"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:59:19 GMT, Dale Eastman
wrote:

Counter- intuitive answer because the consumption was labeled as 1
gallon per acre. More distance is traveled with a narrower plow to
cover the same acre (area).

Presumably a narrower plow will require less horsepower however, which
will equate to a lower gph burn rate.
Of course,if you were burning biomass in a steam tractor that number would
be 0gph.
And a 10 horsepower steam tractor would not only pull the 30 ft ,but has
done 50ft plows
as well, in tractor meets.(10 horse at 200rpm)But then that is why steamers
are banned from
most tractor pulls........they can often start with a fully extended
sled.The inconvenience of the
firebox may not be so bad after diesel gets up high enorgh price.
The most powerful steam plowengine ever built was in 1959 by a German
company ......the Ottomeyer
up for sale at Preston steam website ,clocks 310horsepower at
100RPM.(translates out to a 3100hp diesel
tractor on plowdragging traction effort performace.....) Worked about
1000arces a day.on a Sugar cane plantation
burning stalks in the 250psi boiler....if I remember correctly.




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"Arnold Walker" wrote in message
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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:59:19 GMT, Dale Eastman
wrote:

Counter- intuitive answer because the consumption was labeled as 1
gallon per acre. More distance is traveled with a narrower plow to
cover the same acre (area).

Presumably a narrower plow will require less horsepower however, which
will equate to a lower gph burn rate.
Of course,if you were burning biomass in a steam tractor that number would
be 0gph.
And a 10 horsepower steam tractor would not only pull the 30 ft ,but has
done 50ft plows
as well, in tractor meets.(10 horse at 200rpm)But then that is why
steamers are banned from
most tractor pulls........they can often start with a fully extended
sled.The inconvenience of the
firebox may not be so bad after diesel gets up high enorgh price.
The most powerful steam plowengine ever built was in 1959 by a German
company ......the Ottomeyer
up for sale at Preston steam website ,clocks 310horsepower at
100RPM.(translates out to a 3100hp diesel
tractor on plowdragging traction effort performace.....) Worked about
1000arces a day.on a Sugar cane plantation
burning stalks in the 250psi boiler....if I remember correctly.


This has been a very enlightening thread. I'm planning to put in a few acres
of kelp this spring, and I've been trying to figure out how much it'll run
to plow the bottom. Now I know. ;-)

Arnold Walker wrote:
And a 10 horsepower steam tractor would not only pull the 30 ft ,but has
done 50ft plows


Bull ****.

You should tell people that the very early traction engines were being
HP rated very differently and engines that were being sold as 10 HP one
year were being sold as 40 or 60 HP the next year and that was still
conservative.

I have seen a healthy 110 Case pull 14 14" bottoms (16 feet) one year
and fail to do it the next just because the ground was a little dryer
and packed a bit more, same engine, same engineer, same plow, same
ground. And a good 110 case will dyno at way more then the 110 HP that
Case sold them at, more like 170 to 180 HP.
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Andre' B.