If you like hit-and-miss old iron ...

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 12:20 pm

... and are on Facebook, there is a wonderful group there. Just look up Hit and miss engine collectors. The guys are putting up fresh videos constantly. Wish more of them were on Youtube.
Lenn, are you on this page? I think of you when I go there. You have to ask to join.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/hitandmissengine/

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:30 pm

There's a lot of enthusiastic collectors over here, seems like every country show I go to has a line of these old engines puffing and chugging.....

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 2:18 pm

GK, yes, lots of great Youtubes from your side of the big pond. A favorite is your Field Marshall tractor that starts with a 12-gauge shell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEurohAwrmA

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 2:22 pm

I don`t use FB Bill but love the old iron.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 7:18 am

Hey Bill, can you imagine stalling at traffic lights with that Field Marshall

Thanks for the video .

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:17 am

GK, that's a fine old tractor. I have seen them in person at the big Steam-up held each summer in Brooks, Oregon. Always a crowd pleaser when the owner taps that 12-gauge shell.

6pt-sika · Post by **6pt-sika** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 6:44 pm

I used to have four or five New Holland hit and miss engines . But my big thing were Frick Steam
Engines both portable ones and traction engines . https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ6-jOPWsBA

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Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 7:58 am

Love the big steam tractors, 6-pt. Lots of Case out this way.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 10:12 am

My step grandfather was a Traction Engine driver, my Dad travelled to all the big Steam Fairs over here and I still love the sound and smell of old fashioned Steam.

6pt-sika · Post by **6pt-sika** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:08 pm

Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 7:58 am Love the big steam tractors, 6-pt. Lots of Case out this way.

When I bought the first one at the grand old age of 20 I wanted a Case but couldn’t find one . So I ended up with a Frick that was about 50 HP . As I got to know the other fellows that owned and went to the same shows as I did I was able to try various brand engines . All I’m gonna say is Case makes a wonderful looking engine but when actually working them they are harder to fire . I suppose the easiest way to say it is Frick put larger than necessary boilers on different size/rated engines and Case was more of wanting as small a boiler as possible for the rating . Anyway when it was all said and done I’d owned two Frick tractions , a small portable and a couple steam engines on sills . Bottom line is it’s much easier carrying seven or eight ten pound guns to the care than it is loading one steam engine or hit n miss engine for that matter . But I sure enjoyed them when I had the ambition to mess with them .

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