SimplePlanes | Steam tractor

Steam tractor

43.9k PlanesOfOld 9.0 years ago

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this was based on a fowler steam tratr from the late 1800s they were used for almost everything and had many sizes a large one like this would be used for hauling heavy machinery from farm to farm SUTCH as threashing machines they were used as portable engines too smalle ones were used for ploughing I'll make a plough and farming equipment for it later these machines are very interesting and beutiful to see run I suggest you go to an english steam fair as the engines there are superb unlike some american locos that look very crude compared yo fairground locos of the UK

General Characteristics

Created On iOS
Wingspan 16.4ft (5.0m)
Length 33.6ft (10.3m)
Height 20.5ft (6.3m)
Empty Weight 7,515lbs (3,409kg)
Loaded Weight 22,258lbs (10,096kg)

Performance

Power/Weight Ratio 0.151
Wing Loading 568.7lbs/ft² (2,776.5kg/m²)
Wing Area 39.1ft² (3.6m²)
Drag Points 16208

Parts

Number of Parts 279
Control Surfaces 0
Performance Cost 561

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1,744 kingofsteam

@PlanesOfOld thank u

+0 7.1 years ago
43.9k PlanesOfOld

@kingofsteam NP I think i will start building the Traction engine in the next week, it will probably be a fowler BB1

+0 7.1 years ago
1,744 kingofsteam

OK thank you I'm making more old planes and vehicle soon and you are always welcome to any of my machines

+0 7.1 years ago
43.9k PlanesOfOld

@kingofsteam thanks i forgot i made this, almost 2 years ago now! i think one of these will be coming out soon! if you like this stuff check out my more recent builds!

+0 7.1 years ago
1,744 kingofsteam

I just built one of these traction engines and it was a fun build i suggest that you try building one that has a rotating piston and detail the side wheel more

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138 Motorcycle760

Looks great, but for some reason it doesn't work on my divice
+0 8.9 years ago
23.9k kaaraabiner

Epec beld m8!!
+0 9.0 years ago
28.1k KerlonceauxIndustries

I think I have seen images of steam-powered vehicles with a design such as this.
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13.8k TheSoundofLight

Plz write description
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38.7k hypnotoad

@PlanesOfOld sounds amazing! I have some experience with some radial engines up close, the sound is always rediclious!
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43.9k PlanesOfOld

@hypnotoad lol the AVRO TRIPLANE has no scilencer and its start up is compared to a mortar firing (witch I've seen at a ww1 reenactment) it's the pilot says clear and they turn on the magneto and spin the prop and I just goes BOOM crackle crackle and then starts you also never forget the ploakarpov po-2 it sounds like a horrible old desil tractor exept 10x louder and above you
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38.7k hypnotoad

@PlanesOfOld Ahhhh crikey. I have been to a fair few air shows in my time but I have NEVER been 10 ft away from any plane on start up, must be a thing to behold. Sounds well worth it. Your a lucky man.
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43.9k PlanesOfOld

@hypnotoad lol I suggest you go to a shuttle air show the evening ones I the summer when there's no wind so the Edwardian birds can fly it's totaly worth the experience of having a ww1 plane start up 10ft away from you and taxi onto a grass runway then climb and land if ur lucky you can see the oldest airworthy plane in the world it's 106 years old and can get to about 5m off the ground and there is the english eletric wren that can get 3ft altitude on a good day lol I'm lucky shuttle is About 30mins-1 hr away from me you can get a shuttle bus ;)
+0 9.0 years ago
38.7k hypnotoad

@PlanesOfOld just been on the gdsf website, does look brilliant, much better than the Eccleshall show I always go to (only up the road from me), im down in Bournemouth all the time visiting family (and for work) so hopefully my path may cross when its on in September :)
+0 9.0 years ago
43.9k PlanesOfOld

@hypnotoad Ohhh I just gots a new steam tratr I givs you the coal. (Spade not included)
+0 9.0 years ago
43.9k PlanesOfOld

@hypnotoad go to the grat Dorset steam fair it's the comic con of steam engines it's over like a week and there's over 1000 running machines there including tanks from bovingtom tank museum or there is one at shuttle worth every year over 2 days with Edwardian flying displays aswell
+0 9.0 years ago
38.7k hypnotoad

@PlanesOfOld Ahhh mate, that would be amazing! I remember seeing a few farming steam engines at a fare a while back, they are gigantic hulking things, some of them still going! like your style as always chap!!
+0 9.0 years ago
43.9k PlanesOfOld

@hypnotoad yeah I did think of that and just uploaded the basic tractor first I think I might make a few farm tools and carriages for it
+0 9.0 years ago
38.7k hypnotoad

YES dude, it looks amazing (will have to download and test out later tonight) but just on looks alone its 5 starts mate, crikey, does your imagination ever run dry. you know you could somehow, perhaps adapt this to have attachments (like the old traction engines had) like a plow chain, or an old school merry go round,or a pum or something cool. may be a step to far but if anyone can... its you dude!!
+0 9.0 years ago

Steam tractor

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