Summertime is fun time!! VintageVintage VoiceVoice The days are warm and long, and time to kick back and relax Monthly Newsletter a little. As members know, there are no regular meetings of the of the Club during the summer, and we try to encourage gatherings for July and August at members’ residences. As you check Page 2 and Vintage Tractor & the meeting minutes as recorded by our faithful secretary Ian Machinery Club West, you will note that two members will host the summer meetings. The first will be at Grant Peden’s place at Baptiste Lake, west of Athabasca on July 11. This is a first for him. The second will be hosted by Dale Schafers at his place south of Riviere Qui Barre. Members will recall an enjoyable evening there last year. Check out the meeting minutes on Page 2 and write down the directions carefully to each of these places and come prepared for an enjoyable social evening at both of these places. Three things to remember: Your spouse (kids are welcome too), a salad or dessert - or both, if you wish, and perhaps lawn chairs would be a good idea as well. Oh yes, and bug spray for those uninvited little critters! We note with sadness the passing of Ken Wood in an accident the weekend of June 23-24. We have little details other than it involved a side-by-side. Ken was a member a few years ago, and Volume 27, No 7 very enthusiastic in regards to the tractor pull sled event and the restoration of tractors, owning several himself. Our condolences July, 2018 go out to his family and his parents, Garry and Carol Wood. Garry is also a former member, but continues to be involved with the Canadian Tractor Museum. At the Day events July 2 in President: MARTIJN ZELDENRUST , a tribute to Ken was held during the tractor pulls Vice President: Vacant, Tabled there. Secretary: IAN WEST, Whether you are a fan of the competitive sled pulls or not, Treasurer: Tabled to next meeting there is no doubt the pulls, either way, are a popular event with Historian: MICHAEL MORT, Athabasca both pullers and those in attendance at these events. Directors: 3 yrs: LES DUNFORD, Dapp, JD WOYNOROWSKI, Westlock 2 yrs: GRANT PEDEN, HENRY GOLLER, Westlock 1 yr: OTTO SCHAAB, Westlock, LEE KIPPERS, Neerlandia Newsletter: LES DUNFORD, Dapp Lunch: PHIL COLBOURNE Show Chairman: PHIL COLBOURNE Parade Marshall: OTTO SCHAAB Trade Barn Show: IAN WEST OUR MAILING ADDRESS: Vintage Tractor & Machinery Club P.O. Box 5414 WESTLOCK, AB T7P 2P5 Next gathering: JulyJuly 11,11, 20182018 Wednesday, 6:00 p.m. Grant Peden residence

(See page 2 for complete Above is shown the row crop Farmall Super M tractor directions to his property at which Ken Wood used on the pull sled competition at our Baptiste Lake, west of Athabasca) Vintage Tractor & Machinery Club show June 2. Note all the wheel weights he added. Ken was very keen on the pulls. Page 2, Vintage Voice Newsletter – July 2018

VINTAGE TRACTOR & MACHINERY installation with tentative work party scheduled for June19 at 9am. CLUB MEETING • Paving Stone installation by kitchen area at Ag. June 13, 2018 Barn. Phil Colbourne indicated his willingness to contact CANADIAN TRACTOR MUSEUM Ag. Society to determine if rental concessions can be WESTLOCK, established in return for an estimated area of 20 ft.x 12 ft.in addition to the leveling of existing tiles as deemed 18 Members in attendance necessary. Tentative work date for this project July11. Meeting called to order at 7:30 pm by Vice President Wayne Forbes indicated he has access to a skid steer for JD Woynorowski as President Martijn Zeldenrust site preparation & will coordinate scheduling for this unavoidably delayed. Introduction of Art Purdy (guest) project. who is currently in the process of modifying a vintage • Rochester Tractor Pull. Pieter VanDasselaar John Deere combine being donated for educational confirmed date for this event as August11 and requested purposes by providing cut out areas around the various as many members to attend as possible, bringing tractors inner workings of the machine. where possible also. Minutes from May 09 meeting read by Secretary Ian West. Minutes adopted as read. Motion by Ian West, New Business: Seconded by Lee Kippers. Carried. Glen Kine Memorial notice received. Scheduled for11 am, June 23 at the Canadian Legion, Westlock. Old Business: Summer activities – Tractor Show June 02 & 03: JD Woynorowski • July & August Club Membership Get-Together at reported on the publicity generated by the Facebook Club Members’ homes: Grant Peden has offered to host advertising as follows: A Total of 7,410 people looked at the July Barbecue event on July 11, 6 pm., at his the advertisement with140 direct responses residence near Athabasca. Directions to the Peden encompassing viewers from the following Municipalities : residence: Take Hwy 44 north of Westlock to Dapp store. Barrhead, Westlock, , & Then turn North on Hwy.801, continuing to Hwy 663. Athabasca. All this for a cost of $99.63 which JD Then turn East to Hwy 812. Drive North to “T” suggested as being economical for future reference. Brent intersection. Then Turn West around south end of Sterling reported attendance for both days as 756 adults Baptiste lake into “Summer Village, West Baptiste” based on gate admissions – not including children, in Grant’s address is #837 Baptiste Drive. addition to four complimentary admissions each to Dave • Dale Schafers has once again volunteered to host Hillman (Announcer) & Propane Hut (Propane Supplier the August Barbecue event at his residence near for Breakfasts) Treasurer Brent presented an accounting on August 08,at 6 pm. Directions to the Schafers’ of Show Revenue/Expenses also for review. (Attached) residence. Drive South on Hwy 44 to Twp Rd 552 (South Wally’s Amusements attendance—Discussion. In of Riviere Qui Barre) Turn West on Twp Rd 552 to Range Summary, meeting attendees NOT happy with the Rd.272. From this intersection, Continue West .8km (1/2 manner in which the persons operating the rides mile) to Dale’s Rural address 27220-Twp Rd552 on North conducted themselves. In summary, Open liquor was side of road. Note long fence & Red building in yard. noted, Set up was poorly conducted, Price of rides Of Note, Tractor club will supply drinks and wieners. excessive and an Unauthorized Concession was in Club members are requested to supply a salad or dessert competition with Official Concession provider (Claudette for 1 family—ie. Pot Luck! Olson) & Barn vendor. Financial Report: Motion by Keith Sterling “In view of the Treasurer Brent Sterling reported a Bank Balance of aforementioned complaints surrounding Wally’s $12126.98 (Interim) as not all monies have been finalized amusements, Be it resolved NO considerations for from Show proceeds. Brent further reported Current allowing them to attend future Shows” Seconded by Membership of 41 Members paid up for 2018-2019. Henry Goller. All in Favour. For Sale/Wanted: Dale Schafers is looking for a Show Chairman Phil Colbourne tendered his Pitman/ Steering arm suitable for a John Deere 520, 530 resignation but indicated his willingness to act as or 630 row crop model tractor. Contact Dale at 780-991- resource for all future shows. Museum Donation—As per 2120 . previous arrangements whereby Tractor Club donated Grant Peden is interested in obtaining information on $1/head show admissions, the extent of Dearborn implements and if possible years Motion by Keith Sterling , “Whereas in the past of production, Serial #’s etc. If you can help, Call Grant Tractor Club Donated $1/head, Be it Resolved that the at 780-675-5665. Canadian tractor Museum receive $756 Donation”. Adjournment 9:30pm. Seconded by Wayne Forbes. Carried. ~ Ian West, Secretary. Brent Sterling will attend to Thank You notices for Obviously a very busy June meeting and some good the various show sponsors to be placed in upcoming discussion around the show itself. Also note the two Westlock News. summer get-togethers for members and spouses. Note the • Screen Installation on Museum Machinery directions, write them down before heading out. These are Shed. Discussion. Henry Goller will coordinate always great social events to take in. Bug spray optional! Page 3, Vintage Voice Newsletter – July, 2018 Page 4, Vintage Voice Newsletter – June 2018

The Beginning of the End to be discarded. Case engineers, Engine lubrication was force feed, for Steam Traction Engines however, continued to work on the with a geared pump circulating oil Steam traction engines had new technology and, as the 1913 Case from a closed sump. The bearings on decided disadvantages, including catalogue (the first to feature gas and the running gear all had grease cups scarce timber and expensive coal, oil tractors) pointed out, “had for lubrication. which led to their decline. expended more than $100,000 in The final 2-cylinder Case tractor By Sam Moore experimental work (on tractors).” – a Model 12-25 – was introduced in 1913 and it was a beauty. Except for Built under contract its large, cleated drive wheels, the 12- By the time the “Gay Nineties” In October 1910, a Racine, rolled around, the strong patents held 25 put many 1913 automobiles to Wisconsin, newspaper reported on shame, appearance-wise. It was long by the Otto Co., Philadelphia, Case’s “new traction engine that Pennsylvania, on internal combustion and low – only about 6 feet in height burns coal oil,” and cited Davies, by – with an automotive-style radiator engines had expired. As a result, this time “tractor development “mechanicians” and tinkerers all over in front and the entire engine engineer,” as saying he was sure they compartment covered by a tastefully the country began experimenting had a good product that could be run with gas traction engines. striped hood and sides. Only a belt by anyone. pulley on the off-side and a large Virtually every threshing Case’s first tractor, the Model 60, machine manufacturer had developed flywheel on the near side marred the was built under contract by smooth lines of the tractor. and was successfully selling steam Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co., traction engines and had little The engine was nearly the same with almost 500 made from 1912 to as that used in the 20-40, except for a interest in the new technology. Many 1916. The Model 60 engine had two threshermen believed steam was the 7-by-7-inch bore and stroke, and parallel cylinders of 10-by-12-inch cooling was by thermo-syphon only power for threshing and scoffed bore and stroke and weighed nearly at the idea of gas engines being as circulation through a fan-cooled 13 tons. The Model 60 was tested on automotive radiator. Power was good. D.P. Davies’ nearby farm; a photo Still, steam engines had decided taken from the engine by a “high- shows it pulling a 10-bottom plow. grade nickel steel” roller chain to the disadvantages. In most grain-growing Engine cooling was similar to that on areas, timber for fuel was scarce and 2-speed transmission that gave many early tractors; engine exhaust speeds of 1.75 and 2.2 mph. The 1917 coal was expensive. An extra man, a was routed through a large pipe team and a water wagon were needed Case catalog noted that, “Some light above a tower radiator, creating a duty tractors we know are so to haul the 20 or so barrels of water draft that pulled cooling air up used by the engine every day – and designed as to operate up to 4 miles through the radiator, while a pump an hour. This policy we believe is water was scarce in some areas. It moved the water through the system. required a half-hour or so to get wrong, as it is most extravagant and A simple transmission gave two is unproductive of the best results.” steam up in the morning, flues forward speeds and reverse, while the clogged or leaked and had to be The 12-25 weighed 9,225 pounds and spring-mounted differential gears sold for $1,350. cleaned or replaced, grates burned were the same as those used on Case out, and boilers sometimes exploded, steam traction engines. Steering ahead of its time while in cold weather pipes could not Lubrication was by mechanical One feature of the 12-25 that was be allowed to freeze. oilers that fed oil to the engine discussed in the 1917 catalog seems The Paterson tractor bearings and then to the exposed to have been standard equipment: a Oddly enough, J.I. Case drive gears and pinions, after which self-steering device to be used when Threshing Machine Co. – probably it was discarded on the ground as no plowing. Similar to all such devices, a the largest maker of steam traction crankcase sump was used. In 1915 heavy steel wheel ran on an arm engines at the time – was the first to the tractor, then known as a model attached to the tractor’s front furrow leap into the unknown waters of gas 30-60, cost $2,500 ($59,760 today) wheel and jutted out ahead of it by 8 traction. David Pryce Davies, a young plus shipping. or 10 feet. As the wheel ran against draftsman for Case, is credited with Speed “extravagant and the furrow wall, it guided the tractor. designing the company’s first gas unproductive” The interesting thing is this tractor in 1892. Usually called “the At about the same time, Case catalog comment: “With this Paterson tractor,” because the 2- began to offer a smaller Model 40 mechanism, the operator can move cylinder horizontally opposed engine that was built into 1918 and was about the tractor or plow as he was based on a patent issued to quite popular, (more than 4,200 were pleases, while his work continues. All James and William Paterson of sold). The Model 40, soon to be known he has to do is to set the wheel of the Stockton, California, the frame and as the 20-40, was basically a smaller steering device in the furrow, and he wheels were essentially the same as version of the 30-60. It was built in- is then free to leave his seat for those on a Case steam traction house, although a Milwaukee firm, whatever work is necessary.” As a engine, while the machine featured a Davis Motor Co., furnished the more or less experienced plowman, I canopy and a huge flywheel on each engines for about the first year, after have to wonder at that statement. side. which they too were built by Case. All three of these early Case It was tested on a nearby farm, The 2-cylinder opposed engine had a tractors competed in the Winnipeg, but as both carburetion and ignition 7-3/4-by-8-inch bore and stroke and Manitoba, tractor demonstrations were in their infancy in that era, featured a cooling system similar to and won gold medals, putting J.I. mechanical problems caused the idea the one used by its big brother. Case T.M. Co. firmly in the tractor business to stay. ~