OLD HARVEST 1920'S

[Jimmie D. Phelps]

Found this old picture. My grandpa with the blue dot over his head. Someplace in Cheyenne County NE in the early 1920"s. What kind of steam engi ne? what kind of Thrasher?

 

[Beagle]

that is an amazing photo, I love old pics like that. I counted 17 people helping with the threshing. Thanks for sharing.

 

[NEKS]

It great to see them old photos and what it took to get things done. I wonder if you give a young farmer today a 25 to 35 HP tractor (one) and told him here is 200 acres farm it, what he would say.

 

[Case Nutty 1660]

Nice pic Jimmy I don't know much about Case steam engines, less about others I just want to say maybe a Rumley?? I see they have it set up to burn straw, not much extra wood or easy access coal I guess hope that helps some and thank you for sharing I am going to ask my uncle and see if they have any old pics from here on the farm where I live now later cnt

 

[Anonymous-0]

The only company that I know of who put the water tank between the smoke stack and steam chest was the Gaar-Scott. They also had the piston end of the engine to the rear. It looks more like a Nichols & Shepard but the steam chest would be in the wrong spot and no water tank.

 

[Paul Searl]

by no means a steam expert, but it might be an avery. the single straight flue design (not the more commonly thought of undermount design) had the piston that far back like pictured and they made them as a straw burner IIRC. I don't know about the water tank on those, but I do recall a picture of an earlier model avery with the tank mounted there.

I'd take this over to the steam section on smokstak and let them take a crack at it, you'll get a real answer there.

 

[casenut1]

love the pic. i count twenty men.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Aultman-Taylor, Garr-Scott and New Giant (Northwest Tresher Co.) also made engines with a water tank between the stack and steam dome but the engine pictured is a Nichols & Shepard. The Garr-Scott is most similar but its spark arrestor was tapered with a dome top while the Nichols & Shepard is cylindrical. See Norbeck's "Encylopedia of American Steam Traction Engines" page 189 or Spalding & Rhode's "The Steam Tractor Encyclopedia" pages 154 and 155.