[AT] DEAD or:: Long Story

Mon Mar 12 12:06:43 PDT 2007

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "CRAWLER HEAVEN" <edc at crawlerheaven.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] DEAD or:: Long Story


> Charlie just wondering where you live in WNY. I grew up in 
> Buffalo(Kenmore)
> My one grand parents were bar keepers off Niagara Street in the Black Rock
> section The other from Riverside section. Now i live in Palmyra NY east of
> Rochester.  Ed
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "CEE VILL" <cvee60 at hotmail.com>
> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 5:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] DEAD or:: Long Story
>
>
>> Interesting.  They are back almost 100 years.  When my father was a young
>> man (early 1920's) he worked for a short time in a furnature factory in
>> Rochester N.Y. that was powered by one or more steam engines.  His
>> description of the overhead shafting and belting were as you describe.
>> Rochester Gas and Electric Company supplied steam to the downtown
> Rochester
>> area to be purchased to operate the engines.
>>
>> Off to work,
>>
>> Charlie in WNY
>>
>>
>> >From: Ed Stewart <edstewart1 at verizon.net>
>> >Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> >
>> >Hi, near where I live here in PA there is an Amish furniture factory
>> >that is run by a single diesel engine running a lineshaft that belt
>> >drives the equipment, saws, shapers, planers, drillpresses. They slide
>> >the flat belts from live pulleys to idler pulleys to start and stop any
>> >machine. Ed
>> >
>> >CEE VILL wrote:
>> > > Chuckle.  Interesting story, Gene.  My first thought is the three
> Amish
>> > > fellas are intelligent life.  They know better than to drive.  I
> wonder
>> >what
>> > > they will do with the diesel engine. It must be they use stationary
>> >power.
>> > > Lucky for you there weren't half a dozen tractors there also.
>> > >
>> > > Charlie
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >> From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
>> > >> Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> > >> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> > >> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>> ><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> > >> Subject: Re: [AT] DEAD or:: Long Story
>> > >> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:37:00 -0400
>> > >>
>> > >>     Okay Charlie, you asked for it.
>> > >>     Have a little story to tell about yesrerday, then tell me if
> there
>> >is
>> > >> intelligent life left??
>> > >>
>> > >>     Yesterday I took a couple Amish brothers to an Amish farm sale
> near
>> > >> Shreve, Ohio, 130 miles from home. These guys are deadly with a
>> >checkbook
>> > >> when away from home. My primary reason for going was to bring home
> some
>> > >> milk
>> > >> cows if they could buy them, so I towed my 15 foot livestock 
>> > >> trailer,
>> > >> figuring the trailer for the cows and a few smaller items in the
> truck.
>> > >> That
>> > >> part worked fine as I hauled back 2 cows and a bull calf. The rear 
>> > >> of
>> >the
>> > >> trailer was loaded with about 20 used doors they bought and a couple
>> >items
>> > >> of furniture. The truck held the very large lots of v'belts and flat
>> >belts
>> > >> they bought and the milk can rack, strainer and heavy duty step
> ladder
>> >fit
>> > >> nicely in the back of the truck. Doing fine so far.
>> > >>     There was lots of nice horse drawn implements here, so the 
>> > >> buying
>> > >> frenzy
>> > >> continued. 2 usable IH 2 row corn planters, 1 Pioneer sulky plow, 1
>> > >> forecart, 1 3 cylinder Duetz diesel engine mounted on a wheeled cart
>> >and a
>> > >> couple other items. Okay a nice trailer load, so I called my
>> >friend,Tony,
>> > >> to
>> > >> see if he was interested in coming and hauling this  load. He agreed
> to
>> > >> haul
>> > >> the load and hooked to his trailer and made the trip to the sale
> site.
>> > >> Meanwhile another amishman from a neighboring community had bought a
>> >New
>> > >> Idea hay loader and had no way to get it home. Well, Henry, figuring
> he
>> >had
>> > >> another trailer coming and barely enough room to load it, 
>> > >> volunteered
>> >the
>> > >> other driver to haul it and drop it off for him. Tony arrived about
>> >8:00pm,
>> > >> well after dark and the loading proceeded. The items the brothers
>> >bought
>> > >> loaded just fine. The hay loader was loaded on the back of the
> trailer
>> >and
>> > >> laid down on the other items. The top of the loader faced forward 
>> > >> and
>> > >> created a very large drag surface. All items were chained and
> strapped
>> > >> down.
>> > >>     The group started home and were heading west on U.S. Rt.30 when
> the
>> > >> strap on the loader was cut by a sharp edge that it crossed. So
>> >traveling
>> > >> at
>> > >> speed on a busy highway with the loader catching all the wind and 
>> > >> the
>> >strap
>> > >> broke allowing this large flat wing to fly off the trailer, right
> into
>> >the
>> > >> left hand lane of the highway. Fortunately, no one was close behind
> and
>> > >> they
>> > >> got stopped and rolled the loader off into the center median. With 
>> > >> no
>> >way
>> > >> to
>> > >> load it back on the trailer it was left and a towing company
> contacted
>> >to
>> > >> remove if from the highway.
>> > >>     So, today we hooked my other trailer to my truck and went and
>> > >> retrieved
>> > >> the loader. What was a very nice hay loader will now require some
>> > >> straightening and a couple hay slats and another pair of rear
> castering
>> > >> wheels. We delivered it to the new owner this evening with
> negotiations
>> > >> still ongoing as to who pays the damages. Fortunately, I am off the
>> >hook on
>> > >> this one
>> > >>
>> > >>                             Gene
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >
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>> >--
>> >The American Indians found out what happens
>> >when you don't control immigration.
>> >
>> >Ed Stewart
>> >Reynoldsville, Pa.15851
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