May as well have just pulled that sled to the next event for them 😂 This is the most magnificent machine in existence, all thanks to Kory's brilliance, skill, and tenacity.
One of one rebuilt from JI Case blueprints of 1908 steam tractor. 150 hp, 200 rpm and 8000 lb feet of torque. 75,000 lbs with coal and water on board. Trying to wrap my brain around those numbers. What an achievement to build this and share it with the public. Thanks for the video!
I was there. Thankyou very much kory for building this tractor and taking it within driving distance for my family to see. My son loved it memory forever. thanks.
Thank you so much Kory for all the hard work you do between getting the original boiler, blueprints and making that great piece of history. Thank you also for bringing it to the show over the weekend for all of see. It was great to get to meet you as well. Maybe someday I’ll get out to South Dakota to see it again
It started when he found the boiler sitting upright in a field. He got the blueprints from the Case company, and Kory and his foundry (which he took over just for this purpose) made everything themselves. They only ever made nine of them in the very early 1900s and his is now the only one in the world.
its not the only one, i know of one that sat here in Spokane Washington for years until the owner passed away, i dont know what happened to it after that@@davidgold5961
I'm a retired machinist, I always thought it would be cool to work on restoring the old steam locomotives and steam machinery. I've come across many types of machinery in my career, out of all machines, steam engines are the most beautiful and romantic that you can get. 🙂
It's even more incredible running them. I started out as a Navy BT in 1987. And been running steam boilers ever since. Ran 440 psi, 600, 1200, and now a little 150 psi firetube plant. Watching turbine drive is still interesting, but the ships had a piston powered reciprocating pump. That was always a treat to watch the linkages going thru the motions. Probably about the same as how a steam locomotive gets its motion
What always amazes me with the steam era is they engineered these awesome machines in their heads and drew them on paper. There was no CAD or 3D modeling or fancy computers to do the calculations for them. Yet they created some very formidable machinery.
Which is why I have a hard time believing that this kind of machinery wasn't inspired of God. Nobody wakes up and thinks "oh yeah this jet engine idea of mine is going to work exactly like this."@@Dsinsley1
@@Dsinsley1A true engineer doesn't need paper, I design and build things in my head all the time. It's actually harder to take what's in my mind and make it function. Or even put it on paper
I remember watching a steam tractor pulling 25 bottom plow stop mid field with out raising the plows and then start again that kind of power is awesome.
@@stevepayne3745 Sort of the opposite, Electric motors have max torque when they start but fall off due to field-induced braking current. Steam traction engines have limited torque when starting, but build that torque as they gain speed like that old saying. A Steam Locomotive can Pull a Train it can't start. A Diesel Locomotive can Start a Train it can't pull It's why a Steam engine could pull freight and passenger cars over 80 MPH without breaking a sweat, but a Diesel will get the train moving but once it gets going starts to lose pulling power but the time it hits its rated speed.
What an incredible piece of machinery. That overgrown tug toy behind it wasn't even a blip on the radar of a contest for the Case beast. I do wonder how much weight it would take to test the traction and torque. Kory, thanks for building this amazing piece of United States history.
The limit is weight. As heavy as that thing is, it's pretty ass heavy. Other videos of these sorts of machines doing this where the pulling sled does, truly, max them out, it's because they start lifting the nose and the engineer backs out of it. They don't run out of torque or traction.
@@ElementofKindness Itt'l stand up on its arse before it runs out of either. There's videos of other Case land locomotives doing wheelies when pulling these sleds.
Thank you for the video, this is the best one I have seen so far. You caught the distance of 318' at the end, a FULL PULL. The sights and sounds of this Case 150 is truly amazing.
Today is 8-17-24. My son just woke me up today after he found you. He's 9 years old. He told me the history of where you got this huge work horse. In the summer he goes with his grandfather and grandmother to tractor shows all around Indiana and ohio, Michigan. He is the last of our farmers in our family. I hope someday he can meet you. I would love you if you talk to him sometime ❤. God bless you
It's wonderful that we still have kids interested in steam power, they're the future we need to keep steam alive. I'm in no way old, I'm only 22, and I was raised with an interest in steam and antique farm equipment in general. Every year for as long as I remember, I've been going to a yearly steam show in Southern Pennsylvania where I live. I've grown to have an interest in steam like I've been around when steam was king. I hope your son grows up to help preserve steam as I have.
Im so glad this was brought back. I have akways loved steam engines, locomotives was my favorite going up and was only on one when i was really little. I love the sound! Just an outstanding peace of history and equipment. I would love to have something like this even in a smaller form heck i wouldn't care because unless you was raise around them not many people knows or will care about steam engines and i hate that
I’d much rather see this than a modern pulling tractor with 4 turbos blowing all that smoke and making all That noise. This ladies and gentlemen is real horsepower
My father in law would have loved to see this. Rebuilt a Marshall 1901 road roller from the ground up, and I and my brother in law helped him. Then we converted it to a traction engine which was far better for driving to shows and rallies. Great days long gone unfortunately..
That 150 simply does not care how much that sled weighed. The Spirit and drive of the Men that built this is equal to that of the Men that built this Nation.
That's one awesome piece of steam powered equipment! Sure am glad that you and your family built that steam powered road tractor from scratch and also were able to find original blue prints to do so!
This was the first video I seen Corey’s Case 150 do a tractor pull. I know there are other steam engines that do tractor pulls but none of them are a 150 Case.
Awesome piece of equipment. Thank you for the reconstruction of this. I would also like to thank Case for allowing you the permission to build and to look back into the archives. What a work of art and working history. ❤
True, but you want to be fast when you have 40,000 acres under tillage and need to get it done ASAP which is why the steam traction engine (like the Case 150) were replaced with gasoline then diesel powered tractors.
@@dundonrl They were replaced because of the size costs and anyone could drive a combustion engine. Not everyone was experienced with a foot plate. Edit: Also modern tractors didn't replace steam tractors, they replaced horse drawn plough.
@@dundonrl a steam tracktor can pull way bigger ploughs. the actual problem is the long startup, cooldown and maintainance times. maintaining a steam engine is in itself already multiple full time jobs.
Well considering that same engine but on steel rails is what pulls trains I'd say yea he was just playing with it, That tractor could have pulled that sled sideways just as well.
Nothing Beats steam power. Simply amazing that a single 14" piston can supply that much torque. Then again 10 more inches of girth in a piston that can pull a whole train.
25 years ago, as a little kid, steam engines fascinated me really. Nowadays i am an engineer and they fascinate me even more! What a milestone in development.
The weight is dominant factor over modern sled pullers. We need the rpm for wheel speed out off the start, basically slide down the track when the weight comes on. Think of it as running with a parachute. Except it’s not lifting you, it’s pulling you down. Hence why pullers bog out. The 150 has all the torque and weight to pull anything it hooks to.
Kory, I absolutely love your 150. What an acomplishment. I saw it pulling that massive plow with many bottoms and people standing on it. We can't afford to lose your incredible Case. Keep it in a fireproof building with good security protection from theft and vandalism.
If you’re a tiktok user with typical short attention span, the action starts at 8:59, for the rest of us, great video to see that old iron and how amazingly strong it is
Now that's power !! With full-sized hourses. No eardrum breaking internal combustion engines and parts flying if something breaks - just plain brute force.
I have been waiting for it to do a tractor sled pull. Thanks. I have watched it pull a 44, then a 50 bottom breaking plow, without any trouble. I can't help but think that the operator wasn't giving it much throttle until the weights on the sled got to the heaviest point. I think that the 44 bottom plow was a tougher pull than this pull sled. Correct me, if I am wrong. Also, I would take a guess that this would drag the highest rated pull tractor around, like a toy, drawbar to drawbar. Again, correct me if I am wrong. It's all in the weight of the tractor, the torque of the engine output, the drive gearing ratio, engine to wheels, which appeared to be around 30 to 1, and the traction of those huge, wide, and long cleated wheels. It is almost a large, strong, winch, on wheels.
ua-cam.com/video/kA0E7kRhd6M/v-deo.html Here ya go. A baby steam tractor on highway tires turning a fairly hotly modded pulling tractor into an overgrown roto-tiller. And even this tiny little steamer doesn't even have to try. It's effortless. This big Case would probably be able to rip the drawbar clean off any pulling tractor it gets attached to.
You hooked this up to Big Bud 747 and the modern (well, reasonably modern, since it was built in 1977) tractor would pull it backwards quite easily. First the 747 weights 61,000 lbs more than the Case 150. 2nd instead of only using 2 tires to provide motive force, the modern tractor uses all of it's tires so all of it's weight is being used to pull where the Case 150 has probably 1/3rd of it's weight on the front wheels that are passive and don't provide anything except steering.
@@dundonrl It probably would and I have wondered about that, but the tractor pullers I mentioned only have two pulling wheels, and I believe don't weigh anywhere near what the steam engine does, at 75,000 pounds.
I would say it is even cooler to feel the pitter patter as the steam engine rolls down the track. They had the smaller Case steam engine at the Hanley Falls, MN show and the feeling of it moving was the best part. I hope to get to a show some day to see this awesome restoration. I chuckle every time to hear that he had to buy a foundry so he could restore it.
@@andersjohansson6118 He didn't restore it. He built it from the drawings. Only the boiler of one survived and I don't think they resused it in this. It truly is a new steam tractor.
@@GriswoldFarms Anderson Industries bought the foundry in 2007. Anderson Industries of Anderson Openers fame(or hate). It wasn't bought just for the tractor.
What an amazing machine. No other vehicle could haul that much weight! Such inspiring engineering...to think a display of power could be so moving. John Deere sure does make one heck of an ATV/utv.
The steam engine revolutionized farming and so many other things. My grandfather and i would go to the steam threshers convention in Wauseon, Ohio. They still have it every year in June.
That steam engine made it look easy, at first I didn't think the sled was even engaged. The smell of coal fired engines takes me back when I was a kid in the early 60's when my grandparents still used coal fired stoves for heating.
NO AI crap, pure engineering measured with vernier calipers and a tape measure probably. Designed by a real engineer, built by a real man and operated by gifted men willing to work hard.
Easy peasy for that monster! It was puffing a bit at the end, but never broke traction, and never acted like it would 'run out of steam' (Literally!)😄🚂👍👍
When you look at the plows these tractors used to pull, it's no surprise. Weight, torque and those wide steel wheels for unparalleled traction.... there was never any question.
I wanted to see what this comment said, here it is, run through Google Translate: "Great to see how strong the Case 150 is! It is a pity that there are so few steam tractors in the Netherlands!"
I am really curious how the hitch is constructed, where it is attached to the engine, and what it is made of. This machine plowing and pulling has to put just ridiculous pressure on components and fasteners.
Me too. I do some welding work and fabrication on the side and the forces at play here boggle the mind. That piece of logging chain they had attaching it was likely not from Home Depot either lol.
@gentlegiants1974 sled chains are generally a lot larger than logging chains. The sleds we use at our annual pull have 1inch rated chain and rated hooks with the OSHA tags on them. I imagine they do it that way for insurance purposes.
Totally awesome those steam engines are modern marvel how the old timers made those without computers is just plain awesome The only thing I noticed on the sled is that the pan didn’t drop down all the way. Most sleds have hydraulics that pick the rear of the sled up and tires come off the ground. The tires stayed on the ground the whole distance
There's another video of a steam engine at a tractor pull, but apparently that one wasn't "really pulling" because the sled didn't leave gouges in the track. Looks like this was a real pull, and an effortless one at that!
My Dad's Brother, was a lover of steam power. He is gone now but I learned a lot about steam engines. That Case was sounding great. I wonder why it didn't keep going, maybe it ran out of track. It was sounding great. Maybe started to work hard towards the end. But I think it could have gone further. I love the sound of a steam engine when its feeling good.
Haha thats one of the sayings my dad had he'd use here n there. Armstrong this or that. Thanks for that memory dredge up. I really miss my dad. He just passed 3 yrs ago. My mom just passed about 4 months ago. Its still like they both just had been here. Like they should still be here. Miss them greatly. He always had all sorts of old days sayings "Think long go wrong" "He who hesitates is lost" "Going to hell in a hand basket" "They couldnt pour piss out of a boot if directions were on the heel" " They dont know shit from shinola" He had a bunch more i just cant think of atm.
Well, this one does actually have power steering (not the Armstrong variety), run off the crankshaft. The 110's, the 150, and the road rollers had power steering from the factory.
They don't need to dump sawdust into the firebox for a night time fireworks display. Even when just burning coal, the explosive bark up the chimney is more than enough to send the red hot embers into the night sky!
You know you've brought the big guns when the tractor weighs more than the sled! Awesome machine!
May as well have just pulled that sled to the next event for them 😂
This is the most magnificent machine in existence, all thanks to Kory's brilliance, skill, and tenacity.
One of one rebuilt from JI Case blueprints of 1908 steam tractor.
150 hp, 200 rpm and 8000 lb feet of torque.
75,000 lbs with coal and water on board.
Trying to wrap my brain around those numbers.
What an achievement to build this and share it with the public.
Thanks for the video!
Yes, the crank shaft has a gear that drives a bigger one and it’s a wonder it doesn’t pull the teeth off :o)
Where does the blue tooth plug in ?
@@Nudnik1 You just toss it into the firebox and it hooks up
And they bring about diesels ha, Steam power
What was the comparison he made to modern high Hp tractors?
That poor sled never stood a chance!!!!
Absolutely, phenomenal restoration work, guys!!!!! 😍👍
That tractor was Not Restored .... it was BUILT from SCRATCH from the Ground up ! Totally AMAZING
That engine wasnt even working Hard ! lol Try that with a Gasoline or diesel Tractor ! lol
@@Wilett614 Indeed my friend, I stand corrected..😄👍
@@Stevesscaleworkz4504 😉
I was there. Thankyou very much kory for building this tractor and taking it within driving distance for my family to see. My son loved it memory forever. thanks.
Thank you so much Kory for all the hard work you do between getting the original boiler, blueprints and making that great piece of history. Thank you also for bringing it to the show over the weekend for all of see. It was great to get to meet you as well. Maybe someday I’ll get out to South Dakota to see it again
People don't really understand the amount of engineering behind these machines. It's truly a work of art.
An absolutely extraordinary achievement. Corey is a mechanical genius
It started when he found the boiler sitting upright in a field. He got the blueprints from the Case company, and Kory and his foundry (which he took over just for this purpose) made everything themselves. They only ever made nine of them in the very early 1900s and his is now the only one in the world.
@@davidgold5961 absolutely amazing.
This is the kind of spirit and genius that made America great
Where’s this at?
its not the only one, i know of one that sat here in Spokane Washington for years until the owner passed away, i dont know what happened to it after that@@davidgold5961
@@davidgold5961 that
I absolutely love watching steam engines work. Truly an incredible machine .
I'm a retired machinist, I always thought it would be cool to work on restoring the old steam locomotives and steam machinery. I've come across many types of machinery in my career, out of all machines, steam engines are the most beautiful and romantic that you can get. 🙂
It's even more incredible running them. I started out as a Navy BT in 1987. And been running steam boilers ever since. Ran 440 psi, 600, 1200, and now a little 150 psi firetube plant. Watching turbine drive is still interesting, but the ships had a piston powered reciprocating pump. That was always a treat to watch the linkages going thru the motions. Probably about the same as how a steam locomotive gets its motion
Incredible opportunity to see a great piece of history. Thank you for taking the time to build a true masterpiece
One hell of a tractor to see in person. Thanks for coming to Wisconsin.
For all the kids with their diesel trucks, this is how you really roll coal
Can’t imagine the forces on the gears driving all that torque to the ground. Thanks for sharing.
Well in this case it was severely under pressured
I'm an engineer by trade, so I believe I am qualified to say that these guys are true engineering geniuses.
What always amazes me with the steam era is they engineered these awesome machines in their heads and drew them on paper. There was no CAD or 3D modeling or fancy computers to do the calculations for them. Yet they created some very formidable machinery.
Which is why I have a hard time believing that this kind of machinery wasn't inspired of God. Nobody wakes up and thinks "oh yeah this jet engine idea of mine is going to work exactly like this."@@Dsinsley1
@@Dsinsley1A true engineer doesn't need paper, I design and build things in my head all the time. It's actually harder to take what's in my mind and make it function. Or even put it on paper
I remember watching a steam tractor pulling 25 bottom plow stop mid field with out raising the plows and then start again that kind of power is awesome.
Piston steam engines develop peak torque at 0 rpm; when they start to bog down, the already huge torque goes up!!! They pull incredibly hard!!!!
@@stevepayne3745 Sort of the opposite, Electric motors have max torque when they start but fall off due to field-induced braking current. Steam traction engines have limited torque when starting, but build that torque as they gain speed like that old saying.
A Steam Locomotive can Pull a Train it can't start. A Diesel Locomotive can Start a Train it can't pull
It's why a Steam engine could pull freight and passenger cars over 80 MPH without breaking a sweat, but a Diesel will get the train moving but once it gets going starts to lose pulling power but the time it hits its rated speed.
There’s a YT video of this tractor pulling a 44 bottom plow.
What an incredible piece of machinery. That overgrown tug toy behind it wasn't even a blip on the radar of a contest for the Case beast.
I do wonder how much weight it would take to test the traction and torque.
Kory, thanks for building this amazing piece of United States history.
It will run out of traction, before it will run out of torque
The limit is weight. As heavy as that thing is, it's pretty ass heavy. Other videos of these sorts of machines doing this where the pulling sled does, truly, max them out, it's because they start lifting the nose and the engineer backs out of it. They don't run out of torque or traction.
@@ElementofKindness Itt'l stand up on its arse before it runs out of either. There's videos of other Case land locomotives doing wheelies when pulling these sleds.
Its the TORQUE ,Gearing and WEIGHT of this machine that makes the Difference .
Well a 51 bottom plow covering 60' couldn't slow it down
Thank you for the video, this is the best one I have seen so far. You caught the distance of 318' at the end, a FULL PULL. The sights and sounds of this Case 150 is truly amazing.
And... pulled it like a PLOW!
I think the Case probably could have kept pulling but it ran out of track. Amazing piece of machinery.
and that was 318 because he was asked to stop not becuase he had to. give him enough time and he'd tow it into the next county
@@Woodie-xq1ew You missed the "r" that belongs in "next country", which is what I'm certain you meant :)
Today is 8-17-24. My son just woke me up today after he found you. He's 9 years old. He told me the history of where you got this huge work horse. In the summer he goes with his grandfather and grandmother to tractor shows all around Indiana and ohio, Michigan. He is the last of our farmers in our family. I hope someday he can meet you. I would love you if you talk to him sometime ❤. God bless you
It's wonderful that we still have kids interested in steam power, they're the future we need to keep steam alive. I'm in no way old, I'm only 22, and I was raised with an interest in steam and antique farm equipment in general. Every year for as long as I remember, I've been going to a yearly steam show in Southern Pennsylvania where I live. I've grown to have an interest in steam like I've been around when steam was king. I hope your son grows up to help preserve steam as I have.
Im so glad this was brought back. I have akways loved steam engines, locomotives was my favorite going up and was only on one when i was really little. I love the sound! Just an outstanding peace of history and equipment. I would love to have something like this even in a smaller form heck i wouldn't care because unless you was raise around them not many people knows or will care about steam engines and i hate that
Amen brother/sister! 😤
I’d much rather see this than a modern pulling tractor with 4 turbos blowing all that smoke and making all
That noise.
This ladies and gentlemen is real horsepower
150 mad horses
This is not horsepower (hp), this is gentlemanpower (gp)
this isnt real horsepower, this thing pollutes more in 1 hour then every tractor in the world in a day
@@cs-gj3yf Who give a fuck about pollution
@@takkeliboys6152 the original commenter.. this steam tractor isnt impressive at all, the modern pro or super stock makes more power than it.
Shear brute strength with the Weight to pull that much is incredible
So much RESPECT for Korey always love seeing what he does next!
My father in law would have loved to see this. Rebuilt a Marshall 1901 road roller from the ground up, and I and my brother in law helped him. Then we converted it to a traction engine which was far better for driving to shows and rallies. Great days long gone unfortunately..
Now that was cool!! What a awesome piece of equipment and hats off to all of those involved to make it a reality and have the passion to do so.
That 150 simply does not care how much that sled weighed. The Spirit and drive of the Men that built this is equal to that of the Men that built this Nation.
Huh I was pulling something? Didn't even notice
Give that beast something to roll on, and it'd cheerfully drag the planet to a new orbit - and probably not even bother to say "hold my beer" first!
Awesome Engineering masterpiece 👍👍
That's one awesome piece of steam powered equipment! Sure am glad that you and your family built that steam powered road tractor from scratch and also were able to find original blue prints to do so!
Impressive feat! Even more amazing are the spectators. They can obviously see you filming the event, but still plop their butts in front of you.
I was waiting for the day the 150 Case completed a tractor pull! Thank you for sharing the video!
Theres a video on youtube that's been there for 10 years....
This was the first video I seen Corey’s Case 150 do a tractor pull. I know there are other steam engines that do tractor pulls but none of them are a 150 Case.
Another Fabulous video Kory & team. Many thanks from across the Pond! Stay safe & well. 👍👍
Awesome piece of equipment. Thank you for the reconstruction of this.
I would also like to thank Case for allowing you the permission to build and to look back into the archives. What a work of art and working history. ❤
Incredible invention of the industrial revolution. I am in awe of the great men and women that started us on an amazing adventure!
You don’t have to go fast to be impressive . This steam tractor is a BEAST !
True, but you want to be fast when you have 40,000 acres under tillage and need to get it done ASAP which is why the steam traction engine (like the Case 150) were replaced with gasoline then diesel powered tractors.
This tractor is a Steam Locomotive on Wheels : ))
@@dundonrl They were replaced because of the size costs and anyone could drive a combustion engine. Not everyone was experienced with a foot plate.
Edit: Also modern tractors didn't replace steam tractors, they replaced horse drawn plough.
@@dundonrl a steam tracktor can pull way bigger ploughs. the actual problem is the long startup, cooldown and maintainance times.
maintaining a steam engine is in itself already multiple full time jobs.
@@dovos8572 Just a matter of pulling power, so HP and weight (you can make as much torque as you want, due to gearing, you just sacrafice speed).
What a totally fascinating video. Love to see these old works of Art restored and put on display. Thank you Jim Luedtke.
Kory, thank you for sharing this part of your awesome achievement. A beautiful machine.
Such an inspiration… fantastic story Kory….
always wanted to see something like this, really puts diesel and electric in there place. great job, I love how it doesn't even seam to notice lol
It could have dragged that sled clear across the state and would not even be straining!
That is a beast!
I think it started to notice it was hooked up to something near the end. Beautiful engine
I only wish I were there to feel that beautiful tractor. Exceptional!
That beast probably didn't even know the sled was there, when it sounded like it was bogging down I'll bet the operator was toying with the crowd
Well considering that same engine but on steel rails is what pulls trains I'd say yea he was just playing with it, That tractor could have pulled that sled sideways just as well.
He was throttling back actually. Makes it sound like it's working harder because he's cutting off the air (to the coal), and steam to the engine.
Nothing Beats steam power. Simply amazing that a single 14" piston can supply that much torque. Then again 10 more inches of girth in a piston that can pull a whole train.
Great job!I watch this thing on UA-cam every chance that I get.
Could watch this all day, wonderous machine - brilliant work Kory 👍
Okay this is one case where history repeating itself is 100000% pure.
25 years ago, as a little kid, steam engines fascinated me really. Nowadays i am an engineer and they fascinate me even more! What a milestone in development.
Outstanding piece of History Kory!!
Enjoy watching every video you post.
Beautiful piece of craftsmanship and demonstration of strength! Thank you for sharing!
Proof that for pulling you don't need thousands of Hp, just a machine with good traction and enough gearing.
And some huge metal wheels 😂
It helps that steam is nothing but torque.
@@drosera88Yep ! Steam engine are totally diferent to gas engine, steam = torque all the way, thats why steam locomotive spin the wheels.
The weight is dominant factor over modern sled pullers. We need the rpm for wheel speed out off the start, basically slide down the track when the weight comes on. Think of it as running with a parachute. Except it’s not lifting you, it’s pulling you down. Hence why pullers bog out. The 150 has all the torque and weight to pull anything it hooks to.
That was amazing to see the tractor pull!
Was great to see this in person on Saturday in Burnett!!!!
Kory, I absolutely love your 150. What an acomplishment. I saw it pulling that massive plow with many bottoms and people standing on it. We can't afford to lose your incredible Case. Keep it in a fireproof building with good security protection from theft and vandalism.
It’s a fifty bottom plow and it’s in Andover South Dakota my home town
Ha. Nobody is going to steal that thing.
Mega horsepower isn't always the answer. This machine is incredible!
Absolutely beautiful! That is one bad ass tractor! Thanks for sharing this video!
If you’re a tiktok user with typical short attention span, the action starts at 8:59, for the rest of us, great video to see that old iron and how amazingly strong it is
Now that's power !! With full-sized hourses. No eardrum breaking internal combustion engines and parts flying if something breaks - just plain brute force.
I have been waiting for it to do a tractor sled pull. Thanks. I have watched it pull a 44, then a 50 bottom breaking plow, without any trouble. I can't help but think that the operator wasn't giving it much throttle until the weights on the sled got to the heaviest point. I think that the 44 bottom plow was a tougher pull than this pull sled. Correct me, if I am wrong. Also, I would take a guess that this would drag the highest rated pull tractor around, like a toy, drawbar to drawbar. Again, correct me if I am wrong. It's all in the weight of the tractor, the torque of the engine output, the drive gearing ratio, engine to wheels, which appeared to be around 30 to 1, and the traction of those huge, wide, and long cleated wheels. It is almost a large, strong, winch, on wheels.
ua-cam.com/video/kA0E7kRhd6M/v-deo.html Here ya go. A baby steam tractor on highway tires turning a fairly hotly modded pulling tractor into an overgrown roto-tiller. And even this tiny little steamer doesn't even have to try. It's effortless.
This big Case would probably be able to rip the drawbar clean off any pulling tractor it gets attached to.
You hooked this up to Big Bud 747 and the modern (well, reasonably modern, since it was built in 1977) tractor would pull it backwards quite easily. First the 747 weights 61,000 lbs more than the Case 150. 2nd instead of only using 2 tires to provide motive force, the modern tractor uses all of it's tires so all of it's weight is being used to pull where the Case 150 has probably 1/3rd of it's weight on the front wheels that are passive and don't provide anything except steering.
@@dundonrl It probably would and I have wondered about that, but the tractor pullers I mentioned only have two pulling wheels, and I believe don't weigh anywhere near what the steam engine does, at 75,000 pounds.
@@dundonrlBig bud weighs 61k pounds more than this units 75k? Doubt
@@servicetrucker5564 shes like 130k pounds when fully loaded its a bonkers machine
Absolute, superhuman dedication, hard work and love for history!!
I was there! Very cool to see the 150 do a pull!
I would say it is even cooler to feel the pitter patter as the steam engine rolls down the track. They had the smaller Case steam engine at the Hanley Falls, MN show and the feeling of it moving was the best part.
I hope to get to a show some day to see this awesome restoration.
I chuckle every time to hear that he had to buy a foundry so he could restore it.
@andersjohansson6118 same haha! It was a great show!
@@andersjohansson6118 He didn't restore it. He built it from the drawings. Only the boiler of one survived and I don't think they resused it in this. It truly is a new steam tractor.
@@J-1410 hence why he bought the foundry
@@GriswoldFarms Anderson Industries bought the foundry in 2007. Anderson Industries of Anderson Openers fame(or hate). It wasn't bought just for the tractor.
The sled has "Horsepower Hunter" written on it, so the Case brought torque.
What an amazing machine. No other vehicle could haul that much weight! Such inspiring engineering...to think a display of power could be so moving. John Deere sure does make one heck of an ATV/utv.
I wanna see that case tractor tug o war with the John Deere that keeps bossing it around!
any modern tractor of comparable weight would output this, especially a dozer
America built great machines back then. Road Locomotive: A fitting name!
Steam is King! Great pull! Always awesome to see steam engines work!
Steam is king. In deed. The hand of god was its original reference. The power is instant.
The steam engine revolutionized farming and so many other things. My grandfather and i would go to the steam threshers convention in Wauseon, Ohio. They still have it every year in June.
That steam engine made it look easy, at first I didn't think the sled was even engaged. The smell of coal fired engines takes me back when I was a kid in the early 60's when my grandparents still used coal fired stoves for heating.
FULL PULL. 😉
Here is a setting where "rolling coal" is perfectly acceptable. 👍
You folks are making America great again!
What an absolutely beautiful machine!
Cant beat case!
That was so beautiful and impressive. I really appreciated this.
NO AI crap, pure engineering measured with vernier calipers and a tape measure probably. Designed by a real engineer, built by a real man and operated by gifted men willing to work hard.
That little john Deere did a great job too carrying that massive weight !
John Deere mobility scooter 😂
I don't know which impressed me more, the case or the dere
La verdad me fijé más en el pequeño John Deere que en el Case... jajajaja
That tractor is a work of art!
Easy peasy for that monster! It was puffing a bit at the end, but never broke traction, and never acted like it would 'run out of steam' (Literally!)😄🚂👍👍
Awesome pull! Unstoppable Case 150, like always.
Amazing Big Tractor I Have Never Seen Before Admiring Designer
When you look at the plows these tractors used to pull, it's no surprise. Weight, torque and those wide steel wheels for unparalleled traction.... there was never any question.
Just magnificent! 😍 Slow and steady wins the race!
If anybody ever needs a visual demonstration of torque, show them this.
Hats off to the original designer of this tractor
Just love how she walks away with it
Geweldig om te zien hoe sterk de Case 150 is! Jammer dat er in Nederland zo weinig stoomtrekkers zijn!😌
I wanted to see what this comment said, here it is, run through Google Translate: "Great to see how strong the Case 150 is! It is a pity that there are so few steam tractors in the Netherlands!"
@@artisanautobody3931dat is correct!😀
@@superkip5920 :D
CaseIH needs to put together a marketing campaign with Kory and his 150. What are they selling?.....2 Things, Great American tractors, and PRIDE! ❤🇺🇲
I am really curious how the hitch is constructed, where it is attached to the engine, and what it is made of. This machine plowing and pulling has to put just ridiculous pressure on components and fasteners.
Me too. I do some welding work and fabrication on the side and the forces at play here boggle the mind. That piece of logging chain they had attaching it was likely not from Home Depot either lol.
@gentlegiants1974 sled chains are generally a lot larger than logging chains. The sleds we use at our annual pull have 1inch rated chain and rated hooks with the OSHA tags on them. I imagine they do it that way for insurance purposes.
I really don't think the hitch is attached to the engine. But rather to the frame somehow
@@BillTheTractorManAt least g80 to have tags so good lord what a hookup
Totally awesome those steam engines are modern marvel how the old timers made those without computers is just plain awesome The only thing I noticed on the sled is that the pan didn’t drop down all the way. Most sleds have hydraulics that pick the rear of the sled up and tires come off the ground. The tires stayed on the ground the whole distance
A lot of farmers and their families turned out for this!
Fantastic job 👍. Thanks for the history lesson!
There's another video of a steam engine at a tractor pull, but apparently that one wasn't "really pulling" because the sled didn't leave gouges in the track. Looks like this was a real pull, and an effortless one at that!
Nothing stopping that big boy!
GIVE IT HELL KORY !!!!!!!!! Thank you for making history come alive.
My Dad's Brother, was a lover of steam power. He is gone now but I learned a lot about steam engines. That Case was sounding great. I wonder why it didn't keep going, maybe it ran out of track. It was sounding great. Maybe started to work hard towards the end. But I think it could have gone further. I love the sound of a steam engine when its feeling good.
It didn't even look like it knew anything was attached to it... effortless! Serious bit of tackle there! 👍
not until the end when it was like oh theres something back there but idc
Incredible machine great job guys
There is a wonderful tractor show in Edgar Wisconsin, would be wonderful to see this case there. The last full weekend of August
The view of it rolling by the camera. Just all that iron moving. Wow
This is what one gets when you cross breed a Steam locomotive with a Farm Tractor 😂😂😂😂. Some sick pulling power 💯👌👌
Armstrong power steering, armstrong fuel injection.
What a beautiful piece of machinery ❤
Haha thats one of the sayings my dad had he'd use here n there.
Armstrong this or that. Thanks for that memory dredge up. I really miss my dad. He just passed 3 yrs ago. My mom just passed about 4 months ago.
Its still like they both just had been here. Like they should still be here.
Miss them greatly.
He always had all sorts of old days sayings
"Think long go wrong"
"He who hesitates is lost"
"Going to hell in a hand basket"
"They couldnt pour piss out of a boot if directions were on the heel"
" They dont know shit from shinola"
He had a bunch more i just cant think of atm.
@@d.aardent9382 sorry for your lose. Grew up hearing all the same quotes. 👍
Well, this one does actually have power steering (not the Armstrong variety), run off the crankshaft. The 110's, the 150, and the road rollers had power steering from the factory.
That guy driving the gator was gonna tip over without the passenger
You ever wanted to see a pull sled sweat, this is it! It is even more spectacular at night when they dump sawdust into the firebox.
They don't need to dump sawdust into the firebox for a night time fireworks display.
Even when just burning coal, the explosive bark up the chimney is more than enough to send the red hot embers into the night sky!
Not the worst camera work I’ve ever seen, but an honorable mention.
Tractor wondering when the sled was gonna be hitched up.
The great men that built the 150 were not driven by the greed of the shareholders or any short term return of revenue.... Pride drove these men.