Can You Guess What This IS?

[Weekend_Sawyer]

 My Brother Chris and I picked this up last weekend.
We Drove out to South Western PA and his 6000lb wench mounted on his 3 axle trailer really had to grunt on a double line pull to get it loaded and we were using rollers!

We stopped at a certified scales on the way home and it weighed in at 11,000 lbs! What a wowzer!




WS

[ARKANSAWYER]

   Looks like a punch press.  For punching holes in steel most quick.
ARKANSAWYER

[Gilman]

8,000 lbs @ $0.06/lb = $480.00 in pig iron?

[Weekend_Sawyer]

Nope,

The casting code on the side says 8 23 1901

Yea Gillman, and I paid $500 for it. But I woln't scrap it.

I'll give youall another view tomorrow if you need it.

WS

[Fla._Deadheader]

  Rock crusher ???

[Furby]

It reminds me a little bit of the hit and miss engines at the piggy roast, but much bigger.

Hmmmmmmmmmm......................

[pasbuild]

looks like an old tugger.

[Frank_Pender]

Or, an old hammer mill?

[leweee]

I'am with FDH on this one! ;D
ROCK CRUSHER

[etat]

a super duper wood plainer chip maker  thingy 8) 8) 8)

[Norm]

Geez can't you guys tell it's a cannon, I've been looking for one just like it for deer hunting season. ;D

[pappy]

Furby

Looks like it would be turned by one of those poof poof engines !! but what it does I duh no.

Maybe a big winch  ???

Air compressor from a coal mine  ???

Would make a good mooring anchor  ;D

[OneWithWood]

It looks like there are a couple of rollers so I am guessing a metal bender/roller/shaper kinda thing or a coal crusher.

[Tom]

A horizontal cane mill?

[woodchip]

A wooden nickle press! :

[Gilman]

I'd agree with the rock crusher, except there isn't enough wear.

Looks like we are going to need that other view of the thingy Weekender.

Massive cable crimper?

[beenthere]

Seems like the mass of steel would be to take a lot of heat, such as pouring molten metal into, and 'taking the heat'. The wheel on the side seems to be either a very balanced wheel (holes in the side) that spins fast, or it is an indexing wheel to change the die size. Some kind of die that would take molted steel and make different size 'nickels', so-to-speak.  

[CHARLIE]

I'm guessing it crushes grain to make flour.  Looks like a hopper in the front to pour the grain. It is then fed down through some steel rollers that grind it and deliver the flour to the other side. :P  I figure they made it real heavy so the employees wouldn't walk off with it. ;D

[Tom]

If it'll make flour, it ought to make grits.  Dont'cha reckon? ;D

[Kevin_H.]

It is a kunooter motor off of a 1906 deflangulator...Typically used to power a wackerwagon...

The kunooter motor was only produced by a small company in indiana that went of business in or about 1924...Needless to say it is very hard to get parts for this unit... ;D

[Texas Ranger]

one part of a belt or cable drive system

[etat]

i don't think we need another clue because i think kevin got it right.  the only thing that he failed to mention is that a original 1906 deflangulator kunooter motor was used to crack walnuts and pecans before they went onto the wackerwagon to be sorted and shaken clean.  some people used them later to shell and or crush corn verifying tom's theory that it could be used to make grits. with minor adjustments it also could be used to squeeze the juice out of apples to make apple cider.

consumer reports in 1902 gave this deflangulator kunooter motor the highest of reviews, even though it was a bit on the heavy side.  the reason for the companies demise was one of the laborers dropped his set of false teeth into the machine and failed to cut it off and retrieve them on time.  one of the teeth made it through to the wackerwagon intact and with the cutting off of the machine and the restarting the tooth made it into a sack of grits, intact.  a very wealthy lawyer bit into this tooth and broke his tooth on the tooth in the grits.  it made him so mad he bought the company when he forced it into bankruptcy and had most everything melted down into scrap iron.  

a further study indicates this obscure company was an actual predecessor of the now defunct CFI corporation.

[Larry]

 :D :D :D :D :D :D

[Kevin_H.]

Well, Now we know the rest of the story...

[leweee]

CK
thanks for the history lesson ;D who says you can't learn sumthin here :D :D :D

[etat]

the man who lost the teeth was a guy name of joe bean.  absolutely not any relation to 'judge roy bean'. i guess it  worked out pretty good for him because later he moved to california and stumbled upon some gold nuggets.  with these he had a set of gold teeth made by a dentist named of holliday.  afterwords it was said he moved to Australia looking for more gold.  i never did hear if he found any more but at least he had a set of gold teeth.  

you can blame that ole lawyer for the reason that northern folks haven't eaten enough grits to learn to like to eat them.  see, after he forced the company to go belly up there was a shortage of automatic grit making machinery so we southerners mostly kept our grits to ourself.  this left most  northerners never knowing what they were missing by not learning to eat grits from birth.  

be it know that i have 'tried' to relay the facts of this machine accurately.  i would be suprised if  weekend-sawyer doesn't try to initiate a cover up and come back and say this machine does entirely something else. ;D

i absolutely wouldn't blame him if he did.  considering the fact that once he gets this thing up and running he absolutely needs to keep the true nature of this machine secret until he produces enough grits to flood the market in the norther part of the hemisphere. otherwise someone else might try to corner the market.

[J_T]

Ck reckon he would sell some stock ??? Since CFI went busted I been broke flater than a pancake at a steam roller convinchon :D :D

[Kevin_H.]

Hey CK, I can remember my family taking about the first set of gold teeth that my great great grampa doc ever did...Wonder if that was Mr. Bean's set...Haft see if I can look that up.

Kevin_Holliday

Coincidence or conspiracy

We report...You decide...

[Weekend_Sawyer]

Well FDH got it real early but it was fun reading the replys



This is a 1901 Climax Road Machine Co Rock crusher.
take a look down it's gullet.



Cool huh, It is usually driven by a steam engine. It can be driven off of a belt pully from a tractor and we are going to try and belt it to a 20hp disel engine.

Our property in West Virginia is mostly rocks and the roads need LOTS of gravel. Enter the rock crusher. This should be a fun project.

WS

[Kevin_H.]

1901 Climax Road Machine Rock crusher

1906 Kunooter Deflagulator Walnut crusher

Can you say patient infringment...

I bet if you dug real deep you would find out that they quit making the 1901 Climax Road Machine Rock crusher in or around 1926...

Hmm!!

[etat]

the pain, the pain..........how could  Weekend_Sawyer have used such cruel words to describe this machine ??? ??? ???

to think, that history could misdirect, to such a tragic event.
 

what a future the deflangulator kunooter motor might have had if only the company had not been  taken over by a robber baron such as that mean ole lawyer ???


to actually think that  even through the course of spite and resentment anyone could take a magnificent machine such as the aforementioned deflangulator kunooter motor which could crack  the most marvelous  walnuts and pecans before they went onto the wackerwagon to be sorted and shaken clean, such person could have inflicted so much pain and suffering on such a mighty machine.  
.

  a machine that absolutely could have, and would have changed the face of a nation through the mass production of grits..  how would you, as a  true Southerner have felt if you  had 100 years of grits taken away.
 

and now for the past 100 years, and apparently beyond due to the actions of weekend-sawyer this magnificent machine, the  deflangulator kunooter motor will forever be known, and suffer the fate of just being a lowly rock crusher.  

[etat]

and besides that dad gum it i was right on the verge of forwarding stocks in what could have been the beginning of a new company to J_T.  

sorry about that  J_T. , i gave it my best.  

as a parting shot, above all remember these great words

Coincidence or conspiracy  
 
We report...You decide...

[pappy]

well yass  :D :D :D :D

[Cedarman]

I believe if they did get an extra grit making machine, they could pretty well flood the northern market with 3 or 4 big bags.

[etat]

 :D :D :D :D :D

you know, you're probably right, but it was worth it just for the laugh............... for me anyways 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

[Weekend_Sawyer]

Here's a couple of pictures of our rock crusher at work.

Belted to a49' Farmall M


This guy makes Shrek look good. That's my brother chris with a 60lb solid concrete block. We have a LOT of these because dad figured if it's free it's worth paying for.


and it starts chewing


and chewing



and chewing


and finally


it sounds like someone REAL big chewing granola.
WS

[Kirk_Allen]

I WANT ONE ;D

REAL BAD ;D

That is cool.  What a treasure!

[Fla._Deadheader]

 Better getcha some ear covers. Them DanG crushers is noisy. ;D ;D

[Weekend_Sawyer]

And Eye covers, it tends to spit while it eats :D

[Fla._Deadheader]

  Yep, forgot about that.  ;) :D :D  Jaw Crushers are pretty messy compared to roller crushers. ;D

[Gilman]

Back in college I visited a friends gravel crusher.  We'll next thing I know he's leading me up to the control booth.  His operator didn't show up.  My training consisted of, "here are the E-stops, but don't hit ANY of them." The control room was above and to the side main jaws. Got to watch it crush all day. It felt like I was riding around on dinosaur all day.

My pay for the day was a double cheese burger basket and a large Coke.

Have fun with your crusher Weekend Sawyer, but be careful.  Next thing you know you'll have a screen, then some roll crushers, then a hopper, then a dump truck...

[Tom]

What ! No Peas?   :D

[Furby]

DanG, I NEED one of those for all the concrete from the old basement!
Be a LOT easier to get rid of in little pieces like that!!!!  ;) ;D

[splitter]

Weekend_Sawye, great looking rock crusher, I'm looking for one. If you don't mind me asking what happened to yours? Splitter

[Slabs]

A big, magnificent, beautiful piece of OLD IRON.  May it live forever!!!

[logwalker]

How fast does it work?   Joe

[Weekend_Sawyer]

I'm glad to see this one floated up to the top.
We still have it and like most of our projects it's about half done ;)

We still intend to finish it up but for now it has been overtaken by events.

It probably took 10 seconds for it to eat that block. That is about the biggest chunk it can take. Unfortunatley due to the wear of over 100 years of use and sitting outside it makes 2" gravel instead of 1". We need to make som shims to get it back to 1".