Åkerman 300 & 600 filmer - 40 tal

[@80evgeniy]

On 6:00 - steam or gasgen powered? Machine with large vertical cylyndrical part.

[@kotten9534]

That is my machine, it's a wood gasifier to run on peat but about 10 years after the war it was switched out along with the old engine for a new diesel engine.

[@Nudnik1]

Independent bucket dump was a first no one else has that in America.

[@kotten9534]

Not? It was very common in German machinery, and here in a couple Swedish ones.

[@Nudnik1]

@@kotten9534 thats what i said. Ich nicht verstanden?

[@kotten9534]

@@Nudnik1 It seemed like you were an American seeing it for the first time. But anyways, did really no one else make that in America? As said it occured in several european countries

[@Nudnik1]

@@kotten9534 never saw that in America until hydraulics in 1960s

[@73DiamondReo]

@@Nudnik1 Lima 101 had it. it was a pull shovel with a dragline bucket on the end of it and a cable to dump like they show here. we also had pull shovels that dumped with a trap door like a front shovel or skimmer

[@maskinerstronger]

Över 80 år då

[@Drummer81able]

Steike dere var tidlig ute i Sverige. Har nok noe med krigen i Norge og gjøre.....