[AT] Stationary engine recordings

[Chuck Bealke]

On 2/1/2011 9:54 PM, Ralph Goff wrote:
>
> http://www.nfb.ca/film/grain_elevator#
>
> Interesting video of a Sask Wheat Pool grain elevator and its workings.
> Including showing the start up procedure on a big old single cylinder
> Ruston Hornsby engine that powers the machinery in the elevator. Dated
> about the mid 1970s judging by the tilt hood IH Loadstar in the video.
>
Ralph,

Thank you for sharing the history in that film site.  That elevator film 
took me right back to a Fall day in the 50's, when I was at a similar 
elevator in Missouri.  A farmer friend (and later my boss) was clearly 
motivating me to get back into his grain truck.  I had come to the 
elevator with him in the truck earlier and was in it while it was 
weighed full - just before I jumped out to ogle new tractor literature 
in an adjoining office at the elevator, where Case equipment was sold.  
(It seems anytime I drooled over tractor brochures at that age, minutes 
passed like seconds regardless of how few trucks were waiting to be 
weighed, position of the sun or other factors.)    To get my attention 
it was explained in a measured tone that unless I returned at once to my 
seat before the truck got weighed empty, I would be effectively sold to 
the elevator for about $3.00 times my weight in bushels.

Like the elevator film, the Hutterites story at the same site was also 
part IH truck ad, well filmed and narrated, and could have been recorded 
in Kansas.  Working at Hesston (Kansas hay tool mfg.) in the mid-70s, I 
had always heard about the Hutterites in that area.  The fine film just 
explained the "rest of the story" for me on the industrious and unique 
sect  40+ years later.  It also had a couple of nice Massey-Harris 
tractors in it.  Guess I'm still drooling, even though the same tractors 
and kid have aged.  Now the darn days go by like seconds.

Chuck Bealke
Dallas, TX