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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. |
Retrieving a BIG ONEBy Norm StuckeyLast summer I again attended the fine little engine show at Glenford, Ohio. It was an impressive show with the large number of steam engines, including two Leaders. There was plenty of the usual activity to keep the crowd amused and entertained. Bryan Orr had a vast array of equipment in action. While making the rounds I was especially interested in a large oil field engine which was slowly chugging away. The owner told me that he had operated such engines for years as they pulled the oil from the hills of southern Ohio. It came natural to ask if he knew where such an engine could be bought. I was surprised when he said that Jim Dittoe at Somerset, Ohio, had a 24 HP Bessemer oil field engine to sell for $100.00. A few days later I contacted Jim Dittoe and a deal was made. He told me his grandfather originally had eight wells. However, the wells we... 790 of 3404 characters shown.
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