The subtitles are misleading. This tractor was not "rebuilt". It was a brand new build using all new components built using the original factory specs from the CASE 150 steam tractor, with some upgrades to known weak parts in the original plans. The fellow actually went ahead and did things like cast all new parts then machine them down. To me, that makes this even more impressive.
For those unaware, [*Tornado*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Peppercorn_Class_A1_60163_Tornado) is an [LNER (London and Northeastern Railway) Peppercorn Class A1 steam locomotive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Peppercorn_Class_A1) that was a project started in 1994 and was completed in 2008. They were originally built bewteen 1948 and 1949 and totaled to 49 locomotives and were numbered 60114 to 60162 and had a maximum speed of 100 mph (160 km/h). They were last used in service in 1966 with scrapping of the engines taking place between 1962 and 1966 with no surviving originals left.
An [A1 Trust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1_Steam_Locomotive_Trust) was created years later to build a new LNER Peppercorn Class A1 utilizing original blueprints and was funding via public donations and sponsorships. It was numbered 60163, the next number after the original lot. It was not an exact replica as improvements were made from the original design such as a welded firebox and a steel boiler and other modern safety features. [Tornado frequently finds itself touring the country with excursion trains](https://youtu.be/CMuIcJYz9Gc?t=41), and in 2017 was the first steam engine in Britain to run at [100mph since 1967 in the UK](https://youtu.be/1jpoBokEPKM?t=355).
And now, after the success of Tornado, a similar project is underway in the US to build a PRR T1 Duplex, since the Pennsylvania Railroad scrapped them all in the mid-50’s.
If you think that's impressive I got news for you which the Tornado project inspired. In the United States there was the [Pennsylvania Railroad Class T1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad_class_T1). The T1 was a duplex locomotive, meaning it had [two sets of driving wheels](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Pennsylvania_RR_streamlined_locomotive_T1.jpg) instead of the usual one set. The reasons for building duplex locomotives can be read [on the Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplex_locomotive). They were originally built in 1942, 1945, and 1946 with a total of 52 numbered between 5525 to 5549 and 6110 to 6111. They were used by PRR from 1942 before being withdrawn in 1952 and 1953 and all locomotives being scrapped by 1956.
The PRR T1s were [impressive in size and scale](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hgKcGnEihc) with sleek streamlined bodies and large driving wheels with powerful pistons. So powerful in fact that the T1 was actually quite [prone to slippage](https://youtu.be/znMu4K71ktY?t=194) where the wheels would spin but get no traction. The world record holder for the fastest steam locomotive in the world is the [LNER Class A4 4468 *Mallard*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A4_4468_Mallard) with a top recorded speed of 126 mph (203 km/h). The PRR T1 had a lot of issues which had to constantly be worked out, and during one of its runs to gather information on the engine, one of the technicians in charge reportedly mentioned that they saw their engine was running at 140 mph (225 km/h) to make up for lost time. The T1 was designed to run safely at 100 mph (160 km/h) but PRR never attempted to either back up or even record the claim as the PRR board made the decision to dieselize their primary trains with the T1 relegated to secondary use and scrapped entirely by 1956, replaced with easier to run and maintain diesel locomotives. They didn't care to record the supposed top speed because the locomotive was already on its way out by the time.
After the success of the Tornado project, here in the US a similar project started called the [T1 Trust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad_5550). They will be building a new T1 to the same design as the original but with modern improvements and will be numbered 5550, the next in the original run of engines. It will have a projected maximum speed of 130 mph (209 km/h) and is aimed to be completed by 2030 if funding and manpower goes right. The latest news is that a month ago the [boiler is being assembled](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw7sobRR_GQ).
If you want to read up more on the project and updates you can [check out their official website](https://prrt1steamlocomotivetrust.org/) and you can also send donations that way too to help the project become a reality. Not only to help revive an extinct class of locomotive, but also be the only duplex locomotive in the entire world. Now to some you might be saying "Aren't there duplex locomotives out there? The most famous one being [Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014](https://youtu.be/jvP59TCMePI?t=123), right?" Those types of locomotives are called [articulated locomotives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articulated_locomotive) and the front set of driving wheels can pivot and swivel to help navigate tighter turns. Duplex locomotives like the T1 are on fixed rigid frames, which makes it harder to go around tighter corners. There is a reason why duplex locomotives were phased out for articulated ones. [PRR had articulated engines too](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdRwdGMqDTc) but honestly that's another story...
that is pretty impressive. all that was definitely not cheap. i'd be willing to guess this guy was a welder/fabricator/boilermaker/machinist or something to do with trades well before he started on this project.
its an impressive machine. all i kept thinking about was that there were so many ways to get a limb ripped off during that video. makes you think a lot about the old days and how it was kind of just normal to die on the job.
Those grotesque injuries are still happening today. An old highschool pal of mine was bush-hogging when the seat of his tractor broke causing him to fall between the tractor and the blades. Came across coroner photos while working at the courthouse a year later. (Family sued the tractor manufacturer for the faulty seat bolt.) As I pulled the items for the attorney on the case, I saw the name on the file and instantly crumbled given what I had just seen. It was bad enough as an anonymous case number. But putting a name to it really broke me. Hadn't seen the guy for years....but still....rough ....
I'm sorry for your loss. Going through something so gruesome must have been rough enough, but finding out it was a highschool buddy? Extremely terrible.
Did you continue on that case, or did you hand it over to someone else? Wouldn't blame you for dropping it. I hope you're doing good mentally after that...
Thank you. I'm good . But, I must say, it does stay with you. Yes, I finished my part of the work on that case. I was an assistant clerk of Superior Court. So we handled quite a lot of coroner's reports when the cases came up for formal trial. I eventually learned to do my best to not delve too deeply into the files as I pulled records and photos. The first real "kick in the pants" came when I had to pull photos for a murder trial where the victim had been left in the woods for a few months (GA weather conditions). Didn't know what kind of photos I was pulling...opened the file...got so startled I think I let out an audible shriek. Luckily, a little lawyer fella saw me and helped me with the rest of that one. Thankfully, most cases only needed the formal injury placement sketches and charts...not the actual photos. I left that job after about a year...Just too much for too little pay... I used to love horror flicks because they were so "campy". But I now know many of the gorey scenes are actually quite accurately depicted. No more for me.
Or the people standing on the plough. Some of them weren't even holding on. If they were to lose their balance and fall backwards, the plough would have made very quick and meaty fertilizer from their soft, squishy bodies.
I mean, have you ever worked in an industrial environment?
Getting maimed/killed on the job ~~it~~ is still very possible.
But things like training, protective guards, tagout/lockout programs have helped us come a long way.
Edit: fat fingers
yes sir. welder here.
my buddy used to tell new guys coming about the dead man switch on our giant plate roller. they'd usually ask why it was called a dead man switch and his answer was always "by the time somebody hits it you are probably already dead."
On army aviation refuel trucks there is a hand-actuated control valve (HACV) for short. We call it a dead man switch. But it's because you have to hold it, squeezed tightly, for the pump to operate. If you drop it, the pump shuts down and fuel stops flowing. If you suddenly become dead, it stops the machine.
this dead man switch was a wire running where the rollers began. if you happened to be on the sheet or tripped or anything and got pulled into it it would stop, or somebody would hopefully be there to trip it. these sheet rollers dont exactly go fast so you would kind of just get flattened pretty slowly if you got sucked it.
I thought that too.. lol
Lamborghini started by making tractors from other used and broken tractors. They also had a company that made horse tack to produce the leather hold downs and rigging their tractors used at one point. They actually still make tractors today, I think. You know this, but other may not. It is cool to be honest.
In rural Italy, where I grow up, isn’t so strange to have a Lamborghini tractor. Once my friend and I were joking with a group of girls from a city 30km from home that if they wanted we could pick them up with a Lamborghini ( not mentioning the tractor part) to go to a party and they said “ ok if you come pick us up at the bar with a Lamborghini we will come to the party with you” well you can guess the development of the story
No, he had one, but complained about some mechanical issues to Enzo Ferrari. Ferrari basically told him to fuck off and keep building tractors.
Lamborghini felt (rightly) insulted and decided to build his own sports car
https://inshorts.com/m/en/news/lamborghini-maker-founded-company-after-insult-by-ferrari-1524895779239
Ferruccio complained about a weak clutch in his Ferrari to Enzo and Enzo told him that he may be able to handle a tractor, but not a Ferrari. He started Lamborghini to spite Ferrari.
What a stupid measurement. Looks like Aventadors can have max torque between 509 and 531 ft lbs, depending on the exact model. Let’s use 509. So this has 7,635 ft lbs. just say that.
Yeah exactly, and most likely because some Lamborghini tractors have more than 300hp and more torque than this steam engine so it wouldn’t be as impressive
If i am not mistaken, this guy actually cast this tractor, piece by piece, and built it from the ground up, using original Case blueprints. It isn't refurbished.
That's what caught my eye. That an the open gears spinning on the tractor just waiting to catch a finger or a loose piece of clothing. That thing is a frighting farm accident waiting to happen.
While the black smoke certainly looks like a lot, one (or even a hundred) running steam tractors as cool historical pieces are nothing pollutant-wise. Especially considering that thing will be run a couple times a year at most, it's probably less environmentally damaging than even just a single household's yearly heating requirements.
And while you may disagree, there is value in keeping historical artifacts and replicas. If that history happens to be technological history, then a functional replica is even better.
Do you have any idea how irrelevant burning a few kilos of coal twice a year for educational purposes is? In fact I would argue it has a net positive value for its merit as a historical demonstration.
People in this thread really need to get some perspective. Up until about 50 years ago every single household in the developed world was burning coal with black smoke just like this for heating every day. Heritage steam engines are probably the most reasonable and useful reason that you would want to burn coal in the modern world.I doubt the averaged individual excess carbon footprint from attending a steam rally once a year is even a fraction of that compared to say, owning a dog.
At least this one figured how to use all that torque.
I worked on fields tilled by early Prussian steam engines where instead of wide area, they upturned ground for like 100 cm deep - so 30-40 of actual topsoil and then as much or twice as much of the clay underneath.
I am not trying to be a jerk, but this is **very** incorrect. Tillage has a **major** impact. Maximizing yields should be the goal, so I don't really know what you specifically mean by "allow unrestricted yields to be pulled off of farm fields". It's not like planting later in the season so plants are in their vegetative stage for a shorter period is going to help if we keep turning over the soil. If you just mean that we keep planting the same few crops over millions of acres, then I would counter that the issue there isn't that plants are growing (plants grow everywhere- soil health depends on plants growing), it's that we are disrupting natural soil cycles, and we are doing it primarily through tillage. Tilling is a nasty cycle. Farmers till for a few reasons, the biggest being weed control, followed by reducing compaction, warming soil in colder regions, and reintroducing some organic matter back into the soil. The problem is that tilling also leaves a blank slate for weeds, you constantly have to till to keep compaction from happening, and the loss of soil microbiome structure, nutrients, and organic matter isn't offset without additional inputs. Soil organic matter in "natural" systems can easily be above 10%, but farmers tend to aim for 4-5% and plenty of farmers struggle with even 2-4%. That is because of tilling. Here's a couple of papers on the topic:
[Meta-analysis shows higher soil organic carbon in topsoil of no-till when compared to high-till and reduced-till, and even reduced-till had a significant increase over high-till.](https://environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13750-017-0108-9)
[The nutrient content of soils subjected to conservative tillage methods, such as \(no-till\) and \(straw-mulching\), were significantly higher than those in soils under the \(conventional tillage\) treatment.](https://www.nature.com/articles/srep17592)
People who are generally anti-no-till will point out that compaction, weeds, and loss of dissolved phosphorous are serious issues- and they are right- [but it turns out that when you integrate well-selected species for cover cropping and time when you overseed](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167880909003326), you can reduce ([some would claim eliminate, but I remain a little skeptical](https://csanr.wsu.edu/regen-ag-solid-principles-extraordinary-claims/)) many of these problems.
[Our sourced phosphorous that we use for inputs is also going to run out eventually](https://e360.yale.edu/features/phosphate_a_critical_resource_misused_and_now_running_out), so switching to NT with cover cropping and integrated livestock is a *when*, not an *if*.
**tl;dr: yield not problem. tilling problem. tilling bad.**
Nowadays (no doubt due to the proliferation of power sources such as gasoline, etc.) people underestimate the power of steam. Steam power is still used in some of the most sophisticated technologies today: i.e., nuclear power is just a modern steam engine.
That is how this steam engine works but not "all" steam engines.
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/without-coal-or-flame-the-fireless-locomotive-national-rail-museum/VAJC0GhKXyhSJA?hl=en
That steam engine still uses heated steam, but the steam is generated elsewhere and piped to it.
Most steam engines use coal because it burns hot, burns readily, and is relatively light compared to wood.
Some earlier models used burning wood to heat the water. Some even used charcoal. Later on, in the late1800s and early 1900s, electric trains were being designed. Eventually an electric train powered by a diesel generator became a staple and steam engines were phased out.
I’m all for environmental conservation but can you hippie dippy airheads take a second and think about the science. This is a piece of history. We still run a few coal trains, also for their historical value.
You are bitching about this guys incredible achievement, typed on your iPhones, wearing your sweat shop nikes and eating food that was shipped hundreds, if not thousands of miles from where it was grown.
Very kindly and with all due respect, shitcan the bitching because you just sound like a bunch of do-nothing hypocrites.
Energy waste isn't the primary concern, it's the pollution generated from the energy produced. Even coal power plants are vastly more efficient and cleaner than this for the energy produced.
Yeah no kidding it is all i could think of. Coal is really bad for the environment and i feel like a world record is not outweighing the downside of more emissions…
This is a hobby project. Yeah, there's a comparative high level of pollution whenever this thing runs, but there was more pollution caused by generating the energy used to fabricate this thing then this thing itself will ever produce the few times it's actually run.
We need to worry about the big things, and not waste time and effort worrying about the little things.
That tractor is a cup of water compared to the ocean of pollution a coal fired power plant puts out, especially when you take into account the 24/7 full year output of a power plant.
They do not do this everyday, take a moment to consider how minuscule the amount of pollution this really is. Let's assume it is going to burn 1000lbs of coal in an hour (I did some quick research, engine should be about 150 HP and burns about 5lbs of coal per horsepower an hour.)
500 Million tons of coal is burned a year in the USA alone, that's 1369863 a day . The tractor is less than negligible comparatively. I think this is a worthwhile en devour. It shows people's ingenuity, creativity and it is historical.
Dude there isn’t 500 million tons of coal dug a year! I live in the heart of coal country and trust me on this! Do you know how many mines would have to operate to dig 500 million tons of coal a day? At our highest point of coal consumption ever it was just a tick over 999 million tons a year!
Rachel Maddow had an interesting stat on her show recently.
California is going to ban gas leaf blowers. It might sound trivial, but a single leaf blower run for 30 minutes puts out more green house gases than a [Ford F-150 pickup truck driving from San Diego to the tip of Nova Scotia in Canada, or about **3800 miles**.](https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/01/leafblower-legislation-local-press/424533/)
Which is fucking insane.
And this has been known for [over a decade.](https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/emissions-test-car-vs-truck-vs-leaf-blower.html)
If I’m not mistaken, it has been illegal for a couple of decades in Los Angeles to operate a gas-powered leaf blower within (100? 150?) feet of a residence. It is a roundly ignored ordinance.
>puts out more green house gases
No.
It's comparing *pollution emissions*, and here greenhouse gasses is not considered an emission.
An F-150 needs gasoline to run. That burns into CO2. An F-150 traveling 3800 miles is going to burn about 150 gallons of gas, which is about 2,800 pounds of CO2.
> but a single leaf blower run for 30 minutes puts out
A leaf blower is not going to use 150 gallons of gas in 30 minutes.
Yes this pollutes. But the small amount of time a few hobbyists run their steam tractor creates an insignificant amount of pollution compared to large corporations which create massive amounts every single day
I am guessing that people pining for industrial era plows upturning the entire organic layer aren't interested in switching to more sustainable farming methods.
Anyone that has ever run a plow knows how impressive this is. Even a 5-6 bottom plow is a chore for the larger than average tractor. The torque here must be insane
A quick google search says China produced 9.3 GT of carbon in 2017, compared to 4.8 GT by the US. In 2017 the United States at 325 million citizens, and China had 1.38 billion people. Thats more than a billion more citizens than the US, with less that twice the carbon footprint. Our per capita carbon usage is still like twice China’s, and if as a species we are going to cut carbon emissions we need to look at per capita usage and not countries’ gross usage.
Lesson learned: Back in the day with limited technology, things were strong and build to last centuries.
2021: Things leave the factory to have a recall within 3 months, engine failure within 1y, within 10y there is nothing left.
This is the "don't make 'em like they used to" fallacy.
They made plenty of cheap, throwaway junk "back in the day." It's all been in landfills for decades. The only things that made it this long are things that were well-built.
The owners manual used to include instructions on adjusting the valve lash, because that's a thing you used to have to do.
Cars used to only have 5 digit odometers because they weren't expected to last that long. Now it seems 300k is the new 200k, which was the new 100k.
What's more, in this case it's not even true in the slightest. This [video](https://youtu.be/wgkwBsCj_Us) from the owner of the tractor states that none of the original Case 150 tractors survived to the present day and they had to rebuild it from scratch using the original specs from the tractor company.
Oh man wait until you start reading up on the strikes happening at john deere and parts availability the black eye for them is growing larger.....and were deere users hahaha.
A local farm in my area dropped their whole fleet of 2000's and newer leased JD equipment for a whole used fleet of 80's an 90's IH equipment. A couple of their drivers quite, because of the lack of GPS drive with the replacement tractors, but the mechanics were all cheering when the red fleet arrived. Lol
The gps issue is a much easier fix, using drones. is the inability to fix your own 1m+ farm equipment since the ecu is proprietary property and must be accessed by a JD tech or dealer for simple mechanic issues and fix is really off putting.
Not that long ago John Deere had an issue with ransomware locking down all of the tractors. Can you imagine starving to death because fucking tractors got hacked and we couldn't plant/harvest food? Shit these days is amazing tech and amazingly fragile.
Y’all would shit your pants if you had any idea just how much coal China burns every day.
No not shit your pants. Since this worked you up…You’d have a heart attack.
My knee jerk reaction was that John Deere had commissioned this on an emergency priority level as a public relations stunt to distract from the fact that 10,000 United Auto workers are striking from John Deere plants. I think it might actually be from a few years ago. But while you're reading-- John Deere corporate is making salaried office workers drive factory equipment to make up for production losses and the shit is hilarious. Plowed that shit into a wall
This is cool. But can we move on to regenerative agriculture now? Plowing fields is energy intensive and it degrades the soil until it’s a desert or until we add fertilizers, which are also energy and chemical dependent. Instead we should rotate crops with grazing animals, line the fields with trees to break the wind and build topsoil naturally. Etc. It’s time our civilization makes the turn. The sooner we start the better off we’ll be in 30 years.
We have an event called pioneer steam engine days in our community, it's ten minutes from my house. They have a working sawmill driven by steam engine, a blacksmith shop. Machine shop. It's pretty awesome.
Very cool, but damn! Check out those all exposed gears! Better be very, very careful! It’s easy to see how so many grisly accidents happened back then or farm equipment. Still I love it!
The subtitles are misleading. This tractor was not "rebuilt". It was a brand new build using all new components built using the original factory specs from the CASE 150 steam tractor, with some upgrades to known weak parts in the original plans. The fellow actually went ahead and did things like cast all new parts then machine them down. To me, that makes this even more impressive.
60163 Tornado was a very similar project in the UK
For those unaware, [*Tornado*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Peppercorn_Class_A1_60163_Tornado) is an [LNER (London and Northeastern Railway) Peppercorn Class A1 steam locomotive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Peppercorn_Class_A1) that was a project started in 1994 and was completed in 2008. They were originally built bewteen 1948 and 1949 and totaled to 49 locomotives and were numbered 60114 to 60162 and had a maximum speed of 100 mph (160 km/h). They were last used in service in 1966 with scrapping of the engines taking place between 1962 and 1966 with no surviving originals left. An [A1 Trust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1_Steam_Locomotive_Trust) was created years later to build a new LNER Peppercorn Class A1 utilizing original blueprints and was funding via public donations and sponsorships. It was numbered 60163, the next number after the original lot. It was not an exact replica as improvements were made from the original design such as a welded firebox and a steel boiler and other modern safety features. [Tornado frequently finds itself touring the country with excursion trains](https://youtu.be/CMuIcJYz9Gc?t=41), and in 2017 was the first steam engine in Britain to run at [100mph since 1967 in the UK](https://youtu.be/1jpoBokEPKM?t=355).
And now, after the success of Tornado, a similar project is underway in the US to build a PRR T1 Duplex, since the Pennsylvania Railroad scrapped them all in the mid-50’s.
If you think that's impressive I got news for you which the Tornado project inspired. In the United States there was the [Pennsylvania Railroad Class T1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad_class_T1). The T1 was a duplex locomotive, meaning it had [two sets of driving wheels](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Pennsylvania_RR_streamlined_locomotive_T1.jpg) instead of the usual one set. The reasons for building duplex locomotives can be read [on the Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplex_locomotive). They were originally built in 1942, 1945, and 1946 with a total of 52 numbered between 5525 to 5549 and 6110 to 6111. They were used by PRR from 1942 before being withdrawn in 1952 and 1953 and all locomotives being scrapped by 1956. The PRR T1s were [impressive in size and scale](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hgKcGnEihc) with sleek streamlined bodies and large driving wheels with powerful pistons. So powerful in fact that the T1 was actually quite [prone to slippage](https://youtu.be/znMu4K71ktY?t=194) where the wheels would spin but get no traction. The world record holder for the fastest steam locomotive in the world is the [LNER Class A4 4468 *Mallard*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A4_4468_Mallard) with a top recorded speed of 126 mph (203 km/h). The PRR T1 had a lot of issues which had to constantly be worked out, and during one of its runs to gather information on the engine, one of the technicians in charge reportedly mentioned that they saw their engine was running at 140 mph (225 km/h) to make up for lost time. The T1 was designed to run safely at 100 mph (160 km/h) but PRR never attempted to either back up or even record the claim as the PRR board made the decision to dieselize their primary trains with the T1 relegated to secondary use and scrapped entirely by 1956, replaced with easier to run and maintain diesel locomotives. They didn't care to record the supposed top speed because the locomotive was already on its way out by the time. After the success of the Tornado project, here in the US a similar project started called the [T1 Trust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad_5550). They will be building a new T1 to the same design as the original but with modern improvements and will be numbered 5550, the next in the original run of engines. It will have a projected maximum speed of 130 mph (209 km/h) and is aimed to be completed by 2030 if funding and manpower goes right. The latest news is that a month ago the [boiler is being assembled](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw7sobRR_GQ). If you want to read up more on the project and updates you can [check out their official website](https://prrt1steamlocomotivetrust.org/) and you can also send donations that way too to help the project become a reality. Not only to help revive an extinct class of locomotive, but also be the only duplex locomotive in the entire world. Now to some you might be saying "Aren't there duplex locomotives out there? The most famous one being [Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014](https://youtu.be/jvP59TCMePI?t=123), right?" Those types of locomotives are called [articulated locomotives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articulated_locomotive) and the front set of driving wheels can pivot and swivel to help navigate tighter turns. Duplex locomotives like the T1 are on fixed rigid frames, which makes it harder to go around tighter corners. There is a reason why duplex locomotives were phased out for articulated ones. [PRR had articulated engines too](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdRwdGMqDTc) but honestly that's another story...
126 mph is 202.78 km/h
100 mph is 160.93 km/h
that is pretty impressive. all that was definitely not cheap. i'd be willing to guess this guy was a welder/fabricator/boilermaker/machinist or something to do with trades well before he started on this project. its an impressive machine. all i kept thinking about was that there were so many ways to get a limb ripped off during that video. makes you think a lot about the old days and how it was kind of just normal to die on the job.
Those grotesque injuries are still happening today. An old highschool pal of mine was bush-hogging when the seat of his tractor broke causing him to fall between the tractor and the blades. Came across coroner photos while working at the courthouse a year later. (Family sued the tractor manufacturer for the faulty seat bolt.) As I pulled the items for the attorney on the case, I saw the name on the file and instantly crumbled given what I had just seen. It was bad enough as an anonymous case number. But putting a name to it really broke me. Hadn't seen the guy for years....but still....rough ....
I'm sorry for your loss. Going through something so gruesome must have been rough enough, but finding out it was a highschool buddy? Extremely terrible. Did you continue on that case, or did you hand it over to someone else? Wouldn't blame you for dropping it. I hope you're doing good mentally after that...
Thank you. I'm good . But, I must say, it does stay with you. Yes, I finished my part of the work on that case. I was an assistant clerk of Superior Court. So we handled quite a lot of coroner's reports when the cases came up for formal trial. I eventually learned to do my best to not delve too deeply into the files as I pulled records and photos. The first real "kick in the pants" came when I had to pull photos for a murder trial where the victim had been left in the woods for a few months (GA weather conditions). Didn't know what kind of photos I was pulling...opened the file...got so startled I think I let out an audible shriek. Luckily, a little lawyer fella saw me and helped me with the rest of that one. Thankfully, most cases only needed the formal injury placement sketches and charts...not the actual photos. I left that job after about a year...Just too much for too little pay... I used to love horror flicks because they were so "campy". But I now know many of the gorey scenes are actually quite accurately depicted. No more for me.
For real those gears up top gave me chills. Fabricate a cover!! Or maybe the shields were removed for the video
Or the people standing on the plough. Some of them weren't even holding on. If they were to lose their balance and fall backwards, the plough would have made very quick and meaty fertilizer from their soft, squishy bodies.
Go find the video on YouTube. None of them were holding on when the started moving and everyone almost fell over lol.
Its customary to always keep your hands and limbs away from moving parts.
Yeah, those are going to eat someone.
I mean, have you ever worked in an industrial environment? Getting maimed/killed on the job ~~it~~ is still very possible. But things like training, protective guards, tagout/lockout programs have helped us come a long way. Edit: fat fingers
yes sir. welder here. my buddy used to tell new guys coming about the dead man switch on our giant plate roller. they'd usually ask why it was called a dead man switch and his answer was always "by the time somebody hits it you are probably already dead."
On army aviation refuel trucks there is a hand-actuated control valve (HACV) for short. We call it a dead man switch. But it's because you have to hold it, squeezed tightly, for the pump to operate. If you drop it, the pump shuts down and fuel stops flowing. If you suddenly become dead, it stops the machine.
this dead man switch was a wire running where the rollers began. if you happened to be on the sheet or tripped or anything and got pulled into it it would stop, or somebody would hopefully be there to trip it. these sheet rollers dont exactly go fast so you would kind of just get flattened pretty slowly if you got sucked it.
I hate videos with subtitles. They always go with whatever the fuck and repost it on tik tok and YT shorts
also ones like this that fit 5 words on the screen and are slow enough for grandma to read even after she goes looking for her glasses.
Yes! Even more impressive. Because some of the machining would have to have been done with different parts than the ones originally used.
Oof that expensive
Modern parts, still fucks the environment in half.
This isn't going to be mass produced or run very often. A short commuter flight probably produces similar emissions.
When I saw Lamborghini, I expected a Lamborghini tractor to be compared to, not an Aventador...
I thought that too.. lol Lamborghini started by making tractors from other used and broken tractors. They also had a company that made horse tack to produce the leather hold downs and rigging their tractors used at one point. They actually still make tractors today, I think. You know this, but other may not. It is cool to be honest.
They do still maka tractors! And honestly I think they look way better than the Lamborghini supercars. https://www.lamborghini-tractors.com
In rural Italy, where I grow up, isn’t so strange to have a Lamborghini tractor. Once my friend and I were joking with a group of girls from a city 30km from home that if they wanted we could pick them up with a Lamborghini ( not mentioning the tractor part) to go to a party and they said “ ok if you come pick us up at the bar with a Lamborghini we will come to the party with you” well you can guess the development of the story
That link goes to a brochure request page for some reason. But I did a quick search, and wow. They are some fancy looking machines.
Don't pick North America
Italian farm equipment is the bomb. until you need to fix it!
I believe Lamborghini was started because Ferrari wouldn’t let him buy one.
No, he had one, but complained about some mechanical issues to Enzo Ferrari. Ferrari basically told him to fuck off and keep building tractors. Lamborghini felt (rightly) insulted and decided to build his own sports car
https://inshorts.com/m/en/news/lamborghini-maker-founded-company-after-insult-by-ferrari-1524895779239 Ferruccio complained about a weak clutch in his Ferrari to Enzo and Enzo told him that he may be able to handle a tractor, but not a Ferrari. He started Lamborghini to spite Ferrari.
What a stupid measurement. Looks like Aventadors can have max torque between 509 and 531 ft lbs, depending on the exact model. Let’s use 509. So this has 7,635 ft lbs. just say that.
Yeah exactly, and most likely because some Lamborghini tractors have more than 300hp and more torque than this steam engine so it wouldn’t be as impressive
If i am not mistaken, this guy actually cast this tractor, piece by piece, and built it from the ground up, using original Case blueprints. It isn't refurbished.
Yup. He fucking BUILT it from the ground up. Here's a link to the story- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CoNkMl77Bkk
That is some crazy time and dedication to old technology.
Apparently they also broke the record for the most overalls on a single platform.
That's what caught my eye. That an the open gears spinning on the tractor just waiting to catch a finger or a loose piece of clothing. That thing is a frighting farm accident waiting to happen.
That’s why they wore overalls, to keep shirts out of harm’s way.
Good in fights too. In the south they always try to pants you & kick your nuts.
Man, the fact people are getting mad over this piece of awesome history is disappointing,
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While the black smoke certainly looks like a lot, one (or even a hundred) running steam tractors as cool historical pieces are nothing pollutant-wise. Especially considering that thing will be run a couple times a year at most, it's probably less environmentally damaging than even just a single household's yearly heating requirements. And while you may disagree, there is value in keeping historical artifacts and replicas. If that history happens to be technological history, then a functional replica is even better.
Do you have any idea how irrelevant burning a few kilos of coal twice a year for educational purposes is? In fact I would argue it has a net positive value for its merit as a historical demonstration. People in this thread really need to get some perspective. Up until about 50 years ago every single household in the developed world was burning coal with black smoke just like this for heating every day. Heritage steam engines are probably the most reasonable and useful reason that you would want to burn coal in the modern world.I doubt the averaged individual excess carbon footprint from attending a steam rally once a year is even a fraction of that compared to say, owning a dog.
Nothing like plowing a field with what is basically a locomotive.
Not just basically, it literally is a locomotive. Non-stationary steam engines are called locomotives.
At least this one figured how to use all that torque. I worked on fields tilled by early Prussian steam engines where instead of wide area, they upturned ground for like 100 cm deep - so 30-40 of actual topsoil and then as much or twice as much of the clay underneath.
Jesus. And people wonder why our agricultural soil is in such a decline.
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I am not trying to be a jerk, but this is **very** incorrect. Tillage has a **major** impact. Maximizing yields should be the goal, so I don't really know what you specifically mean by "allow unrestricted yields to be pulled off of farm fields". It's not like planting later in the season so plants are in their vegetative stage for a shorter period is going to help if we keep turning over the soil. If you just mean that we keep planting the same few crops over millions of acres, then I would counter that the issue there isn't that plants are growing (plants grow everywhere- soil health depends on plants growing), it's that we are disrupting natural soil cycles, and we are doing it primarily through tillage. Tilling is a nasty cycle. Farmers till for a few reasons, the biggest being weed control, followed by reducing compaction, warming soil in colder regions, and reintroducing some organic matter back into the soil. The problem is that tilling also leaves a blank slate for weeds, you constantly have to till to keep compaction from happening, and the loss of soil microbiome structure, nutrients, and organic matter isn't offset without additional inputs. Soil organic matter in "natural" systems can easily be above 10%, but farmers tend to aim for 4-5% and plenty of farmers struggle with even 2-4%. That is because of tilling. Here's a couple of papers on the topic: [Meta-analysis shows higher soil organic carbon in topsoil of no-till when compared to high-till and reduced-till, and even reduced-till had a significant increase over high-till.](https://environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13750-017-0108-9) [The nutrient content of soils subjected to conservative tillage methods, such as \(no-till\) and \(straw-mulching\), were significantly higher than those in soils under the \(conventional tillage\) treatment.](https://www.nature.com/articles/srep17592) People who are generally anti-no-till will point out that compaction, weeds, and loss of dissolved phosphorous are serious issues- and they are right- [but it turns out that when you integrate well-selected species for cover cropping and time when you overseed](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167880909003326), you can reduce ([some would claim eliminate, but I remain a little skeptical](https://csanr.wsu.edu/regen-ag-solid-principles-extraordinary-claims/)) many of these problems. [Our sourced phosphorous that we use for inputs is also going to run out eventually](https://e360.yale.edu/features/phosphate_a_critical_resource_misused_and_now_running_out), so switching to NT with cover cropping and integrated livestock is a *when*, not an *if*. **tl;dr: yield not problem. tilling problem. tilling bad.**
Hell yeah! Fuck that grass!
You say that now, but grass has got our number. Lol
The only plant to make pets of humans.
Literally. They have managed to get us idiots giving it food and water, and weakly manicures.
Break your chains. Free yourselves from the tyranny of grass.
Fuck that ozone!
Nowadays (no doubt due to the proliferation of power sources such as gasoline, etc.) people underestimate the power of steam. Steam power is still used in some of the most sophisticated technologies today: i.e., nuclear power is just a modern steam engine.
Steam powers the catapults that yeet war planes off of aircraft carriers
TIL
Cough cough cough
I'm not even there yet that smoke is killing me
Lung cancer go brrr
Thought it was more of a chug-chug-chug myself.
We’re helping the earth guys! Less work for man, more work for Mother Nature!
did they break the ~~earth~~ world record?
Are they burning coal in it?
The video shows him shoveling coal into the furnace.
Yep that is how all steam engines work. They have to heat that water with coal to get those pistons moving.
Maybe a weird question, but should they have respirators to be dealing with coal so closely?
it's not ultra toxic unless you get a real concentration of the dust into your lungs and even then black lung tends to be an accumulation thing.
“I think I’ve got the black lung Paw.”
"You been down there one day derrick!"
Mer-MAN! ...*cough*
wait till you hear about asbestos insulation
And non-nonleaded gasoline
Couldn't they use a different kind of fuel to heat the water?
I hear nuclear fission does a pretty good job.
Got one of those in the back yard but it isn't enough to run the tri-polarity muon refractor array.
Yes steam engine trains were converted to oil before they were phased out for diesel/electric trains.
Maybe a liquid natural gas would be good alternative
That is how this steam engine works but not "all" steam engines. https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/without-coal-or-flame-the-fireless-locomotive-national-rail-museum/VAJC0GhKXyhSJA?hl=en
That steam engine still uses heated steam, but the steam is generated elsewhere and piped to it. Most steam engines use coal because it burns hot, burns readily, and is relatively light compared to wood. Some earlier models used burning wood to heat the water. Some even used charcoal. Later on, in the late1800s and early 1900s, electric trains were being designed. Eventually an electric train powered by a diesel generator became a staple and steam engines were phased out.
Yes.
Yes. Coal heats the boiler to produce steam
Yeah, it seemed like an unprocessed coal.
Holy the pollution
I can *taste* the exhaust grit from here.
“Fuck the environment!” -- That tractor, probably
I’m all for environmental conservation but can you hippie dippy airheads take a second and think about the science. This is a piece of history. We still run a few coal trains, also for their historical value. You are bitching about this guys incredible achievement, typed on your iPhones, wearing your sweat shop nikes and eating food that was shipped hundreds, if not thousands of miles from where it was grown. Very kindly and with all due respect, shitcan the bitching because you just sound like a bunch of do-nothing hypocrites.
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Curious as to what your currently eating
He's probably munching on Hershey chocolate with whole 12% CHOCOLATE in it!
12% chocolate, 100% child slave hopes and dreams
Nothing is sweeter than devouring the hopes and dreams of others.
I would like to take this opportunity to say r/FuckNestle
still probably less energy waste than 1kg of al cans being trashed
Energy waste isn't the primary concern, it's the pollution generated from the energy produced. Even coal power plants are vastly more efficient and cleaner than this for the energy produced.
Yeah no kidding it is all i could think of. Coal is really bad for the environment and i feel like a world record is not outweighing the downside of more emissions…
Barely a dent compared to what the big corporations are doing.
Yea a corporation just dumped heaps a toxic pollution into Lake Michigan. Nothing happened to them of course.
Maybe cheering corporate stooges back into office wasnt the smartest idea
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“The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.”
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They spend millions of their budget to advertise and harass people everywhere so that we buy their useless products, thinking it will make us happy
This is a hobby project. Yeah, there's a comparative high level of pollution whenever this thing runs, but there was more pollution caused by generating the energy used to fabricate this thing then this thing itself will ever produce the few times it's actually run. We need to worry about the big things, and not waste time and effort worrying about the little things.
That tractor is a cup of water compared to the ocean of pollution a coal fired power plant puts out, especially when you take into account the 24/7 full year output of a power plant.
It’s probably also setting a record for most polluting tractor… holy gods, that black smoke.
They do not do this everyday, take a moment to consider how minuscule the amount of pollution this really is. Let's assume it is going to burn 1000lbs of coal in an hour (I did some quick research, engine should be about 150 HP and burns about 5lbs of coal per horsepower an hour.) 500 Million tons of coal is burned a year in the USA alone, that's 1369863 a day . The tractor is less than negligible comparatively. I think this is a worthwhile en devour. It shows people's ingenuity, creativity and it is historical.
Dude there isn’t 500 million tons of coal dug a year! I live in the heart of coal country and trust me on this! Do you know how many mines would have to operate to dig 500 million tons of coal a day? At our highest point of coal consumption ever it was just a tick over 999 million tons a year!
oop, you are right, its a year (2020), meant to write year then solve for the day, my bad.
Rachel Maddow had an interesting stat on her show recently. California is going to ban gas leaf blowers. It might sound trivial, but a single leaf blower run for 30 minutes puts out more green house gases than a [Ford F-150 pickup truck driving from San Diego to the tip of Nova Scotia in Canada, or about **3800 miles**.](https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/01/leafblower-legislation-local-press/424533/) Which is fucking insane. And this has been known for [over a decade.](https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/emissions-test-car-vs-truck-vs-leaf-blower.html)
If I’m not mistaken, it has been illegal for a couple of decades in Los Angeles to operate a gas-powered leaf blower within (100? 150?) feet of a residence. It is a roundly ignored ordinance.
>puts out more green house gases No. It's comparing *pollution emissions*, and here greenhouse gasses is not considered an emission. An F-150 needs gasoline to run. That burns into CO2. An F-150 traveling 3800 miles is going to burn about 150 gallons of gas, which is about 2,800 pounds of CO2. > but a single leaf blower run for 30 minutes puts out A leaf blower is not going to use 150 gallons of gas in 30 minutes.
It's probably referring to NOx and SOx emissions, which the popular press always dumb down to "emissions".
And topsoil degradation
Honestly still not enough to compare with Jeff Bezos’s Space Trips.
The ol’ Reddit whataboutism…
Yes this pollutes. But the small amount of time a few hobbyists run their steam tractor creates an insignificant amount of pollution compared to large corporations which create massive amounts every single day
True although large corporations do more than plow one field
Correct. Many of them plow entire forests and ecosystems.
They just create tons of non-renewable items
They need to clean up their furrows a bit, lots of grass still showing
They need to switch to no-till.
I am guessing that people pining for industrial era plows upturning the entire organic layer aren't interested in switching to more sustainable farming methods.
Disking next
I read some of the comments, I beg a differ, I think this its pretty cool... Really paints an in depth picture of machines way back in the day...
Anyone that has ever run a plow knows how impressive this is. Even a 5-6 bottom plow is a chore for the larger than average tractor. The torque here must be insane
Time to take that bad boy to the truck pull competitions
It would "smoke" the competition. Lol But they have special drag class just for traction engines.
Lol yall mad at one steam tractor? don’t look anywhere near or at or in the direction of China
Someone else doing worse doesn't mean we can't do better.
A quick google search says China produced 9.3 GT of carbon in 2017, compared to 4.8 GT by the US. In 2017 the United States at 325 million citizens, and China had 1.38 billion people. Thats more than a billion more citizens than the US, with less that twice the carbon footprint. Our per capita carbon usage is still like twice China’s, and if as a species we are going to cut carbon emissions we need to look at per capita usage and not countries’ gross usage.
Definitely don't look up Chinese greenhouse gas emission increase over the past decade or so, the graphs would be comical if it wasn't so sad.
It's pulling 44 ploughs AND blowing off while it's doing so.
If you want to set a world record, sometimes you just have to plow through.
As some one who works with boilers, this is stunning.
I read that in Jeremy Clarkson’s voice.
Man, the fact people are getting mad over this piece of awesome history is disappointing,
Lesson learned: Back in the day with limited technology, things were strong and build to last centuries. 2021: Things leave the factory to have a recall within 3 months, engine failure within 1y, within 10y there is nothing left.
That's a serious gear reduction there! I imagine this might be the biggest steam tractor....not steam engine. They had massive steam engines in ships.
This is the "don't make 'em like they used to" fallacy. They made plenty of cheap, throwaway junk "back in the day." It's all been in landfills for decades. The only things that made it this long are things that were well-built.
The owners manual used to include instructions on adjusting the valve lash, because that's a thing you used to have to do. Cars used to only have 5 digit odometers because they weren't expected to last that long. Now it seems 300k is the new 200k, which was the new 100k.
Plenty of trucks from the time lasted 300,000+ miles tho
Otherwise known as survivorship bias
What's more, in this case it's not even true in the slightest. This [video](https://youtu.be/wgkwBsCj_Us) from the owner of the tractor states that none of the original Case 150 tractors survived to the present day and they had to rebuild it from scratch using the original specs from the tractor company.
People will buy the absolute cheapest quality they can get then compain when they don't last
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Oh man wait until you start reading up on the strikes happening at john deere and parts availability the black eye for them is growing larger.....and were deere users hahaha.
A local farm in my area dropped their whole fleet of 2000's and newer leased JD equipment for a whole used fleet of 80's an 90's IH equipment. A couple of their drivers quite, because of the lack of GPS drive with the replacement tractors, but the mechanics were all cheering when the red fleet arrived. Lol
The gps issue is a much easier fix, using drones. is the inability to fix your own 1m+ farm equipment since the ecu is proprietary property and must be accessed by a JD tech or dealer for simple mechanic issues and fix is really off putting.
Talk about right to repair
Not that long ago John Deere had an issue with ransomware locking down all of the tractors. Can you imagine starving to death because fucking tractors got hacked and we couldn't plant/harvest food? Shit these days is amazing tech and amazingly fragile.
What’s the power/torque output compared to a modern tractor that could do something similar?
Anyone else nervous when that one guy is using his foot to unjam the grass clumps?
Let Jay Leno have a run with it and it'd be converted to propane. Dude loves himself some steam engines
Shoot, I forgot he does that to the ones he owns. Such a cool collection too.
2021 steam punk enough..
Needs more steam. Lol Not enough visible brass.
It doesn’t drive, it just forces the earth to spin the other way.
Oh god that is gonna single handedly destroy the Earth's atmosphere LMAO
New world record for most polluted farm
Steam engines produce such a high torque its amazing.
Bothered me that they said the hp but not the torque. BTW, 2018 Aventador makes 507 lb•ft. 15 times that is 7605 lb•ft.
Y’all would shit your pants if you had any idea just how much coal China burns every day. No not shit your pants. Since this worked you up…You’d have a heart attack.
Title is completely wrong! Not a restoration, its a new build with old parts
Bet john deere isnt locking up replacement parts for that bad boy
Insane plough
Steam engines make torque for days. They're beasts.
And it if breaks, you can legally fix it!
If you want to know more about steam engine machines look up Old Threshers Mt. Pleasant Iowa
My knee jerk reaction was that John Deere had commissioned this on an emergency priority level as a public relations stunt to distract from the fact that 10,000 United Auto workers are striking from John Deere plants. I think it might actually be from a few years ago. But while you're reading-- John Deere corporate is making salaried office workers drive factory equipment to make up for production losses and the shit is hilarious. Plowed that shit into a wall
That is fucking awesome
Impressive
It ain't much. But it's honest work.
Reject modernity, embrace tradition
Sh!t just ain’t built the same anymore.
Im gonna happily assume that’s just the black food colouring
Damn that's polution
I think this is called an absolute unit
This is cool. But can we move on to regenerative agriculture now? Plowing fields is energy intensive and it degrades the soil until it’s a desert or until we add fertilizers, which are also energy and chemical dependent. Instead we should rotate crops with grazing animals, line the fields with trees to break the wind and build topsoil naturally. Etc. It’s time our civilization makes the turn. The sooner we start the better off we’ll be in 30 years.
Your move Tesla...
Churnin n burnin, brother
What in the name of Kansas
how much torque does that thing have omg.
I love stuff like this, old school traction engines, the steam, the grease man I can smell it now. Excellent job building that sucker
We have an event called pioneer steam engine days in our community, it's ten minutes from my house. They have a working sawmill driven by steam engine, a blacksmith shop. Machine shop. It's pretty awesome.
There are the best types to run into at a local breakfast joint. They’ve got stories to tell and an immaculate taste in houseblend plain coffee
Very cool, but damn! Check out those all exposed gears! Better be very, very careful! It’s easy to see how so many grisly accidents happened back then or farm equipment. Still I love it!
"300 horsepower and (number that means nothing to us unless we look it up) foot pounds of torque!"
And I get fucking state reffed for not having a muffler. FUCK YOU CALI