Steam Engine Tractor Pull

[purcellm100]

that thing needs a lot of tlc to look like it did bake in the hay day (sorry if i used the word when i put hay day)

[marksalot2116]

that was cool as heck. thanks...

[mhoyer01]

I hope they test those boilers. That thing looks old!

[Speediet44]

@mhoyer01

boilers have to be inspected and tested on a yearly basis to receive insurance to operate. you also have to have whats called a steam ticket to run it.

[FireDropTechnologies]

But for shear torque?

Well? you get the picture.

[dook2u1]

Thank you, I am a true fan of anything connected with live steam !

[Killerkiiwii369]

TREVOR THE TRACTION ENGINE is very strong even though he's old

[squirtjosie7]

That is a thing of beauty.

[wuerp]

shame it didn't go chooooo choooo at the end 

[keeganv]

@wuerp LOL!!

[trainman665]

We used to have a steam engine, it was a 6 inch gauge borrow, it pulled over 46 tons!!!!!!!!

[FARMALLfarmall]

i have bean looking on youtube for a VERY long time and i cant EVER find a video this cool... im speachless.. this is the COOLEST VIDEO ON YOUTUBE!!!!! my hat is off to you...

farmallfarmall

[badslabber]

a torque monster ,love it

[GSmr666]

For Ref. This type of steam engine would probably have a thermal efficiency of less than 10%, a multiple expansion steam engine around 25%,a modern steam power station 40 to 50% (but don't forget you've got transmission losses and have to consider the efficiency of an electic motor do drive anything.

A modern petrol engine is around 30% eff. and the latest diesel ship engines are over 50% eff.

[mr2jags]

Nice Boiler steering !!

[spillz09]

That was so freaking awesome!

[Weldernils]

Very cool putting the heat to it like that. Hat's off to you

[doubleboost]

Pure torque

Max power 0 rpm at half stroke

[hiyadroogs]

@doubleboost Close, but no cigar! At half stroke when stationary maximum torque is being produced, but no power. Bhp is a product of torque & revs. So, for example, a steam loco can exert 100,000 ft/lbs of torque on its driving wheels to start a 1000 ton train on the move, but until those big old driving wheels start revolving, however slowly, not a single bhp is being produced. So 10,514 ft/lbs @ 50 rpm = 100 bhp. So does 105 ft/lbs @ 5000 rpm, or 52.5 ft/lbs @ 10,000 rpm.

[thecelticsteamer]

Thats nothing, look up wesley glynns big mclaren traction engine pulling at rossdillig rally near borris. co carlow on youtube and you will see what steam engines traactor pulling is all about

[cuautlajal]

Steam engines show everybody the true meaning of torque.

[b00rk]

that fast rotating wheel looks pretty dangerous..

[gunny426plymouth]

@b00rk yeah thats why you dont stick your hand in there union reppy thats one reason why we lost our power in this country pussys looking out for retards who dont even deserve to be working on stuff like this. am i right???

[eddie100]

Steam power should be reconsidered in some applications. They are most efficient at high temperatures. Petrol and diesel motors need to be cooled, which implies a waste of energy, hence inefficiency.

[blibbax]

DOMINATING

[TheHanluo]

Steam Engine so strong!!!!!

[akinorhan5]

steam is very powerful!!!

[RoobinXIII]

nice video

[HalleWestfalenKanal]

Nice vid

[beattronix]

I ride this mathaaafukin beat like a tractorr

[DrFrankensteam]

Right on man!!!! Now thats a tractor!

[spark23ca]

if you had them running on hho....could have powered the world and never even herd of a gas engine or global warming or none of that nonsense ...this is a wondering vid

[pv2xeek]

Wow. I was not expecting that. Awesome piece of machinery.

[DanielRemains]

How much torque in that?

[ncktbs]

ha ha cool quietest tractor pull in history

[jrkepler]

Steam engines are at their most powerful when they're stalled, they're like electrics.

[Ginrai89]

Run out of track !??

[fireburst102]

Nothing will stop it besides blowing up, flippin backwards or the wheels start spinnin it the dirt digging a deep rut in the ground.

[scott4fliss]

over 100 years old as well!!

[JJINCWorldWide]

That thing would blow up before you could stop it.

[bulldog32220]

ol girl didnt even struggle!! pure power

[wqpeb]

Often just 20 HP at the crankshaft. Will pull a house down.

Steam injectors can feed this baby no problem at 100 PSI...I think I like the Penberthy better than others. Pretty efficient.

[midgetcogger]

now there is a tractor.

[FatKidOnA250]

Called traction engines for a reason ;) gerron!! I actually saw you guys do that pull..

[TK42138]

Torque wins races - power sells engines.

Gotta love steam.

[brother776]

whats it pulling??

[spoonnz]

what a grunty mother fucker!!

[pigrep]

Great !!!!

[ozzirt]

A great effort,....

[micmoable]

That's some mean dang pulling---steam tractors are tough!

[Fireheart528]

that was amazing.

[hiyadroogs]

And this is only a single cylinder engine that has only flywheel inertia to carry the piston over the dead centres! Just think what a big twin cylinder compound could pull.

[andyg3]

to think, when it comes down to it, all thats doing that is steam filling an area thats only a few inches by a few inches

power

[flash51050]

and that,s what you call power . beet that with just water and fire

[sandman19681012]

That was absolutely great. What a magestic machine. Thanks for posting!

[usimakithomasjohn]

rat rod =)

[Justy330]

Back in the day when alot of trains used wood as fuel. That's far less polution then a car engine. Think a study was done about 10 years ago saying a steam engine train put out the same amount of polution as a 4 cycle weed trimmer.

[porpoisefathom]

@Justy330 true!! wood actually releases stored co2 into the atmosphere when burned actually helps the planet!

and it totally renewable...

[TheCopterDr]

Steam is probably more efficient if you look at the truth that steam engines run on crude fuel, and otto cycle engines need refined fuel to run, which if the energy used to make the gasoline is factored in, otto cycle engines pale in comparison to rankine cycle machines. Jus' sayin'.

[dirtTdude]

impressive.....

[123wazzy]

u can only trust steam! steam rules and they always will!

[pissedatpez]

well that is amazing, screw gasoline, this and the stanley steamcars have made me choose to do a major motorswap in my blown up motorcycle.

[ashleybob3]

That wait was far to light for it! theses things could carry 2 of them up hill and make it look easy!

[windandsun68]

What people dont think of is we all use and need steam today. not much has changed. even a nuke plant is steam powered.

[forresthop]

at first shes like "UGH haven't had to pull something like this in a while" CHUG chug chug...

[frackcha]

beast!! slow, not completely steady, but impressive non the less

[NathansBackwoods]

id love to have that and skid logs with it.

[hvguy]

very cool

[Polybun]

Watching this again, I missed it last time, Holy crap, look at the size of the fly wheel on that one! I mean, steamers have nice bit fly wheels, but that one is a tall skinny one rather than a short fat one....

[HugeJasFilms]

That's amazing!!!

[Shipwright1918]

So how'd she do, compared with the rest of the field? I hope it whupped 'em all real good!

[CBMXX]

very strong

thanks for share

[harpo103]

Did he win?

[Anarchemitis]

Yup.

[Johnny11149]

Steam over "infernal corruption" engines any day! That was enjoyable.

[skateboard4zero]

How could you be proud, taking an engine in that state to a rally!?

[ssbbman12343]

chaga chaga chaga chaga

[quatfro]

FULL PULL!!! Now that is some serious torque. @polybun Couldn't have put it better myself. One of the worlds most efficient engines, if not THE most is the triple expansion engine fitted to the Waverley paddle steamer. Recorded at over 50%.

[DambustersSquad617]

She doesn't belch out as much smoke as some of the tractor pullers either!

[1foxtrot70]

WOW! This is like a Timex watch...as John Cameron Swayze would say," Timex, It takes a lick'n and keeps on tick'n!"

[bulldog32220]

pure power thess old tractors are super strong

[NathansBackwoods]

Put a wheelie bar on the back, then It would have gone right through the trees.

[derneuschooer]

very beautiful engine

[rayunseitig]

What a great enine.

[scott4fliss]

COAL AND WATER SO SIMPLE?

[NollieFlipX]

Hmm if they do that with steam tech from 80 years ago... what wouldn´t we do today?

[NollieFlipX]

No matter how far technology goes... damn I just love steam machines. They are so complex and powerfull. If we only had some other kind of fuel to make steam...

[pik0]

That's all torque baby!! Nothing beats steam!!

[RRboyLEGOboy]

@pik0 from 1900's!

[markstiev]

that thing looks ugly but has a lot of power

[ROCKSOLID19]

that thing can haul ass!!!!

[Mclaren1O]

Mclaren Traction engine 1896 i think. It could probably pull even better if the saftey valves were lifting.

[Bidone1967]

Nice pull. The old engine have a lot of power!

[NathansBackwoods]

Im from america, but all steam tractors are cool, id take thet one in a heartbeat.

[NathansBackwoods]

Pure power

[Polybun]

anyone want to guess the last time that boiler saw hydro?

[hollywood1340]

Sadly you can't tell that from looking at it.

[ftorresgamez]

One of the great advantages of a steam engine is that it does not "stall" like a diesel or a gasoline engine (meaning, it does not turn off when stopped). The steam is still applying pressure to the piston even if the weight is too great for the power given: the engine is still "on."

The disadvantages, of course, are the weight, the inefficiency of the machine, the fact that it has to get up to steam to operate (same problem that plagued the Stanley Steamer). But still a simple machine.

[wisheywashey]

Maximum torque is produced at zero revs,

[Polybun]

What inefficiency? They actually do a pretty damn good job thermodynamically. Far better than any internal combustion engine will ever do.

[ROCKSOLID19]

@ftorresgamez these are beautiful machines but well technology moves on..... you can't love a tractor, same with a train or a jet plane.

[Polybun]

What inefficiency? They actually do a pretty damn good job thermodynamically. Far better than any internal combustion engine will ever do. They aren't simple machines either, far from it, in many ways far more complex than an internal combustion engine. Deceptively simple maybe. Ok so it's only steam, but you have variable valve timing, exaughst use to increase air intake, then you have to consider, just how do you shove water into a pressure vessle at 100psi?

[kez259]

@Polybun with cone injectors.

[Polybun]

@kez259 Or a pump. Feed water pumps actually work pretty damn well... when they aren't broken.

[kez259]

@Polybun Either way, it's a damned feat of engineering using steam from a locomotive boiler at 280 psi to force water back into itself at a higher pressure, a wonder of the industrial world. Although we have a few problems with injectors on the locos, it's usually a "tap it wi' t'hammer" type of job, haha.

[Polybun]

@kez259 eh, not really. I mean, water is nearly non compressible, so it's only a matter of a good seal at that point, and graphite packing will more than hold a few hundred psi. Amazing is the sp&s 700's feed water pump, that runs off of waste steam from the cylinders. Mind you, it's a big fucking pump.

[NathansBackwoods]

@Polybun, i have yet to fully understand how boiler injectors work, they are cool though.

[Polybun]

Well, it's multiple things at work. First steam hits the cold feed water and is turned into water, creating a strong vacume. Because of a check valve, the water is then drawn into the injector. But the stream still has great velocity, so it then forces the water through another check valve, that rams it into the boiler. It uses a good deal of steam to run an injector, but, a small amount of water makes a large amount of steam. The water is also preheated by the steam.

[mwhite112393]

@Polybun Not to shoot you down (I love steam engines), but steam piston engines have somewhere around 6% thermal efficiency, whereas a typical gas engine had around 12%, and a diesel around 27%. Consult this video for more information if you please:/watch?v=GMdLbPS9R20&fe­ature=channel.

[peterfarrow]

@mwhite112393

I think you are being generous, steam engines are more like 4%.

[Polybun]

@mwhite112393 Have any proof of that? I don't think you are that close, and really it depends on the boiler. The engines themselves do really well. If it wasn't very effecient, power plants wouldn't use it.

[mwhite112393]

@Polybun Well, last I checked, Plants use turbines. I posted a video link to a documentary about it all. It lists the efficiencies of all pre-gasoline engines a ways into the video.

[peterfarrow]

@Polybun

Steam engines have about 4% efficiency, internal combustion engines range from 18% to 40% depending on factors such as petrol or diesel etc. To claim that an external combustion steam engine like this is good thermodynamically from the burning of solid fuel to turning the wheels, is inaccurate.

However steam engines such as these are much more fun and exciting, but NOT efficient.

[14omega28ok]

@peterfarrow But they are some of the most powerful fuckers as well lol I think if the steam engine was revisited and redone I think it would out do diesel anyday

[porpoisefathom]

@Polybun agreed...its still viable and people are starting to take notice of steam again...hand pumps can push water under heavy psi, some hydraulic hand pumps for hydrostatic tests can go to 10 000 psi no probs...

[bcberryfarm]

@Polybun - feedwater pump or steam powered lifting injectors.

[mwhite112393]

@Polybun Actually they're the lest thermally efficient. Combustion engines don't fair much better, but they're more efficient than Steam.

[Polybun]

@ftorresgamez But not the doble. Waiting to make steam is only a problem in fire tube boilers. In a water tube boiler you have steam in seconds.

[colinb110]

Cool video. have pulled a couple times with Case steam engines. you can tell the sled operator feathered it for this small engine. it would have powered out at the begining about the time it sounded liek it was going to, then he opened hte throttle because there wasnt alot of load on so he was able to keep going. :)

[ejcantrell]

Paint never made anything run better! lol Nice engine and great pull!

[Corollaboi]

ha ha mind if I steal that quote?!

[CBMXX]

very strong steam engine

[applecounty]

Met a lovely lady at the GDSF yesterday. A Marshall Roller, the guy running her caressed her with the occasional wipe of an oily rag (well a lady is entitled to wear a bit of lippy if she's on a day out). Otherwise she was just as she was, plain wonderful.

[nomemoalaroche]

WOW full pull !!

[benmk21600]

I have seen Daves engine pull lots of times before but missed this pull.

Great film+sound. Good pull!

One year they had a big Fowler plowing engine on! (That just pissed it!!)

[deadspong]

FULL PULL!!!! That was sweet!

[thecoolt]

Gosh, that engine need to have a repaint and fast! DX

[robkitchuk1991]

I think thats how its staying - the just of the fields look!

[thecoolt]

Well, just as long as the owner knows what he/she is doing

[benmk21600]

Repaint!! No way!!

Daves engine looks just right!

[thecoolt]

Whatever man, and like I said before "Just as long as the owner knows what he/she is doing".

End of discussion