The photo-a-day thread
- slow_walker
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^ What a strange store!
People's monitors are larger these days. I'm gonna post with the smallest Large size (1024) from now on.
People's monitors are larger these days. I'm gonna post with the smallest Large size (1024) from now on.
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That is a really interesting space. The photo has a certain serene beauty to it as well.mindwaave wrote:^ What a strange store!
People's monitors are larger these days. I'm gonna post with the smallest Large size (1024) from now on.
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Glad you like the shot, there's always something new to see at Cementland! If I recall, Sublunar has a cool shot of standing-water from a visit to Mechanical City...
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Flooded hoist machinery pits at the Federal No. 9 Shaft, St. Joe State Park
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I see your fancy electric powered mine hoist and raise you an ancient Model A powered mine hoist:Headframe Hunters wrote:
Hoist operator's station at the Jim Crow Mine in western New Mexico
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I don't get these hoists with small gas engines. The Model A only produced 4.4 psi of compression. How is that going to hold back anything?
Then there's the RIDING LAWN MOWER on top of the elevator shaft at Lever. What?! How?
Then there's the RIDING LAWN MOWER on top of the elevator shaft at Lever. What?! How?
RE: The photo-a-day thread
You got me.
This here is a Wellman-Seaver-Morgan double-drum steam hoist which was powered by a 250 hp Babcock & Wilson boiler.
This here is a Wellman-Seaver-Morgan double-drum steam hoist which was powered by a 250 hp Babcock & Wilson boiler.
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aka "That Guy"
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Indeed. Imagine going 1,000 feet down in one of these.
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Cooling facility of a nitroguanidine production plant. Last used around the Vietnam war.
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Headframe and surface equipment for that hoist I posted
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Re: The photo-a-day thread
SubLunar has some cool pics in this thread.