Hobart Morgan, one of Charlie's best tractor collecting friends, can be seen starting the engine at this event with the starting bar hooked on to the massive flywheel.  It takes a real man (or sometimes two) to get it running. It has been rigged to start on gasoline and then switched over to kerosene after it gets started.
 
 

Charlie likes to let the younger guys get to know the tractor too, and one of them can be seen at the controls while the tractor is being worked on the dyno. It doesn't show it in these photos, but the smoke really rolls out of the stack when this huge machine starts reaching for more power under the increasing load of the dyno.  Charlie and Hobart bolted on some sliced terra tires from a nitrogen spreader and bolted them to the steel wheels. This allows them to take the machine to events with parades and not having to worry about tearing up asphalt. Getting those tires cut was another complete story in itself, but to make a long story short, as they say, the tires were sliced with a heated machette. We might do a story on this some time for those who have never heard of doing this.
 

As you can see, the tractor pulled almost 450 on the tachometer held against the wheel on the dynomometer. 

The tractor is a Type X model, S/N X1651 and Charlie told me that there are not a whole lot of them around the country anymore.  Charlie also has a 1929 Rumely "6" tractor (more to come on it later). Since the original posting of this page showing Charlie's Oil Pull, he passed away a few years back but his memory lives on in his tractor collection now owned by his son-in-law.