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SEL General Stationary Engine Discussion Forum / Active engine collectors
« on: February 08, 2009, 04:32:39 PM »
For me an early tractor is pre 1940 although I prefer pre 1930. Kind of like engine collectors that only prefer open crank hit-and-miss as opposed to the later styles with throttle and govenor and closed cranks. Glad to see you exhibiting that 10-20--they have a really great sound.

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SEL General Stationary Engine Discussion Forum / Active engine collectors
« on: February 08, 2009, 08:00:32 AM »
Yep, the price of early tractors is running away. Can't decide how much of it is real and how much is just those models catching up from being ignored in the '90's while everybody rushed to buy 40's and 50's models you could go to the dealership and buy parts for.

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Tasks Around Home with old iron
« on: February 05, 2009, 08:42:47 PM »
Good to see you back posting Ralph!

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SEL General Stationary Engine Discussion Forum / Active engine collectors
« on: February 05, 2009, 08:40:10 PM »
I have about 5 old engines but don't consider myself an engine collector. I much prefer old tractors.

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Tasks Around Home with old iron
« on: January 29, 2009, 10:56:46 PM »
Back in the mid '80s we modified a horse drawn riding cultivator to be pulled with a tractor. We coupled it to dads McCormick 10-20 (on steel) and plowed quite a bit of garden. The lugs did a pretty good job of breaking up the middles for the cultivator.

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SEL General Stationary Engine Discussion Forum / First run of latest engine
« on: January 16, 2009, 09:00:58 PM »
You need a career change. After being in a machine shop all day my better half never bellyaches about odor unless I have been working on a fuel system or am saturated in fumes from something 2 cycle.

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Almost 700 members
« on: January 08, 2009, 08:33:28 PM »
What I don't understand is why more folks from the mailing lists won't participate in this site? I have made several plugs or references to pictures someone posted but aside from one fellow it has generated no traffic.

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Truly Antique / Real Oldies
« on: January 04, 2009, 05:38:35 PM »
That Leader must be a pretty rare machine! I can't even recall of hearing of one of them much less seeing one. I never take pictures at shows anymore unless it is of something odd/unusual. It appears the show you were at had plenty of that!

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SEL General Stationary Engine Discussion Forum / 3 Hp Novo
« on: December 28, 2008, 10:24:40 PM »
Is that a 1.5 hp JD I also see? You can send it to me to use for parts. Mine suffered from a case of exploding magneto.

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John Deere / 40 Crawler
« on: December 17, 2008, 10:05:30 PM »
This sounds like a very interesting story unfolding--please keep us posted as you make progress!  Fortunately for me I have noticed that Deere seems pretty reasonable for parts for my 40 year old combine. I have ordered on Fri afternoon and had parts Sat morning for just a couple bucks freight. It seems all Deere dealers are now part of chains/franchises. Six or eight of them have now gone together in our "area" I called up before lunch one Fri. needing parts and they had them brought in before quitting time from another dealership. Evidently they have parts/equipment runners that run daily between the dealerships.

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Truly Antique / Real Oldies
« on: December 05, 2008, 10:39:30 PM »
Thanks for posting those pictures. You just don't see those kind of tractors at the average show here in the South.

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Forum Technical Help / Members List seems to be short
« on: December 05, 2008, 10:35:50 PM »
Thanks for the info. Out of curiosity, what could they hope to gain/profit from something such as this forum?

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SEL General Stationary Engine Discussion Forum / Vertical engines
« on: December 05, 2008, 10:32:35 PM »
Our chainsaw collection started out innocent enough and now numbers close to 50. We quit buying them several years ago, except for a rare unuaual machine at a great price. Every once in a while we look at one and just wonder where it came from.

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John Deere / Jon Dear?
« on: December 04, 2008, 09:35:08 PM »
Hey, looks like your "Frankenstein" has a sidekick!

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SEL General Stationary Engine Discussion Forum / Vertical engines
« on: December 04, 2008, 09:32:41 PM »
If you have so many engines you can't remember how many you have, you guys have iron fever BAD!!

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