He’s Restoring A 1926 Kenworth Truck
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After his positive experience restoring a 1956 Kenworth truck, Kevin LaPlant is eager to tackle an even older model, a 1926 K-W Kenworth, that he first saw parked in a California field.
“It’s not pretty, but everything is there and is fixable. It’s a neat truck. Kenworth started building them in 1923, and I think it might be one of the first 100 they built,” LaPlant says. One big difference between it and his 1956 truck is the Buda motor...Read More!
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Cart-Mounted Propane Heater
Double D Machine Shop, Yankton, S. Dak. “I bought a portable tank top propane heater equipped with a 20-lb. bottle and built a hand cart to move it around. It’s nice and quiet and can be easily moved anywhere in the shop I need heat,” says Dennis Hartmann...Read More!
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“Pto Reverser” Powers Rear Snowblower
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“It lets me operate a front-mount 50-in. snowblower on back of my Deere subcompact diesel 4-WD tractor equipped with a 3-pt. hitch,” says Lynn Olds, Lima, Ohio, who came up with a slick way to reverse the pto shaft on the tractor.
“Directly connecting the snowblower to the tractor’s rear pto shaft would have resulted in the snowblower rotating the wrong way,” says Olds, who credits his brother-in-law for the idea.
The pto reverser uses the tractor’s factory pto shaft to chain-drive a second pto mounted below. The entire reverser unit is attached to a steel mounting plate that’s bolted to the tractor...Read More!
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Hanging Harness Stystem Makes Hook-Up Easier
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Oregon Logger Makes His Own Chainsaws
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Terry Brannon has been an Oregon logger since the early 1980’s, and for the past 20 years he’s built his own chainsaws. “There’s not a piece of plastic anywhere on the saws I build,” says Brannon. “They’re all metal and they’ll run for 50 years. They’ll run in 10 ft. of snow, in 10 ft. of water, and even if you drop them 10 ft. from a tree.”
Brannon’s claims are reinforced by the fact he owns and regularly uses more than 100 working McCulloch and other brand saws. “I don’t build shelf queens, garage queens or show saws,” says Brannon. “They’re all made to work for a living, not sit around for a pretty picture.” Brannon uses different saws for different jobs and carries about 20 with him every time he heads into the woods, which is almost every day...Read More!
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Liberty Quote
“The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.”
~ Justice Robert H. Jackson
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On the eve of a big election, a politician ran into Ole and asked proudly, “Did you see my last speech?”
Ole replied, “Vell, ya, I sure hope so!”
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