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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 18, 2010 - 10:32pm PT
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hooblie, jstan, & TrundleBum: I did a Goggle search for one-lung engines and finally backed into this interesting U-Tube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MLkbHkxk-g
Per the Link: The De La Vergne Engine Works built this 125 HP, 40 ton engine in 1903. It is believed to be the largest running single cylinder four-cycle open crankcase engine in existence.
It is rated at 125 HP and 4100 ft-lbs. of torque at 160 RPM
Runs on Oil.
Bore and stroke: 26" x 38"
Displacement: 20,175 Cubic Inches.(330 Liters)
The base and cylinder weigh 20 tons.
The dual 9 foot flywheels and crankshaft together weigh 15 tons.
The main bearing caps weigh 700 Lbs.
It was on display at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri.
After the 1904 World's Fair, it was installed in the W.F. Norman Sheet Metal Works in Nevada, Mo. where it was used for fifty years.
It was purchased in 1976 by the Western Minnesota Steam Thresher's Reunion and moved to their show grounds in Rollag, MN, where it can be viewed every Labor Day Weekend.
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Thorgon
Big Wall climber
Sedro Woolley, WA
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Aug 18, 2010 - 11:50pm PT
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Fritz,
This mud shot is from Trail creek Road. Our field area was the Boulder Creek area, Leslie Buttes, Chille Buttes, and Meridian Peak (I think) anyway it was one of the highest peaks around, besides Borah the Choas pile and Devil's Bedstead!
Thor
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2012 - 10:47am PT
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I am belatedly, but reliably informed by Idaho climber Splattski, that the mountain in the background of Thorgon's photo of lovely Belinda is 11,857 Ft. Mt Corruption. It sets a little to the southeast of Mt. Borah in the Lost River Range.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Aug 27, 2012 - 12:48pm PT
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Great stuff as usual Fritz!
Howzabout where I got married in Alaska?
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Aug 27, 2012 - 01:30pm PT
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How'd I miss this thread first time around?
Two trivia answers for Fritz.
Yes, that was for sawing logs. a real "saw horse"
And the jack: used for jacking up mine timbers. Sometimes just to get them into place. Sometimes permanently to jack up the timbers as the roof or floor of the mine settled.
I love poking around old mines. Especially trying to work out what all the old mechanical gizmos were used for and how they worked.
Oh yea, you also asked something like "how'd they get this stuff up here?"
Sweat, blood, toil and donkeys. Along with levers, wire rope, pulleys and more donkeys.
Donkeys and mules really had it tough in those days.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2012 - 03:36pm PT
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Survival: Are those photos from the Juneau area? The second one of the destroyed mill looks like a desert?
High Traverse! Thanks for the "at-a-boy" and the knowledge.
Oxen! Don't forget the oxen. I've found ox-shoes in some darn-remote high-mountain areas in Idaho.
Heidi and I went back to that island in Nevada last weekend and found more cool old stuff and a great sunset too.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1902511&msg=1912612#msg1912612
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Aug 27, 2012 - 03:48pm PT
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Fritz, no it's Kennicott mine, once the richest copper mine in the world. It's up the Copper River drainage from Cordova, a loooong way.
It's within the boundaries of Wrangell St. Elias National Park, almost twice the size of Denali park!
There is the small nearby town of McCarthy, where basic services are available. It's awesome!
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Aug 27, 2012 - 04:06pm PT
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Here's some sheep for ya, Fritz.
I was up on Mt. Church & Donaldson Peak this last weekend. It looks like scree slopes are safer with smaller feet.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 28, 2012 - 12:00am PT
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Skully! Glad to see you getting high in the Lost River Range!
Re your mention: Here's some sheep for ya, Fritz.
Those ewes look cute!
Did they like you?
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Aug 28, 2012 - 01:27am PT
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Naw, they kept their distance.
Couple more....
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 21, 2016 - 08:29am PT
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DMT! That's one hellava find for you! Thanks for taking the time to share it. I totally agree that a more or less intact stamp mill is a rarity. In all my Idaho, Nevada, & Montana mine ramblings, I only recall seeing one previously, but it was in the old mining town of Yellowjacket, buried in "deepest-Idaho" and there were folks living adjacent to it.
Heidi & I could almost hear banjo music when we drove through the one-time town. Here's a photo of the old boarding house, with the stamp mill above it & the occupied owner's cabin at the left side of the photo.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dec 21, 2016 - 10:14am PT
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Great pictures. The stamp mill looks choice.
Here are some pictures from early '80's of I ride I took into the Ruby mountains. Great fishing and some miners cabins.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2017 - 11:40am PT
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My "old" friend Imstein & I found this one lung engine at a mine west of Ketchum, Idaho last week. Based on nearby garbage, I'll guess it dates to the 1920's, although the mine was first worked for lead & zinc minerals in the early 1880's.
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