What Did You Do Today (2016)

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

We have just been watching BBC News about the latest find at 'Must Farm'

**LINK**

There is understandably great enthusiasm for this 'cart-wheel' … but, what intrigues me is the offset hole.

Engineering theories please !!

MichaelG.

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 19/02/2016 11:46:25:

We have just been watching BBC News about the latest find at 'Must Farm'

**LINK**

There is understandably great enthusiasm for this 'cart-wheel' … but, what intrigues me is the offset hole.

Engineering theories please !!

MichaelG.

Machined on a Sooper – Sooper Adapt ?

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Maybe they were more sophisticated than assumed…….. perhaps the offset hole is to impart a churning effect on the milk to produce butter on the journey home……. ( Always nice to have some butter and Marmite on the toast).

Norman

[BrevaParticipant @breva]

First record of wheel balancing.

Those early horses were fast!

John

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

The hole looks very crisp compared to the rest of the wheel so may not be as old

Either that or its for quatering as in when the enemy was hung, drawn and quatered

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by JasonB on 19/02/2016 13:16:02:

Either that or its for quatering

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Much closer to my initial thought, Jason

… it looked rather like a locomotive driving wheel

MichaelG.

[RobboParticipant @robbo]

"There is understandably great enthusiasm for this 'cart-wheel' … but, what intrigues me is the offset hole."

I understand the hole was drilled by a Geologist taking a core sample before the wheel had been uncovered. He didn't seem to recognise bits of wood in his core!

[john fletcher 1Participant @johnfletcher1]

Regarding using the angle grinder mounted on a home made jig, I have a very similar arrangement. Realising the possible dangers, I obtained a substantially made foot operated pedal switch . I wired up an un switched 13 amp metal clad socket outlet fitted with a neon indicator such that when the pedal is depressed the switch closes, the neon is illuminated and electrical power is then applied to the LIVE pin of the socket outlet. The angle grinder connects into the socket outlet in the usual manner. When I step on the pedal the grinder works as normal, the pedal and socket outlet are both mounted on a substancial piece of wood. Should any thing go awry or amiss ,I just walk away. Fortunately that has never happened. John

[MWParticipant @mw27036]

Just made a 22mm Mild steel peg with MT2 taper for my mill mounted rotary table chuck, i used a few slips of paper to improve the fit. fitted the tee slot studs thru the chuck and dailed it up on a Baty 0-10mm plunger type indicator.

was reading a runout of 0.28 and i clamped down one of the three tee nuts, through rotating and carefully tapping either side with a plastic mallet and then rotating it again and again, i was able to bring the run out to 0.02, this is good enough for my general work, very pleased with the quality and rigid setup of the dial.

It will certainly stop my hole patterns from wandering off, it just goes to show you dont need sophisticated equipment to sort this type of problem out, just to be a little careful and only tapping the mallet til it reads half its value to 0 on the gauge. I suppose i couldve made a better fitting plug but i wouldve needed to dial it up anyway, i didnt want to push my luck to 0 runout because my wrist is aching from slowly rotating the 4" chuck on its worm gear 😛

Michael W

[frank brownParticipant @frankbrown22225]

As its a single wheel and its partner has not been found or an axle, it was not for a cart. No, it was rotated by a lady called Susan to offer food to different guests sitting around it..

Frank

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Perhaps it was a 'skinny' spare wheel!

Edited By V8Eng on 19/02/2016 21:04:48

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi John Fletcher 1, regarding your foot pedal switch, I agree that would be a good idea and in fact I did say to one of my workmates that a foot switch would be useful and safer, one of those that are over guarded would be the best type, so that it could not be stepped on accidently.

Regards Nick.

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, Not so much what I did today, but where I was working on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. A couple of my work mates and myself had to go and do some installation for a customer, this entailed a 4 hour drive from our workshop. I managed to take a couple or three photos of the area from the factory building we were working in and just for fun, see if anybody can recognise this neck of the woods.

No prizes for a correct answer.

Regards Nick.

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

INEOS in Warrington, first picture shows disused grain silo and Fiddler's Ferry power station, 2nd shows west coast main line, third shows transporter bridge, which is now listed but just rusting away. Unusual it was built to carry railway waggons,not road traffic. Just announced Fiddler's Ferry is to close, we keep on being told of power stations closing, but never of them opening. Invest in candles!

Edited By duncan webster on 19/02/2016 21:44:32

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi Duncan, not INEOS, but Warrington is correct.

Regards Nick.

[Swarf, Mostly!Participant @swarfmostly]

Posted by frank brown on 19/02/2016 20:07:33:

As its a single wheel and its partner has not been found or an axle, it was not for a cart. No, it was rotated by a lady called Susan to offer food to different guests sitting around it..

Frank

Perhaps its partner is 4' 8½" further down???

Best regards,

Swarf, Mostly!

Edited By Swarf, Mostly! on 19/02/2016 22:08:44

[RobboParticipant @robbo]

Nick,

Do I see correctly that the shed in the last picture is marked "Perfume Storage Area" ?

[Raymond Sanderson 2Participant @raymondsanderson2]

Mate ken came to pick me up this morning so we could go to a fellow shed clean out he's moving interstate and has lots to get rid off FREE.

ken scored a Herbert Workshop he's going to restore http://www.lathes.co.uk/herberthomewoodworker/

This is the one on page two http://www.lathes.co.uk/herberthomewoodworker/page2.html

While I scored a Sher Workmate similar to this one not complete but has the saw table. http://www.woodworkforums.com/f163/sher-shopmate-impulse-buy-180797

Ken brought the V-Blocks he finished off for me.

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Posted by Robbo on 19/02/2016 22:31:41:

Nick,

Do I see correctly that the shed in the last picture is marked "Perfume Storage Area" ?

Hi Robbo, yes.

Regards Nick.

[Simon Williams 3Participant @simonwilliams3]

Presumably the lady called Susan was too lazy to take it with her when they moved camp?

Simon

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

Posted by Nicholas Farr on 19/02/2016 22:02:28:

Hi Duncan, not INEOS, but Warrington is correct.

Regards Nick.

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Is it what was Crossfields, Lever Brothers, Unilever …………. No idea of what it's called now.?

Nick

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Posted by Nick_G on 20/02/2016 15:36:29:

Posted by Nicholas Farr on 19/02/2016 22:02:28:

Hi Duncan, not INEOS, but Warrington is correct.

Regards Nick.

.

Is it what was Crossfields, Lever Brothers, Unilever …………. No idea of what it's called now.?

Nick

Hi Nick, you are correct, it is Unilever.

Regards Nick

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

You'll find a similar decaying legacy up on Teessside around Wilton and Billingham where there used to be a well known company called "ICI". The plants gradually got flogged off to twilight operators and / or closed down. Like GEC, this vast conglomerate is now just a memory. I briefly worked at both many years back…

[Richard MarksParticipant @richardmarks80868]

The transporter bridge is a replica! the original was dismantled and transported to America where it now spans a ravine on an indian reservation, this was done by a group of lads led by a bloke called oz

[frank brownParticipant @frankbrown22225]

Yes Siree!, We bought that there eiffel-bridge of some guys led by a fella called Oz. Sure did have a problem understanding him. Was he from welsh land?

Frank

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