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Small Two-post Frame

Last updated: 15.09.2005 10:13

14.09.2005

Thanks to a good friend of mine, and some luck, I was able earlier this year to get my hands on 5 old issues of an mining oriented journal called "The Engineering & Mining Journal" from 1903. One of those issues had an article called "The Head Frames of Shafts at Cripple Creek"(1), and it is in that article I found a drawing for this head frame.
The article don't say very much about this particular one as it is of a more generic type, but the following info I found at least some interesting:
The small two-post frame is a typical frame for prospecting shafts up to about 300 ft. in depth. It is simple in construction, and serviceable. It is usually mortised, but may be simply toe-nailed. The writer has seen one with no mortises in it doing good service.

Thanks to that article I was able to make my self a generic little head frame to be used all over so to speak, and when I get around to it I also have other head frames to make, including another smaller type one.
For me modeling a mining area on the computer in is a good idea to use 1 item many times, makes it a little less hard on the computer, hopefully not many will sort of notice it is the same frame over and over and over... :-) By adding different hoist houses (first on the list, make some...LOL) and other stuff I think I can vary the scenes to look not that alike. But, we see, it's in the future so to speak.

 

 

Sources:
 1 - The Engineering & Mining Journal, 7 March 1903 (pages 366-371)


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