{"id":32,"date":"2022-12-31T12:46:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T16:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wixomlakesteamshovel.com\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:05:36","slug":"photos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wixomlakesteamshovel.com\/?page_id=32","title":{"rendered":"Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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First time seeing the steam shovel 1n 2020 with my brother Bill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Sandblasted and primed the boom. Removed some of the worn beams and fabricated new beams, I will be putting all new steal rivets back in the boom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cleaned up the rear wheels, sandblasted and painted. Priming and painting takes a little while when I do it by hand and it\u2019s worth it cause they turn out really nice. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hello steam shovel followers, beautiful day out today, cleaned up a spot for the boilers,bucket,boom and the main part of the crane all sitting on the corner of my pad here so we can start chipping away at it and get back into rebuilding some of this shovel thanks to everybody that keeps following this progress. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Standing on the entrance to once was the main office of the Thew Lorain crane company. Got the opportunity to walk through some of the factory where the steam shovel was made. Then a stop at the Lorain historic museum to look at several pictures of different shovels. Finally to Brownsville Pennsylvania to help with the other steam shovel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before and after removing the worn and damaged beams and fabricating new ones the upper frame is partially done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During thanksgiving weekend we did some hot riveting to the upper frame to start connecting the new pieces together. Heated rivets in a gas forge and old school with a coal forge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a penberthy steam jet pump used to either siphon or add water to the tank. This was on a piece of pipe found on the steam shovel and I figured I would try to fix it. Well after being underwater for 95 years time and patience This 100 year old ejector is working again. This is such a fun project to work on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Took part of my shovel out to Brownsville show in May. You can see the picture of the day we pulled it out and what it looks like so far. Made up the signs for fun <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Building the missing piece for Bob Kelly\u2019s machine. This is the automatic kick out for the horizontal crowd. Fabricated parts at home and took them to the Brownsville show. Welded it together and mounted it on the boom and it worked great. Now Bob\u2019s Thew is complete <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Standing on the entrance to once was the main office of the Thew Lorain crane company. Got the opportunity to walk through some of the factory where the steam shovel was made. Then a stop at the Lorain historic museum to look at several pictures of different shovels. Finally to Brownsville Pennsylvania to help with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wixomlakesteamshovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wixomlakesteamshovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wixomlakesteamshovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wixomlakesteamshovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wixomlakesteamshovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/wixomlakesteamshovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/wixomlakesteamshovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wixomlakesteamshovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}