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Information Overloader
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: NW Lower Michigan
Posts: 29,944
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At the Buckley show Saturday there was a HUGE coal steamer running an entire shop of woodworking tools in operation. Those big leather belts were just a runnin'. You could carry on a conversation right in the middle of all this machinery, very quiet but for a pleasant and rythmical clicking and clacking.
It was also running an enormous (20' diameter) horizontal flywheel with a cam-like axle attached to a push rod which was powering an oil rig about 100' away. The rod was just lying in the dirt over which benches were placed to sit. The lit. said it could run up to 5 separate oil wells up to A MILE away!
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