Glad you enjoyed it as much as I do, Tree! Every year around the first weekend of September I try to go to Somerset, depending on the weather. Some years it gets swampy, some are hot and dusty, but I've always had a good time seeing how things used to be done.treefarmer wrote:1967redrider, that's a great video of old equipment! Love to hear the old engines idling. When I was a little feller, one of the cattlemen had an old John Deere that could be heard for the longest distance. It made a spat, spat, spat noise while he pulled some sort of bottom plow in an old flat woods field.
The 1st home I remember was next to a sawmill. In the video, the carriage for the logs and the chain that pulled the sawdust out and away from the saw blade was very similar to what was next door. It was a great place to play when the men went home in the afternoons. Can't remember getting hurt playing around the mill. There was always a lot of pine tar on my knees and hands that mother had to clean off with kerosene.
I noticed a couple of Model A's that reminded me of some of the ones we had as teenagers. They were called "Skeeters", hood, front fenders, windshield, some sort of seat and a little flat bed on the back and of course some bigger tires. Those old engines were so easy to keep running even I could work on one. I remember going to Sears Roebuck and buying a 21/32", half inch drive socket to undo the rod bolts.Oh how I wish I still had the 3 Model A's I used to own!
I do have an old single cylinder International Harvester stationary engine somewhere out in my shop. That might be a good project for an old man when he gets tired of pocket knives.
We are enjoying a rainy afternoon and as I watched the Somerset video it brought back a lot of old memories!
Treefarmer
meaning two man long boards.
Very handy piece of machinery right there..