2 Fowler BB1 Steam Engines ploughing with 6 furrow Balance plough Plow
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- čas přidán 29. 10. 2014
- Not every day you see this in Scotland.This is the first time this pair of ploughing engines have been used since 1948.
Named Mistress and Master these were the first two to be manufactured by Fowler in 1918 after the then Prime minister Lioyd George ordered 65 sets to alleviate food shortage in the UK due to blockades by German U boats.
They both made a appearance in the famous 1962 feature film - The Iron Maiden.
The Green one spent 50 years in Canada before being shipped back to Scotland in 2012.
The Fowler balance plough was also imported from Canada.
Both ploughing engines owned by the Cook family from Leven.
Filmed at the 2014 Scottish Ploughing Championships Kinross.
Camera Sony NEX VG30. Edited on Finall Cut X - Auta a dopravní prostředky
That's really cool to see an example of this. I was wondering what the winch was for under ploughing engines.
what a crazy thing to watch!!!
onelonleyfarmer ha I know you good job with the vids mate
Good video and nice to see the old style way used today
Beautiful old machines.
Worked great on alluvial River flats here in Australia in the 1880’s, 5 generations ago he went back to England and bought out a set of engines and plough
This system was already over 60-years-old when this engine was built in 1918.
The UK is so far behind the world in farming. The didnt even get the seed drill till 150 years after it was invented in China. They still used steam tractors up till the 50s. The UK government had to make it so expensive to use steam that the yellow tooth retards had to finally get diesel.
Just read a description of these in Tom Rolt's Landscape with Machines. Seeing the video makes it much clearer how they worked.
must have been a good work rate in its day , its going at a decent speed although they boys look like they need the boards shined up a bit and a decent set of skimmers
Great video ;) very interesting and rare to see, never mind seeing it working :)
Well,now I've seen about everything!Great to see, thank you.
Hello, do you have this footage in 1080p? I'm interested in purchasing this video.
Hi,Possibly. I recorded the video in 1080p and uploaded at 720p after editing.I will have a look through a few old external hard drives and will contact you if i find the original 1080p footage
Wow that is the craziest thing I ever seen. 2 engines with wide wheels could each pull 10 bottoms instead of two engines and just six bottoms. And it takes an army to flip the plow. Just silly.
What makes you think an engine can pull more by driving through its wheels on soft ground (when it also has to move its own weight), than by standing still and powering a winch? Not to mention that cable ploughing creates far less soil compaction in the field.
I'm not sure why they need several people to flip the plough; when these machines were earning their keep originally there certainly wouldn't have been two people standing around at each end to help. This is a 'balance plough', though; Fowler also produced the 'anti-balance plough' in which the wheel carriage was pulled forwards by the cable to place more weight on the 'working' end. Implements such as cultivators would turn at the headland.
It's true that each engine is standing idle half the time, but it gives a single driver time to look after the fire and boiler in between pulls rather than needing a full-time fireman (as there would be on a railway locomotive, for example). But in general I believe steam traction engines were just too heavy to work successfully in direct ploughing in British soil conditions (often wet and muddy). Although there were some late attempts to build unconventional, lightweight, high-pressure engines, by then internal combustion-engined tractors were starting to take over.
@@jonh845 that's a lot of excuses for being dumb as fuck.
www.farmcollector.com/steam-engines/steam-plowing-zmlz12mayzbea/
"In addition, the heavy engines swiftly became mired in the low-lying, boggy land common in Great Britain." Different tools for different conditions.
In UK field sizes you'd have lost a lot of time turning at the headlands too - a cable ploughing set can reverse almost instantly.
Given the same English field in multiple weather conditions my money is on the way the English did it. Surely if the 'American' way worked better on English soil and field size and incline and terrain they would've done that instead of thinking outside the box and coming up with a solution that seems to have worked pretty well until tractors got lighter/better power to weight ratio and lower centre of gravity?
You just don't understand how these work
Did winch plowing require 2 engines?
Yes
This method of plowing is genius. Very little soul compaction. However, in America we took the cheap way out, by making the traction engine wheels wider and pulling a huge Gang plow from the draw bar. I guess our method was better, as I don't see Tractors winching plows across fields these days
Harriman Fox
Yes, although the Ransomes colonial ploughing engine I have helped restore is direct tow ploughing and it was built in Ipswich uk
@@harrimanfox8961 yeah we did take the cheap way of plowing. The balance plow is a cool concept and very intresting but i like Kory Andersons 150 horse power CASE pulling a 24 bottom gang plow across a feild
Surely it allows ploughing on more difficult terrain than a drawbar plow
Methinks I prefer doing it the Yankee Doodle Dandy way, in that the engine just tows the plow directly behind it in the normal fashion.
if the soil's too hard, you can't, thus this
@@galehess6676 I thought it was the opposite (IE, this method was deployed in areas where it was too wet to direct plow)?
You see how one person said they thought it was hard soil and the other said it was because soft soil? Its actually because the UK farmers are stubborn as fuck and cant stand to do things the superior American way.