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The Model N tractor donated by the estate of August Eliason of the Gimli area. Waterloo used a two-cylinder engine design as it was cheaper to manufacture than a multi-cylinder engine. Being a shorter engine block, the two-cylinder design could be more easily mounted crosswise on the chassis, simplifying the transmission and mounting the clutch out on the side of the tractor where it could be more easily serviced if necessary. One further advantage claimed for a two-cylinder engine was that intake/exhaust manifold was relatively short with a corresponding short distance between the carburetor and the cylinders. So when burning kerosene there was a reduced possibility of vaporized fuel re-forming as a liquid as it travelled to the cylinder for combustion.
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The Waterloo Boy Model N tractor

This tractor company pioneered the use of gasoline engines

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The Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company was the first company to manufacture and sell gasoline tractors. The company was formed in 1893 by John Froelich and a group of Iowa businessmen. Froelich built the first successful gasoline tractor in 1892 using a VanDuzen engine, mounted on a chassis built by the Robinson Company. This tractor completed
Willard (l), and son David Moffett have common interest in keeping farming history including “old iron” working.
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Passion for antique farm machinery

This father and son share the love of farming equipment of the past

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You may take the man from the farm, but you can’t take the farm from the man.” That definitely sums up a father and son from Strathclair, who love telling stories of the past from their shop on the town’s outskirts. Willard Moffett and his son David are well known for their passion for antique
The record-setting Harvesting Hope event at Austin July 31, 2016 raised $134,000, which is being split between the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and the Manitoba Agricultural Museum. Barbara MacDonald director of international programs for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, (right) accepts a $67,000 contribution from Elliot Sims, one of the organizers of the July 31 event, Harvesting Hope: A World Record to Help the Hungry. Also pictured (at left) is Harold Penner, Canadian Foodgrains Bank regional representative.
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It’s official — Manitoba set the antique harvest record, Guinness World Records says

The event raised $134,000 to be split between Canadian Foodgrains Bank and the Manitoba Agricultural Museum

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Manitoba can officially claim the world antique harvest record, according to Guinness World Records. That organization has officially sanctioned the Harvesting Hope: A World Record to Help the Hungry, held July 31 at the Manitoba Threshermen’s Reunion & Stampede in Austin, as the largest-ever simultaneous operation of vintage harvest equipment. More than 8,000 people witnessed
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Crops, Local news

Wanted: technicians who know how to operate a pitchfork

Volunteers sought for biggest-ever threshing bee in 2016

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If you think the days of the threshing bee are long past, you’re mistaken. And if you know what a threshing bee is, the Manitoba Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede and the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) may need your help. In August 2013 a group at Langenburg, Sask. set a world record by having 41 machines

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