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"UNBELIEVABLE"

By Berton Blazek

Innisfree, Alberta, Canada.

The young man visiting us stood shaking his head and repeating the word, "unbelievable". Before him our Field Marshall tractor stood, shaking gently with the easy regular puffing exhaust and its loud annoying diesel knock. If tractors came be some genetic process, this might be a throwback, or some mutation, but rather it is a unique design in a day when tractor designers were not too adventurous.

Our large gasoline expense with a conventional tractor and the fun promised from operating a single cylinder diesel tractor, plus doing our work at one third the cost, well, we decided, "We'll go and get it".

We knew of this engine for several years, but till now had no need of one. Our trip wasn't very eventful, except on returning, the truck developed a bad knock which proved to be a loose connecting rod; we despa...

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