ANNA HELD AUDETTE

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Caterpillar2.jpg (111816 bytes) Caterpillar Diesel, 32" x 48", ©2005, Oil

On an old bulldozer, this engine is among the earliest to be painted the characteristic Caterpillar yellow color.

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Christmas Tree, 24" x 26", ©2005, Oil

Not a fantasy, these regulators and valves are on the tank of an asphalt spreader

 

Sloss1.jpg (94505 bytes) Sloss 1, 46"x32", ©2002, Oil

Cable reels and clutch bands from an old rack and pinion slag shovel at the Sloss Iron Furnaces.

 
Bulldozer.jpg (95394 bytes) Bulldozer, 44" x 30", ©2004, Oil

This machine moves shredded car scrap at the Rensselaer Iron & Steel yard. 

Siding2.jpg (61558 bytes) Siding, Bethlehem Steel, 58"x48", ©2002, Oil

These "donkeys" haven't pulled a slag train for years.

Boiler Deck.jpg (18596 bytes) Flywheel, Bethlehem Steel, 60"x48", ©2002, Oil

Seen from the boiler deck, this huge flywheel once turned an electric generator.

 
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Shredder Deck, 36" x 36", ©2004, Oil 

Part of the control station at the largest car shredder on the East Coast.

 

 
Chisel Harrow.jpg (63295 bytes) Chisel Harrow, 30" x 46", © 1997, Oil

These implements (and there are several types here) are used for breaking up crusty soil.

 
Crane Seat2.jpg (79797 bytes) Crane Cab, 28" x 38", ©2001, Oil

This old crane is still in use, helping to move pallets around a Connecticut millyard. 

 
International.jpg (67214 bytes) International, 26" x 40", © 1996, oil

The owner wasn't interested in this tractor any more, but I was.

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Lifting Drum, Master Cable, 36" x 22",©2005, Oil 

The main boom lift cable on an old tracked shovel is wound on this reel.

 

lock bedder2.jpg (68206 bytes) Lock Bedding Machine, 40"x50", ©2000, Oil (Private Collection)

A machine used in the 1850's to shape recesses for firing mechanisms in multiple gunstocks simultaneously.

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Tractor Engine, 28" x 42", ©2005, Oil

An engine from a circa '30s tracked farm implement