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I suppose it's fitting that if you step into a dog turd there's a dog to help you clean off your shoe. Although I also reckon that this public antique stems from a time when people had to scrape horse droppings off their boots more than anything.
There were two of these, one on each side of the steps up to Whaley House. It made me pause for a minute to appreciate modern sidewalks and drainage.
On doorsteps in Beacon Hill. These were placed here in the 1800's to allow men to scrape the "exhaust" from horses off of their boots before entering their homes.
This building was designed, built and photographed by Dennis Anderson.
Here is the part Dennis' wife Yali helped him design. She thought the railing was important to keep folks safe as they walk around this high up.
We went for a bush walk and these boot scrapers are at the entrance of the walkway so we can scrape off any mud and seeds and more importantly any disease. Good to see it has been well used. Where we went there were Kauri trees, however, they were a three hour walk and we (Mike) cannot make that journey these days so we went as far as we could admiring the beautiful New Zealand bush.
631 Cat scrapers wait to be loaded on US 59 project in Douglas County, KS. Ames Construction is the contractor
Not sure what this is--the curvature of the top and closeness to the wall suggests something else than a boot scraper.
A shipspotter will tell you this is a scraper-reclaimer vessel, utilized on the Australian coast due to the mix of powdered and granular cargoes carried for the construction industry. Scraper-reclaimer vessels can handle granular materials such as gypsum plus powder materials such as cement and fly-ash. The unloading system consists of a hoistable scraper system in the holds, elevators, conveyors on deck and a boom conveyor for transferring cargo to shore.
I'm not into shipspotting but was interested enough to look it up.