Re: T-36 Iron Fireman Califonia help needed


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Posted by D Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 20:12:15 :

In Reply to: Re: T-36 Iron Fireman Califonia help needed posted by Gordon McMillan [92.236.121.202] on Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 04:07:47 :

I have a vague recollection that the Iron Fireman company was a foundry in Portland that made sawmill equipment in the old days. I've seen a lot of "Iron Fireman" automatic stoker controls that used to be on old coal and oil-fired furnaces and boilers, but I'm pretty sure I also saw that name on the castings of fittings for the dry kilns at Weyerhaeuser's Mill E in Everett when they were scrapping it out. If it is the same company, and they were located in Portland, it might make sense that someone there saw what Mr. Tucker was doing down in Medford (the biggest sawmill town in southwest Oregon in its day) and got inspired to diversify into snow machines, sort of like how Boeing diversified into monorails, hydrofoil boats, and even an asphalt paving machine back in the 1970s. If indeed the Iron Fireman company was in Portland, it might be worth a trip there to check with their libraries and museums and see what information is still available.



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