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Wow hell of a find it’s probably a 16-18hp Undermount Avery crazy how much it’s sunk into the earth over the years

That's sad that they did this to those wonderful machines.

Excellent video! Thanks 🙏

dude's got the brains of an artichoke

That fire box looks more like a sand box

But you cannot go anymore unless you are a bidder. At least that was their rule last time in Indy.

If you’re ever at a Mecum sale and happen to walk by Dana Mecum put one hand on your billfold. If he could he’d charge you for the air you breathe while you’re there.

Fake shill bidding by Mecum to jack up the sale prices is legal, but it really turns me off. I don’t understand why anyone would even place a bid until they announced “ the reserve is off “

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This looks great. Can’t wait to watch it later.🌲

Wow 👌

Thank you - sad but fascinating. I'm particularly intrigued by Avery engines, as the undertype was almost unknown here in GB - a couple of very early engines, such as the 'Farmer's Friend' were of that type, but they were very, very rare. US engines were built very differently to GB ones, primarily for ease of repair when a source of spares could be several hundred miles away. That explains typical US features like the straight crankshaft, with the side mounted cylinder and disc fly crank, which a local blacksmith could knock up from ordinary bar stock, instead of having to forge an English style one. Very few US engines I've seen seem to have the GB style tender either, preferring a platform with a couple of drumor box type bunkers. Now, somewhere on Google is a site which shows 1920's instruction books for the Marklin version of Meccano. Amazingly one model is in fact an Avery engine and thresher - it is so accurately modelled it can be nothing but an Avery. I would love to know just why that was chosen, when there were a number of German firms building road locomotives they could have used instead. One day I aim to build it, just for the fun of it. Here's a link to other, railway engines, used for erosion control, at least one (the Rogers 2-4-2) is now restored to immaculate running order - ua-cam.com/video/l-g3_m8AHgc/v-deo.html New Zealand enthusiasts seem very good at the art of resurrection !

We go to Mecum auction every year in Kissimmee, Florida, and we have an absolute blast whether we buy a car or not. Always a great experience.

I went to this auction. It is worth going 1 day to see unique cars and trucks plus your favorite muscle cars. You get your hand stamped, so you can leave to get cheaper food and return!

Really nice that you provide us with a look at these old workhorses. Just think of the history. I have been lucky enough to see a couple of these behemoths running. They are fascinating. I believe the governers are centrifugal? 2 little balls spinning around on top?

Appreciate the time and effort for the video. Very cool!

The machine seen at 5:20. is a header, used to cut wheat off the stalks, basically at the head, and then elevated to a wagon or rack called a header barge. Headed wheat meant less material to be threshed so it made a more efficient operation. It was "pushed" by four to six horses, divided into two teams on either side of the tongue. The operator sat on a seat at the very back on top of the single tiller wheel. The horses were actually pulling, but were hitched to eveners on the back of the machine, so in operation, it looked like they were pushing it. Some of these were made with a binder attachment so you could either bind bundles or head the wheat, depending on which method conditions favored. When you came to the end of the field and needed to turn a corner, there was a latch you could trip allowing the left hand team to swing out and pivot the machine around on the bull wheel to make a square corner. Not many of these left and fewer in operation.

Good thing you're doing that in the winter, the rattlesnakes are bad down there

Sounds like one big rip off to me no thanks

I was there on Thursday.great show. I was surprise with some of the vehicle that were there, I thought market place would have been better.had fun anyway.

Not that it makes that much difference, but the auction was held in Kansas City, Missouri (Bartle Hall Convention Center). Kansas City, Kansas is about a mile to the west across the Kansas River. If you ever go again, keep that in mind as there are four or five good, reasonably priced places to eat on the Kansas side just over the bridge. I drove by it when they were unloading cars to go inside but was unable to attend. Thanks for posting this video.

Tyler, this video killed - 4,100 views and still going. Congrats. 🌲

I've been to several in Monterey. What a great experience for a car person.

My parents told me bout a time he and his pa were come home from a plumbing job that granddad Bill ,dads,PA, had been doing for some folks and granddad Bill's car started knocking, so they stopped and pulled the oil pan and shimmed the worn bears with some pieces of Of granddad Bill's belt, to get them home in the dead of winter, I was 8 at the time and was helping dad rebuild our 49 chevy 1ton with a 1953 6cyl baited rod engine, got me started wrenching did that for 50+ yes, thanks Dad wouldn't trade you for anything or anyone, miss your wisdom..experience teaches..history Teaches..truth is sovereign..

Those extra plates in the front of the boiler are there to insulate the outer shell of the boiler from the high temperature of the exhaust from the fire box and the engine. Avery ran unusually high working pressure, so the fire was much hotter to keep up the pressure.

New subscriber here my friend!! Really cool tractors and really great stories...I wish we could revive these things.. They are absolutely beautiful!!!!..thank you for sharing this awesome find and finds... These are able to be restored but it would take an enormous amount of time and talent.. Everything was made by hand back then and they can be brought back with the technology that we have today... I am in Pennsylvania and I have a bunch of projects myself.. I do have friends that restore these things and I am going to pass the information along...-John

The 1st one is a 30-60 E Rumely

Key word (low RPM) 😂 wont make that mistake

I know people who have made tractors out of less. Those can still be saved. It's all about how bad you want it. It's really cool that there is still stuff like that out there.

Used leather as a bearing material for my dryer once. Brakes on my go cart all that… I’ve got anal old welding jacket that I take pieces from lol

cool stuff

Thanks for making this video. The second engine you showed, the one sitting on the concrete slab, is an Advance that was built after Rumely purchased the company in 1911. Built in the Advance factory in Battle Creek, it looks like it might be a 22HP size, I can't tell for sure. It says M. Rumely on the smokebox door ring, but the inner door is missing and has been replaced with a steel plate. It would have said Advance, or featured the Banner Boy trade mark of the company. The M. Rumely door ring was the only change made to the engines after Rumely purchased the company. Otherwise, it is all Advance. It is not an Advance-Rumely. They were rear mounts and that name came into being after the bankruptcy reorganization in 1915. It reminds me of a famous old engine that was abandoned in the African desert near the Skeleton Coast outside of the town of Swakopmund in Namibia, over 100 years ago. It stood alone for years and acquired the name Martin Luther in reference to his statement upon being brought to trial at the Diet of Worms in 1521, "Here I stand...I can do no other." That engine still exists as a monument and has been preserved under a shed in recent years. You can find it by googling "Martin Luther Traction Engine." A sad but fitting end to something too far gone to bring back, back still needs to be remembered. Thanks again for posting this.

So sad folks like me are trying to work towards having a steam traction engine to screw around with on my farm and this kind of stuff was done in the past almost as bad as if was just scraped

Yep. I first heard about this 20+ years ago.

My uncle had a model t truck he bought for 40$ it had leather under 3 of the rods. A real pile o'crap he said

I had brought a 46 chevy panel truck with a 235 the motor was smoked but I pulled it apart to see what let go and I found the same thing.

For the Avery the serial number was there but rusted away but there’s an another place it’s at the end of the crank shaft usually on the right side on the end of the shaft.

Go ahead and send them new ball joints on over here fella! And thanks for the video! Well done

My grandfather used fatback in the same way for get home rod bearings when his T lost a bearing as the local shop wanted more than he would pay since he could do it himself at his own blacksmith shop. Have fun

I have a uh #5 hay rake that has leather bearings I made for it. That was 5 years ago. Still takes hay and is quite as a mouse!

Sacrificial material can be almost anything.

Very cool! Thanks for posting.

My father is a hit n miss fanatic. We've drug many of these out of some insane places in PA, WV, OH. We've seen this a few times. These engines go from desktop Reid twin cylinder to a I think 30 hp with flywheels taller than a man. I love old cars way more but restoring and fixing these spending time with my Dad was priceless. Uncle had old tractors, metal wheel run on steam or with a crank or a pony motor. Poured many babbit bearings. Made sand molds of heat tube's cause some start by lighting a rod inside a heat tube. Fascinating machines. Told him he has so many, he Should start a museum😂.

Yep. But i cut it on a diagonal. Works fine. Start making noise drop pan and put a new piece in

My dad told me they did this on the model T when I was a kid. He said they used a nice soft glove leather.

I got a 1983 Honda Civic that still running leather rod bearings made from an old belt an old guy who runs a junkyard, told me about it

Had a Toyota Starlet with a 16v Corolla engine on R6 bike Carbs. Spun a bearing which vanished onto glitter in the pan. Crank was bad so I cut up a coke can into strips and looped it round the crank journal and squeezed the cap back on, as it was my daily I had to do this about every Wednesday😄. Lasted months until the rod knocked the starter off the back of the engine😂

Yea my dad told me about using his belt to fix a rod bearing and a clutch return spring. 😂