56 year-old tank pulled from lake. The diesel engine starts!

[Procrustes]

This will put lead in your pencil all right:

http://englishrussia.com/?p=299

[DaveW]

Amazing.  I only wish they had included info on how much it took to get it running again.

[oldnslow]

Unable to find links to the video....

[Procrustes]

Unable to find links to the video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtJkyd3JJWE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZHVgMzfD38

If those pages don't work then I think you need to install Macromedia Shockwave

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

or maybe try a different browser.

[Andre Blanchard]

The third video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBK3Zs13p94

I drought it took much to get running, relatively speaking.  Note the tracks were turning as they pulled it out.

Dads got a magazine with an article about a big twin engine dozer that was recovered from a flooded gravel pit after something like 40 years or so.  A small group rounded up a few pumps, emptied out the pit, did a little work on the dozer fired it up and drove it out to higher ground.

[oldnslow]

Thanks, gentlemen.

[listerdiesel]

The third video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBK3Zs13p94

I drought it took much to get running, relatively speaking.  Note the tracks were turning as they pulled it out.

Dads got a magazine with an article about a big twin engine dozer that was recovered from a flooded gravel pit after something like 40 years or so.  A small group rounded up a few pumps, emptied out the pit, did a little work on the dozer fired it up and drove it out to higher ground.

Look on Ray Hooley's Ruston & Hornsby pages:

http://www.oldengine.org/members/ruston

There is a selection of pictures and text regarding an old Ruston Proctor steam shovel that was recovered from the chalk pit lake near Hitchin in Herts, UK. Ray was instrumental in getting help and support from companies and a diving club, he was working for Ruston & Hornsby at the time, now retired.

I think it is now in a museum in Lincoln.

[1966Crew]

Hey guys, how about 49 years at the bottom of the Milk River. Check out this 20 hp Stickney.

http://www.smokstak.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16824

Here is an article about it.

http://www.havredailynews.com/articles/2004/01/21/features/hiline.txt

Jon

[buickanddeere]

 "Ruston Proctor steam shovel "

  If you want to see one of those snort and operate. Take in the Paisley or Blyth Steam Shows. The fellow who owns a concrete business in Teeswater Ontario owns it. Restoration was done by the same shop near Lucknow that did some work on our JD model 80 diesel.
  Watching the shovel operate demonstrated they didn't worry much about boiler chemistry or heat effiiciency in those days. Exhaust from the steam motors  contained a lot of condensate. Routing that hot water exhaust backto the boiler feed water tank would have conserved water, preheatead the water and reduced boiler scaling.   

[buickanddeere]

  Actually it's an "Erie". Looks like the same set of blueprints were used.

  http://www.bruceheritage.org/  go to pictures and 2004 steam.
http://www.blythsteamshow.on.ca/