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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. |
Homemade Mini-TractorBy Clayton Walker317 S., Main Mall, Suite 400, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103 Old gas engines have interested me since about 1946. The first engines I observed closely about 1951 were two large (25 HP) engines still in operation on a Sinclair Oil and Gas Company lease in the Glenpool oil field just south of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sinclair had several still running and I believe they were Superiors and Cooper-Bessemers. I was working for Sinclair at the time but did not run the engines. In 1971 I bought my first engine. It was a 5 HP F & M. I still have it. At that time I was not aware of "engine shows". I just enjoyed running it in my backyard. A friend, Jack Slankard, told me that they had shows for old engines and in 1978 I cleaned and painted my old F & M and took it to the first engine show I had ever attended., It was the Pawnee, Oklahoma Show. I have returned e... 796 of 4177 characters shown.
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