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Steam powered box factory

stevep
stevep Member Posts: 37
in THE MAIN WALL
This has nothing to do with heating, but everything to do with steam. I thought some of you might enjoy the video.



<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/_mKSKZau9qs">http://www.youtube.com/v/_mKSKZau9qs</a>

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  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,600
    Good one.

    I had that in my Thursday e-newsletter some months back. Thanks for sharing.
    Retired and loving it.
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    Love it

    Imagining when everything was brand new , and setup for the first time.



    Built to last over a century old. Maybe a little loser in tolerance, but still works.



    Tired of a throw away society we have become.
  • stevep
    stevep Member Posts: 37
    Toot toot

    I would love to pull that steam whistle. There's some serious power in that system.



    Did any of you guys notice the dog was missing half its tail? My guess is it got it caught in one of the pulleys.

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  • bill_105
    bill_105 Member Posts: 429
    Yeah, it's a trip!

    Imagine that soo long ago. I grew up in the area. Actually all of CA. I went to a private high school about 2 hours away. The mill is in Oak Run. Nice stuff! 
  • BillW
    BillW Member Posts: 198
    Great video!

    Steam-powered machinery is the most fascinating stuff on the planet. That mill features a vertical-tube boiler, much like those that powered logging donkey engines and steam shovels,horse-drawn fire engines and steam rollers into the early 20th century. Those line shafts and the machinery look to be a bit earlier, maybe late 1800's, and you could watch those gears turn in the planer until the cows come home. Steam machinery in factories, on the rails or in ships are some of man's greatest mechanical achievements. That pooch has a mostly missing tail, and I would suspect those gears or one of those sheaves, and he was lucky! Those belts and line shafts and exposed machinery killed a lot of people in that kind of mill, one of them being my great Uncle, who met his demise in a sawmill in the 1890's.
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