Ditch Digging | Community Map | Pitt Meadows Museum
In the early years of his career, Hans' innovative skills helped him imagine and build three effective trenching machines, two on wheels and one on a track, that were vital for digging ditches and draining land in Pitt Meadows and around the lower mainland.
Hoffmann and Son Shop | Community Map | Pitt Meadows …
Soon after they stopped selling gas and by the late 1940's Hans Hoffmann ventured into the ditching and drainage business. He was considered by many to be a mechanical genius. He designed and constructed much of the machinery in the shop, including his three highly innovative ditching machines.
Hoffmann Site | Pitt Meadows Museum
The Hoffmann and Son site is a 1930's machine shop. It includes a working forge and a collection of restored stationary engines. The site was donated to the Museum in 1999 by the Hoffmann family, and opened to the public in 2001.
One Man's Passion: Hans Hoffmann's Engines. - Community …
Over the next few years he built three of these machines, two on wheels and one on tracks known as the "Pitt Polder Special". These machines dug the trench, laid the drainage tiles and assisted with the back fill. Hans and his crew used them to drain land throughout the lower Fraser Valley and as far away as West Vancouver.
Memory Lane Mondays June 17th post... - Pitt Meadows Museum …
Memory Lane Mondays June 17th post is all about ditch digging! These images show a man (perhaps Hans Hoffmann) driving a non-tracked trencher with a trencher apparatus working in a ditch, and workers...
One Man's Passion: Hans Hoffmann's Engines.
Aldergrove, B.C., but Hans had a passion for machinery and the family chose Pitt Meadows as the place he would begin his long and valued career. For almost 45 years Hans worked in and then ran the family business out of 12277 Harris Road. A garage, a machine shop, a ditching and drainage business, and, for a time, the community
Hoffmann and Son Machine Shop - Heritage BC
The Hoffmann and Son Machine Shop and drainage business comprises the 1936 main building and the 1954 Quonset hut on an acre of land fronting on Harris Road at the centre of Pitt Meadows.
Hoffman and Sons 1939 (Pitt Meadows BC) - Flickr
2020年5月28日 · DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC PLACE The Hoffmann and Son Shop and House consists of a one-storey wood-frame machine shop, a one and one-half storey, wood-frame house, and a Quonset hut. Located on Harris Road, the historic commercial centre of the District of Pitt Meadows, these buildings form part of a grouping of Pitt Meadows' most significant heritage sites. The buildings are situated within what ...
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Pitt Meadows Museum - Historic Places Days
The Pitt Meadows Museum is made up of two sites, the Old General Store and the Hoffmann and Son Machine Shop, across Harris Road from each other just to the south of the C.P.R. tracks. The General Store and Post Office Site (1908) is a heritage building and the …
PHOTOS: 100-year-old tractors brought back to life for Pitt Meadows ...
2024年5月23日 · Pitt Meadows residents Ron Blakely, Bruno Piccini, Rick Higgs, John Laseur, Lyle Sullivan, and Doug Miller have dedicated countless hours to restoring a couple of historical tractors at the Hoffmann and Son Shop, with the dream of seeing them driven in …
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