“I was the boy” story continues
Just catching up on my reading and got a big kick out of the piece by Hal Higgins (Farm Collector, July 2022). Let me tell you the rest of the story.
Don Hunter from Southern California started with a crankshaft and 19 pages of drawings and reconstructed Holt No. 111. It made its debut at the Best Show on Tracks in 2008.
The operator was busier than a one-armed paper hanger. There is a lever to operate the tiller with steam power. As I recall, there are two clutches that allow it to be steered differentially, just like a modern crawler. The throttle must be continuously adjusted to maintain a steady speed, and there was
