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This is 40-60 hp case steam traction engine pulling the sled at rollag WMSTR MN 2010. It actually powers out and comes to a dead stop with its wheels in the air. Very cool!!
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Shut the hell up so we can hear the tractor!
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Theoretically, a lawnmower engine of 2 or 3 horsepower could do the same job..albeit a LOT slower. Torque can be multiplied almost infinitely and it is torque plus weight that accomplishes the pull. Torque can be multiplied....horsepower cannot!! The high-horsepower competition tractor-pullers use SPEED (thus HP) to get momentum out of the sled, AND, they are strictly limited in total weight!
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That was awesome!! black smoke and all. Great video. Thanks for showing what real power is.
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@renegadeoflife87
Burning fully or not, it's still burning enough to blow the safety valve! -
Its amusing how this thing has but a fraction of the power the modern equivalent has, and yet its great weight lets it cling to the ground so well that it stalls before it spins.
Black smoke like that happens when the flames are too long- still-burning gases get drawn into the boiler and give up their heat before burning fully. Running this engine on anthracite coal would make it almost perfectly smokeless due to the compact intensity of hard coal fuel instead of soft coal or wood. -
That IS power. I have no idea how much this machine weighs, but I would guess it has to be 6 or 8 tons? Can somebody help with that? To lift that front end requires some massive torque. While i am only familiar with driving small gasoline powered tractors, weighing under 1000 pounds, I can only imagine the immense power this thing puts out. I want one!
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Great machinery!
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dynomometer? with steam? also was that a full pull?
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sawyer masseys are Canadian
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A draw back with pine is it soots up your chimney fast. So you'd be cleaning the boiler tubes more often.
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Ok but not all wood is made equal. Take pine for example, its fast burning with huge flames because it has so much resin. The flames from pine go right up our flew because it has glowed red hot when we put to much on at once. Pine does make a lot of thick black smoke though if you get some really orange coloured pieces packed with resin.
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However that is the case coal has a much longer flame than firewood under a heavy load like that and with the longer flame going through the flues it generates a lot more steam much faster; temperature is not the only factor in that equation.
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no, it has power to continue pulling, but not the weight to keep the front end down. It still had plenty of steam as you see he had to vent it right after, or it would turn into a bomb.
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When you say it "powers out," do you mean it ran out of steam?
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what happens if you over stress a steam engine like that?
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How many modern tractors would it need to pull that load???…☁☁☁⁘⁙☁☁⁙..☁……Hᴜɢʜ….Lɪᴋᴇᴅ…..ツ
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They can explode.
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Talk about power, man!
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