2011 Grand Prairie Rice Festival
antique Fairbanks-Morse pump engine
At Hazen, Arkansas, October 29, 2011
Randy Skarda's pet project weighs in at 23,230 pounds not counting the 18-wheeler it takes to tote it around. Skarda's pride and joy is his 1919 Fairbanks-Morse Type Y Vertical Oil Engine, originally used by Aldoph Thomas to power a rice well on his rice farm near Hazen, Arkansas. The engine was on display and running like a watch, though a bit noisier, at the 35th Annual Grand Prairie Rice Festival at Hazen, Arkansas.
See the stories that go with festival pictures at Corndancer dot-com and Weekly Grist for the Eyes and Mind.
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