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« on: November 25, 2015, 01:04:16 AM »
A little more of what has been going on.......I still have about 8 large antique engines, about half are hit and miss.the biggest is a 15 hp Fairbanks,,,,,about 3000 lbs, runs like a watch..on a 14 ft. trailer....my old friend is 93 and we have traveled around the south east for 30 years....he had about 80 engines,.....a few years back he gave his friends one. I got first pick...did not want too but I finally picked a 1 1/2 sattley... still left him with about 70...most of his were smaller ones...this summer he decided that he had no one to in his family that knew or wanted old engines....they were just scrap to his family.I stop over one a week to take him to lunch,this day he said come look at some engines....I went home with 9 engines, Iron horse, Johnson.reo,bradford,Waukesha ,etc...a week ago I stopped in this time I went home with 13 more....all he said was I do not want them to go for junk.....I would of given anything to have these 30 years ago....... hopefully my son will keep and take care of them.......I use to go to about 15 engine shows a year. from south Florida to Indiana and stay about 5-7 days.. the last few years I noticed I only go to 4 or 5 and stay about 1-2 days... does not takes as long to see everything,,, just not as fun as it use to be.......my favorite engine and set up is a corm mill on a 18 ft. trailer....with a Desjardin hit and miss engine....I usually take it the Ga. Nation Fair for 11 days in the fall......I still own a 8 hp lister clone and a 3 1/2 hp petter......still love old engines but we all slow down...sid