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Rusted relics

Started by selectedgrub, December 04, 2012, 06:15:53 AM

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Nice finds, chironex, although they'd be nicer if UrbanGhosts didn't insist on chopping off most of the right half of every photo. >:(
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Drew P

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chironex

#179
Quote from: selectedgrub on December 31, 2015, 05:41:02 PM
Sadly it is like that now?

I'll play.
http://selectedgrub.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/blog-post_6.html

It's better than it was. The tender floor was ripped up and had been visible out the top, even from right next to it; and they have wiped out the spraypaint erections. Otherwise, no-one is doing anything with it now.
http://thoughtengine.deviantart.com/art/mummified-kettle-420311917
It did look like this some time ago:


http://thoughtengine.deviantart.com/art/Under-restoration-517023184

This ship was loading a lot of rusty metal on the day I visited the HMAS Canberra:
http://thoughtengine.deviantart.com/art/Damn-big-trash-can-523428073
BOOMMM!!!! it went as the cranes dropped whole skipfuls of it in at a time.
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selectedgrub

That deserves to be restored.  :-[

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Banfili

selected, the top one of these three resembles a meso-American style of building.

chironex

It would be improper (sometimes impractical) to shoot these myself, so I used Streetview:

Several derelicts as yard art in front of the Rollingstone Hotel. Last time I passed by there was a derelict truck in much worse condition hidden in the carpark somewhere.


This business is around the corner from my workplace. I don't know what the old machines used as yard art have to do with their business.
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Several farm houses in Toobanna, the way into Ingham, have big piles of old stuff hanging around near the road; they just don't appear close enough to Streetview.
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Drew P

^That's what is known as "yard-art".
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chironex

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Steamtess

Oh gosh. I love this stuff, I have so many photos from reclamation yards, etc. I will have to work out how to post photographs...
Watch this space  ;)


Banfili

I must get out with the camera/s this winter!

chironex

Knew I'd seen one here last time I went through the place, maybe 20 years ago...



An old excavator in Mount Morgan, Queensland.

There was another old earthmover at a park in Rockhampton, but I can't find it on GoogleEarth. May have been removed.

This is Rosewood Railway Museum, Queensland:


This area appears to be their cast-offs:

Here it is at ground level:


And this part is on the museum side of the road:

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morozow

I went to the enterprise for peat extraction. Not far from Moscow. And yet there is a narrow gauge railroad. Peat is now not popular and mining it now at the minimum level.





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selectedgrub

Thanks for sharing.
Is that a snow plough train?

morozow

on the first picture? Yes. Snow removal the wagon.
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chironex

#196
At the Armour and Artillery Museum, Cairns:




They had some more wreckage in a pile out the back, but my camera ran out of power (and I'd just charged it the previous night!)
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Dr.B.Goodall

#197
Just something I recently bought off of eBay for £30 (delivered).  It's history is supposedly Victorian, but I only have word of mouth to go by.  Regardless, I liked it's used look, with a little light rust here and there ... kinda gives it a bit of character :)

Click on the images for a larger view...





It's apparently "a very early Parkinson by shape of molding and the lack of markings which came later"
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selectedgrub

I want one.
Thanks chironex and Dr Goodall for keeping the thread alive.

I'll be out of photos for a few weeks till I get my own camera again.

Banfili

Well, now venomous snake season is pretty much over, I'll be getting out & about a bit with the camera. There are a few bits and pieces I have in mind to take photos of this winter, including old farm machinery and mining bits and pieces.

Might find some train stuff, too!

Very nice vice, Dr. Goodall!