Restored Bolens 1-Row Garden Cultivator
I recently restored this old Bolens 1-row garden cultivator equipped with a Briggs & Stratton gas engine. The engine still runs, and I know it's very rare. It's a "P" series engine that was built sometime between 1920 and 1923. However, I can't read the entire serial number on the engine, and no one seems to have any information on it.
All the company can tell me is that I have a rare engine. The engine has no cowling, but does have an exposed 7-in. dia. cooling fan. Nowadays, OSHA would never allow such an exposed cooling fan. I've never seen another one like it.
I displayed the cultivator at a recent steam and gas engine show, and a lot of old-timers came by but not one said they had ever seen anything like it. One suggested maybe it was a prototype that never got manufactured.
My uncle Pete bought the cultivator some time in the 1920's. Can anyone help me find out when this cultivator was made, and where it was manufactured? (James Goetsch, 8011 Meadow Dr., Merrill, Wis. 54452 ph 715 675-4203)
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Restored Bolens 1-Row Garden Cultivator CULTIVATORS Cultivators (58C) 30-5-42 I recently restored this old Bolens 1-row garden cultivator equipped with a Briggs & Stratton gas engine. The engine still runs, and I know it's very rare. It's a "P" series engine that was built sometime between 1920 and 1923. However, I can't read the entire serial number on the engine, and no one seems to have any information on it.
All the company can tell me is that I have a rare engine. The engine has no cowling, but does have an exposed 7-in. dia. cooling fan. Nowadays, OSHA would never allow such an exposed cooling fan. I've never seen another one like it.
I displayed the cultivator at a recent steam and gas engine show, and a lot of old-timers came by but not one said they had ever seen anything like it. One suggested maybe it was a prototype that never got manufactured.
My uncle Pete bought the cultivator some time in the 1920's. Can anyone help me find out when this cultivator was made, and where it was manufactured? (James Goetsch, 8011 Meadow Dr., Merrill, Wis. 54452 ph 715 675-4203)
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