[SEL] Dragging Old Iron home, tis the season

[Lyndsay Frazer]

Hi Russ. What can I say mate except bloody ripper. Well done and thanks for 
the pics.


Regards
Lyndsay

PS---Curiosity mate --------What engine number is she.



>From: Russell Gilbert <russell at ncable.com.au>
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>To: The SEL email discussion list <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
>Subject: [SEL] Dragging Old Iron home, tis the season
>Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:19:54 +1000
>
>
>>It must be the time of year for draggin some iron home. Due to a recent 
>>re-laps into engine mania I was over come by a weak moment and also found 
>>myself; like Patrick and the boys; doing a deal on another bit of old 
>>iron. After looking at buying and engine from ebay (I didn't win it) I 
>>decided to chat to the person listing to ask what if anything else could 
>>be for sale. Well after a few e-amils and phone conversations I became the 
>>new owner of a realy nice little 1904 3.5hp Portable Hornsby. It's the 
>>smallest that Hornsby's made in the portable oil engines and rarely come 
>>up for sale. I just couldn't resist and I weakend dramatically to the 
>>point where life wouldn't be worth living unless it was home in my shed!!  
>>(well maybe not that dramatic but it's a hoot having in my collection)  
>>Anyway the engine is seized but vertualy complete. The transport is all 
>>factory original with the Hornsby embossed lettering on the hubs.
>
>
>Well Haulin engines is what this is about and haulin we did. I asked Dad if 
>he had been to Roma in Queensland and if he wanted to come for a little 
>drive to pick it up. He asked how long we would be gone for and I 
>mentioned; Up Thursday and back Friday; Sounded good......! Well we decided 
>to leave home after tea on the Wednesday to allow a bit more time. Got back 
>3pm on the friday ..............  Now some think we are silly but it was 
>only 1675 km each way! The total trip was 3341 km in just 43.5 hours.  It 
>takes a trip like this to really appreciate how big our country is because 
>when you look at a map it just doesn't seem that far. Well we had very 
>little trouble, not much sleep and managed to not hit any kangaroos!  The 
>roads were pretty crappy and at times our speed was some 30km per hour 
>slower than we anticipated. Anyway all is good and the little engine is now 
>home. I sleeped 11 hours straight that night. I have to thank dad for the 
>company.  Pictures are up on my webshots; the link at the bottom in my sig.
>
>cheers, Russ
>
>
>
>Russell Gilbert
>Sunny Sunraysia
>russell at ncable.com.au
>http://community.webshots.com/user/russellsrelics
>
>
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