Thread: Vintage Iron

I thought I'd start a thread on things that are vintage, but not necessarily razor related. As some know I have my great grandfather's straight razor. He homesteaded on the Valentine area of what would become Garfield County in which the town of Pomeroy is the county seat and the home of my birth.

My great grandfather's name was Watson Davis but he was known to friends and family as 'Wat'.

Wat registered his brand, the Diamond D at the Alpowai Post Office on December 20th, 1887 in the Washington Territory. I have a copy of the original:



The copy was provided by my 'Cousin' David Ruark. The way I figure we are cousins is because David's Grandmother's sister married my grandfather's brother.

David was instrumental in creating the Eastern Washington Agricultural Museum. I've posted about the annual open house which is the first weekend of April, it's a free event, with horse drawn plowing and other events. I'm proud to be a lifetime member.

Here's a link to the museum:

https://www.co.garfield.wa.us/agmuseum

Here's some short video's that featured the museum. I hope all will enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_0KG8nv9j0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE0R97rAOXk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fabPsrb9zzk

Here's the link to the tramway:

I sent David the link to this thread to double check on the information I'd written and he thought that I should add this/His words:

NOTE-----Roy is a Pomeroy Native of Pioneer Garfield County settlers.
Roy has donated and has several items on display in the EWAM----branding iron, shaving equipment and etc. He is also Life Member #173 and currently lives in the S.E. WN area

prety cool to have a family history in the area you live in Roy. Lots of neat stuff in that museum.

What do you do when you want the largest steam tractor ever made, but none of the nine originals survived

You build one from scratch.

The first 7:45 of this is about his growing up and it's very interesting, but if you start at the 7:45 point you'll get to the meat of the video.

I believe on it's maiden voyage it pulled a 24 bottom plow.



Here's where they pull a 44 bottom plow, a personal record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgkwBsCj_Us&t=8s

I believe that the world record is pulling a 66 bottom plow BUT it was done with multiple steam tractors pulling in unison. I'd like to see if the Case 150 could handle it.

Thanks for posting that Roy. I always thought anything steam powered was a live thing and had personality.

Bob

Roy maybe I could pull a 24 bottom with my sled!

Originally Posted by BobH

Thanks for posting that Roy. I always thought anything steam powered was a live thing and had personality.

Bob

Your welcome it was my pleasure. What's interesting about a steam engine is that it makes power on both ends of the stroke. There's no wasted motion.

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

Roy maybe I could pull a 24 bottom with my sled!

I don't know how many bottoms your iron horse could pull if it could get decent traction but I'm sure if it could get traction you could pull a few.

I don't know if it was in the videos I posted or another I watched but I believe that the Case 150 steam engine produced around 8000 lbs of torque.

Not bad for only turning 200 rpm---------

Here's a bit of home grown ingenuity---Hint---It's got an interesting engine

Here's a compressed video of building a mule drawn Borax Wagon from scratch. While it offers just a quick review of what takes place I highly recommend watching the entire process.

But for now, here it is;