Just for you Terry M. and others.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:44 pm

Hey Terry thought you`d enjoy seeing this steam engine i built

and some of the new guys around here that hadn`t seen it.

Just got it out and running today, running it on air.
It`s a replica of a very early style engine.

video.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 3:48 pm

Runs on air? Hoo Boy, my Ex could yak into that thing long and hard enough to power a train......

2ndovc · Post by **2ndovc** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 5:20 pm

I am in awe of your mechanical abilities!!!

jb

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 5:32 pm

2ndovc wrote:I am in awe of your mechanical abilities!!!

jb

Yea, boy.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 5:40 pm

Thanks guys, the original engine had about a five foot cast iron flywheel and ran at 25-30 RPM.
The belt ran on the flywheel to a small pulley to get some RPM`s on the machinery end.
I seen a replica of the engine at a farm show once many years ago and never forgot it and finally built one.

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:52 pm

Blaine,

at least she's an ex!

ving-thorr · Post by **ving-thorr** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:53 pm

Hey pitchy! Have you ever made it to the antique power show in Hastings, MN? If you haven't, it really needs to go on your bucket list. All sorts of old single-poppers running all sorts of stuff, up to and including a fully operational old-time saw mill! Very cool!

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:05 pm

ving-thorr wrote:Hey pitchy! Have you ever made it to the antique power show in Hastings, MN? If you haven't, it really needs to go on your bucket list. All sorts of old single-poppers running all sorts of stuff, up to and including a fully operational old-time saw mill! Very cool!

Haven`t been to that one, we live up north so we attend Rolog, Lake Itasca pioneer days and have been to Albany show a couple times. Don`t get out much anymore though.

RustyJr · Post by **RustyJr** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:05 pm

Pitchy, you never cease to amaze me. Your skill and ability to build things with your hands is incredible. Thanks for posting these stories and inventions as you do. I truly do enjoy them.

RustyJr

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:42 pm

RustyJr wrote:Pitchy, you never cease to amaze me. Your skill and ability to build things with your hands is incredible. Thanks for posting these stories and inventions as you do. I truly do enjoy them.

RustyJr

To some useful, to others a pest

All we can do is try and be nice and give what we can.
Thanks buddy.

piller · Post by **piller** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:49 am

Pitchy, you would be great to have around in case of a disaster of the proportion that the tinfoil hat types are predicting of this December. My Grandfather built his first gasoline powered tractor to accomodate the one lunger motor he purchased. It had a large barrel, I think it was a 55 gallon drum, for the radiator, and he had the hot water coming out of the top of the engine and the cooler water coming in at the bottom. It worked for about 10 years. He was a blacksmith by training, and made a bunch of his farm equipment by hand back in the first 3 decades of the 1900s.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 8:22 am

Heck i`d drive ya crazy

but thanks.
I built both of these tractors, the small one has a four cyl. Continental engine in it and the big one has a 15 HP Fairbanks .

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:52 am

I just added an entry to my bucket list. I need to visit Pitchy's early Americana living history display.

Pitchy, I think you aught to built a steam boiler to power that engine.

Joe

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:01 am

J Miller wrote:I just added an entry to my bucket list. I need to visit Pitchy's early Americana living history display.

Pitchy, I think you aught to built a steam boiler to power that engine.

Joe

Thanks Joe, your a good one but don`t let it go to your head

I have a small boiler that i was using to steam boards that would carry enough steam to run that engine for show.
Would have to put solid piping on the engine first, kinda a hassle when i can run it on air.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:09 am

You know it's too bad you can't harness all the hot air the politicians are expelling to run that on. You'd have an endless supply.

Joe

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:19 am

That would be what this engine is about, named it obama.

Hot air engine.

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Terry Murbach · Post by **Terry Murbach** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:32 am

WELL HOLEE MOLEE, WHATCHA GOT HERE ?? A STEAM ENGINE HUH. STEAM ENGINES ARE PRETTY COOL THINGS WITH POWER OUT THE WAZOO. I HAVE LOOKED AT YOUR PICTURE AND CANNOT QUITE FIGURE OUT WHICH END IS WHICH, PITCHY.....life ain't easy fur us drain bamaged you know...

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:41 am

Terry Murbach wrote:WELL HOLEE MOLEE, WHATCHA GOT HERE ?? A STEAM ENGINE HUH. STEAM ENGINES ARE PRETTY COOL THINGS WITH POWER OUT THE WAZOO. I HAVE LOOKED AT YOUR PICTURE AND CANNOT QUITE FIGURE OUT WHICH END IS WHICH, PITCHY.....life ain't easy fur us drain bamaged you know...

Well holee molee is right, didn`t think you would reply, don`t worry i`m an old fanny burp too and crazy

Thanks for the reply MR. Murbach

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