Interesting Machinery

[Bluedragon]

One of my loves is decaying machinery, thought i would put up a post so people can share their interesting machinery pics

Unknown machine found at St. Georges, Morpeth, behind the boiler house...

 

[Happyshopper]

Textile Mill Machinery




Asphalt Plant Machinery




Pyestock Powerstation Machinery

 

[mookster]

I like decaying Machinery.

L&H Polymers....answers on a postcard please.

 

[Happyshopper]

You can have some new vs old flour mill machinery too

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[John_D]

Well the machine in the first post is a hopper loader. Components, in a wheeled rectangular bin would have been pushed into the blue guarded cage then once the door was closed the bin would have been lifted up vertically then tipped forward to empty the components into a high level feed hopper for an assembly or heat treatment machine. The blue guarding is relatively recent, probably only about 15 years old at most.
Just realised that St Georges was a mental hospital, can't see any manufacturing use for the machine there but may well have been used for loading bins of soiled bedding into a large wash boiler.

 

[Bluedragon]

I was thinking along the lines of trash compacter... haha, how wrong was i!

 

[alex76]

Not sure what this is in Sleaford maltings

 

[night crawler]

First one looks like it is part of a compactor where you load it.

 

[st33ly]

Unknown Farm Machine:

 

[Bluedragon]

Heating system? Lynemouth pit baths...


Picture 070 by Bluedragon423, on Flickr


Picture 071 by Bluedragon423, on Flickr

 

[Dirus_Strictus]

Not sure what this is in Sleaford maltings

Overhead lineshafting and a large diameter multibelt pulley. Unfortunately as you did not record the complete assembly, it is impossible to state what the shaft drove.

 

[Foxylady]

A few of my favourites.

Shapwick Grange Chalk Quarry.

Beer Limestone Quarry.

Tannery, Colyton

 

[alex76]

What you think to this bad boy...The old boiler RAF Upwood

 

[Dirus_Strictus]

One of my loves is decaying machinery, thought i would put up a post so people can share their interesting machinery pics

Unknown machine found at St. Georges, Morpeth, behind the boiler house...

Presumably the boilers were coke fired at some time, this could have been used to tip the ash carts into the the removal vehicles.

 

[Bluedragon]

They were coal fired untill the day they shut down so that may explain it!

 

[PROSNIPER]

You can have some new vs old flour mill machinery too

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love the new and old stuff

 

[waynezbitz1]

Overhead lineshafting and a large diameter multibelt pulley. Unfortunately as you did not record the complete assembly, it is impossible to state what the shaft drove.

That picture was taken in the main engine house of sleaford maltings, the pulley seemed tobe the main driving wheel for the lind shafting which ran through all seven buildings which presumably ran all the malting machinery (now gone) in the whole site

 

[waynezbitz1]

Unknown Farm Machine:

this is an old air compressor head. i had one alomst identical and mine dated from the 1940's

 

[st33ly]

Cheers, There was another bit of machinery at the farm too. I will see if I can find the pic and upload it.

 

[st33ly]

Whats this then?

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