Thread: Mud, Beets and Diesel

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

Can someone do me a favour and let me know if there is any interest in this stuff?

I have photographed a number of tractors at the museum and was happy enough to post more photos but if I'm the only one who finds these machines appealing then I won't bother.

BT

I say keep 'em coming Bob.

You want more, then there's more.

Like Bryan, I wonder about some of the colour schemes. The pictures I have seen of the old Fordson, all show a grey tractor with red wheels, some of the other tractors look suitably drab and worklike but the puce Mc Cormick -Deering? Here's a clip of a '29 Mc D. I was waiting for young Clem to ease it through his Dad's barn wall right at the end.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIPahdb36qY"]1929 McCormick-Deering 22-36 Start and Run - YouTube[/ame]

Below is an Excelsior P5 Motorised Plough. The driver's sidecar looks interesting!

Bob, count me in as a permanent fan of your photographic skill and your choice in subject matter. As kids my brother and I used to help out on the farm where my Dad was born. They had a steam trencher with what must have been a 20' diameter wheel festooned with scoops. This was for digging the (two foot deep or so) irrigation trenches into which clay tiles were laid. The frost damage meant annual repair work. Their neighbour had a steam shovel too, which was a soot and grease wonderland.

I recall the barn being full of the spectrum of worn-out 20th century mechanisation: Model T, Model A, tractors, horse harnesses, water pumps.

Please keep up the flow of eye candy. We steam punks appreciate it.

A Normag NG - 25 in Wehrmacht Grey with non regulation rims and a Farmall H. That does it boys. Anyone interested in planes?

Originally Posted by greg q

bob, count me in as a permanent fan of your photographic skill and your choice in subject matter. . .

+1

Originally Posted by Greg Q

Bob, count me in as a permanent fan of your photographic skill and your choice in subject matter. As kids my brother and I used to help out on the farm where my Dad was born. They had a steam trencher with what must have been a 20' diameter wheel festooned with scoops. This was for digging the (two foot deep or so) irrigation trenches into which clay tiles were laid. The frost damage meant annual repair work. Their neighbour had a steam shovel too, which was a soot and grease wonderland.

I recall the barn being full of the spectrum of worn-out 20th century mechanisation: Model T, Model A, tractors, horse harnesses, water pumps.

Please keep up the flow of eye candy. We steam punks appreciate it.

Hi GQ,

You didn't get around to explaining the need () for the acquisition of that cultivator thingo that you have.

BT

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

. Anyone interested in planes?

Nope.

Oh wait! Maybe a Junkers 52? How about a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch? (I am thinking of making a modern version when we move to Tassie...cheaper than a helicopter)

GQ

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

Hi GQ,

You didn't get around to explaining the need () for the acquisition of that cultivator thingo that you have.

BT

Needs Schmeeds

I had grand visions of cultivating the crap out of our rented block in a revisitation of that whole 60's back-to-the-land movement. I have a pair of denim overalls and line on a VW microbus with flower decals.

Alas, my dream of growing organic durian fruit here in frosty Victoria is at least a decade ahead of the global warming thing. So, my co-conspirator is going to collect it so that he will have a lifetime of spares. (We bought both on a collective ebay deal and shared a ute drive to Geelong to collect them)

It is a Howard Junior...a heavy brute of a thing, complete with cast iron wheels and hand crank starter. My sense of humour with old, British inspired "engineering" has waned all the way to zero, I'm afraid. Magnetos and 1930's carburettors are a bridge too far. I'd really like to have a Howard Bantam like Dad had, but the Junior is just way too big for my (theoretical) needs.

Greg

Blokes around my age will remember the Jawa 2 strokes coughing and spluttering in a cloud of smoke and the dominance of the same marque's DT500 in speedway but how's this -

BT

ps. Mike, that's the tail end of a silver Tatra behind the little Jawa.

That's a scaled down Bugatti Atlantic! I like it. It needs to be more phallic though.

Greg

on edit...changed Bugatti Royalle to Bugatti Atlantic, which is the correct car. The Royalle was more...regal

This thing:

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

ps. Mike, that's the tail end of a silver Tatra behind the little Jawa.

That's the rear engined, aircooled V8 - a favorite of German officers after they helped themselves to Cz just before WW2. It had swing axles too - talk about unsafe at any speed!

Jordan

Talking of Bugattis, naturally the Czechs had one and what a one! A '31 51.

Swing axles! How I miss the unpredictable jacking effect of hard cornering under power in those 356s that I have had the pleasure and occasional misfortune to own from time to time up until 1992. Give me a wheelbarrow any day.

GQ