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Maytag Wringer with Meat Grinder?!?! PGH CL
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Post# 657891   2/3/2013 at 16:47 (4,071 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA )        

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Now this would come in handy at a Wash-In!!

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Post# 657907 , Reply# 1   2/3/2013 at 18:05 (4,071 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        
Meat Grinder, Butter Churn...

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There were all sorts of gadgets that could be run off a Maytag wringer's motor.

To be fair in the days before electric was distributed nationwide including rural areas those petrol powered motors were perhaps one of the few things aside from a tractor that didn't require human or animal power.


Post# 658155 , Reply# 2   2/5/2013 at 06:00 (4,069 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

There were electrically heated mangles and maybe gas ones as well that ran off the Power Take Off for the wringer, too. I'm sure the controls were probably primitive and as dangerous as you can imagine.

Post# 658172 , Reply# 3   2/5/2013 at 07:44 (4,069 days old) by sudslock1 (St Louis)        
Holy crap!

Forget the wringer! Wouldn't want to get your tit caught in that!!!!!

Post# 658180 , Reply# 4   2/5/2013 at 09:46 (4,069 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Or hands or long hair. That would make good on the old threat, "I'll snatch you bald." Then there were the old machines with exposed gears and belts underneath the tub that could catch a skirt. No wonder our grandmothers were so worried about having us near the machine. There was some part that converted the vertical spinning of the drive shart to the horizontal motion of the wringer, maybe it was called a trunnion, that could break and the whole wringer head would start spinning around on the shaft and do all kinds of damage, breaking arms, ribs, knocking people down, cracking heads, etc. Because of the danger inherent in a wringer, CU never gave a wringer washer a higher rating than a "B". They got much safer over the years, but one minute's inattention while feeding the wringer, getting the fingers too close to the rollers instead of pushing the fabrics up the feed board and you could be in trouble.

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Post# 658320 , Reply# 5   2/5/2013 at 19:19 (4,069 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )        
I Knew someone...

Who as a child got his arm in the wringer while his mother was gone to the mailbox, when she returned it had wrung his arm up to the elbow, then spun until it rolled the flesh to the bone, he had to have reconstructive surgeries and several skin grafts, and that arm is still weak.

Post# 659129 , Reply# 6   2/9/2013 at 07:57 (4,065 days old) by beekeyknee (Columbia, MO)        
Dangerous machines

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When I was a teenager I had a riding lawn mower rear up on me one time, flip over and land upside down with blades spinning full speed. Instinctively, I vaulted from the machine and rolled away as fast as I could. As soon as it started to rear, I envisioned it rolling over on top of me and cutting me to shreds and I went into auto protect mode. I got up and gingerly approached the machine and shut it off. That machine and I parted company for several days.

Post# 659131 , Reply# 7   2/9/2013 at 08:07 (4,065 days old) by beekeyknee (Columbia, MO)        
In vacuum cleaner manuals...

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They often warn to keep long hair away from a nozzle with a rotating brush. Talk about snatchin' you bald. Can you imagine?

Post# 659303 , Reply# 8   2/10/2013 at 00:43 (4,065 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc)        

A while back on the vacuum forum a woman was trying to sue Kirby when her hair got caught in its brushroll.The manual indeed,warns to keep hair away from it.She had bent down to it for some reason or another-the suction and brush grabbed her hair-and "balded" her-bet that was PAINFUL!Can't remember how the case finished out.Years ago my brother-while taking premed training-attended to an accident involving a farmer who got to close to a tractor PTO shaft-it grabbed his long hair and balded him.Again folks are warned to stay away from such spinny-turny things!

Post# 659354 , Reply# 9   2/10/2013 at 08:49 (4,064 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

You should hve seen the hot combs and early blow dryers in the 70s with hair wrapped around the squirrel cage fans. UGH!

Post# 659775 , Reply# 10   2/12/2013 at 00:51 (4,063 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc)        

Guess those early hair dryers were only for short hair folks and the adventerous!Didn't the fan intakes have guards?Guess with early machines-anything goes!Would think a hair dryer motor would stall if hair got stuck in it-but don't try it to find out!The Kirby motor would have more torque-the tractor PTO--obviously more torque than the Kirby or the hair dryer blower-fan motor!Another thing-if the hairdryer users hair gets stuck in the hairdryers fan-Wouldn't her hair get caught on fire too?One day me and another engineer were working on a transmitter and its tube fan was running-had to hold his long hair away from its intake!Didn't want to imagine him getting "balded" those tractor incidents were still on my mind!


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