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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. |
"LET'S JUST CHAT"By Laurence GravesRoute 1, Box 147/A, Suisun, California 94585 Enclosed find subscription for the Gas Engine Magazine. Although I'm a Steam buff, and it appears my loyalty is slipping, I think a gas magazine is a of a good idea! I used to have a 4 cy. Fageol tractor and used it many years from '34 to '62. A neighbor called it a man killer. The big grousers on the drive wheels were big 6" long spikes and gave little slippage and at same time acted like a soil tamper. I think they made a swell layer of hardpan all over our place. Finally gave it to Cal Tinkham over at Reno who will display it at their future National Nevada Heritage Museum. Steam power is tame and gentle gas power seems wild and uncontrolled. Modern multi cylindered tractors, with self-starters have overcome these problems, but some large Diesel jobs are still hard work. They don't call them cat-s... 805 of 2951 characters shown.
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