New Addition to the Show

cjmlarson;8938 said:
I received word from Harvey that the last of the shovel was transported from Battletown back to Bill R's place. For those of you that are not sure what the car body is, it is the frame that the shovel sits on and that the axles and wheels get bolted to.

This is a very large piece and is overwidth and is very long and heavy. So I'm sure this was a challenge for them to move. Nothing is impossible for the Kentucky boys! :not_worthy: It is one more piece that is to be worked on by the Kentucky crew.
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News from Kentucky

I've received word from Harvey that repairs on the dipper stick and the boom are in full swing. He estimates that they have about 120 man-hours of labor into the dipper stick. It has not been painted yet, colors to be discussed in the future. He said they found alot of traces of orange paint on the stick, so I guess we have a starting point of wondering what colors were on the stick.

Harvey and one of Bill's men, have been diligently working on the dipper stick, with the addition of a couple of welding students working in the afternoons as co-ops, doing alot of welding.



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Here Bill is welding on the dipper stick.



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Here is Patrick (one of the students from Boone County Vocational School) working on the bucket.



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Here the bucket and dipper stick are lying on their side. To give you an idea of how big the bucket is, Bill stands about 6' tall.




The boom was originally wood with metal plates bolted to the sides to provide strength. The past 100 years has taken it's toll on the wood, so they are welding all the plates together to create a steel box, dipper stick and boom. This should be stronger than original and should last for another 100 years.

They're estimating there's probably about 2 weeks of work on the boom and then onto the car body.



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This is a partial picture of the car body after being moved to Bill's place. Mike and John Pelley are standing at the rear of the machine, just about in the spot where the firebox will sit. Harvey apologizes for not getting better pictures, but his camera was giving him fits. More to come soon.
 
Kentucky Info

We have received a progress report from Harvey. It sounds like their weather hasn't been cooperating, much like our weather in the upper midwest. We'll also post the pictures he sent.


Hello from a soggy Kentucky,:(

The Blue Grass is no longer Blue, but has turned red/brown from rust due to the heavy rainfall. In the month of April, we received over 25% of our annual rainfall, and May hasn't let up neither. We did have two days of sunshine in April, with 18 days of rain. We have considered to quit working on the Marion-Osgood, and to start building an ark. The last sunny day that we worked, we noticed several pairs of animals watching us and we wondered if it was a sign.

I've attched a couple of pictures that show that we did accomplish a little work when it wasn't raining.

As you may remenber, the boom and dipper stick on this machine was wood, that was encased with bolted on steel plate and angles to reinforce the wood. (This was before the days of practical arc welding.) We have removed all of the wood and actually made the boom into two welded boxes, with internal bracing in critical areas. We believe that when the boom is complete, it will be stronger that the original boom. The dipper stick was treated in the same manner, but we left the original wood in place.

Removing the wood that was in the boom was a bear to say the least. It was so hard that it literally ate up saber saw blades, chewed the carbide off of circular saw blades and destroyed chain saw chains.

We were able to do a little work on the main car body, all of the control levers are freed up. In the process of moving, it looks like the cross heads on the main hoisting engine moved about an inch, so it shouldn't be too difficult to get the main engine turning over. We still have to free up the clutch on the main engine. I pulled the head on the right cylinder of the main engine and the cylinder walls were oily and shiny. Hoisting on this engine is going to be a little different that the other shovels, one lever engages the clutch and another engages the throttle. We may need a three armed operator.

But, trusting in the goodness of the Lord, we hope to have good weather in May and will soon be able to get back into gear.

Harvey

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A shot of the car body of the marion osgood shovel this peice will come to the show grounds as you see it here it is about 43 feet long and 12 feet 4 inches wide
 
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left front of machine the large pulley you see has cables wrapped on both sides connected winch drum powered by twin cylinder steam engine which will roate the boom and dipper during operation
 
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a shot of the drive gear as you see the teeth have been partially cut off I think this was done in preparation to move it from the quarry in one peice a few years ago
 
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The font axle also the drive axle was delivered steam school weekend by George V. of Jim's towing fame The axle and a few other misc. pieces were brought from Kentucky last winter George unloaded and stored them This one piece alone weigh's 26.000 lbs. Many thanks George!!!!:not_worthy:
 
Loading Car Body

The Kentucky boys have been hard at it all summer long, repairing the car body, the boom and the stick. Following pictures are of loading the car body to be transported from Kentucky to the WMSTR showgrounds.

Don't pay any attention to the dates on the pictures...Harvey must not have set the correct date!


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Here they are using some of Bill's large construction equipment to load the mammoth car body onto the transport truck. This car body weighs 79,000 lbs (approx 40 ton). The first truck they tried to use to haul it, drove across the scale and they realized they didn't have enough axles under the truck & trailer to carry the weight. Because of this, WMSTR had to hire a different transport with more axles and tires to make the trip up to Rollag.


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Here they are placing blocking material in all the correct spots to make the trip.


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Putting the final touches on all of the blocking, chains and binders.
 
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The main carriage for the new shovel arrived on Wednesday before the show.

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On Friday a little extra show in the Sandbox was put on when Goerge showed up with two large wreckers. Placing one on each side of the trailer the front end was picked up. I missed getting a picture of the crowd, it was quit large.



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Bill was able to pick up the rear end with the diesel shovel.

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After each end of the carriage was in the air the truck and trailer from Reliance out of Fargo was pulled out. I would like to thank George for bringing out his trucks from Fargo. He has helped with this and other projects more than once. Would also like to thank Bill and the crew from Kentucky and Donny Snow. They all have many hours in this project.
 
Lumber for House

Here's a picture of Merlyn loaded up with the lumber that Earl's Mill sawed late this fall. It's headed to the kiln to get dried and then made into tongue & groove. This will be used for building the new house for the shovel.

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Kiln

Looks like a nice load of lumber guys. Where is the kiln and how long does that process take?
 
The Kiln is a Zerkel (just south of Bagley). It took about a week to dry it down to 12% moisture.It is now waiting its turn to be milled into verticle Vgroove siding and tougue and groove planking for the roof.

Merlyn
 
Didn't you so some of that for something else in the last couple of years Merlyn? Danielson's shop maybe? Seems like I remember something like that happening.
 
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