2014 - Volume #38, Issue #4, Page #21
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Flywheel Tree Trunk Display
Last summer he took pics of a big tree trunk grown into a pair of giant flywheels. He saw the unusual display at a show in Greensburg, Ind.
“The flywheels came off a 25 hp. Superior Oil Field engine and had been sitting in a field not far from where I worked for an oil company in the 1970’s,” says Goble Rogers of Ravenna, Ky., about his eye-catching tree trunk display.
The flywheels had evidently been scrapped and left in the field as a remembrance of days gone by. Goble cut the tree off above and below the shaft running between the wheels and through the tree trunk. Then he had a friend build a special custom-built trailer so Goble could take the exhibit to shows and pull it in parades. “We can’t believe all the looks we get when we take this display down the interstate on our way to shows,” he says.
When he cut the tree, it had 86 annual rings.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Goble Rogers, 3107 Furnace Jct., Ravenna, Ky. 40472 (ph 606 723-3706).
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