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Flywheel Tree Trunk Display
Bob Crowell is a great friend to FARM SHOW, promoting the magazine at antique tractor shows across the Midwest.
Last summer he took pics of a big tree trunk grown into a pair of giant flywheels. He saw the unusual display at a show in Greensburg, Ind.
“The flywheels came off a 25 hp. Superior Oil Field
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Flywheel Tree Trunk Display MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous Bob Crowell is a great friend to FARM SHOW promoting the magazine at antique tractor shows across the Midwest Last summer he took pics of a big tree trunk grown into a pair of giant flywheels He saw the unusual display at a show in Greensburg Ind “The flywheels came off a 25 hp Superior Oil Field engine and had been sitting in a field not far from where I worked for an oil company in the 1970’s ” says Goble Rogers of Ravenna Ky about his eye-catching tree trunk display The flywheels had evidently been scrapped and left in the field as a remembrance of days gone by Goble cut the tree off above and below the shaft running between the wheels and through the tree trunk Then he had a friend build a special custom-built trailer so Goble could take the exhibit to shows and pull it in parades “We can’t believe all the looks we get when we take this display down the interstate on our way to shows ” he says When he cut the tree it had 86 annual rings Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Goble Rogers 3107 Furnace Jct Ravenna Ky 40472 ph 606 723-3706
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