All the fun of the fair! Garrett 4CD Showman's Engine - LMM Drives Episode 41
Вставка
- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Hello everyone,
Let's try that again - and do we have a treat for you today!
Lawrie got invited down to have a day out on this stunning steam engine, which spent a fair amount of its life trundling around his local area, making it all the more special.
A massive thank you to the owners, John and Mary Rackham and to Rich and Isaac for being our chaperones for the day.
A video featuring:
Lawrie, Presenter - Very excited to be having a go on a Showman's
Loz, Cameraman - Overjoyed to see some proper road steam on the channel.
A video edited by Lawrie
Photos by Robert Taggart, Robert Tyler, and R.A Whitehead
Want more info on us and the stuff in The Shed, or want to get in contact? Check out our Website!
lawriesmechani...
Fancy supporting us on Patreon and receiving extra bits of LMM? Have a look at our Patreon here:
/ lawriesmechanicalmarvels
Get more of what we're up to with Instagram! - / lawries_mechanical_mar...
Want to some LMM Merch? Check out our teespring store!
teespring.com/...
Chat with us and other like minded people on our discord - / discord
Follow us for video alerts and other updates on Facebook - / lawriesmechanicalmarvels
Seeing, hearing, smelling and feeling an engine like this in the cold months on darker daytimes and maybe with some cups of mulled wine: PERFECT❤
All my young life and now all my adult life I wanted a showman engine.
Saw this engine yesterday powering a carrousel, it looked, smelled, and sounded amazing. It is truly a brilliant machine.
Hello Lawrie, my father told me, when I was a little boy about 1st tractor, which bought my great grandfather. It was pure petrol engine, 2 cylinders. It was started by handle (with your name) and it covered whole village in blue, when starting. Unfortunately, in 1949 when comunist party took our country (Czechoslovakia), they siezed our farm and took away everything. Never seen it. So I am very glad, to see this old engines still working, still alive. Thank you.
I love the sound of a showman traction engine
All the fun of the fair! Garrett
Lawrie's Mechanic LOVE LOUIS SHIRLEY
Great video Laurie, I always describe showman’s engines generating at night as a near sensory overload, sight, sound smells etc. truly magical!
This was owned by my late father, Michael Collyer and his friend Geoff Birch. They bought in scrap condition in the mid 1950’s and rallied it for the first time at Thetford in 1957.
It was stored on the premises of Ipswich model engineers hence the confusing comment about them owning it. It was sold in the early 1960’s when my father had begun running the miniature steam railway at Felixstowe. I spent many happy hours riding on the trailer behind it!
Oh thanks for the clarification!
I'll let them know!
Thanks for the clarification, that period of its history was a bit hazy to me.
Simply stunning!
Lawrie I'd absolutely love to see you do a road trip on a traction engine.
You need a "you can't put wood in willy nilly" badge with you staring direct at the camera😂
Wonderful video. I'm a plastic scale modeller and last year I managed to get a complete and unbuilt kit of Garretts Pendle Princess in 1/16th scale. Watching your video has given me a strong desire to get started on that kit. Lots of useful shots for my reference in your vid, for which I am eternally grateful.
The noise and motion of the Engine took me back to my youthful days spent travelling up and down the Clyde on PS Waverley Different environment, but the same sounds, smells and excitement!
Absolutely wonderful video, especially ending when you ran the Dynamo
I love showman's so much! It's a dream of mine to own one, one day. (Miniature to keep the dream reasonable) But I'd love to see you do more traction engines!
Now that's a beauty of a machine, old machines in maroon look great.
It was absolutely fantastic. What a video, and when you opened the regulator to turn on the lights it was just amazing.
Please make more of these.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I really hope to do more!
@@lmm time will tell and when an opportunity comes, who knows.
I love your enthusiasm! And I love all you show on UA-cam!
Ahh nice to see the video now :-)
Beautiful piece of machinery. Usually the best part of a steam fair. It would be interesting to do a review on a fowler ploughing engine next and do some steam ploughing.
Absolute magic!
Such wonderful and majestic machines. Could spend hours just watching them tick over. Another awesome video, cheers 👍
oh that was nice .. and once the dynamo was connected .. i think i've just found the noise that will let me drift of to a good sleep
Beautiful engine, I bet it would be worth a million. Very good of the owner to let you and us experience it
One is up for sale for 240,000
I never knew preparing an engine even before you light the fire could be so funny ☺
I just bought a Garrett 4CD model for my O-gauge trains. Beautiful engine! This video answers so many questions I had. Especially that smokestack on top.
This engine has a fascinating history, and thank you for sharing about it.
I wondered what happened to that post. Always excited to see these moving about
Very much enjoyed that. What's not to love
I use a garret 4CD named that”ll do owned by Christian Cartwright and I run it around at Strumpshaw steam rally for him not a showman just a stock one, great video 👍🏻
They are really nice engines
Ok. I want one!
“People of a certain persuasion” 😂
Absolutely stunning with all that brasswork. Oughta get myself a model showman’s engine.
That was fantastic.
TY 🙏🙏
Yet another excellent hour.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome video a lovely engine, nice to hear all the local names where it spent its life close to where I live in Suffolk
Brilliant, well worth the wait Lawrie.
we don't have many of these brassy showman's engines here in the states, neat things to actually see - Most of ours are big ag engines. They'll still sneak up on you, though, if you're not careful. Especially with big noisy gas prairie tractors around as well.
I'm used to a larger American tractor, a 1917 40-horsepower Case to be exact, and while I will admit that this one is much prettier and cleaner, the Case is a bit more ergonomic to use. For one, the whole thing is a little bit larger, most notably the boiler is longer and the platform is much wider, so have a lot more room to swing your shovel. The water tank is also directly below the platform floor, and it holds somewhere in the range of 150-200 gallons, along with a pair of decently sizable coal bunkers. She doesn't have a bell though, but she does have 3 whistles. A high-pitched single chime, some variety of Lunkenheimer 3 chime, and a big boi C&O 6 chime off of some C&O steam locomotive. To be clear, a whistle that big has no business being on something as small as our little tractor, but it is, and it's actually mounted where the boiler fill plug goes, because that was the only opening big enough for it.
They may have used a mirror on a stick to inspect the firebox?
The shots at the end were just what I needed. I also love that gentle repetition of these perfectly engineered machines. Do you know why the clunking was only every two revolutions though?
The clank comes from the pump drive gears as the pump goes over tdc.
The clank noise may be normal but would drive me around the bend , not knowing what hitting what , if it's doing harm or about to fail ?
And the groan it make when you accelerate.
Great piece of history still running and capable of doing usefully work still .
Thank to the owners and You for sharing
It does a fair amount so unlikely to fail, it just seems to do that.
It's the famous Garrett knock. It reminds you you have left the pump on!
It seems wrong , something is making solid contact with some part of the machinery
It's the play in the pump drive gears as the load changes from the suction stroke to the delivery stroke. A common feature of the 4CD
@@richardbristow1500 so is it possible to replace the gears , either from a source or custom made , would that eliminate that noise ?
Lawrie you do make life more difficult than it needs to be...
Yes. Filming is a real challenge, but it's worth it for people who enjoy watching the videos.
just wondering, was this filmed at the hollycombe steam in the country?
That's right
Now, spot the difference 🤣
I love the spark arrestor
it doesn’t have a spark arrestor
The spark arrester goes on for road runs, it's a legal requirement.
@@richardbristow1500 maybe in the US..
In the UK. The insurance would be invalid with out one fitted.
I saw this traction engine today
This machine immediately reminds me of another Steam Fanatic: Fred Dibnah.
Me 2 God, loved his shows
It seems a footman walking ahead with some flags would be useful, to indicate directions...😁
I understand that the engineering Company built a lot of similar engines for the War Office during the great war.
How bizzare is that, here I am crusiing the youtube and find you firing Lady Oliver at Hollycombe, a place I've been to with our half size 3 times this year and I've fired Lady Oliver myself back in the day, small world.
Please do more traction engine video 🙏🙏🙏
The traction/Showman’s steam engine remains me of Trevor the traction engine on Thomas and friends the one Edward the blue tender engine saved from scrap
Has the Reliant Rialto hatchback been touched at all? I haven't seen it for a while on your channel.
my dad owns firefly and were putting back to origanal and my dads grandad is goerge hawkins
Is there any automated water-level maintenance for while it is generating electricity? What's the output voltage, frequency, and maximum electric power?
There is a pump driven off the crank which will maintain the boiler level to a degree.
The voltage depends on the size of the dynamo, and size of the engine.
I would love to go and see one of these going down the road, like this bit here: 36:49 so charming and elegant
It's amazing seeing a good road run of traction engines
I would like to own one someday. Last time I looked the only one for sale was 3 million pounds and I was a heap of scrap.
Not heard of one being that much, I thought Lion set a record when it sold for a million
i think i will be a good size for the starting jobs 😅
That's a lot of fuss to get it started! I can see why they all have old fodens and ERFs!
would you ever consider buying a standard gauge steam locomotive?
and don't you know, that is exactly the same process used by a nuclear power station - make heat - use steam - spin things to make electricity - pure magic!
A similar process, but not quite the same
that bucket of wood wobbling around on the rear wheels was giving me so much anxiety
11:50 you laugh about the steering wheel, but I believe there were some early traction engines where they worked the opposite way round...
No! That's mad
Mostly examples left are ploughing engines, of which the Allen Plougher which lives at Hollycombe steam collection where you are Lawrie
The crazy thing is very few people could actually read at all, at the time these engines were built so it would have been meaningless to most.
What are you going to do when somebody finds one in a scrapyard? And you get to see it for the first time. I will donate
I'd be amazed to find one of these still in a scrapyard!
speaking as someone who has studied engineering and the engineering of these old machines you are very brave to sit next to a flywheel that is visiable off center.
Ummmm, swear I watched this a day ago 🤔
There were a couple of issues that Lawrie wasn't happy with so he took it down to polish it and re-upload
@@railnut21 I thought I was having a senior moment 😆
On the point of modern vehicles and machinery me and my grandfather both rather farm with old small tractors rather than these big tech laden monsters of tractors that wouldn't fit through the gate
Lawrie, love your videos, but you always mention the same thing.. the cost of owning an engine now.. I grew up in steam preservation, my father has restored a few engines with friends, and I was heavily involved in threshing from the age of 4 as a ratting boy, up to operating the engine as a young adult, but am no longer involved. So I Just wanted to congratulate the boomer generation for inflating the prices of steam traction engines (as an investment opportunity) to the point that gen-x and millennials will never ever be able to afford their own. Once the boomers are dead, the majority of these machines will fall into the hands of equity companies, they will be mothballed as an asset and the steam preservation scene will regress into a WO Bentley type elitist hobby, unattainable for the everyday working man or woman. I went to all the major steam auctions of the 1980’s and 1990’s with my father,where prices were £5k-£10k for a project, I just presumed I would one day be custodian of my own engine, alas I am relegated to visiting steam rallies as a spectator or when possible a bit of volunteering at a museum. If any one ever wonders why steam preservation becomes a thing of the past, go look in a mirror!
Everything is expensive now, and finding people who can do the specialised work is harder.
For instance, with 393303 we're looking at a minimum of 4,000 pounds to restore what we know is wrong with the engine, and we've not got it fully apart.
Things are very difficult.
Very cool :)