(train whistle)
- My name is Cathleen
Hassard, I'm a volunteer here,
at Rough and Tumble Engineers
historical association
we are in Kinzers, Pennsylvania
originally we started
across the street,
at Aruthur youngs
tractor dealership,
um, and we were born
from steamtractor farmers
who farmed the tobacco
steam, and tobacco beds,
and did thrashing with
the steam engines,
and as the birth
of the gas tractor,
and the popularity of the
gas tractor came about.
The steam engines were
no longer required or
nobody, eveyrbody
wanted the new thing.
One of the biggest attractions
we have here is of course
our steam engines
and our steam trains
um, steam engine row
is where most of them
are housed through out the show
and it creates a very
large cloud of steam,
so that's where
our logo is born,
it says "Watch our smoke".
- My name is Butch Beseker,
I'm part of the Rough
and Tumble, been here for
since the mid 80's,
never saw a steam
tractor till I got here,
saw one just had to have one
I bought a little one
then I bought a big
and now I have this,
I've owned it since 1992
it originally came
out in Missouri,
it was used 2 years
for thrashing,
it was moved to southern Ohio,
it sawed wood in a
sawmill till 1957.
It's just a fun hobby,
lot of people are real
interested in (inaudible)
pretty good you know, we all
try to regather and have fun
I'm an odd ball so you
know the tractor fits me.
- My name is Jerry Meyer,
I have been on the board
for quite a few years
at rough and tumble,
past president and I've
been here at this museum
basically all my life,
well this is my
grandfather's farm.
Probably hear all of
the engines running,
we also have a steam museum
for small steam engines
that were used in
mills or other places
it's a working museum.
- My name is Mike murphy,
I'm from Dayton, Ohio
I've been coming to Rough and
Tumble for almost 30 years
I've meet some guys who are
members at this organization
at the cool spring farm museum
in north western Pennsylvania
and they invited me
to come down here,
and work on some of
the engines here.
The large engine is
a Cooper gas engine,
built by the Cooper
Company in Mt. Vernon, Ohio
it was built around 1913,
it's what's called double
acting tandem engine,
and basically what
you see running there,
operated a large
compressor cylinder,
the two cylinders on the
south side are on the left
it's a nice shot of the,
of the flywheel or
the power cylinders
they drive the machine, and
behind it is just one cylinder
and what did is pump gas
in a natural gas pipeline.
- And America's agricultural
history comes from steam
we started with
steam, steam traction,
and like I said there
are some members here who
still steam their
gardens at home.
The steam railroad is
what got America moving.
