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A 25 foot long W & S was special and a rarity one at that. They did make them. Any chance it had two carriages on the lathe? There used to be one in Houston, a 4A that was made up of three or four bed sections that were sawed off of scrapped W & S's, ends machined, bolted together to make one with over 40 foot of bed on it.
 
4gsr said:
A 25 foot long W & S was special and a rarity one at that. They did make them. Any chance it had two carriages on the lathe? There used to be one in Houston, a 4A that was made up of three or four bed sections that were sawed off of scrapped W & S's, ends machined, bolted together to make one with over 40 foot of bed on it.
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The lathe itself is only maybe 10' long the rest is the attached hydraulic bar feeder, it's a W&S #5
 
Cool!...I never ran anything bigger than our 16'"American Pacemaker but I remember on an Apprentice field trip (yes, we took a few) seeing some monsters at the old Gates Rubber plant here in Denver...
...some of our Journeymen back then had some knowledge of and told of some giant Mills and of a Lathe where you would ride on the Carriage in a seat or on a platform with the levers etc. like you were in a crane or whatever!
 
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