Machinery Made from Scraps 



The material from which it was made was 

 strewn about camp, and was mere junk 



WHEN the time came to pave the top 

 of the Kensico Dam, in New York, 

 the superintendent, George H. 

 Angel, didn't go to the extra expense of 

 purchasing new paving equipment.- He 

 took a hurried inventory of the odds and 

 ends of machinery that lay about the con- 

 struction camp and decided that he could 

 make some machinery of his own out of 

 them. 



Our illustrations show what he did with 

 a few pieces of discarded pipe, wheels, nuts, 

 bolts, etc. A roller was made by fitting an 

 old belt-pulley with a wrought-iron handle. 

 The asphalt-heater was made out of an old 

 steel form that had been used for casting 

 concrete blocks. By riveting in a false 

 bottom near the middle of the form, cut- 

 ting a door in the lower half at one end and 

 riveting on a hinged cover and smoke stack, 

 the heater was ready for use. The asphalt 

 was placed in the upper half and a wood 

 fire was built underneath the false bottom. 



The mixer for the mortar was made by 

 joining flanges to the ends of a short length 

 of riveted steel pipe and by bolting cover 

 plates to them. An axle with paddles ran 

 through the center and the propelling force 

 was a small motor placed at one end. The 

 machine was mounted on an old wagon 

 body. 



The roadway across the top of the dam 



An old steel form for concrete 

 blocks was converted into a heater 



is twenty-one feet wide and two thousand, 

 five hundred feet in length. There is a 

 cement sidewalk on one side and a concrete 

 curb on the other, each about eight inches 

 above the surface of the roadway gutter. 

 The forms for the concrete were all made 

 from scrap material which was readily 

 obtainable at the camp, and a locomotive 

 crane was used to transport the cement 

 from the mixer to the roadway, where it 

 was spread by hand. The machinery 

 made from odds and ends gave as good 

 service for the purpo e as new machinery. 



The mixer for the mortar is a complex affair. 

 It is mounted on an old wagon body 



The roller was made by equipping a discard- 

 ed belt-pulley with a wrought-iron handle 



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