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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. |
SELF STARTING AGAINA reprint of Chapter Nine of To Gather Together: CENEX, the First 50 Years, by Leo N. Rickertsen, copyright 1980 by the Farmers Union Central Exchange, Inc. Sent to us by Mr. Walter A. Taubeneck, 11801 52nd Drive NE, Marysville, Washington 98271. Assembling the "ultra-modern" CO-OP tractor at the South St. Paul plant. For twenty years it had been unchanged. Tractors started with a crank. Broken arms or wrists made it a worrisome farm operation. Even experienced farmers could be caught. A moment of inattention, a split-second of vented anger, a final tired, frustrated attempt and splintered bones or strained muscles resulted. It was the hazardous human connection to the mechanical beast that allowed the farmer to twist life into a valved, pistoned, metallic heart. It would seem as if, like the horse, the tractor had hidden emotions that could blow up and take... 815 of 8231 characters shown.
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