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May 25, 2002. Placing a 20 foot container on a prepared concrete foundation at Steam Engine Row. Left to right:
SER Boss Chuck Goebel - khaki shirt white hat, Jack Lester leaning against container, David Denny
foreground - radiation purple shirt, Greg Hayden - orange tank top. Virgil White operating the crane. Below pictures of
Moto - Crane unloading Star Drill Rig.
Top left: That blue low boy is owned by Virgil White. If you look around our pages you will find
Virgil helps our Museum in other ways too.
Registered as Antique Vehicles, Virgils old Autocar semi-tractor and this trailer are usually kept at our Museum.
Virgil also has a flat bed trailer, and a modern -- only 26 years old -- International cab over 'go-get'um' Roll Back.
Top right: Museum Volunteer Jim Church in jeans, I do not know who that fellow is in yellow.
Top right: Lorain Moto-Crane. Note the stout outrigger. No fancy hydraulics here. These are strictly man powered. Virgil says
if you do not grease them those outriggers rust into place. If you do grease them the wind drives dirt into every nook and crannie,
so they are still hard to muscle out into position. One of we old men CAN wrestle that steel base plate into place. But it is a LOT
easier for two of us. Then crank that thick acme thread screw with a bar. Below left & right:
Lift drill rig, pull trailer out from beneath.
Top left: Spin the drill rig around 180 degrees while on the hook, then set it down. We used a portable gasoline powered
air compressor to operate the steam engine and drove this self powered rig backwards into our
Steam Tractor Barn Top right:
Museum Volunteer Clem Patzloff in bib overalls, Steam Engine Row boss Chuck Goebel in the white hard hat.
Dale Lytle, pictured below left, who operated one of these in oil fields when he was a kid, carefully blocked up the wooden frame,
and dismantled portions. See what great Big Boys Toys we get to play with?
Left: Museum Volunteer Dale Lytle, right: Star No. 2 Drilling Machine
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