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I still find it funny that sugar mills did this exact thing decades ago

Is anything happening or is it over?

Awsome 😀

How cool would it be to have a steam tractor on every homestead and be able to attach and power a steam chainsaw and other tools?!

Well my friend from what I see you are trying to re invent the wheel steam can only be efficient if used in conjunction with nuclear energy, or geothermal energy !!!!!

More videos, now. 😊

Update?

Many thanks to you , because it's a very commandable to work for resurrecting steam for modern and post oil peak uses. All of peoples talk of new types of batteries, solar, hydrogen ,... it's all non-sens. Because all of that is high-tec, short timelife, irreaparable ,doesn't need of globalization; etc ... One of the only right ways, for railway , agriculture, ships, is STEAM. Because it's proven, simple , low-tec, durable, reparable, without need of globalization. Of course durable and sustainable developpement will need global decrease to allows sufficient amount of natural combustible fuel for each people on earth in equivalence.

Also in the asked questions, you said it wouldn’t run on coal, but what’ll happen if you try run it on coal?

A 40 ton locomotive. What exactly do you intend to pull with this powerful monster. Understand that a locomotive wheel, regardless of diameter, has the contact area the size of a U.S. dime and tractive effort - the ability to pull a load, depends a LOT on the weight of the engine. You are building a year switcher. Short line diesel engines have more tractive effort.

Its amazing to see someone working on different ideas for modern engines. Thank you for indulging your interest.

Hi, mechanical engineer and Machinist by trade, small farmer (few Acers) by hobby and also owner of a sawmill. When will this be available for purchase? And how much? - North Carolina, USA

come on really we need LESS of this shit and more renewable NON BURNING ones

I really love your videos, it is like listening to someone that is on my same wave length. I to built a wood fired boiler but only went as far as building a 1 HP Stuart Turner No1 steam engine.... I went down a similar path with hydrogen as you after being frustrated living on a farm run on solar electricity, as I looked at storing the excess solar power in summer time for winter use... but reached similar conclusions that hydrogen had to many efficiency losses.. I have a partly built steam turbine set up to drive a 12v alternator, so your videos were like s trip down memory lane in that regard. Have you looked into making a gas producer to run your tractor on wood? They can work heaps better now with the newer insulations and higher temperatures than when they were used during WW2... supposedly one kg of nice dry wood has similar energy density to 1lt of petrol.... Most refreshing to see interests in these things still alive and well.. especially with new innovation being applied. Best wishes

would be cool to see it bolted a steam engine like atractor or on Rails to demonsrate its power

I just want to say, having just discovered this, it's given me an idea for a future story...

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I'm interested in running a hammer on steam. I'm wondering if a pneumatic or hydraulic cylinder could be adapted to steam? Steam hammers of old were very controllable and powerful.

I'm interested in running a hammer on steam. I'm wondering if a pneumatic or hydraulic cylinder could be adapted to steam? Steam hammers of old were very controllable and powerful.

Ahh the enthusiasm of youth...best of luck lad, I mean that.

this kind of work needs to be done by adults not children, messing not with what they don't understand, listening to dreadful annoying irritating repetitive thumping pounding brainless dumbed down noise, unwatchable and unlistenable. try again in 20 years time

Also are you going to use this in tropical turbine pump that would be the most efficient type

Do you know also one of the reasons why water tube boilers were a failure on steam locomotives is that locomotives go through a lot of rough riding on the track specially at high speed you get lots of vibration and harmonics vibrations over time those water tubes will vibrate and start to metal fatigue over time and then the tubes would rupture and send that pressure back into the firebox if you have a tube rupture how are you going to prevent the fire blowing out the firebox door metal fatigue is a real issue with water to boilers I have an invention for you to solve that problem if you're interested peace out into the world have a great day

There better not be anything in this documentary about my wife!! She’s a 21st century boiler, to say the very least of it, and I don’t need any more people knowing even more about her ways and our private life than they already do. It’s a miracle she’s not in the national news spread about that visit to La Chambre. Caught a right dose.

I love anything to do with steam but global warming is a hoax. Don't buy into it. I know many will take issue with my statement but as Hitler said, "Say it enough and people will believe it.

The future is electric locomotives with overhead cantanery not steam.

I find your project very interesting, but with the brochure saying optional equipment is scheduled for third quarter of 2024 (which has now passed with no mention of even upcoming release of product) I am left mostly convinced this tractor is not going to be made availble anytime soon which saddens me.

Very nice work sir.

Any update on this locomotive boys?

One thing that I never see in the steam engine channels is the issue of political and environmental disasters on the transportation industry. In this unstable political turmoil all it takes is a series of airborne nuclear blasts to fry all electronics, shutting down all forms of transportation. With the current weakening of the earth's magnetic field, the increasing possibility of a solar coronal mass ejection on the level of the well-known Carrington event will accomplish the same thing thing. Diesel locomotives carry a high majority of our goods across the continents. They are largely controlled by electronics and computers. An EMP blast from either solar or nuclear events will render the locomotive permanently unusable. By contrast, the steam locomotive is essentially a mechanical machine which would be largely immune to these problems and would be able to carry on the transport of goods in a world that may have been blasted back to the 1800s. With the increased efficiency of the steam engines being developed in Australia and other regions, my concern would be putting all efforts to making the transportation field immune to natural and political disasters via the use of steam locomotives and steam tractors .

and has all the issues garrets have where A) consuming fuels reduces the weight over the drivers B) you can't see shit around the boiler C) tractive effort/speed set by wheel/piston size D complex motion that got to be oiled and wheat's out faster than a traction motor. There's a reason every state threw out or sold off the garrets the first chance they got - none of them preformed well. Had the states not been forced into buying them they would have never bought them.

Mad respect to these lads for commiting to innovation and inventon. The best of luck to them 😊

It's been a little while how are things common along?

Watched a couple of videos now. Nothing says the biomass fed into the machine is pyrolised, which would create charcoal, so I'm guessing what comes out the smoke stack is pretty dirty. Hope to be proven wrong.

Are the fireboxes on these engines biochar makers? I understand the emissions from biochar kilns are much lower than emissions from steam engine fireboxes.

Can we put one into a ship? Maybe 300hp on a coastal freighter. We want to work in the Islands helping remote communities but diesel is increasingly troublesome. Lots of biomass though. Husks and wood etc. Possibly the agloco that can be removed from the ship hold to assist on land and recover biomass. Then replace to provide propulsion. Love your passion. We need a solution. Russell @ Biosource Ltd

what resources did you use to become educated enough to be able to design your boiler with this amount of certainty?

I suggest adding Norwegian subtitles to this video!..

I think the number one issue to solve with steam is how to make it easier to repair and maintain locomotives. If it would be easier to just swap parts like on a diesel locomotives I think they would be more attractive and competative. I've heard from a guy who has worked with both diesel and steam locomotives and he said that in a diesel workshop you swap parts, in a steam workshop you make parts.

I support this idea

I will anxiously be awaiting a bicycle steam engine design so I no longer need lithium batteries!

I'm curious how they achieve the no risk of explosion.

In Indonesia, there are many sugar factories, and some of them still use sugar cane trains.

is the a.g loco free from cylinder condensation? i drove a lot of steam locos in my early years and they needed constant use of the cylinder drains to spill out all the condensed water;some engines with certain types of valve gears had ther cylinder heads blown off due to the water accumulation in the system. does that also happen with the mackwell locomotives?

This is a brilliant idea, only thing I'd say though is make it an 0-6-0+0-6-0 for more adhesion

Maybe the circulating pump could be just a lenght of pipe through the hottest combustion gasses with a couple of clack-valves, functioning along the lines of a coffee-maker or a pop-pop boat.

You cant do much with steam unless you Supper Heat it lol

Yes!!! I want one of these now! Especially one with a generator attachment would be perfect with how often power and heat goes out here in Ohio!

I've been saying it for years, steam has HUGE amounts of instant torque AND because of this has zero need for a complex transmission just like EVs, but on top of that doesn't rely on costly and damaging lithium mining and refining. If you can make the boiler compact enough to have good all around visibility without sacrificing efficiency, safety or simplicity you're golden! Best of luck guys!

Look up turbo burn barrels and try to add a turbo to burn hotter and more efficient.