[AT] DEAD or:: Long Story

Mon Mar 12 03:42:05 PDT 2007

Interesting.  They are back almost 100 years.  When my father was a young 
man (early 1920's) he worked for a short time in a furnature factory in 
Rochester N.Y. that was powered by one or more steam engines.  His 
description of the overhead shafting and belting were as you describe.  
Rochester Gas and Electric Company supplied steam to the downtown Rochester 
area to be purchased to operate the engines.

Off to work,

Charlie in WNY

>From: Ed Stewart <edstewart1 at verizon.net>
>Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>
>Hi, near where I live here in PA there is an Amish furniture factory
>that is run by a single diesel engine running a lineshaft that belt
>drives the equipment, saws, shapers, planers, drillpresses. They slide
>the flat belts from live pulleys to idler pulleys to start and stop any
>machine. Ed
>
>CEE VILL wrote:
> > Chuckle.  Interesting story, Gene.  My first thought is the three Amish
> > fellas are intelligent life.  They know better than to drive.  I wonder 
>what
> > they will do with the diesel engine. It must be they use stationary 
>power.
> > Lucky for you there weren't half a dozen tractors there also.
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> >
> >
> >> From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
> >> Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> >> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [AT] DEAD or:: Long Story
> >> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:37:00 -0400
> >>
> >>     Okay Charlie, you asked for it.
> >>     Have a little story to tell about yesrerday, then tell me if there 
>is
> >> intelligent life left??
> >>
> >>     Yesterday I took a couple Amish brothers to an Amish farm sale near
> >> Shreve, Ohio, 130 miles from home. These guys are deadly with a 
>checkbook
> >> when away from home. My primary reason for going was to bring home some
> >> milk
> >> cows if they could buy them, so I towed my 15 foot livestock trailer,
> >> figuring the trailer for the cows and a few smaller items in the truck.
> >> That
> >> part worked fine as I hauled back 2 cows and a bull calf. The rear of 
>the
> >> trailer was loaded with about 20 used doors they bought and a couple 
>items
> >> of furniture. The truck held the very large lots of v'belts and flat 
>belts
> >> they bought and the milk can rack, strainer and heavy duty step ladder 
>fit
> >> nicely in the back of the truck. Doing fine so far.
> >>     There was lots of nice horse drawn implements here, so the buying
> >> frenzy
> >> continued. 2 usable IH 2 row corn planters, 1 Pioneer sulky plow, 1
> >> forecart, 1 3 cylinder Duetz diesel engine mounted on a wheeled cart 
>and a
> >> couple other items. Okay a nice trailer load, so I called my 
>friend,Tony,
> >> to
> >> see if he was interested in coming and hauling this  load. He agreed to
> >> haul
> >> the load and hooked to his trailer and made the trip to the sale site.
> >> Meanwhile another amishman from a neighboring community had bought a 
>New
> >> Idea hay loader and had no way to get it home. Well, Henry, figuring he 
>had
> >> another trailer coming and barely enough room to load it, volunteered 
>the
> >> other driver to haul it and drop it off for him. Tony arrived about 
>8:00pm,
> >> well after dark and the loading proceeded. The items the brothers 
>bought
> >> loaded just fine. The hay loader was loaded on the back of the trailer 
>and
> >> laid down on the other items. The top of the loader faced forward and
> >> created a very large drag surface. All items were chained and strapped
> >> down.
> >>     The group started home and were heading west on U.S. Rt.30 when the
> >> strap on the loader was cut by a sharp edge that it crossed. So 
>traveling
> >> at
> >> speed on a busy highway with the loader catching all the wind and the 
>strap
> >> broke allowing this large flat wing to fly off the trailer, right into 
>the
> >> left hand lane of the highway. Fortunately, no one was close behind and
> >> they
> >> got stopped and rolled the loader off into the center median. With no 
>way
> >> to
> >> load it back on the trailer it was left and a towing company contacted 
>to
> >> remove if from the highway.
> >>     So, today we hooked my other trailer to my truck and went and
> >> retrieved
> >> the loader. What was a very nice hay loader will now require some
> >> straightening and a couple hay slats and another pair of rear castering
> >> wheels. We delivered it to the new owner this evening with negotiations
> >> still ongoing as to who pays the damages. Fortunately, I am off the 
>hook on
> >> this one
> >>
> >>                             Gene
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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>
>Ed Stewart
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