Friday evening my old tiller was starving for fuel, so I took the carb off to give it a good cleaning. Had all the loose parts off and safely containered, since I'm so bad at losing things, and I picked up the blow gun and shot a blast of air into the fuel inlet. Like a fool, I'd forgotten about the needle seat, and it shot out like a rocket and hit three different pieces of metal in the shop before it landed, God knows where. My wife and I looked for it for an hour and a half and gave up. Sat morning early I went out to gather up the pieces to take with me to the engine shop in town, and I dropped the needle valve. I was crawling around looking for that dang thing, and lo & behold, there was the needle seat that we couldn't find the night before. Still couldn't find the needle, but when I sat down to ponder my misfortune, I noticed something shiny on my boot lace. It was the needle - the little wire that goes under the float tab had hooked on the lace and was right there with me all the time. There's proof that the Lord looks out for fools and little children. I'm just glad there were no witnesses.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Pat Browning. The setting is rural Wisconsin, halfway between East Troy and Elkhorn, on Hodunk Road, our nation was at war, and I was 6, 7 and 8 years old. George was our "threshing neighbor." He was the one with the threshing machine, a JI Case on steel wheels, and he pulled it to our farm with a JI Case standard tractor also on steel. In those days, steel wheeled implements were common. The roads were general gravel, so the lugs cutting into them wasn't a problem. George would set up the thresher, s
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