I had the honor of being an engineer of a Case steam land locomotive, we would run it at old timers shows, all flat ground. It amazed my how the "old timers" would run these engines up and down steep hills with no brakes, just the action of the steam engine. What a sad loss that so much of this history is being lost. Hope they can keep them running. Loved to blow that fantastic whistle. God bless them all.
Back in the mid 1970’s. The Mennonite’s were still using Case Steam Tractors with all steel wheels to plow their fields just outside Altoona Pennsylvania. Even then I was amazed and very impressed that they were still using these Case Steam Tractors.
Every kid is fasinated by these machines especially the smaller models that's there size. I've always been fasinated by the timeless love of the time people put into making these machines. We lived in Iowa and would go to different co.fairs and see some of these beauties. Even my girls loved them. Ah the history of American agriculture and the machines that help feed the world. Always Loved the farm life and it's smells and seasons. Those are real people the small farmers. Big farming today has lost many people because of the almighty $. Yet the heart never dies when you live like a small farmer or rancher. I lived in a tipi for 3 years too before I got married. Man those were the days. It's been and is still a blast to see these machines and know the history of their times Great documentary from when I was a kid Thanks a bunch to those who help preserve these machines You bless many people plus yourselves
So heart warming to see this because that young boy is now his papas age and telling them same stories that were passed down to someone my age today, just mind blowing to me, nonetheless a great film from the J. I. Case Company.
I miss the early spring days when I would hear the steam engine whistles heading out to steam the tobacco beds. There were two or three guys around doing it. But you could hear them miles away. Our road back then was gravel and I could tell when they came on our road. I loved to hear and watcb them back then and still do. Miss them.
It’s amazing to watch an old steamer pulling 12 bottoms through heavy ground like nothing. They may not put out huge horse power numbers but the torque they twist out is otherworldly.
An excellent film - an enjoyable, beautiful overview of some great machines. American engines are very, very different to British ones in various ways - the changes dictated by different operating conditions in the two countries, and make a fascinating contrast. Threshing was pretty much the same in both countries, but direct ploughing was fairly uncommon over here; our ploughing engines wound a counterbalance plough backwards and forwards across the field by windlass and cable. Thank you for presenting this film - an absolute delight.
Where my friend lives in the country his neighbour has a whole collection of steam powered farm tractors, cars and other things he has a big property and it's loaded with this stuff all his restored equipment he has in buildings and things he has for parts and restoration projects sit outside and he has a bunch of them. I love it when he fires them up and uses them he cuts wood with them drags logs and even till the ground using all steam powered stuff he has to be one of the biggest collectors of steam engines because I have never seen so much stuff in my life even at Steam museums don't have the stuff he has.
Every August, in Sycamore, Illinois they have a Steam Show and Threshing Bee. It’s great to see these machines in person. Everyday they have a parade of all the tractors. They also have a sawmill and a couple of stationery engines (one is REALLY BIG). It makes for a great day with swap meets and flea markets. Not to mention so great food.
THE big event is Midwest Old Threashers in Mt Pleasant IA on Labor Day weekend. There are about. 30+ steam engines. Cory Anderson's 150hp Case is supposed to be there this year. Couple acres of gas tractors. Horses, old cars, threasing, stationary engines, and lots more. It's an annual event for me.
The kid could conceivably still be alive today, though he'd be around 80. How amazing would it be to find him and do a video or podcast episode with him, and hear his take on the making of this? Or at least find out who he was, and what life he lived, if he is deceased.
I grew up in Mclouth Kansas and they have a annual Threshing Bee and Steam Engine show. Hopefully come the 3rd weekend in September the show will go on.
That's cool stuff! Steam wasn't just used on the farms and railroads. All the plants and mills ran on steam too. It was just 20 years ago that I was on a job in Chicago installing a control system for all the new electric motors that were replacing steam drives on their pumping stations. 500 to 2500 HP motors pumping over a billion gallons a day around the city. The largest water system in the world was driven by steam for a long time.
Steam traction was also used in the logging industry. Wasn't uncommon in some areas to see a traction engine skidding logs out of the woods, towing them to sawmill, then running the bandsaw via belt. They may have been cumbersome to use. But they did the job and then some.
i want a pair cause my sleeves are to long on my shirts because not custom made ha so garter would hold cuff up off my thumbs agerevating me when they do that
I belong to a Gas and Steam Engine Club where my Brother and I drive my Dad's 1913 Advance Steamer. He used it for threshing in our area back in the 30's and 40's. He bought it in 1936 with his Brother, and they paid $400, a lot of money durning the Depression!
My grandfather started out farming with draft horses in the 1920's and then skipped steam and went straight to Diesel power. When I was a child in the 1970's he used to take me to threshing festivals in southern Iowa.
Western NY Gas and Steam Association has an exciting, 4 day show starting the Thursday following Labor Day each year. It’s located in Alexander, NY. It’s really a great show.
Back when the world run on a much more people friendly pace.. It’s hard to not get rolled over in our crazy fast days where your always available through a computer inside your pocket. Of course it was hard work living back then, you can’t deny that.
Funny how when you are in the present you say I sure will be happy when they come out with something to make my job easier and not have to fool with this junk. Then look back on those times with fondness after those times have passed.
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The hill climb was dangerous. I saw it once or twice when I was a small child. Was not impressed. A few years later the ramp was in disrepair. Old men were talking in hushed voices about something happened where someone drove off the side and was injured. (Maybe worse. It was a long time ago about something I did not care about at the time.) After watching how the engines buck and jump, if I owned an engine, I would never submit it to that kind of abuse. But, the balancing act looks relatively tame. Not sure why that vanished.
@@charleshettrick2408 I can definitely see what your are saying, the engine in the video was almost doing the wheelie thing on that ramp. And your point about subjecting these things to that kind of abuse is very well taken. I imagine parts were a little (very little) bit easier to come by for these engines when this was filmed as opposed to today.
The show I went to as a child always closed with the hill climb. It was scary to watch! Even scarier there was a guy who would climb inside the rear wheel and ride in the wheel all the way up to the top!😱 Toward the end they did show the engine on a teeter router. I also used to watch them hook up to the Baker fan. So many good memories. I do miss going to shows!
@@charleshettrick2408 I was concerned with how much water was over the crown sheet during these stunts. Let the crown sheet get exposed and you would have a boiler explosion
Threshermens show Pickneyville IL in Ausust i think got to be the hottest place on earth when ya wanna go look around at STEAM ENGINES! great show think they have a fall show also lots of great demos,, hors pulls tractor pulls,pronynbrakes shingle making, little one hit engines,sawmilling imthink great stuuf go to Oicneyville Thresermans show In IL not the best state but come one over anyhow !!!!!
@@livadaruadrian9104 Women are still women. The only difference is that today, we are more equal and they help in the workplace more. We cook and garden more. Works for me!
ya in some eyes its been surpassed with the large 600hp tractors of today, but in my eyes the steam tractors are still king because it took how long for us to reach the same level of productivity, i mean the absolute biggest steam tractor was the ji case 150 could pull a 24 bottom plow, and it was till the 70's 80's till it was done again with gas and diesel
@@sallyforth2955 steam engines run on anything that burns like wood, grass, diesel, gasoline,furniture, and anything else you can stuff in it. Why would you use coal?
@@rogueart7706 railroads used coal. Ships used coal. I would not use coal. Just pointing out that steam engines are less efficient if you have diesel or biofuel why wouldn't you just use the modern efficient engines why revert to steam engines
Made me cringe to see old boy on that incline or hill. That’s a good way to die. I’ve lost three people with tractor roll overs. Pretty common unfortunately. Never mow or plow a hill perpendicular to the slope. Use a 45* angle. Like for off roading.
Thank you for that mighty good show
I had the honor of being an engineer of a Case steam land locomotive, we would run it at old timers shows, all flat ground. It amazed my how the "old timers" would run these engines up and down steep hills with no brakes, just the action of the steam engine. What a sad loss that so much of this history is being lost. Hope they can keep them running. Loved to blow that fantastic whistle. God bless them all.
Henry Ford as a young child saw one of these for the first time going down his street he was so impressed that well, u know the rest is history.
Back in the mid 1970’s. The Mennonite’s were still using Case Steam Tractors with all steel wheels to plow their fields just outside Altoona Pennsylvania. Even then I was amazed and very impressed that they were still using these Case Steam Tractors.
Every kid is fasinated by these machines especially the smaller models that's there size. I've always been fasinated by the timeless love of the time people put into making these machines. We lived in Iowa and would go to different co.fairs and see some of these beauties. Even my girls loved them. Ah the history of American agriculture and the machines that help feed the world. Always Loved the farm life and it's smells and seasons. Those are real people the small farmers. Big farming today has lost many people because of the almighty $. Yet the heart never dies when you live like a small farmer or rancher. I lived in a tipi for 3 years too before I got married. Man those were the days. It's been and is still a blast to see these machines and know the history of their times
Great documentary from when I was a kid
Thanks a bunch to those who help preserve these machines
You bless many people plus yourselves
I'm no kid, but I loved making a virtual steam engine in Solidworks by dissecting and measuring a real steam engine model in college So much fun! 😁
steam threshers reunions still take place today. I would love to go to one.
So heart warming to see this because that young boy is now his papas age and telling them same stories that were passed down to someone my age today, just mind blowing to me, nonetheless a great film from the J. I. Case Company.
I miss the early spring days when I would hear the steam engine whistles heading out to steam the tobacco beds.
There were two or three guys around doing it. But you could hear them miles away. Our road back then was gravel and I could tell when they came on our road.
I loved to hear and watcb them back then and still do. Miss them.
I could listen to that old timer tell stories all day.
It’s amazing to watch an old steamer pulling 12 bottoms through heavy ground like nothing. They may not put out huge horse power numbers but the torque they twist out is otherworldly.
Have you seen Kory Anderson’s Case 150 pulling the custom 36 bottom they made?
An excellent film - an enjoyable, beautiful overview of some great machines. American engines are very, very different to British ones in various ways - the changes dictated by different operating conditions in the two countries, and make a fascinating contrast. Threshing was pretty much the same in both countries, but direct ploughing was fairly uncommon over here; our ploughing engines wound a counterbalance plough backwards and forwards across the field by windlass and cable. Thank you for presenting this film - an absolute delight.
Where my friend lives in the country his neighbour has a whole collection of steam powered farm tractors, cars and other things he has a big property and it's loaded with this stuff all his restored equipment he has in buildings and things he has for parts and restoration projects sit outside and he has a bunch of them. I love it when he fires them up and uses them he cuts wood with them drags logs and even till the ground using all steam powered stuff he has to be one of the biggest collectors of steam engines because I have never seen so much stuff in my life even at Steam museums don't have the stuff he has.
Tell them to put them in a trust or a nonprofit, or when he dies they'll all be sent to the scrapyard. I've seen it happen before.
Every August, in Sycamore, Illinois they have a Steam Show and Threshing Bee. It’s great to see these machines in person. Everyday they have a parade of all the tractors. They also have a sawmill and a couple of stationery engines (one is REALLY BIG). It makes for a great day with swap meets and flea markets. Not to mention so great food.
THE big event is Midwest Old Threashers in Mt Pleasant IA on Labor Day weekend. There are about. 30+ steam engines. Cory Anderson's 150hp Case is supposed to be there this year. Couple acres of gas tractors. Horses, old cars, threasing, stationary engines, and lots more. It's an annual event for me.
I went once, it was awesome
The kid could conceivably still be alive today, though he'd be around 80. How amazing would it be to find him and do a video or podcast episode with him, and hear his take on the making of this? Or at least find out who he was, and what life he lived, if he is deceased.
I'm still alive. Loudon County, VA thresher boy in the 50's.
@@maclynmonroe1263 Seriously? Would you like to be on a podcast?
Sawmill town l grew up in used steam till '84.
I do miss all this stuff
A fine film!
Wow this was just wonderful!!
Appreciate it a lot
I grew up in Mclouth Kansas and they have a annual Threshing Bee and Steam Engine show. Hopefully come the 3rd weekend in September the show will go on.
Pickneyville, Illinois has a show with a tall incline that they climb and HOLD that beautiful steam engine in place. Incredible!
That's cool stuff! Steam wasn't just used on the farms and railroads. All the plants and mills ran on steam too. It was just 20 years ago that I was on a job in Chicago installing a control system for all the new electric motors that were replacing steam drives on their pumping stations. 500 to 2500 HP motors pumping over a billion gallons a day around the city. The largest water system in the world was driven by steam for a long time.
Some INCREDIBLY detailed steam steam models!!
Steam traction was also used in the logging industry. Wasn't uncommon in some areas to see a traction engine skidding logs out of the woods, towing them to sawmill, then running the bandsaw via belt. They may have been cumbersome to use. But they did the job and then some.
What a wounderfull film
Steam lokomobiles are fazinating👍🏻❤️
Shovels, transport, farming, you name it, steam was king 👑
Got to love gramp's sleeve garters.
i want a pair cause my sleeves are to long on my shirts because not custom made ha so garter would hold cuff up off my thumbs agerevating me when they do that
I belong to a Gas and Steam Engine Club where my Brother and I drive my Dad's 1913 Advance Steamer. He used it for threshing in our area back in the 30's and 40's. He bought it in 1936 with his Brother, and they paid $400, a lot of money durning the Depression!
Very good....Thanks
Impressive
This reminds me of The Pageant Of Steam held in Canandaigua NY Every August...
I was there -- Chippewa, Co. - WI. -- 'Ruby Township'. -- 5yrs sprout -- Henry Torkelson (Theodore J.) Farm -- Jacob Garm (Grandfather) near. - Departure 1954 !!
Dude standing next to running sawmill blade no guards WOW! 4:34 . Old 3 finger Pete.
When I imagine the days when steam was king my mind goes to the big iron horses on the railway
S a m e
I think of the hot air Democrats blow
well I was born in 05 and it didnt take me long to get the bug at a farmer threshermans jubilee in PA
My grandfather started out farming with draft horses in the 1920's and then skipped steam and went straight to Diesel power. When I was a child in the 1970's he used to take me to threshing festivals in southern Iowa.
our family was the last in the area to stop using a thresher and buy a combine, 1974 if my dad told me right
Ahh the era of threshing machines and steam tractors! The age of broken bones and missing limbs!
You forgot about the third degree burns
Only the stupid did that
@@tdgreenbay Or the tired.
and death from explosion
That's all in an era when people weren't pussified by govt. edicts and OSHA or scared of trial lawyer brigades
Western NY Gas and Steam Association has an exciting, 4 day show starting the Thursday following Labor Day each year. It’s located in Alexander, NY. It’s really a great show.
0:59 Just like the old ranger in Death Valley Days
Awesome
Is there a man alive today who can build one of those models in his free time like those guys did? 😳
You would be surprised
Yea…they aren’t on UA-cam lol
There are many
Back when the world run on a much more people friendly pace..
It’s hard to not get rolled over in our crazy fast days where your always available through a computer inside your pocket.
Of course it was hard work living back then, you can’t deny that.
Don't worry in about 80 years some grandfather will be showing a grandson how Windows 95 workingon a Pentium.
Funny how when you are in the present you say I sure will be happy when they come out with something to make my job easier and not have to fool with this junk. Then look back on those times with fondness after those times have passed.
I wonder if they used them during WWII since they did not need petroleum. Sawmills make a lot of sense since you could fuel them with scraps of wood.
Sadly, most were turned into scrap metal for the war effort. some survived working in lumber camps or were kept hidden until the war was over.
In Britain the war actually lengthed the lives of old engines. If they worked they would be used, but sadly, afterwards they were often broken up.
"Thats where your wrong, boy"
god damn right old timer. god damn right
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In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous UA-cam users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do.
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@5:49 running "Balls Out" (on govenor)
Originating from the Industrial Revolution in Great Britian, where it all began.
It's fascinating to know how much torque them steam tractors actually make
I feel shortchanged!! None of the shows I've gone to have had the hill climb, pyramid, or teeter totter!!
The hill climb was dangerous. I saw it once or twice when I was a small child. Was not impressed. A few years later the ramp was in disrepair. Old men were talking in hushed voices about something happened where someone drove off the side and was injured. (Maybe worse. It was a long time ago about something I did not care about at the time.) After watching how the engines buck and jump, if I owned an engine, I would never submit it to that kind of abuse.
But, the balancing act looks relatively tame. Not sure why that vanished.
@@charleshettrick2408 I can definitely see what your are saying, the engine in the video was almost doing the wheelie thing on that ramp. And your point about subjecting these things to that kind of abuse is very well taken. I imagine parts were a little (very little) bit easier to come by for these engines when this was filmed as opposed to today.
The show I went to as a child always closed with the hill climb. It was scary to watch! Even scarier there was a guy who would climb inside the rear wheel and ride in the wheel all the way up to the top!😱 Toward the end they did show the engine on a teeter router. I also used to watch them hook up to the Baker fan. So many good memories. I do miss going to shows!
@@charleshettrick2408 I was concerned with how much water was over the crown sheet. Let that get exposed and you could have a boiler explosion.
@@charleshettrick2408 I was concerned with how much water was over the crown sheet during these stunts. Let the crown sheet get exposed and you would have a boiler explosion
Threshermens show Pickneyville IL in Ausust i think got to be the hottest place on earth when ya wanna go look around at STEAM ENGINES! great show think they have a fall show also lots of great demos,, hors pulls tractor pulls,pronynbrakes shingle making, little one hit engines,sawmilling imthink great stuuf go to Oicneyville Thresermans show In IL not the best state but come one over anyhow !!!!!
Pretty crazy to think I’ll be telling my grandkids the same thing about Petrol cars before electric / hydrogen
Not unless we make a power grid that’ll support it…there will be oil and gas still more than likely
Power grid many multiples of the current very marginal grid , Plus lots of nuclear power plants .
First they need to figure out how to control the fires and how to put them out
The Good Old Days when Men were Men. Today, you can't tell 🙄🤔
So back in the day women used to fight to see who could put the best spread on the table, but today you get called a sexist for asking for a sandwich.
Back then women used to be women, nowadays things are totally different ......
@Silently Sceptical You couldn't back then?
@@livadaruadrian9104 Women are still women. The only difference is that today, we are more equal and they help in the workplace more. We cook and garden more. Works for me!
Good for Case. Case steam engines look nice. But not a general steam engine video.
Probably shoulda read description
Little Jimmy became head investigator for the CIA
15:15 Excellent, let's lift the rear of the engine and expose the crown sheet! Exciting!
Match2100 I was kinda surprised it wouldn’t blow. But most tractors of those times had angled crow sheets to retain water on slopes.
"Those were GOOD DAYS, SON!" The biggest lie that every old man tells the their grandkids, as they lament on getting old.
Lot of people had it good even back then. So it wasn't a lie.
@ktloz2246 A lot of people died of tuberculosis, too.
When steem was king it has not been surpassed yet or am I wrong...?
ya in some eyes its been surpassed with the large 600hp tractors of today, but in my eyes the steam tractors are still king because it took how long for us to reach the same level of productivity, i mean the absolute biggest steam tractor was the ji case 150 could pull a 24 bottom plow, and it was till the 70's 80's till it was done again with gas and diesel
Steam will be king again when the zombie apocalypse happens.
Rogue Art this is true
It took 9 tons of coal to take a loaded train 400 miles and many wage slaves and prisoners to mine all of that coal. Not likely.
@@sallyforth2955 steam engines run on anything that burns like wood, grass, diesel, gasoline,furniture, and anything else you can stuff in it.
Why would you use coal?
@@rogueart7706 railroads used coal. Ships used coal. I would not use coal. Just pointing out that steam engines are less efficient if you have diesel or biofuel why wouldn't you just use the modern efficient engines why revert to steam engines
@@sallyforth2955 key word is “apocalypse”.
If you don’t get it then nothing I say will make a difference.
Juheusaefritz Ingets? J.I?
STEAMPUNK!
You are over here too? Fun watching the old steam tractors.
Steam is still king, what do you think powers my cell phone?
That's funny because it's so true - I think we all missed that (steam turbines). 👍
Steam is still pretty good.
Thy don't give away games like the epic store but thy have lots of sails
well, all the nuclear powered things use steam...
100 portion clicker knob? What kinda crunchy sticky grip you get on the snout here guy? High rollers march....
Made me cringe to see old boy on that incline or hill. That’s a good way to die. I’ve lost three people with tractor roll overs. Pretty common unfortunately. Never mow or plow a hill perpendicular to the slope. Use a 45* angle. Like for off roading.
Ya, it can be tricky, it's better to go backwards up a hill if one isn't sure.
I think Grandpa was the drunk at the store in American Graffiti.
Gee gramps, I'm a really shitty kid actor. We should do a video together. 😁
Steam created America Sadly it also created the Dust bowl..
Gramps was laying on a little thick in my opinion.
Huh?
So this is what the beginning of global warming looks like.
I know huh? People should've starved - wh1t3 people anyway - imagine working for a living?
These guys are all dead.
Oh no! Not Little Jimmy too!
@@davidkepley4396 - Little Jimmy went to the chair. Or Vietnam. Sad, because he was 100x brighter than any brat today.
Considerably agitated dihydrogen monoxide molecules.
Gramps is dead now.
RIP Gramps
The child will be in his 70s now too, if he survived.
That grandpa scares me.
Huh?
Thank you for that mighty good show