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Steam and Things
Приєднався 23 вер 2015
Proud purveyors of mechanical mayhem.
Videos of model steam engines, traction engines, steam boats, garden railways and anything else I think you'll find interesting!
Videos of model steam engines, traction engines, steam boats, garden railways and anything else I think you'll find interesting!
Alex Radford Model Steam Plant
Alex Radford single cylinder oscillating toy steam engine. Alex Radford began his business in Hanham, Gloucester in England, but emigrated to New Zealand in the 1940s, and set up a general engineering business, which alos manufactured toy steam engines.
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Easton and Amos Steam Land Drainage Machine (Westonzoyland Pumping Station)
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The wonderful Easton & Amos steam land drainage machine at Westonzoyland Pumping Station, Somerset. This engine was installed in 1861 as part of the network of rhynes, drainage ditches and pumping stations used to drain the Somerset Levels, and is the only surviving engine of its type still in operational condition. It is a twin cylinder, condensing steam engine, driving a centrifugal pump thro...
Westonzoyland Pumping Station and Steam Museum Spring Steam Up
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A visit to the Westonzoyland Pumping Station and Steam Museum Spring Steam Up on 28th April 2024. In this video can be seen a variety of stationary steam engines of various types, including those manufactured by George Waller of Stroud, Tangye of Birmingham, Bellis & Morcom of Birmingham, Sisson & Co of Gloucester, and Easton & Amos of London. The collection is all operated on steam provided fr...
Ploughing By Steam
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Steam ploughing with a set of Fowler BB1 Ploughing Engines, No. 15145 'Rusty' of 1917, and No. 15222 OF 1918. The engines are being used with a Fowler 2 furrow balance plough from about 1870. Ploughing engines are a specialised form of steam traction engine used for ploughing. Each engine has a winch underneath that is used to haul the plough back and forth across the field. The engines then mo...
Fyne Machinery and Engineering Ltd Toy Steam Engine
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A toy steam engine manufactured by Fyne Machinery and Engineering Ltd in the early post war years. Extensive use of aluminium is made in the construction of the engine, as is often found in early post war British toy steam engines due to the ease of availability from war surplus production. Fyne Machinery and Engineering Ltd was a one man firm run by Leslia Vivian Chandler, working from a lock ...
A Birthday Steam Up!
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What we would all give for a shed that you can hold a steam rally inside! A birthday steam up with a wide variety of traction engines, stationary steam engines, steam wood sawing, heavy oil engines, fairground organs, and vintage cars. In the video can be seen: Fowler BB1 Ploughing Engines No. 15145 'Rusty', and No. 15222. Aveling & Porter Steam Roller No. 11347. Burrell Showman's Engine No. 20...
Steam Launch 'Fiddler's Green' on Bristol Harbour
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Steam launch 'Fiddler's Green' out on Bristol Harbour. Information lifted from the SBA Register: Hull: Construction: GRP, and marine plywood. Fit out 1997 by A.H. Yacht Services at Exmouth. LOA: 15' 8", Beam: 5' 9", Draft: 1' 6". Green above the waterline and white below with new mahogany coaming and gunnels in the style of a harbour launch. Originally called Miracle and painted red above the w...
Twin Cylinder 'USE' Unit Steam Engine
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Twin cylinder Unit Steam Engine. The basic USE engine is designed to be configurable into different layouts of engines. The USE model steam engine is ideally suited for use in model steam boats. A single cylinder USE engine can be seen in my video here: ua-cam.com/video/xeAK2uAMDNU/v-deo.html A four cylinder variant of the USE engine can be seen in my video here: ua-cam.com/video/zhnhQMtvGo0/v-...
Stationary Steam Engine Collection
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A few examples from my collection of stationary steam engines being run from steam supplied from a Ruston & Proctor 5nhp portable engine. The large horizontal engine has features of being made approx 1870-1890. The small horizontal engine is unusual in being fitted with Stephenson's link reversing gear. The banjo pump is of a common design but has no makers name. Unfortunately I know nothing ab...
USE Marine Steam Plant
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Unit Steam Engine marine steam plant. The USE plants were designed with a novel tilting boiler design to allow the fuel tablets to be added. This is a single cylinder version of the plant, although twin versions were made with both twin engines, and twin boilers. This plant is ideally suited to driving a model boat. The basic USE engine is designed to be configurable into different layouts of e...
Steam and Things Channel Trailer 2024
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Steam and Things Channel Trailer 2024
Model Steam Engines on the Antiques Roadshow 2004
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Model Steam Engines on the Antiques Roadshow 2004
Stuart Turner 10v Steam Engine Driving Model Sawbench
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Stuart Turner 10v Steam Engine Driving Model Sawbench
Cheddar Models Pintail Vertical Steam Plant
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Cheddar Models Pintail Vertical Steam Plant
Michael Holden 3/4" Scale Allchin Traction Engine
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Michael Holden 3/4" Scale Allchin Traction Engine
Steam Powered Wood Planer! Fowler Traction Engine 'Delilah' of 1898
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Steam Powered Wood Planer! Fowler Traction Engine 'Delilah' of 1898
The October Model Steam Meet Up (October 2023)
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The October Model Steam Meet Up (October 2023)
Victorian Stationary Steam Engine & Sawbench
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Victorian Stationary Steam Engine & Sawbench
1870s Pearl Printing Press Driven by Steam Engine
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1870s Pearl Printing Press Driven by Steam Engine
Love that.Thanks.
Great Video
What the Hell is that VEHICLE?!
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Fab stuff! I like the boats too! 😃
What a beauty,
What a lovely little engine. Did it take very long to build?Many years ago l managed to build a Stuart turner 7a with reversing gear. Good luck with your hobby cheers Trev.
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muito bom :)
Don’t see many of them out side New Zealand . First one i have seen with holes drilled in the base . I have 3 of the horizontal ones and 1 vertical here . The mamod burner is a bit much for it .
Well that runs a LOT faster than I would have expected.
Nice engine I like the marine set up the only thing that I worry about it is the lack of a safety valve system on it
SV not necessary as it is a oscillator and the cylinder acts as a SV
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@@Pamudder cylinder is held against port face with a spring . If engine stops turning excess pressure will escape between cylinder and port face
@@scorpion2nz Thank you for the explanation.
Wow. What a setup. The power on the engine is incredible. Nice work
Must be a hell of a compressor!
And a big tank!
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163 years old! amazing!
And still going strong!
Butifull video naxt video aplode
great to see steam ploughing any time
What a fantastic collection of steam engines! There is no corner where it is boring. You can definitely spend many hours there. Greetings Michael
Very nice Jim, I haven't been for many a long year. Thanks for posting the vijyo.
It's definitely worth a visit! I'm planning to take some of my stationary steam engines down and plug them in to their steam line at one of their steam ups, I'm sure your S Type plant etc would be of interest to them too.
one would think it would be more economical (or at least faster) if each engine just pulled a plow behind it and worked like normal tractors
For British soil, the traction engines really were too heavy. These engines could comfortably pull a 7 or 8 furrow plough so would plough at 3 or 4 times the rate we are with the little two furrow plough shown. Small engines were tried for direct ploughing as you describe but it never really caught on.
@@SteamandThings Thank you; I was going to ask the same thing. Here in the States we have so many pictures (and even to this day re-enactments) of steam tractors pulling the ploughs behind them. I know you say the British soil is too soft; but it doesnt seem all the different in quality from where I grew up in Central Pennsylvania. There was a Mennonite family that had a Peerless steam engine, and used it on their farm for plowing and threshing. It was also a regular sight at the county's summer steam traction festival.
4:32: taking a nap !!
Must've been all getting too much for him! 😂
I wonder how many horsepower, this has many current day applications in an era of power shortages, blackouts, and high costs-It could drive a large generator. (bing copilot AI) "The Fowler BB1 ploughing engine is a remarkable piece of machinery. Let’s delve into its details: The Fowler BB1 is a two-cylinder compound engine that was manufactured between 1919 and the early 1930s. Despite its relatively small scale and high attractiveness, it packs a punch as a powerful and rugged two-speed model. Here are some key specifications: Length: Approximately 46 inches. Weight: A hefty 240 pounds. Boiler Diameter: 5 inches. Operating Pressure: 75 psi. This engine was a favorite for many model enthusiasts, especially at the 1:6 scale described by John Haining and Colin Tyler in the 1960s. It’s no wonder that it continues to captivate enthusiasts at exhibitions, as demonstrated by Jack Brundsdon’s showcase at the 2015 Bristol Exhibition1. Now, let’s put its power into perspective. Imagine a pair of these ploughing engines working together. They could plough an astounding 40 acres per day, operating seven days a week. That’s a ninety-fold increase compared to what a man and a horse could achieve in the same time! Truly a testament to engineering prowess and efficiency2. So, while I can’t provide an exact horsepower figure for the Fowler BB1, its impact on productivity speaks volumes. 🚜💨"
Considering how few farms actually employed a Steam tractor, they really had very few impacts, it was not until the big tractor wars of the 1920s and 1930s that tractors were finally replacing the horse. And even then, it took until 1960s to finally see tractors become a commodity worldwide, even in the 1950s america, farmers were still using horses for most tasks. A tractor was just too much of an investment, while a horse could be bred and fed on the farm, but seeing how high tech Steam could make a farm over 100 times more productive in the 1850s, is in itself remarkable, in the UK they used large pulley systems powered by a central steam engine to pull plow through the field back and forth, expensive to setup but still cheaper than Steam traction engines.
What a lovely way to spend the day, Many thanks for showing
No better way to spend a day! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Very nice! Well filmed and few spectators running around in front of the camera.
Thankyou! Makes filming far easier when there is no public there! 😂
Would come in handy for anybody wanting a hot shower!! What a nice little engine and it certanly goes well.
She certainly spits plenty of water! Glad you're pleased with it John.
Missed the show this year, thanks for sharing!
Definitely worth a visit next year! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Wonderfully eccentric thank you sir for taking me back thousands of years to my childhood and good memories.😊
In the past, wind powered toys were also very popular. The simpler ones used a propeller driven crank to provide movement. i.e.. two boxers lunging at each other; a horse's legs and head moving, etc. Some of the more complex one's were very intricate. ⚓⛵
Have never come across wind driven toys, shall have to look them up.
Very nice engine I’m surprised how large in the steam inlet oiler was
Not going to run out of oil during a run is it! 😂
Rare bird ,
There certainly aren't many out in the wild!
That’s a novel little thing Jim. Very nice.
Quite an odd little thing. The base and firebox are all formed from one piece of aluminium, looped up and around, then folded along the front edge to hold it together. Certainly goes well though!
-FULL BRIDGE- MERCURY ARC RECTIFIER!
I love the steam-driven record player and spy wireless!!
Thankyou - they're both items from my collection - take a look through my other videos and you'll see some more detailed videos about them. The steam powered gramophone is my own creation, and there is a whole playlist on the channel devoted to its design and construction.
😎 Just got one , nice machine
They're nice engines, hope you're pleased with yours!
Where do he get the threshing machine at 1:29? Does anyone know if they're being produced, if so, where, or did he make this? If so, would he sell the plans? I think that if one were to mass produce these that actually worked, even assisted by hidden batteries, one could hardly keep up with demand, for saw mills and threshing machines are in very short supply and I'm sure there is a pent up demand. How about 3D printing parts to be assembled?
Brilliant got the makings of a highly efficient washing machine,love the steam plant well done.
There's a chap in the USA who uses a very similar plant to mix Margheritas!
where they sawing up fire wood for their engines
We saw up the wood for various projects (gate posts, fencing, living van restorations etc), then use the offcuts in the engines.
Nice nighttime steam atmosphere!
There's something magic about steam at night!
I never get tired of being around steam engines , thank you for the great video
I know that feeling all too well - they're wonderful machines.
Brilliant!
Was something quite special!
That’s lovely mate. Very hypnotic.
A lovely old engine isn't it!
Nice! More please.😲
There are a few more videos of this engine on the channel if you take a look in the Traction Engines playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLY2Tgb8zPD5g5jZNuYCloI3Fje5HDh7vh.html&si=9l2-NwUT_57l1kGl This engine is currently having some repairs to its boiler.
That's a lot of amazing craftsmanship.
Some excellent work on show isn't there!
I’m drooling….
Some lovely stuff on show isn't there!
Hello, your steam engine is very special. I want to own one. Where can I buy it?
This one is not for sale, but similar engines can be bought from Stuart Models: www.stuartmodels.com/
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without a doubt my favorite engine
A belter isn't it!
Some of those toys are big as full size 👍👍
The pumping station is a stunning setting for the show!
Too bad more were not running but very fun to watch. Thank you
Unfortunately I took the video quite late in the day. Next time I'll try get around a bit earlier when it's all a bit busier!
10:22 - Rare to see a poppet valve model steamer! Very nice video.
You can see two examples in this video, mine is the middle size example of the Bing poppet valve engines at about 02:15. The one at 10:22 is the largest size of the range.