International HIt and Miss engine (ot)

[1940plymouth]

Just helped unload this International engine for our show this weekend, thought I would share the photos. There should be a good selection of them at the show this weekend, I'll post more as they arrive, iffen everyone doesn't mind. Plus I'll use this thread to post photos of the cars and tractors that are there over the weekend. Suppose to be a good weekend weather wise, although much cooler than it has been, but thankfully NO RAIN:)

If anyone is interested, the show is at the fairgrounds in Grahamsville NY just off of State Rt 55 in Sullivan County

[Young Ed]

Bob I wont make it as most of the forum wont either but we all like pictures.

[RobertKB]

I don't know why, being a city boy, but I love old farm machinery....so post away with the pictures.

Like Ed, due to distance, I won't be there but I always take in the two old time farm machinery/threshing shows in my area. Lots of great stuff.

[1940plymouth]

State of the art in 1936, but oh my, it must must have been a chore just same to drive

[Mark D]

Bob, 30 years ago when I was a pup, I worked every summer for my grandfather as a laborer in his construction business. Second summer I worked for him I carried 1700 16" concrete block to help him build a retaining wall. In between carrying the block, I mixed mortar for him in a cement mixer he hand built with an engine just like the ones in your photo. Seven shovel-fulls of sand + one scoop of portland cement + enough h2o to get something that felt like soft butter. If it wasn't right, boy he'd get angry. Now everytime I hear a hit n'miss engine my arms ache.

[1940plymouth]

Mark,

Your cement mixing story brought to mind my Grandfather also. In the middle '60's we redid the cow barn floor, we did all the cement mixing at the farm, and he would spit tobacco juice in the mixer with each batch, saying the cement would harden quicker with the tobacco juice, now if it did or not, I have no clue, but that is the way he wanted it done

[1940plymouth]

Here are a couple of photos of the club's shingle mill.

[1940plymouth]

couple more photos

[1940plymouth]

Is that a hit and miss John Deere engine? (or is it motor?)

No, it is a two cylinder John Deere engine, that they are using to power the shingle mill.

Mark, I went back down after supper, they were setting up this hit and miss to run the cement mixer, just had to share with you:)

[Mark D]

Bob, Picture made me smile, Papa's rig had thhe same "paint" job.

[Greenbomb]

That's neat stuff. Most of them looked like "contraptions", but they did the job real well and were quite complicated. Pretty slick engineering for the times. thanks for the pics.

[1940plymouth]

Here are a couple of photos of the shingle mill in action along with the wood splitter in action also. I would love to post videos of them, but my new camera's videos slow my old computer right down. The photos just don't do either machine justice, but everyone will get the idea.

We had twenty some odd old cars and trucks, but I was the only old Plymouth, hopefully today that will change.

[greg g]

Its a wonder that anybody who worked with those things had all their fingers and or hands. And now when they are mounted on a trailer, I would have to stay about 50 feet away while they were working.

As a kid I remember the silage blower that was operated by a 10 ft long leather belt running off a tractor PTO. Well I guess farming was just a notch or two different than mining or lumbering for dangerous jobs.

[Don Coatney]

Its a wonder that anybody who worked with those things had all their fingers and or hands. And now when they are mounted on a trailer, I would have to stay about 50 feet away while they were working.

As a kid I remember the silage blower that was operated by a 10 ft long leather belt running off a tractor PTO. Well I guess farming was just a notch or two different than mining or lumbering for dangerous jobs.

It is amazing how many corn pickin farmers can no longer count to 21.

[1940plymouth]

There was a nice '49 Plymouth convertible at the show yesterday, I parked next to him. I told him that my car will even make his look that much better