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04-30-2002, 09:29

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If 'tenant' farmers in that part of the world were anything like the ones we had around here years ago (and I don't see why not) they were certainly very 'poor' tenant farmers. However, that being said, they usualy had VERY wealthy landlords (with whom they 'share-cropped'). Our family worked a LOT of land this way for years, we even still 'work' some today this way. Because the landlord made his 'rent' based on a share of the crop it was in his best interest to ensure the 'tenant' had everything possible to maximize the yeild, including providing 'state of the art' equipment, which was back-charged against the tenants 'share' of course. In fact some of the larger equipment dealers used to rent brand new equipment to land owners with the rental rates based on $X.XX / acre or XX% which ever was higher, this way the landlords could get top yeilds while still conserving cash. It sounds a little bit like exploitation but an honest, hard-working family could make far more money (and have a home to boot) doing this than anything else. Best of luck.

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Up here in the 'frozen north' it was also common to have, usually only on heavy equipment, a 'pup motor' to start the engine. This was a small 4 stroke gas engine which gear-drove the fly wheel of the main engine to start it. Basically the way it worked was you just began rolling over the main engine (usually with a de-compression valve open or at least partly so) and this generated enough heat after a short time to allow the main engine to begin to fire. In some of the more sophisticated versions the 'pup' was liquid cooled and used the main engine as a radiator and also drove a genrator which kept the batteries and engine warm, in severe weather this little engine would be left running all night to make it easier on the machine come morning. Best of luck.

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