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A steam tractor is a tractor powered by a steam engine which is used for pulling. In North America, the term steam tractor usually refers to a type of agricultural tractor powered by a steam engine, used extensively in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In Great Britain, the term steam tractor is more usually applied to the smallest models ...
Traction engine. A traction engine is a steam-powered tractor used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location. The name derives from the Latin tractus, meaning 'drawn', since the prime function of any traction engine is to draw a load behind it.
An Avery tractor pulling three sod cutters on a farm near Larned, Kansas, around 1916. The Avery company made many traction engines, such as the 1907 steam tractor model. At that time steam was the only form of power and the tractor resembled a miniature locomotive. In 1909, Avery began manufacturing gasoline tractors. [6]
The history of steam road vehicles comprises the development of vehicles powered by a steam engine for use on land and independent of rails, whether for conventional road use, such as the steam car and steam waggon, or for agricultural or heavy haulage work, such as the traction engine. The first experimental vehicles were built in the 18th and ...
Greyhound, Banting Mfg. Co. Groton, Charles Perrige & Co. ~Hagerstown Steam Engine & Machine Co. ~Harrisburg Car Mfg. Co. Harrison Machine Works (Jumbo) Heilman Machine Works. ~ Holt Manufacturing Company (became Caterpillar Inc.) ~Hooven, Owens & Rentschler Co. Huber Manufacturing Co.
Huber also began to build and market affordable steam tractors, and was the first producer of modern gasoline-powered tractors. Eventually, Huber entered the heavy construction equipment market by pioneering the use of weighted rollers on his steam engines meeting the needs of modern road leveling and grading.
Reeves & Co. Industry. Manufacturing. Founded. 1875. A Reeves-built steam tractor (at far right) being exhibited with other steam tractors at Expo 86. Reeves & Co. was an American farm tractor builder for thirty years, based in Columbus, Indiana. It built some of the largest steam traction engines used in North America. Marshall T. Reeves.
Holt Manufacturing made about 130 steam-powered tractors between 1890 and 1904. [35] The steam tractors were extremely heavy, sometimes weighing 1,000 pounds (450 kg) per horsepower, and often sank into the rich, soft earth of the San Joaquin Valley Delta farmland surrounding Stockton, California. Holt tried to solve the problem by increasing ...