I'm old enough to remember being a kid in the early 1940's , and there were still some steam tractors being used. Also steam locomotives were still around when I was young, and they were really impressive to see!
Wow, that is wonderful. I remember going to old Sacramento and seeing all the old ones in a museum but running must have been a sight to see! God bless!!
110 is actually the horsepower rating for the engine (steam measurements are much different) it’s possible that the engine could be older, but they’re still amazing nonetheless. If you want an even more impressive engine, I recommend looking for the 150, the largest steam tractor to ever be built.
This just blew my mind, of all the things I wish I could have seen as a child, I didn't even know this was one of them. Thank you for sharing the worlds coolest sparkler, my nephew is gonna go nuts when I show him this.
in PA we have Rough And Tumble in Gap, PA. There's events every year where machines like this perform. I went all the time as a kid, I'm now 24 and I still love going and seeing this.
@@backroadboosters4017 that sounds .... AMAZING!!! ... I LOVE IT I live in Arizona, when I was a kid no one cared about fireworks, but something changed guessing idiots and now all we get is boring stuff....that's why I go to Mexico and buy em, lol your so lucky
@@backroadboosters4017 I'm so dumb I have been watching the hell out of these firework videos and I thought that was what your comment was in response. And then my dumb ass responded real fast lol your probably like wtf are you talking about. Yea my great grandfather was a coal miner, so I've always been fascinated by anything that's powered by coal. It must be awesome to see these Engines in person I am jealous I bet it's soooo loud!!!
@@kgb3404 You seem to be lacking knowledge in both physics and common reasoning. When the sled is at max drag it imposes 55000 lbs of force. The biggest and baddest diesel tractors all fail to pull these sleds to the end and beyond. Yet this steamer just plows ahead like it's nothing and you think a mere Duramax is able to outwin this steam monster? Heck the CASE 110 weighs in at 20 tons (44000 lbs), a Duramax wouldn't even be able to tow the Case even if it was in neutral. The Duramax might have a horsepower advantage on paper, but once you realize you are competing Belgium workhorses the game changes very quickly. Torque is the magic word. The CASE 110 has 3000 ft.lbs, the best Ford has to offer is 1000 ft.lbs in the Cummins engine.
There's a video of a steam tractor and a professional-level John Deere modded tractor having a tug-of-war out there somewhere. The steam tractor literally toys with the poor Deere...
@@patrickd9551 the case may do it eventually, but it takes 2 minutes. a duramax or cummins would have the trailer atleast halfway down the run in 20 seconds. i think it would be a good show, and think if the steam tractor can be moved by the diesel, that it wouldnt stand a chance because it doesnt have the gearing or horsepower to outwork the diesel truck. the steam engine is 100% way more powerful and tough, but it comes at a cost of speed efficiency.
Yes to the first No to the second. I’ve been all around the Northeastern United States at all sorts of different rail lines and everywhere I go I see at least five people cover their ears or step back when a steam locomotive rolls by. Although I and other railfans are basically immune to the noise I can see why people aren’t too keen on listening to these loud iron horses. I guess that’s why quite zones exist
@@Teesquared00 steam engines are actually quite silent. Check out Jay Leno's videos with his steam powered cars. They're basically silent. Trains are loud regardless of what engine they have, lot of moving parts...
There's torque and then there's tractive effort. What unbelievable force this thing has. Very impressive something so old can still put modern tech to shame.
It's totally impressive, but then if we chose to build something that heavy and with wheels like that using modern tech, we'd would wipe the floor with it. Imagine a vehicle like that but it puts out 1000-3000HP instead of the ~110 on display here...
I think that’s what the old timers call “pulling a draft”.👍 I had the privilege to ride on a Case traction tractor and a 5 bottom JD plow several years ago. The guy was plowing his wheat patch that he used for his small thrashing exhibit. The throughs weren’t very long but on one pass he really got it going and I could I could feel the pace pick up. He told me that was because it was “pulling a draft”. We hit a rock and the plow came unhooked from the tractor. So he stopped and backed up to reattach the plow. It was downright eerie to me that when he stopped the tractor there was no sound. Maybe a little hiss. But silence. I’m so used to the sound of the engine always idling. Great experience…….
I went to a steam show not long ago. My first ever. It was just like you said when I first got there. A little eerie, but so cool. There were giant steel behemoths everywhere rolling across the land, but hardly any sound at all. (except an occasional steam whistle just for fun)
as much as I don't like China in the political perspective the Chinese still use steam locomotives to haul their Coal out of their mines you can look that up on here, they are absolutely fire breathing
From the thumbnail i thought they were blowing red confetti in the air. When i realized it was sparks from the fire my mind was blown. That thing is metal A F!
While it's true they do emit sparks and cinders this looks a bit much. I'd say its highly likely they probably threw some sawdust or similar in the firebox to make it look good! Old trick to show off and get the crowd excited.
@@ifyoutip all them Sparks better have been from sawdust or something for show, I'd hate to drive that thing through a field with literally anything growing if that wasn't the case
110 "Real" horse power :) 2020 Honda Civic: I'm 350hp! 1911 Case: Eats the Civic and fires out the molten sparks whilst dragging a battleship sideways up a mountain.
I saw a steam engine get almost to the end of the strip, he started to slow down and then realized he wasn't quite there so opened the throttle a little bit, with the sled all the way down the steam tractor started accelerating
111 years old vehicle, running on nothing but wood-fired steam power, and breathing literal fire. Rating: 110hp A literal testament to our history of industrial development of machines. This is beyond bonkers to witness, I have no words. It is simply not enough to gawk at the pure strength and reliability of ancient vehicular technology and realize *this thing* was from our great grandparents' generation, the very beginning of the Industrial Era of America, circa the *EARLY 1900s.* Absolutely friggin' nutters
I’ve watched this video easily 150+ times over the years. It’s still amazing every time I watch it. That thing is such a monster. To think they had machines like this 100+ years ago? I showed my 5 year old son this and told him the engine had a dragon inside of it. He thought it was cool. It might have only had 110 horsepower but probably 3,000 foot pounds of torque and weighed multiple tons. What a beast!!
Imagine the people living nearby, used to the screaming sounds of engines then all the sudden hearing what sounds like an old train chugging away complete with whistle. They must be so confused.
Thank you for the post. It's wonderful to me to be able to see what my Dad possibly saw as a young boy as a matter of course. He was born in 1908 and raised in Kansas during the years this type of machinery was being used in farming/harvesting, etc. Thanks again for a look back into history!
What kind of fuel does your tractor use? Deere: diesel Universal: diesel Cat: diesel of course International: diesel what else Case: ...the souls of the damned... *silence*
When you get the embers falling out of the sky , you better believe this is going to be impressive! Been a long time since I've been on this video but I'm glad to be back again, thank you!
The most beautiful thing i have seen for being a pulling machine i would love to see one in my life time and here that sound echoe across the flatlands
It's hard for me to imagine. You go from seeing horses doing farm work most of your life, and then one day you see THIS. Putting a full size steam engine on wheels.
@@naughtius_maximus8243 unless you want to do what ev car mfg's have been doing lately & call it "wheel torque" by multiplying in the gear reduction; in that case it's probably putting closer to 30k lb/ft to the ground.
110HP is still 110HP no matter how much you gear it. It's still not a lot. A weedwacker engine can pull a house too, if you have strong enough gears and enough time to build another house.
That would’ve been quite the sight to see on the open plains of the west with nothing but an open country around it. Could ya imagine crossing the country on one of these? Amazing.
There's a book called steamboats on the western rivers which is really good and covers everything. They were like muscle cars of their era, they had to have enough steam power to paddle upstream which the east coast steamboats didn't have to deal with. They used to race them all the time but the boilers were pushed so hard they would sometimes explode killing a lot of people. One of the funniest things though is that at the time when they were being publicized in big newspapers and everyone was scared of western steamboats, there were op eds by professionals reassuring the public your chances of dying in a steamboat explosion are far less than dying in a buggy accident lol. Its almost exactly the same as plane crash vs car crasg
@@thecasualgerman8031 don't correct peoples jokes when you yourself are incorrect. from the first revolutions per minute is something you say. edit: technically u can have 0rpm. if it revolves 1 time in 2 minutes, the rpm is 0.5 so no full R is accruing Per M get out autisticed
I love the sheer genius of machinery that rose out of the industrial revolution. From the likes of Big Ben and the Tower Bridge to the enormous train locomotives of the 50’s. It is all beautiful.
This with no wheel spin and just taking it's time as it pulls that sled easy as can be reminds me of the story of when the young bull looked at the old bull saying " let's run down their and get with one of them cows !" With the old bull replying " Shhheeeit , why not walk down nice and easy and get with them all ! "
Love watching this, the amount of power these old steam tractors could produce is astonishing and it's mind blowing when you consider that they pale in comparison to the larger steam locomotives who in turn pale in comparison to the steam powerplants of WWII warships. It's just really hard to get your head around that kind of power.
Being pedantic here, but really it's not producing a lot of power at all, and that's why it takes so long to get down the track. Instead what it's great at is traction (it is, after all, a traction engine!) which is why it doesn't seem bothered at all by the sled it's pulling. It's huge and heavy and has massive wheels, so it has no problem with grip. Just takes a while because it's not got much power.
@@CrArC being pedantic x2 here. Yes it DOES have a lot of power. Horsepower? No. Torque? Absolutely. And torque is a much more beneficial power unit than horsepower for 9/10 applications. Speed being the only one it’s not good at without a good mix.
@@wyattbeltz341 sorry, but no; torque is not a unit of power, that's what horsepower is. Torque is merely turning force, which, I agree, it has a lot of. But power? It only has about 110HP, or equivalent to a small european car. If you put an engine from such a car on that thing, with an appropriately geared down gearbox, and revved the tits off it, it would go down the track just the same (which is to say, slowly, due to lack of power)
That's impressive. I've not seen a steam traction engine running at night. Lots of sparks; that could be a dangerous situation in a dry wheat field. The big Case put on a real show! Love that locomotive whistle.
The railroads learned it the hard way but covers/grates/mesh was fitted on top of the smokestacks to prevent the dust particles flying away into the trees
Pretty sure someone in the comments said the Case ran 110hp @ a eye watering 3,000ft-lbs of torque at 240rpm Thats absolutely insane for early 1910's technology
That's impressive. Decades ago when i still watched television, they used those trailers for similar matches but then with monstertrucks with 3x V12 engines on it, roaring like crazy, and they didn't make it to then end. Those trailers become harder and harder to pull the further they are pulled. This steam engine just pulls the entire trailer bottomed out as if nothing is happening 😁
This is a real piece of hardware; cold American steel warmed by a fire and powered by the raw forces of fire and water. Steam engines could move things even if the load was a drag; compare to modern torque engines, steam engines could move with none of the issues a torque drive has, because the tractor is powered by pressure, not leverage. Long into the future when magnets and hydrogen take over the market; Steam Engines will be relics that continue to show off what industry could do where other motives could not. Just beautiful really
@@arnoldbr8418 this would take me a hot minute to explain; so ill explain it simply for ease of convenience. Steam Engines are single cylinder and their gear train connects directly to the wheels; moves slower but generates tremendous force through regulations of the heat and steam. Torque engines; aka gas and diesel engines; have multiple gear trains; stay separate from the wheels and fire on multiple cylinders. The temperature of the engine can't be directly controlled and the force of torque is generated from the primary drive shaft; not from the cylinders themselves.
AWESOME,PRESERVING HISTORY,love the steam traction engines,the most powerful engine ever built just by the way they measure power,because steam engines develope maximum power at NO RPM.
any modern engine with half the energy output would put that steam engine to shame. The power from exploding fuel is several times greater than what steam can do. It's just steam is kept under pressure the whole time so it takes no time to build up pressure, while fuel explodes and then things start to move.
Torque x RPM / 5,252 = HP Technicaly at 0 RPM you cannot have any HP since the calculation uses RPM as a multiplyer.... These beasts had shit for HP but a FKTon of Torque Same reason a 3406B Cat engine putting out 350HP can pull a hill faster than a modern 500HP engine because modern engine run at higher RPM with lower torque. But it is the torque that keeps the tires turning
@@PaulMcClellanmn torque isn’t gonna make it quicker so no it won’t make the 350hp engine move faster up the hill, higher torque the more weight it can pull at a harder incline, not the quicker it goes.
@@PaulMcClellanmn that’s why an 18 wheeler can carry a larger load than say a regular v8 pickup truck because the torque put out by the 18 wheeler is much greater, yet the regular truck has a higher horse power and lower torque so it can’t pull as large a load but can move quicker.
My father in law grew up in Pennsylvania and used to take the train to college. They were typically pulled by steam locomotives and he told me while waiting on the platform for the train to pull in you had to stand back to avoid the burning embers spewing out of the stack. A few years later when he went to Purdue in Indiana, they were pulled by GG1’s. Much safer and quieter ride he said.
This video goes abhorrently hard. Holy shit steam vehicles were cool. Just looked this tractor up, the 20 ton steam engine made 110hp and 3000 ft-lbs at 240 RPM. Take that cummins guys
The funny thing is I didn’t realize how “torquey” a steam engine was. You could take the biggest 4-wheel drive diesel tractor built today and it wouldn’t have the torque of a old steamer
Torque and how they apply it as well. Steam engines produce peak torque at 0 RPM like an electric motor, as at 0 RPM with the regulator fully open and the reverser in the forward-most position; the entire volume and pressure of the steam in the boiler is acting directly upon that piston. Additionally, steam is an expansive force, so you also have the steam trying to expand inside the piston, which results in a truly-ludicrous amount of torque that follows a nearly-flat torque curve - assuming you don’t back off the reverser, but backing off the reverser is a must to prevent damage to the engine.
a modern tractor will have more pulling torque than any of the steam engine tractors. modern tractors can go very very very low in to the gearing. the only thing that hinders a modern tractor is traction. like modern tractors don't just go km per hour they go all the way down to meters per hour. and not just triple digit meters but all the way down to double digits. also modern tractors are designed to also be able to go fast and to go on the road without ripping it completely apart. a Volvo fh16 750hp has pulled 750tons as a PR stunt by volvo and that's a semi truck which does not even go a fraction as low as the lowest gearing on som modern tractors.
Man I love it so much when the old girls just putt along throwing sparks and making noise while they drag the cart like nothing, they really knew their physics then imho, wonderful video!
Kind of neat to see the glowing stack, makes me think of some of those old 1800s Currier and Ives prints of missippi river boats racing at and trains in the old west steaming through the night really looked like.
SO if it has 110 HP I time the wheels at 4 seconds per rev = 15rpm Let X = torque: 110= (X*15)/5252 110 * 5252 = X*15 577720= X*15 577720/15=X 38514.66 = X Torque at the rear wheel is 38,514 lbft The wheels are roughly ~6 feet in diameter so radius is ~3 feet 38514.66 / 3 = 12,838 Roughly the pulling force of 12,800 pounds. DEFINITELY enough to pull a sick old granny out of her rocking chair.
The sparks were an effect, you usually don't get many sparks with solid wood or coal, saw dust, straw, woodchips, etc. can make sparks. That said, yeah, there probably were a few field fires caused by steam tractors back in the day, not many sparks =/= no sparks.
A great demonstration for those who continually confuse HP with Torque .
1 HP = 550 lb-ft/s. Use your brain and you can see that HP is relevant if you want to do anything without taking an eternity.
@@Terminxman 🤔… 😂😂😂😂
i'm trying to figure out how it wouldn't burn down the drop it was meant to harvest
They're the same actually. Directly related via the gear box
@@andrewmitchell5807 HP is the same as Torque … best one I have heard since I spoke to a flat Earther 😂😂😂
I'm old enough to remember being a kid in the early 1940's , and there were still some steam tractors being used. Also steam locomotives were still around when I was young, and they were really impressive to see!
Things were simpler back then. Glad your still with us and appreciated your story.
I’ve seen UP 4014. It’s crazy to see
Wow, that is wonderful. I remember going to old Sacramento and seeing all the old ones in a museum but running must have been a sight to see! God bless!!
Me too. Was a magical time. Still love steam power
I was born in ‘43 and my dad was a locomotive engineer. They transitioned from steam to diesel-electric in the early 1950s.
Fire breathing, massive torque, wonderful steam power. 👍👍
Probably could have towed the sled into the next state.
Wonder what they put in the firebox to let so many glowing ashes fly out
@@vanlampham2557 It's due to the forced air from the compressor blowing into the fire to increase the heat generated.
@@Ragnaroz6000 thanks for the info
Don't they specifically put in saw dust to create the ambers?
Imagine driving that thing like this next to a dry field before harvest.
no nitrogen, no wheelspin, just coal and steampower. respect
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Whats nitrogen for?
Agricultural steam engine . He was burning straw / weeds and stuff like that .
110 plus years old and still getting the job done ……..amazing !
I mean, does it even have anything that can break in it over time?
110 is actually the horsepower rating for the engine (steam measurements are much different) it’s possible that the engine could be older, but they’re still amazing nonetheless. If you want an even more impressive engine, I recommend looking for the 150, the largest steam tractor to ever be built.
@@novairostudios6027 and if it was made in 1911 it’s 110 plus years old (at the least a 110 plus year old design)
The way gas / diesel prices are now they might be coming back
@@johnmcnatty1710 nah, it will be hydrogen/synth fuel that are the future.
This just blew my mind, of all the things I wish I could have seen as a child, I didn't even know this was one of them. Thank you for sharing the worlds coolest sparkler, my nephew is gonna go nuts when I show him this.
in PA we have Rough And Tumble in Gap, PA. There's events every year where machines like this perform. I went all the time as a kid, I'm now 24 and I still love going and seeing this.
@@backroadboosters4017 that sounds .... AMAZING!!! ... I LOVE IT I live in Arizona, when I was a kid no one cared about fireworks, but something changed guessing idiots and now all we get is boring stuff....that's why I go to Mexico and buy em, lol your so lucky
@@backroadboosters4017 I'm so dumb I have been watching the hell out of these firework videos and I thought that was what your comment was in response. And then my dumb ass responded real fast lol your probably like wtf are you talking about. Yea my great grandfather was a coal miner, so I've always been fascinated by anything that's powered by coal. It must be awesome to see these Engines in person I am jealous I bet it's soooo loud!!!
As a professional mechanic for 30 year, I HAVE to say, BAD ASS SON!!!!!!!!
The sound the smells the heat the sight, everything is spectacular about these things.
That is one beautiful piece of engineering!
Lol I was grinning from ear to ear
So much for kickin back and enjoyin the ride. 2 guys stayin BUSY to run that thing.
Ram cummins owner: Who wants to try tug of war!!??
Steam tractor owner: Hold my beer son…
🤣
Cummins: no chance! Duramax no problem!
@@kgb3404 You seem to be lacking knowledge in both physics and common reasoning. When the sled is at max drag it imposes 55000 lbs of force. The biggest and baddest diesel tractors all fail to pull these sleds to the end and beyond. Yet this steamer just plows ahead like it's nothing and you think a mere Duramax is able to outwin this steam monster?
Heck the CASE 110 weighs in at 20 tons (44000 lbs), a Duramax wouldn't even be able to tow the Case even if it was in neutral. The Duramax might have a horsepower advantage on paper, but once you realize you are competing Belgium workhorses the game changes very quickly. Torque is the magic word. The CASE 110 has 3000 ft.lbs, the best Ford has to offer is 1000 ft.lbs in the Cummins engine.
There's a video of a steam tractor and a professional-level John Deere modded tractor having a tug-of-war out there somewhere. The steam tractor literally toys with the poor Deere...
@@patrickd9551 the case may do it eventually, but it takes 2 minutes. a duramax or cummins would have the trailer atleast halfway down the run in 20 seconds.
i think it would be a good show, and think if the steam tractor can be moved by the diesel, that it wouldnt stand a chance because it doesnt have the gearing or horsepower to outwork the diesel truck.
the steam engine is 100% way more powerful and tough, but it comes at a cost of speed efficiency.
The amazing thing about steam is it’s incredibly powerful and so quiet.
true, until they blow the whistle 😁👍
Yes to the first No to the second. I’ve been all around the Northeastern United States at all sorts of different rail lines and everywhere I go I see at least five people cover their ears or step back when a steam locomotive rolls by. Although I and other railfans are basically immune to the noise I can see why people aren’t too keen on listening to these loud iron horses. I guess that’s why quite zones exist
Powerful yes, but quiet? Steam engines shake the earth when they roll by. They are not quiet.
@@Teesquared00 steam engines are actually quite silent. Check out Jay Leno's videos with his steam powered cars. They're basically silent. Trains are loud regardless of what engine they have, lot of moving parts...
If you don't love that, I question if you are a real GEARHEAD. That was freakin awesome!
I was at this show, and was just blown away at the brute stregnth of this machine. The sawdust sparks were just icing on the cake.
There's torque and then there's tractive effort. What unbelievable force this thing has. Very impressive something so old can still put modern tech to shame.
It would be interesting to see how many of those sleds it would take to stop a full-on steam locomotive.
It's totally impressive, but then if we chose to build something that heavy and with wheels like that using modern tech, we'd would wipe the floor with it. Imagine a vehicle like that but it puts out 1000-3000HP instead of the ~110 on display here...
I think that’s what the old timers call “pulling a draft”.👍
I had the privilege to ride on a Case traction tractor and a 5 bottom JD plow several years ago. The guy was plowing his wheat patch that he used for his small thrashing exhibit. The throughs weren’t very long but on one pass he really got it going and I could I could feel the pace pick up. He told me that was because it was “pulling a draft”. We hit a rock and the plow came unhooked from the tractor. So he stopped and backed up to reattach the plow. It was downright eerie to me that when he stopped the tractor there was no sound. Maybe a little hiss. But silence. I’m so used to the sound of the engine always idling. Great experience…….
I went to a steam show not long ago. My first ever. It was just like you said when I first got there. A little eerie, but so cool. There were giant steel behemoths everywhere rolling across the land, but hardly any sound at all. (except an occasional steam whistle just for fun)
I watched this video with my son. I was surprised by the strength of this old man, the son was surprisred by his fireworks.
The torque these engines produce is unmatched.
as much as I don't like China in the political perspective the Chinese still use steam locomotives to haul their Coal out of their mines you can look that up on here, they are absolutely fire breathing
Never doubt the strength of an old man, rule no.1
From the thumbnail i thought they were blowing red confetti in the air. When i realized it was sparks from the fire my mind was blown.
That thing is metal A F!
While it's true they do emit sparks and cinders this looks a bit much. I'd say its highly likely they probably threw some sawdust or similar in the firebox to make it look good! Old trick to show off and get the crowd excited.
@@ifyoutip Thx for sharing the background knowledge! It does indeed look good XD
Yes it is 😊
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@@ifyoutip all them Sparks better have been from sawdust or something for show, I'd hate to drive that thing through a field with literally anything growing if that wasn't the case
110 "Real" horse power :)
2020 Honda Civic: I'm 350hp!
1911 Case: Eats the Civic and fires out the molten sparks whilst dragging a battleship sideways up a mountain.
110 has the weight
LOL
The "Battleship sideways" had me crying! XD
While pushing another mountain on top of this mountain. Because it was not mountain enough.
Sigh, it's torque not hp.
@@rosiehawtrey In the words of Hadies,,,
"We KNOW!"
The fact the sled was all the way and he was still going with no problem lol
I saw a steam engine get almost to the end of the strip, he started to slow down and then realized he wasn't quite there so opened the throttle a little bit, with the sled all the way down the steam tractor started accelerating
111 years old vehicle, running on nothing but wood-fired steam power, and breathing literal fire. Rating: 110hp
A literal testament to our history of industrial development of machines. This is beyond bonkers to witness, I have no words. It is simply not enough to gawk at the pure strength and reliability of ancient vehicular technology and realize *this thing* was from our great grandparents' generation, the very beginning of the Industrial Era of America, circa the *EARLY 1900s.*
Absolutely friggin' nutters
Did you bust a nut yet????
Yikes!!!
Not ancient but okay
Legend has it that tracker is still pulling the sled
How much torque?
Yes
All of it...
3000 ft-lbs at 240rpm
I’ve watched this video easily 150+ times over the years. It’s still amazing every time I watch it. That thing is such a monster. To think they had machines like this 100+ years ago? I showed my 5 year old son this and told him the engine had a dragon inside of it. He thought it was cool. It might have only had 110 horsepower but probably 3,000 foot pounds of torque and weighed multiple tons. What a beast!!
Imagine the people living nearby, used to the screaming sounds of engines then all the sudden hearing what sounds like an old train chugging away complete with whistle. They must be so confused.
Thank you for the post. It's wonderful to me to be able to see what my Dad possibly saw as a young boy as a matter of course. He was born in 1908 and raised in Kansas during the years this type of machinery was being used in farming/harvesting, etc. Thanks again for a look back into history!
This was 7 years ago with the 110. Now that the 150 is finished. It would be interesting to see that beast pull
HOLD UP, THERE'S AN EVEN BEEFIER ONE?!!!
@@frederickglass1583 yes the 150. That would be cool to see
I seen the 150 in person last summer pulling 44 plows
@@frederickglass1583 Yup search for Case 150 for video
Absolutely haunting sound. Bat shit crazy torque for more than a century old. God bless these beasts...
Doc: "Think she'll do 90?" Them: " you'd have to get it hotter than the blazes of hell, but yeah I think you could get her up to 90."
Better get the Presto-Logs ready.
Tarnation Son, why would anyone be in such a hurry.
@@redmr2na it's a science experiment!
I wanna see the vid of this “experiment”
What kind of fuel does your tractor use?
Deere: diesel
Universal: diesel
Cat: diesel of course
International: diesel what else
Case: ...the souls of the damned...
*silence*
Água
Case is international. Case international
@@200130769 they used to be separate companies
Mike drop
When you get the embers falling out of the sky , you better believe this is going to be impressive! Been a long time since I've been on this video but I'm glad to be back again, thank you!
I seen one pull a sled in Pontiac IL years ago when I was a kid with my grandfather. Thank you for the memory refresher.
The most beautiful thing i have seen for being a pulling machine i would love to see one in my life time and here that sound echoe across the flatlands
It's hard for me to imagine. You go from seeing horses doing farm work most of your life, and then one day you see THIS.
Putting a full size steam engine on wheels.
Says 110 HP on it, I could only imagine the amount of tourqe it has. What am incredible peice of machinery.
3000 ft-lbs at 240 RPM
@@naughtius_maximus8243 less that I expected but super impressive none the less!
@@JacobE-23 yeah but there is a whole lot more mass behind that torque.
@@naughtius_maximus8243 unless you want to do what ev car mfg's have been doing lately & call it "wheel torque" by multiplying in the gear reduction; in that case it's probably putting closer to 30k lb/ft to the ground.
110HP is still 110HP no matter how much you gear it. It's still not a lot. A weedwacker engine can pull a house too, if you have strong enough gears and enough time to build another house.
This is the coolest tractor pull run I have ever seen!
The fire rain is pretty awesome
There's a Blues song about that, called "Smokestack Lightning".
I love how that machine keeps cutting off the girl talking. I wish they made a portable one of those 😂
That was epic. It brought a tear to my eye.
This is when the guy in the tractor says to the sled which state to you want me to pull you to. A mean machine! Steam what an amazing thing God made!
That would’ve been quite the sight to see on the open plains of the west with nothing but an open country around it. Could ya imagine crossing the country on one of these? Amazing.
There's a book called steamboats on the western rivers which is really good and covers everything. They were like muscle cars of their era, they had to have enough steam power to paddle upstream which the east coast steamboats didn't have to deal with. They used to race them all the time but the boilers were pushed so hard they would sometimes explode killing a lot of people. One of the funniest things though is that at the time when they were being publicized in big newspapers and everyone was scared of western steamboats, there were op eds by professionals reassuring the public your chances of dying in a steamboat explosion are far less than dying in a buggy accident lol. Its almost exactly the same as plane crash vs car crasg
And……seeing it at night from a distance lol…
That's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen
Steam is like an electric motor….
Produces GIANT TORQUE at ZERO rpm!
Incredible power !
at "ZERO" rpm = no movement = no torque. I would agree to something like "Produces GIANT TORQUE from the first rpm"
@@thecasualgerman8031 don't correct peoples jokes when you yourself are incorrect.
from the first revolutions per minute is something you say.
edit: technically u can have 0rpm. if it revolves 1 time in 2 minutes, the rpm is 0.5
so no full R is accruing Per M
get out autisticed
@@thecasualgerman8031 Torque does not imply any movement, power does
@@thecasualgerman8031 why even chime in if you have no clue what you are talking about
@@8coibaf you should start here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque
I love the sheer genius of machinery that rose out of the industrial revolution. From the likes of Big Ben and the Tower Bridge to the enormous train locomotives of the 50’s. It is all beautiful.
that's so awesome. cud only imagine seeing that power in person. amazing how sumtn so old runs so good and strong to this day
This with no wheel spin and just taking it's time as it pulls that sled easy as can be reminds me of the story of when the young bull looked at the old bull saying " let's run down their and get with one of them cows !" With the old bull replying " Shhheeeit , why not walk down nice and easy and get with them all ! "
Love watching this, the amount of power these old steam tractors could produce is astonishing and it's mind blowing when you consider that they pale in comparison to the larger steam locomotives who in turn pale in comparison to the steam powerplants of WWII warships. It's just really hard to get your head around that kind of power.
Being pedantic here, but really it's not producing a lot of power at all, and that's why it takes so long to get down the track. Instead what it's great at is traction (it is, after all, a traction engine!) which is why it doesn't seem bothered at all by the sled it's pulling. It's huge and heavy and has massive wheels, so it has no problem with grip. Just takes a while because it's not got much power.
@@CrArC being pedantic x2 here. Yes it DOES have a lot of power. Horsepower? No. Torque? Absolutely. And torque is a much more beneficial power unit than horsepower for 9/10 applications. Speed being the only one it’s not good at without a good mix.
@@wyattbeltz341 sorry, but no; torque is not a unit of power, that's what horsepower is. Torque is merely turning force, which, I agree, it has a lot of. But power? It only has about 110HP, or equivalent to a small european car. If you put an engine from such a car on that thing, with an appropriately geared down gearbox, and revved the tits off it, it would go down the track just the same (which is to say, slowly, due to lack of power)
Absolutely incredible.. Great post.
its crazy to think that beast is about 110 hp and 3000ft lbs of torque
the vibe this machnine gives me is amazing. Like its out of a steampunk movie....XD
Prior to diesels, they rolled sparks.
That's impressive. I've not seen a steam traction engine running at night. Lots of sparks; that could be a dangerous situation in a dry wheat field. The big Case put on a real show! Love that locomotive whistle.
There must have been a lot of fires back in the day when using these. Incredible torque and traction though
The railroads learned it the hard way but covers/grates/mesh was fitted on top of the smokestacks to prevent the dust particles flying away into the trees
I love the silence after it first blows its whistle, like an ancient beast
to be fair, it is an ancient beast
That was awesome!
You ever just see something so cool you have to grin for several minutes?? That was me for 2 minutes straight
That is so cool
Not sure everybody knows what this thing is pulling here.. The sled all the way back, insanity level torque produced.
They can draw a 50 furrow plough on clay - all day - without breaking a sweat. The trick is steaming the machine so you can maintain power..
Might set the cornfield on fire though
@@krisc2476 popcorn
@@rosiehawtrey that machine is 30 tons by itself, the trailer is just extra.
Pretty sure someone in the comments said the Case ran 110hp @ a eye watering 3,000ft-lbs of torque at 240rpm
Thats absolutely insane for early 1910's technology
Modern Engine : What can you do, old one?
Steam Engine : Hold my coal **slowly pulling the "thing" behind in a constant pace** choo choo mdfkr~
Wonderful sights and sounds!
That's impressive. Decades ago when i still watched television, they used those trailers for similar matches but then with monstertrucks with 3x V12 engines on it, roaring like crazy, and they didn't make it to then end. Those trailers become harder and harder to pull the further they are pulled. This steam engine just pulls the entire trailer bottomed out as if nothing is happening 😁
Exactly. Nobody is mentioning how every other tractor fails to complete the pull
This is a real piece of hardware; cold American steel warmed by a fire and powered by the raw forces of fire and water. Steam engines could move things even if the load was a drag; compare to modern torque engines, steam engines could move with none of the issues a torque drive has, because the tractor is powered by pressure, not leverage.
Long into the future when magnets and hydrogen take over the market; Steam Engines will be relics that continue to show off what industry could do where other motives could not.
Just beautiful really
Can you explain for a lay person what is a torque engine and how is it different from the steam engine?
@@arnoldbr8418 this would take me a hot minute to explain; so ill explain it simply for ease of convenience.
Steam Engines are single cylinder and their gear train connects directly to the wheels; moves slower but generates tremendous force through regulations of the heat and steam.
Torque engines; aka gas and diesel engines; have multiple gear trains; stay separate from the wheels and fire on multiple cylinders. The temperature of the engine can't be directly controlled and the force of torque is generated from the primary drive shaft; not from the cylinders themselves.
@@starlightdragon2665 I see what you meant now, thanks!
AWESOME,PRESERVING HISTORY,love the steam traction engines,the most powerful engine ever built just by the way they measure power,because steam engines develope maximum power at NO RPM.
any modern engine with half the energy output would put that steam engine to shame. The power from exploding fuel is several times greater than what steam can do. It's just steam is kept under pressure the whole time so it takes no time to build up pressure, while fuel explodes and then things start to move.
Torque x RPM / 5,252 = HP
Technicaly at 0 RPM you cannot have any HP since the calculation uses RPM as a multiplyer.... These beasts had shit for HP but a FKTon of Torque
Same reason a 3406B Cat engine putting out 350HP can pull a hill faster than a modern 500HP engine because modern engine run at higher RPM with lower torque. But it is the torque that keeps the tires turning
@@PaulMcClellanmn torque isn’t gonna make it quicker so no it won’t make the 350hp engine move faster up the hill, higher torque the more weight it can pull at a harder incline, not the quicker it goes.
@@PaulMcClellanmn that’s why an 18 wheeler can carry a larger load than say a regular v8 pickup truck because the torque put out by the 18 wheeler is much greater, yet the regular truck has a higher horse power and lower torque so it can’t pull as large a load but can move quicker.
@@corbinw6922 seems exactly what i already wrote
Can "feel" the power just watching that beast
Brought tears to my eyes! What a beauty! Go you good thing!
What a beast - it could probably pull two of those before it broke a sweat.
Thats super epic cool, i bet that engine would pull 4 sleds accross the usa and not get stuck.
Prob weighs 30ton
My father in law grew up in Pennsylvania and used to take the train to college. They were typically pulled by steam locomotives and he told me while waiting on the platform for the train to pull in you had to stand back to avoid the burning embers spewing out of the stack. A few years later when he went to Purdue in Indiana, they were pulled by GG1’s. Much safer and quieter ride he said.
This video goes abhorrently hard. Holy shit steam vehicles were cool. Just looked this tractor up, the 20 ton steam engine made 110hp and 3000 ft-lbs at 240 RPM. Take that cummins guys
That thing is totally sick !!🤘🤘
The funny thing is I didn’t realize how “torquey” a steam engine was. You could take the biggest 4-wheel drive diesel tractor built today and it wouldn’t have the torque of a old steamer
Truth !
@@BIGGGJOHN171 👍
Torque and how they apply it as well. Steam engines produce peak torque at 0 RPM like an electric motor, as at 0 RPM with the regulator fully open and the reverser in the forward-most position; the entire volume and pressure of the steam in the boiler is acting directly upon that piston.
Additionally, steam is an expansive force, so you also have the steam trying to expand inside the piston, which results in a truly-ludicrous amount of torque that follows a nearly-flat torque curve - assuming you don’t back off the reverser, but backing off the reverser is a must to prevent damage to the engine.
a modern tractor will have more pulling torque than any of the steam engine tractors. modern tractors can go very very very low in to the gearing. the only thing that hinders a modern tractor is traction. like modern tractors don't just go km per hour they go all the way down to meters per hour. and not just triple digit meters but all the way down to double digits. also modern tractors are designed to also be able to go fast and to go on the road without ripping it completely apart. a Volvo fh16 750hp has pulled 750tons as a PR stunt by volvo and that's a semi truck which does not even go a fraction as low as the lowest gearing on som modern tractors.
@@rampage3337 🤣👍
That looks amazing!
Love the whistle/horn, if you could call it that, sounds like it come off a big boy. Also love the sparks and smoke, suck it up greenie’s.🇦🇺
A true muscle tractor.
The guy moving right in front of you is pretty much every single time I go to a tractor pull or the dirt track races 😂 it never fails
Man I love it so much when the old girls just putt along throwing sparks and making noise while they drag the cart like nothing, they really knew their physics then imho, wonderful video!
You just get all tingly watching this. Cool factor +100
Kid asks: "why's it do that?"
Guy in hat:"its called farming"
Old school and the turn of last century!!!!
Awsum!!! "The Boss" right there!!!
Kind of neat to see the glowing stack, makes me think of some of those old 1800s Currier and Ives prints of missippi river boats racing at and trains in the old west steaming through the night really looked like.
110hp and probably 8000ft.lb. torque.
3000ft.lb
4067 nm
No 577,000 lbs at 0 hp.
SO if it has 110 HP
I time the wheels at 4 seconds per rev = 15rpm
Let X = torque:
110= (X*15)/5252
110 * 5252 = X*15
577720= X*15
577720/15=X
38514.66 = X Torque at the rear wheel is 38,514 lbft
The wheels are roughly ~6 feet in diameter so radius is ~3 feet
38514.66 / 3 = 12,838 Roughly the pulling force of 12,800 pounds.
DEFINITELY enough to pull a sick old granny out of her rocking chair.
Just brute power.... a true fire breathing monster 👍
Well, that completed my bucket list!
We need to go back to our grandparents methods. Slow , steady but immense power
Perfect ride for New year party 🎉
I think it just dragged the Earth off centre a bit.
Imagine you wake up in a city, where everyone is driving such a thing downtown 🤣
I need to pull the entire dead weight of the sled at maximum apex weight.
STEAM: hold my beer.
Damn, looks like an Elden Ring boss
I can't imagine field fires were an uncommon occurrence back then lmao
I think they used Wood for the effect at this show.
I've seen sawdust thrown in boiler for the sparks
The sparks were an effect, you usually don't get many sparks with solid wood or coal, saw dust, straw, woodchips, etc. can make sparks.
That said, yeah, there probably were a few field fires caused by steam tractors back in the day, not many sparks =/= no sparks.
Now that is TORQUE....unreal...great vid
Talk about old skool kicking some butt. Love it!
The ultimate torque monster
When you have enough torque, with enough mass and enough gearing, you can drag that sled all the way to the coast if you wanted to
That was AWESOME !
Rip my grandfather if you were alive, you could see amazing machine 🤖 🙆♂️
Back when tractors were built like trains!
Still a very great machine
steam engines imo look badass and the aesthetic should be brought back, the torque on that thing must be insane
Best thing I have ever seen