HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe 25th Huron Pioneer Thresher Reunion, 1986-09-03, Page 6PAGE A-6, THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1986.
Welcome
to Blyth!
Power older than the steam engine was on display for severalyears in the early 1970 s when this
team of oxen pulled a wagon around the grounds.
Hard work and ingenuity
by restorers makes
old equipment like new
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pistons on most easter ma
chines giving it much more
power. He got the engine in
1965 and he knew the flues were
done so the first thing he did
was replace those. The ma
chine has never had hard water
in it since except when he goes
to a show, he says. He has a
special tank hitched up to the
downspout from his barn roof to
catch and save rainwater.
He rebuilt the roof on the
tractor and the only thing that
isn’t original, he says, is the
smokestack which is from a
1914 model after a trucking
mishap wrecked the original.
Learning how to run the
engine wasn’t difficult, he
says. He learned at the should
er of an operator in the West. In
1928 he fired a similar tractor
for 31 straight days, he says.
On the farm he worked on in
the West there were two steam
tractors, one powered by straw
and one by coal. The other
operator, who fired the straw-
powered tractor, used to laugh
at him because of the extra work
he had to do after supper each
night, getting the clinkers out
and banking the fire to keep it
going overnight. But he had the
last laugh in the morning, Mr.
Andrews says, when he could
quickly get up steam after
getting more sleep than the guy
who had to get up early to build
up enough steam from the
straw-fire.
The big engine has made two
other appearances this summer
so far, appearing at the Col-
borne Township 150th anniver
sary celebration and the big
celebration at Port Albert. The
machine is run by Dan Hallahan
at these shows.
and to the 25th Reunion
of the Pioneer Thresher
and Hobby Association
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