Hand-powered Old Water Pumps
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There are 4 old pumps in Woodford, two of which are in Chigwell Road some distance apart and this is the larger of the two there. It's a very busy road but for photographic art (!), I've shown it this way.
I understand there is a local group who look after them and re-paint them annually.
Not been feeling it of late. Our pumpkin is coming on anyway.
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Nikon Z6, Nikkor 24-70mm f/4 S
Capture One, Color Efex Pro 5, Silver Efex Pro 3
I received an AWESOME gift from the owner of Rotten & had to do a quick snap showcasing her talent!
Featuring the "Cold Baby" gacha @ Epiphany!
Worn:
Frostbitten Fingers (rare)
Blistered Cheeks
Bleak Contour
Discolored Eyes
The Westermolen is a seesaw mill in Langerak in the Dutch municipality of Molenlanden. The mill is located at Nieuwpoortseweg 1, along the Vliet. The mill dates from 1652 and drained the Polder Langerak until 1974, initially together with the Oostermolen and the Broekmolen, which were a stone's throw apart. The Broekmolen was shot down by a German fighter plane on May 11, 1940 and was lost; the Oostermolen was replaced in 1939 by the Langerak diesel pumping station, which powers the original paddle wheel from the Oostermolen. This pumping station is now a monument. Between the Westermolen and the diesel pumping station there is an electric pumping station that drains the polder. In the event of major flooding, the mill and the diesel pumping station can be switched on. The Westermolen was inhabited until the 1960s.
Along Highway 33 near McKittrick, California. Huge oilfield.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKittrick%2C_California
How did I miss this?
This is the Flathead River and the Pump House that is part of the Flathead Irrigation Project. The pump house was built around 1940. It intakes water from the river....shoots it up the steep bank and deposits it into the Pablo Reservoir to irrigate hundreds of acres in the Flathead Vally. The Flathead Valley produces potatoes and wheat mostly, with corn and Canola as rotator crops. Along that pipe there are stairs so crews can get up and down the hill for maintenance.....355 stairs to be exact! It's also quite a workout if one wishes to do some stair stepping! :-)
Stay warm all!
Thanks for viewing!
It is that time of year where things might go bump in the night, the chill starts to set in, and the Pump-King awakens. Imagination and senses go wyld. He is coming for you Barbra.
Mood: I'm Your Boogie Man (Dance Remix)
An extensive row of gas booster pumps that once supplied a large factory which has long been abandoned.
Swanbourne Pump House, Arundel, West Sussex.
The 1846 Pump House was restored through joint efforts by Arundel Castle Estates and the Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society. Official opening - 21st June 2001.
A rusted water pump without a handle greets occasional visitors to this multi-faceted barn that has several additions to the original structure. Few youngsters today can identify with pumps like this and an older adult has to explain to them what purpose they served years ago.
Before we got electricity on our farm in 1949, our farm place had a couple of these and one of them was a shorter version standing on the edge of a white tin sink in our kitchen and was the source for water in our home. There was no switch on our kitchen pump and if you wanted a cool drink on a hot summer day you had to grab the handle and pump up and down until the pump “caught” and started to bring up water.
I was too young at the time to understand the physics behind how a pump could bring up water by simply pumping the handle but I learned not to feel badly about my ignorance as I realized my mother who was 38 at the time didn’t understand it either. She would often have to go outside and yell for my dad to come in and she would advise him the pump was dry probably needed new rings as it would not work anymore.
Dad would snort and find some water to pour down the pump shaft and then give the handle some strong action and it wasn’t long before water would once again gush out.
Our outside pump near the hog shed was another matter. Sometime my dad would have to start a small fire in the winter time to thaw it out before it would work. My older brothers who fancied themselves aspiring Red Skeleton comedians would encourage me to lick the pump handle, telling me the sub-zero winter temperatures made it taste sweet.
(Photographed near Stark, MN)
Sometimes it is fun to take my Yashica 44 for a walk. I have been cutting down 120 film to 127 with variable results.
I fell in love with this diesel pump at a local farm.
The swirly bokeh and the looks from the Fomapan 100 at ISO 50 makes a very nice combination.
John Deere gas pump at Inman Antique Expo
Inman, Georgia
Hasselblad SWC/M
Handheld 1/2 second
38mm Zeiss Biogon
CFV II Digital back
One of the few remaining water pumps that were dotted around London in the 19th Century.
Seen whilst in a rush to get somewhere else, I took a short-cut and there it was!