Do Not Adjust Your Sound!

This is a Nichols and Shepherd double simple steam engine pulling a thresher at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa at the Labor Day 2008 show. A John Deere tractor was set up next to the engine, and was running with no muffler. Leslie Nielsen would have felt right at home on the operator's platform.

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• Threshers

[DavidN23Skidoo]

Yes; at the 2008 show.

[DavidN23Skidoo]

The Nichols is a double simple engine; meaning that it has two cylinders which use steam one time, then it is exhausted. The pistons are pushed both ways, so in one revolution the engine has four power strokes. The engine noise you hear in this video is a John Deere tractor next to the steamer. It was an aggravation at the time, but it makes a good joke.

[salemcripple]

I know this is a steam engine, but it sounds just like an ICE. weird.

[DavidN23Skidoo]

There was a John Deere set up right nest to it. Why they could not have turned it off until after the treshing demo, I don't know.  It's one of the trials of shooting video, so I just had fun with it. Thanks for writing!

[localcrew]

I adjusted my sound. Sorry.

[funtarded]

Aah, simple efficient steam power. We hardly knew ye.

[Ryoku75]

Why can't we have steam driven cars anymore? I'd take one ever electric easily!

[TheMirz99]

back when men were men and didnt go to salons

[carcomp101]

Dude, why did you title your video "Do Not Adjust Your Sound". Honestly I'm sorry but people please title your video's something that relates to the video. Something like "Antique hay bailing equipment running" makes a lot more sense than "Do Not Adjust Your Sound".

[mickblock]

where's the hay and pitch forks... oh there they are. Ok.

[BigEsGarage]

OK?

[bryncomeaux]

lets go back to the old ways they were better women did the laundry and blackes hoed the field and us white guys just had to go around beating everybody and taking the value of thir labor. yep the old ways sure were about an honest dauys work for an honest days pay. for you but not for us thats why were liberals and you guys lost cause there are more of us than you. want work pay for it otherwise shut the hell up. theres no free lunch for you either

[bryncomeaux]

@BigEsGarage i am the .ooooooooooooo99% that is just one person. And i'll tell you why i dont want to work. mabey you get paid but i don't i can't afford to pay the cost of employment without gettinh anything back for it. i lived in a van and painted houses. i end up with less than minimum wage. I got a house no thanks to working and still painted because people want me too. i painted the costco but they didnt pay. so why work there not paying? even grandpa wouldn't dothat

[joek0617]

@DavidN23Skidoo it's a 1/4 stroke?

[1alecxg]

@funtarded because it wasnt that efficient.

[combatwombat996]

its a wonkavator