Steam Engines at the Steam Threshing Festival

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Today I attended the Steam Threshing Festival at the Heritage Park of North Iowa in Forest City, Iowa. The show live farm demonstrations including grain threshing, log sawing, plowing, ensilage cutting, shingle making, horsepower testing, corn shredding, lumber planning, feed grinding, and corn shelling.
00:00 Introduction
00:14 Steam Traction Engines
08:53 How To Run Traction Engine
12:03 Stationary Steam Engine
16:26 Scale Steam Engines
18:36 Prairie Tractors
20:02 Steam Engines Cutting Wood
24:31 Main Street
26:08 International Harvester Equipment
28:07 Threshing Machine
28:53 Plowing With Traction Engines
30:50 Parade of Power
42:56 Transportation Museum
46:15 Gas Tractor Museum
49:28 Steam Threshing Museum
50:57 Flywheel Engine Museum
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@user-xz9dn2ub1x 3 күн бұрын

Excellent show😊😊😊 Great machinery some of witch I’ve not seen before Very well filmed Thank you😊😊😊😮

@chuckschultz7028 9 ай бұрын

Interesting historical FACT: The first road race in the WORLD was two steam-powered "road engines" in 1878. The Wisconsin legislature offered a $10,000 prize for the winner of a speed, endurance, and strength contest between Green Bay, Janesville, and Madison. A few photos are available on-line.

@stephenricketts7764 9 ай бұрын

Excellent show there, I love all that machinery and you have to remember it powered America and her in the UK after horses. In fact they worked alongside each other as well. We have an annual Steam fair here in my county not that far from me and people come from all over the UK to attend the event. I noticed that most of those steam engines were left dirty just as they would have been in the day. The only ones that were clean were what we call the 'Showmen's engines'. These would be used at a fairground or a circus to power the big top. I still have a toy traction engine from my childhood (only the wheels move not a working model). Sadly it has lost its white roof but the body is still gleaming red with gold coach work! Thank you Steve for taking the time to film this show for us subscribers. 👍👍🚜

@hrc5534 9 ай бұрын

That was fun. So fascinating to see those creations from a simpler time. I would much rather have lived back in those days except for one thing - air conditioning. The only great thing about modern life. You certainly come up with interesting videos. Very happy to have found your channel.

@paulhall170 9 ай бұрын

Fascinating stuff, it's amazing that steam in itself is very simple, but the harnessing it to use has produced some very complex machines..

@shades360 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely awesome. Thanks for the efforts of filming and editing etc

@girthquake1413 9 ай бұрын

You got me to spend a good 30 minutes looking up steam and traction engine details because of this. I honestly wonder about building an engine dyno to see what these engines could actually make at a "safe" RPM. That ending had a very forlorn feeling with how few people were there.

@strokenumber3 9 ай бұрын

As a kid growing up in the 50s/60s, it wasn't cars that caught my interest so much as commercial vehicles - trucks, lorries, vans, buses in all varieties. But steam engines I used to dislike, mainly because I didn't understand them. Massive metal wheels with no tires, steering that had to be wound a zillion turns to get any reaction to turning, that weird roof/tank body. I used to wonder why someone would make a truck that was more like a train...... Of course later in life I got to understand them now, but I still can't bring myself to like them. Ironically I very much enjoyed this video.

@mountainjeff 9 ай бұрын

Awesome. Thanks. Makes you think about how far we've come the last hundred years, but also what a leap this must have been over horses.

@Rabblewitz 9 ай бұрын

My grandfather used to talk about going from horse drawn equipment, through steam engines, internal combustion, to massive farm vehicles air conditioned or running remotely ... all in his lifetime.

@johnoldonekanole602 9 ай бұрын

Very KOOL stuff Thanks for sharing. Very good coverage of the show.

@jeffdayman8183 9 ай бұрын

Great video of a great show. Thanks for sharing it. Cheers!

@oldmanleggott1860 9 ай бұрын

After watching other steam channels I know that although the horsepower seems small they have incredible torque hundreds or even thousands of ft/pounds

@DanTyson 9 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this, thank you.

@minapipita7917 9 ай бұрын

Espectacular! Awesome 👏 😊 thank you 🙏

@rejeandesrochers9281 Ай бұрын

Super

@wernernabulon3150 5 ай бұрын

Wonderful, grüsse aus der Schweiz

@ThisWeekWithCars 5 ай бұрын

Danke

@JasperFromMS 9 ай бұрын

That was way cool. I knew they had big steam events in the UK, I had no idea there were ones here.

@michaelthomas7898 9 ай бұрын

There're dozens of them all over the place.

@JasperFromMS 9 ай бұрын

There aren't any around here. The last thing people want to do this time of year is go outside and build fires.

@michaelthomas7898 9 ай бұрын

Houston, Holmes, and Meridian all have steam shows@@JasperFromMS

@ThisWeekWithCars 9 ай бұрын

Where is here?

@JasperFromMS 9 ай бұрын

Mississippi. You don't see steamers around here, not at the state fair, museums or county fairs. The soil was probably too wet in the spring for them. I think we went straight from horses and hands into gasoline and diesel. However, narrow gauge rail survived into the 1950s in forestry.

@pdwcave 9 ай бұрын

Just noticed that most of the steering wheels for these machines is on the right hand side. When did you guys swap to left hand drive?

@ThisWeekWithCars 9 ай бұрын

Keeping to the right goes back to the days of horses and most tractors today are not RHD or LHD you sit in the middle for better visibility to both sides.

@bradfordeaton6558 9 ай бұрын

Are you going to be at the "Midwest Old Threshers" in Mt. Pleasant this year?

@Rabblewitz 9 ай бұрын

My parents always enjoy the show in Buckley ... a bit south of Traverse City. I've not been there for many years though, as I only make it back home once or twice a year.

@berndverschuren9308 2 ай бұрын

But why all of them are in so bad conditions? Rusty oily dirty.

@ThisWeekWithCars 2 ай бұрын

Because they use heated water and need to be coated constantly with grease and oil to work. Even if they were perfectly clean they would not be after a weekend of running.

@Rabblewitz 9 ай бұрын

What makes those Prairie Tractors? The Wheels?

@ThisWeekWithCars 9 ай бұрын

I think it is how huge they are, Prairie Tractors are huge machines designed and sold for one purpose, to break the centuries-old sod of the Midwest.

@pdwcave 9 ай бұрын

Amazing beasts and a great admiration for the folk who can control them. Steam driven things always synonymous with Fred Dinah for me (kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5-raJatZdafZ6s)

@aarnealplayzgames9580 20 күн бұрын

Here to claim my spot for before 100 comments 40th Lesgo

@6806goats1 9 ай бұрын

I enjoy all of the steam videos but after reading about them exploding I wonder about the boiler inspection and certification process. One explosion was at a fair, the boiler was trash to start with, killed 5 people. The other was a locomotive that they allowed the water to get low and it flashed the boiler. I'm sure that most owners are aware of this. Just something to bring up. "Hey, you're at an event, where's your cert"? Yeah, I'm no fun at parties. Anyway, cool video.

@ThisWeekWithCars 9 ай бұрын

At this particular event to operate a steam engine each operator had to attend their steam school each year or the cannot operate a steam engine at the show.