Silver dollar city visit.

[hackberry jake]

The wife and I went to silver dollar city for our one year anniversary. I just thought I would share some pictures of the woodworking stuff. To an untrained eye, they were doing woodworking jjst like they did 100 years ago, but I saw more modern machines coved up with tarps like a shop fox planer and a delta power feeder. About half of the stuff in the wood carving building was done with a cnc router or laser engraver, but it was all still pretty neat.


 

  

  

  

  

  

[scsmith42]

Very cool Jake!  I like the photo with all of the line shafts in it.

[AK Newbie]

Looks like a place I could spend some serious time in!  Thanks for sharing the pics!

[AK Newbie]

Looks like a place I could spend some serious time in!  Thanks for sharing the pics!

[jueston]

from a marketing standpoint, its interesting that they don't put the modern equipment in another room or another building, so that woodworkers like us don't see them.

really cool stuff though, i'd like to see that with everything up and running....

[21incher]

Thanks for sharing the great pics. What did they use to run the overhead shafts?

[hackberry jake]

I couldn't tell what was powering them, so they probably had an electric motor somewhere. They also had a lathe booth set up where the lathes were powered off of a small steam engine. Im pretty sure the boiler was electric.

[ozarkgem]

That would make a cool house. A flat belt driven ceiling fan. Flat belt drive on the washing machine. Lots of possibility's.