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Old 02-19-2014, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Jeff in Pa View Post
and some are bigger than others. Here's a 485 HP Cooper engine I helped with at Rough & Tumble in Kinzers,Pa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxZ7FstMiMw

It's started with compressed air and then a few seconds into the video, it's switched to propane and you can hear it firing.
I went there the other yr for a tractor show, those engines are awesome! It amazes me that these engines ran whole factories and mills. I think it's cool that some of them were made local in philly, built and used for 100 yrs within a short distance. Not shipped in from across the country or world; was a totally different time then. I'm glad you guys are preserving them, good work!

Bill
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