I thought I’d call this mystery tow, but it hints more at the whatzit category. The answer will not be found in this post, but enjoy the clues.
Those are real kilograms.
Scale? Location? See the last photo to confirm location . . .
. . . and again scale.
More info will be forthcoming. Will Van Dorp took all the photos here in the last week of September 2016.
tugster: a waterblog 
10 comments
Comments feed for this article
October 7, 2016 at 11:08 am
eastriver
Anyone can see that it’s a flux capacitor, for industry. (You’d be excused for mistaking it for a warp core.)
October 7, 2016 at 11:21 am
bowsprite
it’s a big pasta cutter attachment
October 7, 2016 at 3:16 pm
Bob
Once machined will probably be in a steam fired (coal or nuke) power plant.
My little brother builds them/ rebuilds them. They have a lathe with a bed 90 feet long with a 17 foot swing!!!!!
October 7, 2016 at 3:22 pm
Chris Wiilliams
I’m guessing it’s a high tension component, maybe a connection point for a transmission line, headed for the RG&E substation in Macedon, NY, where the transformers went last year.
October 7, 2016 at 5:55 pm
Jim Gallant
If I had to hazard a guess, I would say possibly some kind of “thrust block” component, for the propeller shaft / driveline of a large vessel?
October 7, 2016 at 6:27 pm
Anonymous
The beginnings of a turbine.
October 8, 2016 at 9:30 am
ws!
A utility barrel pump, boiler feed pump rotating element!
October 8, 2016 at 9:32 am
ws!
Its a Utility Barrel pump’s rotating element, a Multi stage centrifugal pump
December 19, 2019 at 5:41 pm
Arthur C Hamilton
Looks to be a Steam Turbine monoblock Rotor, a reheat rotor, High Pressure/Intermediate Pressure rotor, built in Japan, maybe Toshiba factory, bound for General Electric Schenectady. Rotor forging will be machined and “Buckets” installed, final machining to clearances and then shipped to customer site. It often takes 3 to 4 years from initial purchase order to final assembly. Location most likely lock 7 in Niskayuna?
December 19, 2019 at 5:45 pm
tugster
I believe yr rotor info is correct, consistent with what I’ve been told. Location is lock E2 . . . on the way to E8.