Yes, it is at the National Pike show. I watched it working this August, and have video to put up eventually. It is still used to clean the catch pond. The owner really knows how to cast! How did your family use it?
I always like seeing an old Insley. I could listen to that straight 8 Chrysler sing all day long, love that sound when it dogs down when hoisting the bucket!
Thank you.... now I know how a drag-line works to clean out a pond. They recently used one to clean out some nearby ponds, but I was never around to see how they did it! ACES!!!!!!!
W O W . . . After 45 years I finally get to see another Insley..!! We had one at Lehigh Portland Cement Co. in Miami where I worked in the early 70’s. Occasionally they would keep me over after my 3rd shift on the Lima 2400’s to clean out Ditches in the morning or clean out gravel in train cars that wouldn’t open with the clam bucket. NEVER seen Another one until This one. 🙄😮👷♂️👍
There are 2 Insleys at this show, and another one at the Harrison County show near Cadiz OH. Many manufacturers had a lot of machines in some areas, and none in others, depending on dealerships and service network. Example, for tractors, our area was almost exclusively Farmalls, and a few Fords.
My Grandfather bougtht his first New Insley L for $7,000 some where around 1940 0r so maybe 1946. Both his Insley L's had Minniapolis Moline gasoline engines in them burned 18 gallons of gasoline per day llading two dump trucks ..Digging marl and sand out of Lake
I had the opportunity to "operate" one of these Insleys this fall. Had a great time doing it looking forward to this fall to try it again. Both times I have been to Brownsville this one has been idle.
Wow. I haven't seen one of the Insley's running since I was a little kid in the late 60's. I saw one on a barge in Baltimore harbor then dredging for pier expansions.
As much as I like to see the machines work, it's easy to see why the pond needs dredging every year. Where is the mud coming from? It's coming from the area around the pond that does not have the flow ways grassed over. They should consult a conservation officer. A ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In other words, it would be a lot cheaper to grass the flow ways than to hire the contractors to dredge the pond.
Sometimes that's not possible. My grandfather's farm had a mud prob. Thinking it was the banks we grassed it up. But the pond kept getting silted up. Turns out the creek feeding the pond was the issue. There was nothing we could do about it.
There's a yellow Insley crane similar to this one on old M-21 west of Capac, over in the Thumb. It's been sitting there for years and sinking into the ground but you never know. The old girl may be itching to fire up and dig her way out.
I have two insley cranes ones a k-12 the other a k-14 navy seebee crane both set up as draglines my dad use to have a insley L just like yours his had a Minnie 6cylinder gas engine
There is so much running all day that it's hard to get clear sound of any single machine. I have a cardiod mike, but it's still too wide angle. Did you get to the show this time?
@@ferguson20diesel49 I know that, but, we didn`t have anything but backhoe-loaders where I was working at the time....We used the old Bantam for unloading oilfield pipe and also some clamshell work in addition to draglining.