diesel lombard tractor

[Billbob]

Great job on the rebuild, Loggah!

[loggah]

Today i worked a bit on the rear drawbar until i got soaked in the pouring rain!!! seems its supposed to keep raining for the next couple days and my photographer is on strike! ;D

[Peter Drouin]

my photographer is on strike! ;D

That's what you get when you spend to much time with a Lombard tractor :D :D :D :D

[loggah]

Well when the rains let a bit today Cheryl took a few pictures of the little bit of tinkering i did ,the keepers for the skis,front drawbar and rear drawbar,just little things.

[thecfarm]

Nice fab jobs.

[loggah]

Thanks,the only other thing im going to do this winter is the radiator cap. I may build the cab sections and Roof but i wont install them this winter.

[Dakota]

I am really enjoying this re-build.

[Nichols]

  I just found this thread and read the whole thing. Very impressive Loggah.

[shinnlinger]

Are those bronze fittings?   Are you casting them?

[loggah]

Dave, There just rusty iron and steel! ;D Theres not much Bronze on this tractor,the other one has a bunch of Bronze on the engine.

[loggah]

Well i made up the funky radiator cap,and stripped the paint off the fuel tank. Im starting to build the cab tomorrow ,i probably wont install it until spring. Heres a picture of the front of the machine as it sets for the winter.

[Peter Drouin]

Looking good Loggah

[JB Griffin]

Thats gonna be one good lookin piece of loggin equipment art.

[loggah]

Im thinking about painting it flat black, the early steamers were black and i think it would be the easiest color to cover all the angles .i dont know as i would call it art!! ;D ;D

[JJ]

your really going to let that snow mobile sit all winter?
who needs a cab?

You are true Yankee Loggah!
This work is quite impressive and thank you for the history lessons.

        JJ

[Dave Shepard]

Are you going to put a dual function grapple on it? :D

[loggah]

 ;D It would make a good snowmobile retriever with a dual arch grapple!! ;D One year at the ski area i used my other Lombard to haul 8 kegs of beer halfway up the ski slope for the gusto cup !!!!! Those were the days ,Capitol Distributors used to put it on .On the way out of the valley at night there were usually all kinds of new holes in the snowbank !!!!! you cant get away with that stuff now !! Started ripping out and planing  out the oak for the  mortise and tenon framing of the cab side panels today.

[Dave Shepard]

Are there enough pieces from old cabs to be able to recreate the original design?

[loggah]

There are,i saved them when i built my other cab. The first gasoline lombards didnt have a cab ,just a open wagon seat.Im thinking that would get old very quickly! ; i built this cab a few years ago ,using the pieces as a pattern. I almost built 2 at that time but i didn't! >:(  ;D ;D

[JB Griffin]

Mighty fine piece of equipment ya got there Loggah.

[ozarkgem]

There are,i saved them when i built my other cab. The first gasoline lombards didnt have a cab ,just a open wagon seat.Im thinking that would get old very quickly! ; i built this cab a few years ago ,using the pieces as a pattern. I almost built 2 at that time but i didn't! >:(  ;D ;D

How about a description of the engine it that beast.

[loggah]

The engine in the restored lombard is a Wisconsin water cooled model PT engine. It is a 6 cylinder "T" head ,with the blocks cast in pairs ,5 3/4" bore x 7" stroke 1090 cubic inch. The crankcase is bronze,the oil pan is aluminum, the intake manifold and water pluming and water pump are bronze,brass . the crankshaft has 4 main bearings the rear one is 5 1/2" long, The engine is rated 100-110 H.P. at 1000 -1100 R.P.M. torque rating 560ft.lbs. at 650 rpm basic weight is 1650 lbs !!!!!!  I just happen to have an old spec sheet!!! ;D ;D These engines are extremely rare i searched for years before i found a complete one out in Sparta Wisconsin a gas engine collector had it.. The original ones had been all vandalized and anything bronze or brass stolen off them. Here is a better picture of the engine after i restored the tractor. 

[Don_Papenburg]

Does that thing sound like three old John Deere tractors in a row when it is running?

[loggah]

 ;D ;D kinda, but it has a sound of its own with the straight pipes. When the engine is running under load the flames come about 1 1/2' out of the pipes. :laugh:

[Don_Papenburg]

Does each set of cylinders have two throws on the crank or one ?

As kid we would have up to four of them 2bangers out plowing .  The best sound was working close and passing in different directions . 

It had to be dusk or darker to see the flames but them gas burners would put a good flame out at a little over a foot  also.

Do you have a video of the gas tractor running  (with sound)  ?   I would like to hear that .

I have an old straight eight flathead Pontiac engine I would like to get running .The plan is to set it up with headers for each pair of cylinders that fire 90 deg. apart .