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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Saturday, December 17, 2016 - 09:41 am:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tim Wrenn-Monroeville OH on Saturday, December 17, 2016 - 01:02 pm:

Pretty old students...look like the professors!!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Charlie B actually in Toms River N.J. on Saturday, December 17, 2016 - 01:07 pm:

Business end of the tools is OK position wise but that wheel barrow needs some fiddlin'.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hap Tucker in Sumter SC on Saturday, December 17, 2016 - 01:24 pm:

Not sure, but maybe they are getting ready to off load coal into the basement? Note the open door to the cellar/basement that is lined up with the back of the truck. And the tail gate is down. Of course they need to open the other cellar door.

Thanks again Jay and others for the many excellent early photos.

Respectfully submitted,

Hap l9l5 cut off


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Burger in Spokane on Saturday, December 17, 2016 - 01:40 pm:

The far side cellar door is flipped over. Most coal burning situations
had a purpose-built chute that put the coal right where it needed to be
by the furnace. Maybe this building pre-dates such an installation and
a chute was placed along one side of the stairs as a retrofit ?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Seth - Jefferson, Ohio on Saturday, December 17, 2016 - 02:18 pm:

I think they were hired to bury Dean Harris by a student he disciplined that the Dean mentioned in the other thread.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Wayne Sheldon, Grass Valley, CA on Saturday, December 17, 2016 - 06:54 pm:

LOL!!! (Thank you Dennis. Nice segue!)

Seriously. My dad always said, and I absolutely agree, that "every engineer should be required to spend at least one full year on the grunt end of a construction crew".


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Eviston on Saturday, December 17, 2016 - 09:19 pm:

They are likely hauling out ashes and clinkers.I well recall our coal furnace.One had to have considerable knowledge in those days.I can't imagine millenials going to the basement,shaking the clinkers out of the grates,and shoveling the stoker full.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erik Johnson on Saturday, December 17, 2016 - 09:28 pm:

I doubt this episode has anything to do with coal, ashes or clinkers.

Those are garden spades, not coal shovels.

Just the college groundskeepers…..


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Burger in Spokane on Saturday, December 17, 2016 - 10:00 pm:

Jim,

Coal stoking and clinker removal, .... that's a phone app, right ?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Plank - Three Way, TN on Saturday, December 17, 2016 - 10:05 pm:

Looks like the two guys on the right are wearing the appropriate neck ties.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Eviston on Saturday, December 17, 2016 - 10:08 pm:

Burger,at minumun the new breed would have to take an internet tutorial on the operation and care of a coal furnace.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dallas landers on Saturday, December 17, 2016 - 10:46 pm:

Is that a slider door on the TT or no door
Yep theres a TT in the photo


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dave Hjortnaes, Men Falls, WI on Sunday, December 18, 2016 - 12:00 am:

Beloit College in Beloit, WI. Might have been far enough back in time that the staff had to help pitch in with unloading coal.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Burger in Spokane on Sunday, December 18, 2016 - 01:09 am:

Jim, ... they'd need an internet tutorial on how to operate the #@! shovel !


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Duey_C on Sunday, December 18, 2016 - 07:36 pm:

Dalls, I wondered the same thing...
Pocket doors!


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