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SOME FIFTY YEARS AGOBy Paul B. CurtisFredericktown, Ohio I'm well pleased with the "pig in a poke", for it has turned out as I predicted. My earliest memory of a gas engine just about coincides with that of a steam engine (1913). To the best of my knowledge, we acquired our first gas engine, a used 2-1/2 hp. Waterloo Boy sometime in 1912 or 1913 and it was in the family until 1943. It was used most of the time for pumping water and at times for running the washing machine. From the time of purchase, until sometime in 1916, it was the sole source of belt power on the farm. All this time it was used for sawing wood and grinding feed. During this time, Dad decided to make it into a tractor, so he wouldn't have to take the team whenever he went to do a job of wood sawing. For traction wheels, he used the bull wheels from two old McCormick binders and drove them with the binder chains. T... 799 of 2282 characters shown.
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