Show Two Two Man Man an Foundry Makes Farm Tools Charles and Abraham Auchey respectively respectively respectively re re- re- re 73 and 69 years old are the proprietors and sole employees of what is probably the smallest farm equipment factory in the world It is called the Codorus Foundry and Machine Shop of Codorus Codorus Co Co- Codorus dorus York county Pennsylvania Located in an area which boasted an ironworks as early as 1770 the present foundry is according to the American Iron and Steel Institute in many ways like the primitive ironworks that once served the needs of people in hundreds of communities communities communities com com- in the eastern states For well over 80 years the Auchey brothers and their father before them have been turning out farm implements and gear Their establishment establishment establishment never grew great or made fame for its owners outside its own region the fertile Seven Valleys of Southern Pe 1 v Pf But i a t h h as JJ y yu u. u I lasted d The glare from its cupola lighting up the night sky is a familiar spectacle spectacle spectacle spec spec- in that countryside The small smaIl industry has become so much a part of tradition in York county that no farmer for miles around starts for forthe forI forthe I the city when a piece of farm machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery breaks down He com comes comes s to l the Codorus foundry to have repair parts made just as his father and his grandfather used to do I About a ton of iron is cast monthly at Codorus In terms of tonnage or dollars this is nothing much but it itI I satisfies the Auchey brothers and their customers Charles and Abraham Auchey have grown old with the foundry Both were born in sight of it as were their sons and daughters and most of their grandchildren In its heyday at the turn of the century the shop employed eight men and produced and produced such complicated apparatus as threshing machines N Now ow it is a two-man two shop except when times comes to melt and cast every three or four weeks Then sons and sons-in-law sons come from their farms and nearby city homes to help the aging brothers with the heavier work Neighbors also gather to assist inthe in inthe inthe the casting The rusty old cupola installed by the father roars and trembles as the hot fire melts the pig iron When the glory hole at the base of the cupola is opened the smoke filled foundry is lit with a dull red glow The fiery molten iron gushes forth into a ladle as big as asa asa asa a washtub The iron is dipped out in smaller ladles and poured into the sand molds which lie about on the foundry floor |