Steam Tractors anyone?

[Pedro_The_Swift]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/05/1229.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/05/1230.jpg

[101 Ron]

The first one is American in origin as it has no boiler cladding and has round spoked wheels and I guess it is a Buffalo Pitts brand.
The second one is a very early internal combustion machine and is most likely American too.

[Bearman]

I love those old steam machines. I was brought up on a farm with tractors and associated gear. My uncle had one of those old traction engines, I remember he used to start it up every now and then just to keep it functional. It was almost if it was alive, puffing and hissing like a fire breathing dragon.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

The second one had a very loud and fierce single combustion every 5-8 seconds,,, :eek:

have got vid,, just need to upload it somewhere:angel:

[Pedro_The_Swift]

heres an even older one,,:cool:
YouTube- Tractors! 003.AVI

[Bigbjorn]

The second one had a very loud and fierce single combustion every 5-8 seconds,,, :eek:

have got vid,, just need to upload it somewhere:angel:

It is a Rumely Oil-pull. They were a very different concept. Too long to describe here. Do a google search. US origin from the Great Plains grain growing belt. Most of the great agricultural manufacturers originated there. John Deere, J.I.Case, Hart-Parr, Oliver, Twin Cities, International Harvester, McCormick, Minne-Mo and so on.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

YouTube- Tractors! 044.AVI

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YouTube- Steam Tractors!.AVI

[Landy Smurf]

i love steam power

[Hymie]

Theres a Staem Rally at Heyfield, Victoria 15-16 MAy 2010.
Thats right, next weekend.
Heyfield and District Vintage Machinery Group Annual Rally, Heyfield, Event, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia (http://www.visitmelbourne.com/displayobject.cfm/objectid.14426436-A8AC-47A3-B555889AB642BB66/)

[isuzutoo-eh]

1st one is most likely Buffalo Pitts or Case, a reasonable number of each made it to Aus.
The Americans didn't have anything to compare to the big Fowler plough engines though, 22nHP+, absolute monsters.
Nominal HP is distant from HP though, it was a ratio invented by the early English steam builders so their engines wouldn't raise the ire of the horse-minded (and it likely got them out of taxes too). Large Aussie steam locomotives could sustain 3000HP.
Here are some mid-sized traction engines in preserved action
YouTube- Steam Big Load with Bodicea at the GDSF

[33chinacars]

Not Sure where you took pics Pedro But Lake Goldsmith ( West of Ballarat )is the place to go. Heaps of steam traction engines etc. They hold a rally twice a year. First weekend's in May & November . Highly recomended.
Sorry you will have just missed this Mays edition

Gary