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What Is It? for 6/24/12

Posted June 24, 2012 12:00 AM
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06/24/2012 12:46 AM

A very old Red Seal water pump powered by a 6 cylinder Fairbanks Morse flathead engine mounted to a trailer to make it somewhat more portable.
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06/24/2012 4:52 AM

Care to be more specific, like what was the owner's name?
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06/24/2012 8:24 AM

...and what day the picture was taken?

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07/02/2012 8:16 AM

and what was the name of the guy who worked in the tractor factory who cobbled it together on weekends out of tractor parts that he sneaked out the back door of the factory on friday afternoons when the boss was out to lunch with his 'secretary ?
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06/24/2012 9:31 AM

Old he says, very old he says, just needs some paint says I....

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06/24/2012 10:31 AM

Industrial 6" water pump upstate NY...

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06/25/2012 9:03 PM

I like it 'cuz I like old junque--hit 'n miss, tractors, early fire apparatus, etc.

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06/27/2012 5:12 AM

Is that a parrafin engine? Not seen one of those in about 45 years.

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06/25/2012 1:29 AM

Ummm, not quite.... Its a water pump all right, but powered by a Continental "Red Seal" flathead 6. It may have been assembled by Fairbanks-Morse but the label looks suspiciously new or photoshopped. If it is real it might have a F-M pump on it. There is also a good chance that it was built on a trailer for portability. (as opposed to someone slapping it on a trailer at a later date.)
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06/25/2012 9:06 PM

I was thinking "Red Seal" was not F-M, but couldn't recall who. Thanks for the reminder.

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06/25/2012 4:10 AM

...and what was the name of the owner's cat?

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06/24/2012 7:34 AM

That is a snap of Doorman's back yard.

The cooler I turned into a bar-b-que can be seen in the background.

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06/24/2012 5:23 PM

Testimonial for a supreme hoarder.

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06/24/2012 8:41 PM

TCMtech is quick,

for a second i thought it was an engine of this:

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06/25/2012 4:41 AM

My last mode of transport!

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06/25/2012 7:22 AM

Brings new meaning to the term "Trailer Trash"........

Nahhhh, this isn't upstate NY, but more like the Ozarks IMO......

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06/25/2012 8:04 AM

It's a junkyard, with living quarters..........LMAO
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06/25/2012 8:48 AM

Stinky Pete's new vehicle dealership?

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06/25/2012 9:11 AM

Worlds are obviously diverging here...for some its a junkyard, for others its a treasure trove of parts and old machinery. Maybe the old car is running on an over unity magnet motor!!

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06/25/2012 8:32 PM

something for american pickers?

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06/25/2012 10:05 AM

How did you get into my back yard to take that picture, without being eaten by the dogs!!!??!?!?!

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06/25/2012 11:07 AM

Tom, my wife and I both love your Labradoodle pics on your website! If we didn't have 5 Border Collies & a Welsh Pembrooke Corgi we would get one without hestitation! Maybe our next dog!!!!!!!

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06/26/2012 3:57 AM

When my ship came in I was on the wrong dock,

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06/25/2012 3:34 PM

It's.....It's....It's.....RUSTY!!!!!

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06/26/2012 4:53 PM

A rusty, red tanked, weed parked, junk surrounded, wheel rim hiding gunkulator on a trailer.

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06/26/2012 6:12 PM

Hmmmm. 'Gunkulator'. What a wonderful word!

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06/27/2012 10:07 AM

Gonculator is its predecessor.

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06/27/2012 12:14 PM

It's a Fairbanks Morse industrial 6-inch water pump. This site talks a little bit about antique pumps. (Maybe not this exact model, but Fairbanks Morse is mentioned.)
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