What is this machine?
Mar 20, 2020 05:26:15 #
alliebess wrote:
This old farm machine sits on the lawn beside an old stone barn in Valley Forge National Historical Park. It's behind a chain link fence so can't get many angles.
Mar 20, 2020 05:30:08 #
alliebess wrote:
This old farm machine sits on the lawn beside an old stone barn in Valley Forge National Historical Park. It's behind a chain link fence so can't get many angles.
My guess is a chemical spray. Mixed in tank & spray on end of hose.
Maybe orchard or vineyard. Long hose??
Mar 20, 2020 06:23:22 #
tcthome
Loc: NJ
aardq wrote:
With all that hose, it sure does look like some kind of a gas powered, portable pump. But then why the apparent tank that it sits on? Fuel for the engine? Seems like a lot of fuel for such a small engine.
Interesting for sure.
Interesting for sure.
The tank is where the water would come from? For remote locations.
Mar 20, 2020 06:30:10 #
Doc Barry wrote:
A portable water pump perhaps?
Considering the size of the wooden tank and the hitch , I would say it's for spraying chems. for weed or pest control.
Mar 20, 2020 07:17:46 #
Mar 20, 2020 07:52:29 #
Mar 20, 2020 08:12:28 #
It’s either an old-time power washer or, more likely to me, a weed sprayer for spots and fencerows. Whatever, it looks home-made.
Mar 20, 2020 08:22:08 #
Mar 20, 2020 08:51:57 #
Mar 20, 2020 09:47:47 #
Mar 20, 2020 09:53:51 #
Gas-powered sprayer as others here have noted. The actual fuel tank is the reddish cylinder mounted adjacent to the engine.
It looks like a manufactured item, at least the engine assembly and lower fluid tank, that someone(s) have added haul attachment brackets to.
It looks like a manufactured item, at least the engine assembly and lower fluid tank, that someone(s) have added haul attachment brackets to.
Mar 20, 2020 11:15:17 #
alliebess
Loc: suburban Philadelphia
Thanks you all for your collective wisdom! I grew up on my grandfather's farm and never saw anything like this.
Mar 20, 2020 11:28:51 #
tkgraves
Loc: Greensboro, NC
I have a question, what is/was the crop grown on this farm? That may help tell what the machine was used for.
Mar 20, 2020 11:55:13 #
alliebess
Loc: suburban Philadelphia
tkgraves wrote:
I have a question, what is/was the crop grown on this farm? That may help tell what the machine was used for.
Hard to tell what crops were grown. The land was farmed from at least 1719 until perhaps 1960s. Large barn on property so must have had cattle and at least enough horses to work land. Would assume that they raised hay, grain to feed animals, vegetables for human consumption. No visible remains of an orchard and what I've read of the history of the farm deals with the architecture. There was a comment that the Wetherill family utilized the most modern farming practices in the 1800s. Later became a sort of gentleman farmer's estate or summer home and lots of acreage sold. After National Park Service bought the remaining small property no farming except perhaps hay (I've seen hay being harvested recently.)
Mar 20, 2020 12:30:00 #
Rick Bailey
Loc: Fayetteville Arkansas
Gas tank is on the back of the engine. I think it is a portable, but old, sprayer, probably for something like fruit trees or to counter tree insects like bag worms.
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