Trash & Treasures + What is it's
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smiley
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I still have a pump like that in the barn, that was in my first house (converted chicken coop) when I got married in 1964. The next year we went modern and tapped in to the gravity feed well that supplied my parents house. Our bathroom was a bucket int the back room and heat was a pot belly stove in the living room/kitchen/bedroom. They were still some of the best days of my life.
tcreeley
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When we came to Maine we were in a pop up camper until I got enough of the house built to move into, low budget. I found a 13 foot rock well under some apple trees and took the rocks out. I put in a pump like the one above I bought at Aubuchons. We used it all summer. When the frost came I had to keep a leather washer handy to use because the cold would shrink the leather and I couldn't get a prime no matter how I tried, of how much water I used. It was a blessing when I connected an electric pump in the house to the well- running water, that's luxury. Re plumbing, the septic went in in Dec. but it was not fully connected until Feb. - Plastic indoor toilet for the kids, outhouse for us. Those things that we come to take for granted, really add to one's quality of life!
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crash325
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Here is a "I don't have a clue" object.
The name plate reads
INTERTYPE CORP.
Type G4 Volts 200 / 250
Amps 8.5 Ser 10243. Not clear in any of the pictures is an adjustable leg. On the other end are to rounded journals that look like they may have fit on a rotating shaft. Looks like it may have had a bolt on lid as well as a hinged lid. The box that the tag is on has 4 holes in the bottom. I guess for electric wire to pass through.
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The name plate reads
INTERTYPE CORP.
Type G4 Volts 200 / 250
Amps 8.5 Ser 10243. Not clear in any of the pictures is an adjustable leg. On the other end are to rounded journals that look like they may have fit on a rotating shaft. Looks like it may have had a bolt on lid as well as a hinged lid. The box that the tag is on has 4 holes in the bottom. I guess for electric wire to pass through.
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crash325
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Here is a what is it that should be fun.
Yes its a hand truck or dolly. But they were made to be used at only 1 location and thousands of them were made an used.
This on is either from Benson or Tombstone AZ.
Do you know???
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Yes its a hand truck or dolly. But they were made to be used at only 1 location and thousands of them were made an used.
This on is either from Benson or Tombstone AZ.
Do you know???
- alleycatdad
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Mercury flasks? I mean is it a handtruck for moving 'em?
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crash325
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alleycatdad
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crash325
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Hope your having fun. Try again. you have probably see it many times, if not in person, in the movies.
Here is a hint. It has something to do with things that run on tracks.
alleycatdad
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Mailbags?
Ken
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Jim looks like the milk can dolly I have used. but never to a train.
Was it used in the tombstone mines? they used nitro before dynamite was invented. maybe a dolly to carry it into the mine.
But Benson was a later town so just don't know what it could be used for.
ken
Was it used in the tombstone mines? they used nitro before dynamite was invented. maybe a dolly to carry it into the mine.
But Benson was a later town so just don't know what it could be used for.
ken
smiley
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I think maybe I remember seeing those moving baggage/frieght boxes around the railroad stations many moons ago.
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crash325
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Yep It is a R/R hand truck used on the freight platform. Kind of a Goofy design & to the best of my knowledge only used by the R/R's.
I think one of the reasons for the design was for sacks of grain. But ????
Sorry Ken, not used in the mines. Do you remember Apache Powder Co about 1/2 way between Benson & Tombstone??? It blew up twice when I was a kid. Could be heard & felt all the way to Tombstone. It is still there and working, making dynamite. I knew one of the guys there that poured the nitroglycerine. Don't remember why but it was poured from a height. If memory is correct the explosions were in the part that makes Gun Cotton.
Ever do any blasting???
turnkey4099
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I guessed the RR station but can't figure what the sole purpose would be. Looks like barrels or flasks of some kind.
Harry K
Harry K
smiley
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I hadn't thought of it in years until I saw that truck, but remember going to the Utica NY station with my parents in the 40's/50's to pick up relatives and sometimes freight. That was a big trip then, all of 12 miles and we would always stop at a dairy store near the station to get a cone of frozen custard. It may seem strange to the younger folks on here, but railway express was the UPS and Federal Express of those days and you could actually get a package from across the country maybe within a week. Most of the freight was in wooden crates and they'd come scooting it out on one of those trucks.
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crash325
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Hi Harry,
There must have been some reason for the design. But??? It was used to move most everything. We had one similar at the lumber yard that I worked at as a kid, but the lifting shoe was longer. Mostly used for loading & unloading cement sacks.
Ken
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Jim always stayed away from dangerous activities. Watched a lot of blasting of rock for pipelines and visit friends in mines watch them prepare for the explosive load.
Reading History of Tombstone when first discovered the Nitroglycerine was unloaded from ship at Yuma and hauled by wagon to Tombstone. and any static or spark would set it off.
Yes remember Apache Power co. Also a railroad load blew up several cars went. Never heard the cause.
On the hand truck or dolly I have one that the lift bar is square to get under trunks or boxes
The one your showing is for round items. the rest on back side is to keep from spilling backwards so liquid containers. cream cans or milk cans.
Very light snow here today how about your area. Time to think travel.
ken
smiley
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This got my curiosity up and I poked around the net a little and found a mention of the round ones being used for barrels and kegs, but can't figure why they would be any better than a regular one. I have an all steel one that was designed for moving 30 gallon drums of bulk grease and oil around garages but it just has 2 hooks for the rim on the bottom of the handles, with nothing sticking out front and rounded back straps to cradle the barrel,
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crash325
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I don't think it was designed for use with barrels.
I did find some information the Intertype object. It was part of or used with type setting equipment for news papers.
Pot heat was controlled by a coiled flat liquid expansion system which changed contacts off and on to operate a large "clapper switch" relay box about a cubic foot in size. Mouthpiece heat was controlled by variable resistance rheostat in this system and for years to come.
It is way different than this picture. Maybe not the same part???
Afriend of mine used one of those pumps when he built his house , the first thing he did was put his artisen well in. He bought 2 well covers and mounted the pump permently on one of the covers and every spring he would put it back out there because it was near his garden . He always left a couple of cups with it and it was a nice refreashing drink on a hot summer day.
