[SEL] Friend found a Famooose, Part I

[Chuck Emsweller]

Nice find!  Gives the rest of us hope of hidden treasures around the
bend!  Good luck in the recovery and restoration.

Chuck Emsweller

-----Original Message-----
From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of Jim
O'Hagan
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 4:16 PM
To: 'The SEL email discussion list'
Subject: RE: [SEL] Friend found a Famooose, Part I

Hi Rich, Can you turn it up side down and roll it out like a wheel
barrel?.
If the wheels are close to the ground, you can use planks and form
revolving railroad tracks. Cya, Jimmy O'Hagan, Novato,Ca

Jim O'Hagan
-----Original Message-----
From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of Richard
Strobel
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:19 AM
To: sel; stationary-engine
Subject: [SEL] Friend found a Famooose, Part I

  Yup, some guys have all the luck..no actually I'm quite happy for my 
friend, Corky.  Believe it or not he went down to a local tourist trap
(well

not exactly, it's pretty kewl) and what did he find parked up from the 
borrow pit a ways, but this 12hp Famous.  Been made into a "log
splitter" 
but still pretty neat.

    He approached the owner and got the usual NOT FOR SALE.  Well after 
shooting the breeze a little, the guy would trade for some ole Ski
Doo's. 
Well that took Corky about one day to find and we rounded up three,
cleaned 
them up and took them down.  The guy was estatic.

   So now we have the piston and cylinder at my place....and beating our

heads how to move the flywheels/crank, base and sub-base down a short,
steep

embankment into a shallow but wide borrow pit.  Boy are we coming up
with 
some BF's.  Can't remember now what machine he used to get it up
there...but

we want to be a little more careful.

  Well here's some pix's and stay tuned for Part II:

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/554575609hGMWbp

Have a good'un
RickinMt.

 

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