Tractor engine cooking

[JwsIII]

My son has been experimenting with heating up or cooking lunch on the tractor engine while doing field work this spring. Kinda fun and he's now thinking of fabricating a "cooking" platform and taking this up a level. Anyone else try this? Forget brats in the grill, he's had brats on the exhaust manifold...and yes I did warn him about grease fires. Use a lot of tim foil.

 

[Taylortractornut]

Growing up in dirt moving we always used to cook canned goods on the manifolds of what ever we ran. One old man that ran a grader for an out fit I worked with always ate Beany Weenies. Yst take a knife and peck a few holes in the top of the can and wedge it in the manifold. By morning break it usually was nice and warm. He ran an old 69 model 12F Cat grader. One morning we got busy changing a tire on his grader and he forgot to poke holes in the lid. We got busy with the ADT's dumping top soil and I was rough spreading it and he was helping me out by finishing for me. We were working a blade width apart and about that time I heard a pop and got something hot got me in the side of the head. And the smell of BBQ beanie weenies filled the air.

It blew the whole toip off the can and travelled 20 feet to my dozer. In the winter Ill usually take a burger if I grill out the night before and make it like i want it and wrap it up in tinn foil and and about an our before lunch pop it on the the manifold behind the turbo. also work with hot chocolate. Ive done this alot on my old open cab dozer at work. We have a break area at the rubbish landfill so I didnt do it as much, since I have the closed cab dozer I started oing it again saving a trip to the office.

 

[Kays Supply]

I saw a picture of an optional manifold for a Model A or T that had a box and a door. It was a small oven.

Found this http://www.frankstpartsltd.com/default_files/Page613.htm

 

[Redneck in training]

Here is a cookbook.
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Manifold-Destiny-Guide-Cooking-Engine/dp/0375751408]Amazon.com: Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine! (9780375751400): Chris Maynard, Bill Scheller: Books[/ame]

and here is road kill cookbook
[ame]http://www.amazon.com/The-Original-Road-Kill-Cookbook/dp/0898152003/ref=pd_sim_b_1/180-1230704-6074663[/ame]

 

[edlegault]

My dad was a gyppo (independent) logger and he sometimes ran a small portable sawmill. He had a cooker attached to the engine manifold to heat up or cook chili, soup, etc. Great for a cold wet day in the Pacific Northwest.

 

[Bill 55]

I used to work night shift in a garage that had gas fired radiaters in the office for heat. In the winter I would butter the outside of two slices of breat add a piece of cheese and a burger. Wrapped it in foil and put it on the radiator. At lunch time I had a toasted cheeseburger. Beat the heck out of cold cut sandwiches

 

[deerefan]

I was in charge of a large asphalt job a couple years back. The crew put their lunch in the oven where the asphalt was heated. After a little while, they had a hot lunch. You can get pretty inventive when necessary.

 

[Soundguy]

when i used to work out on heavy equipment it was common to lay a aluminum foil wrapped sandwich up on the manifold or muffler flat or hood above / below the muffler prior to lunch.. or to heat a soup can the same way..

 

[EagleTDL]

Manifolds aren't the only way to get this done... When I was stationed overseas in the USAF we worked out of hardened shelters for the aircraft. They were officially named TAB-V, which if memory serves stood for "Tactical Aircraft Bunker Mark 5". As you can see in the second pic, they were lit for nightime usage. Those sodium lights had a flip-down glass front and you could put canned foods, MRE's, whatever would fit in there to heat up. Had to be careful, if you left your grub in there too long it would melt/burst and blow the bulb too! :laughing:

 

[Furu]

Nice to see an Upperheyford bird in front of a shelter. When were you there? Alconbury early 80's for us.