<HTML>So, if I read this correctly...
Ed had BIGGER equipment in the 1930's - 1940's, but in order to perpetuate this mystery, he went out and found the EXACT same equipment, only smaller.
Gentlmen... you are forgetting that Ed was extremely diminutive... he weighed less than 100 pounds for most of his adult life. He was less than 5 feet tall.
The scale of my photos is not obvious... that hoist (the big one) is actually quite large... it is definitely the one in the photos.
Also, the barb wire coil is probably 2 - 3 feet across. If that's your scale, then that makes the big wheel in the hoist a good 16 - 18 inches across, which is how big I remember it being.
AND THERE ARE NO TEETH OR SPROCKETS ON ANY OF THE EQUIPMENT.
The only electricity Ed had was from a handcranked dynamo.
Ed didn't even own an automobile, and was never seen buying gasoline, to anyone's recollection. Why would he? He rode a bicycle EVERYWHERE. Had he bought gasoline, it would have been VERY peculiar.
Sorry, folks. You're trying to analyze the situation without having been there, without proper specifications, and without taking the word of people who HAVE been there...
like Chris Dunn and myself.
I have no axe to grind here, folks. Even if Ed did NOT use my Herodotus Machine... it still works WONDERS, and is worth a small fortune to industries.
Do you REALLY think I care how a Latvian built this thing 70 years ago?
Come on.
Anthony</HTML>
