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lozz Joined: 03/08/2012 Location: Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Great County Adit
Posted: 23/01/2020 14:19:58 Reply | Quote A report from circa 1883 reckons the drills used were made by Burleigh: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UaZIAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA72&dq=%22great+sierra+consolidated%22+%22burleigh%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjh6ZKJ9JnnAhWaiVwKHX7MCJgQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=%22great%20sierra%20consolidated%22%20%22burleigh%22&f=false Which led to: https://www.morphyauctions.com/jamesdjulia/item/lot-359-extraordinary-archive-of-material-relating-to-the-famous-burleigh-rock-drill-including-patent-model-patent-papers-stocks-etc-6027/ So there it is. Lozz. IP: 109.155.132.240 |
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Posted: 23/01/2020 15:50:35 Reply | Quote In this and all the modern photo's the steam piston cylinder has been attached incorrectly, it should be rotated 90 degrees anti-clockwise: https://www.americansouthwest.net/california/yosemite/steam-pump2_l.html Lozz. IP: 109.155.132.240 |
Roy Morton Joined: 09/10/2007 Location: Redruth Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 06/02/2020 01:59:08 Reply | Quote Yup! definitely not the GCA. The only pictures of the adit without water is the adit bypass which was constructed by Wheal Jane Mine, after the part which passes under the old track of the Redruth Chasewater railway collapsed. These pictures show it under construction, and the final one completed. (click image to open full size image in new window) (click image to open full size image in new window) (click image to open full size image in new window) -- "You Chinese think of everything!" "But I''m not Chinese!" "Then you must have forgotten something!" IP: 86.165.125.41 |
