I have the greatest of respect for the people who keep these running. Another problem not mentioned is the quality of the available coal - poor quality means a lot more work and possible underperformance.
THE LORRY STEAM FOR ENGINERING NOT PETROL OR DIESEL STEAM WAP BLACK BOWN TO FIRE WATER INJECTION FOR POWERING SPEED NOT PICKUP GEAR. IDEAL VERY GOOD FIRST TIME IDEAL OR AREA FOCUS VERYGOOD BRAIN 150 YEARS OLD.
I can remember actually seeing a Sentinel steam lorry in use. It was delivering coal in Stoneywood, Aberdeenshire at the time. I was at school so it would be about 1950 or thereabouts. A great machine and a grea plume of smoke....
It's amazing how many people don't understand what power actually is. At the wheels, one 55 hp engine can't produce any more torque than another, unless the wheel speeds are significantly different.
@John Chrysostom Rev 3:9 I'm talking about post-gearing. Gears multiply torque, so the amount of the torque that an engine produces means nothing, because you can make as much torque as you want with gearing. HP tells you how much torque you can produce at a given rpm, so ANY 55 hp engine can match the torque output at the wheels of this vehicle, with the correct gearing.
Them still building these steam wagons in the 30s might be surprising until you remember that: These were for industrial use not civilian, so the issues of it being hard to run are less important when you're already hiring two guys to run one anyway. Labor was cheap and time could be taken, especially when petrol and diesel trucks weren't that much better or cheaper. Plus the thing doesn't require a very refined fuel source, and can run on most anything that will fit in the firebox and burn. It's likely similar in concept to Turbine locomotives, which could burn stuff like Bunker C residual fuel oils. Those are oils that aren't very useful in anything but steam engines and the like, but turbines can burn it more efficiently and with much higher horsepower to weight. So running a train with an industrial turbine, even though it was a bit of a maintenance hog and guzzled fuel, made sense because the fuel it used was cheaper. So this steam truck is exchanging labor for fuel economy. The moment that ratio becomes unfavorable, though, these trucks become totally obsolete.
Considering the time period I think they also would've been quite popular as petroleum fuels were hard to get since it was all being sent to the war effort
The 'Standard' was one of the earliest wagons that Sentinel manufactured pre dating the 'Super' The 'S' in the case of the Sandstone wagon stands for shaft drive.
Thank you for a very clear explanation of the way in which a Sentinel steam engine works. I know about steam locomotive working, but this is significantly different. I'm old enough (70) to remember steam lorries on the road - both in Littlehampton (Sussex) and in Cardiff. One I especially remember from Cardiff had something to do with road servicing machinery - the company (or was it the local authority? Cardiff Corporation?) had a steam powered road roller and a steam lorry; and I remember seeing them several times on the road between Cardiff city centre and St Mellons (old A48). You could smell them long before you could see them. Lovely!
Living in the US, I had no idea that our friends across the pond were still using steam road vehicles well into the 20th century. I suppose it makes sense, considering that gas/petrol wasn't and still isn't as cheap over there, as it was/is for us.
I once did a conversion of the prices of fuel in America compared to the UK. My dads car at the time had a 45 litre tank and for a full tank, it worked out to be just £11.10 equivalent on American prices.
Beautiful machine!😍 I can assure you my ex-wife has WAY more maintenance issues than this truck! And regardless of what happens you at least know exactly where you stand and what it's gonna take to fix whatever is wrong with this truck!!
I love steam lorries and buses. I have a framed picture on the wall above me, of central Bristol , in the 1920's. despite severe WW2 bombings, this City Centre scene is still recognisable. It shows a great bustling scene, with several horse drawn traffic, a Steam bus, and the other a steam driven commercial truck. Nice images of Ladies walking too, in their 20's fashions and Bobbed hair.
all sentinels are chain drive exept for the s type models and the prototype sd4 that used to be owned by ian woolet.. the standard sentinel was the first type of waggon that they built then the super, the DG and then the s type models.. they also made a lot of diesel powered vehicles through the 50s untill they got bought out by rolls royce
se usaban para transportar el carbon desde el yacimiento de Rio Turbio hasta un puerto cercano a Rio Gallegos, a unos 300 km de distancia a traves de la estepa patagonica, se consumía en el viaje la mitad del carbon que cargaban en el yacimiento para ir y volver. . .iban por una simple huella y el chofer no volvía ni a cobrar el sueldo . . Luego se construyó un ferrocarril y se desecharon los camiones. . .
Yes Diesel did invent the Diesel Engine and combined with his earlier work in refrigeration he also having been aware that when something is compressed like air it gets hot. How hot is up to how much it is compressed, enough pressure and anything that is flammable will burn. Even a humble air compressor at only around 125PSI is too hot to touch if not cooled enough. So the how hot is hot enough to make a Fuel Oil Burn? Depends on the flash point of the fuel. There is debate over where the idea came from although no doubt in my my mind that it was one man with his life experiences that put it ALL together. Below are a 2 links for any person interested. Cheers from John, Australia. www.jstor.org/stable/3101687?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel
@@joandar1 they killed Rudolf Diesel because of his perfection of the oil engine. The steam guys knew their days were numbered. Supprised Elon Musk has not yet got a bulet in him yet
@@ttm2609 I think he is killed because of developing countries can use vegetable oil as fuel for his Diesel engine. That threatens the business of oil distributors like Standard Oil. Thus the only thing to do was to kill him. But even amidst the conspiracies around his death, we still don't know, and might never will what really happened.
Hi, the early pioneers of this technology were really genius. Learning about these steam lorries is must for a engineer. By inventing these technologies made Britain an industrial powerhouse of yesteryears.
Modern Steam cars and steam-car startup companies have 3 major improvements. Well, it's been 100 years of technological advancements. 1) Modern steam cars use liquid and gas fuel to run. Great this is that it can run any biofuel, like one from seaweed. As well as gasoline, natural gas or hydrogen. 2) They have closed cycle of water - after steam is used in engine, it is rather collected in cooler, and then re-used as water. You don't need to refill water at all. 3) Some steam startups use hybrid cars - you run on electric engines the first 2-5 minutes while engine is heating. When you get your steam - engine both runs the car and re-charging the battery. You get to run your car instantly and you still get insane amount of torque.
Lovely. I suppose in another twenty years or so we'll be seeing videos like this about vehicles powered by internal combustion engines. I imagine that when the lorry was built, it would normally have a crew of two - a driver, and a fireman to tend the boiler.
Dude... in another 20 years or so the current fleet will still be on the road. But they might be making videos about people who believe the future is now just because the technology already exists.
Moreover, the generators are turned by steam heated using that coal. But still, electric motors are far more efficient than any combustion engine. I can imagine other sources of energy like hydro and solar would be a huge improvement!
@@floofyboi3112 I disagree because it takes 100 barrels of oil to make battery for a tesla and the salts and minerals it takes from the earth are rare and the mining destroys the land, and when the chemicals to make the battery can not be recycled what is the effect of safely disposing of the battery on the environment.
@@sammynichols314 nothing personal, but do you have any sources that support this? It seems rather poorly researched. But you're not entirely wrong; mr. Whiteboard made a video about this, and he is not alone. He supplies plenty of reliable sources: ruclips.net/video/Qo4byxhI6kY/видео.html Sorry, I dont have time to write at the moment , ask away, but replies are going to be few and far between bro
@@floofyboi3112 I am so sorry you have not done your research as I have done. I am sorry you haven't done any objective research such as what are the negative and environmental impact of these cars. Also try not to talk down to someone when you are trying to explain things because it is not helpful in research. It is sad that people get an elitist ideology and want to dream that they are right because they want to feel smug driving their electric cars just because it sounds good and feels good does not mean that it is right.
@@sammynichols314 Sorry if it appeared as if I talked down to you, I was not. As a matter of fact I want you to read your comment over again and see the irony in all this before I make any further comments
Quick query, is it possible to convert those steam trucks and cars to burn gasoline, oil, or propane much like they did to steam modern steam locomotives and old naval ships?
I think any boiler able to deliver steam at the right pressure and in the right quantity would do the job. It would be a question of replacing the old boiler with one burning the appropriate fuel. Of course it would need to fit into the space available, and arrangements made to store whatever fuel is used.
Two were standard. Fireman tended the boiler, driver steered and controlled it. On slower traction engines, the driver did the fire and water work, while steers man kept it going in the right direction.
I doubt that the exhaust steam passes a Venturi. More like just exits with valocity causing a lower pressure region behind it that can aid flow if intake air. Just sayin'
What a beauty. Many thanks for posting. How are the brakes and are they steam-operated? Great to see you can alter the cut-off. I was wondering what the max and min cutoff percentages are? And does the injector pick up automatically or do you have to set the water and steam feeds to the injector? (I bet it smells great.)
Good Day Stephan. The breaks are steam operated and have a bad delay when operating at a lower pressure. Not sure what the what the cut off percentages are as there are no markings. the injector picks up with some effort.
Thanks for replying. Thaty ties in with an experience I had driving and firing a small loco at a colliery in Kent. The steam brake would begin strong and fade fast so it was important to make repeated applications to stop the train. The injector worked ok, but water had to be set first, then steam and then the water was backed off once the injector had picked up and was singing nicely. These were live steam injectors which I guess yours are too. It was all a bit basic but you get a strong sense of what's going on and the forces involved, which I liked a lot. It was all very 'real' and about as far away from driving a car as it's possible to be! Your steam lorry is wonderful. Thanks for preserving it for the future.@@shawnspaan895
With steam engines cutting the steam off and centering the forward /reverse lever stops them very effectively. These are also fitted with a band operated parking break, and a steam operated foot brake. This needs the occasional touch to keep it live, but in an emergency 200 lbs of steam pressure will stop it in short order.
I surely heard you,, around 4:30, about you having to watch your boiler's water level. Because, if its water level ever gets too low, you will likely have a boiler explosion! Such a boiler explosion can absolutely be deadly!
Funnily enough all the maintenance and routine to get one of these going is going to be comparable to an ICE car when electric cars eventually dominate the roads .
you do realize that most of the stuff that has to be done on these old vehicles is not because they run on steam but because they use technology from 100 years ago ? like all the bearings are probably friction bearings that need constant lubrication and the boiler/burner were made without any modern tech that makes them almost maintenance free (see modern heating units for houses) with todays technology you could probably build steam trucks that run on wood chips ( Co2 neutral if replanted 1:1 ), dont require much more maintenance than a diesel truck, start up quick enough, etc its probably just too risky and expensive for manufacturers to get such a thing started without any need (no more oil, extreme climate change, ...)
@@Raeffi3 Very good points, the maintenance is due to old age, not the tech itself. Just one detail: it will only be carbon neutral in the long run. Most plants and forests are not co2 sinkholes until they grow. At first they produce more co2 than they consume, and the growth time has to be taken into account
They brought some of these here in Argentina? But I've never seen one of these... I should investigate more to see if I can find one, that would be interesting.
Jerry Bear They possibly were fuelled by wood or charcoal in some locations where coal wasn't available. The question is, why would you want to? The carbon footprint of the few remaining is tiny, given that they are rare and rarely run.
@@spencerwilton5831 the design could be used to make new steam trucks and how great would it be to cut out the middle man. all you need is water and fire, no petroleum, no batteries or electricity. grease and oil for proper maintenance is a necessity. im ultimately thinking survival camper.
Society as a whole, is still using almost the exact same engine ie. pistons, cams, throttle/regulator etc, it's only the fire that tends to happen inside it now...
@@SilverCanary1 You are completely correct. Past 130 years have had basically unchanged designs of engines, we've just made them a lot more precisely and lighter. Crazy how much efficiency is gained even though you hardly change the basic design.
The Ann Arbor Railroad had a wrecking derrick that they burned charcoal in. They used it well into the late '70s long after the rest of the system had been dieselized.
In Britain,the steam wagon was killed off by the petroleum industry. They convinced the establishment to pass legislation that in the end created the steam trucks demise .
@InfiniteMushroom First and foremost, the US can do without imported oil, second in an event where the production would stop for some reason, you'd have a serious security problem. And as for the steam engine not needing oil - think again. You absolutely need lubrication. If you can make lubricating oil, you can power either a hot bulb engine like in the video or a more modern mechanically injected diesel one. Wouldn't even attempt to do this with a common Rail injected one though.
"Operating this machine can only be called; a labour of Love."
Or in today's terms; a pain in the ass.
How about tough love?
Greasing joints is easy.
I have the greatest of respect for the people who keep these running. Another problem not mentioned is the quality of the available coal - poor quality means a lot more work and possible underperformance.
I wonder if these (and other steam engines) will be forced to burn briquettes/chopped logs because of coal related air pollution 😉
Can you use hard coal to run these truck?
@@samuelfellows6923 there's not enough of them left to justify regulating them.
THE LORRY STEAM FOR ENGINERING NOT PETROL OR DIESEL STEAM WAP BLACK BOWN TO FIRE WATER INJECTION FOR POWERING SPEED NOT PICKUP GEAR. IDEAL VERY GOOD FIRST TIME IDEAL OR AREA FOCUS VERYGOOD BRAIN 150 YEARS OLD.
In Czechoslovakia, the Skoda factory manufactured them under license. It produced about 200 pieces. Between 1924 and 1935.
oooo what was the name of it?
@@dand7422 Skoda Sentinel.
I can remember actually seeing a Sentinel steam lorry in use. It was delivering coal in Stoneywood, Aberdeenshire at the time. I was at school so it would be about 1950 or thereabouts. A great machine and a grea plume of smoke....
55 HP, 10,000,000 lb*ft of torque
boiler hp would be around 700hp
It's amazing how many people don't understand what power actually is. At the wheels, one 55 hp engine can't produce any more torque than another, unless the wheel speeds are significantly different.
@@PistonAvatarGuy It's a joke, my guy.
@@PistonAvatarGuy i do understand bu i just told how much bhp would be in hp
@John Chrysostom Rev 3:9 I'm talking about post-gearing. Gears multiply torque, so the amount of the torque that an engine produces means nothing, because you can make as much torque as you want with gearing. HP tells you how much torque you can produce at a given rpm, so ANY 55 hp engine can match the torque output at the wheels of this vehicle, with the correct gearing.
Them still building these steam wagons in the 30s might be surprising until you remember that: These were for industrial use not civilian, so the issues of it being hard to run are less important when you're already hiring two guys to run one anyway. Labor was cheap and time could be taken, especially when petrol and diesel trucks weren't that much better or cheaper.
Plus the thing doesn't require a very refined fuel source, and can run on most anything that will fit in the firebox and burn.
It's likely similar in concept to Turbine locomotives, which could burn stuff like Bunker C residual fuel oils. Those are oils that aren't very useful in anything but steam engines and the like, but turbines can burn it more efficiently and with much higher horsepower to weight. So running a train with an industrial turbine, even though it was a bit of a maintenance hog and guzzled fuel, made sense because the fuel it used was cheaper.
So this steam truck is exchanging labor for fuel economy. The moment that ratio becomes unfavorable, though, these trucks become totally obsolete.
Considering the time period I think they also would've been quite popular as petroleum fuels were hard to get since it was all being sent to the war effort
I think driving to Johannesburg would still be a big adventure today. Not just "in those days".
from durban yes but many people do it for april vacation in one day
The 'Standard' was one of the earliest wagons that Sentinel manufactured pre dating the 'Super' The 'S' in the case of the Sandstone wagon stands for shaft drive.
Excellent explanation of the working of the machine!
Thank you for a very clear explanation of the way in which a Sentinel steam engine works. I know about steam locomotive working, but this is significantly different.
I'm old enough (70) to remember steam lorries on the road - both in Littlehampton (Sussex) and in Cardiff. One I especially remember from Cardiff had something to do with road servicing machinery - the company (or was it the local authority? Cardiff Corporation?) had a steam powered road roller and a steam lorry; and I remember seeing them several times on the road between Cardiff city centre and St Mellons (old A48). You could smell them long before you could see them. Lovely!
Living in the US, I had no idea that our friends across the pond were still using steam road vehicles well into the 20th century. I suppose it makes sense, considering that gas/petrol wasn't and still isn't as cheap over there, as it was/is for us.
I once did a conversion of the prices of fuel in America compared to the UK. My dads car at the time had a 45 litre tank and for a full tank, it worked out to be just £11.10 equivalent on American prices.
Beautiful machine!😍 I can assure you my ex-wife has WAY more maintenance issues than this truck! And regardless of what happens you at least know exactly where you stand and what it's gonna take to fix whatever is wrong with this truck!!
Lyle Chesley looks like divorce have had huge impact on you
@@leeeeeee2796 ya think?!!
glad you got rid of it
what a beautiful machine. Those men who operated these trucks certainly earned their pay.
I believe horse riders and coachmen did not think so
@@yn1578 In 40 years people will say the same about oil changes and filling gas tanks!
I'm buying a Sentinel as soon as i win the Powerball tonight. Love these things!
im making one
Wow l enjoyed it so much l watched it again it’s people like you who keep and preserve these fine machines a touch of a by gone era that l love cheers
I love steam lorries and buses. I have a framed picture on the wall above me, of central Bristol , in the 1920's. despite severe WW2 bombings, this City Centre scene is still recognisable. It shows a great bustling scene, with several horse drawn traffic, a Steam bus, and the other a steam driven commercial truck. Nice images of Ladies walking too, in their 20's fashions and Bobbed hair.
The "S" stands for shaft, not standard. The standard name was used for the earlier models that had a chain driven engine.
all sentinels are chain drive exept for the s type models and the prototype sd4 that used to be owned by ian woolet.. the standard sentinel was the first type of waggon that they built then the super, the DG and then the s type models.. they also made a lot of diesel powered vehicles through the 50s untill they got bought out by rolls royce
s types were not only shaft drive they also had proper steam brakes unlike all the earlier models and they had a bigger 4 cylinder engine as well..
I love the old sentimental steam lorries, they bring back happy memories! ;-)
In Argentina it was used in Río Turbio State owned Coal mine. One still exists...as far as i know.
se usaban para transportar el carbon desde el yacimiento de Rio Turbio hasta un puerto cercano a Rio Gallegos, a unos 300 km de distancia a traves de la estepa patagonica, se consumía en el viaje la mitad del carbon que cargaban en el yacimiento para ir y volver. . .iban por una simple huella y el chofer no volvía ni a cobrar el sueldo . . Luego se construyó un ferrocarril y se desecharon los camiones. . .
Thank god for Rudolph Diesel! Enjoyed your clip tho, thank you for your hard work keeping this part of history going. Thanks for posting 🤗
Yes Diesel did invent the Diesel Engine and combined with his earlier work in refrigeration he also having been aware that when something is compressed like air it gets hot.
How hot is up to how much it is compressed, enough pressure and anything that is flammable will burn. Even a humble air compressor at only around 125PSI is too hot to touch if not cooled enough. So the how hot is hot enough to make a Fuel Oil Burn? Depends on the flash point of the fuel.
There is debate over where the idea came from although no doubt in my my mind that it was one man with his life experiences that put it ALL together. Below are a 2 links for any person interested. Cheers from John, Australia.
www.jstor.org/stable/3101687?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel
@@joandar1 they killed Rudolf Diesel because of his perfection of the oil engine. The steam guys knew their days were numbered. Supprised Elon Musk has not yet got a bulet in him yet
@@ttm2609 I think he is killed because of developing countries can use vegetable oil as fuel for his Diesel engine. That threatens the business of oil distributors like Standard Oil. Thus the only thing to do was to kill him. But even amidst the conspiracies around his death, we still don't know, and might never will what really happened.
I am soooo glad to know that there are working/operational steam engines right here in S,A.
Prior to now id been watching fred dibnar videos.
Reminds me of the old truck I drove when we built the Pyramids.....
😂Hahaha! Back in the days.
Hi, the early pioneers of this technology were really genius. Learning about these steam lorries is must for a engineer. By inventing these technologies made Britain an industrial powerhouse of yesteryears.
Does Jay Leno have one yet?
The Sentinel Steam Waggon has Jay Leno written all over it!
yes actually
You Sir, are an absolute wizard! Thanks for the show.
Simply fantastic! A very wonderful truck. Thank you so much for saving restoring showing taping editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards.
Can you imagine how hot it must have been in the cab during the summer months? Wow!
I have to wear a long sleeve shirt to prevent my left arm from burning from radiant heat from boiler.
What an absolutely wonderful presentation, superb, thank you.
Thank you for that nice comment!
It must be nice and toasty in that cab, beside the boiler, in the South African sun.
Absolutely wonderful, thank you!
Very interesting vehicle 🚗👍great video.
I would think that the size of the clinker masses on fire cleaning is indicative of the poor quality of the coal?
Yes, here in South Africa, our grade of coal is low.
This is how aliens see our "modern technology" nowadays
Can you imagine this now? Honey why is it every time I get in the truck the coal bunker is empty?
Modern Steam cars and steam-car startup companies have 3 major improvements. Well, it's been 100 years of technological advancements.
1) Modern steam cars use liquid and gas fuel to run. Great this is that it can run any biofuel, like one from seaweed. As well as gasoline, natural gas or hydrogen.
2) They have closed cycle of water - after steam is used in engine, it is rather collected in cooler, and then re-used as water. You don't need to refill water at all.
3) Some steam startups use hybrid cars - you run on electric engines the first 2-5 minutes while engine is heating. When you get your steam - engine both runs the car and re-charging the battery. You get to run your car instantly and you still get insane amount of torque.
Unimog's great, great grandad - well there is a certain family resemblance.
Thank you for the video, and for the hard work keeping these marvelous dinosaurs on the road.
Must have been fun in the summer with a boiler in the cab.
English summers are a close approximation of English winters.
Lovely. I suppose in another twenty years or so we'll be seeing videos like this about vehicles powered by internal combustion engines. I imagine that when the lorry was built, it would normally have a crew of two - a driver, and a fireman to tend the boiler.
Dude... in another 20 years or so the current fleet will still be on the road. But they might be making videos about people who believe the future is now just because the technology already exists.
*100 years
I drive a 2 stroke, 50cc, 40+ years old moped, people usually think that it is something homemade, it is really incredible how times change
This is so amazing
Bellissimo witput , bellissimo Sean , se non fosse per voi ......
Since most electricity is made using coal in the states this truck runs on the same energy that a tesla uses.
Moreover, the generators are turned by steam heated using that coal. But still, electric motors are far more efficient than any combustion engine. I can imagine other sources of energy like hydro and solar would be a huge improvement!
@@floofyboi3112 I disagree because it takes 100 barrels of oil to make battery for a tesla and the salts and minerals it takes from the earth are rare and the mining destroys the land, and when the chemicals to make the battery can not be recycled what is the effect of safely disposing of the battery on the environment.
@@sammynichols314 nothing personal, but do you have any sources that support this? It seems rather poorly researched. But you're not entirely wrong; mr. Whiteboard made a video about this, and he is not alone. He supplies plenty of reliable sources: ruclips.net/video/Qo4byxhI6kY/видео.html
Sorry, I dont have time to write at the moment , ask away, but replies are going to be few and far between bro
@@floofyboi3112 I am so sorry you have not done your research as I have done. I am sorry you haven't done any objective research such as what are the negative and environmental impact of these cars. Also try not to talk down to someone when you are trying to explain things because it is not helpful in research. It is sad that people get an elitist ideology and want to dream that they are right because they want to feel smug driving their electric cars just because it sounds good and feels good does not mean that it is right.
@@sammynichols314 Sorry if it appeared as if I talked down to you, I was not. As a matter of fact I want you to read your comment over again and see the irony in all this before I make any further comments
Twin cam variable valve timing!
Honda: Check out our VTEC!!
Sentinel: Hold my scotch
oh South Africa you know we still run some commercial steam trains
I love my country
Quick query, is it possible to convert those steam trucks and cars to burn gasoline, oil, or propane much like they did to steam modern steam locomotives and old naval ships?
I think any boiler able to deliver steam at the right pressure and in the right quantity would do the job. It would be a question of replacing the old boiler with one burning the appropriate fuel. Of course it would need to fit into the space available, and arrangements made to store whatever fuel is used.
“I am going to water station to fill up my truck”
forget about coal....use briquttes. no ash no smoke no dust well maybe they are not hot enough but i would still use pellets and auger loading
That rig should have a crew of two to operate it.
Two were standard. Fireman tended the boiler, driver steered and controlled it. On slower traction engines, the driver did the fire and water work, while steers man kept it going in the right direction.
I doubt that the exhaust steam passes a Venturi. More like just exits with valocity causing a lower pressure region behind it that can aid flow if intake air. Just sayin'
Is this from south africa or where? I heard johannesburg mentioned somewhere. What was this doing there?
Yes, at Sandstone Estates near Ficksburg in the Eastern Free State, South Africa.
What a beauty. Many thanks for posting. How are the brakes and are they steam-operated? Great to see you can alter the cut-off. I was wondering what the max and min cutoff percentages are? And does the injector pick up automatically or do you have to set the water and steam feeds to the injector?
(I bet it smells great.)
Good Day Stephan. The breaks are steam operated and have a bad delay when operating at a lower pressure. Not sure what the what the cut off percentages are as there are no markings. the injector picks up with some effort.
Thanks for replying. Thaty ties in with an experience I had driving and firing a small loco at a colliery in Kent. The steam brake would begin strong and fade fast so it was important to make repeated applications to stop the train. The injector worked ok, but water had to be set first, then steam and then the water was backed off once the injector had picked up and was singing nicely. These were live steam injectors which I guess yours are too. It was all a bit basic but you get a strong sense of what's going on and the forces involved, which I liked a lot. It was all very 'real' and about as far away from driving a car as it's possible to be! Your steam lorry is wonderful. Thanks for preserving it for the future.@@shawnspaan895
With steam engines cutting the steam off and centering the forward /reverse lever stops them very effectively.
These are also fitted with a band operated parking break, and a steam operated foot brake. This needs the occasional touch to keep it live, but in an emergency 200 lbs of steam pressure will stop it in short order.
@@andrewclayton4181 Thanks for your reply. Appreciated 👍
I surely heard you,, around 4:30, about you having to watch your boiler's water level. Because, if its water level ever gets too low, you will likely have a boiler explosion! Such a boiler explosion can absolutely be deadly!
Can you use hard coal to run these things?
They need good quality coal to run efficiently, though they will run on poorer stuff.
do you use modern insulation on the pipes?
Cause I'm pretty sure back then when these were new asbestos was used
Hi. Modern insulation was used on these pipes but yes asbestos was used previously.
Correct
It's not like you could buy asbestos insulation today at an auto parts store.
Twin cam - sweet!
I spose heating up your lunch and making a cuppa would be easy
Can it do driverless navigation?
More interesting to look at than a Lamborghini
What’s the difference between waggons and lorrys?
a lorry is exclusively powered by a machine, a wagons were originally pulled by horses
@@AKAtheA Thanks for answering!
About 3500 miles
Is this Elizabeth from Thomas And Friends?
Beautiful truck. I love steam engines and wish I had a steam car to drive...or steam bicycle!
why hasn't he think to add air cond. in his truck ..????
The California Air Resources Board doesn't like it. But I love it...
Nice video! Is this in South Africa?
Thanks for the comment! Yes, at Sandstone Estates in the Eastern Free State.
😮 - I automatically thought that was in 🇬🇧
Funnily enough all the maintenance and routine to get one of these going is going to be comparable to an ICE car when electric cars eventually dominate the roads .
you do realize that most of the stuff that has to be done on these old vehicles is not because they run on steam but because they use technology from 100 years ago ?
like all the bearings are probably friction bearings that need constant lubrication and the boiler/burner were made without any modern tech that makes them almost maintenance free (see modern heating units for houses)
with todays technology you could probably build steam trucks that run on wood chips ( Co2 neutral if replanted 1:1 ), dont require much more maintenance than a diesel truck, start up quick enough, etc
its probably just too risky and expensive for manufacturers to get such a thing started without any need (no more oil, extreme climate change, ...)
@@Raeffi3
Very good points, the maintenance is due to old age, not the tech itself.
Just one detail: it will only be carbon neutral in the long run. Most plants and forests are not co2 sinkholes until they grow. At first they produce more co2 than they consume, and the growth time has to be taken into account
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I would love to have something like this
Have they ever tried running one of these on torrefied biomass?
They brought some of these here in Argentina? But I've never seen one of these... I should investigate more to see if I can find one, that would be interesting.
You are correct, I believe they ran for many years after manufacturing stopped as coal was the cheapest fuel still.
I´m a 67 y/o argie and I´ve never seen one of these either. Let´s find one and I can drive it and you may tend to it. OK?
@@dmcalut You are an "argie" jajaja you made me laugh.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramal_Ferro_Industrial_Eva_Per%C3%B3n
www.railwaysofthefarsouth.co.uk/09dbuildingrfirt.html
what's the maximum speed?
They were capable of doing 60 Mph or 100 kph
@@shawnspaan895 wow!!!! incredible!!!
Shawn Spaan
In that thing it probably feels like 300.
60 Mph
i wonder if it could be made to burn biomass.
Jerry Bear They possibly were fuelled by wood or charcoal in some locations where coal wasn't available. The question is, why would you want to? The carbon footprint of the few remaining is tiny, given that they are rare and rarely run.
They'll burn anything. Coal just delivers more energy per volume
@@spencerwilton5831 the design could be used to make new steam trucks and how great would it be to cut out the middle man. all you need is water and fire, no petroleum, no batteries or electricity. grease and oil for proper maintenance is a necessity. im ultimately thinking survival camper.
4 cylinder - 2 speed HI/LO... hot stuff
2:41- when cabs were still actually cabins.
Yes what u get in and what u get out.
Where I can find orginial. Videos
Hi there, not sure what you mean? Do you mean without commentary?
Parabéns aos senhores.... de manter essa máquina....... e essssaaaa memória.... não estarão... no inferno.. m
Автозапуск поставить можно?
Тачка огонь....в прямом смысле 😁😁😁
No gasoline to buy. Great machine
I bet you could retrofit this with a diesel boiler!
My how far we have come but still so amazing
Society as a whole, is still using almost the exact same engine ie. pistons, cams, throttle/regulator etc, it's only the fire that tends to happen inside it now...
@@SilverCanary1 You are completely correct. Past 130 years have had basically unchanged designs of engines, we've just made them a lot more precisely and lighter. Crazy how much efficiency is gained even though you hardly change the basic design.
GOAT
Beautiful
Living Breathing Machine
Wow, and I was convinced that modern cars give a lot of problems
That is the future.
what happened if we replaced the coal with charcoal?
The Ann Arbor Railroad had a wrecking derrick that they burned charcoal in. They used it well into the late '70s long after the rest of the system had been dieselized.
The fireman would be shoveling charcoal continuously as it will burn away rapidly.
Maybe now that thing would work with a chemic reaction instead of coal and water
Betcha it’s got as much torque as a modern semi!
Indeed
6:16 ff. - interesting flat mountain...
Там какая магнитола стоит?
Каменноугольная ...
Nice car
Техника на века
Not ready to drive 'orf' get 'orf' my land.
I don't want to be in this driver's seat in summer.
You'd be happy in winter though!
@@Witput It was a blind spot!
In Britain,the steam wagon was killed off by the petroleum industry.
They convinced the establishment to pass legislation that in the end created the steam trucks demise .
glenn dutton, The maintenance heavy aspect of coal powered steam engines and mobile steam engines generally had nothing to do with it?
Steam rarely wins over internal combustion engines if it has to be mobile, especially if the steam engine is a reciprocating one.
@InfiniteMushroom First and foremost, the US can do without imported oil, second in an event where the production would stop for some reason, you'd have a serious security problem.
And as for the steam engine not needing oil - think again. You absolutely need lubrication. If you can make lubricating oil, you can power either a hot bulb engine like in the video or a more modern mechanically injected diesel one. Wouldn't even attempt to do this with a common Rail injected one though.
imagine driving this in summer
So ,does the cabin have heating?
Amazing
NO AC ??
Quite warm in winter though!
what was the top speed?
A top speed of 60 mph has been claimed, but I think 45 mph would be more realistic. It has quite phenomenal acceleration though!
@@Witput thank you - I'm sure that makes a LOT of torque - great acceleration....
60 Mph
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