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I looked up some pictures of old Lauson engines and I believe it is in fact a Lauson. The big round Fairbanks-Morse muffler confuses the appearance but I am sure it is a TLC-349, whatever that is, because that is also stamped on the plate that says Fairbanks-Morse at the top! I don't know what to think about how that happened. This engine was given to my eldest son by an old man [older than me] in Pilot Rock, OR. He had it in a pile of junk and was going to haul it to the scrap yard. Told my son that it was attached to a centrifugal water pump for watering cattle and had pumped crick water its entire life.
Dang...someone else is aware of my secret source for low-hours vintage engines...
Half the corn fields of Nebraska have a little corrugated tin shed sitting somewhere around the edge...usually housing an old engine used to pump water from a shallow well or creek when the rain doesn't cooperate.
Oldsalt, if you keep giving away our secrets, the rest of us are gonna kick you out of the old farts club...no more club discounts on Viagra and Preparation H...
Half the corn fields of Nebraska have a little corrugated tin shed sitting somewhere around the edge...usually housing an old engine used to pump water from a shallow well or creek when the rain doesn't cooperate.
Oldsalt, if you keep giving away our secrets, the rest of us are gonna kick you out of the old farts club...no more club discounts on Viagra and Preparation H...
Yellowhand. Have long considered going from farm to farm with a camera, video, and measurment equipment. Tell the landowner that you are putting together a book or some such about the various types and ages of the barns in the area. The owner is asked to fill out a paper with information on the history of his wonderful barm. While he is busy doing his paperwork I would be doing my barn inspection and documention duties. Inside and out.
The real truth is that you can unearth almost anything you are looking for by asking everyone you meet if they know where such an item is. Took an old cycle to a local car show yesterday. My friend with me asked everyone that stopped to talk if they knew anyone that has a 12 bolt rear end. He located one for almost zero dollars by the end of the day.
The real truth is that you can unearth almost anything you are looking for by asking everyone you meet if they know where such an item is. Took an old cycle to a local car show yesterday. My friend with me asked everyone that stopped to talk if they knew anyone that has a 12 bolt rear end. He located one for almost zero dollars by the end of the day.
Nobody can pinch a penny better than a farmer...
The price of fuel since the early 70's has ensured that the average family farmer has to work a full-time job in town just to be able to keep his land, and they don't waste anything...it gets put to use somewhere.
When they could afford one of them new-fangled electric warshing machines, the Maytag engine got put to use on the wellhead.
A lot of vintage engine equipment that can be found at farm sales is held together with spit and baling wire, and sometimes they have some really funky handmade parts on them, but they're out there in quantity, many of them still in service after 50 years.
By the way...make sure I'm with you if you get near our barn...the dogs don't even like it when I go in there...they think that's their house...and their old Cushmans.
The price of fuel since the early 70's has ensured that the average family farmer has to work a full-time job in town just to be able to keep his land, and they don't waste anything...it gets put to use somewhere.
When they could afford one of them new-fangled electric warshing machines, the Maytag engine got put to use on the wellhead.
A lot of vintage engine equipment that can be found at farm sales is held together with spit and baling wire, and sometimes they have some really funky handmade parts on them, but they're out there in quantity, many of them still in service after 50 years.
By the way...make sure I'm with you if you get near our barn...the dogs don't even like it when I go in there...they think that's their house...and their old Cushmans.