My wife and I were attending an old tractor steam engine show and we were invited to step up on the back of a huge very old tractor so the owner could show us how it worked. He started it up and all of a sudden the engine started running faster and faster. The operator was doing his best to shut it down as it was clearly over revving and the whole thing was shaking like it was about to blow up. He finally got it shutdown and found that the fly weight governor had come loose. I certainly won't forget that day!
I don't have figures to give you, but the boilers on old steam traction engines are also subject to catastrophic failure. Steam engines on antique locomotives are subject to rigid inspection requirements under the Federal Railroad Administration. These rules do not apply to traction engines, even though their boilers are very similar to (if smaller than) railroad locomotives.
I think I know the feeling. I was sailing on a new to the museum Monterey Clipper (think SF Fisherman's Wharf at least 30 - 60 years ago when they were common). An early motor powered fishing boat once common in California. The engine went into runaway. This was a single cylinder make and break gas powered engine about 6 feet tall, hundreds of pounds, open crankshaft... of 8 HP. It was shaking itself apart. My friend dove below to fix the engine and I was left on deck alone having no experience with this boat. We were in close company with the park's other Monterey Clipper our about a 1/4 mile from shore. It was terrifying for a while. It was the valve control which functioned as the throttle that had come loose with wear and age. Could have punched a very big hole in the bottom of the boat or thrown stuff at us and we had no where to run. Fun times.
I was there and in the same parade he was and senior was there too , I was driving my little tractor an Economy All Gear drive 1970's Power King 1614 and yes I pulled the wagon in the parade too.
Most of us will never get to stand on the operators platform of a century old tractor, let alone go along for a ride and be able to steer such a large machine. Thanks for taking us on the parade lap and having Senior record the event. That massive radiator really restricted the forward view. The D2's will seem like lawn tractors after muscling that big beast.
I've been hooked on old large tractors ever since I went to the Steam & Gas show in Cumming GA and seen 110 Case steam traction engine. Now almost every year I make the drive to the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion from Athens GA. Hope.to.have a steam tractor one day to run my Frick sawmill with. Will be great with my other old iron like my D8G 15A dozer and International 175C track loader
I love the old stories of these Prairie Giants. I think it was some big farm in Canada that had 8 or more big Aultman Taylor 30-60 tractors to open the prairies. In some instances essentially 2 people operated all of them. 0ne would be on each end of a field. These fields would be miles long by the way. But every 10-15 minutes they would start one tractor down the field plowing. Drop the guide into the furrow and jump off letting the tractor do its thing. Then they would go get the next tractor ready and get it started down the furrow doing it's thing chasing the previous tractor. Once they got all 4 or 6 (whatever number really) goingto the other end they would head over to the other side of the field. As one tractor came in they would "catch" it and raise the plows at the end and drive the tractor over to the other side of the field. Once it was headed back to the far end of the field they were ready to catch another coming in. Repeating this over and over until that section of Prairie was plowed under. I would just love to see that.
One thing I remember from old schoolers who actually had contact with these machines. They said: once you got it running you did not stop the engine until the workday was over.
My Great Granddad purchased a 12-25 Avery in 1915. The 40-80 is essentially a much larger version of the 12-25, 2 cylinder opposed engine, sliding frame transmission, chain steering, etc. the radiator was the old style exhaust venturi (locomotive style). Cool 😎 monster tractor. 👍
very similar to the Hunter Valley steam fest here in Australia, only thing is we have old steam loco's, steam tractors, stationary engines etc and sadly our government rules wont allow non qualified persons onboard to operate them its a sad thing but still nice to see old machinery still being operated to this day, thank you Squatch for showing these classics to us all
Since Peoria, Illinois was "The Whiskey Capital of the World" at the time of those tractors production. It is very possible the barrel cooperages also made other products. Hiram Walker had the worlds largest distillery in Peoria on the Illinois River, distillery still there, now producing ethanol. Squatch you need to come visit Peoria, and tour Caterpillar track type tractor too. I'll buy dinner.
That's a huge tractor it was nice seeing you driving some on steel wheels it's a good thing that it goes so slow with all of the slack in the steering linkage
Hi, just stumbled on your post. My Grandpa broke ground in northeastern Montana near the Missouri river at Three Buttes Ranch. He pulled a 12 bottom plow behind his 40-80. His was a little earlier as it had the earlier style radiator. Also he employed a steering device. I've only been able to get a clear picture of that, but once you had a furrow it followed it automatically. I have an early picture of him sitting on the cab running the belt for the thrashing machine. I wish I could post that photo, it's pretty good! Let me know how and I will
I've got a prairie tractor on my wish list, probably won't be that big but I will have one!!....You need to update your tractor driving apparel if you're gonna keep driving those! 😉😂
At the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum in Vista, CA I measured the large drive wheels on one at just over 90" diameter. Lots of old tractors of all sorts there, some in running condition and many are simply being saved from being scrapped. Fun place to visit if you're in the San Diego area.
Man that’s a great array of vintage tractors! You know! Maybe that red tractor from Peoria Illinois sourced the same manufacturer that made the same wooden cab that you found for your D2! Since they both where manufactured in Peoria Illinois! What you think? Great video Squatch!👌😎👍
The undersides of the roof on your cab and the Avery cab are very reminiscent of the underside of porch roofs on many old houses. They are also similar to the inside of the roofs on enclosed buggies I have seen.
Averyville was a part of Peoria just south of War Memorial Drive just east of the Illinois river. I don’t know where the factory was but will try to find out. Thanks for the video.Steve
The steering effort didn't look too bad when moving, amazing machines.. i think you might be on to something about the canopies being from the same maker. It would be interesting to see a Thomas register from back then.
@@dans_Learning_Curve Have to allow some slack for the axle to pivot a little to follow the terrain And a fair amount of the slack is just in the linkage from the wheel to the drum To say they're rough is an understatement Standard practice in the day but dam was
@@squatch253 you mentioned the design of the roof. Very similar to the design of the very early steam locomotives with wooden cabs. Wouldn’t be surprised if one wasn’t inspired by the other. Thanks for the video, those giant prairie tractors are cool.
My Great Grandfather had an Avery. I have a picture of him and his sisters and in the background you can see a very faint image of the Avery. Somewhere I have a news clipping telling of him buying the tractor.
What an amazing old machine. Clutches were common enough on various types of machinery in that era that you wonder why the designers thought that sliding the whole engine back and forth was an optimal solution to engaging and disengaging the engine from the drivetrain. Is there more than one gear?
There is a similar shindig in Denton NC on 4th of July weekend that has scads of the same stuff which includes some stationary steam engines plus some peculiarly southern machinery such as a cotton bale reducing press. If you're ever in a position to attend, don't miss it. Even has a working steam locomotive 🎉
this video had my attention entirely, such an amazing machine to watch from the drivers cab and how everyone at work to operate it was constantly moving and making sure things where right. Simply Amazing
Squatch I smiled liked a fat kid in a candy store watching this video! I live watching those old machines work. They all have a unique sound. Great video Squatch! Cheers
I noticed that the under side of the canopy was yellow. Like you said they probably outsourced it. Or someone liked the color scheme Thanks for sharing
The Avery would barely even notice as it ran over a golf cart 😀. You can take a fair bit of the slack out of the steering by carefully fitting the worm to the drive gear, taking up any play on the worm gear thrust bearings, tightening the chains and using heavy springs at the axle end, to absorb kick back rather than slack chains. I assume it is similar to a traction engine, where that is used tp take out slack on chain steering.
Most of the guys who drove those probably grew up walking behind a team of oxen or horses, so that spring loaded platform probably seemed like the lap of luxury. I would not be surprised at all if they were sourcing those cabs from a common supplier, or from several similar suppliers. That was kinda what happened to the carriage/wagon industry when cars and tractors became a thing. Companies like Brewster and Demarest starting producing luxury car bodies. Some early cars were shipped as a running gear and engine, and you took it to your local buggy shop to have a body built. I wouldn't be surprised if wagon builders started building tractor cabs.
That looks like a pre 1930s collection and also your friend who's restoring the D4 and has the I guess it's an international or a case gasoline power tractor can't remember his TH-cam name right now but he did some footage here too so I get double dose when I watch yours and his video
The last time I watched one of your videos it seems like you had about 5,000 subscribers. Quite a jump and it doesn't seem like it's been all that long ago
Got the opportunity a few years ago to steer an old Baker steam engine. Was trying not to act like a kid in a candy store at the opportunity. Definitely a unique experience. Love those old big wheel tractors. Dog simple but oxen powerful.
Look at Squatch go on that big prairie tractor! You look right at home on one of those. Are you going to get your own prairie tractor to use around your homestead? 🇺🇲🚜👍
Much like steam trains, you don't see how big the wheels etc actually are on a video or photo, even with people standing next to it, unless you are standing next to it yourself! You're more than six foot tall, so these must be at least eight feet in diameter, and I guess the wheels on that 150 case that Kenny Kizzle featured must be 10 foot or more in diameter - and it pulled 50 bottoms! That is Mega! Great to see these old beasts still living and breathing, thank you for sharing.
Nice looked like fun! Bet it was as a work out! But back in its day was even harder to do it all day long! But thing is they did not know ! They thought they were really in the tall cotton on get work done!
That ceiling looks like tounge and groove beaded porch ceiling, a pretty common product back then. I would guess that a company that built wooden railroad cars probably made those enclosures. Just guessing?
Watching steam engines is the only time you'll see turtles running around them while they're moving along. 😀😃🙂 They aren't very fast, but they sure are slow! Lol 😆 😆 😆
2:25 these were the leftovers of the carriage industry (i say leftovers because by then they had quite a lot of automotive projects). If you look at old magazines of the era, you'll see tons upon tons of ads for stuff along the lines of (i'm making this ad up from memory) "buy our wheels, the best wheels, the Wheelson wheels" or "our highest quality canopy. The canopies made by Canopison & Co." And if you do extra digging, you'll then find the same companies (looking through carriage and alike magazines of the era before) making bespoke tops and wheels and such. I chased the Chase company's history, for which there's little truth online, you basically have to piece it together through period info, and thus came across a lot of stuff like that. Big companies would either outright buy the smaller outfit (in what was then actual corporate raiding, not "buying themselves out of obsolescence" like they do today when they're so incompetent they can't even float without buying the "enemy" so they can float on that for a while) for their craftsmen, tooling, quality and incorporate that into their products, in some cases, even allowing the outfit to work independently still (but rarely). Those were the times before the pathetic lessons of Bernard London and the absolute trash borne from them. Good times, that's the era i wish i was born into, because by God and country... there were some smart people back then. Like genuinely born smart people who had to make do with a barebones industry to come up with whatever firefly of an idea came through their head. Late 1800's to early 1900's were the thing.
That looked like a standard residential house and a church nearby are you just going through somebody's neighborhood and having a parade and everybody's coming out and enjoying it
It’s interesting to see just how much technology in these tractors is carried over from steam tractors. Like the fly ball governor, the chain steering, and straight cut gear drive system.
My wife and I were attending an old tractor steam engine show and we were invited to step up on the back of a huge very old tractor so the owner could show us how it worked. He started it up and all of a sudden the engine started running faster and faster. The operator was doing his best to shut it down as it was clearly over revving and the whole thing was shaking like it was about to blow up. He finally got it shutdown and found that the fly weight governor had come loose. I certainly won't forget that day!
Yikes!
I don't have figures to give you, but the boilers on old steam traction engines are also subject to catastrophic failure. Steam engines on antique locomotives are subject to rigid inspection requirements under the Federal Railroad Administration. These rules do not apply to traction engines, even though their boilers are very similar to (if smaller than) railroad locomotives.
I think I know the feeling. I was sailing on a new to the museum Monterey Clipper (think SF Fisherman's Wharf at least 30 - 60 years ago when they were common). An early motor powered fishing boat once common in California. The engine went into runaway. This was a single cylinder make and break gas powered engine about 6 feet tall, hundreds of pounds, open crankshaft... of 8 HP. It was shaking itself apart. My friend dove below to fix the engine and I was left on deck alone having no experience with this boat. We were in close company with the park's other Monterey Clipper our about a 1/4 mile from shore. It was terrifying for a while. It was the valve control which functioned as the throttle that had come loose with wear and age. Could have punched a very big hole in the bottom of the boat or thrown stuff at us and we had no where to run. Fun times.
Forget pony motors just use your farmall!
It's quite different seeing you drive something with steel wheels haha, thanks Squatch
@@squatch253 our local show is the same way, quite a few machines don't make the parade because there aren't enough drivers
I was there and in the same parade he was and senior was there too , I was driving my little tractor an Economy All Gear drive 1970's Power King 1614 and yes I pulled the wagon in the parade too.
Most of us will never get to stand on the operators platform of a century old tractor, let alone go along for a ride and be able to steer such a large machine. Thanks for taking us on the parade lap and having Senior record the event. That massive radiator really restricted the forward view. The D2's will seem like lawn tractors after muscling that big beast.
@@squatch253 "Now that I have more time available....." What changed? Inquiring minds want to know!
@@squatch253 oh, you're part time at the dealership?
Bad Wolf couldn't have said it better himself 🙂
I know you have plenty of projects on the go, but it would be incredibly interesting to see you do a rebuild of something like this
I've been hooked on old large tractors ever since I went to the Steam & Gas show in Cumming GA and seen 110 Case steam traction engine. Now almost every year I make the drive to the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion from Athens GA. Hope.to.have a steam tractor one day to run my Frick sawmill with. Will be great with my other old iron like my D8G 15A dozer and International 175C track loader
I love the old stories of these Prairie Giants. I think it was some big farm in Canada that had 8 or more big Aultman Taylor 30-60 tractors to open the prairies. In some instances essentially 2 people operated all of them. 0ne would be on each end of a field. These fields would be miles long by the way. But every 10-15 minutes they would start one tractor down the field plowing. Drop the guide into the furrow and jump off letting the tractor do its thing. Then they would go get the next tractor ready and get it started down the furrow doing it's thing chasing the previous tractor. Once they got all 4 or 6 (whatever number really) goingto the other end they would head over to the other side of the field. As one tractor came in they would "catch" it and raise the plows at the end and drive the tractor over to the other side of the field. Once it was headed back to the far end of the field they were ready to catch another coming in. Repeating this over and over until that section of Prairie was plowed under. I would just love to see that.
One thing I remember from old schoolers who actually had contact with these machines. They said: once you got it running you did not stop the engine until the workday was over.
My Great Granddad purchased a 12-25 Avery in 1915. The 40-80 is essentially a much larger version of the 12-25, 2 cylinder opposed engine, sliding frame transmission, chain steering, etc. the radiator was the old style exhaust venturi (locomotive style). Cool 😎 monster tractor. 👍
3 man job! You steering, the other fella operating the clutch, and Senior filming all of it. Thanks Squatch!
I got to this show maybe 15 years ago. It was a great show then, but it's really grown! Great video!
Great tractor sounds!
You know when to shut up!
AND NO MUSIC!!!
I enjoyed the video.
My favorite part of Albany is watching them fire up the equipment. Thank you Squatch.
very similar to the Hunter Valley steam fest here in Australia, only thing is we have old steam loco's, steam tractors, stationary engines etc and sadly our government rules wont allow non qualified persons onboard to operate them its a sad thing but still nice to see old machinery still being operated to this day, thank you Squatch for showing these classics to us all
Aaahh, the Good Ole Galopiter Galopiter Machine in action, wonderful, thankyou.
Since Peoria, Illinois was "The Whiskey Capital of the World" at the time of those tractors production. It is very possible the barrel cooperages also made other products.
Hiram Walker had the worlds largest distillery in Peoria on the Illinois River, distillery still there, now producing ethanol.
Squatch you need to come visit Peoria, and tour Caterpillar track type tractor too. I'll buy dinner.
That's a huge tractor it was nice seeing you driving some on steel wheels it's a good thing that it goes so slow with all of the slack in the steering linkage
And it's a medium class. There were bigger, much bigger. There's a reason they used to be called land trains even in the petrol era.
All those prairie tractors are worth an absolute fortune. Unreal what they have been bringing at auction recently
Thanks for taking the time and sharing the experience.👍
I Love the ol' iron, I can't seem to get enough.
Both cat and Avery were based in Peoria Illinois. Highly likely they were sourcing cab roofs at the same place
That beautiful back ground popping at the start of the video. Music to my ears!😆😆
Glad you got out and enjoyed the show, and had some Squatch time.
Hi, just stumbled on your post. My Grandpa broke ground in northeastern Montana near the Missouri river at Three Buttes Ranch. He pulled a 12 bottom plow behind his 40-80. His was a little earlier as it had the earlier style radiator. Also he employed a steering device. I've only been able to get a clear picture of that, but once you had a furrow it followed it automatically. I have an early picture of him sitting on the cab running the belt for the thrashing machine. I wish I could post that photo, it's pretty good! Let me know how and I will
I was driving a B Farmall in the parade and saw the belt start. Good to talk to you and Senior on Friday.
That Avery is a 4 cylinder opposed engine. Look closely there's 4 intake valves in the block and 4 exhaust valves in the heads. It's an F-head design.
I've got a prairie tractor on my wish list, probably won't be that big but I will have one!!....You need to update your tractor driving apparel if you're gonna keep driving those! 😉😂
@@squatch253 A white shirt on a tractor of that era wouldn't end well 🤣
Did a little reading on the 40/80. The article said that one on good condition can fetch over $100,000 at auction. Very rare tractor.
At the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum in Vista, CA I measured the large drive wheels on one at just over 90" diameter. Lots of old tractors of all sorts there, some in running condition and many are simply being saved from being scrapped. Fun place to visit if you're in the San Diego area.
I live southeast of San Diego and I am hoping to get to the Vista museum on the first weekend of its fall show October 15-16.
You talking about the steam tractors or the aultman Taylor or the rumely
This is a real "stand up" tractor.
Loved the startup in the old iron with the belt drive. They don’t have a “pony motor”, they have a “pony tractor”!!!!!
Man that’s a great array of vintage tractors! You know! Maybe that red tractor from Peoria Illinois sourced the same manufacturer that made the same wooden cab that you found for your D2! Since they both where manufactured in Peoria Illinois! What you think? Great video Squatch!👌😎👍
The undersides of the roof on your cab and the Avery cab are very reminiscent of the underside of porch roofs on many old houses. They are also similar to the inside of the roofs on enclosed buggies I have seen.
Averyville was a part of Peoria just south of War Memorial Drive just east of the Illinois river. I don’t know where the factory was but will try to find out. Thanks for the video.Steve
probably where komatsu is now
@@bcouri1 Perhaps before it was LeTourneau although Let. Was there a very long time.
I have that same wood in my house from 1911. The slack in the steering reminds me of my old 1956 chevy.
The steering effort didn't look too bad when moving, amazing machines.. i think you might be on to something about the canopies being from the same maker. It would be interesting to see a Thomas register from back then.
@@squatch253 couldn't the steering chains be adjusted? Put a turnbuckle in to take up the slop?
@@dans_Learning_Curve
Have to allow some slack for the axle to pivot a little to follow the terrain
And a fair amount of the slack is just in the linkage from the wheel to the drum
To say they're rough is an understatement
Standard practice in the day but dam was
@@squatch253 you mentioned the design of the roof. Very similar to the design of the very early steam locomotives with wooden cabs. Wouldn’t be surprised if one wasn’t inspired by the other. Thanks for the video, those giant prairie tractors are cool.
My Great Grandfather had an Avery. I have a picture of him and his sisters and in the background you can see a very faint image of the Avery. Somewhere I have a news clipping telling of him buying the tractor.
What an amazing old machine. Clutches were common enough on various types of machinery in that era that you wonder why the designers thought that sliding the whole engine back and forth was an optimal solution to engaging and disengaging the engine from the drivetrain. Is there more than one gear?
There is a similar shindig in Denton NC on 4th of July weekend that has scads of the same stuff which includes some stationary steam engines plus some peculiarly southern machinery such as a cotton bale reducing press. If you're ever in a position to attend, don't miss it. Even has a working steam locomotive 🎉
this video had my attention entirely, such an amazing machine to watch from the drivers cab and how everyone at work to operate it was constantly moving and making sure things where right. Simply Amazing
Would love to hear that working hard pulling an implement.
Good seeing you and Sr out picking Cats parts at Pioneer days swap meet. Keep the content rolling. 1st time commenting, long time viewer.
Squatch I smiled liked a fat kid in a candy store watching this video! I live watching those old machines work. They all have a unique sound. Great video Squatch! Cheers
I noticed that the under side of the canopy was yellow. Like you said they probably outsourced it.
Or someone liked the color scheme
Thanks for sharing
The Avery would barely even notice as it ran over a golf cart 😀. You can take a fair bit of the slack out of the steering by carefully fitting the worm to the drive gear, taking up any play on the worm gear thrust bearings, tightening the chains and using heavy springs at the axle end, to absorb kick back rather than slack chains. I assume it is similar to a traction engine, where that is used tp take out slack on chain steering.
Fun!
Thank you for sharing this!
Quite the machine! Looking down on those more modern tractors as you went by… Please don’t get under the wheel!
Super geeking out. It was like I was right there with you.
Thanks for bringing us along for the ride!!
Never been to that show but it looks amazing. If they feature allis chalmers and I might have to go
I went to an event similar to this one with my dad and older brother. That must have been over 65 years ago! 👍
WOW! This is fantastic! Love it!
The inside of that cab kind of looks like the one on my 1923 Ford TT truck.
Love it! I am glad you didn't have a runaway with that beast.
@@squatch253 no brakes so it could roll down a hill on it's own?
Awesome tractor and a great show wish I could see it in person thanks for sharing buddy
Very cool that you had the opportunity to drive it! You won't be breaking any land speed records! Thanks for sharing!
Most of the guys who drove those probably grew up walking behind a team of oxen or horses, so that spring loaded platform probably seemed like the lap of luxury. I would not be surprised at all if they were sourcing those cabs from a common supplier, or from several similar suppliers. That was kinda what happened to the carriage/wagon industry when cars and tractors became a thing. Companies like Brewster and Demarest starting producing luxury car bodies. Some early cars were shipped as a running gear and engine, and you took it to your local buggy shop to have a body built. I wouldn't be surprised if wagon builders started building tractor cabs.
4 cylinders on the Avery, not 2. It's an F-head configuration where one valve for each cylinder is overhead and one is flathead.
That looks like a pre 1930s collection and also your friend who's restoring the D4 and has the I guess it's an international or a case gasoline power tractor can't remember his TH-cam name right now but he did some footage here too so I get double dose when I watch yours and his video
The last time I watched one of your videos it seems like you had about 5,000 subscribers. Quite a jump and it doesn't seem like it's been all that long ago
Got the opportunity a few years ago to steer an old Baker steam engine. Was trying not to act like a kid in a candy store at the opportunity. Definitely a unique experience.
Love those old big wheel tractors. Dog simple but oxen powerful.
WOW. I love those tractors.
Look at Squatch go on that big prairie tractor! You look right at home on one of those. Are you going to get your own prairie tractor to use around your homestead? 🇺🇲🚜👍
That's one impressive beast! Thanks for taking us along.
That Avery must have been nice back in the day.
That was a cool parade 😎
Excellent video and filming quality. It's nice to have multiple vantage points too... the cab view was fun. Thanks for sharing!
When Avery went broke, Caterpillar moved into some of its vacated buildings in Peoria, IL/
"great video" back when that machine was built. if it got stuck in a muddy field, it would be very interesting to see, how they would pull it out!
Much like steam trains, you don't see how big the wheels etc actually are on a video or photo, even with people standing next to it, unless you are standing next to it yourself! You're more than six foot tall, so these must be at least eight feet in diameter, and I guess the wheels on that 150 case that Kenny Kizzle featured must be 10 foot or more in diameter - and it pulled 50 bottoms! That is Mega! Great to see these old beasts still living and breathing, thank you for sharing.
What would something like that do to the fields? I would love to see one of those working a field .The rows would have to be 4 feet apart.😉
Next year I’ll have to drive down there! I’ve always wanted to go but never been able to get a ride
What a opportunity 🎉 too drive 🇺🇸
Wow! What a big piece of metal. I noticed you had your hat on backwards due to the high speed you were going.😂
Nice looked like fun! Bet it was as a work out! But back in its day was even harder to do it all day long! But thing is they did not know ! They thought they were really in the tall cotton on get work done!
That’s a joy to behold. The spinning globe device (throttle governor?) are glorious. The always make me see the birth of Frankenstein’s monster.
The regular tractors looked like toys 😀
The bigger old tractors always amaze me.
Ive heard the early machines had trouble making the final drive cogs last.Does anyone know much about that?
That ceiling looks like tounge and groove beaded porch ceiling, a pretty common product back then. I would guess that a company that built wooden railroad cars probably made those enclosures. Just guessing?
Essentially that's a boxer engine then same style of engine they used to put in vw's Porsches and in Subaru .
Awesome vidio, thank you
That is one sweet running old engine 💪 would be interesting to see that hooked up to one of the big trailing ploughs great video 👍
I saw you and your dad on Saturday in the parade
Great Video 😊
Wow! I could listen to that all day. Love the two gears, forwards and backwards. Was it a 'general' tractor or was it designed for a specific job?
WOW!
Watching steam engines is the only time you'll see turtles running around them while they're moving along. 😀😃🙂 They aren't very fast, but they sure are slow! Lol 😆 😆 😆
2:25 these were the leftovers of the carriage industry (i say leftovers because by then they had quite a lot of automotive projects). If you look at old magazines of the era, you'll see tons upon tons of ads for stuff along the lines of (i'm making this ad up from memory) "buy our wheels, the best wheels, the Wheelson wheels" or "our highest quality canopy. The canopies made by Canopison & Co." And if you do extra digging, you'll then find the same companies (looking through carriage and alike magazines of the era before) making bespoke tops and wheels and such.
I chased the Chase company's history, for which there's little truth online, you basically have to piece it together through period info, and thus came across a lot of stuff like that. Big companies would either outright buy the smaller outfit (in what was then actual corporate raiding, not "buying themselves out of obsolescence" like they do today when they're so incompetent they can't even float without buying the "enemy" so they can float on that for a while) for their craftsmen, tooling, quality and incorporate that into their products, in some cases, even allowing the outfit to work independently still (but rarely).
Those were the times before the pathetic lessons of Bernard London and the absolute trash borne from them. Good times, that's the era i wish i was born into, because by God and country... there were some smart people back then. Like genuinely born smart people who had to make do with a barebones industry to come up with whatever firefly of an idea came through their head. Late 1800's to early 1900's were the thing.
Awesome machine
Balls Out govenor. I haven't seen one in some time.
What a great sounding engine!
Hi Squatch
I was driving the IHC tractor right behind you int the parade
If you are arond when the Avery gets wheel spin, run for your life!
I seen you driving the Avery , if you had asked I had a tape measure you could have used.
I mean, it's immediately obvious that that there tractor is a development from the Avery Steam Traction Engines of the early 1900s.
So, does the reverser move the engine and add a gear in the lineup or work more like a more modern transmission?
That looked like a standard residential house and a church nearby are you just going through somebody's neighborhood and having a parade and everybody's coming out and enjoying it
@@squatch253 thanks for responding have an excellent day
Wainscoting on the cab roof. Can you imagine it stuck. No thanks. Haha
I assume that these machines were mainly used statically to drive other machines, such as a threshing mill. I can't imagine plowing a field with that.
Awesome
It’s interesting to see just how much technology in these tractors is carried over from steam tractors. Like the fly ball governor, the chain steering, and straight cut gear drive system.
I was thinking the same thing, especially the steering.
Very cool
Squatch is the little balls spinning around the governor?
@@squatch253 thanks for the explanation. I had always thought that but never had anyone to ask!