That's awesome you guys are doing a steam tractor show I got to see one when I was a kid in West Jordan Utah it was awesome there was a steam tractor tractor pull and it went against the big diesel tractor end the steam engine won
Growing up in rural Utah, I remember seeing these around here and there! Some were in use! I just thought they were the goofiest looking contraptions! Ahhh! Farmers!! It's not until we get older, do we see the importance or significance of such machinery... And farmers!! :D
That is so great! My grandfather and his brothers built several of them as model size and full size as well. I’ve acquired some of them of over the years.
Seeing that old equipment on static display is one thing. Seeing them in operation is an entirely different thing. Looks like afun day. Thanks for sharing.
A super fun episode. It reminds me of my first trip to my childhood town in NE Conn. in 47 years, which happened this summer. I visited the farm of my elementary school and cub scout pal Sandy, and he was still using late 1940s vintage Farmall and Ford Furgeson tractors, the type I learned to drive in the late 1950s when I was 10-12 years old. Farm kids in those days always had to be precousous (sp?) drivers. While in Oregon, I hope that you got to Tillamook to ride the train. Aloha from Hawai'i.
I grew up in farm country. I also learned to drive around 11 or 12... out of necessity, as did all of the youth.. My dad did not want me anywhere near a tractor. Too dangerous! But I did learn to drive a feed truck... The kind used to feed poultry, namely turkeys! Those are some fine memories!
Love all the Toyman shows. The steam whistle was mentioned. An old man once told me you would blow the whistle to alert the horse drawn water wagon that you needed more water.
Back in the late 19th century they were really into causing these big machines to make a lot of noise to protect the public and scare away the horses. When automobiles first arrived on the scene they want them to do the same thing. One state even required anyone driving an automobile to fire a gun in the air at every intersection.
Aww, great show guys. I spotted a Ferguson 20 like my fathers although he has refitted a vertical exhaust instead of the troublesome horizontal one. It's 70+ years old and as reliable as ever. We have a national steam tractor rally in Stradbally, Co. Laois (Ireland) and yeah the smell of oil, soot and coal leaves something to be desired. Look forward to Part2
Wonderful show! 2:40 That monstrosity is likely a municipal water pump (drinking water or sewage) alternatively a dewatering pump for a mine. Much like to miniature beam engine just before it.
Wow i guess im lucky to live just down the road a bit from this wonderful event and the wife and usually go every year ....its second to none ... Wowzer your video was soooo fun .. Thanks for posting it ... And y'all come see the show ...its worth the trip
I was sure impressed with the sheer size of these! I can't imagine how the farmers of yesteryear felt, after a hard day's labor in the field, while standing or riding on one of these tractors! Thanks Jack!! :D :D
Owen Meschter hi! Yes we were there the first weekend. We did run into one of the subscribers but just one. But it seems many were there and are even in so of the shots! Didn’t know. Ships passing in the night...
Can you imagine what they went thru plowing a field in a steam tractor ? A very tiered farmer for sure . Did you get to ride the 7.5 railroad there? Glad you had fun.
The caboose is being restored. There were two of them found in a forest. One went to antique power land. The other one to the Willamette Mission in sale m oregon.
I would imagine that the Goliath steam engine shown in time stamp 2:51 was probably used to pump water from a mine or to a municipalities water supply. Another at time stamp 14:50 was possibly use as a draw at a tractor pull event?
They did, more or less. It was Us... all excited and running helter-skelter with the video cameras! Just so much to see all at once!! It's hard to choose a favorite!
There is a very similar show in Vista Ca, in San Diego. First one i went to was up in Northern Ca near Redding. Geoffrey Human had a large O Scale model RR and also a Steam Thresher Museum in his farm. He would alternate, year by year which would be open to the public. Check them out!
Sorry, it was Godfrey Humann and his model railroad was the South Shasta Lines. He was from Gerber Ca. Near Red Bluff Ca. There was a feature article in MR.
Wow. Such magnificent machines. I kind of want to build a smaller steam engine like those compressed air ones so I can make Titanic's triple-expansion reciprocating engines. Maybe even make a small-scale sailing version that ran just like the original.
Me Too! I have always been fascinated by moving machinery.. all of those different parts moving in unison, to make the machine move! I remember, as a wee little girl, always trying to figure out how my tricycle worked. How my legs would move to make the peddles move, which made the bigger wheel move, which made me move! Then, I noticed the bigger kids riding regular bicycles, and the fact that they didn't have to peddle all of the time, and why was that? Did the chain have something to do with that?? I would inspect all of the parts, trying to figure it out! As I got older, I found that by tearing my toys apart, I could figure a lot of it out! Then I encountered my first 10-speed.... GEARZZZZ!!!!! Of course... I tore that apart too! Then I put it back together. Next came modifications! The only problem was.... I was a girl. Back then, my interests were seen as "strange". Not something that girls should be interested in!! Today... I am still fascinated by these machines... and would not mind building one of these little small scale engines! Just cool!!
FWIW: the double tractor that appears at about 14:48 reminds me of an aircraft tow vehicle we used to pull general aviation aircraft, at an airport in Florida {my first job, 1979 - 1980}. It was steered by hydraulic cylinders moving the two halves of the vehicle, instead of just turning the front or rear wheels. www.wheelhorseforum.com/topic/23600-air-horse/
That really really REALLY Big stationary engine you saw. Was most likely used at a Mine to pump water or lift ore cars. Not many still around, too heavy to move once the mine shut down. So they where often left too rust or just parted out. Great video, was this over the Labor Day weekend?
Such a nice assortment of machines. Too bad that there wasn’t an Avery steamer there. They look like rail locomotives. Even the controls are about the same. (Except for the steering wheel) The Avery is also a two cylinder so it will always go the direction you want. I always enjoy these trips off to other types of places. Thanks for the great films! 👍
Also the Avery steam traction engines use a pin in a follower nut for steering which makes for easy steering as opposed to the common use of chains attached to the front wheels. The loose chains is what makes a machine hard to steer by having to continually compensate .
I've seen some videos of something similar to the event in this movie called the old threshers reunion in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and the have a 3 foot narrow gauge railroad there called the Midwest Central Railroad, you should check it out sometime
It looks to me like it wouldn't take much to make those steam tractor into a steam locomotive albeit a small locomotive. Those old tractors had to be multi talented in which like you said they plowed, threshed, sawed. In fact though it was gasoline power the tractor my uncle John used at his saw mill cut a blue slew of eastern cedar logs which in turn created the 50 foot mound of cedar shavings I would climb on. Here's a myth buster contrary to popular belief cedar shavings do not repel ticks. I my case they seemed to be attracted to me in the hundreds. I can't remember ever seeing that many ticks in one place. It was like they were on holiday and the dinner bell had rung when I climbed on the mound.
Maybe next year youll come another 75 miles north to see the chehalis railroad and the Mt Rainier scenic railroad in Elbe Washington and at the end of August is the threshing bee in toledo Washington lots of stuff in s.w Washington to see
On the tractor that appears at about 9:03 in the video --> Do you know if the "gizmo" atop the boiler, just ahead of the smoke stack, is a steam-powered generator for the headlight?
YUP!! I gave it quite a look over. They used it at times. really interesting... Looks like a pile but not. I'm guessing its original and came on the tractor.
Toy Man Television It is a Pyle, and it was aftermarket, although uncommon, some people had electric lighting back in the teens and later when they were still using them.
@@ToyManTelevision We were there the second weekend. Agreed, there's lots of stuff to see! Although we were there mainly for the trolley museum. Too bad we missed you guys!
We missed most of the trolley museum! rode it but at the end so we could get off at the shops and grab the last ride back OR ride the whole line. Which we did. But what a great show!!
@@ToyManTelevision I'm from the Midwest and this was probably the best show I've seen! However if you're ever in the Midwest I recommend the Buckley Old Engine Show near Traverse City, Michigan and the Hesston Steam Museum near LaPorte, Indiana. Did you visit anything else in Oregon?
MY DADDY IS IN THIS VIDEO! HES THE GUY GETTING ON THE GOLF CART IN THE BLUE STEAM FIENDS SHIRT AND STRAW HAT! 😂 HE WAS THE PRESIDENT OF WAPI FOR YEARS! ❤️ VANCOUVER, WA
I've been by there a few times but have never had the time to stop in. I know they have stuff going on all summer long. When the Steam-up is going on the whole place is open other wise it's only part of is are running. Each year they have a truck rally and each year they will showcase one maker of trucks but all old trucks are welcome.
One of the lessons that I have had to learn in life, is making "time" to do the things that I wanted to do. I had a defining moment after my mom passed, and I was visiting her, and my dad at the cemetery. I was still in the middle of settling her estate, and her lifetime of everything that was important to her inside her home. She and my dad planned on traveling.. once the kids were raised. They wanted to see Mt. Rushmore. They wanted to drive up the full length of the Pacific Coast Highway. They wanted to see Vermont in the Fall. They had hobbies they worked on together... but finding the "time" to do this other stuff they wanted to do........ Time. As I stood there, I gazed across the valley of farmland, and there in the short distance, was the town where my mom was born.. and raised. Here where I was standing, was where she was resting, alongside by my dad. In their case... Time was too short. The moment symbolic. I made a decision right then. You had better find time to do the things you want to do! Squeeze it in somewhere... Don't wait to do it later. Here, where you are standing is later.. and by then, it's too late! When one makes a space in their busy schedule to go to an event, visit a special place, or discover that great restaurant... It's like putting money in the bank. I'll get off my soap box now! But it is my hope that you will just take the time to go see that machinery show, or some other attraction! I guarantee... You won't regret it!
That's awesome you guys are doing a steam tractor show I got to see one when I was a kid in West Jordan Utah it was awesome there was a steam tractor tractor pull and it went against the big diesel tractor end the steam engine won
Small world! My daughter and her family lives in West Jordan!!!
The childhood memories this video brings back. My dad was and still is into antique tractors so as a child many weekend outings were to steam shows.
Growing up in rural Utah, I remember seeing these around here and there! Some were in use! I just thought they were the goofiest looking contraptions! Ahhh! Farmers!! It's not until we get older, do we see the importance or significance of such machinery... And farmers!! :D
That is so great! My grandfather and his brothers built several of them as model size and full size as well. I’ve acquired some of them of over the years.
Awesome!!!
Seeing that old equipment on static display is one thing. Seeing them in operation is an entirely different thing. Looks like afun day. Thanks for sharing.
It was a blast! Well... Not literally... But FUN!!
Loooove steam engines and tractors. great video!
Be sure to watch the next two, or three... Static engines, steam sawmill, trolleys and 7 1/2 inch railroad!
What a nice way to screw around. Well done as usual.
Always fun! Thanks!!
A super fun episode. It reminds me of my first trip to my childhood town in NE Conn. in 47 years, which happened this summer. I visited the farm of my elementary school and cub scout pal Sandy, and he was still using late 1940s vintage Farmall and Ford Furgeson tractors, the type I learned to drive in the late 1950s when I was 10-12 years old. Farm kids in those days always had to be precousous (sp?) drivers. While in Oregon, I hope that you got to Tillamook to ride the train. Aloha from Hawai'i.
I grew up in farm country. I also learned to drive around 11 or 12... out of necessity, as did all of the youth.. My dad did not want me anywhere near a tractor. Too dangerous! But I did learn to drive a feed truck... The kind used to feed poultry, namely turkeys! Those are some fine memories!
Love all the Toyman shows. The steam whistle was mentioned. An old man once told me you would blow the whistle to alert the horse drawn water wagon that you needed more water.
Back in the late 19th century they were really into causing these big machines to make a lot of noise to protect the public and scare away the horses. When automobiles first arrived on the scene they want them to do the same thing. One state even required anyone driving an automobile to fire a gun in the air at every intersection.
Aww, great show guys. I spotted a Ferguson 20 like my fathers although he has refitted a vertical exhaust instead of the troublesome horizontal one. It's 70+ years old and as reliable as ever. We have a national steam tractor rally in Stradbally, Co. Laois (Ireland) and yeah the smell of oil, soot and coal leaves something to be desired. Look forward to Part2
Love these contraceptions. Anything steam!!!
Great show. Look forward to your videos every week. Thanks.
Thank You!!
perfect love your video i love watching steam fairs here in uk
These are fun shows. Sunday is a steam sawmill
Wonderful show! 2:40 That monstrosity is likely a municipal water pump (drinking water or sewage) alternatively a dewatering pump for a mine. Much like to miniature beam engine just before it.
Wow i guess im lucky to live just down the road a bit from this wonderful event and the wife and usually go every year ....its second to none ... Wowzer your video was soooo fun .. Thanks for posting it ... And y'all come see the show ...its worth the trip
Guess it’s not happening this year. True?
I think the Case bald eagle's name was Old Abe.
Amazing to see these monsters in action! I wonder if any have emergency braking fitted! :D Jack
I was sure impressed with the sheer size of these! I can't imagine how the farmers of yesteryear felt, after a hard day's labor in the field, while standing or riding on one of these tractors! Thanks Jack!! :D :D
What?! You were there? I wish I could have met you. Maybe next year!
Owen Meschter hi! Yes we were there the first weekend. We did run into one of the subscribers but just one. But it seems many were there and are even in so of the shots! Didn’t know. Ships passing in the night...
Can you imagine what they went thru plowing a field in a steam tractor ? A very tiered farmer for sure . Did you get to ride the 7.5 railroad there? Glad you had fun.
I'll just bet, that is where the term "Charley Horse" comes from!
You should look up Tom Street in Bend Oregon.
He has a very large working steam engine in his front yard.
We do plan on returning soon!!
@@karynfelix-the-Cat go to www.ecmrr.org to check out the central oregon model railroad club.large and small scale.hope to see you there.
I know this is late but I’m glad y’all made it I have been going here since I was a baby my family owns a couple rumlys and Jon dears and cats
Wow!!!!! We eat to get back at some point. That was so fun!!!!!!
The caboose is being restored. There were two of them found in a forest. One went to antique power land. The other one to the Willamette Mission in sale m oregon.
Looks like they are replacing most of the wood. If not all.
I would imagine that the Goliath steam engine shown in time stamp 2:51 was probably used to pump water from a mine or to a municipalities water supply. Another at time stamp 14:50 was possibly use as a draw at a tractor pull event?
I did not get too close to Goliath... I could have been eaten alive!!
This large steam engine was used to power an electrical generator for running a sawmill in Idaho.
Hey guys. Another awesome video! :)
Hey, Jason!! It was a great trip! We even crossed into Washington State for a few miles at one point! Thanks for watching!
Awesome! Hopefully you'll get to visit Washington state again. There's plenty of historic sites one could visit while here. :)
I wonder why they done break it by different eras like all steam, all John Deere, etc. that way you can focus on your favorite type of equipment.
They did, more or less. It was Us... all excited and running helter-skelter with the video cameras! Just so much to see all at once!! It's hard to choose a favorite!
There is a very similar show in Vista Ca, in San Diego. First one i went to was up in Northern Ca near Redding. Geoffrey Human had a large O Scale model RR and also a Steam Thresher Museum in his farm. He would alternate, year by year which would be open to the public. Check them out!
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Sorry, it was Godfrey Humann and his model railroad was the South Shasta Lines. He was from Gerber Ca. Near Red Bluff Ca. There was a feature article in MR.
www.redbluffismytown.com/Gerber_Model_Trains.html
Wow. Such magnificent machines. I kind of want to build a smaller steam engine like those compressed air ones so I can make Titanic's triple-expansion reciprocating engines. Maybe even make a small-scale sailing version that ran just like the original.
Me Too! I have always been fascinated by moving machinery.. all of those different parts moving in unison, to make the machine move! I remember, as a wee little girl, always trying to figure out how my tricycle worked. How my legs would move to make the peddles move, which made the bigger wheel move, which made me move! Then, I noticed the bigger kids riding regular bicycles, and the fact that they didn't have to peddle all of the time, and why was that? Did the chain have something to do with that?? I would inspect all of the parts, trying to figure it out!
As I got older, I found that by tearing my toys apart, I could figure a lot of it out! Then I encountered my first 10-speed.... GEARZZZZ!!!!! Of course... I tore that apart too! Then I put it back together. Next came modifications! The only problem was.... I was a girl. Back then, my interests were seen as "strange". Not something that girls should be interested in!!
Today... I am still fascinated by these machines... and would not mind building one of these little small scale engines! Just cool!!
FWIW: the double tractor that appears at about 14:48 reminds me of an aircraft tow vehicle we used to pull general aviation aircraft, at an airport in Florida {my first job, 1979 - 1980}. It was steered by hydraulic cylinders moving the two halves of the vehicle, instead of just turning the front or rear wheels.
www.wheelhorseforum.com/topic/23600-air-horse/
The vertical boilered engine is made by Westinghouse.
It’s weird but amazing
10:56 I love the look of those, cooling towers is what I think they're called.
They're as big as a house!!
That really really REALLY Big stationary engine you saw. Was most likely used at a Mine to pump water or lift ore cars. Not many still around, too heavy to move once the mine shut down. So they where often left too rust or just parted out. Great video, was this over the Labor Day weekend?
Nope. Almost. Just the weeks before. they run it on two weekends in August Yea, I'll bet a pump. Most of the huge ones were for pumps.
Such a nice assortment of machines. Too bad that there wasn’t an Avery steamer there. They look like rail locomotives. Even the controls are about the same. (Except for the steering wheel) The Avery is also a two cylinder so it will always go the direction you want. I always enjoy these trips off to other types of places. Thanks for the great films! 👍
Also the Avery steam traction engines use a pin in a follower nut for steering which makes for easy steering as opposed to the common use of chains attached to the front wheels. The loose chains is what makes a machine hard to steer by having to continually compensate .
Not really near Portland, about 35 miles south, but only about 6 miles north of Salem.
Yup. For us it’s the Portland area. Just love the area.
Did you guys looka round some more, towards the trolley barn, the tractor museum, the trcuk museum, the old train yard, old car park?
Hi. Yup. Much more coming next show is the sawmill. Then the trolley and 7 1/2 inch railroad. Then the trucks and cars!!
I've seen some videos of something similar to the event in this movie called the old threshers reunion in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and the have a 3 foot narrow gauge railroad there called the Midwest Central Railroad, you should check it out sometime
Ahhhh!!!!! We have a Mt. Pleasant too! Farm land in central Utah! I went to high school there! Would love to visit your Mt. Pleasant too!!
It looks to me like it wouldn't take much to make those steam tractor into a steam locomotive albeit a small locomotive. Those old tractors had to be multi talented in which like you said they plowed, threshed, sawed. In fact though it was gasoline power the tractor my uncle John used at his saw mill cut a blue slew of eastern cedar logs which in turn created the 50 foot mound of cedar shavings I would climb on. Here's a myth buster contrary to popular belief cedar shavings do not repel ticks. I my case they seemed to be attracted to me in the hundreds. I can't remember ever seeing that many ticks in one place. It was like they were on holiday and the dinner bell had rung when I climbed on the mound.
Maybe next year youll come another 75 miles north to see the chehalis railroad and the Mt Rainier scenic railroad in Elbe Washington and at the end of August is the threshing bee in toledo Washington lots of stuff in s.w Washington to see
Heck yes! Wanted to this time but so much to do and see!! Need to com back!!
On the tractor that appears at about 9:03 in the video --> Do you know if the "gizmo" atop the boiler, just ahead of the smoke stack, is a steam-powered generator for the headlight?
YUP!! I gave it quite a look over. They used it at times. really interesting... Looks like a pile but not. I'm guessing its original and came on the tractor.
@@ToyManTelevision >>> Roger all that!
Toy Man Television It is a Pyle, and it was aftermarket, although uncommon, some people had electric lighting back in the teens and later when they were still using them.
Don't miss Evergreen Aviation while you're in the area... Spruce Goose lives there! And I missed you doing the steam sawmill... did you see that?
YES!! Sundays show. AND dang, we did miss the Goose....
I saw it in Long Beach but not yet there. Dan! Forgot it’s right there
any footage on the swap meet....?
Nope. So much it see and do. Days there and we missed half of it.
Have you ever gone to Mount Pleasent, Ia.
No. But on the bucket list.
Did you guys ride the trolleys there?
Indeed we did!! :D If there is a trolly somewhere... We will be on it!!
STATIONARY steam engines where used power belt driven machinery
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What days were you there?
First weekend. Both days. Still missed a bunch.
@@ToyManTelevision We were there the second weekend. Agreed, there's lots of stuff to see! Although we were there mainly for the trolley museum. Too bad we missed you guys!
We missed most of the trolley museum! rode it but at the end so we could get off at the shops and grab the last ride back OR ride the whole line. Which we did. But what a great show!!
@@ToyManTelevision I'm from the Midwest and this was probably the best show I've seen! However if you're ever in the Midwest I recommend the Buckley Old Engine Show near Traverse City, Michigan and the Hesston Steam Museum near LaPorte, Indiana. Did you visit anything else in Oregon?
Heck YES!!!! Much more coming. Editing the Oregon Scenic Railroad right now. Fun times!!!!
A Golf Cart maybe?
There were some Floridians there.... I think!
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A lesson on Simple Machines, in all sizes and shapes.. Literally makes the world go 'round!
MY DADDY IS IN THIS VIDEO! HES THE GUY GETTING ON THE GOLF CART IN THE BLUE STEAM FIENDS SHIRT AND STRAW HAT! 😂 HE WAS THE PRESIDENT OF WAPI FOR YEARS!
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Cool!! Thanks
Its actually quite easy to steer a steam tractor and I'm only 12.
The super low gearing on the wheel is the key. Love to drive one someday
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Thanks for what you have posted!!
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Here's a good one: ua-cam.com/video/4GMITokuHN4/v-deo.html
Canceled for this year :(
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I've been by there a few times but have never had the time to stop in. I know they have stuff going on all summer long. When the Steam-up is going on the whole place is open other wise it's only part of is are running.
Each year they have a truck rally and each year they will showcase one maker of trucks but all old trucks are welcome.
One of the lessons that I have had to learn in life, is making "time" to do the things that I wanted to do. I had a defining moment after my mom passed, and I was visiting her, and my dad at the cemetery. I was still in the middle of settling her estate, and her lifetime of everything that was important to her inside her home. She and my dad planned on traveling.. once the kids were raised. They wanted to see Mt. Rushmore. They wanted to drive up the full length of the Pacific Coast Highway. They wanted to see Vermont in the Fall. They had hobbies they worked on together... but finding the "time" to do this other stuff they wanted to do........
Time.
As I stood there, I gazed across the valley of farmland, and there in the short distance, was the town where my mom was born.. and raised. Here where I was standing, was where she was resting, alongside by my dad. In their case... Time was too short. The moment symbolic.
I made a decision right then. You had better find time to do the things you want to do! Squeeze it in somewhere... Don't wait to do it later. Here, where you are standing is later.. and by then, it's too late!
When one makes a space in their busy schedule to go to an event, visit a special place, or discover that great restaurant... It's like putting money in the bank.
I'll get off my soap box now! But it is my hope that you will just take the time to go see that machinery show, or some other attraction! I guarantee... You won't regret it!