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restorer of the original
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Zionsville,PA
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I stopped over at my former neighbor's friday at lunch and took pics of hit & miss engines until my batteries went dead. Sam is now 87 and still doing great
He has an exact copy of your Fairbanks 3hp Model Z ( his is a 1920 mfg ) that he purchased about 1950. ![]() Here's the governor set up ![]() He had that in the "engine house" right next to the barn. Here is the 5hp Challenge engine that his Dad purchased brand new in 1902 right in Lansdale,PA ( 10 miles away ) at J.L. Freed. The business is still running and is currently a Cadillac & Honda dealer. ![]() ![]() Original bill of sale ![]() full size http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...s/DCP_4259.jpg He's got this Cletrac track tractor too ![]() ![]() This was sitting right behind it. ![]() He sold his big steamer and got this smaller one ![]() Went in the building and it was even better than I remembered ![]() How 'bout this one, twin cylinder 40 hp ![]() Here's one that was made right down the hard road from my friend Bill. ![]() ![]() Here's an early International Harvester ![]() Here's a steel wheeled Traylor tractor ![]() Here's one of his rubber tire John Deere ![]() Too new for you? How about steel wheels? ![]() ![]() When we were heading back to the house, I spied this back in the engine house. It's one of the first Maytag washer engines which allowed clothes to be washed in a MACHINE ![]() I'll be heading back with plenty of batteries and a notepad to get the history on as many of these engines as I can. Sam started collecting these in the 30s and is still at it ![]() Jeff |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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That is cool as shit. Do they all work?
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Looks like most of them are in running or near running condition. That is like going to a muesum... VERY VERY COOL!
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Very cool.
What would the 5hp Challenge engine be used to run? $270 was a SHIT-TON of money in 1902! |
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Guys... where *are* we?
Join Date: Nov 2008
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That's some cool stuff!
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: the northern district of god damn
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thats a lot of really awesome history right there. he should make sure its written in his will thta it becomes a museum when he passes on so those things arent just scrapped.
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x's 10!! That stuff is awesomely cool! Its nice to see its still in good shape too! |
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restorer of the original
Join Date: Mar 2008
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The first one moves but hasn't been running in a few decades. All the ones in the later pics run.
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As I said in the first post, it's mounted in the engine shed. The wide leather belt runs up to the pulley shaft mounted at celing height. A lever either powers the left side or the right side of the shaft. On the outside of the engine shed is a pulley ( on each side). The one on the "barn bridge" side has another wide leather belt that runs the corn grinder. ( barn bridge -- that's the dirt ramp that goes from ground level to the second floor of the barn) Sam runs that engine every year and sometimes still uses it to grind corn for feed. Quote:
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I'm going to go back over in a couple of weeks and write down all he can tell me about them. The quality of the castings is amazing. He's gotten engines that have been outside for decades and they clean up nice with only very minor pitting. If you left a casting from today out for a few years, it would corrode and flake away. |
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Where to next?
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: OK to the C
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That's very impressive! They sure don't make them like they used to!
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