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Maintenance - Sewer cleaning equipment (2) (Click on thumbnails to enlarge image) |
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Maintenance - Sewer cleaning equipment (2) (Click on thumbnails to enlarge image) |
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Sewer rod accessories sold by the Turbine Sewer Machine
Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Wood sewer rods were used to clean sewers
from the 1870s - 1950s.
Source: Catalog for Turbine Sewer Machine Co. |
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Accessory tools for wood sewer rods, sold by the Turbine
Sewer Machine Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Wood sewer rods were used to
clean sewers from the 1870s - 1950s.
Source: Catalog for Turbine Sewer Machine Co. |
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Sewer cleaning tool from North Carolina. Used with wood sewer rods to clean 12" diameter sewers. Weight of tool: 25 pounds. Date unknown. Source: Jon Schladweiler, Historian, Arizona Water & Pollution Control Association. |
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Sewer cleaning tool from North Carolina. Used with wood sewer rods, probably to eliminate roots. Date unknown. Source: Jon Schladweiler, Historian, Arizona Water & Pollution Control Association. |
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Sewer rod truck. Wood sewer rods were used to clean sewers
from the 1870s - 1950s.
Source: Courtesy of David Woodward, City of Coronado, CA. |
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Sewer rod truck. Wood sewer rods were used to clean sewers
from the 1870s - 1950s.
Source: Courtesy of David Woodward, City of Coronado, CA. |
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Sewer rod truck. Wood sewer rods were used to clean sewers
from the 1870s - 1950s.
Source: Courtesy of David Woodward, City of Coronado, CA. |
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Sewer rod truck. Wood sewer rods were used to clean sewers
from the 1870s - 1950s.
Source: Courtesy of David Woodward, City of Coronado, CA. |
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Advertisement for "Felton's Improved Couplings for
Sewer Rods," manufactured by the Harold L. Bond Co. of Boston, Massachusetts,
1903. Used with wood sewer rods.
Source: Supplement to The Engineering Record, Volume 47, No. 20 (16 May 1903), p. 24. |
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Disk for cleaning sewers, circa 1910. Innovative methods were often used to fabricate devices to clean sewers. In this instance, a disk blade from a farm harrow was utilized to create a sewer cleaning device. Source: A. Prescott Folwell, Sewerage: The Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of Sewerage Systems, 7th edition (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1916), p. 355. |
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