Returning to The Buckley Old Engine Show this year, i realize that what i love most about it is the unexpected geekiness of it all. The museum of steam engines, the framed displays of spark plugs, the awesome Pony Brake (NOT pictured above), and the application of a well maintained tractor engine to nearly any mechanical task imaginable. Here are a few of this year's highlights, with a shout out to all steampunks viewing - this event should definitely be on your calendar for 2009.
Doug is my scale dude. Here is a shiny video of this tractor pulling a plow.
More bigger and smaller stuff after the jump~
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This engine, an E. P. Allis-Corliss steam engine from 1889, powered a flour mill in Grand Rapids. The flywheel is twelve feet in diameter and weighs six tons.
i could look at apparently random collections of stuff all day. And i sort of did.
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