90 Years Ago! Pulling Tree Stumps With Steam Engine - Classic Tractor Fever

[@XrayxRich]

Farming and running a steam tractor in a suit and tie puts a whole new meaning to "gentleman" farmer.

[@Nudnik1]

That's a NYC farmer. Green Acres

[@joehovanec1985]

Mr. Douglas agrees with you.

[@time1800]

Nothing like the good old days when the girls got excited about pulling your stump!

[@pepstrebeck938]

That was filmed at the corner of Ford Road and Greenfield in Dearborn, Michigan at the birthplace of Henry Ford. At the start of the video (0:08 to 0:15) that his Henry and his son Edsel on the right. This would have had to have been filmed sometime between 1919 and 1944. In 1919 Henry Ford restored the home when it needed to be moved about 200 yards due to road improvements, and in 1944 the home was moved to Greenfield Village. The high tension lines still run down the median of Greenfield Road (North-South) today.

[@Dsdcain]

I don't know about you, but I always get dressed in my Sunday best to go stump pulling out in the field. Very fun video guys. Keep those classic machines rolling on this channel. *:-)*

[@joneilkimball]

The driver is kenny chesneys grandpa. This is the music video for his song "she thinks my steam traction engine is hotsy totsy".

[@7viewerlogic670]

LoL

[@rossrich2517]

🤣

[@ileenmcminn2062]

now days we add wheel weights for traction, back then you added three sisters!

[@stephenhorton4098]

Now that's funny, 🤣🤪🤣

[@brianandlindafairchild1237]

Thank God the chain didn't break and snap back! Neat video.

[@ryanwoodbury5751]

The good ole days when you farmed in a three piece suit and tie

[@TimHackettAustralia]

The same good ole days when they didn’t take into account how dangerous pulling tree stumps can be if something goes wrong

[@PU238Wave]

A year or so ago I was driving with my mother in the farming community that my mom grew up in during the 1930's. She was telling me about the farm families she knew and life back then. We passed a John Deere tractor coming out of a field and the guy driving it had a unkept beard and wearing blue jeans and an tee shirt. She remarked that back in her day the guy would not have been dressed like that.

[@rossrich2517]

:D

[@rotunda57]

The engineer is a relation to Oliver Wendel Douglas.

[@duckslayer92]

Boy with those three pretty ladies in tow it's safe to say stumps wasn't all he was pulling that day 😉

[@josephlannert969]

Nothing but RAW TORQUE...and some pretty ladies!

[@leepatton1180]

Tractor guy always gets the girls

[@Artines999]

Driver: I finally did it. Tractor: I did it, not you :)

[@JSAC66]

If that chain had snapped back, the injuries could’ve been fatal. 😱

[@russianacorns8080]

Yeah lol not with that size of chain you’d need 10-15 of these tractors to break that chain and even then there’s no way a stump even twice that big would’ve stood up to that

[@machinesandthings9641]

The stump would break in half before that chain popped.

[@earlelkins9086]

Ya.. not.. that chain, was made in the USA.

[@arnoldaltjr.2099]

When a chain breaks it goes " limp" When a cable breaks it flies all over.

[@stephenhorton4098]

Cant live in a closet. Some risks must be taken, that's life. A car airbag accidentally going off can be fatal. Just saying..!

[@mxadema]

ah yes, the old “taking my girls on a tractor ride, gonna pull stump” Modern days rapper would make money with that.

[@ponypwr]

Modern day rappers couldnt operate a tractor.... probably never even seen one up close.

[@scooter2kool173]

Guys pimp game is strong with that many whistles.

[@cub1009]

Sad thing is that area is probably a shopping center by now.

[@citroendrivervorever1148]

Das Video hat was ganz spezielles 👍 Liegt vielleicht auch an der zeitgenössischen Musik .🙂🤩 und natürlich an dem Typen der die Dampfmaschine im Sonntagsanzug fährt , und seinen 3 Hühnern zeigt , was er und sein Maschinchen so kann 🤣

[@eliotreader8220]

i like how the traction engine is fitted with three steam whistles could any body give any information on what she is?

[@marciano2506]

Parabéns pelo belíssimo trabalho. Acompanho seu canal aqui do Brasil. Forte Abraço

[@timheasley612]

I just love the cell tower in the back ground lol 😂

[@gordbaker896]

Looks to be a deep hole oil well gantry.

[@machinesandthings9641]

Ah yes, the old windmill phone towers

[@chuckoaks6756]

Not to mention the 3 phase power transmittion line on steel.

[@jimtwisted1984]

That kind of wtecks it .

[@mrpotatoheadracing]

What cell tower?

[@dwightl5863]

I'm assuming this must have been a promotional or sales film. Seems out of place to be pulling stumps with three good looking gals and the farmer in a vest and tie.

[@JohnWayneCheeseburger]

Agreed

[@matttravers5764]

Even if this was actually 100 years ago, there were plenty of power lines around in the 1920's. But I agree this was probably the 40's.

[@chrishayden7016]

Movies had sound beginning around 1929. That whistle would've sounded fine. And at the very beginning, it looked like Henry Ford, maybe before he began building his own tractors.

[@sagecrockett693]

the bus driving down the road looked like a 1930s

[@ironcladranchandforge7292]

Judging from the style of dress and hair style, I'm positive this is from the early 1930's. Women didn't dress like this pre 1920 for sure, and the style of clothing and hair doesn't fit with the "flapper" era of the late 1920's. This is definitely post 1930 but probably pre 1940.

[@derweibhai]

Tractor ballast.........

[@arnoldaltjr.2099]

A chain cannot store energy, but a cable can. If you got hit in the back of neck with a chain that broke it was because it was"thrown"in your direction by the limb that it was pulling on when it broke. By it's self it is nearly harmless. The easiest way to get hurt by a broken chain is to trip over it when you get off the tractor.

[@donnebes9421]

I guess the rear end of that tractor is were the phrase “farmers porch” comes from.

[@tonyloechte9994]

Imagine if the chain flew off one of the poor girls would have copped it.

[@gabbyhaze5857]

Yeah, not too bright and they have no excuse, not a blonde among them.

[@ponypwr]

These young lady's think his tractors sexy. Alot of plowing was done in the following weeks to come....

[@gordbaker896]

Nice bounce! Very dangerous

[@alexthomas637]

🚜🚜👍

[@Clunk49]

Left hand steering, is that a Farquhar?

[@boomerso0ner]

Looks like a 7 1/2 x 9 frick but i could be wrong

[@mjlmbl]

@ 4:24 looks like they had plenty of high tension power lines and microwave antennas back then .

[@earlelkins9086]

Look closer.. it's a windmill

[@hisexcellencytrump855]

No one's going to be smiling if chain broke

[@logantill6168]

Green acres

[@martingardener90]

Was he pulling stumps - or Girls!

[@beeablessingfarms2660]

That is a frick I believe I think it might be a 8 1/2 aka 40 hp

[@melchristian8876]

👍👍💯💯🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@joemueth4077]

Lucky fella knows how to get all the women.

[@kevinhoffman8214]

boy the powerlines are really big for 100 yrs ago :)

[@arnoldaltjr.2099]

When I was a kid in the 50's I helped our very old neighbor to "grub" stumps with a large Case steam tractor. This guy has too small of a tractor, He should move around the stump pulling from different directions, and anyone with any kind of knowledge of the "fulcrum and lever" would have known to cut the tree much higher.

[@Primerk5]

pretty sure that isn't 100 years ago based on the attire being worn as well as the engine being setup more for parade duty. You wouldn't find multiple whistles or a platform like that on a working engine 100 years back, much less of video this quality.

[@bsimpson6204]

I’d say 1940 ish

[@michaelcates9042]

i agree, looks 40ish. i think what some people are calling a cell phone/ microwave tower (not the windmill) is actually some type of warning/ air raid siren. Look closely, the 'antenna' is square not round.

[@woloszyk3]

🤭🤭🤭😛

[@briandaves2297]

1:33 she spit ? Not very lady like. Lol

[@bextar6365]

So rare not fat / obese girls back then ...The good old days !

[@patriot4258]

All you see now is mostly fat ladies and not just on the farm

[@mnmountainman9343]

Whould be better with the sound of the steam engine

[@lorenrasmussen338]

He looks too clean to be operating a tractor….. steam or whatever. Chains, mud, coal, and water don’t let you be that clean. He was not dressed for the occasion!

[@genekarmann2498]

Not very bright! Should have went around to the other side once it was tipped over to pull roots from other side

[@RomeKG471]

Those stumps tip out like they were previously dug out and reburied for the film. Unless thats some loose sandy loam.

[@pauljanssen2624]

Would have been more impressive the teach one of the ladies how to operate the tractor or each one gets learned how to pull the tree stump out of the ground with his Newfound Miracle steam tractor power

[@kennethnevel3263]

Parade tractor , no water tank or coal bin on platform and 3 whisels . No way to add water to boiler , not a working field tractor . Seen big truck in back ground go by , trailer 40 to 50 feet long , twice as long as in the past at this time. Good try , but no cigar .