Typical MESTA sized product; rail-car shown for scale.
Typical MESTA sized product; rail-car shown for scale.
No Doubt it's big, but don't rule out the relative perspective of distance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
In regard to original post # 527;
There are indeed a few rail cars in the distance, but, there is also a railcar UNDER the shear. Only that shear sitting on a flat bed rail car.
It is a pretty large shear.
Planer at the McKees Rocks Machine and Erecting Shop. McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. 1904.
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Takes me back...to the 70's anyway. Ran a 30' Gray gantry planer. Talk about working carefully, a week of planing, then a mistake could be 30 feet long.
Also ran a 8' Rockford. Talk about working carefully; you know the rest.
Mesta Machine Company ship shaft department.
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The big shear on the right...
Good call! If not same, then another; many similarities. Talk about scale, Geez Louise.
The little wee tiny guy standing on the lathe.
When your tool post is as big as you are...you might be a Mesta worker...