Machines
A steam crane, I wonder what the load limit was.
OSHA would be all over that man in the top hat standing there.
I'm just trying to work out what they are manufacturing.
That looks to be a gun barrel (large) being lowered into place on a railway wagon. Any support for that notion?
I also assumed it was artillery.
Only the military-industrial complex's grandfather, could afford that monster.
Look at this sumbitch, human powered tractor moving heavy stones slung underneath. Looks like the expected soft ground by the shoes on the wheels.
To Bring John Wayne to the silver screen, getting the action on film is only half the battle. You also need sound, then to marry the two smoothly. In the world of rug rats, aircraft and motorized toys, quiet is at a premium, that's why they build sound stages. But John Wayne doesn't shoot well indoors so the sound truck must go to the wide open.
Big machine for a big job.
I think Digr posted this picture before, but this is the lifting capacity of each crane.
Never heard of these. Instead of steering skis, a steering track, kind of like four wheel drive. There is only one track and a complex system of bending it at the steering point. Probably didn't catch on because it's too complex.
Two biggies, 50,000 ton presses. These were paid for by the US Air Force(you) for forging aluminum and titanium aerospace parts.
I think this fits here better than in rims...
275hp from 270 cubic inches was no mean feat way back then. An excess of 1hp per cu in was, for a long time, the Holy Grail of performance.
You wouldn't want to drive one of those Offy engines on the street though, really balky, like riding a high strung stallion.
I heard one once. Choppy.
As WW II wound down there were a lot of magazine ads by companies planning their post war strategy. The ads promised people they would have their pent up desire for consumer goods filled beyond their wildest dreams.
Willys' Jeep was born of the war effort and Willys decided they weren't going to pack up and fade away when the government stopped buying.
The perfect post-apocalyptic ride. Unfortunately, we had like thirty years of economic growth after this came out. Maybe its time to buy the tooling for that? ;)
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That looks expensive, the trailer wheels steer, independent suspension, two trailer wheels drive, hydraulic everything. The only disadvantage would be slower hauling over the road, and you need a $150,000 tractor to pull it.
When cars were lighter. Citroën did this from the factory on the DS.
Jack-o-matic™ - The automatic jack that takes the last dirty job out of masturbating.
Locked bumpers. I've heard of those, but was it really that common?
Yes, even up into the 50s, although bumper guards helped some.
If you want to look forkin cool...
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That. Is. Awesome.
This shovel in Golden New Mexico isn't like any I've seen before. It looks built in place, hanging off the side of that structure, and not mobile. It appears it's shoveling dirt into a hole on the far side, where a series of scoops on a conveyer carry it up to the second level, dumping the dirt into the revolving screen drum. The drum would dump larger pieces like rocks out the chute on the near end, and the fine stuff is going somewhere else, perhaps a smelter.
They must be bringing the dirt to the shovel with wagons, trucks, or railcars.
Conowingo Dam Turbine Hall in 1930, with 7 turbines generating 36 megawatts each, second only to Niagara falls.
Yeah, we've had these on before, but, I haven't seen a self-propelled one before:
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I'll bet my Uncle would have killed for one of these while trying to build a temporary airstrip when the Marines were hardly off the beach and Jap snipers everywhere.
A fine Gentleman sent me these pictures of a Farmall Double A tractor.
Researching it, seems it's a homebuilt one-off.
Twin Farmall Causes Double Takes
After seeing a couple of side-by-side tractors that other collectors made by putting two tractors together, long-time Farmall collector Clare Kerns, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, figured he could do it, too. The result is a tractor that is a real eye catcher at shows.
　　Kerns worked out a design that allowed him to put two A Farmalls on the same rear end and have it powered by either engine or both.
　　"Kerns bought two A's - one made in 1944 and the second from 1946. "Except for the year, the two tractors are identical."
　　The transmission and differential are offset to the right on the A. This allowed him to cut into the axle housing on the left side and attach the transmission from the second tractor. "I used the original rear axle from one of the tractors. It had a gear on the side opposite the transmission. I had that machined off and splines cut on it to match the other side, so I could attach it to the second transmission," he explains.
　　He centered the operator's seat and steering wheel. One clutch pedal disengages both clutches. With just one clutch pedal, he can power the tractor with either engine or both at once. He left both throttles in place. "I thought about trying to hook up one throttle so it would control the speed of both engines, but if you're using both, you can match the speeds just by listening to and matching the pitch of the engines," he says.
　　Kerns made use of both sets of rear wheels by mounting duals on the rear axle. "I've used it for pulling and it does pretty well. Even with the duals, it runs out of traction before it runs out of power," he says.
　　While either engine can be used to power the tractor, Kerns put just one battery and generator on his double tractor. "It doesn't take two batteries to run it and I didn't figure I needed the second one, nor the generator, either," he says. But he notes that if he doesn't use the engine with the generator on it, he could run down the battery.
　　He says he did have to beef up the front end so it would be heavy enough to hold up both tractors. And he lengthened the drawbar. Overall width of Kerns' double A is only 7 ft., even with the duals in place.
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Also came across this dude.
Rare Side-By-Side Tractor Completes Lee Collection
Over the years FARM SHOW has published a number of stories about the amazing tractors built by Harry Lee of Elnora, Ind. After retiring from farming, Harry built nine different one-of-a-kind tractors. Most are replicas of prototype tractors made by different tractor manufacturers. All of the tractors are in working condition.
Now 83 years old, Harry recently sent us photos of his "newest" tractor, which he did not build but which fits right in with his collection. It's a 1956 factory-built prototype from Garrett Mfg. of Enumclaw, Wash., and is called the Twin Drive 400 IHC diesel. Two tractors with identical engines mount side by side. The tractor has two transmissions, and each engine drives its own set of wheels. Harry bought the tractor in January 2002. He hauls the tractor - along with all his other home-built models - to shows throughout the U.S.
"It handles beautifully. I really enjoy driving it, especially since I built my own Farmall F-20 twin engine tractor that is somewhat similar," says Harry. "The diesel engines each have about 60 hp. At the time it was made, it was the largest farm tractor equipped with rubber tires and weighed 15,380 lbs. When I first got the tractor I used it to pull a 4-bottom plow and a 15-shank field cultivator. Now demonstrating it at shows is my full-time hobby.
"The tractor was originally owned by a Washington farmer who used it for 30 years. He estimates the tractor traveled about 96,000 miles during its career in the field. Garrett Mfg. repurchased the tractor from the sons of the original owner in 1985 and then two years ago I bought it from them. The engine was overhauled once, and the original tires were replaced after they wore out. Otherwise, it has required only routine maintenance."
To honor the original builder, Harry left the Garrett name on both sides of the tractor. "Mr. Garrett is 87 years old now but he still stays in touch with me," says Harry. "For him it's a great thrill to know his tractor is still out there in the public eye and that people recognize him as the builder. He recently sent me a check for $100 and told me to take my wife out to dinner."
Harry recently drove the tractor in a parade at the National Red Power Show in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and also demonstrated it in a tractor pull. "I did a corkscrew spin by putting one side of the tractor in reverse and the other in forward and went around and around like a doughnut. A lot of people used their video cameras to film the event. It seemed like everyone had a video camera. After the pull, one guy came up to me and said he would liked to have had all the money that was spent on video film that day. "
Lee has appeared in shows as far away as Florida and Texas. After this year he will cut back considerably.
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This shit is much more difficult than it seems, the guy has a lot of time and money tied up here. Probably his wife was grateful to get him out from underfoot, though.
This is apparently a thing.
What could possibly go wrong?
I suspect there isn't much information in existence, at least in English, about this forge.
I think I was still in High School when I read the Arms of Krupp, big fucking book, 400 years of Krupp.
Just couldn't put the damn thing down.
That would be an interesting process.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_%28howitzer%29
'A total of 12 complete M-Gerät were built; besides the two available when the war started, 10 more were built during the war.[1][10] This figure does not include additional barrels; two extra barrels were already available before the war started,[1] and possibly up to 20 barrels were built, though some sources state 18.[3] As the war ground on, several Berthas were destroyed when their barrels burst due to faulty ammunition. Later in the Great War, an L/30 30.5-cm barrel was developed and fitted to some Bertha carriages to provide longer-range, lighter fire. These weapons were known as the Schwere Kartaune or Beta-M-Gerät.[6][11]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Gun
"The Paris Guns hold an important place in the history of astronautics, as their shells were the first human-made objects to reach the stratosphere."
Whoops, I was researching the machine and took the gun info from a sidebar, my bad.
Thanks Griff, the numbers are interesting, also the description of the mobile M gun.
Oh boy, we can take it along on vacation.
Where are you going?
Any fucking place we want.
What intrigued me was the referral to the inner tube of the barrel. I'd like to know how that barrel goes together. Also, I'm pretty certain in the photograph what they are doing is forging a huge steel blank which later will be divided up into a bunch of pieces. But I still would like to know more about that machine. Why? Damifino? :blush:
Don't know how I got the picture in there all over again, maybe glatt can remove the attachment from post #36.
Foreward...
This tractor was the first one designed to use rubber tires, a huge leap forward, and 25 mph was car normal speed in Model-A days.
In 1919 Fate joined with Root-Heath Manufacturing Company and formed Fate-Root-Heath. The new organization continued to build clay machinery, yard locomotives, and added a line of sharpening equipment for reel type grass mowers. Business was good, and the company prospered until the economic crash of 1929.
By the early 1930's orders for expensive locomotives had slowed to a trickle. In order to keep the factory doors open, Fate-Root-Heath needed a product that was cheap enough that people could afford to buy in quantity. The town of Plymouth was located in the middle of prime Ohio farm land; a farm tractor would be a natural addition to the product line. A tractor was well within the company's engineering and production capabilities. Charles Heath, general manager of the company at that time, presented the idea of building a farm tractor to get the company through the depression. An employee recalls, "Charlie was the Kingpin of the operation. When Charlie hollered, everyone jumped, from the president on down. " So Fate-Root-Heath set out to build a farm tractor.
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Back in the early 1970s, when sophisticated electronics were huge, Segway a pipe dream, and radial tires were hey-buddy-you-got-a-flat, this was genius.
This beast fits better here than rims.
Six-wheel drive from two axles?:eyebrow:
Also, a nsfw warning woulda been nice...That one guy's plainly standing there with his tool in his hand.
It said a 6-wheel drive, 6-cylinder was the biggest they built, not the only. The photographs and illustrations are a two axle and 4 cylinder engine so I guess they're not the biggest model, are they.
Faegol(above) also made walking tractors. One being demonstrated and the crating dock at the factory.
Like those rear wheels, bet they didn't get stuck much.
Yes but you couldn't move it over a paved road, and would tear up an unpaved road. This is why the push to rubber tires in the '30s. A guy I grew up with travels all over buying up those spiked wheels and selling them to the Amish.
There's been an obsession among the more-money-than-they-know-what-to-do-with crowd, to unearth hot rods, customs, and race cars that had 15 minutes of fame and restore them. They've even added a class for them at the big concours d'elegance shows. One group is car magazine cover cars, ignoring the fact that cover cars weren't necessarily the best of the breed, just good looking and available for a photo shoot before the go to press deadline each month. I think their attitude was, it ain't the best but it's better than yours.
This is one of those cars, the first cover car for Rod & Custom.
It absolutely cost more to restore. Tracking down the old parts needed probably cost a small fortune. Not to mention the difference in labor costs vs. 1953.
And it's missing the towbar. Understandably.
ETA: Nevermind the towbar, where's the radiator?!?
Underneath, maybe? I've seen that a couple times.
Yeah, the tow bar was only attached when towing and is more a part of the tow rig than the car. They had Gene Winfield do the paint on the restoration and ship it back to the shop doing the assembly. Coincidentally it was Winfield who made those water pipes in the '40s, and just happened to have an NOS pair hanging on the wall of his shop. He donated them to the project when he sent the body back.
There's been an obsession among the more-money-than-they-know-what-to-do-with crowd, to unearth hot rods, customs, and race cars that had 15 minutes of fame and restore them.
How people spend their money is a matter for them, but I struggle to understand what makes someone spend more money than most of us will see in a lifetime on a car. Each to his own. :headshake
'Exceptional' Aston Martin found 14 years after theft
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An Aston Martin racing car with "an exceptional history" has been found by police 14 years after it was stolen.
The DB2, which competed in the 1949 Le Mans 24-hour race, was taken in 2002 from Baldock, Hertfordshire.
Police used intelligence to track it down to a storage facility in Eindhoven, Holland, in March this year.
The car's owner at the time of the theft died before it was found so it was returned to a relative. It is being auctioned off for up to £900,000.*
Two men convicted of stealing the car in 2003 failed to return to court for sentencing and have never been caught again.
Det Sgt Jo Goodson, from Hertfordshire Police, who travelled to Holland to seize the car, said it was "extremely satisfying" to get the vehicle back.
"It was quite emotional because it's a lovely car with an exceptional history," she added.
The green prototype, which was built as a test-bed for the later production of the DB2, was the only one of three Aston Martins in the 1949 race to cross the finish line.
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Ashley Mack, who is now the rightful owner, said his relative Christopher Angell had been left "devastated" by the theft of his vehicle.
"Just before he died in 2003 he was still asking 'has that nice policeman got my car yet?'" he said.
"Even at this stage my heart will be pleased if it doesn't sell, but my head has to acknowledge that it will cost many thousands to restore."
The vehicle will go under the hammer at Bonhams' Goodwood Festival of Speed sale later this month.
* £900,000 = $1,320,000 (In round figures)
BBC linkAlthough it has some historical significance and would be a good Museum piece, to who ever buys and restores the car it will be a trophy, a display of wealth, and a step up the social standing ladder in the small circle of high end collectors. Some of these guys make money on these acquisitions as the auction prices climb into the stratosphere. But the prices are at risk of collapse at any time. As much as they tout the value of this or that car, the reality is it's worth not what you paid, but what someone is willing to pay you.
.......Some of these guys make money on these acquisitions as the auction prices climb into the stratosphere. But the prices are at risk of collapse at any time. As much as they tout the value of this or that car, the reality is it's worth not what you paid, but what someone is willing to pay you.
A few years back, so-called classic cars were seen as the next big thing in alternative investments.
The whole thing seemed to be built on sand as the cars were bought and sold within a small pool of investors aka 'mugs' and eventually the market, such as it was, seized up and many suffered severe financial loss.
I get the feeling that things are now back to normal, if you can use that word in this context, and it's now the domain of multi-millionaires once again.
I think you're right although there are a lot more millionaires than ever. At a lower level, guys who's kids are out of college and daughter's weddings are paid for, want to own a car that they wanted/had that was cool when they were in high school. So the prices seem to ebb and flow along a timeline about 30 years behind that demographic except for a few milestone cars that are always popular like the '57 Chevy, or '65 Mustang.
I can't even... :confused:
There's Fageol again in 1922...
A Jeep Liberty on fire. Watch what happens when the water hits the hot magnesium transfer case at 1:10.
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This shows the operation of a steam powered machine shop. It's 30 minutes long but the steam supply is at the beginning, then various machines in action. I salvaged a pulley and pilliowblock shaft system out of a shop that was powered by a 5hp electric motor.
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That's so awesome. The old DuPont water powered shop at the Hagley Museum looks very similar.
The system I got, the primary wheel in the system, which was driven by the 5hp motor, became the base for my coffee table. The top is a wood grid like you've seen on hatch covers in sailing ship movies, has a metal tag on the edge that says "First Class Only". The guy in the van who sold it to me swore it's from the Titanic. :blush:
Testing at the Bureau of Standards in Washington DC...
Here's a couple pics I took of my buddy Frasier:
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A steam cab, I suspect is not old but a new steampunk creation.
One of the better reasons to have kids. ;)
One of the two contenders for first steam powered bike.
Experts are arguing over whether it was built in 1867, 1868, or 1869.
I'd love to mow the lawn, dear, but I just polished the mower...
That's pretty cool. When there's a tractor/farm equipment show around these parts, there is always a few old riding mowers that look like Von Dutch has went at them with a pinstriping brush. I think they're kinda cool.
Baby moons, chrome steelies, and the spats make this little mower cool.
Gravdigr Approved™.
Looks like pontoons for a floating bridge?
Are you my mother?
SNORT!
Awesome. Literally. That thing is massive.
They must have assembled the machine on site. It looks way too heavy to move in one piece.
Yes, all those machines come from IKEA. :lol:
Most of your larger punch presses are indeed final assembled on-site. Sometimes the base for the press would be set 5-10 feet or more deep into the concrete. I understand really big presses are sometimes set in a pad that sets on bedrock.
I used to work with Minster Piece-Maker punch presses. 100 ton and 150 ton presses, we'd run at about 150-200 strokes per minute. We/they had a 300 ton Niagara press that ran at about 40 strokes per minute most of the time, unless we were running particularly thin material.
How does your head feel after a shift of that?
Normal, believe it or not. The vibrations and bumping that you feel (and then get accustomed to) in your feet make you feel a little weird for a few minutes after the presses stop, though.
The 100-150 ton press noises didn't make it, but when that 300 ton Niagara press was thumping, you could hear/feel it at the front door, and it was as far from the door as you could get and still be inside the plant.
It's amazing what the human body and it's systems can get used to.
Why can't they just cut them up and recycle them?
They're still building their band saw.
It's a big one.
Are they building it out of wood, using mostly scrap lumber?
I need three of these made of unobtainium.
Trucking...
Wide load coming toward me the other day. Didn't see a house and wondered what was so wide. It was one of those tires.
Very big.
Air powered locomotive...
From 1965 to 1982, the NYFD had the most powerful pumper in the world.
It could hook to eight hydrants, or 12 in supply, and pump 10,000 gpm at low pressure and 8,800 gpm at 350 PSI.
The tender has an 8 inch cannon that could move 10,000 gpm up to 600 ft.
Three satellite tenders had smaller cannons.
The whole story here.The tender has an 8 inch cannon that could move 10,000 gpm up to 600 ft.
600 feet sounds impressive until you look up the height of the world trade center and realize it could barely reach a third of the way up.
A water cannon that could reach the top would knock most buildings over. :lol:
Well, you're half right, it was posted before. :p:
Did they take it out of service to protect the humans?
No, after 17 years it was tuckered out, and too expensive to replace.
A very simple machine, but, a machine nonetheless:
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It's beautifully made too.
Love the rocker feet, but it's made of wood. That makes it a traitor. :rolleyes:
I would think foot foot foot might have a comment here
Ever wonder what the inside of a 4 stroke engine looks like running? Skip the first minute.
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A guy here in town has something like that clear chamber cover on a scooter.
Like a strobe light between his legs.
ETA: His may be just a light. It looks a lot brighter than this clear head.
Imagine a family of four traveling coast to coast on one motorcycle in 1914.
Have to be careful how they fed the kids to keep it balanced.
I don't like riding two up. Forget this.
Yeah, I wish there was a picture with all of them in it, just to see how awfully uncomfortable it would look.
They deserve it. What's gonna happen.
Correcting the Internet...
Always wondered how they made waaay more 'lectricity by making these kinds of things more efficient over the decades. Well there ya go, they couldn't have made a part like that when they built, say, Hoover Dam. Not with precision anyway... and not that Hoover Dam is a steam oriented -- ah you get my drift
(they didn't have xoB around is why)
The biggest reasons were the precision and strength of materials allowed higher pressure steam. There are three sections in modern steam turbines, the steam goes through the high pressure section, then the medium and low before it's condensed and pumped back to the boiler. The lower the pressure the larger the blades.
EPRI(Electrical Power Research Institute) funded by all the power companies in the country, had a test turbine at PECO's Chester station running 5,000 psig steam(close to 1,000 deg F). Just to add a pressure tap or thermocouple was a major pain in the ass because the wall thickness of the pipe was over three inches of high strength steel. Drill the hole, then follow a strict procedure to weld in the tap with each layer of weld inspected. Lastly make sure there is NO chips or slag on the inside of the pipe to become missiles when restarted as they would wipe out blades at that speed.
I found this picture with no information. Obviously it's a manufacturing facility. Tin-eye couldn't find it. Google found it... on fucking pinterest.:mad: I just had time to grab the title before they shut me out. It said, "Elevator Flywheel".
I found this picture with no information. Obviously it's a manufacturing facility. Tin-eye couldn't find it. Google found it... on fucking pinterest.:mad: I just had time to grab the title before they shut me out. It said, "Elevator Flywheel".
Check this page out.
http://atomictoasters.com/2013/11/mesta-memories-23-rope-drives-and-flywheels/
They have a
digitized old brochure that says it's a "turning flywheel in pit lathe."
And they found the original of the photo
here. The flywheel was at Mesta Machine Co in Pittsburgh
Excellent, so we know who made it and when, just not what it's for.
Great find fellas, I appreciate the effort.
I'm putting this in machines rather than rims because I doubt it ever made the road, despite what the 1914 Mad Men claim, and the claims are whoppers.
The Airmobile used a “frictionless rotary engine fueled by crude oil” to power a “rotary air compressor” located behind it. Air pressure was stored in a pair of tanks and routed through a throttle to an air motor at each wheel. No one has uncovered photos or more information about this car other than an advertisement in the program for the Santa Monica Road Races and a few other places, the effort then disappeared into thin air…. By 1915 the Rotary Air Brake Company was promoting an air-steam-gas-water engine that is known to have been produced.
The company’s name was changed to the Rotary Products Company and in 1920 they began manufacturing air driven machinery for industry.
I think "frictionless" means I don't hear no squealing or scraping. :rolleyes:
Shred a whole car, and I mean whole, tires, glass, interior, engine, in less than 3 minutes.:eek:
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Presumably a cubic yard (or thereabouts) of compressed metal and other stuff comes out of the other end of the machine.
I'm just wondering how it's processed for re-manufacture given the volume of material that isn't steel.
In a typical shredding operation, cars are delivered with the wheels off, battery out and they are supposed to remove the gas tank, but I've seen enough explosions to know some don't, the rig is built sturdy enough to handle that. There are big blowers to separate the upholstery/foam, magnets to pick up the ferrous metal (some stainless is ferrous and some is not), but I'm not sure how they separate the plastic, copper, and aluminum because that's done offsite.
Goldfinger used a compactor, not a shredder.
well, it comes out in a stream of chunks/shreds/bits and the ferrous material can easily be sorted out magnetically. That's one stream. The rest, there are other sorting methods, air blowers, by density, etc, etc.
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This machine I've been up close and personal with several times. Custom built and flawless.
I haven't seen it with that pickup aboard which has a color I despise. :vomitblu:
In a typical shredding operation, cars are delivered with the wheels off, battery out and they are supposed to remove the gas tank, but I've seen enough explosions to know some don't, the rig is built sturdy enough to handle that. There are big blowers to separate the upholstery/foam, magnets to pick up the ferrous metal (some stainless is ferrous and some is not), but I'm not sure how they separate the plastic, copper, and aluminum because that's done offsite.
Goldfinger used a compactor, not a shredder.
well, it comes out in a stream of chunks/shreds/bits and the ferrous material can easily be sorted out magnetically. That's one stream. The rest, there are other sorting methods, air blowers, by density, etc, etc.
Thank you, Gentlemen. All is clear now.
I was labouring under a misapprehension. :thumb:
, copper, and aluminum because that's done offsite.
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Eddy picks out the non-ferrous metals.
Hit them with an alternating magnetic field and Eddy currents are generated in the metal which in turn generates an opposing magnetic field and they are repelled. They can be just rolling down a conveyor and when they reach the magnet they fly off into a bin at the side.
Not sure if you can then sort Aluminum from Copper with a refinement of this technique.
Ah, thanks beest. :thumb:
Much of the copper salvaged would be wire with a plastic coating, I guess that would be burned off, probably too expensive using chemicals to dissolve the plastic because of the cost of waste disposal.
I believe it is illegal to burn off the plastic/vinyl here in good ol' KY.
I think it had to do with copper theft somehow.
My buddy's father used to burn the insulation off copper wire in a wood stove he had in his garden shed. This was a densely populated middle class neighborhood, and the smoke coming out of the stack was not only scary looking, you could smell it blocks away.
The commercial trash to steam plant that burns all the county trash, burns a shitload of plastic but it's not a problem because they have a tall stack so it all blows over to Jersey. :haha:
Here's another cool machine all set up to show.
..and today
https://www.tradeearthmovers.com.au/product-news/1610/komatsu-debuts-driverless-haul-truck-at-minexpo2016
Mines are big places with not a lot of people meandering about, stoplights, or cross-traffic, so an interesting starting application for driverless vehicles.
I saw that coming, the mine's closed course is the logical application for autonomous vehicles.
plus, you can put another boulder where the cab used to be
A modernized tanker, see the low profile tires. :haha:
Plowing with Caterpillar tractors. At 4:00 it looks like a homemade wood V-plow.
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That same wooden plow just plows right into telephone poles and bounces off them as they shake back and forth. Crazy!
That's pretty rock and roll. I like the human weights keeping the plow down, full employment!
This machine I've been up close and personal with several times. Custom built and flawless.
I haven't seen it with that pickup aboard which has a color I despise. :vomitblu:
Is that Bianchi green or Tiffany blue?
I can only imagine how many sales Bianchi lost based on color alone.
Is that Bianchi green or Tiffany blue?
I can only imagine how many sales Bianchi lost based on color alone.
Nay, nay, that is
Fender Seafoam Green , and it's beautiful
I call it, what-the-fuck-were-you-thinking-did-the-paint-chip-not-clue-you-in-to-how-much-that-color-sucks.
I likes the wing plows with the chain fall to adjust the height. With cat-tracs the roads may not have been paved outside of town and the plow didn't scrape down to the road surface. When I was a kid they would leave an inch or less then sand it to save wear and tear on the pavement and plow.
This has to be a photoshop, gotta be, please let it be a photoshop.
Whatever you do, don't google school bus tractor trailer unless you want to see a bunch of accident photos.
This has to be a photoshop, gotta be, please let it be a photoshop.
Yeah, if you're going to do that, why not leave more bus, and have a nice living space back there?
Oooooooo shiny!
So pretty!
I've dealt with the cup style oil filter like in the V-12, what a freakin mess.
A guy sent me an email saying,"I love that V-12 but don't know what I'd do with it" I sent him these. :D
A guy sent me an email saying,"I love that V-12 but don't know what I'd do with it" I sent him these. :D
There's
this. (from the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing)
dragster powered by a V-12 Allison engine from a World War II P-40 fighter plane (1700 cubic inches, produces 2000 HP on straight gasoline)
It's in the bottom picture of that post, from my family's 2010 vacation to Florida.
Those Allison engines were a dime a dozen in the '50s and '60s, so a lot of speed freaks built cars with them. They were seen in race cars, land speed record car, boats, tractors, and other odd ball applications. The used motors were cheap, but building a car to handle the weight and driveline to hold the torque, was expensive.
I've heard them in hydroplanes on Lake Washington. Holy shit. The name, "Thunderboats" was an understatement. I reckon building a boat to handle that power was in many ways easier than building a car. I imagine cavitation around the prop would be big problem, but spinning the prop? No problem.
The first certified suspended roller coaster in 1902. Ride up the incline then spiral down suspended in the little capsule of death. That way if the ride malfunctions they just bury the capsule without delaying the waiting capsules. :rolleyes:
huh.
So, like a rally? The closest to the pin wins? one and a half miles per hour difference separating sixteen vehicles doesn't seem like a lot. But 16,416 ten-thousandths is some truly wide open spaces.
The Nevada Open Road Challenge runs in May, and The Silver State Classic runs in Sept. They are Identical races with the same rules over the same 90 mile stretch of public road. The only thing that's changed much since 1988 (classic), and 1991 (challenge) is the safety standards are much higher. Of course the speeds in unlimited class have gone up, a pubic hair under 210mph, with a high trap of 233 mph, in a Chevy Monte Carlo last year.
I just found that Monte carlo doing 233mph.
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I do not think that car was going 233 mph.
I have no personal reference for a speed such as that, but...
Do you understand the scale of the picture, it be yuge.
I do not think that car was going 233 mph.
I have no personal reference for a speed such as that, but...
Do you understand the scale of the picture, it be yuge.
Perhaps I can be of assistance.
I recognize that road. It appears to be the same one we traveled during the California road trip. Here are a couple pics from the driver's seat.
I took this pic from the driver's seat, just marveling at the unending stretch of straight, if not perfectly flat highway. That rolls out a LOOOONG way, brother. And this little camera takes nice pics, I always have to resize them down to fit them onto the cellar.
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Now, take a look at this one in my editor, I've zoomed in to the "100%" scale, that means, just straight out of the camera, no real zooming. Look at the tiny box in the middle that is represented in the main window. I've outlined the areas, you'll get it.
Look at that stretch of road, willya?
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youtube had this video in the autoplay and in it they claim 240 on a similar highway (in this case closed for the event, i believe)
based on just the reaction of the folks in the video i think it may well be 240.
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They have mislabeled it as the Silver State or the wrong month. Probably called it the Silver State when it was actually the Nevada Challenge. The Silver State. same highway, same rules, but in September when it's hotter hence a tad slower. But remember, in all but unlimited class they have a specific mph average they're shooting for over 90 miles. I know from my own travels in the great wide open, I'd drive all day at 80 and after a gas stop end up with a 55 or 60 average. So at times they had to hot foot much faster, like that transit van traveling at 164.
Looked it up, it was the Nevada Challenge in 2012, Jim Peruto, 2006 Dodge Charger, avg 217.5570, high trap 243.7.
I wonder at what speed would I chicken out? Well south of 200mph, I'd assume. I think my top speed ever was like 120mph. I was more concerned with picking up police protection that time... :dunce:
It kind of depends on the scenery, with poles, buildings and trees rushing by it's scary, but where it's open it seems less threatening. None of my vehicles would do over 160 so I don't know where my limit(read lack of judgement) is. :blush:
The tractor is called a Clear View. I looks to me like the operator has indeed a clear view of everything except where the work is being done... behind the tractor. :eyebrow:
This is a machine that makes me just shake my head. A Gran Prix race car with a chain drive. Slow lumbering dump trucks, fine, but the 1908 French Gran Prix winner averaged 69.045 mph (111.117 km/h) for 478 miles (770 km)and the fastest lap was over 78 mph (126 km/h). :facepalm:
They also had the first Gran Prix fatality that year.
Sweet ride. She must have been a handful at high speed.
775 cubic inches of displacement, making 100 horsepower...Not exactly the acme of efficiency.:lol2:
The compression must have been about 2 to 1, 3 tops. That's cool, you could have a 9 year old crank it for you. :haha:
What happens when one engine craps out. :eek:
I need a gal like that in my life. Forward thinking, progressive, trend-setter.
What happens when one engine craps out. :eek:
Heh, nothing good.
Unless you're an observer, then,
it's gold!What happens when one engine craps out. :eek:
Hopefully, it fails to a freewheel mode, with the brake still functional. And hopefully, part of those hand controls are brakes.
Nope, just two throttles so probably no freewheeling. :haha:
What happens when one engine craps out. :eek:
death spiral
Early in the space program...
Let's talk about U-joints.
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Reminds me of a Jeep I broke.
I do believe the ProMod painters have cornered the LSD market. :rollanim:
Damifino... I see pedals and motors. I suspect alcohol.
Do you have a yard to mow or garden to plow and till?
Want to get it done before your beer gets warm?
Here ya go Bunky.
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I'm sure he happy to have the PTO to run the pump...
Do you have a yard to mow or garden to plow and till?
Want to get it done before your beer gets warm?
Here ya go Bunky.
Heh. That big-block mower is worth more than his home.:right:
Some clever solutions, and some Macgyver stuff...
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This guy is using the pulley to start an old H.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gydGGC-g_L0Anything that spins the motor, and easier than finding a hill. ;)
I didn't know they had self-serve in the '20s. :confused:
Sometimes ya gotta get creative. :haha:
A penetrating weld would have discoloered the wrench, would it not? I see discoloration where they heated the wrenches to make the bends...
The welds were probably painted along with the frame.
I'd have painted the discoloration from the torch, as well, then.
A penetrating weld would have discoloered the wrench, would it not? I see discoloration where they heated the wrenches to make the bends...
"discoloered"?
:lol2:
Big Mofos
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what is "variable geometry turbocharger"?
I'll see your Big Mofos and raise you a reel of CRAZY MOFOS.
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what is "variable geometry turbocharger"?
Do I look like a farmer? :haha:
what is "variable geometry turbocharger"?
Off the top of my head, I would say that the vanes inside the turbo, that catch the exhaust that drives the turbo are adjustable for pitch. To catch more, or less, exhaust, to spin the turbo faster, or slower.
Like a variable pitch propeller on a plane.
Or maybe the driven blades that move the intake air are variable.
Oh, yeah...That other set of vanes.
:D
maybe i don't know. but that fucker is spinning at 100,000 rpm, it seems like you could find another place to fiddle faddle the amount of boost that wouldn't involve such an insane amount of reciprocating, no, washplating machinery.
I'm gonna look it up.
Ok, looks like they're changing the geometry of the inlet air, either with a sliding wall which reminds me of a choke plate, or by using vanes on the inlet (turbine side, exhaust stream) that can change their angle and direct the flow toward different places on the turbine blades (not the compressor blades on the "inlet" for the intake to the engine.
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The one at the link has a bigger bucket.:3_eyes:
The 240 ton Caterpillar 994K has 12 foot tires. The top of the cab is 23 feet off the ground. The bucket can scoop 45 tons at a time. The bucket is 41 feet high when raised. It has a 72 liter engine that makes 1850 hp. The 994K has a 5,678 (5,6,7,8 :eyebrow:) liter fuel tank.
Bacefook
linkJust because you're going camping like some middle class worker bee doesn't mean you can't be cool. ;)
Just milling around...
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I was surprised it did so much after the cut that released it. The base must be pretty tacky.
It's held down by a vacuum table, but you're right. After the pockets, center hole and outline are cut there isn't a hell of a lot of surface area to hold it. Also, that pad, for lack of a better word, beneath the part so they don't cut into the table, must be porous so the vacuum can reach the part. After so much is cut away there must be a large amount of wasted vacuum. It must be a hell of a pump/reservoir to maintain enough vacuum on the part.
Very cool. The vacuum must be wicked strong. I was thinking nonporous pad with some kind of adhesive.
The vacuum is those 4 valves he turned on before he started.
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Back in the day when trailers were growing faster than cars, and there was no F-350 Diesel Dually, a little help was in order.
I suppose there's an engine under there. Somewhere.
The only thing being blocked from view is part of the valve cover by what I'd guess is the accumulator tubes for the intake system.
You can get a headlight system for your Model T in solid brass. The Amish must pay an extra buck to get them in black. ;)
The only thing being blocked from view is part of the valve cover by what I'd guess is the accumulator tubes for the intake system.
The only part of the engine
in view is part of the valve cover.:lol2:
Whaaa, the two carbs and blower are part of the engine, although they do hide the short block.
The first Econoline I've liked...
When I show him these pics, this guy I know is going to have a genuine conniption.
He loves those '60's Econoline vans & pick-ups. And he's a purist, too, thinks everyone of them ought to to be bone stock and factory.
I hope he shits his pants.:D
I've heard of some weird fetishes but stock Econolines is really really sick. :lol:
He likes 60s Valiants, too, so...
At least the Valiants were sort of unique in styling and the slant six but the econoline was blah. Come to think of it, I had a boss with both and he was sort of unique but mostly blah. :lol:
Mustang...
Cables cables everywhere, and no safe seat in sight. :eek:
Picture Cruella Deville, racing through the wet night streets with a load of Dalmatians. ;)
A whole mattress wrapped up...
Transmission and differential for a chain drive truck.
The guy one the right is wearing one funky hat.
Iron Man is real.
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Yo dude, want a little head?
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How long would it take to program that whole operation?:3_eyes:
Also, dayum @ 2:06. That's a new one on me.
Another dayum @ 2:37.
Actually, urrthing after 2:06 is pretty much holy shit for me.
Yep, the whole time I'm thinking, "math is haaaaard", and I *like* math.
I thought this was an interesting little machine. I'm sure there are all kinds of different attachments to do different tasks.
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That's a tall crane, and a big fan. They better hope a wind doesn't kick up.
The sun's pretty low in that image, but not sunrise.
Hot air balloonists fly just after sunrise because that's when the wind is most calm.
Here they can only fly in the winter because it's too hot the rest of the year, the balloons won't go up.
Farmers gotta have fun...
Wheel Horse.
Hadn't heard that name in a while.
Wait for it...
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Home built by a welder...
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Nice, now he needs to have some sort of winch system that will hang it up in that super tall ceiling space out of the way.
Tea pickin' rednecks... an abomination to tea aficionados.
That IS a big pump. At first, before I saw the caption, I thought it might have been a turbine in a hydroelectric plant. Twil and I toured a hydro plant (she arranged the tour as a birthday gift for me--I love that woman) . The shaft was gargantuan. There are pics, I'll find them.
I've climbed down into the swirl cage of a water-turbine generator being repaired at Grand Coulee Dam, when I worked for Westinghouse. Big and scary inside.
Big and scary inside.
I knew a girl like that.:cool:
Down in the... ahem... swirl cage?
Yes, the swirl cage is a shaped concrete cage with curved walls, having small steel sliding windows around the periphery. These windows, many many feet below the surface, hold back the whole damn lake. When they open the water enters at an angle with great force, driving the vertical water turbine and the generator above it. If those widows opened when you were in there, even without a turbine in place, you wouldn't stand a snowball's chance it hell.
I have no idea but suspect homemade...
I found it, not homemade, it's a 1901 Slinger. Was 5 hp, one gear, 35mph. Copper radiator around the cylinder.
That is pretty cool.
There are loads of interesting designs out there for toys and tools that simply lacked lightweight motors... Maybe I should just build an aircraft.
Pratt & Whitney WW II engine and a cutaway.
WW II engine
An engine of war?
Back in the day they had to train mechanics to service a tremendous variety of cars, when many of the students had never driven a car.
Even Sears had stuff for the Model T...
Early snow machine, the handle bars are fixed, just to hang on to.
Somebody done flipped dey treadmill.
Ruben Vinylos of Argentina built this incredible 1924 Model T Roadster Pickup in 1:5 scale.
He made all the parts from raw stock... and it runs.
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Ha ha, a sliderule, period perfect.
Cheap and easy way to increase compression, screw a plate to the piston. :rolleyes:
Not surprising this didn't take off...
Hey guys, I have an idea. Let's build a car that is the same size on the outside as a regular car, but doesn't handle as well, and has huge oddly shaped bumps that stick into the passenger cabin and limit you to only two passengers. Who needs room to stretch your feet out anyway?
This is a damn clever idea if you're careful not to twist it.
Just like a japanese style pull saw.
Speaking of which, should you set up your hacksaw teeth to cut on the pull stroke or push stroke when using a regular hack saw?
I've always seen them set for the pull.
Really, I've only seen hacksaws set for the push.
Let's see those whippersnappers with their sticks stop this one...
Don't need no stinkin' blade, the wind will blow the grass away.
Bubble nose Indian sidecar...
What's that between the dipstick and the shifter? (And don't say the steering wheel!)
Fuel pressure gauge? Boost?
Looks like a air brakes parking brake that's not a gague on the top, it's a reflection
Ducati V-4 don't need no timing belts, gears and gears and gears. We're talking a 7500 RPM motor.
See, now, that looks reliable as a hammer, but, Ducati.:right:
Pretty impressive speed for 1948, I see it has a belly pan.
That's a pretty clean ride.
Looks like
Mr. Bliss's car.
That's a pretty clean ride.
this
Clean ride.
That's what "CR" stands for on the plaque.;)
Idk what the "CR" stands for.:p:
Chopped roadster, maybe?
Clean ride.
That's what "CR" stands for on the plaque.;)
Idk what the "CR" stands for.:p:
Chopped roadster, maybe?
Good guesses. I guessed "Custom Roadster". Now I think it means
Club Racing.
C class roadster, by weight and displacement.
Why waste that old Hit&Miss engine grinding grain, washing clothes, or making ice cream, when you can have fun...
With a 600cc 2-stroke driving the front wheel on unpaved roads, I can't imagine the noxious cloud coming out from under that front fender. :greenface
Apparently, that one may be the only one that exists.
Interesting Wiki article,
here.
600cc. Two-stroke.
297 lbs. Bet it ran like a striped-ass ape.
Good find, Bruce.
Wiki says it's based kinda sorta on
this:
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From a recent safari...
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Ntoiced:
Slicks all around
Also
License plate spells glatt 7 in l33tsp34k.
Expensive, crazy, and stupid....
So damn pretty. Notice the cog belt drive on the Merkel.
one man's Automodule is another man's Pussymobile.
Also this '08 Harley. An '07 sold last year for $715,000.
A clever quick fix for a bad wiper.
that's one damn big clothespin
This video shows a Rolex Submariner being disassembled, cleaned, and reassembled.
Looked to me for the first couple minutes he was turning screws clockwise to remove them. :confused: Maybe I'm drunk.
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It's a mechanical watch (autowind) with rotating gears. The left hand thread may keep the screws from backing out over the years from directional micro torque or vibration. They may even make all of them left handed; so, same size screws used for different purposes in the watch will be interchangeable and can be modified to different lengths.
It might be somewhat like one bicycle pedal being reverse threaded, even though the pedal rotates on its shaft, so it won't eventually back out. That's my guess.
You may be right but I don't think they're all the same, after the first couple minutes he's turning the driver the other way.
Yeah, meshing gears would turn in opposite directions.
1942 Lincoln Zephyr, I guess a funeral flower car. Very few 1942 models were made of any model/brand but I guess the funeral business was booming.
Turn the cab around and its the Batmobile.
Pretty badass, they were doing a stroke of business back then though.
The bodies do pile up when you're saving the world.
He was a machinist specializing in bearings, didn't know anything about bikes so he had to learn, find missing parts and put it together.
This is his jam:
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The importance of the man-machine interface cannot be overstated.
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Great idea, instead of hitting a critter in the road with the front wheel throwing you into the ditch, straddle it and crush that fucker with the rear wheel. Just a butt bump instead of a nose skinning.
Clever gas saving tip, only put 5 carbs on a 6 cylinder engine. :lol2:
Had to count spark plug wires...
This one time, I owned a car with an eight cylinder engine, and it only had one carb.
:jig:
Wow, you must have gotten great gas mileage.;)
'35 Plymouth coup in a foot of snow at 25 below...
More on the mailman...
An outtake from the Jan 18, 1943 feature: "LIFE Rides the Route of a Rural Mailman in Vermont." According to LIFE, "To the country people around East Dorset, Vt., the sight of Mark Whalon's coonskin cap and the rattle of the mailbox are as welcome as the sun. For 17 years now he has been delivering the mail to 80 families on the route...The day LIFE Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt went round the route the thermometer fell to 35 degrees below zero. The snow was twelve inches deep and they had to get out a team on East Barn Road and haul the mailman's 1935 Plymouth coupe through the drifts." (Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture
Tying off to the bumper and knowing it will hold.
Yeah no fussing with that.
Apocalypse machine, 300 mile range with three tanks, shovel, axe, saw, rope, and what looks like a high tech crossbow.
Pedals to crank it over so you don't need a battery. I like it!
New one on me, never heard on them. That's $459,000 2017 dollars.
Given that the driving position is above the bogey axle, my first thoughts were that the vehicle had perhaps been designed for use in circumstances that required maximum manoeuvrability, eg cargo handling at ports, warehousing etc. However, flat bed vehicles always seem to get that job for obvious reasons.
Needing a new product to bring to market in October of 1950 the firm introduced a new concept vehicle the Fageol “Super Freighter.”
This unique truck was a self-propelled trailer minus the tractor with the driver’s compartment located up front, and the engine mounted in the middle of the vehicle below the floor.
The demonstrator, fabricated in 1950 as part of an effort to land an Army contract for 1,650 vehicles. The Fruehauf Trailer Corporation constructed the stainless body, and the front of it was mounted on a steerable bogey axle with hydraulically actuated controls.
It appears the effort only resulted in one “Cargoliner” being built...
Link.
When it came to manoeuvrability, the Scammell Scarab was the machine for the job by all accounts.
It was a peculiar little vehicle that was much used on the railways and in ports.
I can't help but think that cornering at any speed above walking pace would have been a character forming experience.
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Have you ever driven a Reliant Robin?:D
Have you ever driven a Reliant Robin?:D
That is one of life's 'pleasures' I am happy to have avoided. ;)
Once, on a visit to the local fire station, one of the crew was talking about road accidents and the subject of the Reliant Robin came up.
'They burn quite nicely' was all he said. :eek:
Have you ever driven a Reliant Robin?:D
I have! Funny clicky little gear lever. Cornering didn’t trouble me, but then I can’t ride a bike, and commuted to work in London in the early eighties on a Pashley trike .....
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I'd like to drive one. But, I don't think I'd be comfortable driving/riding in a car that fond of belly rubs.
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but then I can’t ride a bike
Balderdash, there ain't nothing you can't do.
As if flying cars aren't bad enough, this one is Evinrude powered... :rolleyes:
Brooks Stevens. Here's another of his designs:
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:devil:
With a little help from his friends...
God damn, I love this tractor. Chopped top, full fendered, big&littles, would look great in B-Gas. :yesnod:
Yeah^^^, but do the windows roll down for summer plowing?
The top comes off. One just sold for $200,000, I doubt it will be plowing.
That is gorgeous. It's time for me to get in the vintage tractor business. I could get one of Dad's worked on but I'd rather get an old utility.
Not all motorcycles were for racing or profiling, some were working bikes.
Shoes horses as well, assuming the box amidships actually contains shoes.
Do you have a link for that image please, Bruce?
A Google image search didn't bear fruit and I'd be interested to know the where and when of it.
I'd hazard a guess at London about 1950.
Pickfords is still going strong by the way.
Don't know if it'll help, but, here's
a TinEye link.
I wish there was a story to go along with the picture.
Thank you, Grav. That's brilliant!
Your second
link nails it down...
In the age of automation, the blacksmith is giving way to the 'agricultural engineer'.
The few smiths who have survived have had to make concessions to the modern age, like Bill Groom, from Slough in Berkshire, who takes his smithy, complete with forge, in a motorcycle sidecar to wherever his services are required.
He even finds an occasional job in town, here he is sharpening picks which are being used for road repair work.
Taken September 1st 1955.
That has led me to another picture which is plastered with copyright warnings but viewable here:
Link
It's an old family firm run by two brothers, one of whom is 'the welter-weight wrestling champion of England'.
One more image of Groom Bros at work here...
Link
As far as the location of the image in Bruce's post #345 is concerned, my assumption is that it is indeed Slough and probably the High Street.
I've had a look at Street View but find that it is now a pedestrian area and unrecognisable.
The captions describe Slough as being in Berkshire. At the time the photographs were taken it was in Buckinghamshire.
There was a local government reshuffle in 1972 (I think) and county boundaries were shifted.
The town is north of Windsor on the other side of the Thames so if any of you are going to Harry and Meghan's nuptials in May, you'll be able to nip across the river for the rest of the day and see the place for yourselves.
Once again, thanks Grav. :thumb:
That is great, nice finds!
Where I found it there's just pictures with little or no information. I grabbed it because it's a cool picture. I figured it was Britain because the sidecar is on the left, and didn't look like Australia.
A 1956 Popular Science had a little blurb on him too.
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Once again, thanks Grav. :thumb:
Glad to have actually been of some help.
But,
this image is just insanity at its finest. Imagine riding down the street on yer murdersickle with a big ol' pile of red hot coals bouncing and jouncing around beside ya. I mean
rfthere!
What could possibly go wrong?:eyebrow:
....just insanity at its finest. Imagine riding down the street on yer murdersickle with a big ol' pile of red hot coals bouncing and jouncing around beside ya. I mean rfthere!
What could possibly go wrong?:eyebrow:
I bet that anvil isn't bolted down, either. :eek:
No problem they have smooth roads over there. :rolleyes:
Well they did have 440's... :lol:
I don't think I can afford this shop...:unsure:
It has overhead bins for killing puppies.
It has overhead bins for killing puppies.
*
zing!*
You sure those aren't pizza ovens? For $62,000, it sure as hell
ought to include pizza ovens, ferchrissakes. :rolleyes:
Bet Elon Musk was pissed he had to figure out how to land his rockets because this was patented. :haha:
JFC.
What year was common fucking sense invented?
Meh, gives the guy something to do besides scream and hang on for dear life, I guess.
Cool.
Bet Elon Musk was pissed he had to figure out how to land his rockets because this was patented. :haha:
What could
possibly go wrong?
:eek::thepain3::p:
The BBC used these machines to record broadcasts on 20 lb reels of metal tape.
They still have 350,000 hours of recordings on this tape.
Looks like about 14 concrete pumpers, each being fed by multiple trucks, pouring a pad big enough to support a huge building... or your mom. :haha:
I remember that pic from an old IOTD, one of the first I saw, but I can't find it.
The BBC used these machines to record broadcasts on 20 lb reels of metal tape.
They still have 350,000 hours of recordings on this tape.
Yeah, but you wouldn’t believe the stuff they did NOT save for posterity .....
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I remember that pic from an old IOTD, one of the first I saw, but I can't find it.
Yes I remember seeing that one before but it was long ago, 2007 in San Diego.
580:1 reduction...
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Portable music ain't new...
The 580:1 reduction system seems like a very expensive way to any number of unexpected, and most likely unwanted, outcomes.
I expect the whole project was engineered for a very specific outcome.
Going many slow. With very torque.
"Is that a record player in your pocket, or are--"
"It's a record player."
This link has video of the New Zealand war effort.
Wrecked and damaged trucks and jeeps, salvaged from the war zones in the Pacifc, are reconditioned in New Zealand motor assembly factories. Story of Allied Co-operation, the United States Army and the New Zealand Motor Industry transformed a supply of combat vehicles in the South Pacific. The restoration of these used vehicles was carried out at Ford Motors, Seaview, Wellington. General Motors rebuilt 2.5 ton trucks, New Zealand was used for replacements where required. Todd Motors plant handled 3/4 ton weapon carriers, all plants were subjected to procedures and scrutiny before being handed over to Automotive Reclamation Section. 3000 vehicles were restored and returned to the Pacific War Zone.
NZ link with something I never heard of. Didn't even know they had an auto industry.
Looks like they did a good job. Sort of like hospitals fixing up soldiers for return to battle.
I doubt they do now, even the auto industry in Australia is shutting down.:(
From Wikipedia:
"New Zealand no longer assembles passenger cars."
Fun, fun, fun... until somebody loses a eye.
Seems a little expensive for what you get. That old timey money was worth more. $149 for some tube held together by bolts and two bucket seats and a windscreen?
Well, the bench seat model was a little cheaper, but it came with a column shift, so...:neutral:
Making damn sure it won't happen again...
What exactly am I looking at there? I get the wrenches, so the bolts don't come loose...
Are the bolts passing through an exhaust manifold?
It's kinda brilliant. Sorta.
Also: That person's safety-wiring technique looks to be lacking.:p:
Don't know, looks like an exhaust manifold but there appears to be shit under it like it's being used for a motor mount or supporting a turbo or something.
Motor Toboggan, US Military bought 250 of them for service in AK.
Heh, like a snowmobile, without, well, most of it.
And really really hard to steer. :eek:
GM's turbine powered Firebird III front brakes.
I wonder if that wheel/drum would EVER dissipate heat? Looks like a lot of mass, in both pics.
Yeah, those holes are supposed to pump air through to dissipate heat, but I'm skeptical too.
Too much mass. Looks like it'd hold heat forever.
4 or 5 times the pad surface, too, looks like.
What's that machine normally for?
Looks like a picker upper to me.
My guess is it's dedicated to changing tires on big trucks, just like it appears to be doing there. How else are you going to manipulate those ridiculous things?
The things you could pick up with that...
I wanna see it pick up an egg. I bet it could, with a skilled driver.
Its probably used for something besides mounting tires. Unless their drivers fuck up a lot. Then they would be in the unenjoyment line for sure.
Yeah, no need for a monster that size to change a 1000 lb tire, must be re-purposed from something else...
Like when weird Aunt Lily says give auntie a big squeeze for the millionth time.;)
Trying to figure out what that is, I came across
demolition robots.It's just a giant front end loader. There are myriad attachments/tools for those things. Scoops, buckets, forks, cable spoolers/unspoolers...tire changers.
I wanna see it pick up an egg. I bet it could, with a skilled driver.
My cousin won a skills competition as a kid. I believe they attached a spoon to an excavator and he picked up and placed an egg with it. That boy can run anything.
Showed some guys the old pick-up-the-dime/quarter-with-the-forklift trick. They hadn't seen or heard about it, and were fairly impressed.
Moving an 187 ton steam turbine rotor through NY State...
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some of those tires are $10k a piece ,
You should see them getting reconstructed Verry cool
It's a real good idea to unhook the container from your truck before the crane grabs it.
I'm always amazed at how strong those hitch pins (?) are.
No, it's not that, it's for cracking open boiled egg shells...
Looks gruesome.
Looks [SIZE="1"]shrinksome[/SIZE] to me!
I can't in good faith call these cars. Built by George Barris for a bank promotion...
George Barris?
I think you mean JOHNNY CASH!
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Yep, it's real.
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I always loved the line:
"What's that?" "Uh, that's a negatory on the cost o'this here mosheen."
"Jim's link, for those who don't speak French... "
Merci
"Jim's link, for those who don't speak French... "
Merci
Jim's message for those who don't speak French:
Thanks
I saw a RC ditch digger on the way home from work Friday.
In a similar vein...
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OK Junior, that's enough TV for today, go out and dig a trench in the yard. :eyebrow:
OK Dad, you always said you'd fix my red wagon, change the oil and rotate the tires.
Looks like it's definitely become female, but I can't figure out if it's also become a fish??:confused:
Needed a place to put the rouge?
it looks like the goddamn seat to ride sidesaddle since there just a board where it used to be mounted.
It looks like it can be folded in or out. Mebbe to keep tall grass or bushes off the driver when bushhogging.
Speaking of tractors...
In the movie Blazing Saddles, Slim Pickens' character, 'Taggart', tells the antagonist, the land-grabbing 'Hedley Lamarr', not to worry, "We'll make that town thing it's a chicken that got caught in a tractor's nuts."
What the fuck does that mean?
Tractor's nuts?
Anyone?
Bueller?
Dayum!
Big ol' BucyrusErie:
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Banana for scale, in that guy's pocket.
[size=1]And you thought he was just happy to see ya.[/size];)
I wonder if he can convince the judge it was the bird's fault?
A few years earlier, and that ostrich may well have outrun the pohlees.
With a field full of spare engines. ;)
Wonder if it tastes like chicken?
Closer to steak, actually, but a bit gamier. Someone who eats more varieties of meat would probably have a better comparison. I used to get ostrich occasionally from Whole Foods.
I forget which, but one of the groceries around here used to sell ostrich burgers. A little pricey, iirc. Never tried it.
Where else but SEMA will you see a 5ft high roller rocker with locking box wrench, adjusting allen wrench, and feeler gage?
I wonder what impels that roller to roll?
Why wouldn't it just stay in place?
Or if it did ever find or develop a flatter spot, why would it move off that spot?
Flat spot:
You'd still have the roller 'axle' (acting like a hinge, for lack of a more eloquent description) which would still be better (less friction) than a regular rocker arm.
It doesn't 'roll' all the way round like the wheel it looks like, I don't think.
Ok Grav, I don't take issue with anything you said.
I still have questions about that mockup in the picture. I'm having a hard time understanding how that configuration of the adjusting screw and the locking nut can affect the valve lash/clearance. How can they adjust anything while at the fulcrum of the rocker? Is the WHOLE rocker being lifted or lowered? And wouldn't that simultaneously change the clearance on the pushrod side?
It looks ... I don't understand how it works. Here's a picture that has similar looking roller tip rockers but with the adjustment NOT at the fulcrum/pivot point, but closer to/over the pushrod end. THIS one I comprehend.
https://www.chevyhardcore.com/tech-stories/engine/how-to-set-and-adjust-valve-lash-like-a-pro/
...
I read some more, I guess I did intuit it correctly, I just haven't worked on one myself. The whole rocker does lift, pushrod side and valve side. Huh.
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I wonder what impels that roller to roll?
Flat spot:
The whole rocker does lift, pushrod side and valve side. Huh.
Yes.
I like eggs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Paging Mike Mulligan...
FTW~!I like eggs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think you learned English from a book.
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Today I learned about Mike Mulligan, and his steam shovel, Mary Anne.
I didn't know Cummins diesel was a girly brand... :haha:
Adjusting shaft mounted rockers, roller or not.
That looks familiar...
Except for the light and the clearance and the unabraded knuckles.
The red circular arrow indicates direction of blood splatter.
Imagine cranking this over by hand, even with the compression release and geared crank, better hope the motor wants to start. :rolleyes:
I found a story about the Brassler engine pictured.
http://theoldmotor.com/?p=153620Imagine cranking this over by hand...
Imagine cranking it over by hand and having it kick back on ya. Geez.
If your old Tin Lizzie kicked back it might break your wrist, or bruise your forearm, make ya cry, maybe...this thing would put ya on the other side of the yard!
From Fargon's link:
A Gargantuan Engine: “There Is Just No Substitute For Cubic Inches”
Remember the old catch phrase from the 60s/70s?
"There's no replacement for displacement."
I bet there is a ratcheting or clutch style mechanism that lets the thing freewheel when catches or backfires etc.
The old fords and such ya slipped it toward the engine and there was a notch/key way (for lack of the proper damn word), and as ya cranked it over ya pulled back toward yourself disengaging the handcrank in case it kicked back.
If ya timing wasn't good enough, well, it hurt.
Seems like a feller could use a horse on a treadmill to start that.
Seems like a feller could use a horse on a treadmill to start that.
Better to use a
plane on a treadmill. A lot more thrust.
No, the energy won't transfer. ;)
Better to use a plane on a treadmill. A lot more thrust.
No, the energy won't transfer. ;)
Then how does the plane get off the ground??
It's the air beneath my wings. [SIZE="4"]flap[/SIZE] [SIZE="3"]flap[/SIZE] [SIZE="2"]flap[/SIZE] [SIZE="1"]flap flap flap[/SIZE]
I thought that was Bette Midler.
Imma need brain Clorox now.
Then how does the plane get off the ground??
Red Bull,
duh.Can you say mud, boys and girls?
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Cool!
I reckon those tracked trailer wheels are doing their fair share of pushing.
I'm not sure if the wheels/track on the trailer are driven or not. If you go to the logset website, they stress all their models are built super rugged so their machines are like the Energizer Bunny.
Can you say mud, boys and girls?
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and that's pretty much the condition they leave the woods in around here when they're done logging.
I prefer the pretty girl with the Belgium.
Then you would prefer VERY expen$ive lumber.
Experimenting with stable gear ratios in a Lego Technic construction.
Gets up to 7750 rpm (17k when driven by a power drill--and it eats the plastic.)
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An old racer with two inline 6 cylinder engines has the wildest exhaust system ever...
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All his videos are twice as long as necessary. :eyebrow:
Now that's pretty clever to make the truck look normal. May cut down on tool theft compared to a box back instead of a bed.
I bet that don't rattle at all.
Why you don't plow deep enough to dig into the road...
This added at least 20 minutes (I caught the tail end of it) to my commute the other day.
Are those Air Force markings on that rig?
Via Twitter comments, it's "
USA Truck".
About USA Truck
Today, with more than 1,600 driving team members, we are regarded as one of the nation’s largest over-the-road Truckload carriers. Our distinctive white tractors and trailers bearing the bar and star logo is an ode to our nation’s military from one of our founders, a former military aviator. Under that banner, we provide capacity solutions to a wide customer base throughout North America.
OK thanks, somebody has grabbed that for a corporate logo.
It's looks like the old USAF logo. Color is a bit different, also.
It's still the
current USAF roundel, but lighter blue. It doesn't seem like that should be OK, but they've been doing it for a long time.
Well, you're right that it's an old USAF logo (dates back to WWII) with a slightly different color. But, while it is old in terms of years, it's not old in terms of replaced.
I feel like that company used to be bigger. I remember seeing that logo pretty frequently years ago.
In local trucking, a load of fracking sand got stuck under the railroad bridge by my work that took the AC off the top of an RV last summer.
I remember working in a warehouse in the 90s, [strike]we[/strike] they had a USA Trucking lane in the shipping dept.
They took Medusa to a car show, got separated at a gas station, so he waited out side the show because she had the money.
I think she was also in charge. :yesnod: You can skip to the 6 minute mark.
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Pretty cheap for a fully prepped, blown, injected race motor, plus a ton of spare parts and a whole barrel of nitro..
I used to have a 76 Pontiac Lemans Sport Coupe. Had a .060 over Pontiac 400, healthy cam, massaged 7M5 heads (or some such alphanumeric designation) and a Quadrajet from a grain truck engine, iirc it was 427.
I had right at $3000 in that motor, machine work and all.
That was a fairly heavy car, and it would boogie right on down the road.
Canadians moving a propylene/propane splitting tower.
The load and trucks is 587’ long, 31’ wide, 42’ high, weighs over 900 U.S. tons, and has 912 tires.
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Wowser.
The front four trucks look like horse teams.
My God, the logistics of that move...:crazy:
If you take a perfectly good engine and wash it in hot water...
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95,00 RPM
Flame engine
Auto Union
Cool cat
Needs a second look
My first second look was at the W32 Patelo that runs with coins balanced on edge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVuKp5M3de8
And another one of his
https://newatlas.com/spanish-engineer-crafts-the-worlds-smallest-v-12-engine/20636/
He gets a 10.0 on a degree of difficulty that is off the chart.
No problem, just take a full sized engine, wash it in hot water, and tumble dry. If it's not small enough, repeat. :haha:
The trouble is shrinking the vehicle to scale.
And the people to drive it. ;)
I bet I know where Patelo gets his springs.
...that runs with coins balanced on edge....
Auntidigr bought new a Datsun B210 that ya could stand a nickel on its edge on the air cleaner while it as running.
The Japs had grabbed all the rubber trees(along with the land under them and people who farmed them) long before Pearl Harbor, so inventor Earst Meili came up with this substitute...
Both those links are Meili's work. I think he also came up with a smoke detector, and some sort of light bulb.
I've seen a lot of tractors that size do that. Most of the time, on their own.
What do you expect,it's a ford.
What do you expect,it's a ford.
OH, snap!
Damn! I wonder if my 8N is still under warranty.
This is a message from god, go back to bed. :yesnod:
Chip box on the bucket truck almost did that.
I have never seen a 8N or similar tractor break in half on its own.
Tell us more.
Well, I meant without the assistance of an intersecting automobile...
This is a message from god, go back to bed. :yesnod:
got up AND stayed in bed
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Apparently there is a whole old machine rescue thing. :cool:
That kid's got his work cut out for him.
What do you expect,it's a ford.
It is/was a Ferguson TO.
Still an unlikely situation.
Sorry my bad, the hood looks like an 8-N Ford. At least it wasn't a Deere.
Sorry my bad, the hood looks like an 8-N Ford.
It does.
Sorry my bad, the hood looks like an 8-N Ford. At least it wasn't a Deere.
I believe Ferguson and Ford worked together on the 9N. Ferguson invented the 3 point hitch which apparently Ford screwed him on...
Mine is close to the one on the right, with a little more, shall we say, patina* and fewer headlights (gone when I got it in 1981).
It is the toughest little son of a gun you ever saw, 72 years old, all original and wiling to do what ever.
*I did not say paTEENah.
This makes me wonder about the status of my Grampa's 8N as we just buried the Uncle who had it.
*I did not say paTEENah.
That's ok, everybody else does.
Make it yourself or make do...
It must have cost more than a 5 ton, in time if nothing else.
We're spoiled by the ease of maintaining cars these days.
When my uncles drove from MA to AK with a brand new '49 Ford pickup the had to stop and change the oil 5 times.
This 1939 chart shows how much maintenance was required. The interstate highway system made this a joke.
Good lord.
I've had children that required less maintenance.
BigV, we're from Child Protection Services and had a report you've been skipping oil changes on your children. We want to see the service records of scheduled maintenance on all of them. If we find you're remiss in your obligation we will make sure your children, and you, get lubed. :lol2:
Remember your roots, where you came from, who you are...
we will make sure...you, get lubed.
I make it a point to get good and oiled as often as possible.
I will be working toward this later this afternoon.:drunk:
Do you usually get oiled before you get lubed?
I don't get lubed.
Not usually.;)
We're spoiled by the ease of maintaining cars these days.
When my uncles drove from MA to AK with a brand new '49 Ford pickup the had to stop and change the oil 5 times.
This 1939 chart shows how much maintenance was required. The interstate highway system made this a joke.
Conversely, you
could maintain your vehicle, given the time and inclination; whereas nowadays you literally can't change the oil filter (etc.) unless you have a specialized tool the manufacturer devised to prevent you from doing so.
Some cars (Mini Coopers are one I think) ya can't even put used parts on anymore. They won't talk to the computer, and then ya gotta jump through hoops, IF ya can get the dealer to help ya.
I'm hoping I can knock the crap out of a 2002 Honda Accord catalytic converter, and bolt the empty pipe back on. Hopefully there's not a sensor connected that disables the vehicle?
I mean, it ran on a bad c.c. and the only result was the 'check engine' light, and it eventually choking out to the point of being un-drivable.
Mini Coopers
I guess it's just Mini now is it not?
I'm hoping I can knock the crap out of a 2002 Honda Accord catalytic converter, and bolt the empty pipe back on. Hopefully there's not a sensor connected that disables the vehicle?
I mean, it ran on a bad c.c. and the only result was the 'check engine' light, and it eventually choking out to the point of being un-drivable.
Mine has an oxygen sensor before and after each cat.
What kinda car, Bruce? And I'm thinking it does have a sensor, but I'm hoping the sensor just turns on the check engine light.
Prolly the SSR.
On some older cars some sensors can be tricked with grounding modifications.
The 'rents had a 91 Lincoln with the air bag suspension that they replaced with a strut kit from Strutmaster(s). A warning light was on all the time telling them the air suspension was malfunctioning. A mechanic figured out how to fool the computer by grounding the sensor to the chassis. No more warning light.
Don't know if ya can do that on more modern cars.
When the air suspension worked, that Lincoln was the smoothest ride I've ever experienced.
Yes, the '06 SSR. Four oxygen sensors, one before and one after each cat.
Flint, you don't have emission testing in your state? We have to pass a test every other year in Virginia. They stick a wand up the tailpipe and take measurements.
I just priced some catalytic converters. Everything but milk is ever-more expensive, everything but milk and catalytic converters, it seems. Just a few years ago they cost stupid money. I mean stu.
Pid. money.
Catalytic converters are cheaper than shit.Flint, you don't have emission testing in your state? We have to pass a test every other year in Virginia. They stick a wand up the tailpipe and take measurements.
I live in a rural county, there's no vehicle inspection at all.
What the what? I guess your registration stickers there are still separate from your inspection stickers?
PA said they saved a million dollars a year by eliminating the registration sticker on the plate. It's not needed because in order to get the inspection sticker for the windshield the registration must be valid. Around here there are two stickers on the glass. One is safety inspection and the other is emissions. Rural counties don't do emissions.
We've got the licence plate sticker for registration, and two stickers for the glass. One is proof of automobile property taxes paid to the county and the other is safety inspection. Emissions is a piece of paper for the glove box, but you don't get the window safety inspection sticker without the piece of paper.
What the what? I guess your registration stickers there are still separate from your inspection stickers?
No inspection, no inspection
sticker.
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We got one sticker, on the plate, for registration proof.
No inspection, unless your titling a car from out of state, and even then it's only to check that all the VIN numbers match.
I found out the hard way once (ONCE!), those three VIN numbers better match. Bought a car in TN off a car lot, that had three different numbers.:yelsick:
I've got a license plate, a registration sticker on the plate, and registration papers in the glove box. The registration is, like, filling out a piece of paper and paying them a small amount of money. They don't even *look* at the car.
About 10, 000 people live in my town.
Cop: Driver's license, proof of insurance, proof of registration, please.
Gravdigr: Here's my driver's license, and proof of insurance. My proof of registration is on my license plate.
Cop: *blink-blink*
Same. I'm like, "Here's my license, insurance... . . . ...what was the other thing ??"
I had no idea different states had so many different ways of doing it. We have one registration sticker on the glass, but they won't mail it to you unless the online database shows that you got an inspection done (and passed) in the last couple of months.
In DC you pay registration and inspection fees online to get a window sticker that also serves as a pass to ignore any 2 hour parking limits in your neighborhood, and actually go get the inspection whenever it expires.
For hybrids they don't even check emissions, just whether the "check engine" light is on and that the car isn't physically falling apart.
I live in an odd little section of the county - roughly five square miles - that doesn't have to do emission checks. I have no idea why this particular area is exempt (neither did the lady at the licensing office last time I renewed my tags), but I'm not complaining. Of course, they don't TELL you this when you move here. I only found out after I mentioned to a neighbor that I just did the emissions test on my truck, and she asked, "Why would you do that?" I replied, "Because they sent me a paper that said I had to." She grinned and said, "They lie." :rolleyes:
The pain in the ass is, when emission testing time rolls around every few years, I can't renew online; I have to go in to the licensing office and personally tell them that I live in the exempt area. Why they can't put this info into their software is beyond me.
And what are these window stickers you people speak of? The only thing I get when I renew my licensing is a little sticker that goes on the rear license plate.
It doesn't show in the picture but the emissions sticker and safety inspection sticker both have a very colorful hologram on the face.
It doesn't show in the picture but the emissions sticker and safety inspection sticker both have a very colorful hologram on the face.
Seems needlessly duplicative to me. Why have an emissions sticker at all? If you can't prove you got a clean emissions test, the DMV shouldn't give you new registration tags. Easy peasy.
:confused:
Not all of the state has emissions testing, that's why they were split.
Sometimes the expiration of the two doesn't coincide.
The safety sticker used to expire with the registration but now it's a year from issue.
People were bitching because if they buy a car it has to be inspected right away, but when the plates they transferred from their old car expire in a few months they had to get another full price inspection.
I'm supposed to have a third sticker on the windshield for a vehicle over 6,000 gvwr, but I don't.
Tire service truck for mines and oil fields.
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That same location is a Firestone dealer today.
I wonder how many tire changes to pay for the truck...
Sort of related to the tire truck above (and the shop below it).
This guy is saying "I don't care, this is the one the book says fits."
http://theoldmotor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Firestone4-760x455.jpgThat is the right tire for that Scraper.
Might be time to change your Browser.
I'll quit before I use Chrome.
Chrome doesn't open it either
Works for me in Chrome and IE.
I didn't know Caterpillar made dump trucks...
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These must be a bitch to drive...
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I saw a picture of rig like this that had rolled over. :thepain:
That bottom rig is a climate change machine.
Sometimes they don't make it, looks like they are using the crane on that log or pipe truck...
The guy driving the back tractor tried to pass.
How long since you've seen a 100 octane pump?
I had an 85 Suzuki 550 LTD, I only used Amoco Ultimate in it. I'm trying to remember what the number was. I think it was 95, might have been 93 though. I remember it was well over a buck a gallon, when plain gas was well under a buck.
There used to be a Philips 66 (?) n Bowling Green years ago. They sold 105 (?) race gas outta the pump. Ya never went through that intersection on Sat & Sun mornings if ya could avoid it, the racers were lined up w/their trailers out of the lot and down the street to get the good stuff.
It was a four-beer light anyway.
I've got a super 8 home movie someplace of pulling into a SUNOCO station and filling the little Moon tank on the front of a Hemi powered Model A coupe, while the truck and trailer blocked all the pumps on that side of the island for a 2 Gallon sale. :haha:
Weird Canadian Massey Harris...
Are those wheels made for planting? It looks like they'd cut through and leave a nice little trench.
I don't know but they look like an after market wheel, the M-H wheel appears to be a wide flat wheel with holes to bolt on a variety of traction aids.
Massey-Harris was huge, then merged with Ferguson to become the largest in the world. I'd assume like the model T Fords there was dozens of companies making strap-ons for them.
Are those wheels made for planting? It looks like they'd cut through and leave a nice little trench.
I'd say they were for traction. I don't know as much about tractors as someone who lives where I live should know.
Maybe skinny to keep it from sliding sideways on slopes?
I was surprised there was agricultural and industrial models. Both came in three different track widths and apparently the Industrial models had a 600 pound weight on each wheel. Yikes.
Yikes is right.
My Ford 8N came with rear wheel weights that were around 300 pounds. With the weight of the wheel itself, the combination felt as if it were bolted to the earth. You did NOT want to drop them.
I had to count out and repack 1000 (loose) 64 pound plates for the front weight rack one time. The wooden crates holding them had broken open and spilled the plates out. The wheel weights came steel-banded to the pallet, thank God. I was working at a warehouse that distributed tractor parts.
Ferguson designed that Ford tractor then split for England to make essentially the same design with a few tweaks, under his own name. Then Massey-Harris in Canada teamed up with Ferguson in England to become the largest tractor company in the world. But only #3 in the US behind Deere and IH.
My Grandpa bought an 8N in '53 (?) as the boys started leaving the farm. He had married into a very horsey family but it was past time to retire the work horses. He did a lot of work with that tractor, a lot of it well over its weight class. They have terrible brakes and are too light for serious loads but nobody got killed. An old guy did roll and get badly torn up on an 8N on the farm I currently occupy... Apparently my cousin is going to fix that bad boy up with a modern distributor, hopefully they get it properly weighted and use it for sensible chores.
I love that term "sensible chores."
It pretty much sums up the utility and safe use of all tools.
It is amazing how many N Ford tractors (2,9 and 8) are still in use. Even more decorate farms all over the land.
Mine is 70 years old (!), is basically all original and willing to do sensible chores every day of the year.
My first chipper had a 4 cyl engine off a Ford tractor.
Many times late on a summer evening I'd be finishing up a long job and the exhaust manifold would glow orange.
It's good to be the king...
Triple threat tractors...
We need that setup after what the loader did to my buddy's friends' yard this morning. I got my load of horseshit though so I'm happy.
The top 8N/road roller pic has a lot in common with the old IOTD of the guy on his motorcycle in the funeral home.
http://cellar.org/iotd.php?threadid=22621Yeah, I'm having trouble making that connection too. :confused:
Maybe the guy on the tractor/roller deserves 19 .40cal holes in him. :haha:
"Oh well?"
Rly?
You upchucked that shit, the least you could do is explain it.
"A lot in common..."
But could you give us one thing? No, we get "Oh, well".
Here I'll get ya started, there are ppl involved with each.
You're set up, now, how about number two?
Number two. Eat it.
You want
me to eat shit because
you are not capable of either explaining your own post, or admitting that you spoke out of your ass?
All ya had to do was explain what you meant by 'a dead man on a motorcycle has a lot in common with an 8N Ford tractor being used as a road roller'.
But, apparently, you can not do that.
Is it beyond your ability?
Should I double-dog dare ya?
Have you forgotten? Go back, look at the pics again, maybe it'll come to ya.
Perhaps you should schedule a cat scan.
Or go back on yer meds.
OR, when they tell ya "Don't drink when you've taken the BIG yellow pill.",
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Must have caught him during recess...
Maybe he's getting that cat scan...
On March 21, 2019, Gravdigr posted:
"OK I'm finally with you.
That would have been very funny if I'd gotten it.
You get points."
That had a nice ring of civility, don't you think?
You are right. I am chagrined at my handling of this situation. You have my apologies, sir.
Things the pic of a dead guy on a motorcycle inside a funeral home has in common with the pic of a guy on an 8N Ford tractor being used to power a road roller:
Both pics were taken on planet Earth.
Both pics have people in them.
Both pics have machinery in them.
Both pics have rubber in them.
Both pics have people in them.
Both pics have plant material visible in them.
Both pics were taken with some form of camera.
Both pics have chains visible in them.
Both pics have headwear visible in them.
Both pics have meat visible in them.
Both pics have oxygen in them.
Both pics have black things visible in them.
Both pics appear to have men in them.
Both pics appear to have a son visible in them.
Both pics have some form of lighting visible in them.
Both pics have visible metals in them.
Both pics have paint visible in them.
Both pics are posted on The Cellar.
Both pics have been seen by you.
Both pics have been seen by me.
Both pics have things on top of other things.
Both pics have things under other things.
Both pics have wheels visible in them.
Both pics have the color red in them.
Both pics have a fuel tank in them.
Both pics have visible shoes in them.
Both pics show devices which control the direction of the vehicle.
Alllll that shit is what you were talking about when you said the pics had a lot in common.
In case you didn't know what you were talking about when you said the pics had a lot in common.
Feel free to use this post as a template. Next time you see something that has something in common with something and you want point it out to someone, you'll have a vague notion of how to go about it.
No need to thank me.
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Wind wagon, the idea was to be able to travel the desert sand of North Africa.
Henry put everybody on wheels. The Model T was like a Gravely tractor with unlimited attachments and conversion kits.
Another example of a guy getting shit done with what he has at hand.
Or with what he ordered from Sears.:)
Old guy from the church I used to go to told a story that he had to go town in a hurry. They'd been using the family Model T to plow, and it had those tractor-type steel wheel like in Bruce's pic above.
He drove the car to town with those wheels on it. Said all his fillings fell out.
That Model-T may need a brace...
That rig is cooler than it ought to be.
Check this one out.
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This thing was built expressly for transporting Mercedes race cars. At over 100mph. The way Leno explained it (he has one, of course), Mercedes, when they had to work on one of their racers, didn't like working away from home, so, if they had mechanical difficulty, they'd load the car and drive it to the home shop back in Germany. No matter where in Europe they were. This thing was a legend back in the day, they always got there and back in time to race. Leno said it would do well over 100 with a car on it.
ETA: IIRC.
The best laid plans of men in cars...
Ugh!
I have a front wheel bearing that is complaining loudly right now.. I've seen the replacement process and it's very straightforward, IF you have a lift and a tie rod puller and a bearing press with the right inserts... Which I don't.
What is it a front wheel drive? Replacing/repacking wheel bearings is a 20 minute job.
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Yeah, front wheel drive make life complicated. Got to be done though because it's sending vibration back through the driveline and if it fails it could take out a tire, rim, hub, CV joint, halfshaft, or even the transmission. That could be a spendy event.:eyebrow:
Funny you should mention front hubs.
Spent most of the day replacing a front drive axle on my sons '93 Toyota 4x PU.
It has just short of 300k on it and the hubs seem OK for now.
There is a retired Japanese engineer enjoying his sake and laughing his ass off whenever some foreigners discover that the front axles are about a 1/2 inch too long to just come out and go back in.
Got it done, the other one tomorrow.
Otherwise, it is easy to see why there are x billion of them still around.
Half inch too long to come out and go back in? I don't follow that.
But if your boss at Toyota questions it, tell him it's a feature, grab your Sake, and retire. :haha:
The axle has a flange on the front diff and a long splined shaft in the hub.
The problem is to get enough slack to work it out of the A-arms past the sway bar and the shock mount.
Manuals and online tutorials have come up with about 6 ways to try it, some requiring re-alignment, cutting the sway bar and worse.
We totally trashed the old one removing it, but the new one slipped right in. I'll reveal our technique for a negotiated fee.
We also encountered "cone washers," a new one on me after 60 years of wrenching.
Cone washers, had to Google them. That's just pure evil, it took a sick mind to foist that on [strike]mechanics[/strike] techs anywhere Toyota goes. :eyebrow:
Pssst... wanna buy a motor?
At $0.025 on the dollar?
I'll take all you have, thanks.
I think the Arfons Brothers snatched up a lot of them.
This guy knew how to work around it.
A 62 foot blade gets the job done. I suspect it's for pulling rather than pushing.
I'll see your 62' and raise you 120'.
I couldn't find another pic of the big blade. Could it be for furrowing? Or maybe just ripping? Or gophers?
https://www.kibbleeq.com/new-equipment/agriculture/planting-seeding/db120-48row30/
Gotta have a good tractor.
Seven years old, $160,000, :3_eyes:
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How could they use a 120' bar if the Earth wasn't flat. :haha:
When you lift it in the middle, it deflects to match the curvature of the globe.
The tractor was designed to speed up farm equipment on the road while being stable, the speed record is just for shits & giggles.
And the Honda does actually mow just not at the same time...
In case you want to take 36 friends with you...
That's the head offa one o'them there sex robots.
A [strike]big[/strike] rich boy toy...
$6500 for assembly?!?!
Jesus-jumped-up-Christ-on-a-pogo-stick.
Very early run-flats, just not very-fast
M&S tires.*
*Mud & Snow, also good when you're in deep shit. ;)
Why? I'd say for the military given the time frame and color.
Yeah but why a 30 cylinder, 2.5 ton monster to get only 400 horsepower?
Because horsepower don't mean shit, torque is what does work.
I see what you did there.
Because horsepower don't mean shit, torque is what does work.
Any kid from elementary school science can see through that lie. Same torque can be obtained from the motor in an electric clock. Just change gear ratios.
It is a 19.5 horsepower per liter engine. If diesel, then acceptable for that period. If gasoline, it was a marginal design. Which would explain why it was only made for a short time. Too little speed to provide necessary torque - due to insufficient horsepower.
TW is right. HP is a calculation taken directly from the torque (HP = Torque lb-ft x RPM / 5252). The low HP figure is a result only of the low-revving nature of the engine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_A57_multibank
The Chrysler A57 Multibank is a 30-cylinder 1,253 cu in (20.5 L) engine that was created in 1941 as America entered World War II. It was born out of the necessity for a rear-mounted tank engine to be developed and produced in the shortest time possible for use in the M3A4 Lee medium tank and its successor M4A4 Sherman medium tank. Each had lengthened hulls to accommodate the A57.
Any kid from elementary school science can see through that lie. Same torque can be obtained from the motor in an electric clock. Just change gear ratios.
That electric clock motor won't provide enough torque to overcome the frictional loss in all the gears it would take to do anything useful.
All the gears in the world won't change the torque the motor produces, just multiply the torque by reducing the speed of the output thereby reducing the calculated horsepower.
Theory is bullshit, torque does the work.
Who say cheaters never win, both NHRA and NASCAR checked the Carb, Intake, Bore, Stroke and Heads,
but not the bottom end. Taking off the Intake they should have spotted the cam bearings though.
I'm curious about how those connecting rod internal bearing races work. They look like in the picture that there's a race on the bearings... Which makes me wonder how they got the bearing/race onto the crank.
Any help?
This crankshaft is a one piece and is heat treated and surface hardened. The connecting rods and bearing races are split in the middle. The bearing retainers are also split in half and assembled around the crankshaft, and split races are in the block and main bearing caps. The roller bearings run directly on the hardened crankshaft.
Thanks, key phrase "split races", is a new thing to me. I think I can imagine it now.
Thanks!
Were the rollers illegal?
Oh yes, very. Especially NASCAR who wants to make everything same same. Using those bearings cut down on frictional losses and you could use a smaller oil pump that took much less parasitic power from the engine. Might be good for 5 mph compared to a legal engine, and in NASCAR that's huge. NHRA it would be OK in modified classes but very illegal in stock, SS, even FX classes.
That electric clock motor won't provide enough torque to overcome the frictional loss in all the gears
You have assumed conventional gears.
And have totally ignored the point. Same torque can be provided by all sorts of horsepower - high and low. Irrelevant is torque when speed also matters. Only increased horsepower means sufficient speed at that torque. Only horsepower matters. Even a 2 liter four cylinder engine can provide the same torque. But does not have speed.
Obviously that torque myth is popular among many who forget that simple formula taught in school science.
Torque is obviously irrelevant if enough horsepower does not exist to provide minimal speed. Only horsepower matters.
Why do eighteen wheelers with 350 horsepower engines have enough torque for 60,000 pounds? Many gears. Which eighteen wheelers get up to speed faster? Those with 500 horsepower engines. Both have same torque. More horsepower means better speed (and acceleration).
Horsepower is the relevant number.
How did Shell create a 100 MPG car in the 1950s? A two horsepower engine had plenty of torque - and not much speed. Simple multiplication.
Yes, I assumed conventional gears, my bad for not considering your magical frictionless fairy gears. My only excuse is I'm stuck in the real world.
You have it backwards as usual, horsepower is the product of torque times speed over constant. The 30 cylinder engine was designed to produce the torque they needed at the speed they wanted. Yes the hp rating could be increased by increasing the RPMs, but that would be stupid. All that would be accomplished is more wear on the engine and the need to gear it back down to a usable speed. They already had the torque they needed and Torque Does the Work.
Your 2 liter 4 won't get far in a tank or a semi.
The basic bicycle is a pretty simple design, but it took a long time and lots of dead ends to get there. I have a feeling clothing had a lot to do with it.
The 30 cylinder engine was designed to produce the torque they needed at the speed they wanted.
It was designed with sufficient horsepower so that gears could select a torque necessary to maintain a speed. Horsepower (not torque) is always the relevant parameter.
As usual, due to too much emotion and insufficient knowledge, you again got it wrong.
4 cylinder engine can produce that same torque. But insufficient speed - due to insufficient horsepower. You also got that wrong.
Anyone not educated by hearsay (who can do simple multiplication) would know that. Only motors with sufficient horsepower can produce a torque at required speeds. Somehow that multiplication is just too hard - the routine expression from another lesser educated man called George Jr.
Meanwhile, that engine apparently had a very short life span due to its low performance numbers.
I have a feeling clothing had a lot to do with it.
Innovations were necessary because the human output too much torque. That large front wheel converted high torque - low speed into low torque high speed. With gears and chains, then smaller wheels could accomplish the same conversion. And provide the many different torque - speed ratios that a bike needs for changing terrains.
But again, it all about that simple concept taught in school science - the product of torque and speed. So that a much less than 1 horsepower engine (the human) could adapt to changing loads.
hey tw
you're wrong about your unswerving devotion to the temple of horsepower.
Let me ask you this. When you have a nut on a bolt to remove (or tighten), do you, with your static, unchanging amount of personal horsepower, use your fingers and thumb, or do you use a wrench?
It was designed with sufficient horsepower so that gears could select a torque necessary to maintain a speed. Horsepower (not torque) is always the relevant parameter.
Ass backward as usual, the engine is designed for torque, they sure as hell don't add a bunch of extra pistons to make more rpm. Gear selection dictates the speed the work gets done, torque does the work.
So, I was rolling along rattlesnake trail a really sweet single track with a lot of turns climbs and descents when suddenly I see ...
Then a couple monster lathes...
I did not have a ripe banana so I've scaled with a mtn bike.
Weird. Any idea of what the history/circumstances might be?
It's the site of Redstone quarries in North Conway NH. They quarried and polished granite like the massive column in the pic. I don't think they lasted long working from the late 1800's and shutting down sometime in the 1910's.
I didn't know the site was there until I rode into it.
Granite's expensive, right? Is it not worth someone's effort to get in there and take that column? Or are there just too many trees in the way, do you think?
It's a state historic site now. I was surprised that amount of steel was still there. The column is accessible but there is a rail bed between it and the roads.
You didn't ride your bike on top along the length of the column? After a balancing act like that, it could've been called Griffhenge.
It's amazing that machinery wasn't scrapped for the war effort.
Once you steal that column what on earth would you do with it?
Carve it up into kitchen countertops?
It would have to be sliced and each slice polished, I doubt it would be cheaper that using slabs from the quarry in the end. But it seems a shame to cut up a polished cylinder like that, maybe erect it and put a statue of UT on top.
They dropped a CAT through the ice in the Arctic and had to retrieve it. I traced this picture back as far as Reddit but can't find any details.
Seems to me if the ice wouldn't hold the CAT, it wouldn't hold anything lifting it out of the water.
I thought maybe a barge mounted crane but the oil slick seems to be under ice. Damifino.
Griff, your short story was very exciting! When I saw the drive face of the lathe I gasped. I was thinking about turning (already cylindrical) trees (wtf??). But no. Great surprise ending!
Banana, lol.
I also looked for that underwater track-layer photo in vain.
Why did it stop there and not the bottom?
More curious is that I can't find that track pattern anywhere either.
Good find.
Guess I have never seen a 65C.
They small as Cats go and seem to have different configurations.
A year on the bottom.
Who say cheaters never win, both NHRA and NASCAR checked the Carb, Intake, Bore, Stroke and Heads,
but not the bottom end. Taking off the Intake they should have spotted the cam bearings though.
They even took it a step further...
Is this a test?
http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=1035790&postcount=682
Find the difference: one vs. two-piece crank.
This was the next step. A lot of work, a lot of money, they only built one. Crazy difficult to end up with a unit stiff enough to not flex or vibrate, hard enough to stand up to the roller bearings but soft enough to not crack, and perfectly balanced for high RPM.
I laugh every time I see those rollers looking like the old mechanical chattering false teeth.
Check out this baby, never forget something at home again...
Check out this baby, never forget something at home again...
Now that's the very first motorhome and brilliant concept back in that day.
How do you see to drive that thing?
Welcome back robsterman1.
Ya don't, ya just drag it around like any other pull toy.
But there is a radiator, and starter crank on the front , and a differential underneath in the back.
Nope, not the first, robsterman, neither was
this one.I wonder what this crane was trying to lift?
I guess that Scholpp just rents those, not make 'em.
The ladder at the front may mean that the configuration is part of the set-up and lets the driver go work the crane.
Or he messed up and had to be rescued.
The crane is in proper working position.
The outriggers are both on stacks of cribbing, and it's merely cosmetically unusual for the cab to the elevated this way.
I think the place the crane had to be to lift the load defined the parking spot. Turns out it wasn't flat or level, so they leveled the crane so it could do its job.
So you're saying the crane is balancing on 2 & 2 with nothing to stabilize the front end up in the air? There must be outriggers at the back end also.
Sure there are, I wasn't very clear in my post on that point, sorry.
You can see the red and white diagonal striped arm of the right rear outrigger just to the left of the cribbing under the right front outrigger.
Yes, definitely four outriggers
Oh for Christ sake, I was looking right at the red and white stripe outrigger sticking out of the rear to our left and it didn't register... duh.:o
The idea seems to be to put the load directly under the end of the hoist so that that huge hydraulic lift can do its best.
Those outriggers still make a tiny footprint around the Vespa.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that, outriggers or no, that is going to be less than steady in the best of conditions.
The Ford may sway but less likely to actually tip over.
Those outriggers still make a tiny footprint around the Vespa.
small,
non-compressible footprint. in contrast to the rubber tires on shock mounted springy connections.
Even my ladder leaning up against the tree or the house has an even tinier footprint, but as long as one foot isn't in soft dirt, up and down the ladder, in the footprint of the ladder (no leaning!), you're probably good to go.
Your ladder against a tree has a three point stance.
The only word that comes to mind is brawn...
That's a good word for it.
Would make a great toy hauler w/rollback bed...
Not really a plane anymore, just plain fun.
Seems for every tractor coming on the market there's a half dozen companies making parts and accessories for it.
It's easier to sell an owner pieces to make his machine work better, or even do things it couldn't before, than sell him a whole new machine.
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That would be an interesting tool to have as an option.
Sometimes a car/truck deteriorate to the point where they become just a machine.
It was half the power and less refined than the American light weights, but it preceded them by 20 years.
One of these just sold for like a zillion dollars...
They spelled 'evil' wrong.
And 'live'.
And 'Evel'.
:p:
I like the chassis on the re... [SIZE="1"]nevermind[/SIZE]
Mechanical internals provided by LEGO.
Granberg + Stihl = good fun
https://youtu.be/9lmigX7qKAQWow, never seen one without a carriage, does it ride on the bark for the first cut?
On AmazonI put a ladder on top of the log, leveled and screwed to get a nice first cut. The first cut being smooth gives you a surface for the rest. I'm pretty chuffed actually. This is the smallest log of the dozen or so that I have. It's all ash so I may drop a maple and a cherry.
I knew you weren't just another pretty face. :thumb:
That rig is noisier, and wastes a little more wood, but a hell of a lot cheaper and more portable than the bandsaw type. Easier to move it to the trees than all the trees to the mill.
I wonder how often the chain will have to be sharpened?
When I was using it all day every day, I sharpened mine once a month. Sometimes twice.
Stihl might just be the best saws.
Used my 25 year old quite a bit yesterday clearing some windfalls. Pleased with it as usual.
Gravdigr must use some super chains.
Stihl chains.
And a pro sharpener.
I wasn't bad with a file either.
Were you using ripper chains, I wondered how they held up compared to normal chains?
This was day one with the mill and day one with the ripper chain. I didn't notice any change in the way it cut between first and last cut. I noticed the Stihl chain I was using previously really stayed sharp a long time.
This guy is a little preachy but the wood is gorgeous...
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♪ ♫Do thangs, do thangs♪ ♫
♪ ♫Do thangs, bad thangs♪ ♫
♪ ♫Widdit♪ ♫
Money money money? Ha, that's rich.(Try the veal)
You'll think of something you want to build, or donate them to a needy relative or friend's project, and get sucked into helping too. :haha:
He's probably going to want help from a detailer...
I put a ladder on top of the log, leveled and screwed to get a nice first cut. The first cut being smooth gives you a surface for the rest. I'm pretty chuffed actually. This is the smallest log of the dozen or so that I have. It's all ash so I may drop a maple and a cherry.
Ash makes great guitar bodies. Let me know if you want to sell any of it. I know a wood dealer.
Mecum farm equipment auction in Iowa...
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Seems some farmers have a few bucks extra.
And it worked...
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It resides in the Wolseley Museum.
...and when the GyroCar was over
and it's time had come to pass
Wolseley buried it upside down
so the world could kiss its ass
I like your ending better.
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/01/25/that-time-wolseley-buried-a-russian-counts-two-wheeled-gyro-car-because-it-ran-out-of-storage-space/
And the digging crew wore neckties!
Well that sucks.
They wore ties because they were getting there picture taken.
Adventure, excitement, adrenaline pumping... nah, crazy bordering on stupid.
Interview with Simon Davidson :: Photographer that took the picture of the murdercikle.
http://megadeluxe.com/photography/interview-with-photographer-simon-davidsonHe doesn't say anything about the picture.
I tried going to the photographer first and tried to find some reference to the name of the picture which is Reyer.
Can't read the names painted on the thing either. I wondered if he was working the bugs out before they put some
kind of streamliner body on it but got nowhere with that either.
I just can't see that one wheel getting enough traction to handle the engine, and you don't want to start that wheel spinning.
I know it's not an acceleration test but it would take 10 miles to open the throttle all the way without breaking traction.
And if you're not going to full throttle what the hell are you doing there?
The good old boys on their tractors, working hard sunup to sundown, so on Sunday after meetin' they sometimes ride their tractor over to Zeb's to play.
My 8N could take any of 'em.
The Green Monster comes in many forms, most with amazing Allison power.
Two short vids out of many, many:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjIJd8lug2c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRz20Ylv8AMThat must be one bodacious 8-N. :eyebrow: :haha:
At first I counted the headers on the Green Monster --48!!-- but I guess it's "just" 24 cylinders.
Yes, four engines.
I read long long ago those zoomie headers pointing up produce a downforce of a couple hundred pounds for just one engine.
My 8N could take any of 'em.
To the concession stand,
maybe.
Yes, four engines.
I read long long ago those zoomie headers pointing up produce a downforce of a couple hundred pounds for just one engine.
Thought the Allisons were V-12.
I did not know that about the upward-facing headers.
Cool engineering trick to keep your wheels stuck to the ground.
They are 12's, hence 48 pipes.
The front ends just sort of wander around.
Do US pulls use a sled with a driver?
Do US pulls use a sled with a driver?
Yesirree.
Thought the Allisons were V-12.
You're right, I was looking at the wrong one. :o
Thought the Allisons were V-12.
You're right, I was looking at the wrong one. :o
Thought I remembered seeing this at the Don Garlits Museum in Florida...
In 1959-60, the Chet Herbert sponsored twin SBC motor FED of Lefty Mudersbach had Herbert's version of those upswept pipes, similar to the so called "zoomies" on the later model Hemi powered FEDs.
In the early days before slipper clutches and wrinkle wall slicks the tire would produce so much smoke you often couldn't see the driver, and he couldn't see the track. The initial purpose was to blow smoke away from the driver and as a bonus if any fluid came out of the header(a bad thing) it wouldn't go down on the track in front of the tire like the weed burners.
For some reason I think it was Garlits who discovered the downforce effect but not sure.
The Hell Cub is owned by Diversatech Incorporated - American Manufacturing in
Pennington, NJ, just above Trenton. I want to get hold of them after the holidays to see if they can do some lazer engraving for me, so Maybe I can see this beast. I'd like to see the driveline.
My grandfather had one of those, and I drove it a lot one summer 30 years ago. His only modification was to have a hose in the radiator cap leading to a plastic jug so he could catch the water that boiled out of the radiator and pour it back in while out in the field.
In hindsight, I wonder why he didn't just use some compressed air to blow the fins of the radiator clean of all the dried grass clippings packed in there.
I learned how to use a grease gun to grease the sickle mower attachment before each use. That was the only maintenance.
It was sold a couple years later for $800, which seemed a little low to me for a tractor that worked.
Bulletin: It's winter, DUH :facepalm:
This is Oregon but ice happens way down in Texas too.
That looks like hell, but I wonder how many of the carried vehicles are actually completely undamaged?
Undamaged until the whole rig drops off the cliff. :eek:
One of the first Gradalls, unique idea and all hydraulic.
Looking at that, I'm suddenly pro-AI.
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Throw it where? I'll hit another switch!!
He wears a helmet to protect his brain but I suspect that's a lost cause. :lol:
So far his best speed is 45.55 mph but he wants 60 mph.
Give her a tune up and there's a little vibration in the driveline so you can adjust that too.
Wright Brothers need an engine. Nobody made one suitable so they built one...
Snow and Ice are not good for motorcycles so a snow machine to fill the gap.
The way the axles/wheels are positioned it looks like the heavy center section swings out. So why doesn't it tip over?
The legs on the end of the center section have no wheels and would have to fold up out of the way to swing it.
Color me sceptical.
I have a USB thumb drive that looks a lot like that
https://romotow.com/
Seems like it’s just a fantasy at this point
We've done a couple RV road trips, many RV parks are just glorified parking lots and wouldn't have enough space between vehicles to swing out like that.
Hudson takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'.
...and sometimes Monday eats you.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.
We're gonna need a bigger shovel.
Just gotta get to the cab, 50mph ought to do it.;)
I guess he had the motor locked when he hit the shallows...
Ridiculous or sublime is a tossup...
There are several videos of this guy's amazing work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZtTupRKSKYThey look like renderings.
Still kinda cool, though.
CGI for sure but clever design.
I see Big Bertha is chained up. Because, Rochester, of course.
The Locomobile towing rig has chains on all 4 corners.
Scissors are a machine and these cost more than some cars I've owned...
Cleaning out my Uncles garage...
That has seen some serious use in its day.
Definitely. The chain has mud on it.
It does pull freely, but may just be a decoration when cleaned up.
I've seen ppl use a half log stood against the wall of their shop to hold their saws.
Stab the running saw diagonally into the log, and park it there.
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So I made one. I used a really old camera, so, apologies for quality:
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The last house I lived in my housemate had an old 28" pioneer. Heavy as a bitch but rarely kicked. Then he loaned it to his brother for a weekend.
"whatta ya mean I was sposta put oil in the gas?" :(
Not your make or model, but similar vintage and condition.
Amazing work.
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The two thumbs up at 8:30 made me smile in relief.
I've seen ppl use a half log stood against the wall of their shop to hold their saws.
Stab the running saw diagonally into the log, and park it there.
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So I made one. I used a really old camera, so, apologies for quality:
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Quality camera work!
Currently organizing sockets etc... Rock Island Vise in the mix, I was gonna buy one, nice.
The last house I lived in my housemate had an old 28" pioneer. Heavy as a bitch but rarely kicked. Then he loaned it to his brother for a weekend.
"whatta ya mean I was sposta put oil in the gas?" :(
Damnit. Yeah this thing weighs a ton.
Ha, ve laf at your girly Amerikan Jeeps...
Pushing the envelope back then...
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And doing it without computers.
Next year NASCAR will mandate switching from 5 lug to one lug wheels...
Next thing you know they'll take an interesting turn...
NASCAR, not regular cars.
Interesting turn, lol
Come full circle, so to speak.
Left and right threads?
Here is an easy to read piece:
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a28133/lost-art-the-smiting-of-the-knockoffs/Come full circle, so to speak.
Left and right threads?
Here is an easy to read piece:
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a28133/lost-art-the-smiting-of-the-knockoffs/
That was
delicious!
Thank you!
I found this trying to find out if those are square barrels. I loved their look on Gold Stars, e.g.
Indeed a beauty.
"The engine was built in the late 40's by Australian Jim McMahan. It uses a Ford V8 (60) crankshaft and rods held in a sheet steel block that supports four Triumph/BSA cylinders and heads with two pistons each. Because the heads are of the hemi-combustion chamber design with valves on each side, there are three camshafts. One is located as a conventional Ford V8 operating the intake valves. The other two cams are on the outer sides and operate the exhaust valves. All of the cams are chain operated inside front mounted large case. Mounted to the front of the chain case in an oil pump and magneto drive. Intake manifolds are hand fabricated and mount two Stromberg Model 97 carbs.
Jim raced his hand built midget engine at Southern California and San Joaqin Valley race tracks and experienced some good success for a few races. However, an accident claimed his life the wonderful engine was forgotten about for a long time. The remnats resided in LA junk yard until it was discovered by a friend of Bill Smith, founder of Speedway Motors and The Smith Collection Museum of American Speed. After many man hours of pains taking labor it has been restored to its former wonderful example of hand made engineering and is now housed in the midget race car display area of the Smith Collection. It is another illustration of how this great facility is preserving the racing heritage of years gone by."
Yeah, but how did he handle the .625" difference in stroke?
Zoomed in, you can see that all the background is already plowed.
What an evocative photo.
Considering the Dust Bowl ran 1930-35 this is deeper.
Now that's an iron horse...
That's pretty sweet. I guess Wheel Horse was natural progression.
It appears to be a WWI-era recruiting wagon.
What does the hand-held sign say?
All I can make out on the tennis racket is Are You On The...
Renault big-foot...
Assuming it actually works towards its purpose, that's an ingenious mechanism.
It probably did as it had been used on early armored and artillery pieces in WW I.
Did you hear the one about the fast doozy and the French hooker?
Wouldn't that involve 99 different driveshafts? Or at least a bunch?
I should think so unless they're moving the front wheels, although they were likely multi piece driveshafts so maybe one section. Small differences could be handled by a sliding spline at one of the pillow blocks.
Drive shafts are ridiculously easy to make.
Question did International use Torque Tubes on the smaller trucks like GMC?
Don't know if they used torque tubes or not.
How about a Lambo...
Tractors were his business until he bought a Ferrari and had a lot of trouble with it so he started his own company with the Miura.
Damn, but this is one beautiful truck. The dash brings to mind classic wristwatches.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1948-international-harvester-kb-6/
It is from a neat website, too.
Back in the day most instrument panels were similar in they the used fine needles and finer lettering. Classy yet harder to read in low light but slower speeds gave more time to figure it out. Then they graduated to fat needles too wide to tell which graduation they were pointing at so minimum graduations like H & C instead of temperature and H&L instead of pressure. Next came idiot lights but they seem to be getting away from that.
Heavy equipment...
Some people are a little more uh... deranged than most...
apparently, making solid rocket fuel isn't rocket science. more like... kitchen science. as I remember, granulated sugar is one of the primary ingredients. now, strapping myself to one and having it lit... that seems a lot more religious.
Unique tow truck in the 1940s...
Do you remember this guy?
From
https://ask.metafilter.com/146662/Typo-or-Scam-23-Hour-Service
"I used to live upstairs from Bruce. Bruce drove a tow truck: a sweet black flatbed with recessed flashers and a massive winch on the front. On the doors was written "Bruce's Wrecker Service: Out To Get You 23 1/2 Hours A Day"."
When I asked about that, Bruce said, "Well, I gotta stop and take a shit sometime."
Agriculture when men were men and so were women...
Unintended, but inarguable:
Top right illustration is Bruce's girl in the barrel race.
Second down on left is "WHOA!"
I'm lost, too.
Thought it was just me...
Unintended, but inarguable:
Top right illustration is Bruce's girl in the barrel race.
Second down on left is "WHOA!"
I think that he wanted to put this in the Horse thread.
It's likely he's drawing an analogy between the way the machines look in this thread and the body positions of horses in the horse thread, especially the barrel racing pic. It's like a
pic association (thread) thing. It requires a little abstract reasoning:
Abstract reasoning refers to the ability to analyze information, detect patterns and relationships, and solve problems on a complex, intangible level.
Two Un's back from the dead on the same day and look what happens.
The twin-bottom plow at top right simply appears to be in rapid motion, a function, I think, of its forward leaning and oval wheel. These are both common ways to impart movement in drawing.
The drawing of the harrow (second pic on left) shows a backwards leaning tines forward look, indicative to me of a quick halt.
These impressions were instantaneous to my eye and, of course, lose a little something in explanation.
The top right - two wheels appear oval because they lean to the side in order to follow the previous furrow. The third wheel looks round because it's upright for support.
I know I stepped on Bruce's toes with my reference to the race photo, but my observation remains unchanged, stronger with each view.
I wish I knew what you're babbling about, I haven't a clue.
Sounds like he's sayin' that if you didn't dance so close together, he wouldn't step on your toes.
(I think he wants to lead.)
I think Jim is saying that this photo
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I see the lead wheel is mounted at an angle so it gives the illusion of motion.
It may well give the illusion of motion in that illustration, but it is actually tilted on the actual machine for other purposes, like the wheels on a motor road grader.
I don't want to follow one...
I don't want to follow one...
Or rear-end one.
How did it back up?
You can go anywhere why back up? :lol:
Before TV the Movietone news and Industry on Parade, were a big deal.
World's Most Comfortable Tractor Seat.
Hard to believe 9 Cats working together, it's hard enough just to herd them...
Make me wonder how bad that trucks brakes are.
The discussion at The Old Motor on that pic only begins to answer all the questions it raises.
Home built hedge trimmer...
With the slicer on the driver's side.
Found a couple more pictures of that iron horse artillery dragger thingy.
WW I, promoting war bonds and enlistment, a soldier and either a marine or sailor on board, but a civilian driving.
I wonder if he's the manufacturer of that beast?
Looking for oil in the salt water marshes of LA and TX.
Set off dynamite and record the echoes.
I would guess that the road surface in the second iron horse pic is made of individual bricks or some other kind of pavers.
I have never seen one. Where was that? Does it still exist?
I would love to see photos of its construction.
Look up "cobblestone road construction".
I'm a little wary of this rig. Maybe on level ground but I think I'd put outriggers on it anyway.
I saw one like it recently and liked it.
Gotta watch the center of gravity to avoid the Porsche prob of a week or so ago.
This shit is bananas:
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Looks like it cuts it off at the end too. The pieces of tubing are part of the design of something so the know all the lengths, radius of the bends and the angles, and probably on a drawing somewhere. So all they had to do is build this two stage machine. Stage one to read the drawing and stage two bend the tubing. Still has to have a human there with rag in hand to grab the piece when the machine cuts it off to precisely the right length.
Check this out the video of this guy working on an old car. The video is basically boring but he runs into a clearance problem with a spark plug socket. At about 14:00 he solves the problem in the most dangerous way I can think of. :facepalm:
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Grav: No crimps!
Bruce: "Boring" is generous. I don't have a power wrench, but if I did, I would not use it on plugs.
JFC, dude! Just remove the head bolt.
Geez, how hard can ya make something?!
Taking out a head bolt can be tricky. One, the spark plug might be in the way. ;)
Also head bolts usually have a torquing order and may be torque to yield bolts that can't be reused.
I'd have chucked it up like he did but taken it down with a portable grinder.
Even a file or coarse sandpaper would have been safer.
Taking out a head bolt can be tricky. One, the spark plug might be in the way. ;)
What you did there, I see it.
These have been around for more than twenty years and nobody I know ever heard of them.
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Cool idea! Bikes are getting torque crazy maybe there’s a market.
Cool idea! Bikes are getting torque crazy maybe there’s a market.
yeah but....
Where do you put the dot once you've adapted it for bikeland by making it an allen head?
There are so many things wrong with the concept, the ad and the video, it makes my head spin.
They need to disappear for another 20 years.
What's wrong with the concept, I think it's a great idea. My concern is if it works reliably enough to be trusted.
There is no ad, and the guy who made the video has no connection with the company, just one of those hundreds of Utubers making entertainment.
They do a cost analysis showing the savings on selected applications.
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http://www.smartbolts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SII_MayJune2011.pdfThe top part of your post is indeed an ad.
The video has some strange ways of testing and, even if the bolt has been sacrificed for the explanation, it hurts me to see it clamped by its threads in a vice.
I do not use either the break off at torque or the machining routine.
I don't see the strength spec of the colored bolts, but they are 12 times the cost of regular Grade 8's.
I really don't want the grade 8's holding my wheels on, my third member secure or my cylinder head tight with whatever those are with a hole drilled down the middle to install the stretchy part.
The cost of my torque wrenches are probably currently in the ranges of less than a penny per use.
I can't say there might not be a good place for them, but I don't have one.
So there, now we are equally grouchy.
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So there, now we are equally grouchy.
Bold words my friend, bold words.
The top part of your post is indeed an ad.
No it is not. I'm quite sure be cause I made that from information I gathered and put together to email to some people who would be interested and I kiddingly accused of holding out on me.
The video has some strange ways of testing and, even if the bolt has been sacrificed for the explanation, it hurts me to see it clamped by its threads in a vice.
How else would you find out how it works besides cutting it open? Worrying about the threads is like worrying the medical examiner doing the autopsy will pull the stiffs hair.
I can't say there might not be a good place for them, but I don't have one.
The cost analysis shows not all applications warrant the high cost. Also different applications of the same size bolt often call out different torques so I doubt you'll find these in a hardware store.
Fords make nice waterfalls..
I like how it's pouring out of the radiator...
A spiffy Maris Transport truck taken at South Bend Indiana in the late 30's...
When one has the responsibility of maintaining the lawn it wouldn't do to shirk that responsibility.
However we can comport ourselves in a civilized manor rather than suffer the slings and arrows of perspiration and ring around the collar.
With two sources of CO to pump in, it could be a dream job.
lol Worse ways to go I guess.
A spiffy Maris Transport truck taken at South Bend Indiana in the late 30's...
That hauler is so damn cool...
...and the black piece of sexiness on top is mine, so keep ya crummy dick-beaters off it!:mad:
That car has moonshiner written all over it. nice
That would make a tanker. Take out the interior and build a giant tank for the white gold.
I miss me some corn-in-a-jar. Gonna be a while yet...Gotta get rid o'some o'these pills.
Be safe, tie on your hard hat...
The only civilized way to gawk at Mowgli and his pets.
Serious machines.
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I've been changing oil for about 65 years for myself, GF's, parents, kids, grandkids and friends.
I pour the drained oil into old milk or water jugs for recycling. (It is amazing how long oil recycling has been available).
I can't remember the first time I looked at what I had drained and wondered how it always happened that I had replaced it with substantially more.
Yesterday it was 3 5/8 quarts into my Pathfinder, as called for and perfect on the dipstick before and after.
Today I measured the oil I drained at 3 quarts.
This difference may be a less than I've noted 10+ times with 5+ vehicles.
Anybody noticed this phenomenon?
Anybody know why?
I have some ideas, but none I like.
I have some ideas, also.
You won't like them either, too.
If you're not seeing something super obvious like drips or wet with oil or a puddle, consider this. You're not emptying the crankcase. There's oil in there even if you let it drain a long time. Also, you're probably changing the filter too, how much oil is in the dirty filter? And a certain amount of oil is going out the tailpipe. If your rings are bad then more is getting into the cylinder, but even a brand new engine has a positive crankcase ventilation system and some of that atomized oil is plumbed into the intake, and burned.
Some thoughts....
Always change filter with contents joining drained oil in pan. (Except the 1/2 ounce or so that Nissan designed to get away to drip on floor. Always parked inside on same place on concrete.)
100,000 miles on engine, always full on dipstick, no add necessary between changes.
Baseline is the same: drain 'til no drip, start with 3 5/8 qts.
3000 to 4000 miles later the 1/2 quart or more is gone.
But keep in mind, I get the same mystery with other vehicles.
Grav: Try me with the bad possibilities.
I too have always done my own oil changes. From twice a year, using regular oil, in my Datsun B210 V4 ... to now annually, using full synthetic (with Z-Max additive during wintertime) in my Hyundai Sonata V6.
As BigV said, all vehicles burn some oil. The more mileage there is on the vehicle, the more wear there is on the parts. As the parts wear down, the spaces between them become larger. More oil goes into those spaces; so, more oil is burned off. A half quart or so, over 3,000-4,000 miles, on a vehicle with 100,000 miles on it is not unheard of.
Your oil change interval suggests you're using regular oil rather than synthetic. Synthetics are expensive; but, more heat stable and you may see less burn-off. Synthetics can go for longer intervals between changes too, The engine could even last longer; however, it can't be a very old model with seals that aren't compatible with synthetics and the vehicle has to have been well maintained so there isn't already a potential leak. Synthetics will clean out sludge that may be plugging an existing leak.
A compromise may be to run a High Mileage Synthetic Blend in the engine at the next oil change. Those have additives to help plump up seals like when they were newer so they won't leak. It might cut down on the burn-off loss, do just a little cleaning, and slow down further engine wear. That' s what I would do in this situation. If there's no appreciable difference, you can always go back to just regular oil.
No doubt there are things I still need to learn after 60+ years of wrenching, but nothing mentioned here so far is one of them.
Moving many...
Seems likely that is Australia.
No doubt there are things I still need to learn after 60+ years of wrenching, but nothing mentioned here so far is one of them.
This isn't an automotive website. Use the right tool for the job.
Chinese double-parked hauler. Might be 21 or?:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_car_transporter.jpg
Looks like 21 to me, four door sedans too. Must be robust tires on that rig. :eek:
This isn't an automotive website.
Sure it is, we do it all. :haha:
... Sure it is, we do it all. :haha:
Jack of all trades... etc.
Absolutely, amateurs, anecdotal experiences, no expert instruction on any subject, no liability, no legal grounds to sue.
This isn't an automotive website. Use the right tool for the job.
I reached for it but got you.
Absolutely, amateurs, anecdotal experiences, no expert instruction on any subject, no liability, no legal grounds to sue.
And no help either to hear DJ tell it...
No doubt there are things I still need to learn after 60+ years of wrenching, but nothing mentioned here so far is one of them.
OTOH, the grumpy old men are hanging together instead of bickering with each other. That's nice. ;)
Use the right tool for the job.
I reached for it but got you.
Well, ya still got hold of a tool.:jig:
Sorry, Sexo.:stickpoke
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He can keep the job, I don't swing that way.
Gotta take the dogs along...
Probably OK, but it doesn't seem like a good place.
Better than in the trailer and the exhaust stream is up high.
The only downside I see is that if I were in one of those pods, I would get dizzy trying to look at individual objects on the side of the road as we speed by. Too much eye motion. Otherwise, it looks kind of fun, assuming it's big enough to lie down.
Kind of brings ol' Mitt Romney to mind.
The new one ain't much better.
Kind of brings ol' Mitt Romney to mind.
Yep.:lol2:
In the outback there's nothing on the side of the road to see. Everything worth looking at is up in the sky or a quarter mile from the road. :haha:
Never saw a Desoto truck, I wonder if the were made in Canada or elsewhere?
Maybe just for sales to the government?
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DeSoto trucks
The DeSoto brand was badge-engineered sporadically on Dodge trucks made in Argentina (for the D-100 and the D-400 since 1960 to 1965), Australia, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Chrysler ended its truck operations in international markets in 1970.
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