[AT] Passing of John Girard

Dave Merchant kosh at ncweb.com
Thu Dec 30 00:05:34 PST 2010


The video is private.

Would like to see it...

Dave Merchant


At 02:05 AM 12/30/2010, Keith Kinney wrote:
>Gene
>Thank you for letting us know of John's passing.  I had the pleasure of 
>meeting him at this past years Portland show. John had asked Gene to see 
>if he could find a gas engine to run the little ground hog 
>thresher.   With Genes help we hauled my daughters 2.5 HP Novo back to the 
>threshing area.   We belted up the engine and thresher and for the rest of 
>the show John would hand thresh some wheat to show the spectators how it 
>was done in the 1850's.
>
>I'm sure glad I had to opportunity  to meet and work with John even if it 
>was briefly.  He will be missed by the folks at Portland but I'm sure his 
>family will carry on his legacy.
>
>I just posted a Youtube video of John running his Ground Hog Thresher at 
>the Portland show.  Unfortunately while taking the photo's I was more 
>concerned with the engine, thresher and process and didn't get too many 
>good shots of John.
>
>Here's a link to the video.
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_otw7HnzT4
>
>Keith
>
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>Keith Kinney
>kkinney at herculesengines.com
>WWW.HerculesEngines.com
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