Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Looks like a hay thrashing combine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Dzwig" <pdzwig@summaventures.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 15:30 Subject: Re: [Leica] A new album > Douglas M. Sharp wrote: > > > > > > > Peter Dzwig schrieb: > > > >> > >> > >> To finish up - can anyone tell me exactly what this is please? > >> > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album70/SteamEngineRudgwick200408 > >> > >> SURELY someone on the LUG has the expertise!!!! > >> > >> > >> All: IIIf 5cm f1.5 Summarit Kodak T400CN > >> > >> Your comments are as always welcome. Thanks for taking the time to look. > >> > >> Peter Dzwig > >> > > What it is is easy Peter. > > A stationary steam engine, they were pulled along to where they were > > needed by horses, just like hitching a portable generator behind a > > Landrover today. > > Yep. > Mainly used for powering threshing machines, balers or > > beet-cutters, sometimes in mobile saw-mills too.The expense of having > > your own thresher was often defrayed by itinerant threshing companies > > with traction engines travelling from farm to farm pulling a whole a > > full range of harvesting equipment. > > this was set up as a thresher I think; there was a steam powered saw mill, > cutting tree-trunks longitudinally nearby. This one just caught my eye. > > Ploughing teams with 2 colossal > > Fowler ploughing engines, which pulled heavy ploughs on a wire rope > > between them across a field (then moving up for the next set of furrows) > > were also common in the area I was born. > > Though it is more than likely that this machine would have been used on > > a private farm. > > Almost certainly from the context of the show. > > It looks to be an english construction, (Ransome, Garrett or Burell?), > > and more likely coal-fired than wood or straw. Most of the straw burners > > had spark arresters on the funnel. > > Don't remember whether it was burning straw or not. It was the make that I was > most interested in. > > I'll take a look in my reference stuff tomorrow, maybe there's something > > in there. > > Thanks > > Peter > > cheers > > Douglas > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >