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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. |
WHY HAVE AN ENGINE?By Don HitzemanWestville, Indiana Things were tough for a farmer in the early 1940s, especially if your farm was way out where there were no electric power lines. All the work was done with horses and by hand. There were a lot of great items around to make the work easier, but they were, after all, new fangled and maybe not worth anything. You may have gotten a tractor; however, the only advantage was that it didn't need to be fed twice a day. But the horses were kept if for no other reason but to pull the tractor to start it when your arm got tired! Now with all these problems, why should a guy go out and spend hard-earned cash on any other "labor-saving device?" What would make you part with the "green" to make things easier? After all, you are about 30 years old and have the problems and procedures down by now. Well, there are a lot of things going on in ... 799 of 2283 characters shown.
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