PULLEY
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- P19880002001-GA
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- WOOD, IRON
- Catalogue Number
- P19880002002
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- P19880002001-GA
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- WOOD, IRON
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Length
- 38.3
- Width
- 16.5
- Description
- WOOD BLOCK (CHEEKS) IRON BOLTS & SHEAVE
- Subjects
- MECHANICAL T&E
- Historical Association
- INDUSTRY
- History
- IN 2008, UNIVERSITY STUDENT AND GALT PROGRAM STAFF MEMBER DYLAN JOHNSON PARTICIPATED IN A UOFL APPLIED STUDIES PROGRAM, CONDUCTING RESEARCH WORK ON ST. MARY’S IRRIGATION DISTRICT (SMRID) OBJECTS DONATED TO THE GALT IN 2001. THE OBJECTS WERE ACQUIRED AS PART OF A GALT IRRIGATION EXHIBIT (STREAMS IN THE DESERT) IN 2000 AND WERE SEVERELY UNDER DOCUMENTED. JOHNSON CONSULTED WITH FORMER AND PRESENT ST. MARY’S IRRIGATION DISTRICT STAFF MEMBERS AS PART OF HIS RESEARCH. THE INFORMATION BELOW IS EXTRACTED FROM INTERVIEW(S) CONDUCTED BY JOHNSON. TO DETERMINE WHICH INTERVIEWS ARE RELEVANT TO THIS ARTIFACT, PLEASE REFER TO THE ARTIFACTS’ PERMANENT FILE (20010036001-11) AND THE RESEARCH PAPER’S REFERENCES. ASSOCIATED WITH P19880002003. THIS PULLEY IS PRESUMED TO HAVE ASSISTED THE GROUND PLOUGHS THAT DUG THE DITCHES. A TRACTOR TOWED SEVERAL CABLES WHICH WOULD BE ATTACHED TO THESE PULLEYS AND CARRY ON TO THE PLOUGH. THIS OCCURRED DURING THE YEARS AFTER HORSE DRAWN METHODS WERE DONE AWAY WITH BUT BEFORE MODERN MACHINES REPLACED THE TRACTORS (1920S-1970S). IT IS ADDITIONALLY BELIEVED THAT THESE TWO PULLEYS WERE USED IN THE SYSTEM THAT RAISED AND LOWERED THE GATES FOUND WITHIN THE CANALS.
- Catalogue Number
- P19880002002
- Acquisition Date
- 1988-01
- Collection
- Museum
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