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Hello Friends
I would like to show you my finished steam tractor.
Gas burner boiler heating , workable steering , tilting front axle ,
double acting two cylinder engine , water feeder , length 500 mm ,
wideness 200 mm , height 250 mm , weight 7 kg .
I have built this tractor according my imagination so no real tractor existed.
Thank you.

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Hello Friends
I would like to show you my finished steam tractor.
Gas burner boiler heating , workable steering , tilting front axle ,
double acting two cylinder engine , water feeder , length 500 mm ,
wideness 200 mm , height 250 mm , weight 7 kg .
I have built this tractor according my imagination so no real tractor existed.
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Whoa, and what an imagination you have!

How long did it take to build? Where do you live?
 
Really a nice looking machine, do you have a video of it operating?
 
Thank you all
Imagine a situation that you live in steam era and you need a tractor and only what you
have is small marine steam engine - so you would come to this tractor design.

I am from Slovakia /EU/ and to make tractor including engine took me 12 month.
Here in my country is snow and cold now so I will make video during spring.
 
Thank you friends again
Cymro 77 I have added short video clip to my first post - see top of this thread.
Apprentice 707 I am not related to Heath Robinson I do not know him.
Why you think so?
 
Thanks for adding the video, great mechanical sound to it
 
Thank you friends again
Cymro 77 I have added short video clip to my first post - see top of this thread.
Apprentice 707 I am not related to Heath Robinson I do not know him.
Why you think so?
I enjoyed the video! Thanks for posting. Somehow the video took me back to the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Movie with Dick Van Dyke - just "too Cool".
 
What a great model. You have quite the imagination. I am curious about how the steam chests work. The eccentrics seem to drive a rotating shaft. What is going on inside the steam chest?
 
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