Start up, Run and Shutdown of the 600 HP Snow Engine at Coolspring - June 2013
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- 600 HP Snow Natural Gas Pumping engine at Coolspring June 2013. Shown here is the start-up operation and shutdown of this most impressive engine. After several years of hard work, the job had progressed where the crew was able to perform a few test runs. On this particular test ( the fourth start-up) a few mechanical adjustments had been made and on-line fuel valve settings performed. My hats off to a truly incredible volunteer effort by the Coolspring Museum staff
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3 cylinders, 6 combustion chambers, 1 connecting rod, 10 ton flywheel, and over a century old and still running. How could sombody NOT love and appreciate the skill and dedication that went into this machine.
It just amazes me all the math, casting and machining that went into these huge old engines.
Correction, this engine has 2 cylinders, 4 combustion chamber. Trust me, i go to this show every year. Also the flywheel is 18 tons, it in total being 140 tons.
@@braybraymaster77 I saw the two valve gear sets and was curious about that. Second speculation was direct-drive positive displacement pump.
Old is gold
What is the job of this engine?
these kind of engines, right here, are the reason im so obsessed with engines.
What a bizarre machine! Totally steampunk! What on Earth was it used for??
Love watching the external cams, rockers, and most of all, that huge flywheel!
That was my fav too!
That immensely heavy flywheel shows no run out at all and the oil grooves cut into the slides demonstrate fitting skills from a bygone age. The whole engine looks just like a Stuart Turner model scaled up, truly amazing.
The truth of that immense flywheel was the first thing that struck me, superb engineering.
@@tiberiu_nicolae i bet if you invested the same amount of gold/human lives (allowing for inflation of course) you could build a pretty nice pyramid....
Yup, I was thinking of the machining to get that thing true. And they were able to do it so long ago with just slide rules.
@@ffarmchicken Yes, and those slide rules were pretty versatile. I knew a mathematics prof at the U. of Minn. once who got terribly constipated when he was on Oxycodone after knee surgery. It was bad, but he was able to work it out with his slide rule!
@@gomerromer7708 Pencil
Imagine the guys sitting at a drafting table, using a slide rule and pencil to design all the moving parts that go into this awesome machine.
All this stuff, started as an idea in someones head, and had to be worked out on paper, before it was forged and milled in a foundry somewhere, then assembled.
That engineers brain, and imagination, are the most amazing things of all.
Can we see a picture of him please.
That is one primitive beast. I saw elsewhere it weights in at 140 tons. A 140 pound gas turbine could produce the same power.
A lot more than this was done with designs on paper and slide rules like the atom bomb, nuclear power plants and ships, or the mach 2+ airplanes of the 50's and 60's though by the mid 60's there was probably some very limited use of computers. I don't think CAD was a thing until at least the late 70's and probably not a full substitute for blueprints for another decade.
@@fuckyoutubengoogle2 Which is more efficient ?
A 12hp 150cc scooter
B 300hp 80,000 pound semi
@@davidpawson7393 Gee dude, what do you think?
@@davidpawson7393 My car's engine can achieve 38.5% efficiency which is probably far in excess of this old beast. Do you know what this engine does at best?
This engine was manufactured by the Snow-Holly Works of Buffalo, New York, and is serial number G329. It has two tandem 24 inch bore x 48 inch stroke cylinders that are double-acting. Total displacement is 86,800 cubic inches or 1,423 liters. The rated output of the engine is 600 hp at 100 RPM which yields a torque value of 31,500 ft-lbf.
truly a remarkable example of mechanical mayhem. The fact it still exists and runs is an amazing achievement.
Hoo-Ray to all volunteers and Museum staff for preserving this magnificent machine. I was sick for the 2021 show. Hope to attend next year. I live in North East, Pa., not far from Cool Spring.
An amazing piece of history. The tooling to build this must have incredible for the time
Built and maintained by oily men for 200 years. Great joy watching and listening to this marvelous engine. Then there is the smell of it.
Thank you for sharing this. It brings back memories of my earlier years. I operated two of these back in the early 70's. I worked at Weaver Compressor Station , Lucas Ohio. The ones we had were 8 cylinders, 4 on a side. Magnificent engines.
FAntastic! DO you have any photos from your experience there. I would love to see them!
dickinohio Amazon, but what is it for
We used them for pumping natural gas into and out of storage wells.
dickinohio thanks cause i was severely confused.
My parents get their heat and cooking gas out of the Weaver pumping station well!! Over by possum run rd
How can over 1200 people not like this? They must be jealous!
About stupid greens... 😟
I love this machine. It's astounding to watch its steel smoothness and wonderful rhythm. A great piece of technology, and excellent skill and true dedication in keeping it running.
😀 That’s a WORK OF ART!!! I ran large stationary diesel and gas engine electric generating plants from 1977 to 2000 and 2007 to 2017. Of all the engines I ran, we had two 1948 Nordberg 7 cylinder in line 4 stroke diesels. They were about 25to 30 feet long and 13 feet high from the bottom of the oil pan to the top of the rocker covers. 12 ton, 8’ diameter flywheel. Nominal speed 327 rpm. After closing the fuel racks it took a full 5 minutes for them to come to rest.
Modern technology is wonderful but the men that built these behemoths didn’t have computers, CNC and the like. They were impressive engineers!
Too bad this film wasn’t narrated. It would help a lot to explain the cam/valve mechanism, lubricators, governor, etc. Even with my background a little info would be helpful. Nonetheless, great video. I hope these old engines are preserved indefinitely!
Incredible. I could listen to that for hours
yes, i could watch porn for hours, too ... but maybe it is unhealthy ... too much ...
kind of song for my ears jaja
Wow! What a fascinating and huge machine! Love the sounds it makes, almost like it is alive!
It is Alive!
Absolutely love the sounds
@@lucyvalente8266 se de dedee de 3 wee 3 were ß SS s de wee e de wee ji hu hu hu यज्ञ गुघ दे
The sound that this magnificent engine makes is music to my ears.
Beat box
true, it even sighs like the people, women in the porn :D f*cking with all effects :D
@@Blackoutfor10days ,
The sound is music
Reminds me of Tchitty tchitty bang bang
A 63 year old Mech Eng from the UK here. What a wonderful machine. When engineers built to quality, not to price.
When things were built to work and keep working instead of fall apart so the owner needs to buy another every couple years...
Some dude builds a 6.4 and gets 600hp for 5 months before it ends up in a scrapyard. This thing makes 600 hp for 200 years and still runs like new.
My Tundra will still be running in 200 years.
Good luck fitting this in a car tho
They don't build them like they use too.
40,000ft.lbs. of torque!? Yeah, I don't think yer in the same league bud.
600 then is not like what they call 600 now. Torque
These big old engines always seem to have a nice beat.
It's called Ultra Low "rpm".
2:18
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letthebodieshittheFLOOR
@@dehoedisc7247 no, it's called stationary engine
Where's Fred Astaire when you need him.
Thats the beauty of sub-500 rpm.
Low speed, ultra high torque.
Great engineers.I love beautiful melodious sound of these engines.
Ich bin begeistert, ich mag diese Art von Technik, schön das so etwas erhalten und gepflegt wird
Thanks to the men who saved this engine. What an incredible piece of history.
what a master peace it make me feel proud that we as a human race is capable of such works and accomplishments. Bravo and thanks for showing this magnificent machine.
night watcher We make much more intricate and complex machines than that a car transmission has more parts inside it than that engine!!
White people
A nice piece .....
@@jimmeisch6654, true, and look who still appreciates it! lol
To think, some of their kids are playing video games and listening to fuckin rap. Turns my stomach. Merry Christmas though buddy!
Sometimes I think white people themselves are alien technology :D
-from India
I love the way this engine says "I love Schnitzel", "I love Schnitzel", "I love Schnitzel"....
and it's funny too
HAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! It does sound like it
It does indeed. I love schnitzel too
Great.... Jetzt hab ich hunger.... XD
@@shinichikudo7577 Javhol, meine freiunden!
I have always been fascinated by machinery of all kinds. These Snow engines are something else, and if you listen carefully you can here it whisper " I'm special, I'm special..."!
What a monster, genius.
And today you can handle a 600 hp engine with your hands.
Technic is incredible.
Does a modern engine have 39,000 ft lbs of torque on just cylinder pressure alone?
That machine sounds like a well-organized musical band greetings 🇵🇪🇵🇪
Such a beast of beauty it must never be left to expire at all costs you will never replicate it. I always dream of something smaller yet similar to have on my own property. I rebuilt a vertical steam engine and when asked why I went through so much by my significant other I merely sat in my chair and smiled as she runs doing nothing more
Bfarm 44 just sit there and smile at her is the best answer. Smart man!
My salute to the team, who together keep this horizontal engine in running condition in the era of high speed vertical engine.
I've watched the engine my self this year, beautiful museum! grt. from the Netherlands.
Clearly a high performance engine. It even has a roller cam!
And, they say a roller cam and rockers
are a new idea.
If I'm not mistaken, the exhaust valves are
water cooled.
I'd LOVE to visit, and see this engine running.
steve
Bruh it doesn’t even have v-tech!
POS.
What is a roller cam.
Evertech Gamer it’s called a google search engine... use it!
And it's direct injection too!
Wow...a truly amazing piece of machinery, and the most impressive scene is the close up of the moving crankshaft and connecting rod. Great video.
Amazing engine. Hats off to the staff that keeps her going. Not knowing anything about it's lubricating needs I would expect some lube on the lobes of the cam, the slides on the rod, and a few other areas where metal is rubbing metal. If my Grandfather was still alive he would be saying the same thing. He over greased all has farm equipment.
Roller Cam on this early technology what wonderful craftsmanship our true men and women had in the.past
Great job filming, you got all the stuff I would have looked at if I had been there!
Yes, great filming. Thanks for taking risk of being so close.
Verdade porque tem uns caras que filmam mal demais.
Indeed good video, shows all the interesting bits and takes the time for it.
These old engines are so cool! The most important thing to remember when looking at the horsepower is that back then, they used to measure how many horses it could replace, and a horse has roughly 13.5 horsepower, so multiply 600 by 13.5 and you get the modern horsepower of this engine.
pfff torque is the real deal here. A lot of torque!
Hardly... 1 HP is rather more than a horse can produce for any length of time on a gin, but not 13x. Go do the math- climb a flight of stairs, time yourself. 33 000 ft lb/min is 1 hp, and you can (on average) manage about 1/5th that at 1/10th the weight of a horse.
James Watt didn't want to be embarrassed by any hay burner. A 600 HP engine like this- well, it's no direct comparison, but if you pull an indicator card, do the area of the card using a planometer, to give MEP, then use PLAN/33000 thats your HP...which is 600 HP. It would take a bit more than 600 horses to do the work- probably 660, but not 13.5x the number. (3x, perhaps, because the engine doesn't get tired... but still not even close to 13 x)
If you put a horse on a dynamometer, they produce roughly 13.5 modern horsepower, back in the day though, horsepower was measured as 1 horse = 1 horsepower. Modern horsepower is calculated mathematically, rather than just, “This steam engine can replace 200 horses, it makes 200 horsepower.” Horsepower back then wasn’t calculated the same way.
@@jamespowell7302 this realistically produces something more along the lines of 700 horsepower, although it would have to be hooked up to a dynamometer to find out, and I don’t think anyone makes one that can handle 30-40 thousand lb-ft even at just 100 rpm
"The Horse Power Unit was introduced by James Watt, the great improver of the steam engine, for the purpose of calculating the power of his engines. He had ascertained by experiment that an average horse could develop 22 000 ft pounds of work per minute, and being anxious to give good value to the purchasers of his engines, he added 50% thus obtaining 33 000 ft lb/min which is the unit of horse power, by which the power of steam and other engines are estimated"
(A Text Book for Stationary Engineers, W.G. Beaver, 1933)
There is NO DIFFERENCE between a Horsepower in 1807, and 2022. A Horsepower is defined as 33 000 ft lb/min. Is, has been. (or .746 kw, if you are metric like I am...)
آج کے دور کا انسان گاڑی کو سلف سٹارٹ کرتا ھے اور دیکھتے ھی دیکھتے گاڑی اور جہاز آنکھوں سے اوجل ھو جاتے ھیں یہ سب کچھ نسل در نسل محنت کا نتیجہ ھے اور اللہ رب العالمین کی عطا ھے۔
Have seen the one in Florida operate many times! It’s a few minutes from my house. They are incredible and extremely powerful! The fly wheel is 12 tons!!!
How does it work? How many pistons, what's the displacement, what cycle it follows. Im curious to know friend
Where in Florida is it located?
Mark Failla It is located in Fort Meade, FL. Florida Flywheelers antique tractor club is the group who maintains and runs it. Look up Florida Flywheelers on Google and it will be on there.
Riju Mon It’s a twin cylinder four stroke. It fires on both side of the pistons. Not sure of displacement.
@@zaklynch1047 Thank you.
Great video, well filmed, captured all the components nicely.... thanks
Amazing! It sounds like a musical Symphony!
Magnificent! The energy that is moving that main rod back and forth must be huge!
What an amazing symphony of mechanical sounds!!!
What an amazing piece of heavy duty engineering. Great video.
Hey. hows going?
What an awesome machine of beauty! I could listen to this run all day...mmmm
Amazing I've seen scale models run and they are impressive enough but it is wonderful to see a full size in operation
Love these engines we have one of the last surviving twin tandem snow engines at the Buckley Old Engine Show. We currently have it turning on compressed air, but we are in the process of getting it running under its own power.
5.23.22. ……..Buckley Michigan™️❓
Just imagine the machines it took to build something this big.
The vertical turret lathe that turned that flyweel for instance! Big-boys! lol
@@oldnick4707 AMEN!
The Chester press in England.
a few large lathes and casting equipment.
@@oldnick4707 ke ujung
biggy shiggy boomp clack, biggy shiggy boomp clack, biggy shiggy boomp clack got a beat your can dance to!
@M14497 Yes, fires twice per revolution, all 4 ends in 720 degrees.
Just love the mechanical beauty of these engines.
The best tour of the snow engine I've seen to date! Well done thanks!😉
600hp 3 million torque! Awesome stuff.
Awesome machine! That's going in my big engine play list :)
Im a lifelong engineer and OH BOY I would love to see and hear this up close THATS MUSIC to an old engineers ears that would put me to sleep!
This is no machine
It's alive!
Love the beautiful sound and rhythm
I would like to see and hear her without al those people yelling and making noises!
Awesome engine, outstanding engineering!
beautiful sound it has
Chug Chug Thump, Chug Chug Thump
In a Local Historical Village there are some biggish old engines on display and running but they have a big fence around them for safety. Amazing how they are engineered so well and the huge flywheels are so true
Frankly, it is a wonderful thing ... Greetings and respect for all these heroes who designed these beautiful machines and have all the respect .. accuracy, efficiency and beauty and everything is perfect..As a thermal turbine engineer I loved this technology very..Thank you for all the creators
Could go to sleep to that rhythm, yessir.
Enough torque to shift Earth's rotation lol.
Is it true? I mean, please tell.
@@stifflery no not literally dude, it's kind of like a Chuck Norris joke.
@@stifflery hi
@@stifflery lol
Oh man don't say stuff like that. Some conspiracy dude will read it and go off on a rant, "That...THING, is causing GLOBAL WARMING!!!"🤣🤣
I just love the slow hissing these large old engiens make when they start up or run super slow
I can *feel* the sent of the lubricant oil
WOW, what a great and big technical time witness. Simply fantastic!
Very cool engine and video! Now I know what I am going to retrofit on the weed whacker when the engine dies.
This thing deserves a recording with no other sounds put in a mechanical sounds relaxation compilation. Or remixed into a techno / house mix. I'd be happy with both.
Amazing piece of engineering. Thanks for posting this.
It sounds like music! only true engine lovers will understand XD
Every engine sings its own song and this one is just singing to the oldies. Lol!
i agree with u its amazing music orchsrtra
in our village my grandfather owned a corn miller he put a salmon can on the exaust pipe it was making nice music to advertise the village people that the shop working i was a chiled and loved that ❤☺☺
@@ahmedshaheen8510 That's really cool! :0
@@bugatti_bolide3322 yes it was nice days ❤
Now it just needs 6 big train engine turbos on the intake and turn the fuel metering all the way up and watch this thing rev up to 500 rpm!!
Very Clever men - getting this wonderful machine working again. well done
Doesn't she sound just superb? Thank's, and what an engineering marvel!
Abençoado! E o mecanismo está até hoje! Essa mecânica é maravilhosa!
@Raimundo semelhante ao usado na funicular de Paranapiacaba.
you know everyone jokes about the whole doomsday scenarios and what not, and how the "preppers" are going to be the only well off ones, but i don't think that's true.
i think the real people who would be well off, and set to rebuild the world are these engineers who can make these old machines dance and sing in musical harmony :)
hahahahahahaha Are you smoking Opium?
Iiii
Such a marvelous piece of engineering just breathtaking .
I want one! Love these old engines. Don't build quality like this anymore.
The biggest wheel that I've ever seen.
Amazing how true that massive flywheel turns. Who were these people who could cast a 20 ton flywheel? Because they don't exist today around here... 600 HP and 100,000 Ft/Lbs of torque, maybe more. Great old machine!
We rarely _need_ these huge engines anymore, since we've moved on to different solutions. One of few exceptions is in cargo ships. those engines are on a similar impressive scale. (The Wärtsilä engines for example.)
ziiofswe I wonder who turned the 3000 MW rotors for the Three Gorges Damn in China.. Lots of applicable applications today other than steam engine flywheels . :)
surely it must have been machined after casting. and people back then had a lot of active experience in manufacturing large wheels since large flywheels for steam and gas engines or driving wheels for steam locomotives were in high demand
fla playa truly amazing especially since it's two seperate pieces.
There's actually videos on here of GIANT lathes. I've actually seen one of a lathe which machines the drive shaft for a cargo ship. The tool holder for that thing is actually a carriage which the operator sits on and drives it back and forth!
Beautiful
It's amazing to see it still working.
An amazing feat of engineering getting this old engine up and running. Well done!
Seriously doubt it ever wasn't in running condition.
You drop a tool or BODY in there,it wouldn't even hiccup.Amazing power for the technology at hand.Bigger is better,just look at my belly,lol
cams distribution amazing!
What a treasure, in one sentence old is gold!
It's surprising the little differences between this engine and it's twin in Rollag, MN. The splash shield on the end, gear driven lubricator instead of chain, the lubrication pipe in the rod support bearing between the cylinders, all very different. This one also runs faster, sounds like it has better rod seals in the heads. This one sounds better than the Rollag 600 Snow. Thanks for posting this video. Hope to make it out to Coolspring one of these years.
EnponAlbeno there’s one at Rollag? Where? I thought the DeLaVergne was the biggest engine there?
If I extend the frame some, I bet I can get this under the hood of my Honda!
That was nuckin' futz! I don't think it would be possible to have more ways to lose a finger, hand or arm even if that was the intended goal. An OSHA inspector would spontaneously combust if he walked into a plant and saw something like this running today! Very cool though...
BluntForceTrauma666 it's likely that an osha inspector or an epa inspector would immediately start asking where to pick up his bribe.
Back then you actually had to have your wits about you when you were near one of these beasts. "Safety guards? We don' need no steenkin' safety guards!"
Back when people were responsible enough to look out for themselves instead of having government hold their hand.
@s Hence, the reason there has been a population explosion. Too many fucking warning labels and not enough common sense. Take all the labels off and let Darwin sort it out.
Then by all means, invite the entire staff of OSHA over. Get some fire extinguishers first.
Still by far one of the coolest engines around. Beats the pants off my little Fairbanks Morse.
It's amazing to see how tech has grown, cause we have 600 horse power engines in 5-7 liters instead of 20+ liters
Grandpa was a genius!
Does it make ever lasting gobstoper's as well?
My comment exactly!
Ask an ompaloempa
ALWAYS return the Everlasting Gob-stopper!
Engineering is truly gentle and lovable
Reminds me of the sound of my moms old Montgomery ward electric can opener only on a larger scale.
Remember when your shop teacher told you not to wear any loose clothing or jewelry? This is why.
This is why smoking weed all day is not good
stromsky58 - not a problem, they could just stop the engine really quickly; shouldn’t take more than a few minutes.
Probably good idea to tie back long hair too. :o
@@trexmidnite In my highschool, I think the teachers probably smoked more weed than the students!
A magnificent machine.
Keep them tinkered up
And run another 80 to 100 years.
A job very well done.
Thanks
Bravo, volunteers! Thank you.
Music to my ears.
Wish someone could explain what everything is. Where is thexhaust?
If you take a look at second 50, you can see the camshaft in all it's extension. You will see the valve rockers. Those located at the upper side are related with the admission manifolds. The opposite rockers at the lower side controls the exhaust valves. The exhaust manifold is canalised under the engine.
Great video! Thank you for sharing this!!
Symphony for mechanical Engineers. Love from India Brothers.
2019: that engine will work perfectly on my bicycle.
Lmao
Why don't you use a car engine to run a fan in your house ?
There's a saying in cities that ask for a single idiot and hundreds line up .
@@devendrapurohit7300 OK happy divily thanks
@@devendrapurohit7300 bahi shokria
this is public clean rule
Love these big machines. Just wondering what it took to build them. How the shafts were made? How those big nuts were made?
On some big ass old lathes.. when labor was not much.
600 horsepower at 105 rpms = 30,011 ft lbs of torque (40,690 newton meters). They used 26 (!!!!) of these engines at a one pump station (circa 1920s) in western Pennsylvania to compress natural gas. The last time I was there, they were using it compress air to start other engines at the facility.
What an amazing engine. Thanks for sharing 👍☺️
Bored and/or frustrated housewives must not watch this. Seriously, I love the total disregard for personal safety exhibited in this video. "Ethel, look away Ethel!"
Lol i was thinking the same. That guy standing on a ladder against the wall next to the flywheel, and all the people on top of the engine ready to accidently fall between the moving metal parts. That was a near-horrorscene. But a nice heavy engine.
Natural selection. If you are unable to stop yourself from sticking your hand in the flywheel, you probably wouldn't have lasted long anyways!