Starting the Weirdest Steam Tractor Ever Invented 

Just like my mother-in-law.

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I would not be surprised if this was unit was originally designed as a small locomotive and the company who made it was lets take these existing steam engines and try putting tracks on them for farm use

I legit had a girlfriend that had a phobia of trains.

It is a Lombard Log Hauler. It was never a railroad locomotive. The majority of steam tractors used horizontal Boilers

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@@2ndcomingofFritz not many know that "le" is "the" in French so my @ is @theboobs22 Also I got spongeboobs from pewdiepie in 2013 from one of his happy wheels videos

Thank you!

Вот это машина на пару,2кочегара 2 водителя

Is the first machine not a linn tractor?

​@@РоманБородачев-ш9йИ она затопленная Дровами поедет в Лес за дровами и привезёт дрова на дровах. Никаких бензо колонок , ненужных трат. А ещё продаст эти Дрова же, привезенные на Дровах. 😅.

Wow!! That is so cool. I have to come up and see this thing in person some time...

Could have lived without the obnoxious fake bird and insect noises

@@proscriptusI dont think that was fake

@@Quebster they are. At the very least they have been tacked on during the edit. You can hear this because the video cuts between scenes, and the sounds of each scene change accordingly, whilst the forest sound effect remains constant, and in fact you can hear bird noises that start just before a scene cuts to another and end in another scene. The echo may well be artificial, too, since an echo that significant would only occur in a deep valley, and even then I don't think it would be so apparent.

it is not the generation it is the creation the Adam and eve of machines the father and mother of what we have today

Yes, yes, yes! Thanks!

Ты ещё посмотри паровой автомобиль братьев дубль 1910 год запускался с ключа и за 10 секунд разгон до 100 , 800 км на одной заправке 70 литров керасина

Их в это время не убивали.

​@@Архивжизниэто уже не то. На керосине разогнаться любой дурак, так сказать, может. Ты вот на дровах и воде попробуй.

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Steam is powering your house right now.

Saw the same footage on a different channel. It's a 42 bottom plow.

1 raindrop and it cant move forward

Has a lot to do with weight, gearing, and low rpm torque Modern tracters are built to do things better and faster

@@wwindsunrain not for much longer hopefully

Thank you!

Wired Percy from Thomas the tank engine thing vs killdozer

Weird Percy from Thomas the tank engine thing VS KILLDOZER!!!!!1!11!!!!

the greatest feat of engineering is making things user friendly.

what does a steam engine need an 'idle' for anyway. you just turn the steam off and it stops :P the ignition is 'somewhere else' :P

They kinda had, you could just reroute the steam somewhere else and keep the boiler going without moving.

@@mactep1 With the throttle closed it will simply sit and and quietly simmer as long as you supply fuel and water.

@@dippst too friendly is the problem, that is why cars have air bags, abs, and loads of other bs that makes them 2 times as heavy as they should have been same problem with software and computers, software gets heavier and heavier requiring more and more power to run and all because lazy people can't learn to brake, drive, and get everything done in 3 clicks

This is a Lombard. The phoenix machines were built under a license agreement granted by Lombard. Wonderful machines.

There's another one Janesville, IA

I live about a mile from the old Phoenix mfg site, now Phoenix Park. There is a working Phoenix Log Hauler in Wabena, WI. It was here last year for Pioneer Days. Cool to see it working. The steering mechanism of the Phoenix is a little different from the Lombard in the video.

Parabéns a esses homens que criaram essas máquinas! O começo da grande revolução que temos hoje!

My great grandfather and his brothers had a Phoenix. It got sent to Germany.

They did in the beginning.

Yep that's what experience will do.

Didn't you notice that the stoker is a woman?

@@paulbutikofer4284🙄

This is an edited video.

I recently seen a video where they called it a "road locomotive" it wasn't a tracked one like this, it had conventional steel wheels front and rear.

I was just thinking that the pretty much looks like a train without the wheels and no tracks I kind of wonder if it was converted from some kind of locomotive🤔😚

@@H2Oredfirefox they built a lot of similar type things, they called some road locomotives, some they just called a tractor, or other names depending on the manufacturer and region. Basically all of them are a giant boiler and a decent sized steam engine that can move under its own power.

@@goosenotmaverick1156 Still pretty impressive to see them running today

@@H2Oredfirefox oh no doubt! I watch my fair share of stuff like this, never seen one that was equipped with tracks, love this stuff! The fact that it still exists is impressive, the fact that some of these are still operable is an astonishing achievement on behalf of the manufacturers and engineers of the past.

Yes they are! It takes us about 3 hours to fire-up the Lombard from cold. In this instance it was the first run of the season and we had just completed the annual boiler inspection so we tend to take extra care. Of course back when these where used on logging operations they were under steam 24/7 unless they needed repairs.

But on the same note, you can see at 13:46 just how much work these engines could accomplish compared to what men without them could do.

Horses weren't easy either

​@@BDNeonand the engines don't get tired.

To be fair, these days if you were to make a steam tractor a lot of the labour could be cut out, you'd just have to change the design drastically to make that a goal.

Хе-хе, они его сохранили так как купили его в кредит на 60-80 лет! Представляю скока % содрал банк за такую покупки. И даже боюсь представить что за гачи-мучи прописаны в договоре за не соблюдение. Потому и работали на нём до упора.

@@Toni73RU 1-2% годовых максимум. А, как правило и вовсе меньше 1%.

@@Rufusail , ага - в мечтах XD

@@Toni73RU это реальные проценты на кредиты в США, Европе и Китае. 3% даже в Калифорнии считается дорогим кредитом. Ну и до сво Сбербанк в Европе(у них там были отделения) давал кредиты по 2-3%. Хотя ты же или дурак, которому лень поинтересоваться, либо пригожинская проститутка, отрабатывающая 15 рублей.

@@Toni73RU Раскажу вам как я три дня назад и стоял и смотрел на два дома которые стоят рядом. Один из Красного Кирпича 2 полных этажа крыша двухскатная жилая и полуподвал, квадратов жилых около 300 метра, построен перед 1 Мировой одним хозяйном Крестьяниним. А рядом новый в 2 этажа квадратов на 100. так вот у ногого как раз кредит на 20 лет а тот старый строился без кредита. А знаете почему, 100 лет назад налогов было меньше, строймарериал покупали пару лет до строики один год кирпич другой год древесину. Кредиты это явление этого века потому что всем всего хочется и сразу.

Lay, off, the, commas.

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The Lombard (the first steam tractor) was developed to replace horses in the woods of northern New England. Its was not uncommon to to have over 20,000 horses working in the Maine woods during the winter. The practical hauling distance for horses pulling a logging sled was about 4 miles. A lombard, on the other hand, could haul up to 300 tons many miles.

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It was not necessarily anything to do with how pleasant it was to run the machine but the efficiency. Mules and horses could only work so many hours a day and could only go so far and pull so much. To feed them through the winter or when working somewhere without forage they had to provide grain, hay, and water. Had to have people who's whole job was to tend the animals. To do the same job as these steam engine you need many horses & be changed out for fresh every so often which requires downtime. With this contraption it could work all day and all night if you wanted it to, and never had the stop it could go for miles and miles with no break. As long as you have wood and water and some oil to oil it every so many hours it would keep going. And to the industry that primarily used such machines the fuel was easy to come by as they were already cutting logs. To the solo farmer much like an Amish man today who has a small team of horses to plow his field, haul logs for the winter, pull his buggy into town, ect a couple horses or mules may be more economical for him because the horse can pull the mower to cut its own hay and it's not being used it will fuel itself by grazing. But for big operations the need for such machinery was dire. At the time these were invented the average person spent half of their money or better on food alone. Food was never so cheap and plentiful as it is today because of the heavy manual labor involved and the fact that farming at-scale for market required large amounts of manpower. Whereas these days a single farmer can as long as he has the right equipment most days without any help run a 200 cow dairy, hundreds of acres of field for planting, multiple chicken barns, or hog barns. Today less than 2% of the population are farmers whereas even just a hundred years ago farming was the most common profession. Logging today is similar because instead of requiring multiple people to tend horses as well as all the other work you just need the cut men, the equipment operator, and someone to haul a tank of fuel.

Well, computers were made with this idea in mind. But later SOMETHING went wrong and now we have bloated slow buggy software and hardware with backdoors me cannot easily diagnose nor repair...

A Locomotive steam half track...i love it too!

That's why they called those guys "engineers".

Well you don't need electronics or batteries.

Даже небольшой современный трактор более производителен , чем этот монстр

I mean it still does use tracks, just a different kind :)

L’idée aurait dû être gardé et mis en fonction avec les autres véhicules et une seule voie de circulations, elles maneouvaie comme un camion d'où l’économie à la places de toutes ces voies ?

Many of those giant steam tractors were called Road Locomotives at the time they were built.

Thank you so much!

Чудовища.

В чем не эффективно то??? В чем?? Он Case тянет 30 плугов за раз. При этом нет бешеных трат на добычу нефти , переработку её, перевозку её, Ничего. Этот же Case 150 , поедет в Лес, привезёт Дрова и на эти Дрова же, вспашет Поле. Где не эффективность?? Вы рассходы наверно считать не умеете.

​@@LeonidMiklaev думаю про эффективность тут в том плане, что КПД очень низкий относительно сжигаемого топлива и расхода воды. Если работать часа 2-3, то скорее всего потребуется довольно много дров. В лесу вы их не получите, если не хотите нарушить закон. Не говоря уж о том, что древесину нужно сушить перед сжиганием. А если ее купить, то даже если выйдет дешевле бензина или солярки, ее объемы неудобно перевозить. Тоже самое и с водой, вам потребуется машина, что бы постоянно заправлять данный транспорт, вряд ли вы руками будете таскать сотни литров воды или будете ехать на нем до дома. К тому же для управления подобным аппаратом желательно 2 человека. Так же нужно регулярное обслуживание, ибо ломаться будет часто. Ну и самое главное, данный трактор никуда не поедет за пределы данного поля. Его максимальная скорость вероятно не больше 10-15 км в час. Что бы на нем работать где то чуть дальше дома, вам потребуется вызывать эвакуатор, что бы добраться до места. В конце концов не просто так отказались от паровой тяги.

@@Mirkin1992 а ты попробуй раздобыть Нефть сначала. Сравни добычу Нефти весь цикл , затраты и сравни Съездить в Лес на дровах же ради Дрова. И да тытакже не знаешь о других методах сжигания дров.

@@Mirkin1992 Вы бывали на Вахтах ? На бурении скважин? Вы теряли на Вахтах Семьи? Вы легко считаете о КПД, при этом уверен вы не Вахтовик и спите со своей женой и детьми а доме. Вы вот эти Цены посчитайте. Как семьи ругаться Дети растут ради ваших КПД без отцов. Жены живут без мужей апосле уходят к другому. Вы посчитайте в вашем гоебанном КПД Горе мужика вахтовика что на вахте остался без жены детей . Я знаю что считающие КПД спят со своими женами играются с детьми тогда когда Вахтовик пол жизни отдает в Жертву ради вашего гребанного КПД.

@@LeonidMiklaev причем тут добыча нефти? Ты же не сам ее добываешь. Важно лишь соотношение твоих личных затрат к производительности данной машины. Но если смотреть на проблему в глобальном масштабе, как вы предлагаете, то получение дров выйдет в много раз дороже нефти. Неужели вы думаете, что дрова так просто получить? Если бы до сих пор транспорт в мире был бы паровым, цена на дрова возросла бы в десятки раз. А количество денег на выращивание деревьев вышло бы астрономическим. Ну и конечно самое главное в транспорте, это удобство. Если вам потребуется хранить вагон древесины и цистерну воды для работы своей машины, о какой эффективности может идти речь.

How do you see where you're going in all the steam though 😅

@@scottanno8861 dose not matter steam powered half track.

Yes, its a bit of a blind corner for cars entering the parking lot from Government Road so we always give a warning whistle. We actually have a dedicated Lombard log hauler road that is about 85% complete. We just need to ease a couple of the curves and do the final grading.

Its only 145 hp at 1,400 rpm but it has tremendous torque. The record for one of these machines (set in 1936) was hauling a sled train carrying 298 ton's of pulpwood. Here is some vintage video footage: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FP7efJvoS9A.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dBEjVnCZ23s.html

Not a one off. From 1900 through 1917 the Lombard Traction Engine Co. of Waterville, built 83 of the steam powered log haulers. From 1914 through 1936 they produced over 300 of the gasoline powered (Tractor-Truck) machines. (we don't know the exact number) That included 10 ton models (as shown) 8 ton, 15 ton and 20 ton machines.

If my history is correct Lombard was the first inventor to successfully use a tracked vehicle. My wife and I actually looked at his house to buy in about 1990 or so. It had its own hydroelectric plant with water supplied by a small mill pond. I remember seeing the Gasoline powered log hauler at a dam on the Allagash River in northern Maine around 1958 or so. Could be the one at the Museum.

@@terryharper2024 very interesting, thanks. An impressive bit of kit

@@jamesrea8454 Correct! In regards to Lombard's house the recently removed the dam. The Lombard you are thinking of is now in the State Museum in Augusta. The machine we have was bought new by the City of Waterville and used for plowing etc. Later, it was sold to Starbird Lumber in Strong, Maine and eventually sold to a private collector who graciously has placed on long term loan to museum.

Was watching that video then this one got recommended 😂

Me too. I’ll see you there with a big bag of tools I’m aching to deploy.

Actually no. Alvin Lombard of Waterville, ME. developed and patented the first practical crawler track system in 1900. Between 1900 and 1917 his company (Lombard Traction Engine Co.) built 83 of these machines. This one was built in 1907 and is only one of three operating examples. These machines were built new - they were not conversions of a locomotive. Just as they did back in the day - we use whistle signals for stop, forward and reverse.

Yes, those are Phoenix log haulers built under a license from Lombard. Really neat machines!

@@terryharper2024 《 they were amazing machines - there were 6 or 8 machines used in the forest reserve, there is a photo of a bunch sitting in the bush not being used. The photo either at Western Development Museun or at Prince Albert National Park.

@@davidmorrison3697 Cool! At the Maine Forest & Logging Museum we have four Lombard's in the collection including the 1907 steam powered Lombard shown in the video, a 1914 Steam powered Lombard. the 1934 Lombard Tractor-Truck (also shown) and a 1928 Lombard Model T dump truck - all are operational and demonstrated on a regular basis. We also have a 1919 Lombard tractor truck due to arrive as soon as the mechanical work is complete. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SaT1IP8NL_w.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dBEjVnCZ23s.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_MYXzu7MJEM.html