Marcle Steam Rally 2016
Working Steam

This is one of a series of pages which I have uploaded to illustrate facets of steam rallies we have attended in the UK. Such events occur all over the country in the summer months, they are easily found by using your favourite search engine and may have anything between a handful of steam engines and hundreds (as at the Great Dorset Steam Fair which could probably be fairly described as having an excess of riches). Click here for the Marcle index and click here for the overall 2016 index.

One of the joys of Marcle is the working demonstrations, this year sadly steam power was not used on the saw benches..

Steam Ploughing

Fowlers 14378, 15183 and 15333 were ploughing as is normal here, using John Garman's Fowler balance plough. The ground was more than firm so on Saturday they were taking their time with lengthy breaks between session.

Threshing

I saw Barrows and Carmichael portable (316 ca 1865) was ticking over on a thresher as was Fowler 8889. Unfortunately, my visits to the working area didn't coincide with any meaningful activity. Click here for a 2014 YouTube video of this operation.