Logging in north Carolina: This picture, taken
about 60 years ago, shows a portable steam engine in use for
logging operations in north Carolina. The photo appeared this
summer in the Transylvania Times and the Highlands Highlander. It
is the property of Mrs J L Gillispie whose husband was in it. Clyde
Osborne, editor of the Transylvania Times, who very kindly enabled
us to use the photo, says the crew of men and animals was employed
by the old Gloucester Lumber Co. at Rosman, 9 miles west of
Brevard, North Carolina. He adds: ‘No one now living seems to
know anything at all about the monster with the tall
smokestack.’ The caption on the photo as it appeared in the
Times says The tall smokestack kept smoke out of the eyes of the
sawing crew when the portable boiler was getting up a head of steam
‘ We appreciate the assistance of Editor Osborne; and of Lee B.
Copple of the Highlander, who wrote about the company. Gerry
Lestz
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An unusual type of steam machine known as the Austin Trenching Machine. It was built about 1919 at Winthrop Harbor, Illinois. The boiler is a Farquhrar, which was manufactured in York, Pennsylvania. Courtesy of John Davidson, Box 4, Bristol, Wisconsin 53
John Davidson
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This picture was taken in 1911 on the Charlie Prachar Farm, 3 miles north of Wilber, Nebraska. The rig is a 16 H.P. Huber return flue engine and a 32'' Huber separator. Left to right; (1) Lad Skocpol, water boy; (2) Joe Vrbsky, assistant engineer - at Hub
Charles L. Skocpol
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Gary Pegelow
4 / 9
I recently found the above two pictures of my grandfather, Edwin Pegelow and his brother, Henry Pegelow, with their threshing outfit. The pictures were taken in Dodge County, Wisconsin somewhere around the city of Horicon. Could someone possibly identify
Gary Pegelow
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Hauling logs off of Cooper Mountain near Chelan, Washington, about 1939. Ken Erickson is driving. The water tank on top of cab was for cooling hot truck brakes, coming down steep grades. Courtesy of W. Thayer, Box 2175, Wenatchee, Washington 98801.
W. Thayer
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This crane, or shovel, dug the canals from north of Columbia to the Platte River in the late 1910's and early 1920's. Martin Day Company Contractors, Lincoln, Nebraska. It was so big, they could not haul it on the railroad, so it walked across the Platte
?John W. Paroiek
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STROUD FARM Signed, Limited Edition, full color print featuring 1917 CASE STEAM TRACTION ENGINE by famous artist, Mort Kunstler. Editions: 2000; Size 22'' x 28''. $30.00 plus $2.00 shipping, unframed. $90.00 custom framed in authentic barnwood. Free color
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A photo of an old time steam tractor - all of it was hand built by Dennis Griswold of Long Beach, California (my husband) in about two years time. This is a working model. (Sounds like Mrs. G. is very proud of her husband's work - and I don't blame her -
Mrs. Dennis Griswold
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