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FREEDGUY 
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 Topic: The Laport IN. Plant ??
Posted: 13 Jun 2022 at 5:33pm |
Had a contractor show up on the job site today that saw my AC license plate on my truck. He lives in Laport and showed me pictures of the old site that developers are "trying" to put up an apartment complex. They started digging for footers and started pulling up 1000's of 55 gallon drums of PO paint  . They went down 50' and stopped digging ,the barrels just keep coming and the disturbance has now caused a local lake to be contaminated . What equipment was made in Laport that need so many barrels of paint, or were the majority of them brought down from the West Allis area ? Thanks If this is "old news", I apologize for this topic
Edited by FREEDGUY - 13 Jun 2022 at 5:34pm
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bigal121892
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Posted: 13 Jun 2022 at 6:02pm |
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If I remember correctly, LaPorte was tillage, and the corn heads, maybe the planters as well. Over the years, that would be a lot of paint.
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FREEDGUY
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Posted: 13 Jun 2022 at 6:06pm |
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It was just amazing to see the PO imbedded into the excavated ground (still bright orange) and ALL of those barrels in varying stages of damage
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 13 Jun 2022 at 8:30pm |
In February, 1927, the Monarch Tractor Corporation of Springfield, Ill., was bought by Allis-Chalmers and became Springfield Works, first of the Tractor Division Works. This acquisition brought in the 50 and 75 hp tractor models that supplied the base for future crawler and track-type designs and made A-C a world leader in the field of high power tractors. By adding the crawler type tractors, the company was able to offer models for both farm and industrial use.
Continuing the expansion policy, the La Crosse Plow Company was added October 1, 1929. Founded in 1865 to manufacture a full line of horse-drawn implements, to which was added a line of heavy tractor plows, listers, disc harrows, etc., (when the tractor line first came into use) it eventually grew to be one of the larger independent manufacturers of its kind in the country. This factory made and marketed the first balance-frame horse-lift cultivator; the first power-lift grain drill with a fluted feed (still popular today) ; the first power-lift tractor plow ; and the first three-row wheatland listing plow, which was later copied by other plow makers. In keeping with this advanced engineering, the La Crosse Works, after becoming a part of the Allis-Chalmers organization, developed the first drive-in cultivator and has been first in many new and original developments. This plant now builds a full and complete line of power tillage implements, planters, listers, harrows and mowers. 
In 1931, the Advance-Rumely Co. of La Porte, Indiana, became a part of the Allis-Chalmers organization. This large manufacturer of tractors and threshing machinery, with a record of continuous operation dating back to the 1836, represented a series of consolidations which included the Advance Thresher Co. of Battle Creek, Mich., the M. Rumely Co. of La Porte, Ind., Gaar Scott & Co. of Richmond, Ind., and several others.
Edited by steve(ill) - 13 Jun 2022 at 8:31pm
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Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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Lars(wi)
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Posted: 13 Jun 2022 at 8:42pm |
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Unfortunately, the excavator that uncovered this will more likely be run out of business within a year. You will have no luck hitting up AGCO for the clean up. Is the property within an ‘urban service area’?, with city water & sewer? If wells, and septics, run like hell. There is an area in Midland Tx., known as the ‘Cotton Flats Plume’. Decades ago, there was a ‘plating factory’, where the workers back in the day tossed cleaners, inks, etc., out the back door onto the ground. Fast forward 6 decades(that’s 60 years for you public school pupils((students))). Now from the property, on towards the south out into the County, wells are contaminated. The city of Midland has resisted annexing that area, due to the contamination.
The current property owner, of the point of contamination is now Schlumberger. Everybody is trying hang Schlumberger on this, but all that happened years before they owned the property.
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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Brian F(IL)
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Posted: 14 Jun 2022 at 8:09am |
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I remember riding with Dad to pick up cornheads at Laporte. Seemed like plow frames, etc. we got in LaCrosse, WI.
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JimIA
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Posted: 14 Jun 2022 at 8:44am |
LaPorte was the home of the Advance Rumely company. When Allis-Chalmers bought them out it became the home for the harvesting division of the company. The All-Crop combine was developed and built there. Soon it was known as the "Harvester capitol of the world" building more combines than anyone else. The plant also developed and built the roto baler, mowers, conditioners, mower-conditioners, rakes, choppers, blowers, manure spreaders, forage boxes, corn pickers, cotton pickers, Gleaner grain and corn heads, planters, tractor and combine cabs, the Ontos military vehicle and a few machines Im sure I have forgotten about.
The plant was beside a lake and from what I have been told the company filled in fair amount of ground to add on to the plant. Im guessing they had a bunch of leftover paint and used it as fill. Im wondering if it was left over PO #1 when they switched over to PO #2?
One myth Ive heard several times is there was a brand new Oil Pull tractor that fell into a sink hole and was lost. I keep hoping they find that!
Jim
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HudCo
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Posted: 14 Jun 2022 at 8:48am |
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dig around any old house [back yards] from the fortys or so . you will find junk buried several feet deep little towns didnt have landfills or any organized place for household garbage so it got buryed in the back yard , companyes did the same thing
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DougG
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Posted: 14 Jun 2022 at 10:40am |
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I believe there was a lawsuit on this or similar when AC was in bankruptcy courts,
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FREEDGUY
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Posted: 15 Jun 2022 at 6:31pm |
 JimIA wrote:
LaPorte was the home of the Advance Rumely company. When Allis-Chalmers bought them out it became the home for the harvesting division of the company. The All-Crop combine was developed and built there. Soon it was known as the "Harvester capitol of the world" building more combines than anyone else. The plant also developed and built the roto baler, mowers, conditioners, mower-conditioners, rakes, choppers, blowers, manure spreaders, forage boxes, corn pickers, cotton pickers, Gleaner grain and corn heads, planters, tractor and combine cabs, the Ontos military vehicle and a few machines Im sure I have forgotten about.
The plant was beside a lake and from what I have been told the company filled in fair amount of ground to add on to the plant. Im guessing they had a bunch of leftover paint and used it as fill. Im wondering if it was left over PO #1 when they switched over to PO #2? The guy said the lake is(was) Clear Lake until the carnage 
One myth Ive heard several times is there was a brand new Oil Pull tractor that fell into a sink hole and was lost. I keep hoping they find that!
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FREEDGUY
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Posted: 15 Jun 2022 at 6:33pm |
HudCo wrote:
dig around any old house [back yards] from the fortys or so . you will find junk buried several feet deep little towns didnt have landfills or any organized place for household garbage so it got buryed in the back yard , companyes did the same thing |
FIFTY FEET DEEP AND STILL GOING ???!!!!
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DMiller
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Posted: 15 Jun 2022 at 6:41pm |
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Was a minor cleanup at Western cartridge plant I used to live near, seems was a company landfill on the grounds where took seven months to clear the explosive waste before could call it Clean. Barrels and barrels and mounds of loose, all had to be hauled to a coal power station for incineration, thousands of tons.
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Posted: 15 Jun 2022 at 6:47pm |
DMiller wrote:
Was a minor cleanup at Western cartridge plant I used to live near, seems was a company landfill on the grounds where took seven months to clear the explosive waste before could call it Clean. Barrels and barrels and mounds of loose, all had to be hauled to a coal power station for incineration, thousands of tons. |
Ouch !!
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