Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > >