Industrial photos

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by beauregaardhooligan

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I posted pix of an old cotton bailer somewhere.
I could dig them out if you like.

I'd like to see those, especially if you have an explanation to go with them.

[beauregaardhooligan]

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

I'd like to see those, especially if you have an explanation to go with them.

My friend asked me this as I was helping him store some stuff at an old warehouse/train depot where he rented some space.
These are pix of a cotton bailing machine, and they don't really convey how massive this thing is.
The 2nd pic shows some railroad tracks still there at the bottom of it where a flatbed cart was rolled under it and the cotton compressed onto the cart. The carts weren't regular gauge, but it was still impressive. I'm guessing a single cart would have carried close to a ton of cotton.
From what we could figger it was run by steam.
I took these pix a few years later, after my friend had moved out, and had to sneak onto the property to get them.
There is a plaque toward the top that says it was made in Birmingham, Alabama.
In the last pic I put a brick on top of part of it for scale. There are also a couple of handles to work the thing so maybe you can get a feel for how massive it is/was.
The place was/is being torn down, and theMachine may be scrap now.

hmmm, where's the pix? It said they uploaded.
Look for this thread, Have you seen theMachine?