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The Rumely Oil Pull was a line of farm tractors developed by Advance-Rumely Company [1] from 1909 and sold 1910 to 1930. Most were heavy tractors powered by an internal combustion, magneto -fired engine designed to burn all kerosene grades at any load, called the Oil Turn.
The Rumely OilPull was a line of farm tractors developed by Advance-Rumely Company from 1910 to 1930. Most were very large tractors powered by kerosene-burning engines. The engine was designed to burn all kerosene grades at any load.
Called the “Oil Pull,” the Rumely tractors had many unique features beyond the kerosene fuel. For one, they were cooled by oil instead of water. That’s right, the engine used oil as a cooling medium. There were four generations of Oil Pull tractors built from 1910 to 1930.
The Rumely Oil Pull was the first tractor to use an oil cooling system, which kept the engine at a steady temperature no matter how heavy the tractor's load. The cooling system allowed hotter cylinders and easier ignition.
The Rumely Oil Pull was the first tractor to use an oil cooling system, which kept the engine at a steady temperature no matter how heavy the tractor's load. The cooling system allowed hotter cylinders and easier ignition.
Starting, running, and driving a 1929 Rumley Oil Pull Model Y around the grounds at the Almelund Threshing Show in Minnesota.
Now people reading this verse have to know, it’s about the Rumely Oil Pull and its predecessor built in 1909. She’s still known as Kerosene Annie and still runs fine. And so the story goes, after World War II she was found in the Allis Chalmers yards under an elm tree, Where she had worked during the war, to keep America FREE.
This 1918 Oil Pull has its original piston that came from the factory. The only work done to repair it was valve grinding and new piston rings. I had it at the thresher show at Sycamore, Illinois, and also at the thresher show at Pontiac, Illinois, for twenty years.
The "Rumely Oil-Pull" helped open the Great Plains to cultivation and was an immediate practical and commercial success, nearly 60,000 being built. The huge success of Rumely's oil-pull tractor in 1908 reflected the success of the United States in general.
Plaque Wording: The Rumely Companies, which operated in La Porte, Indiana, from 1853 to 1931, produced a variety of equipment including threshers and steam engines, which helped to change the nature of American and world agriculture. The revolutionary OilPull Tractor, which was introduced in 1910, used a unique carburetion system developed by ...