SOME PEOPLE HAVE TOO MUCH TIME

[Brent]

Did anyone see the guy on RFDTV's Prairie Farm report the other night that built a tractor with 9 Briggs and Straton 5 hp motors on it? There's a man with some time on his hands!

[Paul B]

I didn't see that one, but there use to be one that would show up at shows in western Kentucky and southern Indiana, that had 8 B&S 5 hp engines (two rows of four) connected to a common shaft with cog belts, and each engine timed to fire as if it was a cylinder in a V8 engine. It even sounded like one. I saw that two or three different times, and each time he had changed something around - a carb on each engine, a single carb and a manifold to each engine, an exhaust stack on each engine, exhaust from each connected together, etc. Seems like he had started with a Bolens lawn tractor, but I may be wrong.

[Bigdog]

I believe I saw that one at the Lincoln Trails show at Otter Creek Park.

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

the first time I saw Harry lee's double and triple 20s and 30s, I told him he had way to much times on his hands also.

[George Willer]

I don't remember the count on this one, but I think it has 15 Briggs engines on it... on a walking tractor! They are smaller ones, I think 2 HP. It's interesting to watch him start it. After the first couple are running they start the rest in sequence. He has to hold his hand over the exhaust of each one to tell if it's running... it wouldn't be possible to tell by sound. (he wears hearing protection)

The control panel in the "cockpit" is a maze of clutch levers and throttle controls... all well done.

He took up this project after racing became too expensive.