A REALLY BIG 1931 15 hp Fairbanks-Morse Z
A few words from Dale Rieppel’s father, Erich, led Dale into a lifetime career working with big equipment. “Hey, you took it apart,” Dale’s father said to him once after Dale had disassembled a piece of equipment. “Now you can just put it all back together again.”
“That,” Dale says, “changed my life. I came to realize how difficult it can be to put things back together. I guess that’s what led me to a career in heavy construction equipment repair.” Before moving into heavy construction, Dale was a member of the Naval Construction Battalions, or Seabees.
Dale’s father provided a mentorship for Dale when he was a kid, helping him understand
