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Weatherlawyer writes
On Saturday, 30 April 2016 21:18:44 UTC+1, bert wrote:
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Weatherlawyer writes
Tis the time of year for ye visitation of steam and diesel traction
displays. Looking some up on line, it occurred to me that the average
lawn mower has more oomph than that lot had in the goode olde daies.

How much would be done around a farm with 5 horse power?
I just realised whilst writing this, that in the days of horse power,
5-Hp was quite a tidy investment.

I can remember a small-hold neighbour, now long dead, who had a petrol
starting TVO tractor some 35 years ago. Even then it was a relic. But
he also used a Victorian looking hand pump to get water out of his well.

Any idea how much horse power that old TVO represented?
Which one? As far as I can tell the Fordson Major was about 40 whereas
the little grey Fergie was about 28.

I have no idea what it was but vaguely recall it as grey. But this was
too long ago to be honest. The mind recalls what the memory slips into
adjacent spaces. When you are busy trying to pay for your daily bread,
what turns out to be even more valuable years later, is too far off to
go back and fetch.

Sooted plugs was a big problem for our little grey fergie. Farms were
changing over to diesel and a small delivery of TVO was often
contaminated with diesel left in the delivery lorry pipe.



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Tim Lamb