[Steam-engine] Steam Plows

[Jeff Smith]

Mike,

Is that a Z-3 in the photo or a different model?

Jeff Smith
--- Mike Rohrer <wmrohrer at myactv.net> wrote:

> Thanks for the picture.
> It is a Geiser engine with a steam lift plow. I know
> of no steam lift plows
> from any company. There are some large gang plows;
> Willis has a 20 bottom
> plow that he got from Austin Monk when he got his Z3
> Geiser. They both are
> in Somerset Virginia. I don't know whose plows they
> used for the Rumley
> show. I think there were 3 or 4 sets to make the 50
> bottom.
> Mike     
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> steam-engine-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
>
[mailto:steam-engine-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com]
> On Behalf Of Dan
> Donaldson
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 7:30 AM
> To: Steam-engine mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Steam-engine] Steam Plows
> 
>     I have sent Mike the picture and I have tried to
> post it to the mailing 
> list.  It may be too large to post to the list.  If
> anyone else would like a
> 
> picture emailed directly to them send me an email.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Rohrer" <wmrohrer at myactv.net>
> To: "'Steam-engine mailing list'"
> <steam-engine at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 6:30 AM
> Subject: RE: [Steam-engine] Steam Plows
> 
> 
> >I can't open the picture. Can someone sent it to
> me?
> > Mike Rohrer
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:
> steam-engine-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
> >
>
[mailto:steam-engine-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com]
> On Behalf Of 
> > Jeff
> > Smith
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 2:28 PM
> > To: Steam-engine mailing list
> > Subject: Re: [Steam-engine] Steam Plows
> >
> > Dan,
> >
> > I know you are asking about the plows, but the
> engine
> > looks to be a Z-3 Peerless.  Mike Roher would know
> > better than I would.  Kinzer's has a Z-3 and
> Willis
> > Abel had a few including the Reeves/Peerless
> cross.
> > That engine is HUGE!!!  I have climbed up on it
> and I
> > found it an interesting trip up with the little
> > platform on the right for the engineer to stand
> on.
> > I would like to see more photos of those plows
> also.
> >
> > Jeff Smith
> >
> >
> > --- Dan Donaldson <ddonaldson at tampatank.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>     What happened to all of the steam plows that
> >> I've seen pictures of?  A
> >> lot of shows use gang plows with levers or
> mehanical
> >> lifts to raise and
> >> lower the plows but I've never seen any surviving
> >> plows fitted with
> >> cylinders.  Ive seen lots of pictures so surely
> >> there must be some somwhere.
> >>     Here is a link to a picture of a steam plow
> if
> >> you are not familier with
> >> one.
> >>
> >
>
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?ngp:2:./temp/~ammem_Slck::displayType=
> > 1:m856sd=ndfapaza:m856sf=062:@@@/
> >>
> >> Dan Donaldson
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