the Case 150 and the 50 bottom plow are still busy out there somewhere

unrestored survivor 1913 Case Model N. 5 are known to still exist according to the museum. It had an acetylene injection starting system. I've never heard of that

CASE produced a variety of motorcars along with their threshers and tractors from 1911 through 1927. Throughout those 17 years, they built a little over 27,000 cars in Racine, WI, and only about 110 have survived.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2095763307600754&set=gm.1771374013588389&idorvanity=825687258157074
 https://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z9174/case-model-n.aspx

Terry was driving down a road in Texas and came across these relics. The owner had lived there all his life, and when asked the name of the area, he said it no longer had a name since they took the pay phone off the ice house.

 

Thank you Terry'!

The Phillips Brothers Mill, near Oak Run, California, the last fully steam powered mill in America and is still operated by the family, all mill machinery is powered by stationary steam engines, little changed since it was first constructed. Probably has existed longer than any of the companies that made the equipment

and this is the scratch built truck that moves the saw dust 

 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL91D812D3A6AB9D8A

in 1897, when he was twenty-five, Ed Phillips bought the iron head plates from the dismantled Myers Mill for twenty-five dollars apiece to make the log carriage for the sawmill he was building on North Cow Creek. These same head plates have been used in each progressive stage of the Phillips Mill -- from Muley wheel (overshot water wheel) -- to Pelton wheel and penstock -- to steam power -- a span of 106 years.

The first board was cut May 4, 1898. This mill was run on day and night shifts by Ed and one of his brothers, Frank Phillips. Old kerosene lanterns hung on beams and brackets furnished light. Frank cut by night and Ed sorted and stacked by day.

Fire destroyed their first mill on May 3, 1913. At this time the partnership was dissolved between Ed and Frank, and Frank eventually moved to Chico. The following year the mill was rebuilt as a portable mill when Dan, another brother, became a partner. 

They shipped a 1910 Best tractor from Chico to Bella Vista and Dan drove it from there to the mill site on Cow Creek. This steam tractor, built in San Leandro, California, was used at the Phillips mills from 1914 until 1938 when it was replaced by a caterpillar tractor. Even so, it was occasionally used for demonstrations and odd jobs until 1957. This steam tractor made a complete changeover in logging by eliminating entirely the "horse logging". 

The first little logging truck, which had been built in 1905, was now supplemented by a larger truck to haul tandem loads. This truck, like the first, was constructed by hand of native black oak in Ed's blacksmith shop. Wheels were cross sections of Ponderosa pine forty-two inches in diameter, fifteen inches thick at the hub and curved with a spokeshave to ten-inch rims. Handmade squared and sharpened pegs of red fir ten inches long were driven closely into the wheels to strengthen them.

 Axles were made of iron shafting purchased at the Bella Vista Box Factory and the hubs were cast by the Redding Iron Works.

https://phillipsbrothersmill.com/3/miscellaneous1.htm

1906 Best traction engine and a 1909 Case

1913 Case 30-60 sold for a world record of $1,470,000 US dollars.

At the auction conducted by Aumann Auctions, it sold for the world record breaking price of $1,470,000 US dollars. 

This is not only the most expensive antique tractor ever sold, but it’s also the most expensive tractor ever sold.

Why? I don't know, the press release doesn't say

https://classictractorstv.com/worlds-most-expensive-tractor/

Case steam tractor incline demonstration

 

Kory's new made 150 Case plowing for the 1st time ever with a 36 bottom John Deere plow.

what a beast!

I wonder what the torque is, or the torque factor of the weight of the tractor, factored with the ground's dry and compacted limits, and the length of the herringbone tracks on the wheels which increases the traction patch of the wheels

when you're in the right place, and the right time, with the right tool, there is nothing to big or heavy to move. Not when you've got the only 150hp Case tractor I was so damn happy to post about last year

150 Case Road Locomotive recreates history pulling 4 engines up a 13% grade (for god's sake people, QUIT using your cell phone to record video VERTICALLY!!!)

This is a recreation of an original test the JI Case company did on the first Road Locomotive built in 1905.

the Case 150 is complete and on it's way to South Dakota's James Valley Threshing event next weekend!

https://www.facebook.com/jvthreshers/
https://www.facebook.com/Anderson-Industries-LLC-115448931876302/
https://www.youtube.com/user/AndersonIND  so far, no videos of the complete and working Case. Not yet.

It'll be a shame if someone doesn't make a book about the creation of this tractor

It's been 3 years with NOTHING on the internet to follow up on, but now, that 150 Hp Case Steam Road Locomotive I posted about in '15 is getting a public unveiling Sept 7th!

all made from scratch, with a foundry and machine shop, the old fashioned way!

I recommend taking the video speed up to 2x

They were 25 feet long, 10 wide, and had 8 feet tall rear wheels
Each wheel weighs 6,500 lbs and the flywheel weighs 1,500 lbs.

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/09/kory-anderson-is-trying-to-recreate.html  for the post when I leaned that Kory Anderson was going to build one, replicating the originals, of which none exist.

https://www.facebook.com/Anderson-Industries-LLC-115448931876302/
https://www.facebook.com/kory.anderson.14

For info on the unveiling: https://www.facebook.com/events/133566784119843/
Come join us at the James Valley Threshing Show, Andover, South Dakota, for the unveiling of the 150 Case Road Locomotive! The event will be the first public display of the engine and will include presentations and a ceremony recognizing all the people that brought this engine back to life.
https://www.facebook.com/jvthreshers/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXMiJ6VSdJmZdUkxFZi1LPg

tractor and wagon advertisements coming to auction

http://www.morphyauctions.com/auctions/view/03062016-03062016-Advertising

steam roller ads from 1906