HUMPHREY MACHINE
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Aug 9, 2010
- Location
- ACTON MASSACHUSETTS
I first spotted this abandoned machine shop about 20 years ago while traveling a rural rout in Maine. Under a small clump of immature trees in the middle of a neglected farm field stood this open air museum of rusting iron which if not for glimpses of a concrete slab under sod and leaves I may have confused for a dumping ground. There was no home in the background at the time and I thought it would be fun to take a tongue in cheek photo with a little ‘gone to lunch will return soon’ sign hanging on the iron planer but never did. I thought I knew the spot and tried to find it again but was several towns off target. I decided to try again and with a little asking around was able to find it this past weekend. The dwelling is new and belongs to the niece of the gentleman whose shop it was and used it productively during the war years. She believes it just rotted away rather than burned.
NO the stuff is not for sale! They value it as family history and are incorporating it as the centerpiece of a future garden. The drill press looks like it may be a Putnam and I have no idea who made the iron planer or the two lathes both of which have been liberated of their tailstocks. Looks like it was a nice little shop in its day.
ABANDONDED MACHINES pictures by BENJAMINCAMPBELL5 - Photobucket
NO the stuff is not for sale! They value it as family history and are incorporating it as the centerpiece of a future garden. The drill press looks like it may be a Putnam and I have no idea who made the iron planer or the two lathes both of which have been liberated of their tailstocks. Looks like it was a nice little shop in its day.
ABANDONDED MACHINES pictures by BENJAMINCAMPBELL5 - Photobucket