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Re: Horse power in the old steam engines
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Posted by Mark - IN. on August 22, 2005 at 17:45:35 from (152.163.101.7):
In Reply to: Re: Horse power in the old steam engines posted by old on August 22, 2005 at 14:42:45:
I agree. Do not compare a 15HP Briggs to a 15HP AC B to a 15HP Rumley. One will run a garden tractor, one will drag a one bottom, and one will pull a house down. I remember as a kid an old farmer tooling up on an old steam powered to the country store. I was about 4, and ran like heck all the way home. I knew what a B was, what a H and M were, but never seen anything like that, and it scared the living heck out of me. A controlled explosion on wheels, and quite impressive these days. Certainly are an art to punks like me. Mark
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