I really appreciate this video - not just for the subject, but for the camera work and quality footage. Thank you for getting on board the steam shovel - great angles. Last of all, thank you for not overlaying music so we could hear the equipment operate! A+
Truly you had to feel like a proper man commanding a machine like this, ever lever and leaver had to be moved with manpower and feeling the entire clunky Steam machine moving, God what a feeling it is, I only driven a steam tractor but that in itself was an experience I never forget, nowadays machinery is not like the past ones, its just like driving a Toyota Corolla.
Being from Lincoln (Boultham Park Road) and not far from the foundry down Coulson Road. I used to see the hundreds of guys on bicycles going in to work for 7.00 am and Home again at 17.00am. It used to take an hour for all the bikes to pass two or three abreast. They made all sorts from trains, diesel shovels, to these steam shovels. The origional Triton 1st WW tanks were made here too.
Superb machine and, in the right hands, still capable of doing heavy work. Great video camera work, particularly of the works in action. That’s the best part and I would be happy to see more.
A dinosaur? By our standards, yes. But think how it eased the lot of labourers on road, rail, mining and agricultural projects in the day. It reminds me of those dreadful problems we had to solve at school about how long it would take so many men with shovels to do an hour's work of one steam navvy!
Hi Colin, I agree, what a marvellous machine and still able to work but by modern standards it does look primitive. Like a puppet driven by a puppeteer who pulls the strings to make it work!
@@kentate435 Its primitive, but its rate of working is quite impressive. Aside from the start up time it doesn't look that much slower that modern machinery for the same tonnage. But the break-out force may be different, a hydraulic system can slowly build force without stalling the engine.
After watching a bunch of hand held videos where the camera didn't linger any longer than a few seconds, this video is cinema quality in comparison. Congratulations. What a wonderful piece of engineering and smoothly operated by Philip too?
So often the videos of these old machines are shown with unskilled operators and the movements are jerky and out of sync. This particular operator did a great job, despite all the numerous lever that had to be moved to complete a task his movements were smooth and his cycle rates were good for a non hydraulic unit such as this one.
The red machine is a Bucyrus face shovel. Larger versions built the Panamax canal.Again it was thought that it would never operate again as the boom and bucket were missing. These were rebuilt from original drawings by members. I will do a video of it later,
In the early years of steam power, explosions did occur now and then. I'm a Swede and don't know how it was in the US but safety standards and inspections of steam boilers began here in the 1890's. Since the machine we see here is from the 1920's I think it was quite safely built. At least when it was new, I would not like to take a 100 years old boiler up to max pressure.
@@jonathonrossebo1783 If its proper built and proper utilised it wont explode, most boiler explosions happened and still happen because of neglect and ignorance in its working, no sane engineer would put the boiler at max pressure even if its brand new, they ran mostly at 80 to 90% pressure depending on the load, some boilers were designed with 60% pressure in mind, flash boilers are magnitude safer as they only produce super heated steam when needed but came too late to change much, the diesel engine and electric motors had already surpassed Steam power when flash boilers were a thing.
big girl... just begs to be put to actual paying work. damn i would love to see one of these poking away next to the old roller a local company uses...
