At 10:15 this morning the phone rang. It was Ben, he said, "if you want help setting those lumps of Sh--, meet me at the showgrounds in 20 minutes." Okay.. it took 30 because I had to change into grubbies. It took us about an hour to load the tank and the pump. Most of it arguing with the club's clunky junky Ford hi-lift (some members have a real bad habit of abusing it, and then not telling anybody when they screw it up.)
Anyway, it turned out there was no oil in the tank (after I was told by 4 different people there was oil innit), just a skin of tar in the bottom. so lifting it was easy. It's just sitting on wood blocks for the moment. I'll try to cut the pipe supports next week. The Union pump gave us a bit of a scare when the chains shifted (the brakes on the Ford tend to be nothing or grab, so it was swinging pretty good), but it then went on with no other troubles. I didn't do any welding today because the grass is pretty wet, and I really dislike being "tickled".
After we got it on the wagon, and more or less balanced, Ben got curious what the tags and stamps said. They told us that it's a 6x4x6 tar pump, that was once owned by a company called Koppers
http://www.oil150.com/essays/2008/0...vision-neville-synthese-rhone-poulenc-merisol
He also got rambunctious and pulled the water side on the Worthington It has leather cups so it probably was for water.
Meanwhile, he also agrees that a mid-sized National duplex wandered off sometime in the last 3 years.... We really hope they got hernias loading it.
While I was there I took some pix just for y'all's edification. This is one of the really big simplexes... they are about 9 feet long
The valves on this thing are pretty interesting. The rocker drives a smallish slide valve, which activates a larger piston shuttle valve that controls the cylinder
And for those who have read about "bull plugs" but didn't know what the heck they were. This is a field made one. They also come factory made of cast iron
Since we have to go back for the meeting tonight anyway, I'll probably go a bit early and see about finishing that tongue... the front end is getting kinda heavy and really hard to steer with just the stub.
Anyway, it turned out there was no oil in the tank (after I was told by 4 different people there was oil innit), just a skin of tar in the bottom. so lifting it was easy. It's just sitting on wood blocks for the moment. I'll try to cut the pipe supports next week. The Union pump gave us a bit of a scare when the chains shifted (the brakes on the Ford tend to be nothing or grab, so it was swinging pretty good), but it then went on with no other troubles. I didn't do any welding today because the grass is pretty wet, and I really dislike being "tickled".
After we got it on the wagon, and more or less balanced, Ben got curious what the tags and stamps said. They told us that it's a 6x4x6 tar pump, that was once owned by a company called Koppers
http://www.oil150.com/essays/2008/0...vision-neville-synthese-rhone-poulenc-merisol
He also got rambunctious and pulled the water side on the Worthington It has leather cups so it probably was for water.
Meanwhile, he also agrees that a mid-sized National duplex wandered off sometime in the last 3 years.... We really hope they got hernias loading it.
While I was there I took some pix just for y'all's edification. This is one of the really big simplexes... they are about 9 feet long
The valves on this thing are pretty interesting. The rocker drives a smallish slide valve, which activates a larger piston shuttle valve that controls the cylinder
And for those who have read about "bull plugs" but didn't know what the heck they were. This is a field made one. They also come factory made of cast iron
Since we have to go back for the meeting tonight anyway, I'll probably go a bit early and see about finishing that tongue... the front end is getting kinda heavy and really hard to steer with just the stub.