INCREDIBLY RARE HARLEY!

During the depths of the Great Depression, Harley-Davidson had an unknown line of motors that were used to power small machinery - an unknown amount were made, and they're nearly impossible to find. Today on the #DriveForHistory we're showing you the incredibly rare 1932 Harley-Davidson Stationary Power Unit.
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[@deucerider430]

Nearing my 70s, my mornings begin with the daily dose of pills to keep me healthy, my morning cup of coffee to wake me up, and another "Drive For History' episode to keep me smiliin'! THEN I'm ready to face the day! To the Walksler family and associates, a hearty Thank You and Good Health!

[@jfk64kennedy95]

DUDE, I'm a motorhead, bike rider, love all things mechanical for 56 yrs., prefer Adventure bikes, but love all......stumbled across your channel other day with the Harley powered mining cart, that was cool, since then I have watched 4 other videos inclusive and you earned my subscription....something I rarely do.....love these, well done, informative, educated.....awesome , great channel.....you have joined Jay Leno's Garage, Mighty Car Mods, Nick's Garage and Bad Obsession Motorsports....not a bad group to be in

[@pastorbobncc365]

Always love stopping by the garage have a blessed week my friend

[@leeteichmann7315]

Back in the day when H-D thought of the little guy. Now look at H-D & how much they care about anyone but themselves.

[@281sTravel]

Lmao. Love listening to simple minded/ beta male bullshit like this. I love how people think Companies do/used to care about you!!! But I'm not surprised, most vehicle commercials today don't tell you about the product. They just try to appeal to your emotional side... And the Retards love it!!!

[@TheWolfsnack]

Pretty cool.....I recall back in the early 70's going with a friend to have a driveshaft cut and altered for a project car.....we visited a retired machinist he knew, and in his shop, the size of a two car garage he had, not a Harley engine, but a Gray marine engine set up and running a series of pulleys, shafts and belts criss crossing the ceiling....running a couple lathes, drill presses and a milling machine. It was a complete 1920's era machine shop.....I often wondered what happened to it all, probably scrapped as the entire area was developed a few years later. What always interests me is the degree of longevity and reuse of these old devices.....stuff was made to last, unlike today's disposable crap.

[@deucerider430]

How lucky you were to have visited such a shop! In my hometown we had 2 brothers that invented and devised machinery as well.As a youngster I remember visiting their steam powered sawmill, with an amazing criss-cross of overhead belts running the various saws, ie. the main saw, the cut-off, the edger,, even a blower to exhaust the sawdust... All could be either engaged or disengaged at will by "shifting" levers on a central control area. Fascinating!

[@richardortiz8704]

😀🛵😀

[@proudpennsylvaniaman7996]

I love the passion you show bro. You pour that heart out. I love the knowledge

[@asdfghjkl48929]

Old Harley engines were used in many odd ways in Finland, too, just like the single cylinder in this video. I knew a guy who built a terrible "car" with a Harley engine after the war. There were also some more successful ways to use old engines: Toivo Kaario (1912-1970), a Finnish pioneer in hovercraft innovations, used a Harley engine in one of his first prototypes (1949). He was later invited to lecture at Princeton University, at the Symposium on Ground Effect Phenomena.

[@AbdulAllahAbuDaoud]

You could put that puppy in an adventure bike and give the Royal Enfield Himalayan a run for it’s money!

[@napoliansolo7865]

"Sounds like my mom's washing machine!" My mom would say when she heard a Harley go by. She told me about watching her mom kick start her washer. My grandma was tiny. I doubt she ever weighed more than a hundred pounds. Thinking of her back in the 30's doing that always brings a smile to my face.

[@daviddunn5264]

Nice 👌 appreciate your time and effort to share.

[@8153max]

Me and my wife would love to visit your place🙂❤️

[@jberk8529]

It’s a dream to go visit some day!!!

[@one-of-us9939]

Holy cow bro, how I would love to just sit and talk with you... Thanks tremendously!

[@servicarrider]

Amazing stuff. Thanks for the history lesson, Matt.

[@trisrush9155]

Triumph and norton also made some industrial variants of their motorcycle engines. Nice collection 👍

[@1953beetle]

Howard (an Australian farm machinery manufacturer),have produced a stationary engine that was was in various spplications as well.This is going back quite a few years ago.

[@charlie418791]

Harley made more than motorcycles. You guys are great.👍

[@gearjammergamer8560]

Friend of mine has a 3 wheel Harley golf cart. His Uncle was a 70's dirt track racer back in the Evil Kn-evil days. He was Harley factory sponsored and they gave him that avocado green Factory golf cart.

[@rolandr.fortier6432]

Loved your dad, and I can see that he trained you well!

[@lewismocaby3646]

Really enjoyed this episode,not sure how I missed it when it came out but glad to have found it. Started my day by cleaning up the transmission case for the 47 knuckle but had to check out the channel while taking a break from the bead blaster. Getting ready to lap the races but it’s been great to have another history lesson. Keep up the great work. 👍

[@robertwatson39]

Thanks for another great video. Even though I’m not a fan of the modern HD’s I do like to look back on the history of motorcycles in general. Thanks from Down Under.

[@randylegatt8649]

That’s cool love the old uses found for Harley engines!😎

[@rachelthompson9324]

I have a 1932 Briggs stationary motor with kick start, it's pretty cool.

[@user-iy6de7qi1r]

Back in the seventies, a friend from church gave me a briggs from the teens, about a one horse I found a bent valve in, put back together, ran on a board in the back yard till I blew it up one day. Been riding motorcycles ever since. I love those old engines!

[@8153max]

I love this show... I try to never miss one👍

[@melvinharvey8279]

I bet your dad is proud of you ! good job

[@stevenmachurick2712]

Pretty cool piece of history... Thanks the video.

[@smiles4miles208]

Epic stunning beautiful thank you for sharing 🔥🔥🔥

[@coinslotsandjoysticks2572]

These videos are awesome, I didn't think anyone had some of the things I do. Glad to see other survivors

[@russellday8102]

Fun to watch you videos and recognize all the Ford Model T parts which were used on these bikes. This video has the hand cranks. Readily available at the time these engines were produced, could have been spares or picked up on the used market for super cheap. The other part I've noticed so far are the "No Skid" tires on some of these bikes.

[@RichardSchlegel]

This series is so good!

[@jang6969]

That's so cool! Thanks for sharing.. ☮

[@Josephithinkthatsme]

No freaking way I'm pretty sure I seen one of these in barn by a old mine in montana I have to go back see if it was a Harley I'm definitely going to upload a video soon 😮

[@terrykrall]

please share when you can.

[@shadowgattler]

Could you imagine finding one of these as a kid and bolting it onto your gokart or bicycle?

[@dukecraig2402]

When I was a kid we drug an old Maytag 2 stroke washing machine motor out of the barn that was buried under some hay, it had go cart written all over it as far as I was concerned but the old man wasn't letting that one happen.

[@scottmcneely6488]

A lot of these were used to power irrigation pumps in southern Cali till the '60s.

[@dukecraig2402]

@@scottmcneely6488 Now the pot growers in Cali steal the government roadside programmable signs for the solar panels on top to run their irrigation pumps.

[@marcuslambert2162]

sweet always love learning new stuff

[@arthurcgans8198]

Lots of stationary motors like this were used on farms for grain elevators, well pumps and several other applications. Less wear and tear on the tractors PTO's.

[@oepolish]

I've got to get up to WTT someday soon. I'd love to see what all y'all have there.

[@paulmurphy4885]

Good video to watch great info

[@quinslac90]

Looks like my grandfather's fan motor for his shop. Man that thing would move some air.

[@willymiranda5537]

Lots of great information/ thank u so much/ learn something new with every vlog⁉️ WILLY CA 🦅🏍🌎🇺🇸😎

[@flintrichards945]

Very cool I didn’t know they made them thank.

[@johnniethepom2905]

Back in the 1980's I saw an article in Easy Riders magazine where Harley engines were powering chain saws

[@skippyyoung7872]

I remember that article. 👍

[@randyrick8019]

I've seen custom chainsaws (Usually bigboy/2-man) that had Harley engines modified to run them

[@randynorris6598]

Great video 👍

[@coinslotsandjoysticks2572]

That cart is awesome

[@makingithappen5178]

Fantastic.

[@jasonflournoy9885]

That's very cool ! I went picking at a big horders place last year and I received a couple boxes of carb and I have a few of those ! If you want any just let me know

[@joezednick3197]

More great info, another enjoyable video. Two more days of quarantine, be careful everyone and take this virus seriously,,,,,tough stuff!!

[@stevestinnett6777]

Amazing !

[@joeriley3721]

Very Very cool!! 🤠

[@nomoregears]

I need a shovelhead for building an awesome lawnmower. No noise restrictions, no exhaust, only much fun in garden work.

[@garthc8]

Amazing, the exhaust muffler is next to the petrol tank and above the fuel line. Might explain why they are quite rare.

[@paulellis1938]

This is a great channel

[@timerickson7056]

way back in the 1960s I saw one I was little 7 or younger it powered a crab pot puller so it had to be on Camano island or stanwood wa.

[@loseyourlife4042]

Love history 💯🇺🇸🙏🏻

[@davidlambert6171]

Imagine granpappy leaving you only his barn when he passed away only to find out later it’s full of Harley engines he used farming!

[@PhiddyPford]

Wow!

[@jamesspiker6024]

How come every time I watch one of these videos I get a rise in my Levi’s 👍❤️🇺🇸

[@22kpar1xcyberdyne9]

Never seen one of these and I am a well seasoned veteran from rural Indiana estate auctions.

[@charlessmall4075]

I belong to several old air cooled engine sites and those Harley power units pop up once in a while in the picture / talk forums.

[@Op1zilla]

From plows to Planes, 💘 old motors,

[@G58]

That’s funny, I’ve always thought of Harleys as low powered agricultural machines. 😜

[@Cocobeachhippie]

G58 😂

[@G58]

SharonRachel1 Thank you. And thank you for sharing your sleep music, especially the flute tunes by the Natives of The Stolen Lands of the 500 Nations. Peace 😍

[@KowboyUSA]

Congratulations. Found one I had never heard of. Stand alone power units. Who'd a thunk it?

[@myownidenity4955]

I know where there is one of these doing work once a week. It turns and old stationary hit miss crank and fly wheels that turn two pump Jack's in rural western PA

[@carlwidell8983]

Would love to hear the plow run.

[@royogden2536]

That is awesome....it would make a great mini bike motoe for a kid...wish I had it...my grandson would be the coolest....lol

[@jamescalhoun4986]

Well my friend I seen one Before and this 95 year old man has one and it still has spark to but he don't want to get it running he said to turn it over and it has compression and spark but did not get it running but it was vary cool to see it

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Now i know where the Predator 212cc engine got its design from..

[@joelclark2130]

I want to know who are the idiots who don't like this video. It's absolutely awesome it's real to time yeah. I guess some people you just can't please keep up the good work men we love it

[@p51mustange1]

Am I the only one who would put this engine on a old go kart frame just to have some fun with it.

[@OkFixer]

I believe that is called a “harrow” sir. Not a plow. A plow has a blade breaks the land from virgin. The harrow is used after, and then a disc to prepare for planting. I think.

[@THOMAS01ify]

It would work really well as buffer motor compact lots of torque .

[@stephenbrown571]

How quickly did you let. Go of that plug wire. LOL 😂

[@mikeashcraft4354]

I've seen an open tub wringer washing machine powered with a flathead V twin

[@adampatterson707]

It almost sounds like a hit n miss engine. I'd say one of those engines could run for hours with no issues. Do they have a load- engine speed governor like a Briggs?

[@douglastobin8996]

Sounds like th story of th gravely hand plow @th Indian mtr I'll will not fly eva again so gd 2c yr work love u bro

[@1953dan]

To the curators of Wheels Through Time, I'm sure you've heard of Harley Davidson's Project Nova. I was wondering if you could make a video about it?

[@timtaylor4122]

Awsome

[@iancarter2441]

I have learned of a pilot only light aircraft powered by an up to date Harley Davidson V twin,just imagine the sound !

[@OcotilloTom]

Same with the old Cushman scooter engines. They were originally made for stationary water pumps but then the depression came along and the company needed another source of income and started making scooters. Daisy B.B. guns were originally given out as a premium when you bought a windmill from the Plymouth Iron Windmill company. The guns were so popular they quit making windmills and started making b.b. guns. Those old companies thought outside of the box...they had to, no Govt. bailouts in those days!

[@johndavidwolf4239]

Do you run your old engines on modern 87 octane E-10 pump gas even though they were originally designed for 65 to 80 octane straight gas?

[@stephonosborn4735]

W double t (wheels through time) cool

[@patsquach4080]

Hook. That one up as a generator….and have it power up all your lights and camera’s ..mikes, sound systems ,etc …. And you’ll have …a. Truly HD Powered Show …. …… open your show with a shot of the generator running ….

[@dans_Learning_Curve]

Like #246 Thanks for the video!

[@adamvanostrand2664]

The plow with the early Harley-Davidson engine on it has an early Briggs & Stratton gas tank it is using

[@geoffreyjones2000]

I would like to visit your fine museum... do you fellas have a campsite nearby , I'm old and it's more than a days ride

[@terrymelton8690]

Moonshine Creek Campground, between Waynesville & Sylva, N.C. Less than 10 miles away. Great campground with Moonshine Creek running through it. Motorcycle friendly.

[@lobolj53]

Boy my generation (I'm 27) here in the U.S.A is messed up with the measuring systems. We know how long 1 foot is, we know what 1 yard is, we know 1 mile. We don't know how long 1 cm is, we don't know how long a meter is, we don't know kilometers. I see people freaking out going 80KPH!!!... converted 50mph wait that's slow... where we are most screwed is engine size, most kids don't know what a 454 Cubic Inch is, nor a 350 C.I., or 460 C.I. or 60 C.I., but we know what 5.0 Liter is , or 6.2 L is and we know what 600cc is or 450cc. Gotta love it. Go to the auto store and ask for something for your 472 C.I and they'll say "what size is that?" Sorry I meant for my 7.7L. I love your videos, but I have to convert from cubic inch to liters to understand the size of a motorcycle engine. Sorry for the rant.

[@xxbluntzondeckxx1926]

Imagine putting one of those engines on a mini bike now that would be a mini Harley

[@kennethhigdon1159]

It would make a great go kart engine

[@stanfischer6175]

I want one of those so I can put it in a bicycle!

[@fidelcatsro6948]

you can use a model airplane engine for that..

[@mikejames4271]

That'll be a motorcycle you're after then?

[@stanfischer6175]

@@mikejames4271 No, I was just kidding. If I had one of those motors I would probably just look at it...... I used to have a book titled Inside Harley Davidson, loaned it out and now I'm trying to get it back. In the book it shows a prototype HD walk behind garden tractor! The Motor Company was struggling to stay alive during the depression. The book also shows two VL road paint stripper machines that the factory mounted the stripping equipment on a side car. Rear sprocket is giant to allow low speeds. Did you know that Indian made some now very rare outboard motor boat motors? I have a Pan and a Dyna Evo and my dream motorcycle would be a Maytag washing machine motor powered bicycle! -'lil stan

[@mikejames4271]

@@stanfischer6175 No, i didn't know Indian made outboards. Very interesting though.

[@whalesong999]

Any sign of an rpm governor being fitted?

[@Ellenslife851]

You could probably still use that plow still in the garden

[@mschiffel1]

What were the production years of these engines?

[@darrenlingerfelt5879]

👍👍

[@michealcorbin6095]

I meant a club brother one time that was down in Northern California they were going on a run to the coast he pulled over to take a leak and he heard the unmistakable sound of a Harley motor checked around a little bit and found an old knucklehead engine running a Farmers Irrigation System went to the farmer and asked him if he would trade the knucklehead motor for a brand new shovelhead motor since the farmer loved the dependability of the Harley motor

[@toddkanniard8597]

Do you have the HD horizontal engine video

[@kevinmorrissey8846]

Skip engines were the goto motors For powering up stiff

[@dirtbikeboy66]

Do you have an ownership for that plow sir.

[@7980flh]

Said it before. Thought I've seen it all. Not yet.

[@chrisharmon]

I wonder what kind of direction HD might have taken had they kept making engines like these in addition to motorcycles. I could see someone mowing their yard with a HD mower then hoping on a HD motorcycle for fun afterwords

[@jackcridlin2950]

Get the plow running

[@williamgordon3977]

Indian made stationary powerplant engines as well

[@chevyfan82]

👍

[@deckerhand12]

First few motors were Single cylinders.

[@beaubeaukitty5301]

Lots of folks way back then would buy a Harley Davidson motorcycle only to find out they were either scared of it? Or just plain could not drive it? Or wreck it & be stuck with it They would then re-purpose the motor and gear box