I happened upon this top picture earlier this week. Intriguing I thought.
Down the rabbit hole I went.
This is called the Hulutt Unloader
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| YOU CAN SEE THE OPERATOR IN THE WINDOW TOP CENTER OF IMAGE |
Some cool videos:
Here's a great video on the history of iron ore on the great lakes.
The ore pellets make great slingshot ammo.
ReplyDeleteInitially that was some backbreaking work! Let's hear it for those that develop machinery to offload the backbreaking work. Let's hear it for hydraulics!!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKDO_kEf0QQ
ReplyDeleteGives me carpal tunnel just watching and I’ve had both fixed
ReplyDeleteYa grew up by Burlington northern tracks in onalaska wi and yes those pellets worked great in sling shot. Cheap fun. Although I wonder how many were leftin car at destination
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, we would drive down to Lorain, Ohio and watch them load the freighters with coal for the trip north. One coal car at a time through an tracked elevator system. Turned the car upside down and dumped it into the ships. I could watch it for hours. Eod1sg Ret
ReplyDeleteIt reminded me of the lyrics to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and iron mining on the UP of Michigan. Back in the '00s, wife and I took a vacation trip to the UP and visited some of the mines and an area that's still covered in some of the highest grade iron ore there is.
ReplyDeleteI remember sitting on the rocks at Edgewater Beach on summer evenings when I was a kid and watching the Huletts toward Whiskey Island to the east move. They had lights and it always reminded me of the arms of the Octapus ride at Cedar Point or Geauga Lake. Our city was once alive like the Huletts.
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