Steam Power in Agriculture
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The European tour starts at “Great Challenge” in Lincolnshire as part of the World Ploughing Championships.
Many rare engines and the onlyremaining Howard ”Farmers Friend” demonstrate the history of steam ploughing under real competition conditions.
Italy
Franco Risi ploughs with his pair of Fowlers ploughing more than 15 inchesdeep, he breaks up the heavy clay in the fertile River Po valley Germany.
Traction engine is at the tractor rally inWe follow the Bavarian Steam plough crew from Schönbrunn with their powerful Heuckeset. Robert Coles with his impressive Marshall Niedertiefenbach. The Ackerkralle Cluboperates the oldest Marshall portable enginefrom 1881. Lanz in Mannheim built over
40,000 portable engines.
Two pairs of Ottomeyer ploughing engines with a total of 1800 hp and the mammoth plough became famous when ploughing moorland 90 inches deep.
France
A surprising find, a rare Tuxford & Sons portable engine in a museum at Paris,but the ”Cuynot” from 1770 is something special. The oldest self-propelled vehicle in the World driven 30 years earlier by Richard Trevithick in England.
The enthusiast staff of the Charolais Museum in Bourgogne steam up a Sociéte Française and a Pécard portable engine.
Holland
We visit Panningen and Almere for the Dutch steam scene. The last stop for the trip is Tilligte where a Dutch and a German fowler engine makea perfect pair when ploughing together. |
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