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47Jag · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 1:23 am Post subject: 18 HP against 850 HP

I thought you might enjoy seeing how 18 HP fares against 850 HP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=FLQhvruimfs

Art

Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

Love that.
We may be old but we still rule Laughing

buzzy bee · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire

Our Steamers may not have the same power, but they do have weight and torque. Smile

JohnDale · Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 11:34 am Post subject:

850 HP & 4 wheel drive too - if they went on long enough steam would have buried the tractor...completely. (Who needs a Hymac or similar)
God video,thanks,JD.
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Jonv8 · Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 66

Steam clearly still has its place.... Good to see.

gillberry · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 702 Location: Norwich

Great video , a couple of years ago at Strumpshaw Steam rally after the public had gone home the traction engines were towing 6wheel AEC recovery trucks around only this was up a gradient with the brakes on the AEC . Makes you realise what immense power these old engines have .
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emmerson · Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 1268 Location: South East Wales

Some thirty years ago, the powers that be decided to dredge a channel around Nash Point near Newport in GoC. They tried various modern machines, Hymacs, JCBs etc,but none of them were man enough. I believe they lost a Hymac in the mud.
Cue a man named James Lowther, who owned a pair of working Fowler ploughing engines, named Windsor and Sandringham.
He waited for low tide, then steamed Windsor out through the water onto a sandbank some 100 yards off shore. Sandringham was positioned on the sea wall, and a purpose built dredging bucket dragged between the two, just as the plough would have been.
When the tide came in, they simply abandoned Windsor, then when it receded, lit the fire and started again! Somewhere I have pics of her up to her hind wheels in the sea. When I interviewed James Lowther for a story in our then vintage magazine, and showed him the piocs, his comment was simply, "Poor old girl". To him, she was simply a tool doing a job! The fact that even then they were an almost priceless original pair of engines was of no great importance. They were a fine example of steam over technology.
I wonder if they are still extant?

Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

A Farmer friend's only comment was

"Weight and Torque will always win"