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Is it the angle or does that W9 have really big pipes?

Oh you did just fine guy!

 

Thank you Sir.... he was a wonderful person. It is folks like him along with the kids make me push on to keep this tractor & engine show going.

 

How does it fire the power stroke ?

 

Now that’s a treasure!!

There is numerous steam engines at the Heritage Farm Museum where a bunch of us donate time. Each year is the spring fire up day, Myself and some friends work the Circular Sawmill. There is a Case steam engine being fixed at this time to put on the mill. Amazing the power steam has!!! If my memory is correct, it takes 30hp of internal combustion to equal 10hp of steam, that’s what is in my memory.

 

More torque in the steam than a I.C. engine can match ?

 

Looks like Spring Festival is May 4th this year. It’s like walking back into 1910. One of the early (electric trucks) is on display there too... battery operated from 1917?? Lot of cool stuff.

Heritage Farm, Huntington, WV

 

One part of the Fair display was a replica sawmill that they ran in the "old way". I could watch that for hours. The thing that really draws me in about the old engines, be it steam or internal combustion is how practical they are. Not overly complicated, but worked hard and could run on #### near anything.

My father mentioned that on the farm/dairy where he grew up, they were using some of those old engines through WW2, because they just worked. Grandad was a machinist and steam engine mechanic. If stuff broke on the farm, he just made a new part and kept a lot of old "junk" running. Also used horses to work the fields into the '50's.

Was talking to him about these old engines and whatnot a few months ago. He mentioned "Oh, well you know, down in the canyon near the house where you grew up there were some antique pumps and engines just sitting down there by the creek"

"No, Dad, I didn't know that.... Makes me want to go down there and grab them"

 

Unlike internal combustion, steam is max torque from 0 to max rpm. And yes, it takes a BIG I.C engine to do the job of a small Steam engine. We usually run the mill at the Heritage Farm with a 60hp + farm tractor, couple years ago we ran it on 20hp of steam, done a great job too. I have some video here somewhere of the steam on the Sawmill if y’all would like to see it. Might get Shooter to help us?

 

You should grab them before some junk hauler does! We ever get on a war and our satellites are taken out, folks be wishing they knew how to run this old stuff lol.

 

Oilfield pump jacks have something like it around here.
Put put put ...put put put....put put put ...
All day.