[AT] Spam> RE: Garden tractor???

[charliehill]

Larry,  all you need to do is find a pipe big enough to put your stock in. 
Wrap some insulation around it.  Put the wood inside and pipe some steam 
(boil some water in a semi-sealed container over a gas or wood fire) into 
the pipe and let it vent out the other end.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Spam> RE: Garden tractor???



I suspect you are right, Farmer. Every fabricator has a pattern room. What's 
scary is to tour the attics, galleries, and back rooms of a cathedral, and 
see the same things there -- hundreds of years later.

I'd love to have that steam "oven" so I could make the hoops for my windmill 
without having to laminate them.

I thought of Karges Furniture when I saw this factory. Karges still has the 
original pattern-follower lathe for making routed table legs. It makes 36 at 
once, if I remember correctly. The room has no sawdust removal system. Can 
you imagine the sawdust generated when the lathe was loaded and turning 36 
sculpted legs all at once?

BTW, there is a comment on the site about the wire-wound armature in the 
generator. My guess is that it was done by machine, not by hand. Armature 
winding for motors and generators is a mind-numbing experience that is 
exceptionally easy to automate. My guess is that the generator (probably 
called a dynamo at the time) was made at the Fitchburg works of GE. One of 
the shots of the instruments very clearly shows the GE logo. That operation 
was typically done by "girls" (AKA female employees).

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, January 25, 2010 13:53
Subject: Re: [AT] Spam> RE: Garden tractor???
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Larry Goss
> <rlgoss at insightbb.com> wrote:
> > Slicks = drag racer.
> >
> > Here's something to make you all salivate.
> >
> > http://steampunkworkshop.com/skinner-unaflow-steam-engine-
> needs-new-home
> >
> > Larry
> >
> ==================================
>
>
>
> Neat!!
> I believe that the second picture is not pieces of chairs that were
> being assembled hanging from the walls as it says. I believe those
> were their working patterns... I have such things hanging in my
> woodshop now. About any woodshop that ever does production has a
> pattern rack or room.
> Sure a lot of history in that run of pictures. Kind of sad.
> Just before I got married almost 47 years ago I worked in a sometimes
> old fashioned factory where we did a lot of precision hand work and
> used a lot of stiff fiber board patterns etc. This brings back a lot
> of memories, a few rather bad ones but most good. Other that the
> prerequisite small handful of jerks, most of us got along quite well
> and since many of the departments were fairly quiet hand work we were
> able to visit as we worked most of the time. Generally
> pleasantry was
> encouraged and few of the managers were of the hotshot, "big me" type.
> My first job there was based just outside of the office door
> inside of
> the plant and I was low man on the pole. In that job I took orders
> from everybody but the janitor... But, if the president of the company
> or any number of others in management came to that plants office they
> would all usually stop and chat with me. It was a low man job
> but I
> was more independent than most others in the company. I
> set most of
> my own schedule and my work took me all over 3 factories. As
> long as
> my jobs got done no one ever questioned where I was and what I was
> doing there.
> While I was working at that plant things got really slow for
> almost a
> year (mid 1960's). The assistant plant manager would bring out a
> piddly little job or two and say "better make this last all day boys,
> it"s all I have for you"...
> At one point we ran clear out of work and they put a lot of the guys
> to cleaning up stuff, doing little repair stuff on the building,
> anything to avoid laying anyone off. They put me at a bench in a break
> area and brought me every fan in the place (they allowed people to
> bring in their own fans for hot weather) (you could also have radios
> of your own) and I spent several weeks tearing down, cleaning and
> oiling fans. Some belonged to the company and some belonged to
> employees. I also cleaned and greased a lot of machinery that I had
> never used. I cleaned up parts of that huge old 3 story building that
> had not been used in 50 years except for storage. Still I had a job
> every day and a paycheck every week. If they had laid me off for
> a few
> months I could have lost everything. I moved on to a white shirt and
> tie, very good paying, data processing center job in a computer
> service bureau after about 5 years but I still have never forgotten
> how those folks at that factory took care of me when the chips were
> down. They didn't have to do it... They never laid off a soul. If
> someone left they did not replace them at that time but nobody was
> laid off. They were also in business during the great depression and
> they didn't lay off a single employee then either.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Have you hugged your horses today?
>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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