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kcm.MN · Mar 31, 2020

Your guess is as good as mine!

kcm.MN · Mar 31, 2020

Phil Scarborough · Mar 31, 2020

Classic English steam engine, but fitted engine and transmission from a Lanz Bulldog tractor. Common
after WW2, the boiler on the steam engine probably needs major repairs, with no money to pay for them.
Fitting another I/c engine keeps the steam engine available for driving other machinery, threshing
separator,corn mill etc. Locally, two ploughing engines were fitted with engines from German U-boats in the
same fashion, they were used to dredge lakes.

db4600 · Mar 31, 2020

Domestically Townsend did the same thing thinking that the farmer was used to the build of a steam kettle and would make the adjustment to an IC engine on a similar frame easier.

formerly ny bill · Mar 31, 2020

thanks for the explanation. I never realized that.

RedMF40 · Mar 31, 2020

Is that a humorous touch--welding a fan onto the front or is that something else? Doesn't look like a machine that invites frivolity.

kcm.MN · Mar 31, 2020

Thanks Phil!

I'm still trying to wrap my head around how they got that heavy engine way up there. *lol*

And then RedMF40's observation of the fan blade -- hilarious! :lol:

Athol Carr · Mar 31, 2020

Other people have done things to tractors, in this case as art, the old McCormick-Deering 10-20 never saw this coming. From Oamaru, new Zealand.

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