Model Train Journal

We were clearing out the fence row yesterday hauling brush behind my 52 Model F cub and then pulling honeysuckle clumps until it got too hot outside. Runs like a top and finally got a replace hand crank to start it -- 2 pulls and it was running.

Healey, that is cool!

Dan Weinhold

Indeed. I'd like one or at least like to take a lap around the the track on it.

I wonder how practical it is to use - and what do you feed it to make it grow up?

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Indeed. I'd like one or at least like to take a lap around the the track on it.

I wonder how practical it is to use - and what do you feed it to make it grow up?

Feed it more fuel. Or maybe more cowbell.

rogruth wrote:

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Indeed. I'd like one or at least like to take a lap around the the track on it.

I wonder how practical it is to use - and what do you feed it to make it grow up?

Feed it more fuel. Or maybe more cowbell.

Yes! More cowbell!

A scale model of a Hornsby Chain Track Tractor from the early 1900s. If the Wik is to be believed, in 1910, British Hornsby sold the patent for its chain track designs to the Holt Manufacturing Company in the US, the predecessor of Caterpillar. The Hornsbys were oil-fired.

A photo from the Library of Congress, simply titled "Gasoline tractor, 1938":



Likely a Rumely Oil Pull, it looks like a profitable operation, given the lovely cabriolet in the background.

I seem to remember that the twist in the belt affected which direction the auxiliary piece ran. ?????

For reasons I don't fully understand, twisting the belt helps keep it from running off the PTO pulley. When we run the sawmill at the museum, they always twist the belt at one end, i.e. inside-out.

healey36 wrote:For reasons I don't fully understand, twisting the belt helps keep it from running off the PTO pulley.

That sort of makes sense......

I am posting this bit in tribute to my late friend Walt Anderson, of Woodstock, NY, and our fallen comrade Hev. This is one of the many things Wally sent to me over the years. Maybe him and Hev have met and are sitting on a cloud somewhere talking about tractors and trains and enjoying a cold one! Dirt Man, I hope you find your way back to us someday!

http://videos2view.net/tractor-pull.htm

That takes talent

I've nearly done that trying to drag a scoop to clear an old stream bed. You're looking behind you and the scoop would snag on a rock but the tractor would try to keep going, pulling the front wheels up off the ground. Likely what this fella had happen...lucky he didn't flip it completely and get crushed.

I've got a set of wheel weights all around front & back. I've gotten the front up a few times, but it took some real effort while the rear end was spinning digging a ditch