Today I'm back from the old engine show at Buckley, Mi. It runs Thursday thru Sunday and the amount of old steam and diesel engines and tractors is unbelievable and they all work!!! I got hooked an getting a Hit and Miss engine. If anyone has one around 2 hp, I'd be interested. I want to make a generator out of it and use in conjunction with solar panels to power my barn. They also have a huge Flea market that has a lot of good old tools along with the usual Chinese stuff but now so much of it.
For those who can't go,I took some pictures so you get the flavor of what they do there. We left when the parade of tractors was going on and it went for hours. The have a wood working barn with all the machines driven form overhead belts. In one building, there is a huge motor with abut a 100 ft belt on it driving a 30' dia wheel that was used in the oil fields to run and number of oil pumps. the working rods are laying on the ground going back and forth so you have to watch where you step. This is no place for an OSHA guy. He'd go crazy!!
They have a working saw mill, veneer mill, thrashing machine, shake shingle cutting machines, a bowl cutting machine and a blacksmith shop that will brand a shingle for you. In the blacksmith shop they were casting aluminum bells and taking orders for them and they can be personalized with your names cast into them.
If you get the chance next year or yet tomorrow, it is worth the trip! It is on M37 north west of Cadillac
...............Jim
Here are some pics.
http://i887.photobucket.com/albums/ac71/JimJakosh/TractorsPouringiton.jpg!
THAT'S ALL FOLKS
For those who can't go,I took some pictures so you get the flavor of what they do there. We left when the parade of tractors was going on and it went for hours. The have a wood working barn with all the machines driven form overhead belts. In one building, there is a huge motor with abut a 100 ft belt on it driving a 30' dia wheel that was used in the oil fields to run and number of oil pumps. the working rods are laying on the ground going back and forth so you have to watch where you step. This is no place for an OSHA guy. He'd go crazy!!
They have a working saw mill, veneer mill, thrashing machine, shake shingle cutting machines, a bowl cutting machine and a blacksmith shop that will brand a shingle for you. In the blacksmith shop they were casting aluminum bells and taking orders for them and they can be personalized with your names cast into them.
If you get the chance next year or yet tomorrow, it is worth the trip! It is on M37 north west of Cadillac
...............Jim
Here are some pics.
http://i887.photobucket.com/albums/ac71/JimJakosh/TractorsPouringiton.jpg!
THAT'S ALL FOLKS