Rusted relics

[selectedgrub]

One of those hippy buses retired

 

[dobbslc]

Found these on a job in Docklands.

 

[mechman]

Found these on a job in Docklands.
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Some clever fabricating went on there.

 

[Dieselman 63]

Found these on a job in Docklands.
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I think they're for parcels going down levels of a building. You still see them in use at airports going down from the airbridges.

 

[dobbslc]

I think they're something to do with grain but not sure. @Seadog might know.

 

[Seadog]

Why me?

But yes, I think that they're from a grain elevator.

 

[Dieselman 63]

Why me?

But yes, I think that they're from a grain elevator.

I thought they were this sort of thing: https://www.safeglide.co.uk/applications/

 

[dobbslc]

Why me?

But yes, I think that they're from a grain elevator.

I might be wrong here but I thought you replied to something I posted about another rusty lump of metal from the same job.

I thought they were this sort of thing: https://www.safeglide.co.uk/applications/

Could be but these are very old.

 

[Dieselman 63]

I might be wrong here but I thought you replied to something I posted about another rusty lump of metal from the same job.



Could be but these are very old.

I've seen them in cotton and hosiery mills before for getting products down quickly (and safely).

 

[selectedgrub]

Kevin slowly rusts

 

[Beeezer]

Couple of old pumps, been there since they worked I would imagine.
Anyone know the make and what they should look like?
Not the best pics though.

 

[fizzy]

Some more old petrol pumps - shame to see them left to rot.

 

[nickk]

Some more old petrol pumps - shame to see them left to rot. View attachment 534442View attachment 534443

Talybont?

 

[fizzy]

Talybont?

Yes indeed

 

[Farside]

I thought they were this sort of thing: https://www.safeglide.co.uk/applications/

You just know that some donkey has treated one of them like a playground chute.

 

[minimutly]

Yes indeed

I was just going to say, Talybont...

 

[fizzy]

I was just going to say, Talybont...

I was right by those pumps - in very heavy snow - when the clutch gave out on my Discovery 300tdi. We were living in a remote farmhouse in Cwm Cadlan near Penderyn at the time. Up a mile long private track. Very heavy snow and it lasted a long time.
I guessed the problem. Pushrod wears through the clutch arm and pokes a hole in it. No point asking for recovery - no chance of getting me home. So I became very good at driving with no clutch! Managed for 2 weeks like that

 

[johnny7]

Can't recall if I posted these before

I used to drive a speedslinger just like this one in the light railway foundry between 1979 and 1981, I'm pretty sure it went to India at the same time our old 'Little Nellie' 2ton arc furnace didwhen the dept was closed under the Lazard scheme from the eu in '81..

John..

 

[Scott M]

Those pumps would have been stolen long ago around here. Here is an old horse or mule powered stump puller I came across last summer.