Recent content by turnkey4099

Never saw that technique. We always started at about 6:30 position and pulled UP. Can get a lot more force on the crank pulling up rather than pushing down. Our last tractor was a mcCormick Deering ?10? ?20?. Diesel, starts on gas then switch over to gas. Hand crank. That beast was so big I...

I was just thing the other day about the changes in my life. I can remember my dad gettin his hand cut on the license place when the ford kicked back. I think it was a T but may have been an A. Recall the Peral Harbor announcemtn. Getting the 'electric' via the REA (?1947?) To seeing men...

So if there is no written record,l how do they know it was the most violent etc....?

Anmd the bad thing is it tips off the guy behind you that yiou MIGHT be turning.

That brings back memories. First overseas tour in AF: St. Lawrence Isle Alaske in the Bering straight. That weasel was our crew bus from barracs to op center and transport the short distance barracks to runway.

Although they call it a "flight". I think that is stretching the definition of "flight" It was all in ground affect.

Nope, flown by Howard Hughes on what was supposed dto be a taxi test. He lifted it off for the short flightl.

Some history on the P51. The oiginal was a camel back, i.e., fuselage sloped from the top of the pilot cabin back to the tail. The original engine was an American design (as was the P51) but the fighter was pretty much not up toexpectations. It wasn't until the British replaced the enging...

IIANM that was gnome rotary.. crankshaft was fixed and the entire engine rotated around it. Seems stupid but it worked.Planes using it could turn sharply one direction but dog it the other.

As long as you remember not to stop!!

The original was to on the lines of 'remove one out of 10' "kill one out of 10" Used in WWI to "encourage" the troops. Picture a formation and the order "count off" and every 10th person knew he was doomed. Illiterates began useing it wrongly until the real maaning is now#2 in the...

And is both the eastern most and western most continental point in North America.

I tore down an old schoolhouse that was on my property with the idea of using the stuids for an 18x30" addition. I spent one whole day sorting the rough cut 2x4s to come up with enough matching ones to make ONE 18' wall. Went to town for a load of finish studs. I did use the rouigh cut 2x6...

I kinda go for "Take 30 minutes off, or add 30 minutes. ONCE and sthen LEAVE THE DAMN TIME ALONE!

Yes, back then you COULD get a short bed on speciasl order and wait for it. Running boards on PUs 30-40 years ago? That would have been in the 80s and already the "build 'em high" fad was going on. I never dreamed the day would come back then when a shortbed skiy scraper was all hyou could get...