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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. |
As I Saw ItPART XXVIIIBy Rolland E. MaxwellHunting-ton, Ind. Rt. 4 46750 (Threshing As It Used To Be) - Back in the good days of steam threshing it was the hope and aspiration of most farm boys to some day own and operate a steam threshing rig. Not only to boys but to their elders also. There was a certain inspiration in the smell of smoke, and the noise and bustle attached to the operation. Now who owned and operated those rigs? There were two classes of operators. First, the farmer who owned a machine and operated it in connection with his regular farming, doing the threshing for a group of his neighbors too. Second, there was the so-called custom operator. He usually lived in a small town and had two or more outfits consisting of steam engines, separators, corn shellers, clover hullers, silo fillers and a hay baler. Usually his sole income came from the use of this machinery, ... 806 of 5649 characters shown.
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