Re: question for the oldies

Posted by Bill Smith on October 02, 2002 at 11:17:03 from (128.242.4.59):

In Reply to: question for the oldies posted by dave on September 29, 2002 at 20:01:56:

Demonstrations are pretty neat and I wished I could of seen what you saw on tv. Unfortunately demonstrations sometimes miss a few of the details. There were many reasons why the steamer was so far away. The first one is probably the belt distance. A longer belt will run more smoothly, easier to align, and will slip less becuase of the extra weight/friction on pulleys. The second is probably the fire issue. Most of those old steamers burnt coal or wood and there was always straw piles and what not around the thrashing machine. Seperating the two further apart lessoned the chance of fire. This would also alow for it to be a little cleaner for the steam engine part of the operation, keeping the dust and chaff a little further away from the engine. The third reason would probably be space. You got to remember that it took alot of team and wagons going in the early days to keep everything going. You had to have a team and wagon to haul water to the steam engine and another one to haul wood or coal. You also had hay racks filled with wheat shocks coming into the thrashing machine and another wagon hauling wheat away from the thrashing machine to the grainery. The extra space was well appreciated around there with all those team and wagons coming in and out not to mention there were people trying to work in that same space. Oh, and if a belt is placed right it rarely comes off during smooth operation. I read all the repost's and sounds like this topic brought back alot of memory's. In my area the steam engine and thrashing machine were more less rented and the owner was hired to help in the operation and the engine and thrashing machine traveled from farm to farm and the neighbors would pool together to help each other out which cut labor expenses down to nothing as long as you were willing to help all the neighbors.

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