Beautiful Pictures of Machines

One of our smaller tinker toys.

I'm jealous! Great pictures. Thanks for the little peek at your life.

Lyn

I have always found it so very strange how so many people view my life with jealousy and envy. I certainly don't.

(But yet I don't exactly want to be them though either.)

I do appreciate the praise though. It gives me good reasons to keep doing what I do!

These belong to one of my Minn. neighbors. They all run.

How about a Lanz Bulldog tractor? Seen at a tractor museum on my trip to South Africa in Dec 09. I thought this was especially interesting, because I recall stories from my late dad who used one of these as a young farm hand. Btw there was a big shed full of all brands of old tractors!! All capable of running.

Was this at the Bathurst Agricultural Museum?

This was a steam engine that worked in an abandoned coal mine near Banff AB (my daughter and son-in-law. up close, its a powerful piece of engineering for something from the 1880's.. There are also triplex pumps that are essentially unchanged to today.

High pressure (3K) hydraulic pipe fitting - master and apprentice.

A well built, neatly organized electro-hydraulic control panel (plc)

aligning pulleys on leeson 10hp motor and cat 550 hydrualic pump

skyhook

glad I'm not an electrician...

In august, I was project coordinator for a tapering of a rock crusher (this is inside the main hopper), and all the plates you see are 1.25" armor plate.

9" bore 5000 psi rated blowout preventer stack.. in the yard waiting for recert.

Finger of God... the stack in Sudbury ON - piercing the clouds. (500ft?) I'm about 1km away..

not everyone works in a factory.. outside the Eaton center in TO - august

can't believe it is empty... but for years in Canada, ... okay fine.. won't go there..

Chris

Eh - the Garden - I was lucky enought to be in TO at the end & didn't care what I paid for one of those last tickets...the game, the crowd, the smells - I feel lucky as heck to have seen a game @ the Garden, i'll never forget

A simple transit

Kern DKM2A 1 second theodolite.

^{beech baron IGX}

I loved some of those pictures throughout the years. Especially the electrician one. I have just started the P.Eng apprenticeship thing but am a Electrician first so thought I would i would share some pics, nothing special. there were better ones but unfortunely never had money to buy a camera or a digital one.

This one shows why you should design channels for wiring within a high discharge sign so that if one ballast blows it doesn't blow everything else.

Back pressure during spring melt causes water to enter feeders and spray into a 600A 600V main service. Not providing a gravel field around the cable tray (30 years old approximatly) caused close to 45k damage and no power for 3 days.

Logistics and organizations night mare.

My little brother with his new truck.

30 000 sq ft durham college in Whitby modualar building addition.

www.modspace.com

Our family business, now up to 7 trucks, 15 guys.... and started from my Dad's garage 20 years ago.

Running 1000MCM Cu because some engineer forgot that a factory needs 600V power for machines at the other end of the factory. Just saying.

Cheers

The playground for my hobby (woodworking in the garage):