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boatme99 · 12-18-2011, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by One Shot

Are there any hard rock mines in the area?

It reminds me of a stampmill ore crusher I saw at an old gold mine once.

Not sure though.

os

You're right, not a jaw crusher. Horizontal plates as opposed to vertical.

Capt Mac Turk · 12-18-2011, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by geds

Isn't that the prototype Cheese-It stamp? They stamp a whole hoop of cheese into those little 1" x 1" crackers!

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But I bet it would make a Great Anchor for a Battle Ship or Air Craft Carryer!

Capt. Mac

howlnmad · 12-19-2011, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Juker

Too late. We've already been invaded. I guess the other portal is on the planet Athol.

Dennis C · 12-19-2011, 07:47 AM

Looks like my beer can crusher, cept this one does a whole case at a time.

flintlock · 12-19-2011, 08:48 AM

I was going to say the biggest drop hammer I'd ever seen, but the wood timbers blew that idea away!

mogunner · 12-20-2011, 12:00 AM

It's something they threw together out of all the leftover stuff lying around. As they finished it, they all had a beer and laughed, knowing that at some point they would have a whole bunch of people scratching their heads over what exactly it was....

H-D · 12-20-2011, 11:30 AM

What is it near?
A mine or a factory?
What used to be where it is now?

Crpdeth · 12-20-2011, 11:56 AM

Harley, That's why I mused that it was probably trucked in... That and the fact that the concrete base doesn't look all that old.

It sits in the middle of a drive way at a logistics plant, the drive was poured completely around it.

The owners of the plant are pretty creative, they've trucked in old bridges and utilize them at some of the properties we maintain, so them having it moved there wouldn't surprise me.

Nor would it surprise me to find that there used to be a quarry there and they salvaged the piece when they cleared the land.

Juker · 12-20-2011, 12:01 PM

Those Mayans were always up to something interesting, like sacrificing others and getting high and writing calendars. (It's a marvel they didn't survive.)

There's some bad ju-ju on this gizmo...

flyingtiger85 · 12-20-2011, 02:02 PM

It's a door that's been leftover from the aliens so the Bigfoots can change into different dimentions and look someones left it open again.No wonder theres been so many sightings!!

geds · 12-20-2011, 02:04 PM

You never said where this is located, but it looks like an early ride in 6 Flags Over Texas! Maybe when the park was still 5 Flags....

carver · 12-20-2011, 02:05 PM

I'm thinking that it's some sort of shaker. No way could this machine be used to crush, or hold anything. The 4 large rods would prevernt it from closing. I thought the bottom part might be a counter balance for the top part, but the teeth on the bottom, and top halves have me puzzled!

flyingtiger85 · 12-20-2011, 02:11 PM

Actually I've seen a similar machine in"The City of Industry"CA.in the 80's and I think it's a stamping machine that will take a flat piece of sheet metal and stamp a large pattern out like a car fender with one fast downward punch.

Willie · 12-20-2011, 03:14 PM

In Galveston we have a couple of old cotton presses sitting in a empty field....so big and heavy when the warehouses were torn down the presses were just left there. This looks a lot like them. Could it be a cotton press?

howlnmad · 12-20-2011, 03:15 PM

It's a prototype George Foreman Lean Mean Grillin Machine.

Crpdeth · 12-20-2011, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by geds

You never said where this is located, but it looks like an early ride in 6 Flags Over Texas! Maybe when the park was still 5 Flags....

LOL, you guys are NUTS! I really needed a good laugh, but never suspected that I'd get so many from starting this thread.

It is located in Paris TX

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Originally Posted by Willie

In Galveston we have a couple of old cotton presses sitting in a empty field....so big and heavy when the warehouses were torn down the presses were just left there. This looks a lot like them. Could it be a cotton press?

Good to see ya, old friend.... Maybe someday when it's not so cold, you could jump on the scoot and take a couple pics of those old presses so we could see?

geds · 12-20-2011, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Crpdeth

LOL, you guys are NUTS! I really needed a good laugh, but never suspected that I'd get so many from starting this thread.

It is located in Paris TX

Heck! There's your answer! It's the Texas EyeFull tower!

kobsw · 12-20-2011, 09:22 PM

It's a vintage 500 Ton Side Press probably made by Standard Industries. The press tooling dies are affixed to the dovetaling and the material to be pressed is fed through the left side.

The two halves of the press never touch. Instead they are cammed together towards each other in a left to right motion. The dies, which can extend a couple of feet on each side of the press jaw, come together forming the desired shape.

Here's a picture of a modern example. Note that the top jaw only cams down while the bottom jaw is fixed unlike the older model.

Check out the picture of the straight side press at the following link.

http://standard-industrial.com/presses.htm

Best regards,

Kobsw

Bobitis · 12-20-2011, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by kobsw

It's a vintage 500 Ton Side Press probably made by Standard Industries. The press tooling dies are affixed to the dovetaling and the material to be pressed is fed through the left side.

The two halves of the press never touch. Instead they are cammed together towards each other in a left to right motion. The dies, which can extend a couple of feet on each side of the press jaw, come together forming the desired shape.

Here's a picture of a modern example. Note that the top jaw only cams down while the bottom jaw is fixed unlike the older model.

Check out the picture of the straight side press at the following link.

http://standard-industrial.com/presses.htm

Best regards,

Kobsw

Ding Ding Ding...!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, Just when I thought a question could go unanswered on TFF.... BAM!

fuzebox40 · 12-20-2011, 09:56 PM

You mean you guys didn't know that?

mogunner · 12-20-2011, 10:13 PM

I thought this was posted in the COMEDY section... I'm sure we all knew that was what it was, we were just trying to get a good laugh!

Crpdeth · 12-21-2011, 12:23 PM

Kobsw and everyone else...

Thanks a lot for helping me out here, my interest is certainly peaked causing me to do some Internet searches.

I came up with this pic of a 12,000 ton hydraulic press that was used by our military.

12-19-2011, 07:47 AM	#54
Dennis C Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: South Dakota Posts: 789	Re: Wondering what this thing is... Any help? Looks like my beer can crusher, cept this one does a whole case at a time. __________________ "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." - Thomas Jefferson

12-19-2011, 08:48 AM	#55
flintlock Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Upstate NY Contributor Posts: 896	Re: Wondering what this thing is... Any help? I was going to say the biggest drop hammer I'd ever seen, but the wood timbers blew that idea away!

12-20-2011, 12:00 AM	#56
mogunner Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Eastern Missouri Posts: 1,026	Re: Wondering what this thing is... Any help? It's something they threw together out of all the leftover stuff lying around. As they finished it, they all had a beer and laughed, knowing that at some point they would have a whole bunch of people scratching their heads over what exactly it was....

12-20-2011, 11:30 AM	#57
H-D Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Mississippi Posts: 1,334	Re: Wondering what this thing is... Any help? What is it near? A mine or a factory? What used to be where it is now? __________________ And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. Revelation 19:11

12-20-2011, 11:56 AM	#58
Crpdeth Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Location: Location Contributor Posts: 8,247	Re: Wondering what this thing is... Any help? Harley, That's why I mused that it was probably trucked in... That and the fact that the concrete base doesn't look all that old. It sits in the middle of a drive way at a logistics plant, the drive was poured completely around it. The owners of the plant are pretty creative, they've trucked in old bridges and utilize them at some of the properties we maintain, so them having it moved there wouldn't surprise me. Nor would it surprise me to find that there used to be a quarry there and they salvaged the piece when they cleared the land.

12-20-2011, 12:01 PM	#59
Juker Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Land of Lincoln Contributor Posts: 2,872	Re: Wondering what this thing is... Any help? Those Mayans were always up to something interesting, like sacrificing others and getting high and writing calendars. (It's a marvel they didn't survive.) There's some bad ju-ju on this gizmo... Attached Images __________________ SHOOT FIRST. SHOOT SECOND. MOST IMPORTANTLY, BE THE MAN WHO'S SHOOTING LAST.

12-20-2011, 02:02 PM	#60
flyingtiger85 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Nevada Posts: 744	Re: Wondering what this thing is... Any help? It's a door that's been leftover from the aliens so the Bigfoots can change into different dimentions and look someones left it open again.No wonder theres been so many sightings!!

12-20-2011, 02:04 PM	#61
geds Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 3,706	Re: Wondering what this thing is... Any help? You never said where this is located, but it looks like an early ride in 6 Flags Over Texas! Maybe when the park was still 5 Flags....

12-20-2011, 02:05 PM	#62
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,251	Re: Wondering what this thing is... Any help? I'm thinking that it's some sort of shaker. No way could this machine be used to crush, or hold anything. The 4 large rods would prevernt it from closing. I thought the bottom part might be a counter balance for the top part, but the teeth on the bottom, and top halves have me puzzled! __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

12-20-2011, 02:11 PM	#63
flyingtiger85 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Nevada Posts: 744	Re: Wondering what this thing is... Any help? Actually I've seen a similar machine in"The City of Industry"CA.in the 80's and I think it's a stamping machine that will take a flat piece of sheet metal and stamp a large pattern out like a car fender with one fast downward punch.

12-20-2011, 03:14 PM	#64
Willie Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Galveston,TX Contributor Posts: 1,002	Re: Wondering what this thing is... Any help? In Galveston we have a couple of old cotton presses sitting in a empty field....so big and heavy when the warehouses were torn down the presses were just left there. This looks a lot like them. Could it be a cotton press? __________________ Willie West End Electric Galveston Electricians

12-20-2011, 03:15 PM	#65
howlnmad Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Harriman, Tn Contributor Posts: 2,566	Re: Wondering what this thing is... Any help? It's a prototype George Foreman Lean Mean Grillin Machine. __________________

12-20-2011, 09:22 PM	#68
kobsw V.I.P. Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: PA Posts: 73	Re: Wondering what this thing is... Any help? It's a vintage 500 Ton Side Press probably made by Standard Industries. The press tooling dies are affixed to the dovetaling and the material to be pressed is fed through the left side. The two halves of the press never touch. Instead they are cammed together towards each other in a left to right motion. The dies, which can extend a couple of feet on each side of the press jaw, come together forming the desired shape. Here's a picture of a modern example. Note that the top jaw only cams down while the bottom jaw is fixed unlike the older model. Check out the picture of the straight side press at the following link. http://standard-industrial.com/presses.htm Best regards, Kobsw Last edited by kobsw; 12-20-2011 at 09:23 PM..

12-20-2011, 09:56 PM	#70
fuzebox40 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Apple Valley, Ca. Contributor Posts: 1,485	Re: Wondering what this thing is... Any help? You mean you guys didn't know that?

12-20-2011, 10:13 PM	#71
mogunner Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Eastern Missouri Posts: 1,026	Re: Wondering what this thing is... Any help? I thought this was posted in the COMEDY section... I'm sure we all knew that was what it was, we were just trying to get a good laugh!

12-21-2011, 12:23 PM	#72
Crpdeth Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Location: Location Contributor Posts: 8,247	Re: Wondering what this thing is... Any help? Kobsw and everyone else... Thanks a lot for helping me out here, my interest is certainly peaked causing me to do some Internet searches. I came up with this pic of a 12,000 ton hydraulic press that was used by our military. Attached Images