I'm not sure which act of insanity would best qualify. Shortly after high school I put a 1953 Buick 322 CID V8 in a 1948 Ford pickup. The Buick had been an automatic with an enclosed driveline, so I used the Ford flywheel bolted to the Buick flexplate and the Ford clutch and 4 speed unsynchronized transmission. I bought no adapters. I don't know why it worked, but did work very well. I later put in a 1957 Lincoln rear end after I forgot about the load in the back during a quick takeoff. About two years later I put a Shaver HD10 post driver on the back of a 1968 Ford Bronco which had been rolled and totaled. I later set that up so I could drive it while walking behind it. While it required two men our fastest time driving posts was 180 per hour. Later as a one man operation I once did 105 posts per hour. Sometime around this time I built a 120 volt generator using an 8 Hp Briggs & Stratton and a Chrysler alternator where the voltage did not fluctuate with changing engine speed. I called it my current bush. I designed and built a dump hoist under the box of an early 50's IH pickup box trailer. I put live remote hydraulics on my 1978 Subaru Brat to run it. I later designed and built a hoist under the box of an '88 Ford pickup. Both of those hoists left the box at their original height on the frame. Since then I have less chance and opportunity for such things, but did get a patent for a tool used in well drilling. PS Don't invent something for use by only a very few people. Come up with something everybody wants.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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