Iroquois Steam Roller at Mankato KS 2024

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Published 2024-07-27

Mankato Kansas had their Steam and Tractor show the weekend of July 20 and 21st. We took our Iroquois Steam Roller (built somewhere between 1910 and 1914) there on the 19th to get it ready and do a bit of practice on the parade route. The first clip is the basic area where we ran back and forth to show how it operates. The second is of practice on the parade route. There are no breaks on the roller and there is a bit of an incline to descend so to keep the roller under control you have to use the Revering Lever to slow it down which you can hear the gears don't like a lot and probably isn't the best for it. The last section shows the roller actually doing some work packing down a bit of a gravel road that the tractors use to get up to the Tractor Pull area. It was fairly steep in the upper part which is why he only went as far as he did.
We purchased to roller from a Boiler Repair guy in Missouri. He had gotten it in an auction in Iowa. It had been used for road work in Iowa and then sat in decline for several years till the auction. The Iroquois company where this was built was in Buffalo NY and the head of the company was instrumental in the development of asphalt.

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@JimRobertson 10 days ago

Looks like three hands are needed at times!! Didn't see a clutch for switching from forward to reverse😊