That is the ash pan under the firebox, often times you can look through the air damper and see glowing embers and partially burnt fuel that has fallen through the fire grate into the pan, that is what you see there.
+aswmkid3 And it wasn't even running at full capacity. You see those two steam jets under the cylinder there, on the upper side of the boiler just ahead of the drive wheel? Yeah, those are drain cocks, opened to allow the operator to drain the cylinder of liquid water that condenses when first applying steam to a cold engine. They were cracked open the whole time. He was venting steam pressure through the drain cocks while the front end was off the ground.
I've been to many steam thresher shows, but I always have a slight uneasiness being around these tractors when they're working hard. Those boilers are under some kind of pressure. But that still doesn't come close to stopping me from getting near the tractors.
@@rcnelson I mean why do you think we ditched steam tractors insanely quick. If am not mistaken we only had steam tractors for example the first steam tractor to land on American shores was in 1888. The first gas powered tractor was invented in 1892.... Ya only reason there was steam tractors until the early 1900s is for massive and I mean massive farms that needed to pull massive equipment. Oh and most came from logging which still used them.
+flight2k5 - ok now you owe me a technical explanation. Where is the flywheel on this vehicle, and what is it doing? Also, what is energizing the flywheel?
has nothing to do with the flywheel, all that does is store energy. reason this has so much pulling power is it probably weighs 30,000+lbs and the tire ground contact is huge. all tractor pulling has weight classes, many tractors will compete in more classes just by adding weight. if you ever watch modern tractors pull they never run out of power, they lose traction and spin, then its over.
I was driving one that had it happen. We were hooked to the Lucas sled they use on the semi cabs and hot rods. As usual the steamer went at it like it was just another day's work, when suddenly at the 275 yard line puff puff silence. Torqued it right out and forced the stall, no wheel slip or anything. I found out later the sled operator had made an error and accidentally put on the emergency brakes, which are meant to hold back a runaway diesel. Most of the time though the steamers don't pull for real. The sled operator runs up the weight until the engine barks, then holds it there for the full pull instead of having it pull to stall like normal. But my most recent pull they did work the sled for real, and it was a spectacular run.
I grew up around steam engines and every year, there was a show put on by my grandparents' neighbor who owned about 30-40 engines. One year, the guy's son was in a pull off against someone else with his M. Rumely 36-120 (though marked 40-140). He got pissed and pulled the sled almost a mile and unhooked it and went back to the show. That was total defeat for the sled
wow. that thing has some insane pulling power. i had no idea they were that strong. i have a vintage tractor myself but i just have a little 'ol 1948 cub
Crazy as it sounds, our museum needed gears for ours, Case obviously didn't have them, but where delighted to get us copies of the blueprints so we could cast new ones ourselves. Case seems to like seeing their heritage equipment operating.
I'm in the process of being a case garden tractor collecter before the 1980s (when they sold out to Ingersoll )I have 4 so far 1967 CASE 155 1974 CASE 222 1976 CASE 220 1978 CASE 210 my dad has a 1970 CASE 580 c/k I love the old steamers tho I would love to find one....but I don't have the room at my place to have one and I don't really know how they work fully I love pre 1980 cases from lawn tractors to the full on traction engines
When you pull a charge(like this sled or a trailer on the top of a hill), you need torque, not horsepower. On a race, you need horsepower. Horsepower tell you how fast you can compete a job, torque tell you what force will prevent you to continue pulling. Your formula is good but need context and definition of concepts like force(torque) and power(hp) which are différents. Have a good day too!
That Case could pull that sled with the full weight on from a standing start. No ramping up needed. All the guys who spent $50K on their specialized pulling engines went home crying because their junk could't out-pull the Case, nor could they afford hearing aids after blowing out their ear drums from their own obnoxious junk.
Steam vs unlimited modified in most weight pulled? Steam will win hands down! Now that is another video I would enjoy! Thank you for sharing, awesome video!
Steam tractor weights in excess of 70,000 lbs. Unlimited modified has a weight limit of 8,000 lbs. Traction is the limiting factor for these, not torque or power.
My father took me to a hit & miss steam engine show when inwas a little kid. They had a pulling demonstration and a Case engine pulled a 12 bottom plow through virgin ground with 1' cover. I was blown away.
Because a modern tractor weights half of what one of these weights. It all comes down to traction, which is the coefficient of friction x weight of the vehicle. The heavier your vehicle is the more it can pull before you get wheel spin. Add an extra 40,000lbs to a modern tractor and gear it down to a 5mph top speed and it would easily outpull one of these.
That’s amazing! What power! Looks like he got the steam right and it wasn’t going to stop until he ran out of track! What weight class do you put it in?
i love the way this guy showed off at the beginnning of this pull, then put the steam to her, and then away he goessssssssssssss,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
what the hell are you talking about? my grandpas diesel tractor thats about the size of that case will pull 2 of those sleds..... tech doesnt get worse it always gets more powerful this thing has 2 advantages fuel economy and durability other than that 1970s and up tractors have it beat in every way possible
@@dalejrjunior1298 modern tech is still a crap... today they only care how to get more money from you... i had so much problems with modern car that i almost throw it away... and i will destroy the engine.. is not worth nothing to me anymore... crappy tech shit. always problems... nothing works properly anymore... old tech was build forever..
