|A cotton deseeder?

 

nope

 

carder?

 

close enough it's carding machine from the 1800's. dangerous machines many fingers and hands lost in them

 

and what does a carding machine do ?

 

OK well first it gets fluffed up, then it goes through a picker which removes all the vegetation. It comes out of the picker in bales. The carder lines up the fibers and flattens it evenly. Each roller has finer and finer teeth and it comes out in really thin slivers (strings) so it can be spun.
Yeah sure, I knew all that all along......

But I guess I know it now....

 

I work on the modern versions of those

 

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hmmm....a miniature early model blast furnace?

 

It's still done basically the same way?

 

Is it a drill of some sort?

 

a milling machine of some sort?

 

Water pump?

 

the building in the background may have an old carding machine in it

 

A huge cotton seed gun home home defence ? or maybe a seeder

 

Is it a cotton gin?

 

the building is .. but what powered it before electricity came along ..? that is what is sitting in front ..

 

Since it's not a water pump, you say supplies power to cotton mill in barn, I see a power takeoff on the side by the flywheel...humm. Is it a old Geo thermal (steam) engine power plant?

 

i belive now that you are correct .. i thought it was a giant " hit and miss " diesel engine but a co-worker said it was a steam engine .. it does sit near a river and has a ditch dug in its direction which also turned a griss mill .. it`s just down the road from where i live ..

 

hmmm....personally, i'd have never guessed that one