Sandon BC Canada
Enjoying Summer in the Kootenays - August 11, 2010
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Photos - Frames left and right: Ingersol-Rand Portable Air Compressor used in mining operations to run air tools. It is a 600 Rotary Air Compressor (1962) Gyroflo Mobile Air. With a history dating back to 1871, Ingersoll Rand and its family of brands represents a proven history in construction and mining, industrial and commercial markets.
Center frame: Part of a Climax Portable Machine Tool that looks like it is a mud pump or compressor. Climax Company is a strategic provider of comprehensive, on-site machining solutions.
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Photos - Frames left and right: Eimco 21 - Rocker Shovel Manufactured in Utah - EIMCO Rocker Shovel Loader, Model 12 (circa 1938) used for sorting out the rich ore from the poor rock in an underground metallic mine after blasting.
Center frame: Gardner-Denver Model DF-1
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Photos - Frames left and right: This contraption laid out on nothing but its frame, is a Ingersol-Rand Portable Air Compressor that has been stripped down.
Center frame: Of course, no mining artifact display is complete
without at least one Bulldozer. This is a Caterpillar Diesel Fifty Bulldozer.
Diesel Fifty was produced from 1933 to 1936, built in Peoria Ill with a 4
cylinder diesel engine to give it lots of push/pull power.
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