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Title: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 19, 2009, 06:22:28 PM
OK, decided to just start a new thread, some fool took 594 pictures, I'll post the best of them as I go through them, some cool stuff.

When I got there, I found my friend Steve, he was playing on the teeter toddler, object is to balance the thing:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009033.jpg)

The piston makes it go:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009037.jpg)

Before we left to cruise, he had to add some fuel:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009038.jpg)

Couple of pictures of the controls on this thing:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009042.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009055.jpg)

Neat thing is you get to look down on everyone else:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009062.jpg)

Bad thing is they can walk faster than it goes.

And away they go after I jump off and a couple others jumped on, sure beat riding the shuttle wagon:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009073.jpg)





Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Silver Creek Slim on July 19, 2009, 07:35:30 PM
Nice pictures, Del.

Slim
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 19, 2009, 07:40:57 PM
OK, some coal oil burners.  These were built in the 1920's, internal combustion tractors that burn coal oil (kerosene)  Three models of Oil Pull Rumely's.  These three were owned by my Dads' late cousin and restored by him.  Been wonderin' what happened to Don's tractor's, now I know, the drivers of these are three of his Grandson's.  I sat with Grandma as they passed in the parade and she was mighty proud.   :)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009521.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009523.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009526.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009527.jpg)

Don's beloved tractors will be kept running and shown for many years to come.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 19, 2009, 08:15:35 PM
OK, could have got the laundry done up there also, the laundry lady was there, had a lot of stuff, but these are still way cool.

Maytag, before rural folks had 'lectrictiy:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009170.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009172.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009174.jpg)

The muffler:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009183.jpg)

And a butter churn and meat grinder for when it ain't wash day:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009185.jpg)


And the ladies soap collection:(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009179.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009178.jpg)

Cute kids lectric stove also:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009182.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009184.jpg)

See any soap you recognize. ;D




Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Ozark Tracker on July 19, 2009, 08:44:29 PM
I remember Grandma having a washin machine like that one,  we'd push it out of the garage on wash day if it was warm enough,  Grandma would start a little fire burning on the ground with some paper and small limbs,  she'd stick 2  or 3  spark plugs in the fire to warm em up,  take her gloves when they was hot and put it in the motor and pull it to start,  if it didn't start easy, she'd change out to another plug, till one started.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Silver Creek Slim on July 19, 2009, 08:46:17 PM
Quote from: Delmonico on July 19, 2009, 08:15:35 PM
See any soap you recognize. ;D
A few.  ;)

Slim
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 19, 2009, 09:02:26 PM
This set up was not running at the time, missed getting pictures of it running, but one set up the threash:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009235.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009237.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009242.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009243.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009244.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009245.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 20, 2009, 12:14:45 AM
Cool pictures.  The only soap I don recognise from ma youth is Ben-Hur.  That one is kinda strange.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 20, 2009, 12:49:57 AM
This threshing machine was running and the power was an Oil Pull Rumely, an early internal combustion traction engine that would run on kerosene or pretty much any other liquid that you can light with a match.   Dates to the early 1920's:

Tractor and drive belt:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009246.jpg)

Back of the engine facing driver:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009250.jpg)

Yes you oil the rocker arms with an oil can. ;D

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009251.jpg)

This one is water cooled, but instead if a radiator it has a reservoir and this is on the side of it:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009252.jpg)

And the thresher it's self:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009255.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009257.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 20, 2009, 01:17:30 AM
OK, as to the next one, if you are a Ford Collector and Restorer, you might not want to look, and no he will not sell it, he knows what it is worth.  I agree with him also, talked to him several years ago, it is to valuable of a piece of history to destroy by restoring it. ;D

And it is a 1915 model, the last of the brass T's. ;D

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009210.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009511.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009512.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009514.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009515.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009518.jpg)

Many Model T's were reworked into farm equipment, few survive.

Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Silver Creek Slim on July 20, 2009, 07:33:03 AM
My father-in-law talks about 'em being turned into tractors.

Slim
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 20, 2009, 08:30:39 AM
Those folks from Classic Tractors on RFD TV should have been to video all that stuff,
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 20, 2009, 01:01:58 PM
OK, this was in one of the buildings, it don't run,,,,,yet, hopefully by next year.

A WWI era, Liberty truck, they were made by several makers, all alike with interchangeable part, 5 ton capacity:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009213.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009214.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009218.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 20, 2009, 01:10:34 PM
Del, That old truck is a classic. It looks like it could have been made by White, Mack, Reo, or Diamond T.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 20, 2009, 01:41:24 PM
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 20, 2009, 01:10:34 PM
Del, That old truck is a classic. It looks like it could have been made by White, Mack, Reo, or Diamond T.

The majority were made by Republic.  I'm going to do some more research later.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 20, 2009, 02:28:29 PM
I like the air condintioning system on that one.  Looks ta be designed using the KISS method.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Forty Rod on July 20, 2009, 02:31:35 PM
Quote from: Delmonico on July 19, 2009, 08:15:35 PM
OK, could have got the laundry done up there also, the laundry lady was there, had a lot of stuff, but these are still way cool.

Maytag, before rural folks had 'lectrictiy:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009170.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009172.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009174.jpg)

The muffler:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009183.jpg)

And a butter churn and meat grinder for when it ain't wash day:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009185.jpg)


And the ladies soap collection:(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009179.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009178.jpg)

Cute kids lectric stove also:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009182.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009184.jpg)

See any soap you recognize. ;D

I worked at The Old Reliable Lodge (I was a pearl diver) in Yellowstone when I was a kid.  each four staff cabins (12 people) had a utility shack with a couple of these gas powered washers, 6 showers, clotheslines every where, and not one single drop of hot water anywhere.

As to those brand names:all but three or four are familiar.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Forty Rod on July 20, 2009, 02:54:31 PM
Last car I saw rigged as a stationary power source was my Uncle frank's 1950 Hudson.  All that was left was the engine, transmission, differential and rear axle.  Had a corrigated shed over the front and it was on a welded steel frame set in concrete.  Ran his milking operation (refrigeration compressor) and lights with it for many years
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 20, 2009, 05:56:49 PM
I'd hate to guess how many "hit and miss" engines they had there, took some pictures of the coolest ones that they had set up working:

A log sawer, (yes he turned the blade upside down in the cut so it would run with out having to fiddle with it.)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009075.jpg)

A butter churn:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009078.jpg)

This set up was pretty neat, conservin' energy:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009085.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009086.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009088.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009093.jpg)

The first water pump wasn't runnin', but it photoed well:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009135.jpg)

This one was"

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009189.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009192.jpg)

Cute little rock crusher:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009144.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009145.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 20, 2009, 06:19:59 PM
Great pictures Del.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 20, 2009, 06:29:35 PM
OK, this next one is the biggest "hit and miss" they have, originaly ran on natural gas, the run it on propane, ran pumps in the oil fields:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/1.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/1a.jpg)

Really cool to watch, took a bunch of cycles to get a sequence of pictures, but managed.  Just before it fires it trickles a little smoke out of the stack and smoke rings:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/2.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/3.jpg)

Goes pop like a roman candle and shoots a big shot up:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/4.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/6.jpg)

and then the smoke drifts back down:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/7.jpg)

Running with out a load it pops off maybe every 20 seconds or so.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 20, 2009, 06:43:31 PM
And some ladies out crusin' not sure if they were tryin' to pick up guys or not: ;D

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009315.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009316.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009317.jpg)

1916 Aultmann Taylor coal oil burner.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 20, 2009, 07:08:21 PM
A Minneapolis:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009262.jpg)

Got more gears than a Swiss watch:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009265.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009266.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009267.jpg)

Radiator and fuel tank:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009271.jpg)

Name plate:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009272.jpg)

Magneto:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009273.jpg)

Top of the heads near drivers feet showing rocker arms and carb:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009268.jpg)

Note the head is cast is 3 pieces

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009274.jpg)


Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 20, 2009, 07:33:58 PM
OK, another sequence, bet I don't have to tell you these coal oil burners ain't got no electric starter. ;D  Can get complicated if they get stubborn like this Oil Pull Rumley. ::)

OK, turn the flywheel to TDC:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/a.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/b.jpg)

It's got a lever with a rachet, that way if it cack fires it don't toss you in the cab:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/c.jpg)

Get braced and pull hard:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/d.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/e.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/f.jpg)

(Note, these were taken over several tries so that is why the driver is in the wrong place in the one)

OK, next: ::)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/g.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/h.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/i.jpg)

OK, Plan B,  ;D

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/j.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/k.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/m.jpg)

Back it up and take out the slack:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/n.jpg)

Engage flywheel clutches:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/p.jpg)

OK, now it's running:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/q.jpg)





Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 20, 2009, 10:13:05 PM
Neat set of jumper cables.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 21, 2009, 05:56:37 AM
Del, Those folks at Vintage Tractors need to hire you to take pictures for them.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Wireman on July 21, 2009, 11:25:14 AM
Cool.

Look like it was quite the Event.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 21, 2009, 06:41:39 PM
They have a steam powered Rail Road crane sitting on a chunk of track, fuel oil burner:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009196.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009198.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009200.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009201.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009205.jpg)

My friend that runs it was a bit sad though:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009204.jpg)

It was cold. :(

Failed inspection this year, they hope to have the boiler retubed by next year though, were taking donations.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 21, 2009, 09:30:08 PM
That is a big piece of machinery, I've seen diesel cranes like that but not a steam powered one.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 21, 2009, 10:05:21 PM
When I was little, the term "steam shovel" was still used when folks were referrin ta excavators.  Never even thought about why, but then again I was just a tyke.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 21, 2009, 10:56:09 PM
A while back one of the ,9mm and 12 caliber shotgun type news reporters on one of the national news services tells about some guy being drunk, starting and stealing a steam roller to drive home.  Doubt it, besides if it really was steam, the DOT would be upset also cause I bet he didn't have a Steam Boiler Engineers license.

And they wonder why we don't believe the news.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 21, 2009, 11:56:02 PM
They had at the other end, out in the oat field and parkin' lot, 4 diesel cranes added since I'd been up there, didn't get back when they were running, but the yaller ones ran and dug, the other two will some day:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009021.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009026.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009024.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 21, 2009, 11:57:16 PM
Very fitting also, they had a pretty decent Polka band:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009510.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 22, 2009, 02:10:07 AM
Yep, the term "steam roller" is still in use taday.  I was just thinkin back when I was a kid an ma grandad would say "look at the steam shovel Tommy".  Weren't no steam anywhere around, just the stink of diesel.  They referred ta them as that in alot of childrens books too.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 22, 2009, 02:58:36 AM
"I'm a steam roller, Baby"!
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 22, 2009, 10:08:30 AM
Well Digger Dan seems to have been one:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/FUN/ttt.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 22, 2009, 11:14:27 AM
That was one a the ones I was refferin ta.  An there was another one called "Are You My Mother?" er somethin like that.  We had some strange books when I was a kid.  That might explain alot.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Wireman on July 22, 2009, 11:21:16 AM
Quote from: Leo Tanner on July 22, 2009, 11:14:27 AM
That was one a the ones I was refferin ta.  An there was another one called "Are You My Mother?" er somethin like that.  We had some strange books when I was a kid.  That might explain alot.

YOU are NOT my Mother.

You are ah Snort!

The Snort helped the Baby bird, right back into it's nest.

What ah nice Snort that was.

;D
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Ozark Tracker on July 22, 2009, 11:41:11 AM
There in Oklahoma, where I grew up, they had a lot of them old draglines,  they used to do a lot of strip coal mining early back in the century,  when they quit diggin, they parked all of em  there at the old coal yard,  it was sure interestin to walk through there and look at all that old equipment.
they had all sizes of em,  they even had one real small one that looked like a scoop would just about load a pickup.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 22, 2009, 11:42:02 AM
Quote from: Wireman on July 22, 2009, 11:21:16 AM
YOU are NOT my Mother.

You are ah Snort!

The Snort helped the Baby bird, right back into it's nest.

What ah nice Snort that was.

;D

See folks, I aint crazy, I just have a real good memory.  Thanks Wiry, that brought back some very old memories.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Arcey on July 22, 2009, 12:24:44 PM
Time ta time ya'll see an old one onna barge in the river. They'll be usin' it for small dredge jobs. 
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 22, 2009, 12:32:41 PM
Quote from: Arcey on July 22, 2009, 12:24:44 PM
Time ta time ya'll see an old one onna barge in the river. They'll be usin' it for small dredge jobs. 

Used to see them down on the Missouri once in a while also.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 22, 2009, 03:04:38 PM
Did take but a few of the post WWII stuff up there, that was several hundred. ;D

Did take these, Slim might like this TO-30:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009319.jpg)

A TO-35 we used to own about 20 years ago, but it didn't look this good:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009321.jpg)

And a Ford on stilts:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009323.jpg)

And some stuff with tracks:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009301.jpg)

They come in collors other than yellow:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009304.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009305.jpg)

Was a green and yellow one, but I guess I didn't get any pictures.

And a 1937 model that must have got washed in hot water:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009356.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 22, 2009, 04:01:10 PM
Had the little rock crusher, this one I didn't catch when they had belted up, but a bit bigger:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009291.jpg)

Can think of a lot of things besides rocks that would be fun to drop in there:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009296.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 22, 2009, 04:18:26 PM
An here I thought I took a lotta pitchers at the airshow.

All kiddin aside, every one of em looks worthy of bankin here.  It's amazing that they got all that neat old stuff in one place an then got it out again.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 22, 2009, 04:19:55 PM
Some of the real big stuff like the cranes and one of the steam engines are stored there along with a lot of the little stuff.  It's an I believe 80 acre farm owned by the club.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 22, 2009, 04:43:20 PM
BTW, if anyone is interested, this is their website:

http://ccthreshers.users2.50megs.com/

Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 22, 2009, 05:27:31 PM
Del, Is that place near RCS?  I like all the trees for shade this time of the year.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Wireman on July 22, 2009, 05:51:39 PM
Cool link Dell. Thank ya very kindly.

Dad had ah big ol' Massy ya crunk it by hand. Seen Dad fly ah couple ah times. Sure wish I knew more about it. I know it ran on gas and had 6 spark plugs.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 22, 2009, 05:54:25 PM
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 22, 2009, 05:27:31 PM
Del, Is that place near RCS?  I like all the trees for shade this time of the year.

No this is NW of Lincoln a few miles on the way to Omaha, but a lot closer to Lincoln than Omaha.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 22, 2009, 05:59:22 PM
Quote from: Wireman on July 22, 2009, 05:51:39 PM
Cool link Dell. Thank ya very kindly.

Dad had ah big ol' Massy ya crunk it by hand. Seen Dad fly ah couple ah times. Sure wish I knew more about it. I know it ran on gas and had 6 spark plugs.

Well if I knew the model I could most likey find one like it among the red tractors.  Would have been before 1956 because that's when the merged with Ferguson and became Massey Ferguson.  Our big tractor is a 1957 MF-65:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/farm/TheBeasts.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Ozark Tracker on July 22, 2009, 06:05:58 PM
Jackie's dad worked for MF  when they came out with the small tractor diesels,  he said they took the little diesels around and had field days to deminstrate the diesels,  said the last thing they would always do is have him drive the diesel off into one of the drainage ditches or ponds till the water covered most of the motor and then back it back out.  said doing that sold a lot of tractors,  really impressed people.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Wireman on July 22, 2009, 06:12:16 PM
Aww. Heck, Now I ain't even sure ah that. It was RED. The back wheels were bout 5' tall. The front wheels were close together.
3speed gears.  He sure enjoyed playin' wid it.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 22, 2009, 06:13:57 PM
Yessir, That would do it for me!
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 22, 2009, 06:19:11 PM
OK, I'll get away from tractors this time, trucks and pick-ups instead, usefull on a farm.

Republic truck, from the teens:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009297.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009299.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009507.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009508.jpg)

Power Wagon Ambulance, retired from Broken Bow Newbrassky:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/a1.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/a2.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009545.jpg)

Ford:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/b-1.jpg)

31 Chevy:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/c-1.jpg)

30 Ford A:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/d-1.jpg)

32 Ford Dump Truck:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/e-1.jpg)

35 Ford Wrecker:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009116.jpg)

I'd a called this a 54 Chevy, but the sign said it was a 55 1st Series, so the other style must have been a mid-year intro:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009104.jpg)

Interesting, it had a powerglide:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009562.jpg)

51 Binder, 3/4 ton:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/f-1.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/g-1.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/h-1.jpg)

And my favorite, but the least useful, 29 Ford Model A Roadster Pick-up:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009118.jpg)






Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 22, 2009, 06:22:29 PM
Quote from: Wireman on July 22, 2009, 06:12:16 PM
Aww. Heck, Now I ain't even sure ah that. It was RED. The back wheels were bout 5' tall. The front wheels were close together.
3speed gears.  He sure enjoyed playin' wid it.

Well with the narrow front it was a row crop, since it was a 3 speed like our red beast then the thing had a 2 speed rear end.

Not that familer with the Massey's before the merger, did it look like our old red with the narrow front, ours of course has the wide.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 22, 2009, 06:27:17 PM
Ahh, the slip an slide power glide.  Nothin like a 2 speed fer fuel economy.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Arcey on July 22, 2009, 07:31:46 PM
My oh my......

75 years ago this would have been what I wanted. That's gorgeous.

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009118.jpg)

This is today:

(http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b6d804b3127ccece27f135bbc300000010O08AbMmjRq2cNAe3nwY/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D550/ry%3D400/)



Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 22, 2009, 07:33:45 PM
Quote from: Arcey on July 22, 2009, 07:31:46 PM
My oh my......

75 years ago this would have been what I wanted. That's gorgeous.

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009118.jpg)

This is today:

(http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b6d804b3127ccece27f135bbc300000010O08AbMmjRq2cNAe3nwY/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D550/ry%3D400/)





See nothing new under the sun, they had Sport pick-ups way back then. 
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 22, 2009, 07:48:00 PM
I liked the Wrecker and the Roadster Pickup.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 22, 2009, 07:54:03 PM
The old Poweglide will be 60 years old in 2010.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Ozark Tracker on July 22, 2009, 08:23:43 PM
I remember in 1967 we got a chevy pickup with a 327 and a turbohydromatic,  big 4 barrel and would smoke them tires, posi trac rear axle, sure enjoyed drivin it.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 22, 2009, 08:59:28 PM
Drove a 2 door Cutlass with a Powerglide in it.  Man, that thing would wind up ta the moon if ya put yer foot in it.  When it popped inta second ya was aimin fer Mars.  If ya was on the way ta church it was docile as a kitten.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Wireman on July 22, 2009, 10:20:03 PM
That republic truck is cool, cool, cool. Very Rare to see one, much less running.

The Chevy with the Curved glass rear cab panels was nice too.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 22, 2009, 10:34:15 PM
Quote from: Wireman on July 22, 2009, 10:20:03 PM
That republic truck is cool, cool, cool. Very Rare to see one, much less running.

The Chevy with the Curved glass rear cab panels was nice too.

Them guys and gals up there come up with some cool stuff. 

Wish I'd had a good camera when I was there cooking in 2002, some folks had a restored and running Stanley Steamer.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: litl rooster on July 22, 2009, 10:47:36 PM
Quote from: Wireman on July 22, 2009, 06:12:16 PM
Aww. Heck, Now I ain't even sure ah that. It was RED. The back wheels were bout 5' tall. The front wheels were close together.
3speed gears.  He sure enjoyed playin' wid it.


sounds like a Massie Harris 101 or 101 jr 0r 44
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 22, 2009, 11:34:33 PM
Did it look like this Wiry?

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Traction%20Engines/Luxemburg9-22-07MH101.jpg)

Almost had to have been, because with a quick research the 44 and the 101 jr were 4 bangers.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: litl rooster on July 22, 2009, 11:37:58 PM
Yer right about 4 bangers........I re read his post he mentioned the straight 6  Might of been a Silver Queen though
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 23, 2009, 12:01:55 AM
Quote from: litl rooster on July 22, 2009, 11:37:58 PM
Yer right about 4 bangers........I re read his post he mentioned the straight 6  Might of been a Silver Queen though

I think it was a red row crop. ;D
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 23, 2009, 04:34:29 AM
Jay Leno has got some Stanley Steamers in his car collection, which he drives.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: litl rooster on July 23, 2009, 06:29:05 AM
it could have been a Oliver painted red ::)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: litl rooster on July 23, 2009, 07:44:43 AM
Quote from: Delmonico on July 22, 2009, 03:04:38 PM
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009305.jpg)





worked on a Ranch out west had one of these, it work you the death gradin the road...
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 23, 2009, 08:32:04 AM
I didn't know AC made Tracks that big.  I hope the folks at RFD TV sent some folks out there to video so everyone could enjoy seeing all that antique machinery and vehicles.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Wireman on July 23, 2009, 10:21:16 AM
Quote from: Delmonico on July 22, 2009, 11:34:33 PM
Did it look like this Wiry?

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Traction%20Engines/Luxemburg9-22-07MH101.jpg)

Almost had to have been, because with a quick research the 44 and the 101 jr were 4 bangers.

LOL.... I was 7 er 8 when he had it.  Yer close Dell, The lay out is close. Rear Wheels were spokes. The Crank came out the front. The Exhaust came through the Cover over the motor.

I can see it in my minds eye, even though I have no clue as to what I was lookin' at.

I even remember Dad getting it started and warmed up, shut it down and take out ah plug and this Hose thing that would pump up the tires with the motor. Seems kinda dangerous, putting Gas in the Tires, don't think it made much difference cause they had Water in em' for traction.

I remember two brake pedals on the Left, the Clutch was on the Right and the Gas was like ah turn signal on the column.

Dang, the things you can remember about stuff... Still can't see the Name.   I see the letters, kinda gold leaf er sumpin'. 
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 23, 2009, 12:31:45 PM
Almost every make of tractor had a different paint scheme.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 23, 2009, 01:43:41 PM
Some of those also might have had spoke wheels or even steel.  Crank on that one would fit in the front.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Wireman on July 23, 2009, 03:18:29 PM
I wish I could remember more about it. My Dad sure enjoyed messin' with it. WE had ah good sized yard back then, take two nights after work to cut it. He even made me ah Riding Mower I could start by myself. Had ah Wind up starter on it. Perfect fer ah 5 yr old. I was cuttin' grass fer I was old enough fer school. The smell ah fresh cut grass is sure pleasin' right to this day. I still have three of Dad's old motors. One High wheel 32' Clinton, ah Reel type powered thing and ah Craftsman Boat motor. The things ya collect eh?
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 23, 2009, 07:23:22 PM
They have a steam powered saw mill up there, here is the power:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009058.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009425.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009427.jpg)

The mill it's self:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009436.jpg)

Saw dust auger:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009444.jpg)

Wagon load of Red Cedar planks:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009589.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 23, 2009, 07:46:38 PM
I love the smell of fresh cedar!
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Ozark Tracker on July 23, 2009, 08:16:00 PM
they have several little saw mills around here that saw nothing but cedar,  you talk about smelling good when you go down there,

there used to be a community called peanut north of us about 3 miles,  everybody moved away and it grew up into the forrest,  they say the only thing there is an old saw mill,   no roads in or out to it now.

the fella that cuts and bales our hay makes sorghum, he has the old rig that his granddad had, it is one that runs by mule power,  tommy has put on an electric motor now and still uses it every year,  he has about 3 acres of cane planted this year. everybody that knew his granddad says it was the best sorghum they ever had,  Tommy says when his granddad was cookin it, he wouldn't let anybody near, so nobody reallly knows exactly how he made it.  Tommy says his is not as good as his granddad. or dads.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Wireman on July 23, 2009, 08:25:49 PM
That is ah Crying shame OT.

Lots of the good secrets like that have disappeared.

Like how ta make ah chess pie.  ::)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Silver Creek Slim on July 23, 2009, 09:00:56 PM
Quote from: Delmonico on July 22, 2009, 03:04:38 PM
Did take these, Slim might like this TO-30:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009319.jpg)
A bit fancier than mine.

Slim
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 23, 2009, 10:11:07 PM
Del got all steamed up an even though he took almost 600 pitchers he missed a few...

(http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg133/leotanner/pedal.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Forty Rod on July 24, 2009, 05:20:22 PM
Quote from: Wireman on July 23, 2009, 08:25:49 PM
That is ah Crying shame OT.

Lots of the good secrets like that have disappeared.

Like how ta make ah chess pie.  ::)

Talk to Mo Lasses.   ;D
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 24, 2009, 05:34:58 PM
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on July 23, 2009, 08:16:00 PM
.

the fella that cuts and bales our hay makes sorghum, he has the old rig that his granddad had, it is one that runs by mule power,  tommy has put on an electric motor now and still uses it every year,  he has about 3 acres of cane planted this year. everybody that knew his granddad says it was the best sorghum they ever had,  Tommy says when his granddad was cookin it, he wouldn't let anybody near, so nobody reallly knows exactly how he made it.  Tommy says his is not as good as his granddad. or dads.

These folks make a mighty fine product, pictures are from another event in the fall of 2006:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Filley/PICT0845.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Filley/Filley2008.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Filley/MakingSorgumMollasses-1.jpg)

Quote from: Wireman on July 23, 2009, 08:25:49 PM

Lots of the good secrets like that have disappeared.

Like how ta make ah chess pie.  ::)

Ya want me to search my 19th century cook boooks and scan ya some recipes?  Course the rest is up to you. ;)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Ozark Tracker on July 24, 2009, 05:47:09 PM
that looks like Tommy's press except his has been rigged to an electric motor,   he has all the stainless buckets and cookers,  he said his Dad had at one time a copper cooker,  said it was a hugh pot, but it burned out before Tommy got the press,
his sorghum is good, but he says his Granddad's was better.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 24, 2009, 05:59:45 PM
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on July 24, 2009, 05:47:09 PM
that looks like Tommy's press except his has been rigged to an electric motor,   he has all the stainless buckets and cookers,  he said his Dad had at one time a copper cooker,  said it was a hugh pot, but it burned out before Tommy got the press,
his sorghum is good, but he says his Granddad's was better.

The secret more than likely is the copper kettle.  This one is not these folks, but belongs to the Filley barn, as well as the cooker and the stove, the just bring the stalks.  The set-up they have at home is much bigger.  But the horse runs it at home also.  they could put a 'lectric motor on it, but they don't have no place at home to plug it in. ;D

Not Amish, just folks who like to live the simple life.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Wireman on July 24, 2009, 06:30:14 PM
Wars dare gonnah be ah pitcher in dat last post Dell?
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 24, 2009, 06:32:22 PM
Quote from: Wireman on July 24, 2009, 06:30:14 PM
Wars dare gonnah be ah pitcher in dat last post Dell?

Nope, don't have any of their home set-up, just the above one they do at Filley.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 24, 2009, 06:39:16 PM
Del, It looks a little cool up there. That Belgian looks like he's got his winter coat. It would be a cool change from 90-100 days temps around here.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 24, 2009, 06:40:39 PM
Those pictures were in mid Oct. ;D

Got in the upper 90's here today, looks like a one day deal though and back around 80 for a week or so.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 24, 2009, 06:46:24 PM
It otta be nice by Oct. for the Muster. I sent my registration into Jerry this week. I'll celebrate my 62nd birthday on the 13th of Oct. The Muster will be my Birthday present to myself. I'm gonna try and bring some extra money to get me a Frock Coat.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Ozark Tracker on July 24, 2009, 06:57:39 PM
Quote from: Delmonico on July 24, 2009, 05:59:45 PM
The secret more than likely is the copper kettle.  This one is not these folks, but belongs to the Filley barn, as well as the cooker and the stove, the just bring the stalks.  The set-up they have at home is much bigger.  But the horse runs it at home also.  they could put a 'lectric motor on it, but they don't have no place at home to plug it in. ;D

Not Amish, just folks who like to live the simple life.
Quote from: Delmonico on July 24, 2009, 05:59:45 PM
The secret more than likely is the copper kettle.  This one is not these folks, but belongs to the Filley barn, as well as the cooker and the stove, the just bring the stalks.  The set-up they have at home is much bigger.  But the horse runs it at home also.  they could put a 'lectric motor on it, but they don't have no place at home to plug it in. ;D

Not Amish, just folks who like to live the simple life.


ya know that's kinda what Tommy and Levi think also,   Levi says he remembers when he was just a kid, Tommy's Granddad travelin around this part of the country and sitting up at different places and making sorghum for people, where they had grown cane.  he says it was a community event,

Tommy says when they burned out the copper pot that somebody came by and his granddad sold the old pot for $10,   Tommy always has his eyes out for another copper pot, but he hasn't found what he wants yet.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 24, 2009, 06:59:45 PM
Don't understand it, but some things work better in copper, like merigune.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 25, 2009, 06:17:28 AM
Del, When the word merigune, I think about cream pies,  especially banana or coconut.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 25, 2009, 07:35:11 AM
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 25, 2009, 06:17:28 AM
Del, When the word merigune, I think about cream pies,  especially banana or coconut.

Yep and it whios up much better in a copper bowl, something to do with ions. ::)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Silver Creek Slim on July 25, 2009, 09:39:22 AM
Quote from: Delmonico on July 25, 2009, 07:35:11 AM
Yep and it whios up much better in a copper bowl, something to do with ions. ::)
(http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2004/07/15/203990.1-lg.jpg)
??? ??? ???

Slim
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 25, 2009, 09:41:52 AM
Quote from: Silver Creek Slim on July 25, 2009, 09:39:22 AM
(http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2004/07/15/203990.1-lg.jpg)
??? ??? ???

Slim

http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/topic,26998.0.html

Slim, cars are just like hat styles, you can give them a name and it don't mean poop. ::)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Silver Creek Slim on July 25, 2009, 09:46:11 AM
Quote from: Delmonico on July 25, 2009, 09:41:52 AM
http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/topic,26998.0.html

Slim, cars are just like hat styles, you can give them a name and it don't mean poop. ::)
That's fer sure.

Slim
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Wireman on July 25, 2009, 10:52:50 AM
I been know ta give cars and other inanimate objects names.


Just none that I can say in here. Wouldn't wanna offend Scarlett er Sleepy dun't cha know.....  :D
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Forty Rod on July 25, 2009, 11:36:27 AM
Quote from: Silver Creek Slim on July 25, 2009, 09:39:22 AM
(http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2004/07/15/203990.1-lg.jpg)
??? ??? ???

Slim

Why you got a picture of my wife's car, and why is it blue?

And why does it have that carrying handle thing on the back?
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Silver Creek Slim on July 25, 2009, 02:24:03 PM
Quote from: Forty Rod on July 25, 2009, 11:36:27 AM
Why you got a picture of my wife's car, and why is it blue?

And why does it have that carrying handle thing on the back?
What color do you want it to be?

Slim
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 25, 2009, 02:40:35 PM
I named all ma motosickles.  Atchaly they had two names.  The nice one an the one fer when they wouldn't start. 
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Forty Rod on July 25, 2009, 03:53:49 PM
Quote from: Silver Creek Slim on July 25, 2009, 02:24:03 PM
What color do you want it to be?

Slim

Last time I looked in the garage it was a metallic dark gray.   Kinda used to that color.  ::)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Silver Creek Slim on July 25, 2009, 08:36:37 PM
Quote from: Forty Rod on July 25, 2009, 03:53:49 PM
Last time I looked in the garage it was a metallic dark gray.   Kinda used to that color.  ::)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Ion1.jpg)
Like this?

Slim
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Wireman on July 25, 2009, 09:44:22 PM
Quote from: Forty Rod on July 25, 2009, 11:36:27 AM
Why you got a picture of my wife's car, and why is it blue?

And why does it have that carrying handle thing on the back?

It's cold out, that's why it's Blue.....

The Handle is so if she can't find ah parking place..... she has an easy way to pick it up and put it in her Pocket Book.

Never fergit where she parks that way, petty smart.  ;)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 25, 2009, 11:52:33 PM
Ol Roger Penske is planning on buying Saturn from GM, I'm still wondering what he's gonna do with it.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Wireman on July 26, 2009, 12:42:13 AM
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 25, 2009, 11:52:33 PM
Ol Roger Penske is planning on buying Saturn from GM, I'm still wondering what he's gonna do with it.

Make More Money.....

He has the rights to Smart Cars too. I'd never drive one ah them.  ::)

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090605-706741.html (http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090605-706741.html)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Forty Rod on July 26, 2009, 01:05:33 AM
Quote from: Silver Creek Slim on July 25, 2009, 08:36:37 PM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Ion1.jpg)
Like this?

Slim

Okay, now take that stupid push bar off the back and it's nearly perfect.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 26, 2009, 02:22:26 AM
OK, I have my computor up and running at speed again, so now back to Camp Creek:

Considerin' the last few posts, this may be what to do next, silage. ;D

Some of the guys who show up there specialize, this guy had quite a collection of silage cutters, don't know how many specialize in them but he is said to have one of the biggest collections in the world. ;)

This one was running on a hit and miss:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/a-1.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/b-2.jpg)

A hand powered one:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/c-2.jpg)

This one was belted to a smaller steel wheel popper, think it was a B:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/d-2.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/e-2.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/f-2.jpg)



This guy sure had a lot of them:
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/g-2.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/h-2.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/i-1.jpg)







Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 26, 2009, 02:35:57 AM
Along the same lines, I should have walked closer to get this, quite a herd of hand crank corn shellers:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009582.jpg)

Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 26, 2009, 07:17:21 PM
Colleen has a cousin who does farm sales as an auctioneer. He comes across old  farm equipment and machinery all the time.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 26, 2009, 07:21:05 PM
Quote from: Texas Lawdog on July 26, 2009, 07:17:21 PM
Colleen has a cousin who does farm sales as an auctioneer. He comes across old  farm equipment and machinery all the time.

Un-restored a lot of the stuff like the silage cutters and corn shellers don't bring much, so a person can build a collection at a reasonable price if he has some restore skills.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 26, 2009, 07:26:42 PM
If we had a place in the country with a machinery barn, I would like to "tinker" with an old tractor and maybe an old truck or pickup.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 27, 2009, 10:28:44 AM
Were a few cars there by their old time gas station:

This Brush was about 1903 or 04, can't remember:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009103.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009568.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009570.jpg)

A Nash Metropolitan:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/a-2.jpg)

56 DeSoto:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/b-3.jpg)

36 Olds:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/c-3.jpg)

T Roadster the sawmill guys used for running erronds"

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/d-3.jpg)

And a 51 Harley for Will:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/z.jpg)

Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 27, 2009, 01:49:59 PM
OK, back to coal oil tractors, a couple of Hart Parr's, simialr except for size:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/a-3.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/b-4.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/c-4.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/d-4.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/e-3.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/f-3.jpg)

And the instructions on the fender is interesting and kida good advice: ;D

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/g-3.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 27, 2009, 01:54:20 PM
That Harly is an 80 ci flathead UL model.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 27, 2009, 01:56:15 PM
An Avery:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009354.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009360.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009362.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009365.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009367.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 27, 2009, 01:58:13 PM
Del, I liked the Nash Metro and the De Soto. I just love old cars and enjoy being a "gearhead".
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 27, 2009, 02:01:42 PM
Quote from: Leo Tanner on July 27, 2009, 01:54:20 PM
That Harly is an 80 ci flathead UL model.

Don't know that much about old Harley's, but look at this picture, ain't that some sort of valve cover to the side?

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009112.jpg)

And don't the flathead/L-head have the plug in the center?
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Arcey on July 27, 2009, 02:10:53 PM
Be nice if someone restores the Nash before it rots away.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 27, 2009, 02:14:12 PM
Yep, It looks like the salt on the roads in wintery Neb. has taken it's toll.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 27, 2009, 02:26:14 PM
Quote from: Arcey on July 27, 2009, 02:10:53 PM
Be nice if someone restores the Nash before it rots away.

The owner had just bought it and that is in the plans.  Sad thing is a lot of them did rust away.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 27, 2009, 02:32:42 PM
Some more of the Oil Pull's:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009337.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009339.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009340.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009341.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009343.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009346.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009347.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009348.jpg)

They smoke a bit when they fire up till they get going:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009410.jpg)

You might notice that a lot of the big steel wheel ones have rubber tread bolted on, this is for when they are in parades on pavement, them big heavy things can sure tear up a street with out them.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Four-Eyed Buck on July 27, 2009, 02:43:25 PM
Believe them Metropolitans were made in Japan and shipped over. Fenders and stuff still had more steel in them than most of today's cars. that's why it ain't rusted completely away yet. ::)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 27, 2009, 02:49:07 PM
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on July 27, 2009, 02:43:25 PM
Believe them Metropolitans were made in Japan and shipped over. Fenders and stuff still had more steel in them than most of today's cars. that's why it ain't rusted completely away yet. ::)

The car was made in England.  Fisher & Ludlow build the body, Austin built the running gear and did the final assembly.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 27, 2009, 03:03:27 PM
A couple Aultman Taylors:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009374.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009377.jpg)

This one was their feature tractor this year and was on the flyers and such:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009401.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009402.jpg)

The artwork was cool, did not take well:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009404.jpg)

A Waterloo Boy, John Deere called their early tractors that:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/a-4.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/b-5.jpg)

An Avery:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/c-5.jpg)

An Allis Chalmers:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/d-5.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 27, 2009, 04:46:16 PM
Well I got egg on ma face.  Closer look shows that ta be an FL panhead.  OHV motor, they came in 61 an 74 inch.  Looks like the guy got a box of parts an put it tagerther with aftermarket stuff ta make it 100%.  Aint nothin wrong with that, them things is gettin scarce.  Either way I do stand corrected.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 27, 2009, 05:43:40 PM
Guy was havin' a bit of trouble with this unrestored Case also:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/a-5.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/c-6.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/d-6.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/h-3.jpg)

But he got it to fire:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/z-1.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 27, 2009, 06:06:33 PM
Learned something new a while back, the first balers were for square bales, but you had to bring the hay/straw to them.  Then for a long time the pull types did round ones.  They had a stationary one running:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/a-6.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/b-6.jpg)

The boards are inserted between the balse and then the wire is inserted between the bales:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/c-7.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/d-7.jpg)

The hay/straw is forked in and a piston pushes it forward:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/e-4.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/g-4.jpg)

And on this cycle, that's when everything went "haywire."

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/h-4.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/i-2.jpg)

Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Ozark Tracker on July 27, 2009, 06:29:57 PM
I can remember when I was 10 or so, a friend I'd go to see, his dad had an old baler that they hauled hay to and dumped it in and his dad would sit on the back where the hay was formed and  it took 2 men to pull the wire through and tie the hay,  it went pretty slow but they would sit there all day and tie hay.  wasn't long he started hiring his hay baled, we hauled a lot of it for him.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 27, 2009, 06:41:15 PM
Almost done here.

Was making one last round and saw this:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009496.jpg)

Them things take a bit more work to keep running than modern equipment:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009497.jpg)

And are a bit more dirty than a moder air conditioned cab:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009502.jpg)

Thise one had to be shut down because it plugged up:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009503.jpg)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 27, 2009, 06:45:13 PM
Was very dusty headin' to the pavement and a few hoopers hit the windshield:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009591.jpg)

When I got there, one of the local guys was also headin' home.

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009594.jpg)

That's pretty much it for pictures, told ya I took a lot of them.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 27, 2009, 07:06:02 PM
Quote from: Delmonico on July 27, 2009, 06:45:13 PM
Was very dusty headin' to the pavement and a few hoopers hit the windshield:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Camp%20Creek/5152009591.jpg)

When I got there, one of the local guys was also headin' home.

Guys who make barrels hit yer windshield?  Hope they was ok. 
All kiddin aside it was a great series of photos, thanks fer sharin.  It's really great ta see all that an know folks out there still care ta keep it goin.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 27, 2009, 07:09:44 PM
You mean coopers? :-\

These were grass-hoopers. ;)

Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 27, 2009, 07:21:01 PM
Well see, ya had a hooper an a cooper.  They was both required in the process. 
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Ranch 13 on July 27, 2009, 07:25:49 PM
 Del thanks for sharing all those pictures.
Lotta neat stuff from the days gone by. :)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 27, 2009, 07:28:32 PM
Glad to do it, I love seeing folks keep our history alive, see anything you recononized? ;)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Ranch 13 on July 27, 2009, 10:39:51 PM
 ;D Well I might a saw some of that stuff....... :P
Riding the binder counting bundles , dumping the basket then come back later and shock them, then come back later a pitch those shocks on a wagon, then............
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 27, 2009, 10:42:09 PM
Quote from: Ranch 13 on July 27, 2009, 10:39:51 PM
;D Well I might a saw some of that stuff....... :P
Riding the binder counting bundles , dumping the basket then come back later and shock them, then come back later a pitch those shocks on a wagon, then............

I didn't really get those pictures, they do most of that on Friday and Sat, they tend to do plowing demos Sat afternoon and Sun.

Should next year, planning on setting up there on Friday down by the summer kitchen.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Ranch 13 on July 27, 2009, 10:51:39 PM
 Well it was sort a fun riding the binder. But then there were always the sweatbees, and flying ants, but then there was the cool drink of water from the flax water bag hanging off the front of the tractor radiator, or swinging in the shade of the wagon.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 28, 2009, 12:04:35 AM
I never got to enjoy the modern conviences of farming. I didn't get to drive a tractor with a cab till was in college in the late 60s. I was a lot younger and in a lot better shape. It would be tough on me now.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Ozark Tracker on July 28, 2009, 10:58:02 AM
Tex, I think everythings harder on us now.  ;D  I know iI'll get out and work pretty steady all day and I'll pay for it towmorrow,  it'll take me a while to get limbered up in the morning.
used to work hard all day and coon hunt all night and come back in from coon huntin and climb right back up on the tractor and drive it again all day.    wouldn't even want to attempt that now days.
but I still get out and work every day, just not quite as intense about it as I used to be. ;)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Four-Eyed Buck on July 28, 2009, 11:01:04 AM
Amen, brother OT ;D 8)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Forty Rod on July 28, 2009, 11:53:58 AM
One of the guys at our local ACE Hardware has two Metropolitans.  One is a Nash, the other is an AMC.  Both are restored and he drives the Nash to and from work every day.  It's red and white, the AMC is black and white.  The owner is 6'2" and weighs about 165 pounds.  It's fun to watch him get in or out, kinda like an animated Erector set.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 28, 2009, 12:27:09 PM
Back in 2006 there was a National Metropolitan meet in Lincoln, there were herds of them all over town, about 350 showed up.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Four-Eyed Buck on July 28, 2009, 12:58:59 PM
I stand corrected on the country of origin for the Metropolitans.............Buck ::) 8)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 28, 2009, 01:44:00 PM
This has ta be done...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4W7oZBhAJg
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 28, 2009, 04:00:49 PM
Leo, Did you notice the Rambler had Texas License plates on it, I believe the tags are 63, the Inspection sticker is a 62. Back then they put the inspection sticker on the right side of the windshield, now it's on the drivers' side.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 28, 2009, 04:43:52 PM
Yeah, I caught that.  There were some good motor shots in that one too. 
I can't look at a Nash without hearin that song in ma head. 
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 28, 2009, 05:25:28 PM
Yeah but that car in the video is not a Nash, it's a 61-63 AMC American, btw it would have a flat-head six in it. ;)

Also known as a Rambelr American.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 28, 2009, 05:30:28 PM
Well if I at least got that song stuck in yer head my work here is finished.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 28, 2009, 05:39:34 PM
Nope, didn't work, btw, a 1950 Nash Rambler convertable looks like this:

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Cars/1950NashRamblerCustomConvRear.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Cars/1950NashRamblerConvertibleLandau-2.jpg)

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/Cars/1950Nash-Rambler.jpg)

And came in at least 3 colors. ;D
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 28, 2009, 05:51:13 PM
The Rambler dealership in Amarillo called itself "The Home of the Teeny Weeny Gasburner"!
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Four-Eyed Buck on July 28, 2009, 06:55:52 PM
Lady friend of our family had an American that she went up to the factory to pick up, a '59 if memory serves. 6 stick, replaced a '53 Studebaker that she called Nellie Belle.............Buck ::) :o 8)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 29, 2009, 09:46:40 AM
I had a extradition trip to South Bend, Indiana one time. I took a tour of the old Studebaker plant which is now a Museum. The got a bunch of cars and also a collection of Studebaker Bros. wagons (Conestoga). I really enjoyed it. We had a Studebaker dealership till about 62 or 63. One of my Dad's friends put a Chevy V8 in a 56 Champion. I always wanted a Silver Hawk, a Golden Hawk, and an Avanti.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Wireman on July 29, 2009, 11:02:09 AM
Avanti's were cool. I saw a pristine one when I was at Puke Unisparsity. The Wife of the long ago President had ah Big House right on campus. We did the maintenance on it. He obviously had some really good perks.

I'd take ah Rambler over ah Smart Car! (http://www.smartusa.com/smart-fortwo-passion-cabriolet.aspx?model=passion_cabriolet)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 29, 2009, 11:30:32 AM
I couldn't have a "Smart Car", My 6'3'' 350 body would not fit in one.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Arcey on July 29, 2009, 12:36:10 PM
My 5'10" 210 ain't fittin' either cuz I ain't gettin' in one.

Have to admit we're seein' more of 'em. The folks what own the Toyota store was sellin' 'em outtah the 'Miscellaneous' store. They've taken over a bulidin' from a defunct furniture store ta sell 'em outtah now. Think they have the Mini-Coopers in there too.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 29, 2009, 12:39:57 PM
Freind has one, but he's a full blowed Conservative Yuppie. (yep a bit strange)  At his Dad's funeral last yer he set the seat all the way back and told me to take it for a spin, 6' 1 1'2" and 230 don't fit either.  Told him we could get the pall-bears to toss it in the back of my pick-up and he could ride back to the church with me. ;)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 29, 2009, 01:19:03 PM
Get two of them and then you would have a pair of skates!
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Arcey on July 29, 2009, 01:47:35 PM
A car lot/junk yard in Ivor is sellin' these things.

http://www.wildfiremotors.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=387&category_id=26&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=75

I'd drive it for errands 'n such. The tailgate 'n sides fold down to make a flat bed. Just way too expensive for a toy.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Wireman on July 29, 2009, 01:54:14 PM
More junk from China.....

Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on July 29, 2009, 01:59:58 PM
Found this lookin' Wiki, but interestin'.

Wildfire Motors is a company based in Steubenville, Ohio, specializing in the sales of scooters, motorcycles, ATVs and electric vehicles. The vehicles are manufactured in China and are distributed throughout the United States.

This distributor has ten cases under review with the Ohio Attorney General and 30 with the Better Business Bureau

Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Wireman on July 29, 2009, 02:09:18 PM
I was lookin at ah Import thang with the Chinese for a Motorcycle front and a Truck rear end and motorized rickshaws. The truck part was just like the pitcher Arcey had. Any whoo, after investigation, they was junk. So... I'm still lookin fer that spetchel sumpin' that everbody wants and needs ta sell.

Yep! Primers are out too. Ya ever seen ah Chinese primer? At's whut I thought.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Arcey on July 29, 2009, 02:15:47 PM
What I meant by too expensive for a toy. Ya gottah figger it as disposable when it breaks.

Then again, that's the way I look at Ford, GM 'n Chrysler......
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on July 29, 2009, 02:34:40 PM
Harley Davidson made the Servicar from 45 ta 76.  Yer truck bed with two wheels under it an a motorcycle front end.  Meter maids used em fer ages.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Forty Rod on July 29, 2009, 03:23:50 PM
Quote from: Arcey on July 29, 2009, 01:47:35 PM
A car lot/junk yard in Ivor is sellin' these things.

http://www.wildfiremotors.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=387&category_id=26&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=75

I'd drive it for errands 'n such. The tailgate 'n sides fold down to make a flat bed. Just way too expensive for a toy.


I tried to bring a Mitsubishi three wheel pick up back from japan in '74 and was told they weren't legal in the US of A.  Three years laer I was driving one around the McDonnell Douglas plant as a on-site utility vehicle.  Had some little four wheelers, too.  Looked a lot like this beastie.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 30, 2009, 02:37:26 AM
They used to have some of them over at the General Dynamics plant in Fort Worth to run parts in from one bldg. to another.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Ozark Tracker on July 30, 2009, 04:51:05 PM
They have a manufacturing plant over the line in Oklahoma just over from Ft. Smith,

look like they'd be fun to have,, I know they were looking for people to open dealerships this last spring.

http://www.tigertruck.com/
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Ozark Tracker on July 30, 2009, 04:56:31 PM
coupla weeks ago, we saw several semi loads of em going down I-40, saw a article where they were takin em to Norfolk, VA  puttin em on a ship for somewhere,   can't remember where now.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Wireman on July 30, 2009, 06:28:36 PM
Those are cool little trucks.

Be good to have in City environs, or around ah big plant, universities ...


Hmmm.....


::)
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on July 30, 2009, 07:23:39 PM
OT, You need the crew cab model so all the dogs can ride.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: MontanaSlick on November 09, 2009, 11:03:38 PM
Del, thanks fer the pix, belive it or not, I'm old enough to remember these machines back in the Nebraska's farm land.

Gran Pa Orson had 2 sections he homesteded just north of Thedford, GranPa Wilson homesteded in Pierce right after the Civil war, took 3 yrs. to get a corn crop.
Just some history fer thought.

MS
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on November 10, 2009, 05:59:55 AM
Del's got a bunch of those old farming pictures.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: delmar on November 10, 2009, 09:10:53 AM
Quote from: Ozark Tracker on July 19, 2009, 08:44:29 PM
I remember Grandma having a washin machine like that one,  we'd push it out of the garage on wash day if it was warm enough,  Grandma would start a little fire burning on the ground with some paper and small limbs,  she'd stick 2  or 3  spark plugs in the fire to warm em up,  take her gloves when they was hot and put it in the motor and pull it to start,  if it didn't start easy, she'd change out to another plug, till one started.
I used to have a lawnmower that started really hard when it was cool. I never considered that warming just the spark plug would help.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on November 10, 2009, 10:13:31 AM
I never thought of that. The NASCAR teams have heaters to warm the fluids in the cars before the race starts.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Leo Tanner on November 10, 2009, 12:50:22 PM
My old buddy Charlie uses a cigarette lighter when a two stroke is bein fussy.  We clean the plug an then he holds the flame up to the electrode and the tool starts right up if ya get the plug in bafore it cools down.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Delmonico on November 10, 2009, 05:11:59 PM
Quote from: MontanaSlick on November 09, 2009, 11:03:38 PM
Del, thanks fer the pix, belive it or not, I'm old enough to remember these machines back in the Nebraska's farm land.

Gran Pa Orson had 2 sections he homesteded just north of Thedford, GranPa Wilson homesteded in Pierce right after the Civil war, took 3 yrs. to get a corn crop.
Just some history fer thought.

MS

Cool, I know both area's.
Title: Re: OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines
Post by: Texas Lawdog on November 10, 2009, 08:19:55 PM
Del, I'm gonna have to come up there when they're threshing with the steam engines sometime.