What kind of jackass red loctites a screw and then fills said screws with said loctite1yr ⋅ SingularityScalpel ⋅ r/Skookum
A tiny 15,000 ton steam-hydraulic forging press at Friedrich Krupp AG, Essen, Germany, ca 19282yr ⋅ Jat-Mon ⋅ r/Skookum
A pandemic project worthy of our dear Uncle Bumblefuck’s blessing. This dude built a backhoe.3yr ⋅ Skinnyme7381 ⋅ r/Skookum
My Simpson 260 Series 8 A friend gave it to me because he said he couldn't figure out how to use it.2yr ⋅ stuntman1108 ⋅ r/Skookum
This is the crankshaft for a Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C engine, the largest reciprocating engine in the world, used in large container ships. It's a 1810-liter engine that generates 108,920 horsepower at 102 RPM, and it idles at 22 RPM... almost 3 seconds per rotation. This crankshaft weighs 300 tons4yr ⋅ _j0nas_ ⋅ r/Skookum
I spent today commissioning this brand new Hitachi Ex2600-7 mining excavator. Cool to be the first one to drive it and it's the first (production) dash 7 Hitachi digger in Australia.4yr ⋅ stupidperson810 ⋅ r/Skookum
For all you tradesmen-to-be out there, allow me to show you what we in the Millwright trade call a grenade2yr ⋅ AurryEverfree ⋅ r/Skookum
Simple but super skookum (~1/4” plate) level indicator to see if a motor vehicle ferry is loaded evenly:3yr ⋅ altitude-nerd ⋅ r/Skookum
Car manuals in the 1960s told you how to adjust valve clearances, now they tell you not to drink the battery fluid..... In this case here are some handy examples of what what multiply by 2 means, y'know just on the off-chance you failed 3rd Grade Math but are buying a compressor piping system.2yr ⋅ ArBrTrR ⋅ r/Skookum
you need thermal MASS - ave inspired 5/8 thick griddle I built for father's day4yr ⋅ electric-body ⋅ r/Skookum
was dragged to see a big garden by a 60 year old mother. Not such a fan of big flowerbeds but the machine they had for cutting slots to lay pipes was skookum as frig.4yr ⋅ brain-oof ⋅ r/Skookum
Jumbo pallets to fit 9 wine barrels instead of the standard 6 (Standard 48x48 on top, for scale)3yr ⋅ CG_Ops ⋅ r/Skookum
Spare piston and cylinder liner of a 3640kW marine main engine. In the marine engineering world, this is considered smol skookum.3yr ⋅ FokkerBoombass ⋅ r/Skookum
One of two generators at my local water plant. One can power the entire plant in the event of utility power failure.3yr ⋅ mle32000 ⋅ r/Skookum
Old The Ridge Tool Co. No. 350R utility vise I snagged at a garage sale3yr ⋅ BreezyWrigley ⋅ r/Skookum
X post from humanforscale. Never seen a transformer this large so I thought I should share with my fellow electricians! Enjoy5yr ⋅ Fat_Head_Carl ⋅ r/Skookum
Really stuck with this one - how do I remove this 20 year old rusty groove pin?6mo ⋅ Do-Nod64 ⋅ r/Skookum
Old Muskie’s Bucket (7 year olds for scale) 220 Cubic Meter capacity. Bucket from single largest drag line bucket. Used for strip mining coal in southern Ohio.4yr ⋅ buddahsumo ⋅ r/Skookum
I tried to build aScrapArt-Bike for my best friends birthday. You guys think he'll like it?3yr ⋅ Tac-Tic-Cal ⋅ r/Skookum
Big-ass Progressive Cavity Pump for dosing chemicals. Galaxy S20 for scale!1yr ⋅ FatalYahtzeeInjury ⋅ r/Skookum
Who needs a workshop? Just throw your lathe into the back of your wagon and you're good!5yr ⋅ KingPanzerVIII ⋅ r/Skookum
The Versa Claw. Round your nuts and bust your knuckles in metric and degrees Farenheight!4yr ⋅ time_L0rd ⋅ r/Skookum
A very skookum lathe. 8mm watch makers lathe. Full credit to the actual OP3yr ⋅ Infinityang3l ⋅ r/Skookum
Starship superheavy suspected grid fin, appears to be 1/2 stainless plate welded together. Photo @bocachicagal3yr ⋅ aswickedas ⋅ r/Skookum
The compressor section of a gas turbine at the power plant I work at5yr ⋅ 1-5-4-8-6-3-7-2 ⋅ r/Skookum
My father handed this down to me. Makes me nostalgic of working on school science projects with him. Now it’s in my shop.4yr ⋅ Pigeon__Man ⋅ r/Skookum
Just bought the AvE safety stickers. Was tempted to get a tracking number, but decided to buy a CNC instead.5yr ⋅ robot_mower_guy ⋅ r/Skookum
The Cornish steam pump in Iron Mountain Michigan used for mine dewatering.2yr ⋅ GoCartMozart1980 ⋅ r/Skookum
Canaderp post day. Fabricobbled, generation 2 Deltabot 3d printer. Back then, there was no thermal runaway protection.2yr ⋅ jerseyanarchist ⋅ r/Skookum
The world’s largest gate valve. 12 metres tall and weighing in at ~100 tonnes, installed in Texas, USA.5yr ⋅ nocomplykindaguy ⋅ r/Skookum
Keep your vise in a vise. I needed to use my vise with soft jaws but it wasn’t mounted to a bench. This is the obvious solution4yr ⋅ sirandward ⋅ r/Skookum
Came across this on one of those Facebook list articles, immediately thought of AvE2yr ⋅ SirDeep ⋅ r/Skookum
Here’s a photo of the “big goddamn bandsaw” with light on it. Also with Julius who was absolutely no help whatsoever in the loading or unloading of this beast3yr ⋅ TheWreck-King ⋅ r/Skookum
Chain used to block/destroy British ships sailing the Hudson River during the American Revolution5yr ⋅ Pigeon__Man ⋅ r/Skookum
This is a leveling bolt for an extractor that makes plastic tubing almost 12’ (yeah 12 feet) in diameter. I can’t show to machine it self because it’s classified.4yr ⋅ darthdilmore ⋅ r/Skookum
1999 incident at MIT where an ultra-centrifuge was properly loaded, brought up to 55,000 rpm, and sometime during the run, the 20 lb titanium alloy block split in half and hit the inner walls going 1000 km/hr.1yr ⋅ caffeinedrinker ⋅ r/Skookum
The Los Angeles-Class fast-attack submarine USS Santa Fe floats out of dry dock at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME, December 14th, 2020 (US Navy Photo)3yr ⋅ An_Awesome_Name ⋅ r/Skookum
Can a fridge count as Skookum? 1950’s ish fridge from the looks of it, still chooching strong out at the family cabin.5yr ⋅ adenrich24 ⋅ r/Skookum
I've never had any use for this socket but it's always been my favorite tool.1yr ⋅ tanithsfinest ⋅ r/Skookum
View from the top of a Marion 8050 dragline. I had to climb up to change some light bulbs. Not the most fun I ever had.4yr ⋅ NeolithicAlcoholic ⋅ r/Skookum
