Guess what this is a photo of!

[bethzaring]

hmmmm, the lower wheel looks like the belt driven fly wheel off our old John Deere B .

At any rate, it looks like a belt driven unit. So the belt turns the wheel that turns the small gear that turns the large gear. But what does the large gear do?

 

[sattie]

Does it make something we can touch, feel, hold?

 

[Renee Attili]

Ok, how old do I have to be to remember this?

Below the toothed wheel, it that some sort of receptacle?

1. It is a older item
2.If you are speaking of what it is sitting on no that is just a rail road tie that we have it resting on.

 

[Renee Attili]

Does it make something we can touch, feel, hold?

touch- yes
feel- yes
hold- messy but yes

 

[bethzaring]

does it have anything to do with water?

 

[Renee Attili]

Only when it is raining
(i crack myself up)

 

[Buck]

Thanks for the belly rub. I feel much more like I do now than I did when I first came in here.

Is it a sorghum press?

sattie, pass me another beer please.

 

[Renee Attili]

That tummy rub must have done you good, you are definetly getting warm.

 

[Buck]

How about a cider press?

 

[Renee Attili]

It is a press but no not a cider.
Shall I rub your tummy some more?

 

[Buck]

Oooooooooooooohhh

That feels good.

Thinking, thinking

How about sugar cane?

 

[keltin]

A corn press? (is there such a thing?)

 

[Renee Attili]

The magic of tummy rubbing......
That's it. My SO and i aquired this when my brother bought a vacant 10 acres. It is a early 1940 sugar cane press that was made to make syrup and liquor "squeezins" It is heavy! We had to have a box truck crane lift it and it almost snapped the arm of the lift!
Good Job Buck. Let's see what you have up your paw.

 

[Buck]

A corn press? (is there such a thing?)

Young feller,

Ain't you never heerd of corn squeezins?

Check with Uncle Bob.

 

[Buck]

Who are these guys?






I thought they'd both show up the same size. Sorry. No significance to size (ie, size doesn't matter).

 

[gourmande]

The top guy looks a bit like Nostradamus, but...

I'm assuming there is some commonality - field of interest/work, family heritage, whatever - otherwise you wouldn't have posted 2 images.



G

 

[Buck]

Your assumption is correct.

 

[expatgirl]

The bottom guy looks like a portrait of Rembrandt as an older man so it's possible that the picture at the top is also a painter and he looks familiar not that I got the bottom one correct, too, but the brain cells are not firing very well this morning.

 

[expatgirl]

It just came to me---is the top picture "Galileo" and they both got into trouble with religious authorities?

 

[Buck]

Galileo...no.

There is a religious connection, though.

Keep guessing.