Don Hunters Holt Steam Tractor

[SMGJohn]

The bad thing about older steam powered machines is that they used reglar boilers, which where big and heavy. Now days we have flash boilers which are small and compact and more effective then a regular boiler.

With flash boiler these machines would be the size of a car and have 500 horsepowers

[KB9813]

now that just F right up

[iugrehc]

#"Steam Tractor apres 010

[RoadCaptainEntertain]

Now I know why those old Farmers I met as a child were missing fingers and arms.

[stayinstock]

@RoadCaptainEntertain haha! right? If the driver ever slipped and fell,the pulleys gears and flywheels would chew him up and toss him out on the ground.

[bulletfingrz]

that is a nice tractor there wish there was more than one!!

[selmerthegod]

That moves at quite a pace, nice unit.

[fallingup90]

i love all those sounds that steam tractor makes

[noonsight2010]

It's great to see historioc vehicles in their working enviroment. I admire the dedication of people who restore and/or keep them going. Well done!

[aklnrt]

Wow imagine falling into all the moving parts on that thing!

[RoobinXIII]

muy bueno video, la maquina tiene mas ruedas dentadas que un reloj, jamas un tractor de lo moderno de hoy duraran lo que dura esa

[zhmapper]

This is pretty darn awesome.

[mrdann42]

sure doesn't look like its going to set any speed records but it sure looks pretty neat

[TheManInDboX]

Unfortunately if anything broke you would have to buy china made parts, since all the steel mills that put this thing together are long gone... Not to mention any other company that had a hand in it has guaranteed changed hands to some jap company..

[fizzguts]

@TheManInDboX Your complete lack of knowledge of what is available in the USA as far as castings, foundries and machining makes you an embarrassment.

[TheManInDboX]

@fizzguts So what you're saying is you can list a dozen different Mills in the USA? Ones that produce US Steel? Not places that make things out of imported products... hell i bought a TV stand that says made in china on the box, but i put it together.. SO i guess by your method it is made here too... Right?

[fizzguts]

@TheManInDboX manta .com Forgings Iron & Steel over 46 entries and that doesn't even scratch the surface

How about US Steel in Gary, River Rouge,Granite city?

Cast iron which the Holt uses. Dozens of small to medium casting and foundries such as Pier Foundry exist in the USA 20 seconds with Google would have told you all this.

You are an embarrassment . Did you sleep through history and geography or were you to busy learning how to say "you want fries with that"

[TheManInDboX]

@fizzguts You are correct "Us Steel" Still exists, they produce less then 10% of the steel in the USA. They produced in 1901 about 67% of the steel in the US. So that tells me that you would need to get parts from elsewhere, since they do not produce excess. Supply and demand, Simple economics my friend.. Actually if you look deeper which i am sure you will, the Sumitomo company of Mexico supplies ALL of the US auto manufacturers with their steel..

[fizzguts]

@TheManInDboX Sigh This is a REPRODUCTION built in the USA 2005-2008 from parts made by local foundries and by fabrication. If anything broke Don Hunter who built the replica would fix it. Which is why your original post was complete moose drool

[rainbow6vegaslover]

I am surpriesed how fast it went

[lkjlkjlkjlkjlkjlkj6]

DDUUUUUDDDEEEE

[micmoable]

tracs like a bulldozer

[micmoable]

almost like a bulldoze

[jrkepler]

How does he fire it? I don't see any sort of firebox door.

[RegLeachFan]

Great vid, awesome tractor. Thanks for sharing.

[marshallvalvestate]

i wouldnt wan to run that thing, holy christ would it ever be scary haha

[4freespeech]

Man, keep your shirt tail in!

[TheLindaOz]

This is the BEST tractor video I`ve ever seen

[minorot]

What a beautiful bit of nostalgia in this tractor and plow. On the other hand, this is the kind of farm machinery that would kill you if given half a chance. Old time farmers were a brave lot.

[DirTyOhGee]

zero pollution???

[drh1111]

@DirTyOhGee yeah, and the funny thing is that we can mass produce hybrids but not steam engines

[DirTyOhGee]

@drh1111 yup...huge oil company's cant make profit from steam. Its a crime against the earth and the people on it and all in the name of profit.

[drh1111]

@DirTyOhGee sense you think the same as i do you should know that diesel exhaust is cleaner than gas exhaust

QOTD: Can you put any kind of water in a steam engine, Like salt and lake water?

[DirTyOhGee]

@drh1111 Is it really??? You wouldn't know it by how it smells so bad!!! lol...but I lOVE the sound of the engines.

[redreaper2020]

@drh1111 that will corrode the cylinders very badly...desalinize the water first.

I've never owned a steame engine, but I know a friend who made oen and made the same mistake.

[Dockshund]

It needs about 700 of those little yellow "DANGER" stickers they put on everything you could possibly get hurt on these days. NOT

[McVaio]

@Dockshund

Lol so true. They even put those on safety devices ;-)

[cyberteque]

@Dockshund I was just thinking that!

Oc Health and Safety would have a cow if someone built a machine like this now!

[mowrman100]

@Dockshund We'd have never progressed if OSHA and EPA had been around in gramps day.

[alex9289]

@Dockshund

your are right,never came on my mind but at the time this machine is made ,only rich or prosper will afford it and whoevr made it will not care about those who worked around or operate it, an example of the early american dream works.

[ThePetrolhead56]

how steam punk is his beast?

[sw8741]

hmmm.....is this a reproduction of the first caterpillar tractor? i remember the story of 2 farmers trying to find a way to keep their steam tractors from sinking into the soil around stockton california. they kept making the wheels longer and longer but nothing worked. when one of them came up with tracks, someone said it looked like a caterpillar walking along the ground

[pennerspike]

@sw8741 According to a book in my collection, it was the inventors daughter who first said it looked like a caterpillar.

[peepeevagi]

Why dont they sell Holt tractor kits? I'd build it :D

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Well, then again i'd be the ass to do away with the steam engine and put a v16Diesel on it.

[MyDavid1960]

nice...looks like some farmer put it togather in hi back yard.....lol

[Bidone1967]

Very nice engine!

[trainguy111]

WOW! Where can I find a model of it?

[avantgars]

such a wonderful machine

[41Zman]

the ONLY original part is the Crankshaft. everything else was cast and machined

[peepeevagi]

Wow. It faster than most too.