I need some help with an ID

Delmonico · September 26, 2012, 11:25:47 AM

I posted this in The Historical Society but thought I'd try it here:

Custer County Nebraska Fair, 1903, gas engine powered machinery display.

We have the engine, the water pump, the lathe, the small grain thresher, but does anyone know what this is?

Sorry, I am looking for a straight answer, guesses don't help, it's been guessed about for years, now I want to know exactly what it is.

GunClick Rick · September 26, 2012, 12:33:03 PM

Looks to be a wood shredder for packaging material,what is that ball of stuff down by the kids feet..Rafia maker? Or it bales up the scraps from the lathe..

Delmonico · September 26, 2012, 01:00:40 PM

Looks more like a punch press, the box on it is the monkey wrench in the works. No way would anything feed into it our out of it.

Delmonico · September 26, 2012, 01:44:08 PM

Mystery is solved, it's a cream separator not fully put together and the stuff is packing material for the parts stored in the tank.

GunClick Rick · September 27, 2012, 07:26:39 PM

We used to get homemade butter when i was little,made in balls,my great aunt Lucille made it.

wildman1 · September 28, 2012, 05:35:28 AM

I have one of those little butter molds. WM

Cliff Fendley · September 28, 2012, 08:59:03 AM

We still had home made butter at my Grandparents when I was a kid until they finally quit milking. We would separate the cream from the milk and made the butter in hand crank Dazey butter churns. I still have one of the churns and my brother has the other. There are still some butter molds around collecting dust too. I guess my generation is the last to see those times and consider myself one of the lucky ones to have experienced it.

GunClick Rick · September 28, 2012, 11:36:20 AM

better dust off those butter molds,they be collectables~

Delmonico · September 28, 2012, 11:56:27 AM

I often get fresh homemade butter at some of the events I go to. Some fresh hot home made bread as a trade will get it.

But I was at a antique farm machinery show one time and found out I had forgot the coal oil for the lanterns. I just wrapped some fresh bread in a dish towel, grabbed the lanterns and went and found a guy with an Oil Pull Rumely, he was happy to fill my lanterns in trade.

GunClick Rick · September 28, 2012, 07:17:39 PM

Bucket List

1-Find Delmonicos chuck wagon!