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Justin Likes His Grandfather's GallowayBy Marvin. M. SmithBox 292, Hooper, Nebraska 68031 Justin Taylor Smith checks out the 1¾ HP Galloway. My acquaintance with gas engines, old tractors and steam engines began about 24 years ago after my father-in-law and his brother took me to Bill Mayberry's threshing show in Niobrara, Nebraska. At that time I was living near Burke, South Dakota, which now puts on a small threshing and gas engine show every year the first weekend in August. I guess this is where I got "hooked" on the smell of burned oil and gas that those beautiful old engines put out. I stumbled across my first engine right in a good friend and neighbor's yard. It was a 1½ HP John Deere, Type E on trucks. She had it in an old scrap iron pile, but it was not stuck. Not knowing the first thing about those things, it was my first experience. I loaded ... 806 of 1609 characters shown.
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