That that tractor was a game changer. Or that engine was anyway. And it pop up in hard times. Nice tractor thanks for sharing it with us. May God Bless The United States of America 🇺🇸
My son has special needs and he really likes antique machines like that one he says they don't make them like that anymore but wishes they would or will someday with no microprocessors in them just pure mechanics.
Note how the center of the expansion link is Moving opposite of the main stroke. This is the lead generated by the offset or the two eccentric cranks 👍
Yes. It has steering brakes instead of Cat style steering rams on the gooseneck. The originals could have the tractor turn around under the gooseneck and squash the driver. Note that this one has a short length of very heavy chain on the steering post to prevent the tractor from turning too far.
Biden is going to put an end to your diesel toys, and fine you for every minute past 5 minutes you idle your semi truck bringing you groceries . Go Brandon, best POTUS china ever had
These dozers were built by Caterpillar when Caterpillar knew how to build dozers , basic straight forward no electronics to f-----k you up , long lasting and very reliable, I owned dozers 're contracting for many years back in the seventies, eighties and nineties, D 9 G was a very honest machine.
Thanks! Brett at Paper Carttridges YT channel in his great piece on rifling did not mention what machine tools would have been used to cut progressive depth. Cinnabar (YT channel) has a machine like yours, and a slightly newer one, and a curved sine bar! Check it out!
I saw a piece on the YT channel "paper cartridges" detailing that studies in the 1850's concluded that progressive depth rifling made for the most accurate rifle muskets. I'm wondering whether the machine in your video can cut such rifling or whether it was produced when that kind of rifling was no longer needed (metallic cartridges?)?
I hadn't thought about progressive depth, but progressive twist intrigues me, and could be produced easily by using a curved sine bar instead of this straight one. I don't see a way that this machine could do progressive depth as it is.
I truly can’t fathom how these old hot/miss engines can operated at such incredibly low RPM. So crazy to me that you can hear it combust every 4 seconds
Thanks I enjoyed the video you actually showed us the hardware rather than the scenic pictures that usually come with this former video I hope you make one on the regulator I'm really curious about that and I haven't seen one yet
The throttle linkage is visible starting at 6:42. It is a horizontal rod just above midline of the boiler side, with a small lever going into the smokebox, and a bellcrank midway back, to compensate for boiler expansion. Inside the smokebox, the throttle is a row of poppet valves, opened one at a time by a camshaft, rather than a single large valve. This is to avoid a thermodynamic problem called throttling, where a large amount of steam's energy can be lost by passing through a small opening, as happens with a conventional single opening throttle valve. The thermodynamic principle is called "throttling", and it robs power. Lima had a genius engineer named Will Woodard, who performed extensive experiments on steam flow, achieving such large improvements in efficiency that Lima sold their engines as "Super Power", with many comparison tests on the road to prove the difference. The efficiency of these engines was such that Nickel Plate road tested EMD diesels, then bought another order of berkshires instead. These engines were trusted to run as single units to pull refrigerated meat trains worth over a million 1950 era dollars. They normally hauled fast freight at 60 mph across entire 100 mile divisions. The Mars light was effective at a time when there were many unprotected crossings. I watched them back then, it looked like a big light saber slashing ahead of the train.
