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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. |
SPARK PLUG OF THE MONTHBy Joe FahnestockDayton Daily News & Radio's "Joe's Journal" A western saddle was his first cradle, the whinney of a buckin' broncho his first lullaby, the staccatto of horses' hooves on the western plain his baby rattle. To his Dad the western horse was a first-love. But to young Milton Deets, who loved things other than horse-flesh, that boyhood pony his father had given him was but a means of conveyance across the western plains to wherever his first-love, the threshing machines, were harvesting the golden grain. "I grew up on a ranch in western Nebraska," says Milton. "I'd ride a pony for miles just to watch a thresher in operation. Dad tried his best to make a horse lover out of me, but I fell in love with farm machinery instead." But wood, coal and water were not as plentiful on the western plain as in other parts of this great ... 813 of 5025 characters shown.
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