The cleaning of the motor, gears, and shafts...

These items used to run the lathe machinery that  the firemen would use for sawing and drilling. Jon's brother Nate and brother-in-law, Tim came up to help degrease and boy these things were a greasy mess.  Isabelle the dog didn't help one bit.
They're now back in the same spot they'd been in for over one hundred years. Hopefully we never have to take them down again... that stuff is heavy.