Part 3


One of the favorite things I brought back was the 1923 Waterloo Boy 2hp Hit and Miss engine my dad had picked up and restored in the 1960s. Sitting in the old shed for the last 30 or so years had not been kind to it.

waterlooboy 1 by M Patterson, on Flickr


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I tore it completely down and re-restored it and got it running again.

waterloo boy restored by M Patterson, on Flickr


Of course it didn't take too long to decide the engine actually needed something to DO so I built a line shaft to so the engine could run tools that had come from the farm (or in a couple cases just like the ones that had been on the Farm in the 1930s).




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6JxFYy7-0A



Ok the can crusher is not 1930s, but it is amusing to watch




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