Beautifully controlled climb up the ramps onto the flatbed, given the obvious vagueness of the steering.

The way they were ticking it over is amazing

Well what a fun drive bought back memories of my dad Plug

Used to have a 6hp burrell road loco in the family.. clearly things have changed...lo loaders.? Gloves? Hi vis.. We used to take it from Northwich to Crich Derbyshire.. 3 days burrell..tender for us kids ..full length showmanship caravan and water cart on the back.. Over the tops towads matlock ..cat and fiddle..overnight at the jug and glass... pulling up to Crich tramway museum at dusk..sparks covering us kids eating pies...spark pies we used to call them! Injector water and swarfega in a steel bucket Worlds gone soft!

@richardfroud3605

5 ай бұрын

Showmans... for the armchair critic😂

@IACooper

5 ай бұрын

I recognise your surname! That's the last time the engine was steamed. It had been fairly recently sold and was off to workshops elsewhere to be stripped down for major boiler work and overhaul. As can be seen, the canopy had already been removed and it was just easier to steam it up to move to where a lorry could reach than to shift it with a push pole. Knowing the new owner and their tendancy to road their other engines, I suspect this will see some miles on the road once it returns from a comprehensive rebuild as well. Under the previous ownership I've followed it out on the road doing the journey from Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury in steam.

@richardfroud3605

5 ай бұрын

@@IACooper peter froud was my dad..also used to have sentinel dg4 kg1123..oddly coverted to a bus...fowler roller..Aveling roller he sold to Fred Dibnah which was later converted to a tractor...all gone now.. was surrounded by amazing things as a kid.. seem to still find myself perusing KZread looking at stuff. Seems steam stays in the blood.... Hope my comment was recieved with the humour that was intended!

@IACooper

5 ай бұрын

@@richardfroud3605 Don't worry, not offended. Whilst you're right that many do pram around these days, hopefully some of my videos show there's still a proportion who travel place to place on the road.

Hi Vis jacket spoils the look!

@IACooper

Жыл бұрын

perhaps, but they do have practical benefits when busy working in the middle of the road either servicing an engine whilst out on a journey, or whilst loading a low-loader in the middle of the road.

It seems to be fitted with steam plough works gears!

Beautifully smooth at low speed. May I ask is it going far?

@IACooper

2 жыл бұрын

Depends how you measure it - the previous owner lived about 30 miles away, but the engine would often spend periods of time in the area shown here. The new owner lives local to where this was shot, so its new home won't be far away, but the departure shown here is for it to head to North Shropshire to have boiler work done to it - so once again that isn't far away. So no, how ever you look at it, it isn't going far.

@stewartross1233

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Привет. как жизнь ? Интересуюсь паровой техникой , хотел бы создать , что нибудь но более современное. Есть от у вас возможность достать чертежи такого трактора или хотябы его двигателя ? Заранее спасибо .

@harveyharrison3840

Жыл бұрын

Send me your contact details I may be able to help

@user-sf3mz8ft9b

Жыл бұрын

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Beautiful thing these engines are just wish that they were running off of pelleted wheat stalks ,rice stalks and fallen tree branches aka biomass I intend on running a half size traction engine and 15 inch gauge shay with with the by-products of building furniture and milling lumber for my friends and locals think co2 smart pull from the surface not from the ground where it hasn't been part of the co2 cycle for milena because that is where all the new carbon is coming from

@IACooper

2 жыл бұрын

Alas finding viable fuel alternative is difficult. Some engines were originally designed to burn timber, but they generally had siginficantly larger fireboxes and tenders to carry and burn the stuff to compensate. When I've burnt timber on a full size engine you can't carry enough of the stuff and it burns away in next to no time without generating the steam that coal does - and that's without trying to go on a journey on the road with it. I understand recent trials where people have being trying with various "coal alternatives" haven't been going too well either - don't steam well, clinker easily, burn away too fast and in some cases are a struggle to get burning in the first place. No doubt there's more that can be done to try and refine the alternatives and learn how to use them to their fullest, but at the moment they seem to be significantly more expensive than coal whilst being nowhere near as effective as coal. If you're just going to sit stationary not doing much and have a large pile next to you then timber's fine, but actually trying to put the engine to work and it's less attractive.