The junk you see will soon be a steam tractor... Pictures as I build...
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Kbeitz
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Aha!
And there is nothing wrong with a little dry ice or straight steam for effect!
And there is nothing wrong with a little dry ice or straight steam for effect!
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Or a built in grill grate behind the front door/cover under the stak...that alittle charcoal..could be put to use ..ya still gota eat at the show:thThumbsU ...I'm sure it will be a nice piece when finished..some day along while from now we will all hear or read about the great auction in pa...with all the unique items that were hand crafted by kevin.....Sorry Kevin..:biglaugh: ...:trink39:
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Now why did you have to bring that proverbial rebuild up??:sorry1:
I have noooooooo room to talk....:Stop:
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:greendr: Very cool and cant wait until is the finish product.:wwp: :wwp:
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I have 6 real steam engines. I this area it's real hard to get a boiler certificate . I've talked to a few people that has small steam tractors. They bring them to the tractor shows but they are not allowed to fire them up. At first I was just throwing stuff together for a lawn ornament . But plans changed...
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Don't want to hi-jack the thread but a couple of years ago in Indiana, I saw a working small scale steam traction engine with a working scale threshing machine then the straw from the threshing machine was bailed in a scale bailer and sold.
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In the real ones?? It realy depends. Some were coal, some were wood. Im sure there were some oil burners out there also.
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A "hit and miss" engine would sound "authentic"!..
Great looking project, Keibtz!
Don't anybody worry about Kbeitz tractor not being authentic looking, or sounding, because there were at least three tractor manufacturers, before the year 1920, who built full size gasoline engined tractors using this same type of "boiler frame" design.
Eaton, Fairbanks-Morse, and Townsend were some of the names. The boiler was the frame and also was used as the radiator for the engine. The exhaust was vented out the stack for an induced draft cooling system.
Encyclopedia Of American Farm Tractors, by C.H. Wendel, has pictures of the three tractors I mentioned.
Don't anybody worry about Kbeitz tractor not being authentic looking, or sounding, because there were at least three tractor manufacturers, before the year 1920, who built full size gasoline engined tractors using this same type of "boiler frame" design.
Eaton, Fairbanks-Morse, and Townsend were some of the names. The boiler was the frame and also was used as the radiator for the engine. The exhaust was vented out the stack for an induced draft cooling system.
Encyclopedia Of American Farm Tractors, by C.H. Wendel, has pictures of the three tractors I mentioned.
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