HERE ARE SOME OF THE ANSWERS:
1.The big wheel with the flat outside gives it away. These gears were driven by a belt. This was very common
2.I think there was a mine…and that machine was a part of an elevator in the XIX.century…or a saw mill
3.It looks like the remains of an old gristmill. Those gears would be used to change the speed of a particular apparatus. That would be needed if the gristmill was big enough to have several machines operating at the same time off one water wheel.
4.There are two shafts in this assembly. The primary, or drive-shaft, is powered by a wide belt that turns the large pulley (someone referred to it as a “flat gear” omg. wrong on multiple counts!) The pinion gear on the drive shaft is turning the large bull gear on the second shaft which also includes a large drum feature that is used to spool cable.This is a winch mechanism that could have been part of elevator for a mine. It could have been part of a tram line that pulled ore cars or logs along a a railway system.Wherever this artifact is located, its purpose is well known and information about its real purpose will be documented by the company that built and operated it.
5.It’s an intergalactic spacecraft transmission module.
6.The workings at a mine. Hauling at a mine or for pumping water out of the mine. A bit too large for an air pump into a mine. Or possibly an ore crusher at a mine. Some old miner will probably correct us all. I’ve seen these at 10 thousand feet at mines in Colorado and hauled in pieces on the back of donkeys or mules. Or Men. They just don’t make men like that anymore.
7.Looking at the flat gear seems it musta been a belt drive, looking at the age of that brick and the fact it has a belt drive it may have had a steam powered operating mechanism to run it back in the day, looking at the size of the gears and the gear reduction my guess is that it may have possibly controlled a small dam or a large valve.
8.I’m sure there was a river there at one time and they created some type of pump or electrical power or something because that’s all that could be
9.The first idea that entered my mind was a mechanism that would lift a huge & heavy wall or gate….
10.Old flat belt drive unit for a punch press, the clutch is visible on the right side of the flat belt wheel which drives the small pinion gear that drives the big bow gear in the center. I guessing this drive unit was stored outside in the backyard of a factory?
12.In the 1950’s at a lake near Stafford Springs Connecticut there was one back in the woods.
12.Pully that ran a big belt to transfer trees or Orr from one area to another place to process seen one in more complete state
13.It’s okay I’ll help u all here… this is a old mining equipment used to bring stone ect up.
14.Isn’t this a sugar cane mill. It looks like the botanical gardens in Mauritius
15.Have seen in the past, don’t recall much except I believe this is in one of the southern states, an old plantation perhaps, a cane mill, can’t be 100 percent about that and perhaps this is post civil war.
16.Let’s try possibly along the lines of apprx. early 1800’s gears for a sugarcane press in a sugarmill in Florida or Louisiana, we have bunch in the Daytona Beach and Volusia county area
17.Neither does anyone else. It’s located in a deserted village in Alaska where many Bigfoot sightings have occured.
18.I suspect it was used to move water in some manner. Obviously, it’s a belt system for power & energy, but for what?
19.It is machinery used in manufacturing something. You can determine what by researching the history of its location.
20.Maybe it’s a type of mechanical mule for dragging logs or cables. I seem to remember seeing something similar in a park.
21.From Asgards Wrath 2. There is a ruined fishing village nearby. And a trapped hippo…
22.Beyond my ‘cog’-nitive abilities too, we may never ‘wheel’-ly know.
23.It could be (a part of) a crusher, if a ramp is existing at the opposite side.
24.part of a steam heating system. There’s a similar one near a school in Charlotte NC.
25.Yup. Flat conveyor belts were commonly used on line shafts in old factories to drive pulleys and gears.
27.Environmental art of course!!! Or aliens left a machine on their last visit
28.It is a water mill way way back when that place has waters and rivers before the last ice age.
29.It does look like a pulley system or a belt based conveyor of some kind.Judging by the width of the wheel on the far left I would suspect that carried a cable and was a winding mechanism. Probably had a stationary steam engine somewhere in the foreground. Maybe there is a mine shaft entrance somewhere behind the structure.
