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« Reply #25 on: July 21, 2009, 05:56:37 am »
Del, Those folks at Vintage Tractors need to hire you to take pictures for them.
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« Reply #26 on: July 21, 2009, 11:25:14 am »
Cool.

Look like it was quite the Event.
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« Reply #27 on: July 21, 2009, 06:41:39 pm »
They have a steam powered Rail Road crane sitting on a chunk of track, fuel oil burner:











My friend that runs it was a bit sad though:



It was cold. Sad

Failed inspection this year, they hope to have the boiler retubed by next year though, were taking donations.
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« Reply #28 on: July 21, 2009, 09:30:08 pm »
That is a big piece of machinery, I've seen diesel cranes like that but not a steam powered one.
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« Reply #29 on: July 21, 2009, 10:05:21 pm »
When I was little, the term "steam shovel" was still used when folks were referrin ta excavators.  Never even thought about why, but then again I was just a tyke.
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« Reply #30 on: July 21, 2009, 10:56:09 pm »
A while back one of the ,9mm and 12 caliber shotgun type news reporters on one of the national news services tells about some guy being drunk, starting and stealing a steam roller to drive home.  Doubt it, besides if it really was steam, the DOT would be upset also cause I bet he didn't have a Steam Boiler Engineers license.

And they wonder why we don't believe the news.
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« Reply #31 on: July 21, 2009, 11:56:02 pm »
They had at the other end, out in the oat field and parkin' lot, 4 diesel cranes added since I'd been up there, didn't get back when they were running, but the yaller ones ran and dug, the other two will some day:
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« Reply #32 on: July 21, 2009, 11:57:16 pm »
Very fitting also, they had a pretty decent Polka band:
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« Reply #33 on: July 22, 2009, 02:10:07 am »
Yep, the term "steam roller" is still in use taday.  I was just thinkin back when I was a kid an ma grandad would say "look at the steam shovel Tommy".  Weren't no steam anywhere around, just the stink of diesel.  They referred ta them as that in alot of childrens books too.
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« Reply #34 on: July 22, 2009, 02:58:36 am »
"I'm a steam roller, Baby"!
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« Reply #35 on: July 22, 2009, 10:08:30 am »
Well Digger Dan seems to have been one:
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« Reply #36 on: July 22, 2009, 11:14:27 am »
That was one a the ones I was refferin ta.  An there was another one called "Are You My Mother?" er somethin like that.  We had some strange books when I was a kid.  That might explain alot.
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"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
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« Reply #37 on: July 22, 2009, 11:21:16 am »
Quote from: Leo Tanner on July 22, 2009, 11:14:27 am
That was one a the ones I was refferin ta.  An there was another one called "Are You My Mother?" er somethin like that.  We had some strange books when I was a kid.  That might explain alot.

YOU are NOT my Mother.

You are ah Snort!

The Snort helped the Baby bird, right back into it's nest.

What ah nice Snort that was.

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« Reply #38 on: July 22, 2009, 11:41:11 am »
There in Oklahoma, where I grew up, they had a lot of them old draglines,  they used to do a lot of strip coal mining early back in the century,  when they quit diggin, they parked all of em  there at the old coal yard,  it was sure interestin to walk through there and look at all that old equipment.
they had all sizes of em,  they even had one real small one that looked like a scoop would just about load a pickup.
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« Reply #39 on: July 22, 2009, 11:42:02 am »
Quote from: Wireman on July 22, 2009, 11:21:16 am
YOU are NOT my Mother.

You are ah Snort!

The Snort helped the Baby bird, right back into it's nest.

What ah nice Snort that was.

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See folks, I aint crazy, I just have a real good memory.  Thanks Wiry, that brought back some very old memories.
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« Reply #40 on: July 22, 2009, 12:24:44 pm »
Time ta time ya’ll see an old one onna barge in the river. They’ll be usin’ it for small dredge jobs. 
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« Reply #41 on: July 22, 2009, 12:32:41 pm »
Quote from: Arcey on July 22, 2009, 12:24:44 pm
Time ta time ya’ll see an old one onna barge in the river. They’ll be usin’ it for small dredge jobs. 

Used to see them down on the Missouri once in a while also.
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« Reply #42 on: July 22, 2009, 03:04:38 pm »
Did take but a few of the post WWII stuff up there, that was several hundred. Grin

Did take these, Slim might like this TO-30:



A TO-35 we used to own about 20 years ago, but it didn't look this good:



And a Ford on stilts:



And some stuff with tracks:



They come in collors other than yellow:





Was a green and yellow one, but I guess I didn't get any pictures.

And a 1937 model that must have got washed in hot water:
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« Reply #43 on: July 22, 2009, 04:01:10 pm »
Had the little rock crusher, this one I didn't catch when they had belted up, but a bit bigger:



Can think of a lot of things besides rocks that would be fun to drop in there:
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« Reply #44 on: July 22, 2009, 04:18:26 pm »
An here I thought I took a lotta pitchers at the airshow.

All kiddin aside, every one of em looks worthy of bankin here.  It's amazing that they got all that neat old stuff in one place an then got it out again.
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« Reply #45 on: July 22, 2009, 04:19:55 pm »
Some of the real big stuff like the cranes and one of the steam engines are stored there along with a lot of the little stuff.  It's an I believe 80 acre farm owned by the club.
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« Reply #46 on: July 22, 2009, 04:43:20 pm »
BTW, if anyone is interested, this is their website:

http://ccthreshers.users2.50megs.com/
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« Reply #47 on: July 22, 2009, 05:27:31 pm »
Del, Is that place near RCS?  I like all the trees for shade this time of the year.
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« Reply #48 on: July 22, 2009, 05:51:39 pm »
Cool link Dell. Thank ya very kindly.

Dad had ah big ol' Massy ya crunk it by hand. Seen Dad fly ah couple ah times. Sure wish I knew more about it. I know it ran on gas and had 6 spark plugs.
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« Reply #49 on: July 22, 2009, 05:54:25 pm »
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 22, 2009, 05:27:31 pm
Del, Is that place near RCS?  I like all the trees for shade this time of the year.

No this is NW of Lincoln a few miles on the way to Omaha, but a lot closer to Lincoln than Omaha.
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