering of some sort, but could't come up with a title that made sense in my head.Quote:
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A good 1st Bos'n / engineering officer/ Senior engineer will quickly calculate in their head that a task will take 12 hours, tell the Cpt./ Boss 24 hours till up and running.
Boss will say you've got 18 then deliver in 15, Is thought of as a hero gets kudos uses them to get time off for the workers. Next time the workers will try even harder to get it done and get it right the 1st time. Morale is good.
The problem with that is the next time Boss begins to expect miracles, workers will forego proper safeties injuries happen task takes longer boss gets mad engineer gets chewed out this spills over to workers morale goes down
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Boiler makers, Castlemaine Brewery, Newcastle, New South Wales, 1901.
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Whole lot of Banging threading potential, especially the sledge hammer with 12' handle!
Not sure of the device in the center might be some sort of forge or hot plate looks like a teapot embedded on the left.
Ralph
For the life of me, I can't even imagine waylaying that 12 foot sledge hammer!
The "forge" in the center is a brazier for heating the rivets. The leather looking thing on the bottom of the brazier is probably a hand pumped bellows. The fellow with neckerchief standing behind the kneeling man to the right of the brazier is holding a rivet in his tongs. The kneeling man may be holding a bucking bar to back the rivet as it's peened.
It's possible that the long "sledge hammer" is also a bucking bar used on rivets in hard to reach places. That's a guess because, with such a long, thus flexible, handle, I would think the hammer head would just bounce away from the rivet as it's peened.
One thing is for sure, they knew what they were doing and they did it well...
I think Marv is right about the 12' sledge, head looks to be twice the weight of a normal heavy sledge [~10/12 pound]. Perhaps one of the crew carried the head or suspended it with line, while the other kept it in place father away. Inside the vessel my have not been room to swing a handled tool.
Packaging line at a Hungarian fertilizer plant. 1940.
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