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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. |
The Uncle Earl EngineA 1-3/4 HP Economy Model S Finally Gets its Second Chance Almost 50 Years After Being Put to PastureBy Dean HaydenThe Uncle Earl Engine, as Dean Hayden affectionately calls it, is actually a 1925 Hercules-built 1-3/4 HP Economy Model S, serial number 331389, showing a casting date of 10/29/25. Back in the mid 1970s, I remembered that when I was a boy, my great uncle Earl had two flywheel engines. A big engine ran a sorghum cane mill, and a smaller one pumped water for the house. I paid uncle Earl a visit and asked him about the engines, and he told me the big engine had gone to Indiana, along with the sorghum mill, when he sold out several years earlier. But he thought the little engine was still in the fencerow, where he had left it 17-1/2 years before. We took a tractor and trailer and went down the lane looking for the engine. What we found was... 806 of 2817 characters shown.
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