General Category > Chatterbox
Big traction engine with 44 plows
crueby:
Hey all,
If anyone you know doubts the power of steam engines, show them this video that a friend sent me a link to. A Case tractor with a single cylinder engine pulling 44 plows all rigged up on one platform, plowing a field:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xDj45zF-l0
Chris
mcostello:
On one of the videos it shows the crank and flywheel flexing. :o
crueby:
--- Quote from: Vixen on October 03, 2021, 11:37:17 PM ---Hello Chris,
Thats very much the American way of direct ploughing a field, but I guess fields over there can be a lot bigger than ours.
Over here in England, fields used to be ploughed by a pair of ploughing engines with huge winch drums under their bellies. The engines would position themselve on either side of the field and take turns (bouts) pulling a six furrow plough back and fore.
This is my 2" scale Fowler 16 HP single PE. That big cylinder could realy bark when it was working hard.
Mike
--- End quote ---
Yeah, out in the midwest part of the country the fields disappear out of sight before the next road sometimes.
I picked up a set of plans for one of the big plowing engines like you show, its on my list but other fun projects keep jumping the queue! Beaut of a model, that plow assembly alone must have taken a while to make!
Roger B:
The plough in this thread only has one blade but it's quite a big one :)
https://www.modelenginemaker.com/index.php/topic,2550.msg109055.html#msg109055
crueby:
--- Quote from: Roger B on October 04, 2021, 11:08:34 AM ---The plough in this thread only has one blade but it's quite a big one :)
https://www.modelenginemaker.com/index.php/topic,2550.msg109055.html#msg109055
--- End quote ---
Those deep-plowing setups are quite impressive!
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version