Weighing TONS! 8 Antique Prairie Tractors Selling On Mehling Collection Auction

[@a41capt]

A revolutionary concept. Farmer’s could concentrate on feeding the world rather than several teams of animals… amazing technological advancement for the benefit of all mankind!

[@christinephillips4424]

A full oil can was your best friend for sure.

[@mikewasfaret9563]

Those old tractors are designed under the philosophy of "give me a long enough lever. I can move the world ".

[@1970bosshemi]

This is 100% accurate. it’ll do anything, it just won’t do it fast

[@phillipriedell829]

Xxx

[@mehere7514]

Imagine all the trial an error that went into these,but determination succeeded,

[@CaseySimpsonJD]

A good way to teach high school kids history using farming techniques, and college engineering students engineering, would be to have them visit these working examples.

[@davidmann2988]

Love the ol Fairbanks. You can just about count between the engine strokes. Some of those tractors running sound like music.

[@hunterprowsemrereviews9141]

They had efficient power figured out over 100 years ago. Nowadays seems like efficient power is gobbled up by computers and sensors on a tractor.

[@paulorchard7960]

Everything now has built in redundancy, any manufacturer now knows that if you build to last the customer will never buy another, that’s not smart business!

[@davidmann2988]

Can’t even imagine the knowledge and skill set to even run one of those let alone work on them.

[@bradpenrose9936]

Fantastic machines

[@rickyadams2880]

Isn't it wearing out the belt with the one pulley not turning?

[@Erik_Blomgren]

Yeah I was thinking the same, something must've been wrong with that one because the cooling fans were not turning and i assume that belt was for the fans?

[@om617yota8]

Just a trick of the camera shutter speed, it was turning. There's a video of a helicopter hovering in flight somewhere, but the blades look still due to the same phenomenon.

[@Rob-fc9wg]

Look up "wagon wheel effect".

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

Amazing how far technology has came in less than a hundred years.

[@chrisfreeman3279]

Stuff now days is junk

[@danw6014]

Yep, now we put stuff on engines with the purpose of making them not work.

[@jimmydykes7961]

Yeah and now they want us to use them thar lectric tractors😂

[@TheTomBevis]

That Minneapolis 35-70 has to be the most Victorian-looking tractor I've ever seen.

[@martingardener90]

Love the sound of that Fairbanks - Morse, would love to hear what it sounds like under load.

[@ed9492]

It must have been interesting to walk around the sales floor of a tractor dealership in 1910.

[@cactiguide]

I wonder how many acres could be worked in a day with these. Also, how much did they break down? How hard to get parts?

[@PD-yd3fr]

The simplicity of the parts, almost any machine shop could make or repair them, they would be costly however

[@ajaxvarble]

They could work about the same speed as a good team of horses. Just they wouldn't have to stop for rests or water. Really the only benefit of using tractor at the time was so small farm holdings didn't have to have (or barrow) three teams of horses for continues working. So honestly they could do anywhere from 3 to 6 acres of plowing in a day. Sometimes they would hitch two tractors together with a winch and pull a plow back and forth witch would over double there efforts.

[@michaelhalsall5684]

These big tractors were mainly used on large wheat farms and were often refered to as "prairie tractors". Smaller farms general have tractors until the 1920s and later.

[@trevorn9381]

@@michaelhalsall5684 Most smaller farms didn't have tractors until after WWII. I grew up on a 200 acre farm and the people my dad bought the farm from in 1971 didn't have electricity or indoor plumbing in the farmhouse until 1947 and they didn't get a tractor until 1952. When I was a kid in the 1970s one of our elderly neighbors still had a team of mules on his farm. He had a Farmall Super H tractor but he would hitch up those mules to plow his garden every year. He also had an old horse drawn side delivery hayrake he would pull with them.

[@duron700r]

The 20-40 isn't running quite right is it? No gov control. Beautiful video!

[@timmayer8723]

Copper, brass, steel, cast iron, designed, wrought and assembled in the USA.

[@Tornoalove]

สุดยอดมากที่ยังใช้ได้🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@mshort7087]

OSHA inspectors would have an aneurysm if one of these old beasts were on a job. Spinning wheels of death and dismemberment everywhere😂. Thanks for putting this video up

[@paulorchard7960]

Oh yeh, I could imagine! The simple concept of don’t stick your finger in cause it’s going to hurt is not something they understand!

[@thegreenerthemeaner]

Curious as to where the Aultman-Taylor and the Minneapolis came from. A man in Missouri owned one of each for years until he sold them in the mid 90s. He gad a pretty fair sized collection but the Prarie tractors were his joy.

[@Corvacar]

A lot of these huge Behemoths along with many Steamers died in the WWll Scrap drive.

[@divadyrdnal]

Just when you think your steering gear box has a little slop in it…

[@thepatriot4355]

That's really cool

[@bunzeebear2973]

but what is their 0-60MPH time?

[@thomasbyerly4305]

2.8 days

[@kevinjohnson7830]

Actually the time to get to 60 mph on their own power is “to infinity and beyond”. Ain’t gonna happen.

[@om617yota8]

About a minute on a low boy trailer behind a semi....

[@Rob-fc9wg]

@@kevinjohnson7830 Disconnect the drive and let her go down a long hill, She'll hit 60 very quickly.

[@GrandWagJeep]

They've been running for 100 years and they haven't hit 60 yet... 😆

[@SarojKumar-tf4hk]

Failer is pillar of success

[@patriot4258]

Man a lot of work just to get them rolling.

[@noncertex]

I can't imagine having a several of those behemoths on a lot. Shipping them out and then delivering to the buyer. I mean it had to come on rail or delivered in pieces and put together. Not like hauling it on a low boy tractor trailer today.

[@hnorrstrom]

How common was these in the US? From what year was it more common to use tractors than horses in field work? I would assume around 1950+ here in Sweden.

[@paulorchard7960]

Tractors don’t need to be fed and exercised during winter when not working!

[@hnorrstrom]

@@paulorchard7960 Well of course. That is a massiv benefit. Here it was more that the prices was too high and of course fuel costs and small fields and that you couldn't really use the first ones in the forests that delayed the introduction.

[@GoingtoHecq]

I love how the heat exchanger is basically just a steam boiler with fans exhausting the air. It really is quite funny to me but I suppose that it wasn't a bad way to do it when there were still people making boilers like that.

[@Renville80]

You should check out the radiators on the early Avery tractors.

[@Евгений-т9ъ7е]

Передняя ходовая и подвеска ну точно как на вазе !

[@donbennington677]

Comfort, ergonomic controls and all round vision seemed to be low on the designers list of requirements

[@makingithappen5178]

This makes one wonder if a modern tractor would last 100 years even with proper maintenance.

[@marknagy5892]

Wow the first tubless tires imagine way back then. Just kidding LoL !

[@fabiodriven]

Imagine working in a dusty environment with a crankshaft that's open to the elements.

[@peterclancy3653]

Not a computer chip in sight!!!

[@gedungisphoopnuchle9121]

Don't let that thing run over your foot!!!😫

[@zoferrismendez7639]

Паровой? Дизель?

[@skullofhell1662]

Mostly gasoline,and kerosene maybe diesel

[@nole8923]

That belt looks loose as heck

[@thenexthobby]

Designed by Rube Goldberg Amazing machines.

[@jameskelley8839]

walking behind horse farts all day long made this look pretty darn attractive.

[@twidget1111]

These beheavemeths weren't made for speed they were meant for work and haul. You were supposed to share the load with family and friends and prepare to work four or five days doing each others farms and have a huge spread of food for everyone. The story goes. You don't work, starve. Only excuse was on your death bed. My family had been doing this kind of work for over a hundred years. These machines made the task of farming easier but the modern machines are lighter but traction. Uuuggghhhh! No comparison. LOVE, PEACE and SOUL💖👏👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@simonworman7898]

Unknown and mostly unheard of in the uk,but what a huge leap fwd these machines were. Henery Ford stole a patent or two from these Goliaths for suer

[@melchristian8876]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@chrisallmond9372]

I think for me it's watching moving parts. Most of the stuff made today is watching some digital junk with l.e.d.'s

[@garyhicks2771]

Funny they weren't working on the job.

[@PaperEater26]

did anyone else instantly hear the horse running song (dont remember what its actually called) as soon as the video started?

[@joeanderson9431]

What your hearing is the tractor running but it does sound like the William tell overture wich was the lone rangers theme song/music

[@PaperEater26]

@@joeanderson9431 there we go! thats the song.