When I was about 7 years old my father bought a Geiser steam
engine and a No. 3 thresher which did very nice work. I believe
this was a 7 HP engine. Some years later he sold this outfit and
started farming. A few years later we bought a Flinchbaugh gasoline
engine and a small thresher to do our own threshing. Then I bought
a Fordson tractor and a used Messinger thresher. I used it to do
saw mill for Clarence McCleary, also for Albert Young. After Mr.
Young died I got a job hauling concrete blocks for the Strickler
Block Company of Red Lion, Pennsylvania. I hauled for them until I
retired about 5 years ago. Now I buy and recondition gasoline
engines for show purposes. I have had Huber, New Way, Flinchbaugh,
Economy, Grey, Lawson, New Holland, Foos and many others.