Re: Identify old thresher? Restoring photo

Posted by Bob on July 27, 2005 at 10:58:22 from (64.21.249.40):

In Reply to: Re: Identify old thresher? Restoring photo posted by K. Heggestad on July 27, 2005 at 06:32:51:

Yes, that is a "tractor". I'm not sure what year that world came into use, in it's day it would have been called a "steam traction engine".

And, yes, they appear to be plowing with it.

Those steam engines sound like nothing else while under load!

Below are a couple of links to live steam demonstrations near me:

The top photo at the first link below is a photo of a "thresher", which could be powered by a steam engine, or a gas engine, examples of both are shown in the lower photos

http://www.hawkmuseum.org/threshing.htm

Here's another show near me. They have steam plowing demos, but I don't see any plowing photos on the website.

http://www.newrockford.com/activities/threshers/threshers.htm

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