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After talking to my wife at breakfast this morning, the only thing that came to mind was a line Burt Lancaster, playing a Calvary Colonel, got off in the movie, "The Hallalujah Trail"; "Give a woman an acorn and next thing you know you're up to your rump in oak trees".
 
(quoted from post at 07:19:42 11/02/10) After talking to my wife at breakfast this morning, the only thing that came to mind was a line Burt Lancaster, playing a Calvary Colonel, got off in the movie, "The Hallalujah Trail"; "Give a woman an acorn and next thing you know you're up to your rump in oak trees".
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Better be careful..Some pretty thin skinned folks on here may find that vulgar........ Next thing you know, you'll be showing naked pumpkins or something..............
 
I'm proud to say that a distant cousin of mine wrote the book that the movie is based on, i.e. The Hallelujah Train. I believe the title of the book was changed after the success of the movie as I have copies with the two titles being different.

Bill Gulick also wrote Bend of the Snake of which the movie Bend of the River starring James Stewart.

A few others were also made into movies. He is best known for his westerns, historical based fictional westerns and for book on the Pacific Northwest.

He has Kansas roots and Oklahoma roots. A budding baseball career was ended when he contracted polio and thus he began a writing career that has spanned more than 6 decades.

He wrote many many magazine short stories in addition to novels. From Lineman magazine to law enforcement magazines to Saturday Evening Post.

I like to think of him as a farm boy turned successful. Last I knew he was still writing and is now about age 94. Lives in Walla Walla, WA.

The link is to his autobiography.
Sixty Four Years as a Writer by Bill Gulick
 
That's still one of my all time favorite movies. I laughed so hard my sides hurt for two days.

That scene in a sand storm was unreal! I loved the part where the Indian Chief was sitting on his horse looking around to see where he was, then jumped off his horse and went down a cliff.
 
It was indeed a belly laugh a minute. I really liked old Oracle---when he was given a slug of whiskey.

I watched it within the last month via my Netflix subscription.

I saw it soon after release while I was a teen. Took some buddies out for a night on the town while we were living in Chicago and attending mechanics school. Biggest cost of the evening wasn't supper, or the movie, but for parking in a parking garage while eating and viewing.

What we learned sure helped us with tractors on the farm. There, sneaked in the tractor word.
One teacher was an Indy race car mechanic. He told back in the late 1920s they would only use 1 ring on the pistons to cut down on internal friction. I suppose the engines were low enough on compression that they could get by with that.

He also told of advancing the timing so far that the only way to start the cars were to push start them. My we've come a long way with mechanical knowledge.
 
Once on an SBC in a late model stock car, I took the advance weights out of the distributor and simply set the timing at 34 degrees BTDC. No problems starting, but I didn't see where I'd gained anything so I put the weights back in and let the auto advance work.
 
Yep, that"s pretty standard in the stock car world. When you took the weights out did you lock the advance mechanisim to avoid the timing jumping all over the place? We always turned them to full advance then welded solid, as per Smokey Yunick"s advice.

Never had a problem starting, since on a race car you can spin the engine with the starter and then turn the ignition switch on once it"s turning.
 
On a few cars the ignition had a oil pressure ground /Murphy switch. Ignition toggle switch, push starter button under safety flap, engine turn a few times to get oil pressure and then you have spark. Put hole in pan or break oil pump= no oil pressure =no spark= most of engine saved since oil film enough for last few turns. Helps save Harley engines at drag strip also when line from oil tank falls off. RN.
 
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