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mike
 
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Jerry Foster wrote:

Take a look at:
http://www.museumca.org/global/histo...s_tractor.html



I admit that, when I first saw the engine, I thought 115 hp sounded a bit on
the high side.

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This is not a small engine.


They made them that big: At Osage,Iowa, there a good Steam Meet each
year with a 110HP Case and 140HP Reeves as the two big boys of the show
http://web.archive.org/web/200308112...caseicon01.jpg
http://www.beautifuliron.com/tempIma...powOsgReev.jpg
http://www.enginads.com/photos/steamers/pic1933.jpg
with a 14 bottom plow- and that was a lot of plow for those days

But these big ones were after 1910, which what I think RoyJ was getting
at, Vs 1905

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