Anyone recognise this power takeoff unit?

I spotted this lump in a derelict cottage I own. Recovery would be hazardous. Anyone know about it?

No but the wirework looks to be J. Sainsbury circa 1983

It's possible... this is the inside of the kitchen (with some of the bedroom and roof)

I can't get a clear picture (my computer), but it does remind me of a water pump.

What you've got there is the basics of a horizontal milling machine but missing the overarm/knee/table etc. Looking at the condition of it, it might be worth the effort of recovering it - mind, you've got to be keen ; either that or you build a workshop around it to save moving it!

Talking of things sticking out of the ground, a friend of mine used to work for the local waterboard and had to visit a local farm, like me he collected stationary engines and spotted a wolesley water hopper lying on a barn floor so he asked the farmer if he could have it and was told it was a complete engine buried in the dirt floor and if he could be bothered to dig it out he could have it, what the farmer didnt tell him was that the engine was still bolted to a cast base which meant he ended up digging a very large hole to get it all out, took him a day

Martin P

It looks a lot like an Alfred Herbert No1 Pillarmill. Trumpet shaped base, if you want to dig it out you will need to dig a big hole. May even be worth doing, the other parts may be with it.

Dave

I'd be suprised to find a mill there - unless milling grain (or stray ramblers). There was enough hazard getting that pic..doing any digging would mean demolition first.

Access to the building is via a right of access across my property, then a gully stream ford, across someone else's field and then into it's 2 acre plot. It's in a frost pocket with no mains services and it's name translates as 'the pauper's house'. I only bought it just in case someone wanted to develop it (rumour of a shooting lodge). It was cheap.

I see the horizontal mill too. Second pair of rings above the pulley holds the overarm bit and to the left you can see the dovetail for the table. Or perhaps it is a higher end drill press and the head fell off?

Looks you all I dug out of the garden today was weeds and an old brass dragon! 🇳🇱👹

I can see it being a mill as well. Looks in rescuable condition, has it been under a tarp?..

I went in my dad's loft (first time in 20-25 years) and found a lot of junk from my teenage years - B&W enlarger, orange crates and cardboard boxes full of airfix models and even one box of dinosaurs!

Was hoping to find a motorised Tamiya panther tank with a remote battery and switch box - sadly only bits left I did find a non-motorised Tiger that I never got round to completing and painting..

My old 10W per channel HIFI ampin teh box of an old instrumentation amp chucked out by the school.

Some wacky stuff, even my old microscope (tiny) but for unknown reasons all I brought down was a small (optical) condenser, probaly felt it was all best left as it was.

He did moan about an old Goodman's speaker in a large box that put a hole in the bathroom ceiling last year - nuffin' to do wiv me guv...

No tarp and no roof for the last couple of years. Rescue would be dangerous. Access through the stone doorway.. not enough room to manoeuver a tractor outside to tug it out and stay clear of the walls and the ground drops off at the front. it'd have to be seriously prized and justify demolishing the wall behind it - or loft it out with a tracked cherry-picker..

..or take a chance and pull the end wall off and hope the rest don't collapse onto it.

Pgk pgk, looks like you've talked yourself into it, don't forget to post some photos when you get it out.

Dave

far from it.. seriosuly would be dangerous to try. Local scrappy mate popped round today to take a look.. since he's seen most farm and cottage machinery around here but the Welsh heavens re-opened beyond any desire to plod 1/4 mile in it. If I ever find an answer I'll post.

(at the moment he has an ancient myford wood lathe.. with no tailstock, head plate or tool post but with an interesting planer attachment on the back of the headstock end. I think he said he listed on ebay)

Would be a shame to see it scrapped

Sorry, didn't make myself clear - with a view to identifying it , not scrapping it.