Better than horses, mules or oxen (better for the men and the animals) but still reminds me of how hard life was for those who went before us. If readers will be so kind as to tolerate the expression of a personal view: I wish our Federal and State governments were worthy of the sacrifices and labor of our ancestors who built this Country.
Splendid - the first time I've seen a moving picture of one of these engines. Strangely, the Marklin (German copy of Meccano) instruction in about 1929 included what was clearly an Avery with a threshing box - but the engine just had a couple of drawings to guide you in making it. I wonder why they had that model in a German book?
That looks like Tom Grahams 1912 Avery. Rated 110 hp at the fly wheel 55 hp at the draw bar. Weighs in at 25 tons! Tom shows it at the Buckley old engine show in Michigan.
Avery Undermounts have two cylinders, each "fires" twice each revolution so it sounds like the "motor" is revving really high. Actual motor speed is around 250 RPM with ground speed near 2.5 MPH.
@hangmandude2009 Its making the black rolling smoke because of coal. Coal will burn clean if it has a proper amout of draft, this steam engine did not. they were high on steam pressure, so they eased the draft gate shut, when coal doesnt burn with enough draft it smokes black, just like in the video.
In a dream I was being hunted by a madman with a steam tractor very similar to this one, except the wheels were covered in long sharp spikes, like a soccer boot or a porcupine. These wheels were churning up the soil and I kept thinking to myself; what would happen if one of them was to run over me? How much damage would it inflict? My guess was a lot. Luckily I had a cardboard refrigerator box to hide in, and even though he knew where I was hiding the madman couldn't run me over unless I moved from the box. I really needed to pee, but the mad engineer was circling my fridge box again and again, always willing me to make a break for it and get minced in the process.
what a big and powerful steam tractor my favorite one at Buckley go every year and love all the big old tractors & steam tractors there cant wate for this years show!
CGT867 When I was a kid I rode my bike with no helmet, drank from a garden hose, and rode in the bed of pickups and still somehow survived with a decent childhood to boot! take your safety policing elsewhere nobody here is interested....
I grew up on a cattle ranch doing all kinds of things that would make most parents these days cringe. Us kids never wore shoes around the farm not because we didn't have any but because we preferred not too. We rode on the hay bales as the men forked them with the tractors. We had our own pocket knives because we used them as tools and knew them as such. We had our own rifles to hunt squirrels because we were taught at an early age to respect them and more importantly when not use them. We had accidents but all of use kids ( six of us ) turned out well, not perfect but well rounded. It's important to let kids do these things at an early age because it build character and self reliance. And it gives you stories to tell when your in your forties over a camp fire with friends.
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The fly wheel will stick out to the side far enough to clear the leading wheels. You belt onto machinery the same what as with a high mounted wheel. I've heard the idea of its placement was to make belting easier since your not working with your hands above your head, and that it was considered safer since if the belt broke it wasn't at head hight. No idea if that's true or not though. That arrangement was abandoned since it put the bearings closer to the ground and made them more likely to pack with dirt.
