[SEL] Nice Wheels/ cable plowing

[Frank DeWitt]

Finally, 
<http://www.steamploughclub.org.uk/operating_instructions.htm>http://www.steamploughclub.org.uk/operating_instructions.htm 
- of
considerable interest to me, at any rate :-)

Regards
      Pete
-- 
Peter Scales

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For an interesting read about the Traction engine and how they are 
operated  you can go to http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11164
and download the book for free.

Reprints are also available from a number of places including
http://www.roughandtumble.org/rt-gs/rtgs_book.asp

A couple of excerpts

Petroleum is not a bad thing in water where sulphate of lime prevails;
but you should use only the refined, as crude oil sometimes helps to
form a very injurious scale. Carbonate of soda and corn-starch have been
recommended as a scale preventative, and I am inclined to think they are
as good as anything, but as we are out in the country most of the time I
can tell you of a simple little thing that will answer the same purpose,
and can usually be had with little trouble. Every Monday morning just
dump a hatful of potatoes into your boiler, and Saturday night wash the
boiler out, as I have already suggested, and when the fall's run is over
there will not be much scale in the boiler.

  He has discovered that the
engineer is not expected to build an engine, or to improve it after it
has been built.  Has recognized the fact that the principle thing is to
attend to his own business and let other people attend to theirs.  That
a monkey wrench is a tool to be left in the tool box till he knows he
needs it.  That muscle is a good thing to have but not necessary to the
successful engineer.  That an engineer with a bunch of waste in his hand
is a better recommendation than an "engineer license." That good common
sense, and a cool head is the very best tools he can have.  Has learned
that carelessness will get him into trouble, and that to "forget" costs
money.

Frank

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