What better way to haul a collection of engines from show to show than having them mounted on a trailer? “It’s all pretty much self-storing, I just hook on the trailer, everything is on there, all the belts line up, all I have to do is pull them out and remember which belt goes where and ...
McClellan’s engine with a carburetor fabricated from an old soda-acid fire extinguisher. I bought an engine the end of April 2019. Cast on the base is “Franklin Gas Engine Patd.” Everyone knows these engines as Parsell & Weed engines. I have the vintage book Gas Engine ...
Chris Jerue and his 4-stroke hit-and-miss Vaughan drag saw.Age: 28Location:Cheney, WashE-mail:cjerue@hotmail.comWhat’s your favorite engine in your collection?My favorite engine in my collection is my 4-stroke hit-and-miss Vaughan drag saw. This is an odd and rare item that I had been ...
Jacobsen “4-Acre” reel type mower with 24-inch cut and 1-1/2hp engine. Aptly named, the “4-Acre” meant the user was able to mow four acres in an 8-hour day.This story actually starts 56 years ago, when I was 8 years old. My parents took us kids to many antique shops all over the East ...
The left or sideshaft side of Rudy Adrian’s 1918 3-4hp Lorenz. (Photos by Bill Vossler). Manufacturer: Ignac-Lorenz Co., Kromeriz, Moravia, Czechoslovakia Year: 1918 Serial No.: 7130 Horsepower: 3-4hp (rpm not listed) Bore & stroke: 4in x 6in Flywheel: 23in x ...
Earl Wacker’s circa-1901-1905 3hp Frisco Standard at the 2018 Old Threshers Reunion in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. (Photo by Richard Backus). Manufacturer: Standard Gas Engine Co., San Francisco, CA Year: Circa 1901-1905 Serial No.: 452 Horsepower: 3hp @ 400rpm Bore & stroke: ...
You’d be happy too if you’d just traded for a Dan Patch engine! Barney Kedrowski couldn’t have cared less that it was raining as he loaded his newly prized possession for transport home. (Photo by Barney Kedrowski). Manufacturer: M.W. Savage Factories Co., Minneapolis, ...
Fabulous 5hp Abenaque "pan-cooled" engine will be offered at the August 2020 auction. Nov. 6, 2019, kicked off the first of two auctions of the Kenny and Wendy Wolf engine collection. Kenny and Wendy, as many readers know, have been buying, selling and collecting engines for some 50 years, ...
Destined for the scrap heap, this circa-1902 6 hp fuel-injected Goold, Shapely & Muir, the earliest known engine of its type, has been rescued and restored by Canadian enthusiasts who now show it regularly. We caught up with it at the 2015 Coolspring Power Museum Summer Expo, where it was ...
The Coolspring Power Museum’s 2015 Expo featured flame ignition engines, including this impressive 1885 10 hp Schleicher, Schumm & Co. engine, believed to be the last surviving engine of its type. We’ve posted video of this engine before, but this is one engine you just can’t get ...
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