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100 year old cast wheels axel saved.

jm.

jm.

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Taking you guy advice cut the entire axel and wheels out. Located 70 Mi west of Nashville Tn.
Any of you regular poster have a legimate need or use for these things let me know. Good cast wheels with solid rubber. Must be 30 in plus in diameter , bearing feel good and no breaks in rubber. Trying to post photo. jm.
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Boy, the Chinese sure would love for us to melt those down and send that good steel on over there! Just kiddin', I'm glad there are still folks out there willing to save the old stuff. I sure couldn't work at a scrap yard, I'd want to rescue everything over 50yrs old.
 
Odd thing is I would love to see the truck it came from. That front axel is some kind of big. If you look close you can see the 4 boldt pad. I guess where the springs rest. Top of the king pin has a device to take grease that looks more like an oiler.Have never seen anything like it before.Going to try and get a weight but the things are heavy..
 
My family has an Adams Leaning Wheel Grader with Firestone solid tires on 3/4" 20 spoke wheels they are 36 on the back and 24 on the front. and 3" wide at contact W/road. Jim
 
Jim How far are you from CasaGrande AZ ? This axel was removed from a pul grader however it was a home made. Traced down the history and found it was made in a blacksmith shop here in the area. When we got it was told it was around 100 years old. Pretty sure this axel was from some truck..Rather large and stout "drag link".
Whatever have some old wheels..
 
Yeah I'm glad you're trying to find a buyer for them. Too nice to scrap.
Wish I was closer. If nothing else I would cut the extra iron off of it then sandblast/paint it and make an outside bench for by the driveway or maybe put flower pots on.
 
When I was boy some 60 years ago there were 2 federal compresses in town that had some old trucks that had axels that looked like that. They were also chain drive and used to haul bales of cotton from one warehouse to the other. Would love to have one to restore but they were sold for scrap I am sure.
 
It would make a neat lawn ornament. Attach a bench-seat without damaging the original parts (so you could still sell it someday if you want) and plant some tall ornamental grass behind it.
 
Looks almost like these ....

December 18, 1898
Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the world's first official land-speed record in Acheres Park near Paris: 39.245mph in his Jeantaud automobile, powered by an electric motor and alkaline batteries. The Jeantaud is widely believed to be the first automobile steered by a modern steering wheel rather than a tiller. The tiller was quickly replaced by the steering wheel in the early 1900s.
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My current address is central Minnesota at 7 below zero with 45below windchill!
I lived in Flag for 7 years and will be a westerner again on retirement. Jim
 

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Here's a 1920s Mack truck with solid tires. They're not quite the same, but closeish. The Circus World Museum in Baraboo WI has three of these old chain drive mack trucks. They still drive them around the lot in the summer!
 
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