They are an absolute beast without a doubt and one of the largest prairie tractors built.
the Kinnard & Haines Flour Cities were one of the earliest gas tractors. In 1897 they were asked to refit an Otto gas traction engine with one of their engines after the owner had repeated troubles with it. It was so successful they started buildign their own tracots and became the first company to make gas tractors a viable commercial venture. what may be the oldest survivng gas tractor is a Flour City currently undergoing a full restoration.
The four cylinder 40-70 models like this one debutted around 1911. it was a 21,000-pound beast with a 4-cylinder K-H engine of 7-1/2-by-9-inch bore and stroke that actually well exceeded the 40hp drawbar rating when it was tested in the 1920 nebraska tests making 53 hp and a little over 70 on the brake. The also built a junior 12-20, a 20-35 and a 30-50 model.
Here is a video of that Flour City when it was just restored:
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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