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A Family Affair

By W. C. Maupin

Route 1, Box 303, Arbuckle, California 95912.

My interest in collecting old engines and farm machinery is more than protecting them from the cutting torch and blast furnaces. I am reminiscing with the past. My father had an old iron wheel Farmall F-12. I remember him cranking, for what seemed hours to me. If he could not get it started he would take out the spark plugs, hold a match over the holes and as he turned the engine it would suck in the flame to dry out the cylinders. Sooner or later it would start. He also had a small pump engine he used to pump water with it. That was in the thirties. We later moved to California and I ended up in the farming business here. I leased a ranch and there was an old 1-1/2 H.P. John Deere engine used years ago to pump water with on the ranch. When our son, Mike, saw it, he started tinkering with it and had it running in an hour. A go...

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