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"Honey Do", snipped for poetic licenseQuote:
Originally Posted by hemmjo
Well I dreamed I died
And went up to heaven
No more weedin', mashin' and shovelin'
I'm standing in line at the old Pearly Gates
Up steps the woman
And hands me a rake
John Fogerty, Deja Vu (All Over Again) 2004
You might enjoy reading something I wrote many years ago so I posted it
here https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...152#post202211
hmm I was hoping there was a nice brimstone wall& fireplace adjacent to the pearly gates to hold up said pearly gates in the waiting area when there is a long line from a disaster or somethen.
Nope. I'll require only a kennel, holding all my past dogs. That insures social aspect falls right into place :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by marksbug
Can't think of a better place to post that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
Clerks calculating benefits for World War I veterans. Computing Division. Washington, D.C. 1924.
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That's a lot of hats...
All of those computers working diligently.
Attachment 42648
And bumbershoots.
Clerks calculating benefits for World War I veterans. Computing Division. Washington, D.C. 1924
Couple of dudes in there. I'd want and escort to my car after work.
The lady in front might be mistakenly tossing her out-basket documents into her File 13.
Some vets may not be getting their due benefits......nothing new there.
Comfortable shoes before the painful high heels.
skeered you might get caculated?
Hot rolled seamless tube workers. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Seamless Tube Department. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. 1942.
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I saw a very old seamless tube machine under one of the DaVinci museeums in Milan italy. they just left the machine shop there in the dirt and built over it many stories tall.also a ancient wishing well with many old coins still there..and oh somuch more.wire manufacturing,sizing ,stretching etc,big chevron gears.I loved it.
Workers bring sphagnum moss from an Oregon forest to Portland, to use as wound dressings in WWI.
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behind the seen hero's. (horse too)
I have read about using peat moss as a wound dressing. Used extensively by Native Americans. Maybe to this day!
Shoe factory cutting room. Brockton, Massachusetts. 1908.
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Shoe factory cutting room. Brockton, Massachusetts. 1908.
i always appreciate a well made and well fitting pair of boots or shoes.
Loading bricks in the masonry shop. Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, Pennsylvania. May, 1945.
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When I first saw the photo I thought of Government Cheese from the early 80s.
The Government is sitting on 1.4 billion pounds of cheese...
Begs the question. Why?Quote:
Originally Posted by IntheGroove
Appears to be a lot of manual labor like most operations during that era. Little to no automation.
Two bricks at a time...
Being 1945, some of those will be discharged servicepeople. Just prior to this, sufficient production to supply the entire free world. Compared with more recent times, quality control was in hand, at the production level, not surplus levels of management. The work ethic and experience fueled the economy decades beyond, also creating a few new companies. All that equates into a portion of job satisfaction.Quote:
Originally Posted by old_toolmaker
1913 Ford Motor Company assembly line workers.
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Are they dropping the body onto the frame?
Yes, at rear there are chassis that might not have hoods yet either. What a great solution; finish body upstairs, trundle them outside, feed down a ramp; mate to frame via the spindliest gantry on earth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ralphxyz
All of that and no fuel pump...
HA my dad used to tell stories about having to back up hills. Miss those stories and of course my dad.
Backing on hills also took advantage of reverse being a lower ratio. In Signal Hill (~ Long Beach), CA there used to be an event for this, a Model T Hill Climb.
It's thought of as only one like it in the US. There's plenty of onlookers, local news coverage, and repeat participants. There is one specific hill but several that approach from different routes.
Driving a regular car on it, either direction, is not enjoyable for the faint of heart. With motorcycles being gravity fed, I avoided climbing some of them, definitely. Something about lower gears, higher RPM's, and a paper medicine cup sized float bowl.
https://www.google.com/search?q=sign...client=gws-wiz
They were ordered along with color of the paint job...Quote:
Originally Posted by IntheGroove
From the web:
During the early stages of the Model T production, the car was available in almost any colour, except black. In fact the very first model came in red. Later models of the Ford Model T came with a variety of colours such as green, bright red, dark blue, maroon, brown, grey and of course black.
The car was only offered in black from 1914-1925, however before and after that various models of the vehicle could be purchased in a variety of colors including blue, red, grey, and green.
From 1908 to 1914, Model T Fords were painted in a variety of 4 to 5 available colors. All colors of were of darker shades. Interestingly enough, black was not offered as a color initially. However, from 1914 to 1926, all Model T Fords were indeed painted black.
I stand corrected. Obviously, I know little about old Fords.
I know however, not thrilled with the Ford I have now, that is certain.
FoundOnRoadDead...
I read that when Henry was ramping up production in order to lower finished cost it was learned that black dried faster than other colors.
That and you do not have to take time to with colors. Do not have to match fenders to bodies, etc. Just paint everything the same color.... He was obsessed with making them as quickly as possible. Not a bad thing at the time, but it did have its drawbacks.
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