Some pictures of past
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Topic: Some pictures of past
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Subject: Some pictures of past
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2012 at 6:37am
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The pictures below are taken from Gary Yaeger face book site:
This is a Holt steam traction engine pulling a Holt Combined Harvester that cuts a 50 ft. swath of grain. Not too bad for circa 1910?
This is a Kevin Small photo of the 36hp Rumely (I know it says 40-140) hitched to the 20-bottom plow at Willis Abel's show at Finnleyville, PA, some years ago. The engine lives in North Carolina now.
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Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2012 at 6:53am
| Pretty interesting machines -- |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2012 at 12:25pm
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He has a great gallery of pictures from early years and these are just a couple i picked off his album ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: Don(MI)
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2012 at 12:31pm
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I really like old steam engines. Was reading in a magazine the other day, about a certain style of plowing with steam engines.
They would set up an engine at opposite ends of the field, with great big huge gear driven pulleys underneath them, and pull a cable across back and forth with at least a 5-6 bottom plow on the cable.
Looked really, really cool!! Never seen anything like it before! They said the cable would wear out after about 200-400 acres and had to be replaced. ------------- Galatians 5:22-24 "I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!" |
Posted By: AC WD45
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2012 at 1:13pm
would really like to know more about that ------------- German Shepherd dad 1957 Allis Chalmers WD45 #WD234847 1951 Allis Chalmers WD #WD88193 |
Don(MI) wrote:Posted By: Don(MI)
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2012 at 7:13am
http://patentpending.blogs.com/patent_pending_blog/2005/09/steam_plowing.html" rel="nofollow - http://patentpending.blogs.com/patent_pending_blog/2005/09/steam_plowing.html
Check this out! ------------- Galatians 5:22-24 "I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!" |
Posted By: jhid
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2012 at 12:14pm
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here it is in action [TUBE]qOyzzUShkUs&feature=related[/TUBE] ------------- red and green are nice for christmas, but orange is all year round http://www.canadianantiquetractor.com/tractorforum/ |
Posted By: Don(MI)
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2012 at 12:28pm
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WOW, Thanks!!
Couple things I noticed...
1). Looks like a ROUGH ride on the plow, can you imagine 40 acres??
2). What would happen if one steam engine was off by 4 feet? CROOKED plowing!! haha
3). What would happen if the plow didn't stop at the end, it would winch that plow right on the steam engine!! LOL ------------- Galatians 5:22-24 "I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!" |
Posted By: AC WD45
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2012 at 5:23pm
the plows were steerable to correct the difference. ------------- German Shepherd dad 1957 Allis Chalmers WD45 #WD234847 1951 Allis Chalmers WD #WD88193 |
Posted By: Auntwayne
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2012 at 9:38pm
| How would the end rows be plowed ? |
Posted By: Don(MI)
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2012 at 10:00pm
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Maybe another steam engine the conventional way, or horse and plow.
I just watched that again, the engineering involved in all this is astounding. I cannot imagine the hours involved with the steam engines, or even the plow set up for that matter. Things are alot different today. ------------- Galatians 5:22-24 "I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!" |
Posted By: 79fordblake
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2012 at 10:12pm
| I wouldn't wanna do it very long but that is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Thanks for sharing. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2012 at 10:35pm
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The reason for cable plowing was boggs were too wet to drive an engine through without burying it. The cable kept the engine out of the wet stuff. Guess I coulda read the blog before I posted this  ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: macvette
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2012 at 10:50pm
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Was an article in Farm Collector magazine a few months ago about steam plowing this way. Figured I would never be able to see it actually happen as article was so interesting, and units were "across the pond". Thanks so much for providing the video. It is fantastic.
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