Author Topic: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines (Read 64575 times)

Delmonico · « **Reply #20 on:** July 20, 2009, 06:29:35 PM »

OK, this next one is the biggest "hit and miss" they have, originaly ran on natural gas, the run it on propane, ran pumps in the oil fields:

Really cool to watch, took a bunch of cycles to get a sequence of pictures, but managed. Just before it fires it trickles a little smoke out of the stack and smoke rings:

Goes pop like a roman candle and shoots a big shot up:

and then the smoke drifts back down:

Running with out a load it pops off maybe every 20 seconds or so.

Delmonico · « **Reply #21 on:** July 20, 2009, 06:43:31 PM »

And some ladies out crusin' not sure if they were tryin' to pick up guys or not:

1916 Aultmann Taylor coal oil burner.

Delmonico · « **Reply #22 on:** July 20, 2009, 07:08:21 PM »

A Minneapolis:

Got more gears than a Swiss watch:

Radiator and fuel tank:

Name plate:

Magneto:

Top of the heads near drivers feet showing rocker arms and carb:

Note the head is cast is 3 pieces

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Delmonico · « **Reply #23 on:** July 20, 2009, 07:33:58 PM »

OK, another sequence, bet I don't have to tell you these coal oil burners ain't got no electric starter.

Can get complicated if they get stubborn like this Oil Pull Rumley.

OK, turn the flywheel to TDC:

It's got a lever with a rachet, that way if it cack fires it don't toss you in the cab:

Get braced and pull hard:

(Note, these were taken over several tries so that is why the driver is in the wrong place in the one)

OK, next:

OK, Plan B,

Back it up and take out the slack:

Engage flywheel clutches:

OK, now it's running:

Leo Tanner · « **Reply #24 on:** July 20, 2009, 10:13:05 PM »

Neat set of jumper cables.

Texas Lawdog · « **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.

Wireman · « **Reply #26 on:** July 21, 2009, 11:25:14 AM »

Cool.

Look like it was quite the Event.

Delmonico · « **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.

Failed inspection this year, they hope to have the boiler retubed by next year though, were taking donations.

Texas Lawdog · « **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.

Leo Tanner · « **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.

Delmonico · « **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.

Delmonico · « **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:

Delmonico · « **Reply #32 on:** July 21, 2009, 11:57:16 PM »

Very fitting also, they had a pretty decent Polka band:

Leo Tanner · « **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.

Texas Lawdog · « **Reply #34 on:** July 22, 2009, 02:58:36 AM »

"I'm a steam roller, Baby"!

Delmonico · « **Reply #35 on:** July 22, 2009, 10:08:30 AM »

Well Digger Dan seems to have been one:

Leo Tanner · « **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.

Wireman · « **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.

Ozark Tracker · « **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.

Leo Tanner · « **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.

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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