John Price's Foundry
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History
| TREE GRUBBING. PRICE'S Treble Purchase Lightning Tree Extractor, HORSE OR HAND POWER. | |
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| For extracting Trees and Stumps, and is of great utility in the removal of heavy logs, etc. This hand-power Machine will pull down any ordinary tree with ease and rapidity. A man and a lad can work it. I guarantee that four men cannot break it. Forty trees can be pulled down in a day by it, and in a most effectual and satisfactory manner. This machine which is constructed on an entirely new principle, has many special advantages, one of its leading features being the Treble Purchase, by means of which a tree can be pulled down inhalf the usual space of time. The lever being fixed stationery to the anchoring stump, there is no inconvenience occasioned by its rising beyond the reach of the person manipulationg, as is sometimes the case where a plate is used. A chain and a grab hooks supplies the place of a plate, and made be moved about with greater facility. The haulage chain is drawn in by means of these hooks, which are secured by pine, in a row of holes in the end of the lever situated on either side of the falcrum. This Machine is also fitted with a slack rod, by which the slack is drawn in by one single vibration of the lever and the machine placed in order for immediate action. Either one or more links can be taken up on the haulage chain by each revolution of the lever, according as the strain increases or diminishes; the short or inner purchase being use dwhen great tension is required, the longer ones for more rapid manipulation. Address: JOHN PRICE, GERANGAMETE, via BIRREGURRA[1] |
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Works Produced
Workplace Relations
The People
Apprentices
Mephan Ferguson – apprentice blacksmith to John Price of Ballarat,[2] 'where for twelve years he was engaged in constructing and erecting iron box and lattice girders for bridges and general mining work.'[3]
Mephan Ferguson later became famous as the manufacturer responsible for the first half of the pipes for the Western Australian Goldfields Water Supply Scheme.[4]
Legacies
John Price cast the components for the replacement bridge over the Leigh (Yarrowee) River at Shelford - possibly Victoria's first major bridge.[5]
Following the major floods in Central Victoria in September 1870, the Glenmona (or Bung Bong) Bridge was replaced - the lattice girders used being supplied by John Price and the contractors being Fishburn, Lewis and Co. of Ballarat. This bridge is considered the 'prototype for a new series of locally constructed wrought-iron lattice girder deck-truss main road bridges with masonry substructures and timber decks.'[6]
See also
Further Notes
References
- ↑ The Colac Herald (Vic. : 1875 - 1918), Friday 23 September 1892, page 1. Digital copy accessed via Trove.
- ↑ Wikipedia, ‘Mephan Ferguson,’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephan_Ferguson.
- ↑ http://booksnow2.scholarsportal.info/ebooks/oca9/10/proceedings191902inst/proceedings191902inst_djvu.txt
- ↑ Wikipedia, ’Goldfields Water Supply Scheme,’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfields_Water_Supply_Scheme.
- ↑ Gary Vines, Ken McInnes and George Deutsch, ‘Historic Metal Road Bridges in Victoria,’ Australian Journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2004, page 76.
- ↑ Gary Vines, Ken McInnes and George Deutsch, ‘Historic Metal Road Bridges in Victoria,’ Australian Journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2004, page 77.
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--Beth Kicinski 09:44, 8 March 2013 (EST)