A Walk Through the Keystone Truck & Tractor Museum

On December 28, 2018 I visited the Keystone Truck & Tractor Museum, located in Colonial Heights, Virginia, and shot this 'walk through' video. Enjoy............

[@brianholland2916]

Thank you for the video! Im definitely going to have to go there.

[@SomeplaceOrAnother]

This place looks huge. I just put it on my list of places to see. Thanks for sharing :)

[@adrienbastarache8096]

Sir you did a great,you explain everything so well,no one could do it better,keep on doing your good work.There was trucks and tractors i never seen before.

[@RAIN33ish]

Thanks for taking the time to do this video. Enjoyed it a lot, very interesting & it's cool seeing them as if they just rolled off the assembly line!

[@christopherlovelock9104]

That 'tour' was absolutely fantastic and not covered too quickly with your camera, - WELL DONE and photographed as best as you could in the space available, - and at just the right speed. We have nothing of that quality and quantity here in the UK, virtually all owners of collections like that seem to prefer not to show them. Apart from some that take the same one all the time to 'rallies', (with one or two exceptions). I was very surprised at the lack of pre WW2 vehicles - both tractors and trucks. Your descriptions were excellent, - and your little 'personal' accounts of your incidents I found added that very 'human' touch. Do they have a 'reserve collection' either not yet restored, or, as you said not enough room to display everything.👍.

[@georgedavidson9697]

From Ontario Canada. Thanks for sharing. Great video. Impressed by so many well restored tractors and trucks. Understand your comments about the narrow aisles.

[@benscoles5085]

I have got to go see this, I live about an hour from it, never heard of til about 3 months ago, Thanks for whetting the appetite.

[@HotWheelsTV]

Awesome collection! Thanx for sharing!

[@wandaduncan3340]

Beautiful Tractors, Thanks Keith

[@brianholland2916]

No great place would be complete without a screaming baby!!!

[@oriolesfan7807]

A few weeks ago I took a tour of it. It looks small from outside but inside it is huge to say the least. All kinds of transportation history in there. Spent three hours walking numerous rooms. Well worth the visit. Don't let me spoil the visit. Go see it for yourself.

[@joemilko2589]

We were there today. Amazing. Make sure you meet "Bones" the curator. He owns most of the items other than the trucks and tractors. Exremely knowledgeable and friendly

[@jvin248]

We had an Oliver 880 wide front like that. I think my father bought it new. I remember it most used for baling small square bales and he also bought a New Idea two row mounted picker to go on it and swapped in the narrow front row-crop post to fit. While helping a neighbor pick corn with it, a transmission gear broke and locked the tractor up. We got it home and my father took it apart. he eventually got the rear end fixed and was putting the tractor back together and the engine had froze up in storage. It sits in the shed with the engine on its side and one stuck piston inside it. Apparently the transmission gear was a weak point for all the the 880s. I have a green-belly 1955 Ferguson (24.41) we used on the farm back then and it's recently back to work and painted up.

[@TheBlackdog8]

Incredible videos, thank you and i hope all is well

[@jamieryall8341]

I'm a fan of trailers. I would have liked to see the inside of that Yellow trailer. Great video. Thank you.

[@kw900lkevin]

Kenworth cabover is a K 100 and the Freightliner conventional is a FLC 12064 The Peterbilt is a 359 model the 3408 is a v-8 Caterpillar diesel engine rated at @ 450 h.p.

[@vincentcalvelli6452]

Paul, thanks for another interesting video and Happy New Year to you.

[@davidbrenton8299]

the coop tractors were called cockshutt here in canada we had one on the farm were i grew up it was a 1949 30 38 hp

[@harveygussow7913]

Hot bulb is in reference to the ignition that was a open flame. Pony engines were and are used to start a large displacement Diesel engine mostly found on stationary Deasel engines like generators for electrical generation or pumping water at a water treatment plant. The John Deere was to introduce there Deasel sooner without the disappointed battery life of a tractor.

[@reddirtfarm7704]

Hot bulb !! You heat it up with a torch!! How many shades of JD green is in there??

[@benscoles5085]

sometimes, they used a short steel rod, that had a end made to hold a small piece of wadded up cloth, , then dipped it in the fuel tank, , then lit it, held at the hot bulb, ... there are many shades of JD Green, I think JD changed it, depending on how much of a color add they had on hand that day.

[@reddirtfarm7704]

@@benscoles5085 have you ever tried starting a Bulldog with the method you state... hope you ain't got nothing but time....lol

[@heartlandfarmer2720]

That place is immaculate. They likely drain all of the fluids from those tractors of there would be oil or coolant or fuel spots on the floor.

[@jeremyfowler7505]

The JD R,80,820,830 all had pony motors. The R was the first of it's kind. The first diesel John Deere and it used a pony motor to start it because a starter at the time wasn't strong enough to start it. It had a 2cylinder gas motor. (pony motor)

[@ericferguson68]

44:00 Mack is part of Volvo now. I think the Mack trucks are pretty much just Volvo's by another name these days. RE: REO There are 2 popular bands that used the name. REO Speedwagon: They spelled it right and pronounced it wrong, and Diamond Rio: They pronounced it right, and spelled it wrong. .

[@joegustin7158]

Thank You Great Job

[@johnsnodgrass4429]

I was a little disappointed they did not have any Porsche tractors

[@ericferguson68]

Porsche didn't make tractors, silly. You probably meant to say Lamborghini. Here's a video of Jay Leno showing off his Lamborghini tractor: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6jNfWqiedmrjZo

[@benscoles5085]

@@ericferguson68 They did too, make Porche tractors. here is a vid found on youtube, there are many others as well.kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaKaYaCGrLdsotk

[@reddirtfarm7704]

@@ericferguson68 🤣🤣🤣 ye better look that up before you start calling people silly!!!! They most certainly did!! I've personally driven 2 different models.!

[@arvbergstedt3303]

Pony motor is a smaller gas high rev motor used to start the big engine. Cat used pony motors too.

Nice video edition

[@kw900lkevin]

A row crop tractor can have a wide front axle as long as it is a adjustable width to adjust for row spacing

[@stanleybaker3400]

When sleepers first came out I was told it felt like sleeping in a box

[@stanleybaker3400]

Do you remember the waterloo Tractors?

[@benscoles5085]

Yep, I have seen them, my old time favorite is the Rumley OilPull

[@kw900lkevin]

Pony motor's were gasoline engines used to start the bigger 2 cylinder diesel powered engines in place of a electrical starting system

[@benscoles5085]

high revs and sometimes more noise than the engine they started.

[@ญัติผิวขาว]

หรูทุกรุ่น.ทุกคัน.!เลยครับ.

[@avgjoeavglife]

I have been there, it's great.

[@tomakawkdetecting1826]

I just went there today

[@robertpayne2717]

Pony motors were small gas engines designed to use as a starter motor for diesel and large industrial engines gae or diesel

[@chuckcafiero4546]

ha.ve you ever seen a vinyard tractor? I own one ,a Ferrari 86

[@sagenspezl612]

Lanz Bulldog are the best!!!!

[@fredfrey2582]

man, you get around, i wish

[@youtuuba]

Not that hard to do. My advantage over many folks is that, since I am single and without young children or pets, I can travel when and where I want, without complications. And this trip was squeezed in between Christmas and New Year's Eve, to use up remaining vacation days by visiting friends in Virginia. I did not shoot video of most places we visited.

[@briang6413]

Thank goodness for the plaques, this tour guide was on his first day at work. With no clue ...

[@magudtumano1084]

🖒🖒🖒❤❤❤

[@michaeltwardowski3186]

pony motor starts the main engine

[@jkd2377]

Thanks for the walk through. Your conclusion about pony motors is correct -- see kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6S1ip6uiZerobc for a demo. Google knows a bunch about J-D pony motors.

[@kenbredow8727]

The children in the background are a disturbance

[@jdhreiss]

Way too noisy.

[@youtuuba]

jdhreiss, that sounds pretty inconsistent coming from somebody whose KZbin icon shows a motorcycle helmet.