I remember these from when I was a boy during WW2. A local brewery used them to deliver beer to a pub in our village. Less scary than the Shire horses that delivered to the other pub.
I'm a mechanical engineer myself and I really cannot express how much I adore and revere early British engineering such as this. So, I'd just like to express my heartfelt congratulations and my sincerest gratitude to all involved for keeping such a beautiful vehicle 'alive' and running. Needless to say, the most fitting tribute to such a glorious machine is that despite her age, she'll easily outlast anything that has been built between the early '70s and the present day.
@@ladasodaexplains3355 much like my 1976 toyota d6000 truck. Everything is overbuilt and durable (aside from the alternator haha) Can leave it outside parked up for any number of years. Put some batteries in and off you go. I bought it off a farm at the other end of australia. Had not moved in 10 years and not regularly used in 20 years.. changed the engine oil. Cleaned the oil filter and air filter(they are not a replaceable type) fitted two used batteries and drove it 1800km home. Aside from the alternator seizing up and a headlight burning out. No issues at all. Was a great trip
To me the only technology that rivals the ingenuity in these machines is that of the mighty Rocketdyne F-1 engines on the bottom of the Saturn V rocket.
And what about the old man before the folks using this? And the old men before those old men? I mean why stop at this highly sophisticated truck compared to horse and carriage before? Or just horse before? Or simply walking? Yea every previous generation is "tough" cause they didn't have what the new generation has. Which means the folks using this steam truck were pampered in relation to those before steam. People use to walk miles, these guys just ride in a steam truck. Yea, roll coal, blah blah, they're all pussies compared to our origins.
@@sacr3 - I make historical men's clothing for a hobby. I recently bought a couple of old very early electric irons just use as fabric weights. I was amazed to find out they both still work. so I naturally tried ironing with them. Its PHYSICALLY HARD WORK - they weigh 2.7kg - 6lb each. You plug one in whilst you iron with the other and then switch. Its a GENUINE workout ironing a few shirts - and this was the MODERN IMPROVEMENT on the old irons you put hot coals inside, this was EASY in the day. On the up side - I have never had shirts as well ironed - the creases are like a razor blade - 6lb of hot metal pressing on your shirt fabric makes very flat shirts LOL. But its a real shock how much hard work it really is.
I love history I love classic cars omg! This is just on another level, to be able to see this tday in colour not black and white, the quality and the build , the mechanics of it and most of all the standard of British engineering back in those days, this clearly shows the value and the strength of made in England 🏴, simply amazing!
Now I'm wondering why I never thought about what it takes to run a coal powered truck... Seriously cool and impressive, good job keeping it alive gentleman.
With technology comes easier work, less physical work. Men back then would be strong, but also stink and be exposed to all sorts of harmful things because they just didn't know any better.
It's a wonderful thing to have a cab view of a Sentinel running, and then to see it coming at you with fire in it's teeth is even better. Thank you for sharing this.
Johnny Rossman It was probably pressed into service during the war. It would have still been relatively young, and although diesel was in short supply and rationed we had abundant coal, it would have made perfect sense to use this for its intended purpose.
Muito lindo sou motorista de caminhão fico feliz em saber que existe essas raridade em pleno funcionamento gostaria de conhecer pessoalmente está raridade, parabéns a vocês todos por preservar a história. Brasil.
8:58 something about the front of the vehicle with the headlights looking like eyes and the burner below looking like a mouth breathing fire just makes me laugh!! What a great piece of engineering! Love it!!
2 hours to get up steam. Not the one to use as a get away car from the bank robbery. Anyone would certainly be proud to own something like that. Thanks for the video.
@@Colt45hatchback if you knew anything about modern and old engines (technology too) you should know, that everything modern is more reliable and cheaper, than the old ones.
With the number of axles and size of under carriage it must have carried a good size load. Pretty impressive piece of equipment. Great job, thanks for sharing.
I'd be scared shitless if this thing would turn up at night behind me. Just think of the red-glowing fire pan under the engine. And also the doind it produces
What a simply beautiful piece of engineering. And what strong arms that driver must have, steering those 4 wheels!! It'd be amazing to see one of these brand new just out of the factory, not worn out from 100 years of use, powering down the road with a load of tarmac on the back!
Any time I need a 'happy moment ' I watch a Tarmac video. This truck simply fascinates me. I would trade one of my 'A's to ride in this magnificent mechanical beast! I know the time, labor & money it takes to restore/preserve and love an old vehicle. Worth it. Thank you
Love these wagons. Watched one at the Masham steam fair road run. They can go at quite a lick. Good job no Bobby's about or he'd have been done for speeding LOL. Wonderful restoration job by the way thanks for sharing.
I would not want to be any where near that beast if it was ever involved in a collision. Insanely dagerous and totally awesome. I'm givvin' 'er all she's gawt, Captain.
I saw the footage of driving through the puddles and flooded street and realized that those could really ruin your day in a steam-powered truck like this.
If steam engine gulps up some water it just extinguishes, you can re-ignite it with some dry coal. If a petrol engine gulps up some water, you gonna need a new petrol engine.
Mi 28 If water goes into the cylinder(s) while its running, you'll have the same issues as a petrol engine. That's why steam engines typically have some kind of bleed valve to open while they get started allowing water that pooled after the last run to be ejected safely without bending the rod. I think Pete's point is how long it would take to dry out the fire box, re-ignite it and bring the steam back up to pressure to get going again. I sucked up a little water into my Jeep's engine more than once. It only took 5 to 10 min to pull all the plugs, crank it a few times, clean the water out of the distributor cap and reassemble.
The flood water wouldn't go into cylinders of a steam engine, the intake is sealed off from the environment. The drain valves are there because steam is water gas, and it always fills up the cylinders, so when the engine stops for a long time all of that gas water condenses into liquid water, which needs to be drained. You don't need to dry out the fire box. You just need to evacuate the water and re-ignite it using dry coal. The burning coal would quickly dry up the firebox and the wet coal as well. As for your truck, I guess you got lucky and it only sucked a tiny bit of water at a time, just enough to stop spark gaps from working but not to cause compression damage. Flooding a running engine normally results in its complete destruction.
4N5W3R5 torrefied biomass, which is more energy efficient than coal and releases fewer greenhouse gasses into the air than coal and oil, thus if a steam Lorry were powered with such, it would actually be more environmentally friendly
the shit it's spewing out into the air is most certainly not environmentally friendly XD I believe steam could be done in an environmentally friendly way but this ent it, fkn thing runs on trees XD
This makes going out and turning on my car 10 minutes before I go to work so it's warm look absolutely easy. Pretty preposterous this is what you had to do to get this thing started.
for some reason, every time i see a steam engine it gives me chills thru my spine. i must appreciate the effort of these people for keeping these pioneer machines alive. generation today have no idea what it was like, when we were growing up seeing these amazing monsters.
Murdoch493 but this is from 1929. the Diesel-engine was already on it's run to victory. the steam - era was around 20 years earlier... but not in england. today this is great, but back then it wasn't "state of the art" anymore.
We built those vehicles under license in Skoda Pilsen in twenties....Some served after the war regularly and some are in museums till today..Great British Engineering...
the car produces some kind gas as any diesel car. but the they probably used weaker filter that block air out flow and made it slow .so bypassing filters makes car faster and more efficient while makes car more ozone enemy. thats what wolkswagen did . jut put another filter and you got the some epa ratings :D
ahmet mutlu As long as we're missing the joke, the VWs can meet EPA standards just with ECU tuning (and an increase in DEF usage)...which is precisely how they passed emissions testing on the EPA dynamometers but fail in actual road use.
This is by far my favorite video. My grandpa was a oil field welder and made things for himself and other people. Now the 21 century the whole planet wants to go shopping 365 and party and fill the land fills. Dont make anything for yourself any more, if you dont have the credentials on paper, just buy it, as my mexican friend would say, just buy it and if it breaks throw it away and buy another one.!🤥
@@ericward8459 i think they would probably use the coal that they was taking to their customer if they carrying the right coal for their steam wagon and not house coal if they really needed to do so?
If that thing sits in rush hour traffic behind an old MX-5, Lotus Elise or Super 7, all you see in the mirror in those cars is a fire. Ok, and the Elise would probably start to melt.
у нас в 30х в НАМИ занимались такими грузовиками, только на дровах планировали кататься по Сибири. Но не взлетело, дрова много места занимают и хуже угля горят, эффективность низкая получается, и расстояния побольше чем в Англии.
@@wrtltable Сентинел модели VBT 1933 года был технически более совершенен и имел автоматическую топку тем самым не отвлекая шофера от управления машиной. экземпляр был приобретен НАМИ в 1936 году для исследования рускими учёными.
I'm afraid I'm gonna need one of those. Where can I sign my soul to the devil... Because I would to own that. I'd drive it to pickup my kids at school and to get groceries. I don't care if it takes 2 hours to fire up I'd do it anyway!.
You could modify a modern internal combustion engine into a single action steam engine. You could make it into double expansion engine by connecting primary cylinder exhaust to two secondary cylinder intakes. You'd need a modified valve timing rod, to open intake on every downstroke and open exhaust on every upstroke. Water pipe boiler is very easy to make yourself and it produces high efficiency superheated steam with no extra apparatus required. If you make it running on liquid fuel, you could make an automatic furnace that keeps appropriate steam pressure by starting and shutting down depending on the pressure.
I congratulate you for keeping this type of vehicle so old, beautiful and with such complicated maintenance and use. In addition to the topic spare parts. Greetings from Argentina. Los felicito por mantener este tipo de vehiculos tan antiguo , hermoso y de tan complicado mantenimiento y uso. Ademas del tema repuestos. Saludos desde Argentina.
I would love to see a modern version of this truck built. The same wheel set up and cab but a gas fed burner and the best materials and most advanced steam engine. Just to see what it could do. I know steam engines can make tons of power. The trick to them is keeping the heat in.
@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 Because steam engines can be very small and still make an insane amount of power. Never going to be a sports car but it could be a commercial truck. With modern tech we might be able to make it burn cleaner than a diesel but make similar or more power. When steam powered trucks were built technology for burners and insulation were WAY worse than they are now but they still made a ton of power with tiny engines. I have no idea if they could really compete with a modern diesel but it would be neat to see what could be done.
Ya operate a steam lorry ya say? Ya… I do. Wat’s it take then. Coal miner’s lungs, nerves of steal, and a cast iron bum. Give it a go, see how ya like it! Na… I’m good. Oooh arrr! Yu’r missen out’a life. Live dangerously! Brad
A fantastic beast, i do think that the writing was on the wall even as it rolled off the production line. I can see how it would work reasonably well on planned regular routes, eg beer or aggregate deliveries.
Must have kept them toasty during the winter but sweating in the summer. So basically its operated like a loco . The engineer and the firemen to keep the engine running.
Well, they were kinda driving it from a historic "living" museum to a storage barn... hard to tell how far that journey actually was though. The only such museum I personally know of is in the West Midlands, and AFAIK "Stanley" is probably 100 miles away from there. Could have been a few hours' drive. Though they never seem to go through any particularly urban areas at any point, which I would have expected to be necessary on such a route, so it might only have been a few fairly easy rural miles from an entirely different museum I don't know about.
The DG8 was built and used for British coal mines because it had lots of power for hauling and also had basically unlimited fuel when your just carrying more coal from place to place
I remember these from when I was a boy during WW2. A local brewery used them to deliver beer to a pub in our village. Less scary than the Shire horses that delivered to the other pub.
Interesting, would make sense considering there was chronic fuel shortages.
I dunno about less scary. Horses dont explode
@@maggs131 I was only 5 - 6 years old and to me those shires were absolutely gigantic.
That's honestly a cool story
Well, Shire's are the largest horse breed.
I'm a mechanical engineer myself and I really cannot express how much I adore and revere early British engineering such as this. So, I'd just like to express my heartfelt congratulations and my sincerest gratitude to all involved for keeping such a beautiful vehicle 'alive' and running. Needless to say, the most fitting tribute to such a glorious machine is that despite her age, she'll easily outlast anything that has been built between the early '70s and the present day.
I think it will out last all of us all we are doing is looking after it for a while
I honestly think it outlasts alot of modern things because there isn't so much delicate components in it
@@ladasodaexplains3355 much like my 1976 toyota d6000 truck. Everything is overbuilt and durable (aside from the alternator haha)
Can leave it outside parked up for any number of years. Put some batteries in and off you go. I bought it off a farm at the other end of australia. Had not moved in 10 years and not regularly used in 20 years.. changed the engine oil. Cleaned the oil filter and air filter(they are not a replaceable type) fitted two used batteries and drove it 1800km home. Aside from the alternator seizing up and a headlight burning out. No issues at all. Was a great trip
To me the only technology that rivals the ingenuity in these machines is that of the mighty Rocketdyne F-1 engines on the bottom of the Saturn V rocket.
Classic Volvo *Laughs in reliability*
Cummins: "I roll coal"
Sentinel DG8: LOL, hold my clinker while I 'roll coal' with actual coal, son.
nice one
And what about the old man before the folks using this? And the old men before those old men?
I mean why stop at this highly sophisticated truck compared to horse and carriage before? Or just horse before? Or simply walking?
Yea every previous generation is "tough" cause they didn't have what the new generation has.
Which means the folks using this steam truck were pampered in relation to those before steam.
People use to walk miles, these guys just ride in a steam truck.
Yea, roll coal, blah blah, they're all pussies compared to our origins.
@@sacr3 - I make historical men's clothing for a hobby. I recently bought a couple of old very early electric irons just use as fabric weights. I was amazed to find out they both still work. so I naturally tried ironing with them. Its PHYSICALLY HARD WORK - they weigh 2.7kg - 6lb each. You plug one in whilst you iron with the other and then switch. Its a GENUINE workout ironing a few shirts - and this was the MODERN IMPROVEMENT on the old irons you put hot coals inside, this was EASY in the day.
On the up side - I have never had shirts as well ironed - the creases are like a razor blade - 6lb of hot metal pressing on your shirt fabric makes very flat shirts LOL.
But its a real shock how much hard work it really is.
I remember my grandpa playing Euro truck simulator with this truck
You can get a steam wagon in ETS
TELL ME WHERE
@@welsh_Witch whoosh
Uhm.... ok.
Carnifex666 r/whoosh indeed
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well at the least this thing kept the driver/engineer warm and toasty during the cold days. What a beautifull piece of engineering.
+LaterMeansBrick It is indeed beautifull
+LaterMeansBrick Even more so on warm days I'd wager..
just imagine waking up on a humid summer morning having to keep that monster going and going all day.
@@oilsmokejones3452 I rode in a friend's once when your going you get a good breeze but stationery in traffic or something its like sitting in a oven
Just hearing the powertrain makes me appreciate the helical gears we have in our transmissions today... Thank you for the insightful video!
Mmm straight cut gears
Dk obe apo bahaso xo ko
I prefer straight gears, they are stronger and more efficient anyway, owing to their lack of sidethrust.
@@smh9902 and don't you just love the way a gt car sounds... delicious 🤤
@@smh9902 ....... but noisey ... Not sure if they are stronger .., but the side thrust of a helical is wasteful and requires a heavier box..
I love history I love classic cars omg! This is just on another level, to be able to see this tday in colour not black and white, the quality and the build , the mechanics of it and most of all the standard of British engineering back in those days, this clearly shows the value and the strength of made in England 🏴, simply amazing!
Now I'm wondering why I never thought about what it takes to run a coal powered truck... Seriously cool and impressive, good job keeping it alive gentleman.
No gym membership required if you spent all day everyday driving that!
Hard men back then.
No Vapes either
black lung strong arms. probably smoked a pipe too lol
With technology comes easier work, less physical work. Men back then would be strong, but also stink and be exposed to all sorts of harmful things because they just didn't know any better.
@@themagicboy6548 go pay your obamacare :)
It's a wonderful thing to have a cab view of a Sentinel running, and then to see it coming at you with fire in it's teeth is even better. Thank you for sharing this.
Well honey,I’m gonna go warm the car up for work.
But you just got home from work
I know
Form an era when men where men and machine's where mighty
Lovely to see this old wagon still going strong
Credit to the owner's
8:44 the fire inside the boiler in between the two headlights makes
The truck look like some sort of
Fire breathing monster driving down
The road
It is fire breathing monster
When you see a truck with the big, friendly letters: 'TARMAC' coming at you:
*_GET OUTTA' THE WAY!!!_*
eh, I don't care about the letters. That fire at the bottom, though ... 8:40
9:07 the fire looks a mouth about to eat you
What a beautiful machine; doubly amazing it wasn’t melted down during the war. Another piece of history saved from oblivion. Love it
Johnny Rossman It was probably pressed into service during the war. It would have still been relatively young, and although diesel was in short supply and rationed we had abundant coal, it would have made perfect sense to use this for its intended purpose.
It probably would have been foolish to melt down a coal burning truck during an oil shortage.
If anything they would’ve put it back into service during the war years.
Muito lindo sou motorista de caminhão fico feliz em saber que existe essas raridade em pleno funcionamento gostaria de conhecer pessoalmente está raridade, parabéns a vocês todos por preservar a história. Brasil.
Driver.. more like captain
engineer, aka train driver
@@engineerskalinera And the chauffeur, of course
Amazing!!! Wow! I am SO fascinated by this truck and so grateful it has been restored! thanks for sharing the video!
8:58 something about the front of the vehicle with the headlights looking like eyes and the burner below looking like a mouth breathing fire just makes me laugh!! What a great piece of engineering! Love it!!
A nominal improvement over the horse.
Very interesting. Thanks for preserving
Ну вот, пассажир переднего сиденья при деле. А то обленились ездить. :D
интересно сколько угля на сто километров.
У нас делали паровой тягач в СССР, для лесозаготовок, с автоматической подачей топлива и воды. Жаль что бросили, было б интересно посмотреть.
Эпично, особенно в горку подъём
Скоро с нашими ценами на бенз все на такие перейдут)
@@user-re8yx8cm6m цены не причём.
в рашке просто територия слишком раздута.
2 hours to get up steam. Not the one to use as a get away car from the bank robbery. Anyone would certainly be proud to own something like that. Thanks for the video.
Start & stop
When has a bank robbery ever taken long enough for the whole startup routine being necessary?
The getaway driver will keep it running anyway.
Разкошен камион. Браво! Съжалявам, че цените на тези модели са много , много високи😉
How much people are needed to run a car?
*1929:* At least two!
*2020:* none!
Yeah but the 2020 car will last 10 years.. this old girl is still going.
@@Colt45hatchback because someone rebuilt it
@@maxx1o1 well yes of course. Haha
@@Colt45hatchback. Yeah... modern cars are made to be recycled not to last for ever and its a shame.
@@Colt45hatchback if you knew anything about modern and old engines (technology too) you should know, that everything modern is more reliable and cheaper, than the old ones.
Jay Leno needs one.
Go through mcdrive with dat
Bugger that, just fry up some bacon and eggs on top of the boiler!
🙂🙂🙂🙂.
Too high for Mc there is limit think 1.60m,or max 2.00m. 😂😂😂But idea was good
Food truck then
This looks insanely fun for some reason. I'd name mine after "the little engine that could"
No cup holders how primitive! Seriously that is a magnificent machine. Thanks for caring for it and sharing the video!
With the number of axles and size of under carriage it must have carried a good size load. Pretty impressive piece of equipment. Great job, thanks for sharing.
I bet this thing looks so awesome at nighttime!
mathue taxion
Breathing Fire and Sparks closing in behind ya!
Ghost riders truck
I'd be scared shitless if this thing would turn up at night behind me. Just think of the red-glowing fire pan under the engine. And also the doind it produces
Looks like a jumping spider from the side
What a simply beautiful piece of engineering.
And what strong arms that driver must have, steering those 4 wheels!!
It'd be amazing to see one of these brand new just out of the factory, not worn out from 100 years of use, powering down the road with a load of tarmac on the back!
Отец был машинистом паровоза,знакомая кухня,но не до такой степени.Респект!
4:26 when vtec kicks on
insert [ E U R O B E A T ]
TowmaX wrong country
Engineer Skalinera but it’s used in an asian show an honda is an asian car company
TowmaX the initial d memes are from japan
you forgot the "yo"
Just imagine seeing this in your rear view mirror! Thanks to AvE for putting me onto your channel :)
Any time I need a 'happy moment ' I watch a Tarmac video.
This truck simply fascinates me. I would trade one of my 'A's to ride in this magnificent mechanical beast!
I know the time, labor & money it takes to restore/preserve and love an old vehicle. Worth it.
Thank you
*takes a deep breath* smells like a heaping stack of health and safety forms! I love it!!
What a beautiful wagon. Full credit to the owners and those who work to keep it going.
In England coal hauls truck.
lorry not truck lol
In the U.S. we call em trucks, actually with no 5th wheel for a trailer it would be called a tandem. At least in my neck of the woods.
i know, me too i call it truck, lorry sound lmao compared to truck
Tony x actually we say lorry and truck, we can use both words they mean the same thing here.
@@tommcmahon14 typically in the UK a truck is a pick up and lorry is obv one of those big cunts with a trailer. But yeah its interchangeable
Love these wagons. Watched one at the Masham steam fair road run. They can go at quite a lick. Good job no Bobby's about or he'd have been done for speeding LOL. Wonderful restoration job by the way thanks for sharing.
The sound of those straight cut gears would be concerning to the average person
Reminds me of my shitty old Peugeot which ate all the synchros on most gears.
@@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge puegeots they are unreliable..
@@allauddinnadaf2327 No, they have some weakpoints but the old 80s are pretty damn good cars.
And I complain about the lack of power steering on my Fiesta......
Jusb1066 just buy a K&N Airfilter and you will have enough power ;)
what ? Is this supposed to be a joke @Kai FRIEDRICH or are you for real ? xD
+Th3Moonser I think he was high
Yeah I think so
Spinddrift that was definitely a joke
I was on the edge of my seat the entire video. beautiful machine
By the time you reach your final destination, your body is either vibrating or your migraines are incurable and contagious
I would not want to be any where near that beast if it was ever involved in a collision. Insanely dagerous and totally awesome.
I'm givvin' 'er all she's gawt, Captain.
I saw the footage of driving through the puddles and flooded street and realized that those could really ruin your day in a steam-powered truck like this.
Nah that is just the ash tray, it would be hard to get water up into the actual burner.
Because petrol engines can breath underwater...
If steam engine gulps up some water it just extinguishes, you can re-ignite it with some dry coal. If a petrol engine gulps up some water, you gonna need a new petrol engine.
Mi 28 If water goes into the cylinder(s) while its running, you'll have the same issues as a petrol engine. That's why steam engines typically have some kind of bleed valve to open while they get started allowing water that pooled after the last run to be ejected safely without bending the rod.
I think Pete's point is how long it would take to dry out the fire box, re-ignite it and bring the steam back up to pressure to get going again. I sucked up a little water into my Jeep's engine more than once. It only took 5 to 10 min to pull all the plugs, crank it a few times, clean the water out of the distributor cap and reassemble.
The flood water wouldn't go into cylinders of a steam engine, the intake is sealed off from the environment. The drain valves are there because steam is water gas, and it always fills up the cylinders, so when the engine stops for a long time all of that gas water condenses into liquid water, which needs to be drained.
You don't need to dry out the fire box. You just need to evacuate the water and re-ignite it using dry coal. The burning coal would quickly dry up the firebox and the wet coal as well.
As for your truck, I guess you got lucky and it only sucked a tiny bit of water at a time, just enough to stop spark gaps from working but not to cause compression damage. Flooding a running engine normally results in its complete destruction.
That is the most intimidating vehicle I ever seen I will love to drive that in New York Beautiful machine
Он великолепен! Стальной дракон!)
I 😍 this video, because i drive 18wheels 80,000 pounds, everyday. The old days make you appreciate things. Thanks for making the video. ☺
And I complain about how long it takes for my car to warm up.
Very impressive! Beautiful machine, indeed!
I Verymuch Adore That days Steam engines...great Engineering...proud to be....Iam a Mechanical Engineer.
That's a road train if I've ever seen one.
0:57 Eat that Hybrid owners!! My car runs on grand dads greasy old underwear and a bag of 90 year old bread sticks!!
lmao
literally anything that burns well
and also a plastic bag
4N5W3R5 torrefied biomass, which is more energy efficient than coal and releases fewer greenhouse gasses into the air than coal and oil, thus if a steam Lorry were powered with such, it would actually be more environmentally friendly
the shit it's spewing out into the air is most certainly not environmentally friendly XD I believe steam could be done in an environmentally friendly way but this ent it, fkn thing runs on trees XD
11:20 turbo mode power on
Lol
vtec just kicked in yo
VTEC
It’s called a lot of torque lol
This makes going out and turning on my car 10 minutes before I go to work so it's warm look absolutely easy. Pretty preposterous this is what you had to do to get this thing started.
I don't know why but steam vehicles make me smile every time. They're just so awesome.
The most beautiful thing on wheels i ever seen
2 hours to full steam?...still faster charging than my Renault Zoe.
Next to this beast your zoe is the gayest thing ever
@@frameshade , Nah this truck is nothing compared to the 150 CASE steam tracktor !
Wow, its fantastic. Congratulations for restoring and showing us that marvel.
Steam is so incredible, I worked in a coal fired power plant for 14 years, we had a 10 hour warm up. I would love to see this truck in action.
for some reason, every time i see a steam engine it gives me chills thru my spine. i must appreciate the effort of these people for keeping these pioneer machines alive. generation today have no idea what it was like, when we were growing up seeing these amazing monsters.
I was screaming at my phone,"You're on the wrong side of the road!!!!" then I remembered this is from England.
milkman6478 Where should THIS come from, if not england?
France? Despite the revolution, they had a pretty decent industrial age...
Murdoch493 but this is from 1929. the Diesel-engine was already on it's run to victory. the steam - era was around 20 years earlier... but not in england. today this is great, but back then it wasn't "state of the art" anymore.
Hahaha these colonies...
milkman6478 United Kingdom*
We built those vehicles under license in Skoda Pilsen in twenties....Some served after the war regularly and some are in museums till today..Great British Engineering...
What a beauty! Amazing to see how it runs!
the British version of rolling coal lol
hahaha
*toot toot*
Yes, we take it literally over here.
They probably laugh at people with diesel trucks here, like
PFFT, ...OBSERVE...
XD
5:47 the guy in the jeep was desperate When he saw a truck giving off smoke running after him heheheeh
The drivers heart was pounding fast as🤣
Beautiful machine. Right at the end she looked like a bug spewing out lava haha, verry cool
9:02 Imagine that thing coming towards you at night!
Horrific with the sound of it coming out of the fog.
1:10 i thought you were going to feed it with breads 😂😂😂
bet it has better EPA ratings than a volkswagen from 2016
*Well we know now you are not an Engineer!*
almost anything has better epa ratings than auschwitzwagen
Jamison Leonard a bush fire next to an oil refinery has a better EPA certification than a VW diesel
the car produces some kind gas as any diesel car. but the they probably used weaker filter that block air out flow and made it slow .so bypassing filters makes car faster and more efficient while makes car more ozone enemy.
thats what wolkswagen did .
jut put another filter and you got the some epa ratings :D
ahmet mutlu As long as we're missing the joke, the VWs can meet EPA standards just with ECU tuning (and an increase in DEF usage)...which is precisely how they passed emissions testing on the EPA dynamometers but fail in actual road use.
This is by far my favorite video. My grandpa was a oil field welder and made things for himself and other people. Now the 21 century the whole planet wants to go shopping 365 and party and fill the land fills. Dont make anything for yourself any more, if you dont have the credentials on paper, just buy it, as my mexican friend would say, just buy it and if it breaks throw it away and buy another one.!🤥
science & enginnering is the most beautiful thing
If the lorry carries a coal for the customer, will everything be burned before arrival? :D
I imagine they cordon off the delivery from what's in the fuel bunkers
ha ha 😂😂
@@ericward8459 i think they would probably use the coal that they was taking to their customer if they carrying the right coal for their steam wagon and not house coal if they really needed to do so?
9:26 whistle makes it 🔥
It looks like a happy truck with the ashtray opened!
WOW!! Much, many appreciation. Good good, very good work. Love the ole Girl!! THANK YOU for all your efforts and sharing!!
amazing machine, love the sound of that steam engine.
If that thing sits in rush hour traffic behind an old MX-5, Lotus Elise or Super 7, all you see in the mirror in those cars is a fire.
Ok, and the Elise would probably start to melt.
Классный самовар - даже не знал, что такие были в ходу!
American brodozer: *rolls coal*
British Sentinel: That's cute.
How many lumps per mile?
Ооооу намбы такое чудо техники в деревню ! А то бензин сегодня дорогой !🤓👍
С берёзой нет проблем, заброшенные пашни ею поросли.
у нас в 30х в НАМИ занимались такими грузовиками, только на дровах планировали кататься по Сибири. Но не взлетело, дрова много места занимают и хуже угля горят, эффективность низкая получается, и расстояния побольше чем в Англии.
@@wrtltable Сентинел модели VBT 1933 года был технически более совершенен и имел автоматическую топку тем самым не отвлекая шофера от управления машиной. экземпляр был приобретен НАМИ в 1936 году для исследования рускими учёными.
И спалить,всю округу к ебеням))
This thing is amazing, I love looking at it.
These machines tell us how step by step we move ahead from generations. Good machine still moving
Shropshire number plate, I see. I live in Shrewsbury where these were made. The factory is still known as the Sentinel Works.
I'm afraid I'm gonna need one of those. Where can I sign my soul to the devil... Because I would to own that. I'd drive it to pickup my kids at school and to get groceries. I don't care if it takes 2 hours to fire up I'd do it anyway!.
Great fun
I plan on buying one as soon as I hit the Mega Millions Tuesday night.
You could modify a modern internal combustion engine into a single action steam engine. You could make it into double expansion engine by connecting primary cylinder exhaust to two secondary cylinder intakes. You'd need a modified valve timing rod, to open intake on every downstroke and open exhaust on every upstroke. Water pipe boiler is very easy to make yourself and it produces high efficiency superheated steam with no extra apparatus required. If you make it running on liquid fuel, you could make an automatic furnace that keeps appropriate steam pressure by starting and shutting down depending on the pressure.
@@michaelbuckers so essentially, change timing, and boom steam engine. (if it doesn't blow up)
*Magical. You wave the wand of expertise and voila: perfect! Thank you*
I congratulate you for keeping this type of vehicle so old, beautiful and with such complicated maintenance and use. In addition to the topic spare parts. Greetings from Argentina.
Los felicito por mantener este tipo de vehiculos tan antiguo , hermoso y de tan complicado mantenimiento y uso. Ademas del tema repuestos. Saludos desde Argentina.
I would love to see a modern version of this truck built. The same wheel set up and cab but a gas fed burner and the best materials and most advanced steam engine. Just to see what it could do. I know steam engines can make tons of power. The trick to them is keeping the heat in.
Especially power steering!
What’s the point of it if it’s going to burn gas? Seems to me what makes a steam engine so useful is it can burn cheap fuels like coal and wood.
@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 Because steam engines can be very small and still make an insane amount of power. Never going to be a sports car but it could be a commercial truck. With modern tech we might be able to make it burn cleaner than a diesel but make similar or more power.
When steam powered trucks were built technology for burners and insulation were WAY worse than they are now but they still made a ton of power with tiny engines.
I have no idea if they could really compete with a modern diesel but it would be neat to see what could be done.
@@plaid13 ACE 3000 was a program in the 1980s to build a modern coal fired steam locomotive. You’d likely be interested in learning about it
@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 kind of interesting but coal isnt a good fuel.
Ya operate a steam lorry ya say?
Ya… I do.
Wat’s it take then.
Coal miner’s lungs, nerves of steal, and a cast iron bum.
Give it a go, see how ya like it!
Na… I’m good.
Oooh arrr! Yu’r missen out’a life. Live dangerously!
Brad
Youst great!!!! Wondeful machine and his owner! I say hi from México
A fantastic beast, i do think that the writing was on the wall even as it rolled off the production line. I can see how it would work reasonably well on planned regular routes, eg beer or aggregate deliveries.
I'd love one of these mad machines
Must have kept them toasty during the winter but sweating in the summer. So basically its operated like a loco . The engineer and the firemen to keep the engine running.
very warm in summer
Upgrade with a condenser, some heaters for condensate/feedwater, a high pressure pump, and you’ve got a closed off steam cycle!
Wow what a marvelous pice of machinery you have sir.
14:17 If that was axle-driven instead of chain-driven, that truck would bite into the ground with its wheels...
would love to attend a ecologist rally with one of these
🤣
If you run this on wood then it’s a green vehicle
@Mathias Elslidnul bell end
Best thing abou this is, that is Not locked away in the museum but driven even through water and dirt!
Well, they were kinda driving it from a historic "living" museum to a storage barn... hard to tell how far that journey actually was though. The only such museum I personally know of is in the West Midlands, and AFAIK "Stanley" is probably 100 miles away from there. Could have been a few hours' drive. Though they never seem to go through any particularly urban areas at any point, which I would have expected to be necessary on such a route, so it might only have been a few fairly easy rural miles from an entirely different museum I don't know about.
The DG8 was built and used for British coal mines because it had lots of power for hauling and also had basically unlimited fuel when your just carrying more coal from place to place
That was my thought, here in WV we could still probably utilize these steam wagons hauling coal