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On a technicality this doesn't have treads but later-built machines did.
This reminds me of a place I used to live – Lake Arrowhead, California of the United States. The integrity of the land and the lives of the indigenous people that lived there were literally steam rolled and excavated during the gold rush. They forged a massive lake out of the land, but never finished the project, and it was abandoned, much of the equipment left under the water.
Originally built as a reservoir to feed the citrus groves of San Bernardino through a series of flumes and tunnels this engineering marvel fell apart. For legal reasons, the project never worked and the reservoir became a recreational area. What most people don’t know is that there is a whole world under the lake.
Huell takes a hundred-foot ride down in an elevator that was built in the late 1800s to explore this underwater marvel. Believe it or not there is a 3000 foot tunnel that runs under the lake and lots of wonderful old equipment, including pumps, engines and valves originally built for irrigation purposes that is hidden away. It’s a world that few people have ever seen and a wonderful bit of California’s Gold.
Huell takes a hundred-foot ride down in an elevator that was built in the late 1800s to explore this underwater marvel. Believe it or not there is a 3000 foot tunnel that runs under the lake and lots of wonderful old equipment, including pumps, engines and valves originally built for irrigation purposes that is hidden away. It’s a world that few people have ever seen and a wonderful bit of California’s Gold.
Although the place has become a ghastly tourist destination full of expensive shops, cafes, and boat rentals, it has suffered major droughts over the years. When I was living there they were in a particularly bad drought cycle and the lake level receded so far that you could begin to see the tops of the equipment sticking out in the middle of the lake.
1905, building the damn
A bit more information for anyone interested…
https://lakearrowheadlodge.com/about/history/
This one looks far more fun, although I suppose it is lacking that convenient little roof, and the sound system. There’s always loud singing, though.
I belong to the 1965/66 Full Sized Chevrolet Club.
It was formed because the cutoff date for the Impala club was 1964.
One year, our international meet was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
It was an amazing time there and they even let us drive on the track for a couple of laps.
The year we went out, Interstate 70 was under tons of construction, so the usual 8 hour ride to Indy turned into 14 with a hot and cranky performance engine not really wanting to be a part of it all.
Because it was a streetmachine at that stage, the loud exhaust made listening to a radio impossible, so the old girl didn't have one.
The only music we got to hear on the trip was the 331 moaning out it's one long song
Pit row at Indy ^
Parking lot of the Speedway Motor Inn ^
Speedway infield all '65/'66 Full sized Chevrolet car show ^
The impossible shot done in front of the speedway hall of fame ^
The backstretch at Indy ^
110 ish '65s and '66s parked on pit row.
And yes, I kissed the yard of bricks left on the track at the start/finish line as a tribute to the original brick track that gave the place it's moniker "The Brickyard"
Because I live in my personal museum, I have tons of interesting things inside of it. Included in my stuff is a post card of the track at Indy mailed from Indy on the second ever race held there in 1912.
The curators at the hall of fame were chomping at the bit to get it off me.
They didn't.
There are instructions to my family to see to it that they get it when I'm no longer here.
Waynesburg coincidently is about 15 miles from where I now reside and I'm in that town at least two times a month.
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at least a hundred and plenty
Nooo! I object!
This vehicle is too beautiful to be tooling around in the snow! I am a New Englander, I have seen what winter does to beautiful paint jobs and careful curves on cars!
@grommet, I was thinking of your post when I got this picture. The machine was sleeping and there was no one around, contrary to the scene yesterday at 3 PM.
But I did touch it, and it was a beautifully cold and solid, but I could smell no dirt because most things are frozen now, or at least close to it. But I could see the earth in the treads. This machine has been hard at work, and now it was resting, hanging out with me.
But I did touch it, and it was a beautifully cold and solid, but I could smell no dirt because most things are frozen now, or at least close to it. But I could see the earth in the treads. This machine has been hard at work, and now it was resting, hanging out with me.
During the course of running our family's progressive machineshop, we had many projects involved in making specialized fittings, crankcase oil pump housings and oil filter adapters for use on heavy equipment.
They were parts for engine oil pre-luber units that brought the oil galley pressure up to full pressure before an operator could engage the starter motor.
That in turn saved bearing wear on the connecting rod bearings from their exposure of the high compression needed to make the engines burn their fuel and main bearings from a no oil pressure condition at startup.
In a machineshop setting, most of what you produce is only seen until you deliver it because you are working off purchase order numbers and a print.
One outfit we did work for had us making free pour polyurethane moulds to produce items that were cushioned by it.
One project that applies to this thread was a mould we produced to wrap the idler wheels on a Caterpillar track hoe in urethane to reduce the wear and noise.
Three months after the mould was delivered and Pleiger cast them, I got to see parts that came from our work on a machine.
When I can find the pictures I took, I will share them.
(I have tens of thousands of images stored in many places, so it might take a while
The list of heavy equipment manufacturers we made stuff for includes Caterpillar, Komatsu, John Deere, Case, Kubota, JLG, Volvo, Hyundai, Hitachi, Doosan and many others.
When non-essential businesses were shut down at the beginning of the pandemic, the business was closed for exactly one day until word got out that we were an A list vendor for Caterpillar.
They were parts for engine oil pre-luber units that brought the oil galley pressure up to full pressure before an operator could engage the starter motor.
That in turn saved bearing wear on the connecting rod bearings from their exposure of the high compression needed to make the engines burn their fuel and main bearings from a no oil pressure condition at startup.
In a machineshop setting, most of what you produce is only seen until you deliver it because you are working off purchase order numbers and a print.
One outfit we did work for had us making free pour polyurethane moulds to produce items that were cushioned by it.
One project that applies to this thread was a mould we produced to wrap the idler wheels on a Caterpillar track hoe in urethane to reduce the wear and noise.
Three months after the mould was delivered and Pleiger cast them, I got to see parts that came from our work on a machine.
When I can find the pictures I took, I will share them.
(I have tens of thousands of images stored in many places, so it might take a while
The list of heavy equipment manufacturers we made stuff for includes Caterpillar, Komatsu, John Deere, Case, Kubota, JLG, Volvo, Hyundai, Hitachi, Doosan and many others.
When non-essential businesses were shut down at the beginning of the pandemic, the business was closed for exactly one day until word got out that we were an A list vendor for Caterpillar.
I'm trying to get one of these from a neighbor.
I promise I won't turn it into a snowmobile
grommet
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I think you understand perfectly
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