[AT] Tractor Shows

[Andy Glines]

Thanks for the show report Greg.  I'll have to put this one on the list to 
be attended sometime.
>Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:39:21 -0400
>From: Greg Hass <gkhass at avci.net>
>Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor Shows
the Oakley show for the first time this year. I have always
>talked about the Buckley show but have never gone due to the fact that I
>would have to stay overnight. I chose Buckley as it is only 2 hours away. A
>lot of tractors to look at in one day. One thing of interest, and to our
>dismay, we missed when they ran it, was a big V-12 gas engine that was
>started with a 10 hp ,4 cylinder gas pony engine. There were at one time
>several of them in Flint, Michigan and used for flood control. Although no
>longer on the engine, the pumps would pump 45,000 gal. per minute per pump.
>In 25 years they were only used twice other than being tested every so
>often. I'd sure like to know how much gas they used per hour. Another thing
>I sure would have liked to have seen, but again I missed it, was the rope
>braiding machine with all it's spools of string. All in all a day well 
>spent.
>Greg Hass
>Bad Axe, Mi.