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Tag: Allis Chalmers G

  • Doing pretty good for an old guy

    How about you? On this sparkling Tuesday morning in August, the gentle aroma of purple and white phlox wafts into the home office of what I euphemistically call Stately Blaska Manor. In the meadow outside my window, tall yellow cosmos dip and weave in the gentle breeze.  It’s great to be alive, which, given the…

  • Hope you are having a wonderful Father’s Day

    Ours is shaping up good. Once again ran the lawnmower over the plastic hose leading out of the basement sump pump. Despite the warning stick (often used to mark firehose plugs in snow drifts). Back from Menard’s for a replacement discovered that what I really needed was a 1½ inch hose, not the 1¼ inch…

  • Air quality alert for SW side of Madison!

    Due to mid-course correction on Allis Chalmers G project Restoration on the Experimental Farm’s 1949 Allis Chalmers model G tractor is underway! It’s a tractor we grew up with as kids 60 years ago. (!) (More here.) Cute as a lady bug. Hoping to get thumbs up to line up in the Orchard Ridge Independence…

  • Playing with my little G

    Painting the world a better shade of orange Don’t need it. Can’t really use it. But wanted it, anyway. A 1949 Allis Chalmers model G tractor.  Four-cylinder, 62-cubic inch engine lives behind the tractor seat. (Just over half the engine size of my Harley Davidson motorcycle.) 10 horsepower at the drawbar. An open “belly” in…

  • Celebrating thick plumes of black smoke at the Thresheree

    Once upon a time, the sign of prosperity and honest, hard work The indentured servants were given the afternoon off Sunday (09-01-19) for a trip back to the past. We piled into the FIAT 500C as if it were a Zor Shrine clown car and headed south to Edgerton for the Rock River Thresheree.