[SEL] Castagnos Cane Loader

[Rob Skinner]

Nice!
250 TONS is a lot of cane.


On Aug 14, 2010, at 7:17 PM, <jbcast at charter.net> <jbcast at charter.net>  
wrote:

> A friend gave me a Castagnos Cane Loader this week. It's  
> disassembled and needs a lot of work, but it's almost complete. All  
> of the framework is there, it has the draw works and the grab, the  
> Fairbanks Morse engine is gone, but they are easy to find. My  
> grandfather, J.B. Castagnos made the first succesful cane loader,  
> patented in 1907. There are interviews with him here in the Louisian  
> Sugar planters magazine.
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=_ucoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA298&lpg=PA298&dq=jb+castagnos&source=bl&ots=wUBSZfNk0V&sig=SxuXcp-F1iduu24-unNcwJQlyo8&hl=en&ei=sEdnTOsow4GUB-TozZ4F&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CEcQ6AEwCA#v 
> =onepage&q=jb%20castagnos&f=false
>
> Don't know if that link will work, but you can Google JB Castagnos  
> and go to the sugar planters magazine article. He tells of offering  
> two models, one mule powered, and one with a New Way gasoline  
> engine. The gasoline engine powered  was a better design requiring a  
> man and a boy to operate it, while the mule powered machines took  
> two men and a boy. He said farmers were scared of the technology  
> involved with the gasoline engine.
> Here's a link to the patent.
>
> http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=cyRgAAAAEBAJ&dq=jb+castagnos
>
> J.B. Castagnos
> Belle Rose, LA