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  • huge pile of shit

  • @joe23ba You fucking kidding me?

  • @WhatUGawkinAt no...

  • @joe23ba if youre talking about yourself that would be an accurate assessment, but if youre talking about the traction engine, youre a dumb ass

  • no balls

  • @icewolf1100 Nope, you don't seem to have any at all.

  • well it looks like it was gonna wheelie!

    

  • ...I think I can, I think I can...

  • Look at the bunch of stupid people standing behind the engine, if it rolls back they'll be flattened. No sense of danger.

  • without peers my foot!!

  • steam cars for the future.

  • to the dumbass holding the camera... how about keeping it pointed at the engine when something interesting happens? rather than deciding to point the camera at the tree tops?

  • HOW MANY HP IT PRODUCE?

  • 1 ileri 2 geri :))

  • I think he needs to give it more gas.....lol..

  • That engine don't like that hill.

  • Most times on engines this old when the boilers were designed for 125-100 psi

    pressure when new, because the iron is so old they run them at only 75-80 psi

    and adjust the pressure relief valve accordingly for extra safety. Ordinarily

    these old engines would climb any steep grade effortlessly because they

    were built for pulling plows through heavy soil.

  • No way eh to pooped to pop.

  • Does it have a steam leak? At 0:49, it looks like steam is chuffing out of openings on the boiler.

  • This is yet another task this machine wasn't designed for. Had the boiler exploded during this demonstration, the driver, the men women and children standing in the background would have been eviscerated. There are purpose built bombs that are not as effective as a boiler explosion. This machine is nearly 150 years old. How much do you think it can take?

  • @IFlick Why woould the boiler explode during this? The fact is with it at that angle the crown sheet is most certainly covered in water. It probably did uncover some tubes but that isn't a problem. Flue failures never cause any serious injury or issue.

  • @Polybun You know it was the crown sheet that failed at The Madena Fair Grounds 110 Case Explosion. Crown sheet completely exposed. Surely you would agree, they shouldn't be raced across the fair grounds or in pull offs. Hill climbing probably isn't such a great idea either. These are antiques. I think we have to step away and think about some of the reasons we replaced this technology in the first place.

  • @IFlick I don't agree. These machines are made for working. So what if one explodes once in a while? You only live once. Operated properly and they have no problems. Working them hard isn't any more stressfull on the boiler than just sitting there steaming. The pressure inside remains the same (if the safety works.) By your ideals, they would never be steamed at all and would just be left to rot.

  • @IFlick

    There are tons of steam hobbyists in Ohio, they have one of the largest steam shows every year. It wasn't the core of the Ohio hobby around the Medina 110 either, the 5 victims were the owner, his son, and three friends. Incompetence is the only danger with a steam engine.

    The crown sheet certainly isn't going to be exposed during a hill climb. The reason steam engines were replaced was economy. It is much cheaper to run gasoline/diesel tractors.

  • @IFlick

    There are tons of steam hobbyists in Ohio, they have one of the largest steam shows every year. It wasn't the core of the Ohio hobby around the Medina 110 either, the 5 victims were the owner, his son, and three friends. Incompetence is the only danger with a steam engine.

    The crown sheet certainly isn't going to be exposed during a hill climb. The reason steam engines were replaced was economy. It is much cheaper to run gasoline/diesel tractors.

  • @IFlick

    @IFlick

    There are tons of steam hobbyists in Ohio, they have one of the largest steam shows every year. It wasn't the core of the Ohio hobby around the Medina 110 either, the 5 victims were the owner, his son, and three friends. Incompetence is the only danger with a steam engine.

    The crown sheet certainly isn't going to be exposed during a hill climb. The reason steam engines were replaced was economy. It is much cheaper to run gasoline/diesel tractors.

  • @IFlick

    You know absolutely nothing about boilers/steam engines and/or you are simply trolling.

  • @marty264 True, I know little about boilers/steam. I do know about when they blow up. July 29, 2001, Medena County Fair Grounds, Ohio. There is no one left in the State of Ohio who knows anything about traction's engines. When a Case 110 blew up, the core of the State's hobbyist were huddled around it. It's three operators and six others were simply blown to bits. Investigators had to be brought in from surrounding States to determine cause. They're rolling shrapnel bombs when things go wrong.

  • Geiser Peerless and Frick were made in my home town...Waynesboro Pa....personally, I'd take a Geiser any day over a Frick.

  • I'll take my diesel power any day...sorry. Nice vid though. But super weak looking

  • @clickstart5 To be fair, I doubt that a stock diesel truck (ford, Dodge, w/e) could pull this thing up a hill, just due to the weight involved.

  • @mwhite112393 Yea, they could, but this one is a weak one compared to all of the others I have seen. Maybe its the driver.

  • ok everybody, get out & push.

  • same hill with a frick on here......he gets up first shot. :)

  • A Frick would be at the top no problem!

  • new it wouldn't get up there, not without a good run up

  • aye, peerless, ya not the traction engine you once was.... you need a good overhaul to tackle THIS hill

  • awww poor little tractor!!! :(

  • @javajo46 not tractor steam traction engine

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  • @ClaytonOldGlory case would shoot right up that hill

  • didnt they have gearboxes?

  • @hvguy no a system of gears but no gear box

  • my 49cc scooter can climb this hill. why not that huge beast?

  • that must be a good fire mman he pops when he stops thats how grandpa taught me

  • The valve relieves the pressure and condensate as the piston is pushed forward

    by the higher pressure power strke.

  • Boy, a Case would climb that in a heartbeat. Nice video and engine, though. Love hearing that nice steamy sound!

  • i thought she was gonna blow and steam the guy like a hotdog!

  • huh?!?!??!

  • two steps forward one back

  • Hahaha, that tractor is cheap.

    But certainly does resemble a freight train climbing a hill.

  • great video but a Fowler or a Burrell would have made it in one go !

  • Helpless on hill

    2:50 more weight on the front axle needed

    pressure is high enough

  • He must have the pop-off set at lower

    pressure because the steam tractors I

    remember could chug up mountains

    pulling log haulers. Its so old now that

    he probably don't want to risk a boiler

    explosion with extra pressure.

  • When she stops on the incline and vents steam, is that through a automatic pressure release valve? When I was a kid, a friend of ours in South Jersey had one of these. He also had a Stanley Steamer too. Hell with Al Gore - Steam rules!

  • Yes, Th PRV is releasing excess pressure.

  • @garystoys What does the valve on the right side on the steambox do?

  • Come on peerless where's the Torque.

    Nice vid!

  • Tanner, he just doesn't appreciate what steam did for this country.

    See you back on smokstaks

  • Then dont look in the mirror dude.....

  • It's not a piece of crap its only got 1 cylinder a 1 cylinder gas engine wouldn't even move on flat ground at the weight of this tractor.

  • it's only steam!!!!

  • Steem is generated by coal....

  • Ah but steam can be made by any heat source. Tractors are normally powerd by wood witch pollutes a lot less that coal.

  • It's only steam!!!!

  • there's more carbon coming from your bitching, than there is coming from that old road loco.

    BTW, do i hear a whistle in the backround at 0:29 secs?

    Traction engines FTW

  • @Mutske161

    A ha ha ha hah! :)

  • Wish I'd been there, that looks like brilliant fun!!!!

  • the boiler was a bit full for that all the water in the back and the front end comes up

  • She didnt make it, but all that steam puffing is so beautiful. The Frick got the job done but this Peerless puffing is so much nice... Great videos!

  • Dramatic and exciting video.

  • my grandma walks faster

  • nothin like the sound of steam

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