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Museum Discussion / Re: Improved Efficiencies & Mechanization for Track Building?

« on: November 02, 2017, 03:45:46 PM »

As I have been fond of saying about track laying in the past: "You couldn't pay me enough to do this work, but, I'll volunteer!"

Been a long time since I've been up...  Hope to remedy that over winter. 

Countdown: 604 days -till I retire...

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Whimsical Weirdness and Foolery / Re: Who doesn't like "76 Trombones"?

« on: August 03, 2010, 12:33:17 PM »

Wonder how it does with Stars and Stripes Forever?

-Someone has WAY too much time on their hands...

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Volunteers / Re: The Coal Brick Experiment

« on: August 02, 2010, 12:28:59 PM »

Years ago, my company did a characterization analysis of some 20 or 30 different types of coal, from hard to soft and labeled as to what mine and in some cases, what shaft.  It's all pulverized (dust) coal. It was made especially for the analysis, so, it's probably clean stuff.  We still have 20 or 30 55 gallon drums of it, and I could probably dig out the research if anyone is interested

Free for the asking.

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General Discussion / Re: Mystery machine...

« on: March 09, 2010, 02:27:41 PM »

And yes, a shipsaw will not only do compound and mitered cuts, it will also do a miter on a curve, like the bowstem.

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General Discussion / Re: Mystery machine...

« on: March 09, 2010, 02:15:21 PM »

The saw in the pictures Steve took (Great pic's BTW!), is not the saw described or pictured on the plaque....  I can't see a tilting mechanism in Steve's photos.  My guess was this machine was in the building alright, but  was used for an operation called "re-sawing" where giagundo trees were turned into flat sided keels, or planks were sliced from larger stock. What leads me to believe that is the presence of the roller sitting behind where the blade would be leaving the top blade wheel.

What is described and pictured in the plaque is properly called a shipsaw, as you can see from this link: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jehvicvbc/1087308234/        (The picture is missing the bottom blade wheel and the floor mount casting.)   The work table on a shipsaw does not tilt  (As they do on all modern bandsaws.). The wheels and the blade tilted as a unit, so big heavy pieces of wood would stay put on the horizontal of the table, and not slide off. The tilting track is the big cast "C"

How much wood would a wood duck duck, if a wood chuck could chuck wood?