I was born in 1940 grew up in London and the guy in the house opposite was a steam engine fireman, he took me into the steam yards a couple of times to pick up his wages. There were engines everywhere getting cleaned and steamed up, though I didn't know any of this at such a young age. My father was employed in tunnel construction and was build 7 paralle tunnels on the twin track Northern railway route from London to Scotland. These would enable twin track running in both directions. My uncle had a farm in North Wales and I'd be put on a train at Paddington London and met by my uncle at Wrexham. He ploughed with horses and it was my nephews job to water them down and feed them at the end of each day. So they would stand in the pond for an hour or so and we would clean them down, those old boys would turn around as you finished each quarter. They could plough a field and no need to tell them anything. Then on one trip uncle told me he had bought a Grey Ferguson tractor well I started crying as in London the milk float horses had been replaced with electric and the horses put down. On arriving at the farm I was releaved to see them retired to the orchard, now I could enjoy learning to drive a tractor. One day I asked what the huge stone blocks and cast iron corners were on all the farm building, uncle told me it was to help steer the steam engines that came to plough the fields. They would ride the side of the wheel up and kick the machine sideways. Two would set up at each side of the field and winch the plough across using long ropes, a smaller version plough than you have shown. It would be turned and the other engine would winch it back and so on. This method proved troublesome and expensive so horses were used again, steam wagons were used to transport produce the market and Liverpool docks, so the kick corners still had a use. My first job was assisting the engineers take measurements on an old steam train tunnel that was being enlarged for electrification. So in my life I seen the end of horse, steam power, Concorde and my brain to remember telephone numbers. But you have stirred my memories of steam, so thank you very much for that.
i used to ride one about 30 years ago, getting your ticket punched by the conductor, the wooo wooooooo, it's a fantastic experience that younger generations are missing out on
@@paddington1670 you do know you can still sometimes ride a steam train railway museums sometimes do special tours or there are museal railways where only steam trains drive so if you want to you can still do it even today
You can tell she's feeling good. No misfires or odd sounds. Just the sound of constant and un-yielding power. Yep, they can be cranky and cantankerous, but when they sound as good as this one does, they sound great. Great video.
@@mablo88123 Unless you've worked as a fireman on a steam engine, as I have, its hard to explain. Its more like a temporary loss of power, when you get a clog in your main steam valve. And you are able to blow it out or dislodge it by going full power. That's the best I can describe it. Had it happen on a engine I was working on back in 83, when I was fireman on a, cant remember what engine it was. But the clog cleared and that was that.
@@mablo88123 I just remembered what my Uncle called it. A cough, when your main steam line got clogged and the sound it made when it cleared. Yeah. Sorry it took me so long to remember.
@@INSERTNAMEjoe These really aren't trains though, they're called traction engines, also known as road locomotives. Which actually brings up another point being that the image most people think of when they hear the word "train" isn't a train either. They too are locomotives, steam engines, diesel engines, etc. The train is actually the consist of carriages the locomotive is hauling.
Yeah, this is a relatively recent reproduction. If I remember right only 8 150hp case steam tractors were ever built, and none had survived in preservation.
@@jpsholland far as I'm aware it was built to the original specifications and approved by Case themselves, so it can technically be called an original, just one built numerous decades after.
My grandfather was a Case traction engine dealer in the 1900's, his shop still stands today with the high swing doors and the floor 2 feet of concrete. Wish I could go back in time for just one day
What an incredible machine. Imagine growing up with no technology, and one day this beast shows up to your farming town, and does half the towns yearly plowing in a day.
Absolutely incredible torque on this beast, the designer's knew their stuff, one EMP over us and steam will be back for a few decades till the grid is back on line. Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you very much for preserving this outstanding tractor.
Just wondering how that would handle a small to medium hill. It’s an amazing piece of machinery good to see it working so well and in pristine condition.
You don´t go from "a man, a horse and single furrow plough" to this. There´d be steps in between. 2-3-4-12 furrow ploughs and steam engines in slowly increasing sizes and power.
@@testy462 Never in a million years. Think. You´d need enormous amounts of cash to buy that thing. That would mean that you´d be educated and that your "farm" is actually a huge enterprise. It would also mean that you rode the steam locomotive dozens or hundreds of times and that would also mean that other enterprises near you also use steam power and have used steam power for a long time already. There is literally no way in hell that you would be able to go from a single furrow plough to that thing. No way. Lol. Think for just one second, please.
@@martialme84 Thanks for your input, I respect such info from the people that were actually there and witnessed these sorts of historical events first hand, cheers.
@@scottn9492 those coal soot emissions soaking in to the soil, ending up on the crops are known to cause cancer everywhere. Kinda like how tetraethel lead from leaded gas coated crops for decades giving all Americans a dose of lead with every meal.
@@Hellosecsi Just look around you. You see it everyday. Most engines today have a barrel, piston and balance wheel. Just that it´s exploding fuel that makes things going instead of steam.
This video literally needs to be on Modern Marvels.....just a little biased i am! Was an absolute honor to get to be a small part of the history of this amazing steam traction engine. When we filmed the very first pull of 24 bottoms at her unveiling two years ago, I knew then that this plow would grow… And adding 12 bottoms this year, or 50%!!! to the pull, she had just as much power in reserve on Friday 9/11 as she did two years ago on September 7. I smell 50 bottoms in the near future… If Jim Briden has anything to do with it! Hats off to an amazing engineering feat Kory and the downright undying sticktuitiveness to get it done!!!!
That old Case didn't even break a sweat pulling the 36 bottom John Deere sled. I love to see old machinery still swingin it like they did 100 years ago
Something like this may have been the inspiration for Mortal Engines. "Hey, what's all that smoke over in the field?" "Torque." "How many does it take to make it actually work hard?" "We haven't found the answer."
Do keep in mind that there is a lot of survivorship bias. The old equipment you see running are only the most high quality and durable, being the only ones that survived without breaking down. This does not mean old equipment is better than new equipment, as the crappy stuff has already been scrapped from the old equipment while the crappy stuff still remains in the new equipment simply because the new equipment has not been "selected" by heavy use over a long time period. Therefore, I predict that the higher quality new stuff will stand the test of time, similarly to how this old technology did.
@@mr.slaphappy3794 the good ones can have their electronics replaced and upgraded. Even the steam tractors need things like valve replacement and scale removal after a while.
@theykilledthegiggler what you are thinking of isn't the best modern hardware. The replacement of old electronics and mechanics with new ones happens even in older things (for example the B52 bomber or the M60 tank, which are still in service with major updates). The stuff that survives will be the ones that are easily upgraded and renewed, as not all modern vehicles have that downfall of running out of parts since some can easily be tweaked to accept better, newer parts.
You can hear it load up pretty hard sometimes. I don't think you could double this. The engine already weighs so much, it's probably not going to have traction issues, the problem is its a fixed gearset. It doesn't have multiple gear reduction to choose from and sooner or later your not going to have the force to pull the plow.
The town I grew up in had a steam weekend every year. The Threshermans Show was a great time for everyone. Thousands of people come with horses,mules and wagons. Everyone camped out and had fun. Unfortunately, like everything else it was ruined. All of the municipalities started wanting a bigger cut of the money it brought in. Police swarmed it so they could write tickets for parking, open containers and public intoxication. After a couple of years nobody wanted to come because it looked more like a prison camp than a festival. Now if a hundred people come it’s considered a good day. Nothing like the good old police state in the US.
When I was young me and by brothers would sit on the plow because it wasn’t going deep enough into the ground , now days that would be considered child endangerment
I rode on the back of the beet planter keeping corn stalks from locking up the packer wheels and filling gandy boxes on the run so my dad never had to shut down. I had to hang on like hell to that steel seat when the three point lifted and we swung around on the ends.
What a beautiful example of raw engineering at its finest, I love going to traction engine fairs, they are a good reminder of where our present day evolved from. Back in the days when this was first introduced it must have been amazing to see such a massive amount of cultivation being done in such a short space of time. The funny thing is people still think the steam age came to an end but it didn’t, we just adapted how we use it, instead of driving machines with it we produce electricity with it, to this day all electricity in the world is still made by producing steam to drive a mechanical device.
@@jeffc6268 I can't confirm this for certain at the moment but my grandfather worked on steam engines and locomotives in the early 1900's and while idk about this exact machine your looking at anywhere from 4000. -6000 ftlb for similar sized boilers based on what it looks in the video, I sure wish he was still alive to tell me all about this thing, and that's at approx 70 rpm if I recall correctly , put that into perspective of a 5.9 commonrail 24 valve having 500-550 TQ at 1800rpm, my grandfather was born in June of 1900 and died in March of 2001 from 1918-1929 he was a locomotive mechanic and did it on and off afterwords but wasn't his main job the man was a mechanical genius with a 4th grade education he taught me so much I guarantee if I could show him this video it would spark conversation for hours
@@golletim I guess this one was grandfathered in as far as emissions goes. Could you imagine the size of the dpf, or cpf, required? It would probably have to be the size of a truck tanker!
EPA would shut down farming if this is how it had to be done today, I am surprised they are still allowed to run this steam engine with today's emission standards.
What I find remarkable about those old machines is that for their size, they really didn't have a whole lot of Horsepower, but could produce an absolute ENORMOUS amount of torque. Fascinating. Here's to many, many more years of safe operation.
Torque is a force. Horsepower = work, which factors in time. Steam is insanely good at producing torque because at atmospheric pressure 1 liter of water expands into 1600 liters of 'steam' . It's entirely possible to have high horsepower steam engines but they will be heavier then a gasoline or diesel equivalent (due to external combustion) and have 3 consumables to keep track of. (Fuel, Water, Oil). And of course also have the issue that all high pressure high expansion systems have the possibility of rupture. Still once you get to a certain size steam is the king of thermal energy to rotational energy conversion. Hence why Oil, natural gas, geothermal, nuclear, and even solar power plants all utilize steam turbines.
@@Cragified yup, you can't have a 100000lb steam engine plowing a field lol, too impractical. Steam has its place and it's not as a farm tractor . This machine was a.hevay haul traction engine to pull trailer of heavy goods . Not for farming
Steam engines are fun like a living breathing dragon. Something so satisfying to use basic ingredients fier and water to produce power. The engine displays its inner workings, to let you get a peak at the magic!
@@jaykoerner But dodays gear reductions like plastic and do not support that amount of torque... The Engenieers from nowdays would have to "re learn" ther job to build a Vehicle like this again.
@@Hobby_Electric sorry but show me a car with a plastic gear reduction? I don't know of any, all I was saying was electric hass 100% of it's torque at zero rpm same as steam, also like steam the torque at the wheel your talking is after a gear reduction
Before I was born in 1941 my parents homesteaded in northern Canada prairie country not far from the artic circle. My dad told of the Canadian government coming in to the area with a steam tractor similar to this one with a fuel and water wagon followed by a 4 or 5 bottom plow set to plow over 2 ft deep. Prairie sod could not be initially broken up, plowed, by horses. They would start out plowing at daybreak, plow till noon, where a smaller steam engine with chuck wagon and tool cart would be ready to feed lunch. The crew would plow to near dark, all day was a straight line, camp over night, turn around in the morning and go back to the starting point. In reality this was a kind of a train, just no tracks.
Add gears for horsepower instead of speed, and add steering wheels. The powerplant, or boiler, uses the same principle as the trains did. Not much has changed with respect to power generation. Train uses diesel, so does the tractor.
@@BrokeWrench they use steam, yes. They don't generate it the same way. These items have reciprocating engines attached to the power generation unit. A coal fired, or nuclear fuel, or hydroelectric plant all use turbines. It's more efficient, and less moving parts. Turbines are more efficient at sustained and stable high speeds, where cylinders are better for low speeds, outright torque, and stop-start work. It would be rather easy to adapt a downsized nuclear generator to fit within the confines of a steam engine (traction or rail) and do away with the coal or oil, and be clean energy. Unfortunately, the only people that are "allowed" to use them are the world's bad actors, i.e., the governments of the world.
This one is a complete new fabrication from old blue prints. But still, it shows the ingenuity that was required to build such a magnificent piece of machinery.
How would you know he "crapped" his pants? (Assuming he was wearing any). When a creature lives, eats, breathes and wallows in "crap" it's hard to tell if he's done it to himself.....
@@cs-rj8ru the original text said: 100 feet ahead an earthworm is absolutely crapping his pants. "is absolutely crapping" is present perfect tense. To know if "he had crapped his pants", is a past tense enquiry, also with the assumption the earthworm is a "he". We don't know if the earthworm is a "he" - that was an assumption to begin with. The earthworm "is crapping his pants" - we have not got past that yet so your question which lies in the future (has crapped his pants) cannot be answered. :-)
WOW! Bet that old Case has a few stories to tell. Thanks for keeping the"ol girl" going, a little walk back in time. Near me there is a Pageant of Steam that I attend every few years, never gets old. 👍✌
You did a excellent job on this video. Starting in the front of one side and going all the way around to the other. Zooming in on the important things so we could see up close. Very well done. Now my question is, I wonder how much torque that beast has? Equal to or more than today’s high tech machines. AND... you’re not at the manufacturers (John Deere) mercy. TH-cam what JD does to its farmers as far as repairing their equipment. It’s called extortion!!! Shame on JD !!!
And this was engineered & built by hand. Castings, piping & valves, popoffs, bearings. . . No way could this beautiful beast happen today. So glad that people are able & willing to restore & run these. Actually, glad these machines are still around to be seen.
It always warms my heart when I see two of the same comments right next to each other with the postdate that exposes the copycat. You're the unoriginal kitty.
It always warms my heart when I see two of the same comments right next to each other with the postdate that exposes the copycat. You're the unoriginal kitty.
An astonishing beast. I was totally awed by it for several minutes, sitting open mouthed. Incidentally whoever filmed this was very good. Everywhere I’d wanted to see the camera was there. Panning in great arcs and trailing contrasts. To whoever filmed this, congratulations on choosing a brilliantly engaging subject and filming it with aesthetic judgement and skill.
"How much are we doing today?"
"Kansas"
lmaooo🤣🤣🤣
My god that's funny
LMAO! 🤣🤣THATS GOOD
😂😂😂😂😂
Lol
To the people that restored this, thank you. An amazing American treasure.
This isn't restored. It's 100% brand new
I was born in 1940 grew up in London and the guy in the house opposite was a steam engine fireman, he took me into the steam yards a couple of times to pick up his wages. There were engines everywhere getting cleaned and steamed up, though I didn't know any of this at such a young age. My father was employed in tunnel construction and was build 7 paralle tunnels on the twin track Northern railway route from London to Scotland. These would enable twin track running in both directions.
My uncle had a farm in North Wales and I'd be put on a train at Paddington London and met by my uncle at Wrexham. He ploughed with horses and it was my nephews job to water them down and feed them at the end of each day. So they would stand in the pond for an hour or so and we would clean them down, those old boys would turn around as you finished each quarter. They could plough a field and no need to tell them anything. Then on one trip uncle told me he had bought a Grey Ferguson tractor well I started crying as in London the milk float horses had been replaced with electric and the horses put down.
On arriving at the farm I was releaved to see them retired to the orchard, now I could enjoy learning to drive a tractor.
One day I asked what the huge stone blocks and cast iron corners were on all the farm building, uncle told me it was to help steer the steam engines that came to plough the fields. They would ride the side of the wheel up and kick the machine sideways. Two would set up at each side of the field and winch the plough across using long ropes, a smaller version plough than you have shown. It would be turned and the other engine would winch it back and so on.
This method proved troublesome and expensive so horses were used again, steam wagons were used to transport produce the market and Liverpool docks, so the kick corners still had a use.
My first job was assisting the engineers take measurements on an old steam train tunnel that was being enlarged for electrification. So in my life I seen the end of horse, steam power, Concorde and my brain to remember telephone numbers. But you have stirred my memories of steam, so thank you very much for that.
Very COOL story ! Thank YOU for sharing that. It would be so awesome to see and live that....
Beautiful memories, I was born in 1958, so many interesting memories ahead of me
Thanks for the historical info.
Thank you i would love to live back then
Thanks for sharing, very cool.
I am old enough to remember steam railway engines. That sound brought back the whole excitement, smell and life of those old engines.
We still use a old steam engine to move abrasive materials back n forth to a mill that makes grinding wheels in Westboro Massachusetts
i used to ride one about 30 years ago, getting your ticket punched by the conductor, the wooo wooooooo, it's a fantastic experience that younger generations are missing out on
I'm old enough to remember rusting steam engines in scrap piles.
So much Pollution Too 🤧🗣️✍️📢🇮🇳
@@paddington1670 you do know you can still sometimes ride a steam train railway museums sometimes do special tours or there are museal railways where only steam trains drive so if you want to you can still do it even today
1:47 Your truck has a hemi? That's cute! This thing has a VOLCANO.
That's the best comment I've ever seen on a video. You win the internet!
@@pmassey2 "You win the internet!"
Go back to Reddit and keep your digital AIDS away from me.
once the boiler cracks its literally a volcano coming, only disadvantage of these otherwise nice machines.
LMAO
@@SpencerLemay But aren't you the one that approached him?
You can tell she's feeling good. No misfires or odd sounds. Just the sound of constant and un-yielding power. Yep, they can be cranky and cantankerous, but when they sound as good as this one does, they sound great. Great video.
wtf do you mean misfires?
@@mablo88123 Unless you've worked as a fireman on a steam engine, as I have, its hard to explain. Its more like a temporary loss of power, when you get a clog in your main steam valve. And you are able to blow it out or dislodge it by going full power. That's the best I can describe it. Had it happen on a engine I was working on back in 83, when I was fireman on a, cant remember what engine it was. But the clog cleared and that was that.
@@mablo88123 I just remembered what my Uncle called it. A cough, when your main steam line got clogged and the sound it made when it cleared. Yeah. Sorry it took me so long to remember.
If that thing is misfiring, take advantage of the opportunity and load a cannonball.
A misfire on that and run for your lives. Cause she gonna blow!
The Tractor isnt actually moving, its pulling the earth in reverse rotation
Was ist besser.So eine Maschine oder Elektronik.diese Maschine kann jeder reparieren.
steam engines put out crazy torque
*train* ^_^
@@cathalfolan8441 and with ONE cylinder
@@INSERTNAMEjoe These really aren't trains though, they're called traction engines, also known as road locomotives. Which actually brings up another point being that the image most people think of when they hear the word "train" isn't a train either. They too are locomotives, steam engines, diesel engines, etc. The train is actually the consist of carriages the locomotive is hauling.
The power of this machine is intimidating but incredibly helpful for large-scale farming it seems, even for its age.
I’m very thankful that this kind of history is kept running.
Yeah, this is a relatively recent reproduction. If I remember right only 8 150hp case steam tractors were ever built, and none had survived in preservation.
Didn’t even know this kind of history existed
@@cpufreak101 If it is build as an exact replica, according to the original plans, the prototype must been able to do the same thing.
Would be so awesome to see this used daily!
@@jpsholland far as I'm aware it was built to the original specifications and approved by Case themselves, so it can technically be called an original, just one built numerous decades after.
My grandfather was a Case traction engine dealer in the 1900's, his shop still stands today with the high swing doors and the floor 2 feet of concrete. Wish I could go back in time for just one day
This is 10 cm plough 0,1 miles orarier...
@@andreauberti8518 ‘orarier’?
from Hippocrates? I don’t speak Latin.
@@francislopez8090 whhhhhaaaat
@@francislopez8090 Yeah , okay... but im a Italian and... you know...
What an incredible machine. Imagine growing up with no technology, and one day this beast shows up to your farming town, and does half the towns yearly plowing in a day.
Five of these in a column, plowing an entire field in one turn, turning the sky black with smoke in the process. Terrifying.
The end is near
Just remember that a nuclear power plant is just a steam engine connected to a generator.
@@areuaware6842 surprisingly true now that I think about it
This was the true cause of the great depression.
I am so impressed and amazed at how wonderful this machine is. She is a testament to human created items that are of great accomplishments
Absolutely incredible torque on this beast, the designer's knew their stuff, one EMP over us and steam will be back for a few decades till the grid is back on line. Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you very much for preserving this outstanding tractor.
@@williamplatt1680 and designed more than a century ago. This is still preservation, though in a lesser sense, surely.
Horsepower: 150
Torque: ALL of it
Solowarrior1221. And only one cylinder doing it all!!! 👏👍
Steam. It expands. It keeps wanting to expand.
Yes. Specifically at least 5,000 lb-ft of of torque. Lots of twists around it .
I'm betting the 550 quadtrac we have wouldn't pull it!
Torque: over 9000
Without these bits of history being saved many people would never know about them.
I would have only had a vague idea about what was. So glad the machines from the past have been saved and restored. It's a big part of our history.
@@s.leemccauley7302 you are absolutely right and in an age when so many people are hell bent on erasing history instead of learning from it.
That holds water in ALL cases. Today, everyone wants to erase history. How do you improve if you don't know where/what you came from?
Just wondering how that would handle a small to medium hill. It’s an amazing piece of machinery good to see it working so well and in pristine condition.
So true.
Q: "How much torque?"
A: "All of it."
Tractor: “I thought you said you were putting the big plow on?”
It's actually easier to repair this thing than any of the modern John Deere Tractors
and eventually nobody will know how to fix mechanical equipment because the future we all become computer janitors watching our electric overlords
You dont repair modern, you discard and buy new
@@enjibkk6850 this is the mindset of an Apple Employee in a nutshell ;)
The only thing you are allowed to repair from John Deere
The tractor is a Case.
At least right to repair was strong in those days.
This must have seemed like science fiction when compared to a man, a horse and single furrow plough it was replacing.
You don´t go from "a man, a horse and single furrow plough" to this.
There´d be steps in between.
2-3-4-12 furrow ploughs and steam engines in slowly increasing sizes and power.
@@martialme84 could have easily done that...been on a farm and never see a tractor and then they buy one of these.
@@testy462 Never in a million years.
Think.
You´d need enormous amounts of cash to buy that thing.
That would mean that you´d be educated and that your "farm" is actually a huge enterprise.
It would also mean that you rode the steam locomotive dozens or hundreds of times and that would also mean that other enterprises near you also use steam power and have used steam power for a long time already.
There is literally no way in hell that you would be able to go from a single furrow plough to that thing. No way. Lol.
Think for just one second, please.
@@martialme84 Thanks for your input, I respect such info from the people that were actually there and witnessed these sorts of historical events first hand, cheers.
@@testy462 ...or possibly hire in a contractor that you've seen working in a neighbours farm maybe?
My 76 year old Dad just loved this video. Great job with the tractor, Kory. He is mighty impressed with your historic treasure. 🇺🇸🎩🍀🇺🇸
100年前のこれを作ったアメリカ人！独創的で革新的、カッコいい！そして美しい！想像を越えた夢のスーパーマシンです‼️
I'm guessing this won't pass emissions in cali
Its over 25 years old, exempt from emissions standards.
Yes but it is still known to cause cancer in California.
@@scottn9492 those coal soot emissions soaking in to the soil, ending up on the crops are known to cause cancer everywhere. Kinda like how tetraethel lead from leaded gas coated crops for decades giving all Americans a dose of lead with every meal.
Still cleaner than any BMW or vw in last 25 years! 😋
Just say it's weed smk and all is well then...
For some strange reason, the sound of a steam engine always sounds so comforting.😇
Like a steady heartbeat.
@@kjellringstrom6217 steam engines are living things for exactly that reason.
I love watching and listening to steam equipment.
I wonder how these things would have evolved if they kept going.
@@Hellosecsi Just look around you. You see it everyday. Most engines today have a barrel, piston and balance wheel.
Just that it´s exploding fuel that makes things going instead of steam.
How to get around JohnDeer screwing over farmers with their equipment software.
Buy a TEXA diagnostic system or John Deere Service Advisor diagnostic system and quit pretending you can't fix it yourself...
@@buckhorncortez . . And then p
@@buckhorncortez da 🌲🌲🌲🌲
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One of the most coolest videos on TH-cam right now, this video doesn't move you, then I can't help you.
You know, that tractor is great and all, but did you see that soil? That is some beautiful, black, fertile soil right there.
I know,I knew somebody had to say something about it. Beautiful
That soil is so rich, you could probably through poles on the ground and raise flags.
Yes!Just thought the same thing!
Yes my thoughts exactly
Too bad its being compacted to shit
How much torque does this thing have?
Operator: yes.
All of it!
There was a dyno vid of this tractor somewhere . It maxed the belt at over 5000 ft pounds
FW🎉
I'd like to know the displacement on this big bitch I can't find the info anywhere, that fly wheel is massive though weighs in over 1400lbs
In the business, we call it Tractive Effort.
I'm so glad there are people preserving this history.
This machine is one of the most beautiful that I’ve ever seen!!!
God bless American ingenuity!!
USA best country in Universe
Imagine back in this machines hey day, looking out and seeing that plume of smoke drifting across the plains. Must have been a glorious sight.
Is it Hay Day or Hey Day?
Ahh smoke that makes you have cancer how nice it would be
@@spacy9571 deal with it.
Spacy that’s how this country was built my boy
@@spacy9571 Everything gives you cancer at some point. Your comment is no different.
This video literally needs to be on Modern Marvels.....just a little biased i am! Was an absolute honor to get to be a small part of the history of this amazing steam traction engine. When we filmed the very first pull of 24 bottoms at her unveiling two years ago, I knew then that this plow would grow… And adding 12 bottoms this year, or 50%!!! to the pull, she had just as much power in reserve on Friday 9/11 as she did two years ago on September 7. I smell 50 bottoms in the near future… If Jim Briden has anything to do with it! Hats off to an amazing engineering feat Kory and the downright undying sticktuitiveness to get it done!!!!
That old Case didn't even break a sweat pulling the 36 bottom John Deere sled. I love to see old machinery still swingin it like they did 100 years ago
Its a new build
@@harrytodhunter5078 That's even better. Built a couple thousand more while they're at it. I'll take 3.
Old dude: "The land says we gotta go big...what have we got?"
Other old dude: There's this old locomotive that we could fix up..."
How case got their start
Something like this may have been the inspiration for Mortal Engines.
"Hey, what's all that smoke over in the field?"
"Torque."
"How many does it take to make it actually work hard?"
"We haven't found the answer."
Damn right lol
Will we be able to get our modern tractors up and running like this 100 years from now. What a beauty, looks just like new!
Because it is new
Do keep in mind that there is a lot of survivorship bias. The old equipment you see running are only the most high quality and durable, being the only ones that survived without breaking down. This does not mean old equipment is better than new equipment, as the crappy stuff has already been scrapped from the old equipment while the crappy stuff still remains in the new equipment simply because the new equipment has not been "selected" by heavy use over a long time period. Therefore, I predict that the higher quality new stuff will stand the test of time, similarly to how this old technology did.
@@hehehoho3770 Not with all their electronics they won't.
@@mr.slaphappy3794 the good ones can have their electronics replaced and upgraded. Even the steam tractors need things like valve replacement and scale removal after a while.
@theykilledthegiggler what you are thinking of isn't the best modern hardware. The replacement of old electronics and mechanics with new ones happens even in older things (for example the B52 bomber or the M60 tank, which are still in service with major updates). The stuff that survives will be the ones that are easily upgraded and renewed, as not all modern vehicles have that downfall of running out of parts since some can easily be tweaked to accept better, newer parts.
The gear reduction makes the torque insanely high. I'm sure that tractor could pull a second plow on the right and It wouldn't even break a sweat!
At some point it just runs out of traction rather than power 😂
168 psi on a several inch wide piston.
There actually isn’t all that low of a gear reduction, it has tons of torque right from the crankshaft.
@Aurimas Zolynas Just to clear, you're joking, right? A little irony for the sake of humor?
You can hear it load up pretty hard sometimes. I don't think you could double this. The engine already weighs so much, it's probably not going to have traction issues, the problem is its a fixed gearset. It doesn't have multiple gear reduction to choose from and sooner or later your not going to have the force to pull the plow.
Depth depends on the crop, doesn't it?
Super video !!! Can I use part of your video to my compilation steam engine inventions ?
They should have had a country band with a banjo playing on that plow
Rocka Fire Explosion Country Bear Jamboree.
That almost sounds like a country song 🤔
Would be a good first gig for the turnpike troubadours when/if they get back together lol
The town I grew up in had a steam weekend every year. The Threshermans Show was a great time for everyone. Thousands of people come with horses,mules and wagons. Everyone camped out and had fun.
Unfortunately, like everything else it was ruined. All of the municipalities started wanting a bigger cut of the money it brought in. Police swarmed it so they could write tickets for parking, open containers and public intoxication. After a couple of years nobody wanted to come because it looked more like a prison camp than a festival. Now if a hundred people come it’s considered a good day. Nothing like the good old police state in the US.
If a crime's only victim is the state, then it is our duty to do said crime
America was built on breaking the law.
When I was young me and by brothers would sit on the plow because it wasn’t going deep enough into the ground , now days that would be considered child endangerment
Builds character
I rode on the back of the beet planter keeping corn stalks from locking up the packer wheels and filling gandy boxes on the run so my dad never had to shut down. I had to hang on like hell to that steel seat when the three point lifted and we swung around on the ends.
logan brinker it’s your brothers and I ,NOT you and your brother
While cutting firewood I recall my brother and I acting as log counterweights to avoid a pinched bar
@@jerryvandyke9216
It's good to have good grammar and punctuation, but I bet you've never actually worked a true day in your life have you...
What a beautiful example of raw engineering at its finest, I love going to traction engine fairs, they are a good reminder of where our present day evolved from.
Back in the days when this was first introduced it must have been amazing to see such a massive amount of cultivation being done in such a short space of time.
The funny thing is people still think the steam age came to an end but it didn’t, we just adapted how we use it, instead of driving machines with it we produce electricity with it, to this day all electricity in the world is still made by producing steam to drive a mechanical device.
The danger of plowing with this fire-breather is that the rotation of the earth is slowed. BAD TO THE BONE!
@Andrew cianciotta 😆 lol
Depends on which direction it's going.
I beg to differ, Earth's magnetic field counters the rotating forces acting on its spin.
@Andrew cianciotta Except there is parallax in the stars. You're not just wrong, you're stupid
@Andrew cianciotta it's called reverse polarity
The farming equivalent of the Union Pacific railroad's "Big Boy" locomotive.
And much like the Big Boy, its so wonderful to see when they decide to let them earn some revenue rather than just being run for fun ^.^
I got a chance to see it in action 2 years ago climbing a mountain in Utah. SO COOL!!
I looked up "what is torque" and ended up here 😉😁
Low RPM but massive tons of torque.
I wonder how many lbft of torque that engine has.
@@jeffc6268 I can't confirm this for certain at the moment but my grandfather worked on steam engines and locomotives in the early 1900's and while idk about this exact machine your looking at anywhere from 4000. -6000 ftlb for similar sized boilers based on what it looks in the video, I sure wish he was still alive to tell me all about this thing, and that's at approx 70 rpm if I recall correctly , put that into perspective of a 5.9 commonrail 24 valve having 500-550 TQ at 1800rpm, my grandfather was born in June of 1900 and died in March of 2001 from 1918-1929 he was a locomotive mechanic and did it on and off afterwords but wasn't his main job the man was a mechanical genius with a 4th grade education he taught me so much I guarantee if I could show him this video it would spark conversation for hours
@@jeffc6268 there is another video of this thing on a dyno setup for tractors and I thought I heard 5000 ft lbs
@@majobis I watched that video as they did the run, I thought they got 950. Which is still plenty.
CASE sure has evolved over the years
So that's why farmers had so many kids, just to stand on the back of a tractor
That, and there was nothing else to do at night.
@@meyou245 better than just getting drunk.....just saying.
And to walk the fields and pick rocks
They needed farm hands, and lots of them.
more like shovel fuel, I've been to a couple steam shows, these things are hungry for coal/wood
- That Case looks like it would drag half a dozen monster trucks pulling the other way.
dude, it could pull a dozen, provided the tractors metal ribs were extended out
And look better than them doing it.
Thanks for bringing this piece of ag history back to life Kory. What an accomplishment!
Молодцы! Сохранили историю! Хвала и уважение!!!!!!!
The real meaning of rolling coal.
Something today's kids won't understand.
The original rolling coal
dzlf250, Can I buy you a beer?
I was going to say that but you beat me to it.
This thing in the video isn’t breathing hard imagine what it would sound like if it had a real hard load on it!
@@golletim I guess this one was grandfathered in as far as emissions goes. Could you imagine the size of the dpf, or cpf, required? It would probably have to be the size of a truck tanker!
36 bottoms. Plus the weight of the platforms with 36 people on them. And doesn't even seem to be struggling.
Only 18 people, each lever controls 2 plow bottoms, not that it matters to your point. Engine handles it well.
That machine would outpull a 8410rx
22 000 HP 😂😂
The power of steam is a truly impressive thing much like the power of the screw.
Only a slight amount of wheel slip. Amazing.
To me.....this is a first class , kick ass, all the way video. Loved every second. Brought tears to my eyes.
Yes don't tell. Bloody wonderful.
Это реально завораживает. Ранняя механика красива и неповторима
Представь как индейцы с этой хреновины охреневали))
@@Слипер-я9п ещё бы чуть чуть развития паровых машин и они бы на этих адовых котлах долетели до космоса ))
КАК У РУССКИХ. АНАЛОГОВНЕТУ В МИРЕ.
When I was young and helping dad on a 40 acre farm, we had a small ford tractor and a 2 bottom plow. This is impressive.
its amazing to see this thing actually working a field and not just sitting in a museum all the time
150HP 4500 Torque gotta Love it, and look it's straight without GPS auto steer .
God Bless the strong Men and Women who built our country using these!
The 150 was originally designed as a road locomotive to haul heavy freight rather than farm operations.
Yeah it's too slow and too big to be useful for anything other than having freight
If only it were faster they could've had road trains back then.
What a glorious video, all involved clearly having an absolute blast of a time. Marvellous old machinery.
Its a new build
@@harrytodhunter5078 indeed, made to original period blueprints, the likes of which is not made commercially today. Marvellous old machinery.
@@NickKamin of course it's not made commercially. That thing it's good for shows, not for much else.
Nothing like the sight and sound of a steam locomotive to get one's "blood up" to start the day- how sweet it is !
Forte demais muito top !
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Noway. I didn't think that a machine like this could be exist. Great, thanks for share the history
This tractor does not move upon the earth. It makes the earth move underneath it.
Das ist fantastic! Широко-захватний агрегат
The Chuck Norris of tractors!
So true Matthew !!! lolol
"She thinks my tractors sexy"
And she would be right.
Shes always starin at me
"36 bottom plow!!" yeah, and it's not even straining. The torque these things had is incredible
its only ploughing 4 inches deep
@@carmineredd1198 4 inches is still quite alot
@@brother7238 sure if you're planting beans
@@carmineredd1198 I mean this is just for show but I'm pretty sure that if they wanted they could go deeper.
@@carmineredd1198 how do you know they're not planting beans this year?
I bet there isn’t any mosquitos around there he has smoked everything out
And this is bad how?? Lol
EPA would shut down farming if this is how it had to be done today, I am surprised they are still allowed to run this steam engine with today's emission standards.
Eh. Most of that is steam anyways.
@@benscoles5085 shut down farming for steam? Guess you can’t put anything past those thieving bastards.
Just imagine with this tractor came out it was top-of-the-line the most the advanced equipment available.
Yes and the dirt was dark and rich and i didn't go back this far but i remember stuff from 1952.
High tech in its day.
Now we have $400 thousand dollar tractors that are obsolete and worn out in just a couple of years.
@@s.leemccauley7302 Blame John Deer and IH. Decades long rivalry ended just to fuck over the average farmer 🙄
What I find remarkable about those old machines is that for their size, they really didn't have a whole lot of Horsepower, but could produce an absolute ENORMOUS amount of torque. Fascinating. Here's to many, many more years of safe operation.
It's too slow to be any good. More hp is better cause you can get stuff done quicker
Torque is a force. Horsepower = work, which factors in time. Steam is insanely good at producing torque because at atmospheric pressure 1 liter of water expands into 1600 liters of 'steam' . It's entirely possible to have high horsepower steam engines but they will be heavier then a gasoline or diesel equivalent (due to external combustion) and have 3 consumables to keep track of. (Fuel, Water, Oil). And of course also have the issue that all high pressure high expansion systems have the possibility of rupture.
Still once you get to a certain size steam is the king of thermal energy to rotational energy conversion. Hence why Oil, natural gas, geothermal, nuclear, and even solar power plants all utilize steam turbines.
@@Cragified yup, you can't have a 100000lb steam engine plowing a field lol, too impractical. Steam has its place and it's not as a farm tractor . This machine was a.hevay haul traction engine to pull trailer of heavy goods . Not for farming
Cragified nice answer, i have always wondered about the steam turbine thing
Doesn't rev much, this is why hp is so low compared to torque
Steam engines are fun like a living breathing dragon. Something so satisfying to use basic ingredients fier and water to produce power. The engine displays its inner workings, to let you get a peak at the magic!
Let me tell you, this is going to be the technology of the future!
I am afraid not my friend the Democrats have put an end to the coal industry
I'm not a tractor buff, this just came up in my feed but damn that's an impressive rig
When you want 10,000 ft*lbs of torque at 0 rpm, you want a steam tractor.
I think closer to 100000 ftlbs of toque at 100 rpm
Eh depending on the gear reduction you could do that with electric as well
@@jaykoerner But dodays gear reductions like plastic and do not support that amount of torque...
The Engenieers from nowdays would have to "re learn" ther job to build a Vehicle like this again.
@@Hobby_Electric sorry but show me a car with a plastic gear reduction? I don't know of any, all I was saying was electric hass 100% of it's torque at zero rpm same as steam, also like steam the torque at the wheel your talking is after a gear reduction
@@jaykoerner i write "like plastic"
The Gearboxes today are very weak compared to 20 years ago
As if I didn’t have enough projects i want to restore a steam tractor now
I take it the steam hissing out of the valve at the top of the motor is to relieve maximum pressure because they’re going flat out with this thing?
Boy they wasn't playing back in the day, now that's a machine.
“So how much torque?”
*YES*
“All of it!”
A helluva lot!
found a video of this thing on a Dyno 5,000+
"What if we just used a train to do our farming?" The inventors of this probably
No, also that would be a locomotive not a train. Steam engines were used for everything including traction engines like this and trucks.
Before I was born in 1941 my parents homesteaded in northern Canada prairie country not far from the artic circle. My dad told of the Canadian government coming in to the area with a steam tractor similar to this one with a fuel and water wagon followed by a 4 or 5 bottom plow set to plow over 2 ft deep. Prairie sod could not be initially broken up, plowed, by horses. They would start out plowing at daybreak, plow till noon, where a smaller steam engine with chuck wagon and tool cart would be ready to feed lunch. The crew would plow to near dark, all day was a straight line, camp over night, turn around in the morning and go back to the starting point. In reality this was a kind of a train, just no tracks.
Add gears for horsepower instead of speed, and add steering wheels.
The powerplant, or boiler, uses the same principle as the trains did.
Not much has changed with respect to power generation.
Train uses diesel, so does the tractor.
@@danieljones317 the funny thing is that nuclear power plants are basically just steam powered but using the reactors for heat instead of coal
@@BrokeWrench they use steam, yes. They don't generate it the same way.
These items have reciprocating engines attached to the power generation unit.
A coal fired, or nuclear fuel, or hydroelectric plant all use turbines.
It's more efficient, and less moving parts.
Turbines are more efficient at sustained and stable high speeds, where cylinders are better for low speeds, outright torque, and stop-start work.
It would be rather easy to adapt a downsized nuclear generator to fit within the confines of a steam engine (traction or rail) and do away with the coal or oil, and be clean energy.
Unfortunately, the only people that are "allowed" to use them are the world's bad actors, i.e., the governments of the world.
That's a lot of torque. It's good to see these old machines still working.
This one is a complete new fabrication from old blue prints. But still, it shows the ingenuity that was required to build such a magnificent piece of machinery.
100 feet ahead an earthworm is absolutely crapping his pants...
😂👍
Steamroller scene from austin powers , STOP......
Earthworms don't wear pants 👖 dumbass 😉
How would you know he "crapped" his pants? (Assuming he was wearing any). When a creature lives, eats, breathes and wallows in "crap" it's hard to tell if he's done it to himself.....
@@cs-rj8ru the original text said: 100 feet ahead an earthworm is absolutely crapping his pants.
"is absolutely crapping" is present perfect tense.
To know if "he had crapped his pants", is a past tense enquiry, also with the assumption the
earthworm is a "he".
We don't know if the earthworm is a "he" - that was an assumption to begin with.
The earthworm "is crapping his pants" - we have not got past that yet so your question
which lies in the future (has crapped his pants) cannot be answered. :-)
Meanwhile: and in other news scientists have stated that the spin of the earth slowed down due to a farming incident.
That soil looks so fertile that a person could even plant and grow "ideas".
A lot of songs have been written about black land dirt for a reason.
Aye, the land near my grandfather's farm is extremely black as well, and is regarded as some of the best land in the world.
@@knightlypoleaxe2501 And most of it is under housing today, because it was more profitable to sell off the land, than farm any more.
@@jeffreyyoung4104 That, and there's a big forest next my grandfather's farm/home. in north western Ukraine.
Oh I forgot to mention that my Grandfather's home is in Ukraine.
So, black smoke is from heating source and white is steam.. correct?
Magnificent, i love this, the steam tractor is rare, im a diesel mechanic and i just can't get enough of these
The sounds this thing make are awesome.
WOW! Bet that old Case has a few stories to tell. Thanks for keeping the"ol girl" going, a little walk back in time. Near me there is a Pageant of Steam that I attend every few years, never gets old. 👍✌
It’s brand new. All the 150s were scrapped and this was built as a reproduction a few years ago. Would be cool if some old ones still existed.
Like Harleys, half of their HP is required to make the sound of the exhaust
"I don't care who you are, that's funny"! haha
😂🤣🤣🤣
Internt: But how many torques does it have?
Answer: All. It has all the torques
5 horse power 2000 torque 🤣
@@ignorthepain 150 hp and 5,000 ft lbs (~7,000 Nm) of torque.
Horsepower no tq yes plz
Dead meme. Try again.
@@2genders awww dont be jealous bro
Gives new meaning to the song ^Give me 40 acres to turn this rig around ^
just thinking the exact same thing!
You did a excellent job on this video. Starting in the front of one side and going all the way around to the other. Zooming in on the important things so we could see up close. Very well done. Now my question is, I wonder how much torque that beast has? Equal to or more than today’s high tech machines. AND... you’re not at the manufacturers (John Deere) mercy. TH-cam what JD does to its farmers as far as repairing their equipment. It’s called extortion!!! Shame on JD !!!
Paradise. Wonderful land, beautiful machine, great people !🥣🥗🍲🥧🍕🧀🍳🥞🥖👍
That is one of the best vids I've watched in a long time, love it.
When he got on top of the tractor, that looked like some real road warrior stuff. “Oh what a day”
I'm more impressed the chains didn't break pulling that..
This remembers my child hood days in the fields at our family farm working with steam machinery in Saskatchawan Canada
And this was engineered & built by hand. Castings, piping & valves, popoffs, bearings. . .
No way could this beautiful beast happen today.
So glad that people are able & willing to restore & run these. Actually, glad these machines are still around to be seen.
Truly amazing. Thanks so much for recording this. My dad would have absolutely loved watching.
Deben descuntinuarlas ya ase daño al medio ambiente 🧐🇵🇦
Try sneaking you're date home late with this tractor, 😂
Can I just say I'm wondering why you use that profile pic?
@@DeBerjeuh my great great grandfather's, it was his naval ships flag, he was a commander in the RBN, stationed al over the world
Pssh.... Fooooo.... Psssshh.... Fooooo
Her dad: is... Is that a steam engine??? What in tarnation...
great to see it running, but what happens when you try to turn a corner?
And to think, this was the pinnacle of technology when this beast first rolled out of the plant.
And that my friends is what they call "Rollin Coal"
It always warms my heart when I see two of the same comments right next to each other with the postdate that exposes the copycat. You're the unoriginal kitty.
It always warms my heart when I see two of the same comments right next to each other with the postdate that exposes the copycat. You're the unoriginal kitty.
Quite literally😁
An astonishing beast. I was totally awed by it for several minutes, sitting open mouthed.
Incidentally whoever filmed this was very good.
Everywhere I’d wanted to see the camera was there. Panning in great arcs and trailing contrasts.
To whoever filmed this, congratulations on choosing a brilliantly engaging subject and filming it with aesthetic judgement and skill.
Does it have to be a rediculas amount of farm hands... or does it supose to be one on each section?