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Something Was Missing, So I Built It!

By Donald E. (Gene) Sunding

608 S. Fulton, Salisbury, North Carolina 28144

I've always had a fascination for old engines but I never had one 'til I got a Fairbanks-Morse Z, 1½ HP, a couple of years ago. I restored the engine and constructed a beautiful oak frame, nicely varnished, for it to rest on.

I showed it a couple of times, but there was always something missing. The engine ran perfectly, but it had to do something.

I decided to give it a job, by constructing a tractor. I rounded up a few parts from old scrapped lawn tractors, bought some steel to fabricate a frame, rigged up a couple of belts over a jackshaft and voila! A small tractor emerged that has been a source for interesting conversation.

Granted, it is not going to win any tractor pulls, but I've not yet come close to killing the engine anywhere it has been driven.793 of 1392 characters shown.

 

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