2353. Approximately 30" diameter, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win a T-shirt.
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2354. This pressurized canister was shot on a country road next to some railroad tracks:
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2355. 18" long:
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2356. About 10" long:
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2357. 12" long, the only opening on this unidentified container is the hole with the sliding door:
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2358. 28" long:
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Answers:
2353. This is a corn sheller, text on the back reads "Made and sold by G. Evans, Pittsburgh", the other side is hollow so it's not as heavy as it looks, and there is a handle on the back to make it rotate.
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To use it, ears of corn were dropped down this tapered chute and the spinning disk would quickly remove the kernels.
2354. This device pressurizes underground telephone cables with air or nitrogen so that if they are slightly nicked or damaged the pressure keeps water from flowing into the cables.
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2355. Part of an old Planet Jr. Cultivator or wheel hoe for use in a garden:
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2356. A Casella sunshine recorder, it has a clockwork mechanism that rotates the drum once in 24 hours, the sunlight is recorded with a pen that is driven by a mechanical linkage from a bi-metallic strip inside of the dome.
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2357. Still not sure about this item, possibly a bee swarm catcher, with some type of attractant used in the tubes.
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2358. Tank treads from an M-48 tank:
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2358 are tank tracks
ReplyDeleteBerhard
Agreed, 2358 are tracks - I'm gonna guess M60 tracks in fact
ReplyDelete2355: if it has a matching mirror piece it could be a rope operated grabling thingie. for, lets say hay?
ReplyDelete2357: i think it's a trap for water loving rodents (or fish) of some sort,the round tubes would assist in the floating/stabalizing of the device.
2358: Tracks of some kind of tracked vehicle, seeing the abundance of farm material here i would not guess battle tank so earth moving equipment has my vote. (also the rubber blocks don't seem to be replaceable, making them somewhat unsuitable for road tracks for a tank. )
2353: Corn shucker?
ReplyDelete2357: I don't think that the side tanks are for flotation. I'm pretty sure that the fabric is intended to wick fluid out of the tanks. The question is: Is that water for cooling or kerosene to be lit for heating? I was wondering whether it was some sort of warmed hatching box for chickens.
2358: Most earth moving equipment doesn't have rubber tracks because they aren't operated on pavement. And the double width probably means tank rather than APC.
2354 used to pressurize telephone or other communications cables. The pressurization keeps moisture out
ReplyDelete2355 adjustable row cultivator for farming
2353: Millstone
ReplyDelete2354 isn't a device used to pressurize cables. It's a pressure pot used to contain a splice in a telephone cable filled with dry nitrogen. I see these things all the time around where I live.
ReplyDeleteCorrection to 2354:
ReplyDeleteT1 Repeater Housing - The stainless pressure can on top comes off to reveal a small card cage with a dozen slots (+/-) for circuit boards. They are placed every ~6,000 feet from the Central Office.
The repeater cards on the inside amplify high-speed data circuits, or 24 multiplexed phone lines on each circuit, for people out of town past the distance limits of normal voice/data connections.