Laundry is one of those jobs that has been around since the dawn of time. The dawn of clothes at least. Electricity has taken a relatively labor intensive job and made it quite easy. All we need now is an automatic clothes folder. But when the power goes out and you are out of socks or you do something like me, crusade into off grid living, you need some alternatives.

Don Luhning and his veteran team help teach the new guys how the horsepower works and how to make it perform most satisfactorily. The 8 horse horsepower was set up to drive a 22” Case Separator. This complete outfit has been run for 22 years by Don Luhning on his farm during Bonanza Days.

After I decided I had enough horsepowers and was going to retire collecting farm machinery, a scrapper from 80 miles east of Freeport came to me at our annual show and he was cleaning up a farm that the bank had foreclosed on, and there was a large power in the woodlot. I did not want to tackle another power as all the old powers have too many missing parts and you need to know how long the equalizers etc., are. However, I went and looked at the power. This had the largest bull gear of all powers, so…I bought it. It took almost two years to find some of the things I needed to restore it. This is “the Kelly,” ten-horse, the easiest and nicest power of all.