HUBER Steam Tractor - ca 1910 Upstate NY

Description: NICE Old Photograph Huber Steam Tractor ca 1910 For offer, a nice old photo. Fresh from an estate in Upstate New York. Never offered on the market until now. Vintage, Old, antique, Original - NOT a Reproduction - Guaranteed !! Advertising on front of tractor - Huber, Marion, Ohio. Pulling implement - thresher. Snapshot - measures 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. In good to very good condition. Please see photos for details. If you collect Americana history, 20th century American advertisement ad, agriculture, farming, industry, engineering, invention, machine, etc., this is one you will not see again soon. A nice piece for your paper / ephemera collection. Perhaps some genealogy research information as well. Buyer pays shipping. Combine shipping on multiple bid wins! 1222 Huber Huber Manufacturing Co.Founded1874Founder(s)Edward HuberDefunct1984HeadquartersMarion, Ohio, USAProductsagriculture machinery tractorThe Huber Manufacturing Co. of Marion, Ohio, USA can trace its origins back to 1874 when Huber Manufacturing Co. was formed after Huber bought out his partners. The company started with a patented Hay rake designed by Huber and other agricultural products. The company then moved into the early tractor business and building threshers. Latter they switched to the construction industry building Road Rollers. HistoryEditThe Firm was founded by Edward Huber (born 1837), in Dearbourn Co., Indiana. Then in 1863 he patented a wooden hay rake. Huber then married a miss Elizabeth Hammerle, and Joined the Kanable Brothers planing mill to build the Hay rakes in 1865. With partners he then bought out Kanable and formed Kalwark, Hammerle, Monday and Huber. According to the October 2010 article Huber Tractor history and toystory in "the Fence Post" the firm of Kowalke, Hammerle, Monday and Huber was formed in 1866 (note the difference in spelling for Kalwark, correct spelling is unverified). It appears that a May 2005 article at farmcollector.com refers to this same company as Kowalke & Hammerle Planing Mill, of which Huber as superintendent. In any case, everyone agrees that this partnership lasted only until 1870 when it was reorganized as Huber & Gunn Co. In 1874 Huber then formed the Huber Manufacturing Co. and stated building Steam Engines and Threshing machines. Followed by a Road scraper in 1875. By 1878 was building a Portable engine for powering threshers, and then 2 years later a Steam Traction engine in 1880. Huber then started manufacturing a patented for George W. King, who then with Henry Barnhart formed the Marion Steam Shovel Company. They contracted out manufacture of the first 4 shovels to Huber. In 1886 introduced a Steam Road Roller based on a Traction engine. By 1894 Huber was experimenting with a Gas tractor engine, and in 1898 bought the rights to a Gas tractor engine designed by Van Duzen, and built 30 Gas tractors. Edward Huber Died in 1904, aged 67. Tractor productionEditA range of new tractors appeared starting in 1911 with the 2-cylinder 15-30 and 30-60 prairie tractor which was soon re-rated as a 35-70. The 20-40 4-cylinder followed in 1914, followed by the Light Four Cross Motor a 12-15 model in 1920. A 15-30 Super Four was then launched.[1] Introduced High speed automotive engined rollers in 1923 In 1931/32 Huber built/sold 266 tractors to Avery. Tractor production ended during WW II when production shifted to road construction machinery. In the 1950 a new model was built to re-enter the tractor market, the Huber Global B. ATO took over Huber in 1969, and moved the firm to Charleston, North Carolina in 1977, then shut the division down in 1984. A Huber Museum was opened in 1989, and a Huber machinery Museum later in 1996 opened at the Marion County Showgrounds. Model rangeEditTractorsEditHuber 15-30 - 1911Huber 30-60 - 1911 rerated to 35-70 in 1912Huber 20-40 - 1914Huber 12-15 (light Four Cross tractor) - 1920Huber Super Four tractor 15-30 - 1921-24, replaced by the 18-36 rated version for 1925Huber Master Four Tractor 25-50 Cross motor - 1923 (dropped soon after)Huber Super 18-36 a inline 4-cylinder add ed in 1927Huber Super Four 20-40 - 1927, rerated to 32-45 in 1929Huber Super Four 25-50 - 1927, rerated to 40-62 in 29 produced till 1942.Huber Light Four 20-36 - 1930, built til 1943, also in HK and HS versions.Huber Modern Farmer - 1931 a light model with Waukesha engines.RollersEditHuber Rollers - 1942 produced under direction of War Dept. PreservationEditA Huber Museum has been founded in the original factory in Ohio. A few Hubers exist with US and Canadian tractor collectorsAre there any examples in the UK ? if so please list here.See alsoEditList of Tractor ManufacturersCollectionsMuseums ListShows and MeetsClubs Listing A steam tractor is a vehicle 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 of traction engine - typically those weighing seven tons or less - used for hauling small loads on public roads. Although known as light steam tractors, these engines are generally just smaller versions of the 'road locomotive'. This article concentrates on the steam-powered agricultural vehicles intended for the direct-pulling of ploughs and other implements (as opposed to cable-hauling). Development (Great Britain)[edit]Owing to differences in soil conditions, the development of steam-powered agricultural machines differed considerably on either side of the Atlantic. In Great Britain, a number of traction engine builders attempted to produce a design of agricultural engine that could pull a plough directly, in place of a team of horses. However, the heavier and wetter soils found in Britain meant that these designs were not successful — being less economical to use than the team of horses they were intended to replace. These engines were also known as "steam tractors". Instead, farmers resorted to cable-hauled ploughing using ploughing engines. A distinctive example of a British-designed (agricultural) steam tractor is the Garrett Suffolk Punch, a 1917 design intended to compete directly with internal combustion-powered alternatives. Development (North America)[edit] A 1905 Best steam tractor (manufactured in California).The first steam tractors that were designed specifically for agricultural uses were portable engines built on skids or on wheels and transported to the work area using horses. Later models used the power of the steam engine itself to power a drive train to move the machine and were first known as "traction drive" engines[citation needed] which eventually was shortened to "tractor".[citation needed] These drive mechanisms were one of three types: chain, shaft, and open pinion. The open pinion became the most popular design due to its strength. Later improvements included power steering, differentials, compounded engines, and butt-strap boiler design. The steam engine was gradually phased out by the mid-1920s as the less expensive, lighter, and faster-starting internal combustion (kerosene, petrol or distillate) tractors fully emerged after World War I. Uses[edit]Threshing[edit] The drive belt: used to transfer power from a portable engine to a threshing machineThese engines were used extensively in rural North America to aid in threshing, in which the owner/operator of a threshing machine or threshing rig would travel from farmstead to farmstead threshing grain. Oats were a common item to be threshed, but wheat and other grains were common as well. On a "threshing day", all the neighbors would gather at that day's farmstead to complete a massive job in one day through cooperation. The women and older girls were in charge of cooking the noon meal and bringing water to the men. The children had various jobs based upon their age and sex. These jobs included driving the bundle racks, pitching bundles into the threshing machine, supplying water for the steam engine, hauling away the freshly threshed grain and scooping it into the granary. Steam traction engines were often too expensive for a single farmer to purchase, so "threshing rings" were often formed. In a threshing ring, multiple farmers pooled their resources to purchase a steam engine. They also chose one person among them to go to a steam school, to learn how to run the engine properly. There were also threshing contractors, who owned their own engine and thresher, and went to different farms, hiring themselves out to thresh grain. Ploughing[edit]The immense pulling power of steam tractors allowed them to be used for ploughing as well. Certain steam tractors were better suited for ploughing than others, with the large Minneapolis Threshing machine Co., J.I. Case, Reeves & Co and Advance-Rumely engines being prime examples. Some of the largest steam tractors, such as the 150 horsepower (110 kW) Case (known as "Road Locomotives"), were capable of pulling 30 or more plough bottoms, while most were powerful enough to pull between 6 and 20. Differing soil conditions highly affected the ploughing abilities of these tractors. Manufacturers[edit]See: List of traction engine and steam tractor manufacturersFestivals and museums[edit]List of steam fairs – where preserved steam tractors may be seen in actionMuseumsHesston Steam Museum(La Porte, Indiana) [1] Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum (Vista, California, USA)Antique Powerland (Brooks, Oregon, USA)[1]Fort Edmonton Park (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)Heidrick Ag History Center (Woodland, California)Heritage Museum on the Old Thresher's Reunion grounds (Mt. Pleasant, Iowa)National Agricultural Museum (Szreniawa, Poland) [2]Ontario Agricultural Museum (Ontario, Canada)Manitoba Agricultural Museum(Austin, Manitoba, Canada) [3]UP Steam and Gas Engine Association Museum(Escanaba, Michigan, USA) [4] See also[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Steam tractors.History of steam road vehiclesLive steamSteamrollerSteam tricycleTraction engine

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