With my grandfather being an old time farmer there used to be flathead powered everything. I wish I had some pics. Everything from field pumps and generators to the classis doddlebug tractors. They were cheap and he wasnt rich so the two got along great for years. I have also heard stories of a John Deere model B I believe it was with w a flathead in it.
yup thats true, im an ironworker and a couple guys i know worked on a retrofit of a bridge and from wha tthey told me, they removed 2 flathead ford v-8s from this one bridge, they were for some backup macinhery. they went right in the dumpster. there wer eno car guys on the job, otherwise some one would have rescued them.
I have seen Chrysler 331 industrial hemi's powering 1950's air raid sirens. Don't get close when they go off!
In Oregon and Washington they used to use a lot of Flatheads in pull-behind orchard sprayers such as those made by Aero-Fan and Hardie. I've also seen them in old logging yarders "Steel Trees" such as Skagit.
A good friend of mines dad had a mobile welder powered with a ford flathead. I tried to buy it off of him on several occasions. Always wondered if it was some kinda of different industrial engine or was mainly like the highway flatheads?
I just bought this Model-A motor over the weekend.... it was attached to a welder. Check out the flywheel without the normal model-A type recess cut for the clutch... it has a governor running off the side of the timing gear and the cross shaft on the back is to work the starter from the same side as the throttle... One good thing aside from turning over very free is that it has a Model-B distributor!
Old wooden speed boats and fishing boats are a good place to look. I had a V-8 60 with all the trimmings out of an old cris craft once. the boat was completely usless and unrestorable but i got it for 25.00. the guy thought he was getting the best of me. We removed the engine and v drive and burned the boat. By the way I would like to have two of those seats. Way better than your standard bomber seat.
Back in the '50s-'70s when I lived in Flint, MI; I was always amused at the street sweepers (Elgin?) that had flathead V-8s in them. The amusement was primarily due to the fact that they had to be the only mobile equipment the city owned that didn't have G.M. power.
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