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Wisconsin engine TF 1954 assembled on a generator welder Hobart GW-222

Now the restoration has been completed. I want to say thanks to Mr Dale Ray and Tom Wooding from Wisconsin Motors LLC and Wisconsin Motors Canada ...

A day in Portage, WI - part 2

After the slow start in part 1 I head back to the yard. A large number of BNSF engines is sitting there, perhaps the result of recent detours ...

A day in Portage, WI - part 1

It starts ominously. Fog hovering over the cooling pond. Threatening skies and a threatening silhouette of the power plant. An empty coal train ...

108 Engine to a House Explosion Part 1

Units were alerted for a house explosion. 108 Engine was first on scene reporting a fully involved house fire with lines down. This was a surround ...

The Farmall Model B Tractor: The Family’s Second Tractor

                               FARMALL B: THE FAMILY’S SECOND TRACTOR    

                                                              by Brian Wayne Wells

              ( This article was published in the November/December 1993 issue of Belt Pulley magazine H to get the M.  Later, he would begin to speculate that he should have kept the H as a second tractor; however, the need for a second tractor did not appear as crucial in 1950 as it would in later years as this picture shows.  In this picture, the M had just returned from the field where it had spent the morning pulling the Massey-Harris Clipper combine.  From about mid-morning (when the dew was gone and the windrows dry) until noon the combine could fill our two wagons.  The M was then unhitched from the combine and hitched to the wagons which were brought to the building site for unloading.  This was planned so that the family could then have dinner and not waste time.  Nonetheless, after unloading the wagons, it would be well into the afternoon before the combine would be started in the field again.