[SEL] BIG Iron

[Richard Fink Sr]

Tommy this may be a dumb question. Does it fire both cylinders together. Or 
do they fire one on power and other on its exhaust stroke. Nice BIG engine
R Fink
PA




At 08:51 PM 7/9/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>I just got this home this afternoon.  This engine is a 50 HP Hagan and has 
>2 - 25 HP cylinders placed side by side.  I ran this engine 11 years ago 
>at Portland and it ran well.  It uses the fuel though, going through 5 
>gallons in probably 30 minutes.  Couldn't run it long at a show ($$$$, 
>you'd go broke fast!).   Its about 72" to the top of the flywheels.  I 
>have a neighbor that has a big roll back.  I couldn't have gotten it home 
>without it.  This engine was found in Florida in the early 80's by the 
>McWhorter brothers and it had been in an orange grove.  They got it going 
>and then one of the brothers died (sadly, I can't remember which one it 
>was).  The engines were sold and this one came to Indiana with Kenny Wolf 
>purchasing it.  I ran it for Kenny at Portland in '94 when Kentucky built 
>engines were featured.  Kenny traded it to Terry Tanner who lives in 
>Union, Kentucky.  Last fall Terry contacted me and asked if I had interest 
>in it.  We worked up a trade and I finally got it home.
>Terry had a real nice sub base fabricated for it and I'm going to place it 
>under the engine and find a permanent place to set it.  Click on the small 
>photos and they'll enlarge.
>
>http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=3009203&a=32236594&f=
>
>Tommy Turner
>Magnolia, KY
>
>
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