There's a good chance that was made for the Shasta Dam...
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There's a good chance that was made for the Shasta Dam...
I totally agree. I often wonder how they managed to make such amazing HUGE stuff, "back in the day".
This quote is often brought to mind!!!
“Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain
Laboratory employees at the Columbia-Southern Chemical Corporation. Corpus-Christi, Texas. 1951.
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bull in a china shop....I better stay out of there.
In regard to the warning sign on the Iron Furnace Door. I am thinking if you are close enough to read that sign, and you do not ALREADY KNOW that you need to be careful. No amount of signage, will save someone from their own stupid self.
oh so true.
:clapping::angry::sweating::headscratch::smash::gunfire::soapbox:
Machining a steel wheel at Wheel and Axle Division of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. McKees Rocks, PA. January 1963.
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#2951 Looks more like a shaft than a wheel.
Ralph
Agreed, it's a little confusing. Source is here: https://historicpittsburgh.org/islan...A943.163004.GN . They do list "Axle Forging" as a title, but then they call it a wheel in the description, and mention a process of slicing wheel blocks from steel rounds.
If not obvious, industrial and mechanical terminology is a favorite 'tool' of mine. When terms are misapplied, it gets me all wound up. However; from only info here, [HMT.net] entirely possible the stock is being worked into a wheel, just a smaller diameter that 'wheel' means to us. Like wheels for heat treat oven carts, mine shafts, elevators, who knows.
Now, substitution from photo note to description is just bad proof reading.
I'd make another stab at cable TV "How It's Made", or a 'word' program illiterate of terms critical to making and using it.........So many things have turned into branches of the 'Millennial Anti-Theft Devices' tree.
Or roots.
well....it's round...so ...it's a wheel.
so...witch came first...the machine or the machine to make the machine...that makes the machine.:hattip: truly hand made. each step is a advancement to the netxt step and a better first step.and a lot of hard hot heavy work.and some thinking too.just think of what could Leonardo could of done with todays machines/computers to make his brain's ideas all come to life.
Yes,Definitely a Shaft,I don't like it or my Brain does'nt like it when it's Trying to turn a shaft into a wheel when its a Shaft and not a wheel!:hattip:
isant a shaft just a long wheel...and that one look to be bigger than many wheels we see every day.I think it's all in the terminology. there are skinny wheels and wide wheels.long sfats and short shafts.big shafts and small shafts. shafts are normally longer than wheels but not necessarily.wheels are usualy taller than shafts...but not always. shafts can be used between 2 wheels..but not always....and both shafts and wheels can roll but not always.....wheels and shafts can also be flat..but hopefuly not unless there supposed to be. and eggs were made to either be cooked, hatched or thrown.oops yes the eggs do get laid. but did the chicken? probably not...but...it had to of gotten laid.as it was in the egg..and oh so tasty either way.
Looks to me like they are forging a pig into a specific size, probably to shear off a slug, to be forged into a wheel.
Make sense?
Note the Go-NoGo gauges laying at his feet.
Wheels(tires) are just cylinders with various ratios of height to width. Just a few examples. Not sure why that last one attached that way??
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LOL!
Took 60+ years to raise the question; what held Mr. Flintstone's rear axle in place? Come to think of it, how'd it steer?
Some wheels are screwed...
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Shepherds wear stilts (tchangues) to navigate marshy ground. Gascony, France. Circa 1895.
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looks like tri pods to keep out of the bugs&stickers/weeds/poop. i kinda doubt you can traverse mussy ground on stilts.
The third stick is their Shepherds crook, and yes they did walk on them https://mashable.com/2016/08/13/stilt-shepherds-landes/
Wow oh wow! There has to be a Good Reason for this. "How's ya new job going mate? Er I'm climbing the Ladder pretty quickly!" My Stilts are Bigger than yours! Get a job in a Circus later on.
What I see is not a lot of sheep watching going on........
I didn't know Marty Feldman got his start as a shepherd! (Far left guy). Maybe that guys name is Abby Normal?
that would be abby normal.possibly the abby normal weekley meating.
"Those Joneses... they think they're so much higher than everyone else."
Beer barrel welding department. Alcoa's New Kensington Works. May, 1947.
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One of the most important industries!
yes, many neet gas tanks were made with those. as for the beer...pour it down the drain.
Interesting that they still made these early barrels, barrel shaped. The only reason I can see for this is to hold less beer. Air receivers and modern stainless beer barrels have parallel sides and they are much easier to roll and carry.
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Science fact, beer isn't bought, just rented.[/QUOTE]
I generally only do short term rental of mine, usually around 30 minutes and I get rid if it.
The traditional barrel shape has some mechanical advantages...
If rolling one on a flat surface it's easy to change the direction of motion since the barrel contacts the ground in only a single circle. OTOH, a cylinder will want to continue rolling in the same direction.
A barrel will self center its rolling on two rails whereas a cylinder will not. In olden days it was typical to unload trucks, ships, etc. by arranging two rods or planks as "rails" and rolling the barrels down the rails. Cylinders would have fallen off the rails.
These advantages must have been important since constructing a barrel is more difficult than making a cylinder and barrel shapes do not pack as tightly as rectangular containers.
In the modern world, the second advantage is moot. Palletizing, fork lifts, and other mechanized handling equipment have minimized direct handling.
Whether the shape is preserved because of the first advantage or simply because of the public perception that beer should be in barrel-shaped containers is hard to know.
IntheGroove's keg slide post moved to its own thread in the Homemade Tools subforum here: https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...532#post173919
they are barrels because they are barrel shaped...if they were cylinder shaped they wood beee cylinders of beer...there I hope this exsplains it.no?? good thing they are called kegs. whisky comes in barrels...and bottles...and glasses.