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Watch Your Fingers
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 02/16/2007 - 2:32am.
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Machine used in mine that digs the coal and loads it on the car. With it three men can do the work of 50 in the old way. Yet they use boys to drive and trap. Gary, West Virginia. September 1908. View full size.
All those exposed gears
Submitted by upstatenyguy on Fri, 06/25/2010 - 7:37pm.
Wonder how many fingers/hands that thing took off?
Tool Time
Submitted by Phaedrus on Tue, 06/08/2010 - 4:41pm.
Not very cool leaving a couple of wrenches in the dirt.
Grrrr.
Submitted by Bret on Fri, 08/22/2008 - 12:35pm.
I would love to see this monster in action. I tried to envision what the concentric gearing does, and what the brackets might attach to on the front (?) wheels.
where can i get one!
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 03/21/2007 - 1:43pm.
without the caption, i could never have guessed what it was, but i wish i had one parked in my driveway!
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