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[Alan Bowen]

Yup, Curt.
  I remember several times hearing my step-father telling about the two men that would bring their steam traction engine and threshing machine to a field near his farm.  That is until the year he was just entering a corner of the 40 acre field where the crew was set-up threshing in the diagonal corner of the field and the engine blew up.
  He was on his wagon with a load of his wheat to be threshed.  He said four men died and two others were burned badly. His horses spooked, but he got them back under control without damage.
  A survivors of the event told him that the owner of the engine had tied down the pressure relief to get more power out of it.
   
  That seemed to be the way several steam engines blew up around here.
  Around the same time an engine that was powering a sawmill blew up killing three men.  That engineer was also known for pushing the pressure limits too far.
  Stupid people and Innocent ones too,,,,,, All removed from the gene pool.
   
  Alan Bowen
  Williamsburg, Michigan
  

Curt <curt at imc-group.com> wrote:
  Ya know Arnie, I've wondered if this was the case even with much less 
expensive gas engines. Take a 8 or 10 HP saw rig. That's 4 or 5000 
pounds of iron to pay for. In a few of days you can saw a winter's worth 
of wood. I could see where a group of farmers would have bought one and 
used horses to pull it from one farm to the other in a cooperative 
arrangement.

Knowing the size of the team of men required to run and support a steam 
traction engine, I suspect you are spot on about the cooperative effort.
Curt
P.S. I'm outta here in an hour of so. Duke Power just shut us down due 
to excessive power consumption. We've got 30 minutes to get below a 
kw-hr consumption rate and this means shutting the plant down and 
putting the furnaces on generator for the next 6 hours or so, 'till the 
household A/C usage subsides a little. Second or third shift will have 
the pleasure of starting the casting lines back up. That's about an 8 
hour process. Later.....



 		
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Yup, Curt.</FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>I remember several times hearing my step-father telling about the two men that would bring their steam traction engine and threshing machine to a field near his farm.  That is until the year he was just entering a corner of the 40 acre field where the crew was set-up threshing in the diagonal corner of the field and the engine blew up.</FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>He was on his wagon with a load of his wheat to be threshed.  He said four men died and two others were burned badly. His horses spooked, but he got them back under control without damage.</FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>A survivors of the event told him that the owner of the engine had tied down the pressure relief to get more power out of it.</FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>That seemed to be the way several steam engines blew up around here.</FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>Around the same time an
 engine that was powering a sawmill blew up killing three men.  That engineer was also known for pushing the pressure limits too far.</FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>Stupid people and Innocent ones too,,,,,, All removed from the gene pool.</FONT></DIV>  <div><FONT size=3></FONT> </div>  <div><FONT size=3>Alan Bowen</FONT></div>  <div><FONT size=3>Williamsburg, Michigan</div>  <DIV><BR><BR></FONT><B><I>Curt <curt at imc-group.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>  <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Ya know Arnie, I've wondered if this was the case even with much less <BR>expensive gas engines. Take a 8 or 10 HP saw rig. That's 4 or 5000 <BR>pounds of iron to pay for. In a few of days you can saw a winter's worth <BR>of wood. I could see where a group of farmers would have bought one and <BR>used horses to pull it from one farm to the other in a cooperative <BR>arrangement.<BR><BR>Knowing the size of the
 team of men required to run and support a steam <BR>traction engine, I suspect you are spot on about the cooperative effort.<BR>Curt<BR>P.S. I'm outta here in an hour of so. Duke Power just shut us down due <BR>to excessive power consumption. We've got 30 minutes to get below a <BR>kw-hr consumption rate and this means shutting the plant down and <BR>putting the furnaces on generator for the next 6 hours or so, 'till the <BR>household A/C usage subsides a little. Second or third shift will have <BR>the pleasure of starting the casting lines back up. That's about an 8 <BR>hour process. Later.....<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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