[AT] Flax burning steamer

Ralph Goff alfg at sasktel.net
Sun Nov 28 10:26:03 PST 2004


http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/Sask100gallery/farming-agriculture.htm
Heres an interesting old photo showing a Rumley 36 hp steamer burning flax
straw and pulling what appears to be a plough and seed drill way back in
1914. You can actually see the rack holding flax straw mounted behind the
tractor. I can't imagine how much straw one of these engines would have
burned in a day but it must have taken a few acres of flax to supply the
straw for this big old engine.
Theres quite a few more like this photo at the WDM site.

Ralph in Sask.
http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/





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