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A similar photo was posted near the bottom of page 1 of Herb's wonderful "This was trucking-Old Photos" in February. Little did I know at that time, the photo is from a batch of the first 25 long-fendered Twin City 20-35 tractors. Different little things on these buggers. The devil's in the details ...

Thanks Bob for sharing this. May he rest.
I lost my dad to Pneumonia many years ago.

Welcome Rachel! And thank you!
Susan, keep your presence here if you can/would.

Glad for ya both!

Should you dare look at the Halloween Monster here? Did a walkaround for a friend yester.
Final big piece of a 6 piece puzzle. Not interested in numbers from the yutubb for monetary gains.
Get back to work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnhnkmpDICU
Blathering knucklehead.

Wonderful photos. :) Burger, I see the bridge designer's name of Modjeski. Mod...jeski. That's interesting as here it's been spelled Majeski and even more correct Maciejewski. Maciej = Majee & add the eski/ewski. Simple right? Oops, not so much. Same outcome. Majeski or Majevski. See where the V got...

Wonderful scenery Norrie!
What's the story of the model T "sculpture"?

That's cool! Thank you for showing us and I'm with Rich, show us more when you can play around with it!

Had a backing plate that the layers were separating around the locking pin. Put on some CA/crazy glue liquid, stuck it in the vise, opened and closed it to help the glue get IN the layers, added a little more glue, gently set the vise just snug and left it overnight. Nice and solid the next day. Fil...

I like you all but sometimes we differ greatly. I heartily side with DL and BB. I'm scared to death about the extremists. IF this election heads the foolish way. Some of their own fellows are basically agast. Ecclesiastes 10-2. My machines, including my T's could go to the open hearth furnace. Home ...

Ouch Michael. Been there done that. Nearly kil........EXTREME amounts of energy output! Good point! Yet, how do we put them in the yoke? Aha. Without their knowing. Been over a damn in France where they used the tidal flows to generate electricity but admitted it slowed the revolutions of this earth...

My tastes neither but with two people in the cab (like an old prairie tractor) to look on both sides of the engine, vroom on.

Very interesting!
Dang. The notion of a camera...

A Monster on All Hallowed Eve! No goblins tho. Maybe the local grandsons. Home and dry (Jerry Rafferty) finally. A Green Kansas Crusher back in Minnesota. God-son said it looked like a tank. He's right. When this tall fellow needs to step up to lift those sweet early aluminium valve covers off to lo...

Let it swell a bit.
Your noggin grows, ya suck all the oxygen out of the room until ya have to sit down and wait for the air to come back in.
Simple.
And a very nice catalog.

Shoot a little oil in the cylinders and let it soak in for a couple days if your compression is weak. How's it feel while cranking? Nothing really there or a bit "springy"? If your coils & plugs are firing on the battery charger, that's just fine for now. I drove my 18 out of my little shop with an ...

Nice photo Stan! My stuff looks the same. Nice Coupe.

I agree about evaporust. Just got a pail and soaked a cast iron part and a few steel parts. (more OT parts commentary) Good stuff! Did it in the house but the cast iron after brushing down and rinsing was oh so happy to start rusting again. The steel spark plug wire tube was more forgiving there. No...

Cadillac forks (1913?) are very close but the fork mount is also offset to the right or left with a steering? arm just under the fork.
Might be a brand to consider.

I think I know where those lamps are going.

Friends are fantastic.
Great photo Darel!

Agreed. Rob in his K.
Very cool!

Shoot. Bad link Bill. Would you try again?
Apparently many Ohioans did not know about the German and some Italian POW's held at Perry.
And possibly other camps. Neat story!
What I found. "ww2 german pow's helping in the community, stationed camp perry" do a search.

Interesting.

A '36 Twin City 21-32 FTA looking far more respectable all shod with "new" shoes all around! All set for a trip up the hill and perhaps engine un-sticking. #2 cylinder is stuck but the bores look really nice. Farmall F-30 wheels on the rear and later Twin City 17-28 (older tractor) steel on front. T...

That MAY be the best clip yet.
Thank ya sir!

Wow! And rough-sawn simply adds! These next pics are gonna be gawgeous!

Yeehaw Jonah!
Man oh man, that first drive!

Great photos!

Nice Stover MJ.
Billy, that Dazzle Patch is a descendant of Dan patch (race horses) ya?
Umm, engines named after racing horses...

Model T polo!

In this office, there is track (buried) that goes around the 12 x 24 space. Mantua and Riva-Rossi H-O steam has run around these tracks and another big layout I have in another shop. Never any good with scenery, if they ran good, I was happy. :) Newest I have is a MTH Triplex that runs pretty fair b...

Hank's right! Neigh! We won't crash gates. Neigh! ;) Beautiful horses. You're good to them at Landers Spa. Care and love. Dallas, what kind? Sister bought an Arabian when we were young, what a snot! Couldn't get along with the Quarter Horse sisters Star & Patches at all. Grandpa was the instigator. ...

That's too cool Darel!
Really neat fan. Probably worth every penny.

Marv, you have very good taste in engines.
Fairbanks-Morse rules.

Great pics!
And a Toyo-Kogyo-Umpanki (TCM) whiny-transmission forklift in the background.

That car is very cool! I sure think the Warren name is cooler than the town with my last name in northern MN. It's gone.
I grabbed a pic from a Motorcar encyclopedia I have.
Luck with your search.

Great photos GREG! That ol' Ford is looking good! You're looking well too!
Hi Richard!

It came out in one piece? Cool. This G venturi was easier but it was in pieces. Any cracking found yet? From a part of the model railroad world on preserving pot metal/white metal and even Zamac frames/bodies: One fellow used heat (low oven) to drive out moisture then saturated the cracks with CA (s...

Well, by gum!
Thanks Mark!
Yessss!

"So many little things to do." Right there with ya Chad! :) Picked up a large brass/bronze cam gear-thrust ring for a single cam, 413, 4 cylinder (OT) I'm dumping $$$ into. Thank goodness that was done by complete chance, stopping in today. Ached for it (months) for some more weeks of work/fitting t...

Felt keeps the dirt out whilst being oily for the moving parts. Unless fully yucked-up with dirt-rust. I broke a shaft mount because it was rusted securely. Welded it back together and went on. Hmmm, I have felt and scissors. Why the heck haven't I re-felted those holes? Cotton waste would work too....

I'm so glad you posted your GOW-job here too! Yeehaw!
Summer sure dragged me down!

I hear ya loud and clear.
Or am I waiting for the OT project to "go to town" here...
Itchin' for more Chad.

Now that's a great road to travel to get to a Portal of greatness/cool Dallas!
You're truly a respectful gentleman. Knew that already. Thank you for NOT allowing photos out.
Certain that the fellow was appreciative also.
That drool-time must have been priceless tho. Wonderful.

And those eyes, forever looking, watching, sometimes asking for help/attention. If I cover a T, the lights/eyes never get completely covered. Put one on a trailer and your tail lights light those eyes. In the mirror are two eyes watching. They wish to see as they're still alive, mechanical beasts th...

And I'm such a stubborn ol' cuss I refuse to enter my name and number for timmy's militia to be able to come on the grounds.
Neat Avery Michael!
The coolest sXXX happens at those show grounds!

George went on to say why not call it a cold water heater then likely shrugged in his manner and tilted his head.

One here has a pump just like Steve's wheel chock. I like that type of pump. :) Doesn't move much water and allows the natural water movement to happen too. Just a two blade impeller. I didn't have an inlet elbow when this one was put together so I re-packed the gland nut, made gaskets and put it on...

Great news!
Bringing any engine back to life is an awesome thing but with the T, it's ready to go!

I'm glad you folks can do this!

Have a great time!

Beautiful Runabout!

Extensive info and knowledge here and coming in at a great rate plus interesting side notes from people in this hobby. I wouldn't have a clue how to post a pic on faceplant anyhow! Yet I follow a couple groups there. Clumsily. I do find the same on another forum I follow. It's late summer and we're ...

Keep us in the loop on what you find Thomas. :) As Mark says, if ya take it to a rad shop, beat and cram that thought into their heads of almost no pressure for their testing. If it were scaled-up, ya might get some mileage out of a washing/baking soda clean out. Some of these guys sure don't like a...

"What would you pass on to the next generation of T enthusiasts?"
You do not really HAVE to pull the engine/unit power plant OUT to change the main-clutch discs on some cars.
BTDT. (Been There, Done That.)

IF you're older: "Toga, Toga, Toga!"

I like those thoughts Mark!
I've laced belts together using thread or string and belts from around our waists for T's and lathes. They work.
Neil, that's the kind of machine or heavier I'm wanting. A machine that'll handle a 6 inch wide OT drive belt to save it.
Very interesting thread George.

You've earned them I.H.V.

Don't care if contrived or no.
You earned them.

And the wheelbase is so very long.
Neat pics Adrian.
Neat TT!

This was good thinking. It CAN happen. That T will live again! Main reason I won't run my TT down this hill until he has brakes, just in case the Warford comes out of gear. No brakes what so ever on the axle, sooo.... The others have and are tested every time down. Sure isn't the end of the world th...

I needed that today.

Like Brent says; keep us posted.
Best you can/when you can.
Prayers and thoughts for you folks, ALL you folks.

F-20: The belt is put away, the 14 is back in her spot, the pickup is back in his spot and I need to learn more about the Zenith carb. The F-14 actually started another engine! The little snot could handle this one. Turns out that worn out 220 engine is easily hand cranked. Three compressions/choke...

I really like Julius the TT! You have some nice model T's Nathan!
Someday I'll catch you and ask about Julius' paint job. Looks neat!

Fascinating photos! Got stuck on the Wallis tractor 5 pics above and the mid-late 20's IH? fuel? Barnsdale truck too. Wallis Cub Junior or K with the boiler plate frame/oil pan? Amazing how many views these photos have gotten! :) EDIT: Funky to watch some Wallis tractor start-ups. Ya put the handle ...

Excellent! Errant calves even!
Or as my sisters and I called them cairfains.
Beautiful Holstein calf!
Little farts!

There's a something about "seeing red" but it eludes me at the moment.

And Massey red too!
Cool!

On a darker note.
I want a mask, when I go to town, that has an upright middle finger printed in the fabric.
Tony F and the CDC already have the bug patents long ago.

Greg, I believe that. I still have a 49 G down in the woods with the jug kit waiting for me patiently. A powerhouse that'll outlast us all. With a blown out PTO... Hah! That G would be way easier to use than my current fair also. ;) Dave that simply makes sense. A clean carb and a hot mag = vroom. A...

Wonderful thread!

The F-20 was all set today for oiling testing: Son worked hard on it on Sunday! I was the gopher. Got bearing clearances set, all rod caps facing the right way :roll: and re-adjusted the oil pan to suit the "new" oil pump. He even admitted he was shot from HIS down and under the engine and up again....

Poor thing even left the rust trail on the floor underneath.
5 max, I'd say.
Zamac/pot metal: Moisture is very hard on those items.

Ya, we look at that pulley too. It doesn't ring but it's omnipresent. The bigger F's have a lever, Twin City's can leave the clutch dis-engaged but this little snot is always... Adrian, would you give an explanation of your technique, starting your little F? Including throttle position. The governor...

It's funny Adrian, a camera cannot capture what our eyes and brain see but that F-14 sure does sound great in the videos...
Little snot.
Better than when I hear it.
Huh? Whajja say?

Hank, is the punch sharp or blunt? Very interesting method.

Craig, yep that lady had grit! Mark, don't beat yourself up so bad about this. You've already been beaten up by the T with a mistake. Two days ago I windmilled a much larger engine that just wouldn't come back to life with quarter turns. The helper engine couldn't do it for me so I reached down and ...

My 18 came to me with a 70's repro newer wood firewall as they thought it was a 22 or 23 (engine serial). There was sort of a hole there next to the carb adjust slot so I grabbed the drill, opened it up at a steep angle, ran a wire up and put a loop on it. Myself, I'm not real keen on adding "modern...

Boy are those Chevrolet crank shafts tough.
Really neat photos!

Doggone it, are the very few of us the only??? Perhaps there are more but don't come down here much. ;) A short utub clip of #26038, a 1928 17-28 Twin City brought back to life with help from the F-14. Some broken-down ol' man hand-cranked him back to life! Ya, I twisted his tail/windmilled him to g...

I did.
Tough/strange year.
Thank ya sir.

Yep, let's just totally shut our immune systems down... Not a good choice.
Sorry FJ.
Eh hem! Keep 'em coming! Some days I need this thread!

Great pic Tim!

I get behind on too many videos.
Ahhh. Nice cruise. Beautiful country!

You're nuts Jonah. And welcome to the old iron affliction! All of us are nuts! Hallelujah. :lol: For some of us, the (flywheel) gas engines and old tractors are often hand in hand with the Ford T! Good choice with a model T! Parts availability & ease of servicing etc etc. It's a huge plus that the m...

That first video in this thread was wonderful. Loved it!
This one was REAL! Thank you, you two! Made me feel more at home.
No wonder I have a COLD beer with me when I'm out with all my different machines. Ya gotta have a sense of humor!

Thank you, you two!

Uh huh!

Awesome!
That sixth photo is very cool.

Perry. Uh huh!
Herb. So close and yet so far away...
FJ. Nice thread. Keeps the "bears" away here!

In my 50's I started carrying one that said NRA but that fell off. Blade is as dull as as the day is long. Still cuts tho! As handy as the flashlight in my pocket! Used it just a few hours ago digging in a rust pit. :) Couldn't be without it anymore. Ouch. The point is still sharp so I'm easier on e...

Ick. Hot. Oh, but it's a dry heat... Fiddlesticks. In the yard, playing with OT, 81, 57 degree dew-point and sunny. Was blinking hot. Aww poop, now you have me wanting (more) to work on the '45 Flat Head amidst all my other pressing projects. Just pressed the button on the '45 and away it went. 25 y...

Watching here too. Also have a set for the 18 that are about 2" too wide now.
Strong bows! They really tug at the body when I put them on.

Wow.

For a guy with a motorcycle pic as his avatar, he was doing what he liked. Riding.
We'll miss his signature laugh on his posts.
Thank you Allen.

Wayne, that was fantasticl! Thank you! I appreciate it! An F series I'd bet. An F-12/14 is still naughtier than an 8 or 9 perhaps. Hahaha! NOT. Maybe an F-20 or 30... :) As time passes, we sure have stories to tell don't we! You learned quickly. I was slower then but look out now! Ya right... So gla...

Oh my. Neat find.

Michael, is that like the one or two pilgrim has?
Neat little buggy!

That's your AR! Gawgeous! Running OK?
Sweet!

The new doors look great!

Immeasurable learning these guys are getting from you Hank. Can't wait for the start-up report guys! Fruits of your labors guys! Susanne, Ding ding! You nailed it! When I was in high school, too dumb, didn't think I'd want metal shop and went to work outside and got A's when at work. Yet, I gravitat...

Funny on the running board toolbox! Uh huh, some days we need tools at hand! Silly thought perhaps: Is the point gap just a hair too close? Grampa's truck (not a T but a '58 Chevrolet six) was the same and fooled with us all until I opened the points just a tiny bit. Then, no problem with warm start...

Dare I ask? Susan posted about number 5,000,000 in the museum's care for awhile. That's cool.
I thought it should've been a sticky at the top. Even locked perhaps...
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You're right Harold. ..."when you can find the proper size box wrench"... :) Some of these OldTractors's here were seriously shoved back in to service, out in the field after a very quick fix. Pliers are even harder on bolts/nuts. By gum, I have one those long-lever clamping, adjustable spanners her...

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