My mom grew up on various farms - she remembers plowing the field with horses and mules.

@@kfl611 👍. Our farm is going on to be 107 years old. When my grandpa was still here to tell the stories he talked about his team's. He told a story about his dad having a run away with a team and pulling the grain binder into the trees and destroying it. He was never so happy to purchase a tractor and get some real work done. When I asked real work? Horses sound like a lot of real work. He chuckled and said horses were real work but they always needed a break so it was hard to cover the acres you wanted to do.

@@jeremycherny2041 If it were me and I had to rely on 'farm work' for my living and income......I think it would kill me. I'm too soft. My mom knew all too well getting up before the sun and gathering wood for the wood cook stove - the only heat in the house, before getting ready for school. I don't think they had a house with electricity till the early 1950's. Picking tobacco, and crops and cotton so you would have money for clothes for school - in that down south heat and humidity, I wouldn't last long. My mom said her father never trusted tractors and never had one. I think what land they did have they rented it out for other farmers, and that was their income. But he used a team of horses till he stopped farming the land. Go Grandparents and Mom. It seems like too much work for too little rewards as far as I'm concerned, but praise the lord someone wants to be a farmer or we would not be able to eat. My grandfather only ever wanted to dig his bare feet into the soil and be a farmer. I guess that was basically all he ever knew. My grandparents did have a cleaning business in Florida, which my grandmother loved but my grandfather hated - he wanted to farm, not live in a city. That didn't last long before he went back to North Carolina and resumed farming.

Come home tell your wife I took out a $500 loan for one of them new tractors the boys been talking bout at the coffee shop. To which his wife would of replied you did what!! Some things don’t change

@@adventureguy4119 LMFAO. Thanks for the chuckle.

They sure are built to last a few life times.....I do expect to hear 'chug chuggg, choo choo' like a train.........but they did kind of make a chuff chuff sound.

@@kfl611 look up steam tractors. They are basically a locomotive that you can steer

@@maggs131 That's what we would call "traction engines". Bloody beautiful machines that are a rare sight to behold.

@@maggs131 Yes they are amazing too ! I expect to hear an 'all aboard' when they get fired up. I also can't help but think the people that own them and operate them, could also fix them blindfolded. Kind of like living iron horses - like they used to call steam locomotives....

​@@kfl611 there was $4 million worth of prairie tractors on that short video. they relatively simple to work on.

Yes back then things were built to last unlike today, where i should pack 3 days after the warranty expires!!

These old machines were built to last as long as you keep the rust off of them. There are hundred+ year old engines similar to this still being used in the places the old british empire held power like in india. New orleans which is slightly under sea level keeps its city dry using massive pumps built in the 1800's which still work perfectly. Most stuff produced now is designed to fail so that there is a future market for their stuff. We ~could~ make cars and other machines that last a lifetime but there isn't any profit in that.

And they run longer than the things that are!

And not a part says made in china

We used to have things (or people) called draftsmen to draw all the inventions so they could be made by the other tradesmen. Sadly no longer…

Gee wiz legend has it the sr71 was built without cad etc ain’t that cool !??

They had some tools we use today just not computers. They drew all those designs on paper.

I've done that. Back when I was a teenager, I cranked up my Pops old tractor and ran it all day. In the Evening, I'd be at the sink washing off the dirt. I'd look in the mirror and my face would be really dirty black, from dust and exhaust.

Exhausting! While I admire what they are. I wouldn't want to plow all day with one.

I guess you also have no idea about what is the fuel they use for these

Should that matter in the long run?

Yes what if it would have kicked back dude Woulda thrown himself 30 feet mirror

You must remember this machine comes from an era when people were smart enough to keep themselves out of harms way now everyone is so stupid that instructions and safety warnings must accompany everything down to a butter knife and a plastic bag!!

Thats the best part

I said it looks dangerous. I didn’t say don’t do it!

I had mine at the Ag Hall of Fame in Bonner Springs Ks a number of years ago. An older gentleman walked up and told me his dad had bought a neighbor’s “E” Rumely after the neighbor got killed starting it. He slipped between the flywheel and rear wheel. My wife would have been happier not hearing that.

Except most are the same year

Actually the model x the first oil pull started was the lastest produced at the time, the model e and g are referred to as heavy weight's, using channel frames and open gearing, we're as the model x considered a light weight, using stamped frames and enclosed gear cases saving lots of lube compared to the once through method of the day,in addition the x was a superpower as evidenced by coolant expansion tank on top of the radiator.

They will get ran there is always an enthusiast towel head

I aint gonna convince you that they dont, because i absolutely agree with you!

Your comment reminds me of a car I saw at a traffic light today: if it stood still for more than a second or so, the engine would automatically turn off, and as soon as the driver gave it some throttle, it would _instantly_ restart and start driving. It did that 4 times or so while creeping forward in the queue. Honestly seems a bit excessive to me, but it's still impressive that it can just do that without skipping a beat!

@@JanTutsa lot of company’s like ford put in this system to save gas on cars. it will shut off at a stop and start when you push the gas my mother had this in her ford car

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@@JanTuts Start-stop engines have become quite a popular way of conserving fuel, and from what I learned elsewhere, it is a lot more involved than just starting it in the way you'd do with a normal always-on engine. Apparently the computer controlling the engine remembers what part of the combustion cycle it was in before it was stopped, so that it can just pick up where it left off rather than having to run the engine through a complete cycle to re-learn the cam and crank positions. As you'd expect, it's got a better battery and heavy duty starter, too.

@@therealchayd Rofl what? That's not how a car engine works. There is no relearning anything. The camshaft is connected to the crankshaft mechanically, this is also the case in modern cars, and also in those with a start stop system. There is no relearning. As for ignition and injection, even that happens the very first turn in almost every car engine.

Probably easier to get stuck tho without the grip of rubber tires

Happy late birthday then

It's a 4 cylinder engine, so it's much smoother running. Aultman Taylor built some of the most advanced tractors during the time of the big prairie tractors. Time was not on the side of these behemoths though. Too slow, too much maintenance required, and fuel consumption per acre would be considered insane by today's standards. Awhile back I read the results of the Nebraska tests of the Rumely 30-60 model E. I thought at first that the astronomically high fuel consumption figures must have been a misprint, but nope.

I grew up in and around the fishing fleet, and was always told I had to be 10% smarter than what ever I was working on. And it was usually followed up with and that (insert deck equipment here) is whooping your ass....

Здравствуйте, а на чём эти трактора работают скажите пожалуйста.

@@Ildar.X я на них не работал, не знаю, наверное дизиль.

@@Медведьвтанке благодарю.

​@@Ildar.X ппц он выдал. Это трактора 19го века еще и начала 20го, а работают на паровых двигателях.

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