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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
MINIATURE FARM DISPLAYBy Percy L. Dezotell4155 Lancaster, Dr. N.D. Space #72, Salem, Oregon This little farm display is all handmade by Percy and Margaret Dezotell, Salem, Oregon. It is built on the scale of 3/4 in. per foot. Takes a 256 sq.ft. table on which to display it. I, Percy, was born and raised on a farm in Saskatchewan, Canada, a province where the main crop is wheat. I farmed with my father there as a kid-driving horsedrawn outfits, and at the age of 14 was doing a man's job, such as seeding, plowing and pitching bundles. By the time I was 19, I could run the entire threshing outfit, having performed all operations. This miniature farm is set up, telling the story of the way wheat farming was done in the 1920s. We had horse outfits first, then small gas tractors. The display shows spring seeding, summer fallow and harvest operations, all at one time-to give the overall pictur... 806 of 2800 characters shown.
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