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Steam, we want steam...
On 2/20/14, 2:05 PM,
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:05:31 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/l44f5gb
I believe this is part of a 19th Century steam engine. It decorates the
lawn of a nearby property. There are still working farms around here,
but if it is a steam engine, I can't imagine what it was used for 100
years ago, at least on a farm. Perhaps it powered a sawmill?
Anyway, it is an interesting piece of gear.
That may be possible. I imagine they had small saw mills down there
100 years ago.. The dual pulleys indicates it may have been the
central power plant for multiple machines.
This is a steam engine that ran a saw mill at Camp 18 in Oregon
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Oregon/Pac%...m%20Engine.jpg
This is the kind of saw it might have run
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Oregon/Pac%...band%20saw.jpg
That saw is one scary looking bit. I wonder how many human appendages it
removed over its lifetime.
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