[SEL] BIG Iron

Richard Fink Sr nancydick at pennswoods.net
Mon Jul 10 18:58:32 PDT 2006


Tanks


At 10:57 AM 7/10/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Richard,
>    Ones on power and the other is on exhaust.  It makes the engine sound 
> real nice.
>
>Tommy Turner
>Magnolia, KY
>
>
>>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
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>>At 08:51 PM 7/9/2006 -0400, you wrote:
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>>>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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