Enjoy meeting 4 generations of a Colorado family and hear about their passion for steam. This film showcases 4 steam driven tractors and interviews family members about the legacy of preserving what was then state-of-the-art technology.
Y'all have done well on those engines. I learned to fire and run steam on a 10 HP Case at the Agricultural Hall of Fame and National Center at Bonner Springs, KS in 1966. There were a couple of Averys there, a 20 HP and a 30 HP owned by the director. I also ran a portable steam-powered carousel that was on loan. It was an 1899 model made at Atchison, KS, and had a 2-cylinder engine mounted on a frame with a vertical boiler. The director also had an Avery gasoline tractor his father had bought in the early 1920s for their wheat farm in western Kansas.
