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2007 Hartford Steam Traction engine Boiler Inspections

May 29, 2007. David Denny told me that Robert Richardson and Bob Swaim loaded our Roller on Virgil White's low boy trailer -- pictures below -- Saturday May 26, and Robert intends to haul our Roller to Hercules Power Equipment in L.A. Saturday June 2.
2PM is not a good picture taking time.

Greg Hayden took the above picture Saturday May 5, 2007

Steam Team Honcho Dean Alling, and Engineer Scott Higgins came down from Santa Clarita, joined by locals Eric McConnon and Jake Williams, they performed work in prep for our annual State boiler inspection May 19.

A Generous Donor agreed to fund rebuilding our Buffalo Pitts steam road roller's boiler -- pictured above. It will be taken to Hercules Power Equipment, Inc.,1452 S. Sunol Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90023. Dave Laban, President.

Click here for four pictures Greg Hayden took during our October 2006 Show, when our steam team ran our road roller's steam engine via a high pressure steam hose hooked to our 1912 Museum Owned 60HP -- 45 KW -- CASE steam traction engine boiler.

Thoughts of an Engineer, by Jake Williams

Kromer Engineer Caps Milwaukee, WI.

1909 Case 20 Restoration
August 19, 2006 Paint 1909 Case 20 wheels
A Day in Paradise by Scott Higgins 2006 June Harvest Fair

Left: Museum Owned 1902 16 HP -- 12 KW -- Advance straw burner - burning wood. Our Museum President Tom Garrison took this picture some years ago. September 9, 2006 Advance sunset pictures. Right: Each of our areas has a person in charge. The Steam Team Boss is the VERY capable Dean Alling. Dean, with his beautifully restored 1920 20HP -- 15 KW -- The Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co., leads by example.

Left: Dinosaurs @ the well. Our steam traction engines often stop here by our South Windmill, to top off their water bunkers. Scott and Carol Higgins 1916 16 HP -- 12 KW -- Russell, front. Right: Scott & Carol Higgins operate their 1916 16 HP Russell, towing our Museum owned, Old Threshers Cook Shack.

Left: Steam Team. Left to right: Jake Williams, Scott Higgins, Greg Petersen, Art Laidlaw, Stephan Whitehead?, Alex Comerchero, Robert Richardson and Steam Team Boss Dean Alling.

Steam Traction Engines Left to right: Museum Owned 1902 16 HP Advance S/N 6744 straw burner, Scott and Carol Higgins 1916 16 HP Russell S/N 16099, 1912 Museum Owned 60HP -- 45 KW -- CASE S/N 27462, and Steam Team Boss Dean Allings' 1920 20HP Minneapolis S/N 8376. In front Museum owned three eighths scale 60hp CASE.
Right: Here is the famous Steam Team picture you have heard about. It shows a hard working Steam Team member tending to business.

Left: Steam Traction Engine Barn South side. Advance and Minneapolis. Right: The Ignitor December 2005 cover

Left: Museum Owned 1898 12HP -- 9 KW -- Russell engineered by Byron Whitehead sawing fire wood. Right: Smashing Sorghum Cane to make Molasses. The Advance engineered by Jake Williams on the sorghum press. Please go here for more pictures of our Advance on Virgils sorghum press.

Left: 1898 Museum Owned 12HP Russell. Right: Museum owned three eighths scale 60hp CASE piloted by Robert Richardson (left) & Jake Williams.

Left: Museum owned 25 HP -- 18-1/2 KW -- Russell Portable-very rough shape. Right: 1909 Museum owned 20 HP -- 15 KW -- CASE-under restoration.

Above Left & Right. Jake Williams brushing tubes
Below: Some special evenings our Steam Team demonstrates excitement our ancestors enjoyed, Steam Traction Engine Spark Shows. Left: Advance throwing sparks with the spark arrester removed. Right: Advance with Jake Williams on the left, Robert Richardson, and Dean Alling at the door

See our 1890 Star steam self propelled Drilling Machine

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