This is a 1911 Rumely oil pull model "E" at the Bruce County Heritage Festival in Paisley Ontario. The model "E" was rated at 30hp on the drawbar and 60hp on the belt. The video shows this particular model pulling an 8-bottom plow.
The Rumely's were built in my hometown of La Porte, Indiana way back in the day. : ) The plant once employed thousands of local citizens. Most of you already know the plant was later bought and renamed Allis-Chalmers in 1931. Beautiful to see these old Majestic Ladies brought back to life! Thank you to all of you who help preserve history, and these amazing, historical machines that helped shape America!
My son and I would go occasionally to the Brookes Oregon Power Land, and one year during the afternoon parade there were 4 Rumely Oil Pulls in a row leading the rest. The rhythm that they became tuned to made me want to get to my feet and dance! I mention to the guy standing next to me there should be a brass band to lead them off, and we both had a good laugh. KL
You can't tell now but yes, on its way to a show it fell off of the trailer and landed on the clutch-pulley side. Many parts were destroyed but, as you can see he got it back up and running. A wonderful example of an early "E".
Thank you for this video. My Father was raised on a dairy farm in Crampton Ontario. I remember him telling me that the first tractor he ever drove was a Rumley Oil pull. I don't know which model though.
What kind of torque do these put out at the drive wheels vs the belt wheel? What's going on in the big green box in the very front of the tractor, aside from exhaust being diverted there? Is that essentially the radiator where the coolant oil is stored and cooled?
HighlanderNorth1 these early tractors often had two numbers after the model, in this case, 30 (horsepower at the drawbar) - 60 (horsepower at the belt pulley). The exhaust helps to induce an upward draft through the radiator, yes.
Claimed 60hp at the engine at 375 rpm converts to 840 foot-pounds. Tested at 76hp and that is 1,064 foot-pounds. The 30 at the drawbar would mean it takes 30hp just to turn the drive-train. :)
+cdoublejj It's a two-cylinder outfit but fires differently than the others. Sounds like both pistons move in the same direction at the same time, not in opposite directions like the others.
What's that? It looks like a steam engine, it sounds like a steam engine, hell it even smokes like a steam engine, so what on earth is it? It's the Rumley Oil Pull! 100 years and still chuggin!
Right on Max: My two Great uncles, aged 20 and 8 were killed when their Rumley Oil Pull tractor exploded and coated the boys and a neighbor kid with flaming kerosene.
