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This is an early 1900's steam powered roller. This was also on the Crimson Peak set and it was chugging away doing the job it was intended to, flattening the dirt they were putting on the streets to cover them. I love this kinda stuff. It is always so interesting. Anyone with a passion for machinery have to love stuff like this.
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the bands buffalo springfield and fleetwood mack were both named after (i mean really, could it be complete coincidence?) manufacturers of these things.
when i was a little guy in 1950s, many paving contractors and state highway departments still had actual steam powered road rolers in active every day service.
none of them were wood fired though, that i can recall. all by then were oil fired. by the 60s of course they were mostly replaced by diesels.
but paving and excavating contractors, especially the smaller ones, and even a few not so smaller ones, tend to be gearheads. old heavy equipment never dies. it just quietly rusts in the corner of an equipment lot somewhere. once in a while they even get restored. i shouldn't say never. i'm sure many pieces of equipment do get cut up for scrap. but you'd be amazed how many don't.
the hard cold in it for the money contractor, who came up through the ranks as it were, starting as a cat skinner or road oiler or who knows what, will almost always have a few of the old horses of some kind, sitting in some back corner of his equipment lot.
when i was a little guy in 1950s, many paving contractors and state highway departments still had actual steam powered road rolers in active every day service.
none of them were wood fired though, that i can recall. all by then were oil fired. by the 60s of course they were mostly replaced by diesels.
but paving and excavating contractors, especially the smaller ones, and even a few not so smaller ones, tend to be gearheads. old heavy equipment never dies. it just quietly rusts in the corner of an equipment lot somewhere. once in a while they even get restored. i shouldn't say never. i'm sure many pieces of equipment do get cut up for scrap. but you'd be amazed how many don't.
the hard cold in it for the money contractor, who came up through the ranks as it were, starting as a cat skinner or road oiler or who knows what, will almost always have a few of the old horses of some kind, sitting in some back corner of his equipment lot.
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