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acwdwcman 
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 8:02am |
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who here has a steam engine or has drove and operated one. what kinds?
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wd with a freeman model 90 trip loader, wd45, 38 unstylled wc, b 10 garden tractor and 2-14 ac trip plow. grandpa has a 56 wd45. wd. allis chalmers snap coupler blade and 3 bottom snap coupler plow
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Charles (KY)
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 9:16am |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 9:17am |
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wd with a freeman model 90 trip loader, wd45, 38 unstylled wc, b 10 garden tractor and 2-14 ac trip plow. grandpa has a 56 wd45. wd. allis chalmers snap coupler blade and 3 bottom snap coupler plow
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Charles (KY)
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 9:20am |
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22 hp Traction engine
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JoeO(CMO)
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 9:21am |
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My granddad had a Case 65hp, heard many stories of it on a saw mill. Now I have aspirations of building one but can't get away from tractors....what's a person to do?
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DaveKamp
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 9:49am |
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I'm a liscensed op... and I operate EVERY ONE I CAN!!!.
Here's one that a buddy has... and has been working on it for a while...
http://www.todengine.org/Default.aspx?pageId=631283
He's got some others, as well as a locomotive, and some other neat stuff.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 11:46am |
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I have a 750 hp Allis Chalmers Reynolds Corliss engine with generator, but have not a clue how to run it
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acwdwcman
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 12:01pm |
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well i go to a local show were i operate a 80hp case w/duals, 2 of 3 canadian reeves left in existance, and have operated a keck-gonnerman steam engine that was resently sold on smokstak.com.. the huy that runs this show owns all of the steam engines their. he owns 1 of 2 reeves highwheelers that doesnt run. and a autman taylor tractor. i have messing with steam traction engines for only 3 years and im 14 now!....
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wd with a freeman model 90 trip loader, wd45, 38 unstylled wc, b 10 garden tractor and 2-14 ac trip plow. grandpa has a 56 wd45. wd. allis chalmers snap coupler blade and 3 bottom snap coupler plow
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David Gibson (OH)
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 12:01pm |
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Our annual reunion has a bunch of steam. Click the link below for more info.
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acwdwcman
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 12:53pm |
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this summer im planning on going to mount pleasent iowa for the big steam show
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wd with a freeman model 90 trip loader, wd45, 38 unstylled wc, b 10 garden tractor and 2-14 ac trip plow. grandpa has a 56 wd45. wd. allis chalmers snap coupler blade and 3 bottom snap coupler plow
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AllisChalmers37
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 1:04pm |
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That is one thing that I've never seen in person. I have always loved the old steam locomotives and a steam tractor is basically a steam locomotive on tractor wheels. None of the shows around here that I've been to have had a steam tractor. By all of the photos and videos I've seen of them they look pretty awesome.
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Charles (KY)
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 3:33pm |
Am looking for someone to paint this one. Not looking so much as a restoration but just to keep in from rusting away. Last time it was fired up was 1985 although I did put in new flues and ran it a couple of days taking the family for rides. It is still free as of a couple of years ago. Any info on someone to do this would be appreciated.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 4:22pm |
 Kcgrain wrote:
I have a 750 hp Allis Chalmers Reynolds Corliss engine with generator, but have not a clue how to run it |
Do you have it set up ? Where did it come from ?
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 5:02pm |
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Have operated a 20 Waterloo (a sweet running engine) and a 25 George White. Now own, (or should I say it owns me) the White. It is currently awaiting a new boiler.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 5:31pm |
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Always lots of steam at the Lanesvill In. Heritage Festival. This year it is Sept. 9-11. Lots of vintage tractors, stationary engines, demonstrations and horse drawn plowing competitions. I get a big charge out of those huge steam tractors.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 6:34pm |
I have 2 Bakers ,her is one of them. 
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 6:46pm |
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That picture was taken at the Malabar farm show ,which they don't have any more.I have a boiler license & state inspected engine.They gave me 180 lb, which is what it came from the factory with.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 11:18pm |
Billoh wrote:
I have 2 Bakers ,her is one of them. |
uniflow! interesting exhaust note under load.
karl f almost enough hours for MN hobby boiler license
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David Gibson (OH)
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 11:28pm |
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Last year at our show (Darke County Steam Threshers) we had the first Baker and the last Baker, a Baker steam roller and a Baker tractor.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 11:43pm |
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ya'll wanna see sumthin steamin and boilin....it's my ole lady....oooops....i mean my sometimes loving wife....when i gits home late!
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Posted: 01 May 2011 at 12:20am |
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Next weekend is the tractor show at Pawnee, OK, haven't made it in several years now, but there used to be LOTS of steam there. It started out as an all-steam show, then went to antique tractors and everything else being welcome, too. They have, or at least they used to have, one of those big A-C steam engines, and a Corliss generator that used to furnish power for a smelter in the area, up until in the 1960's.
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acwdwcman
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Posted: 01 May 2011 at 8:25am |
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wd with a freeman model 90 trip loader, wd45, 38 unstylled wc, b 10 garden tractor and 2-14 ac trip plow. grandpa has a 56 wd45. wd. allis chalmers snap coupler blade and 3 bottom snap coupler plow
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Posted: 01 May 2011 at 8:27am |
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wd with a freeman model 90 trip loader, wd45, 38 unstylled wc, b 10 garden tractor and 2-14 ac trip plow. grandpa has a 56 wd45. wd. allis chalmers snap coupler blade and 3 bottom snap coupler plow
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Kevin(Alabama)
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Posted: 01 May 2011 at 8:53am |
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I have a steam engine made by Schofield Iron works in Macon, Ga. It powered a local cotton gin. I was told it was the equal to a 100 hp electric motor.
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Posted: 01 May 2011 at 10:02am |
If you want to see lots of steam engines working, attend the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion some time. Besides lots of "ordinary" steam engines, they have real steam powered shovels, derricks, saw mills etc. There's also a steam powered locomotive circling the grounds. http://www.rollag.com/index.php
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Gerald J.
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Posted: 01 May 2011 at 10:40am |
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There are at least two steam locomotives at WMSTR at Rollag. One standard gauge, and one 15" gauge. There were at least 100 steam tractors at Mt. Pleasant last time I was there, all in steam. More not fired up. The daily tractor parade took three hours running three a breast, over 1000 numbers.
Many a smaller Iowa show has a few steam tractors and one or a few shows happen practically each summer weekend. That's also true of Indiana, Missouri, Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, and likely Wisconsin.
Rollag does cover more acres than Mt. Pleasant, but I didn't think had as many tractors.
Gerald J.
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Posted: 01 May 2011 at 10:51am |
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Posted: 01 May 2011 at 6:32pm |
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The closest thing to a steam engine I have run is not one big enough to ride on. Its a Stuart Turner 5A model engine about 16 inches tall that runs nice and smooth on compressed air. What I read about them is they are about 1.5 hp at 100 psi and will power a small boat. It has the forward and reverse feature.
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Posted: 01 May 2011 at 8:40pm |
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There is a Reeves with near new boiler for sale near Hopkinsville, KY. Widow owns it and it is for sale. I think around 100 HP or so. Im sure some dealers in the area wilkl know how to contact owner. I was at a sale there a few years ago. Hilpiper conducted auction.HTH Tracy Martin
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i dont own these but i operate them. i like the 80hp case
