A little chunk of change.
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Pistolero
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9 liters. Those are some big ones. Hard to see much, but I am guessing a straight six and 9 liters is about 550 cu inchs, so
maybe 250 hp rated for an industrial diesel. Clearly JD engines, will they be in JD machines like a combine or tractor or
some other brand.
What will these power, if that isn't out of line.
Bill
maybe 250 hp rated for an industrial diesel. Clearly JD engines, will they be in JD machines like a combine or tractor or
some other brand.
What will these power, if that isn't out of line.
Bill
Ian
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Probably 6090HFC95 engines, you can see the turbos with the yellow dust caps on the turbine side in the photo.
Ian
Notorious member
Right? I was thinking a berm sifter for Brad.
Pistolero
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Impressive results. 
Prune, pile and then this monster turns it into a very fine mulch.
OK, looking at the far right engine, you can see the natural color turbo housing just
barely visible with the yellow cap on the outlet.. The only yellow caps I was seeing appear to be the oil fillers.
We had two row corn cutters for making silage, and a 100 hp Continental flathead 4 cyl, normally
aspirated motor running it. THAT was scary enough. Quadruple the horsepower.....I want to be
well away.
Prune, pile and then this monster turns it into a very fine mulch.OK, looking at the far right engine, you can see the natural color turbo housing just
barely visible with the yellow cap on the outlet.. The only yellow caps I was seeing appear to be the oil fillers.
We had two row corn cutters for making silage, and a 100 hp Continental flathead 4 cyl, normally
aspirated motor running it. THAT was scary enough. Quadruple the horsepower.....I want to be
well away.
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Ian
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Rebuilding the berms would of course be part of the deal, they need to be "loosened up" and built back up to full height again. Throw some grass seed on top when done and hope it doesn't rain HARD for a while
Pistolero
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Yikes, Ian, will look it up later. Sounds like another machine to stay well clear of.
The scary part of the old two row corn chipper was sharpening the damned blades. They ran on the circumference
of a pair of parallel disks, about 18" long flat steel blades. To sharpen, climb up on the slick steel sides, one foot on
a tire, no foodholds, of course, undo a couple of wing nuts and open the door to whirling hell. Then flip over a two track
wire guide spanning the opening with a round axe sharpening stone bonded to a guide that runs on the two wires, about
1/4" diam rods, really.
Fingers CAREFULLY back on the handle, push the stone across the opening, as the blades blur by, throwing sparks.
Repeat a few times, then swing the stone and guide back to the side, and carefully close the Door to Hell, and tighten
up the wing nuts. Count your fingers and congratulate yourself on surviving another blade sharpening.
Kjnda like this one, but this is PTO driven, and we had no tractors nearly powerful enough to drive them with the
PTO, so they had their own 100hp motor on board. That raised up the chipper higher and meant you had to climb
up to get to it. Towed like an offset trailer, and the other tractor "flew formation" picking up the silage from your
chute. Long, long ago. Tiny and wimpy compared to that machine that waco makes, or the cedar eater. It'd still
take off a hand in a heartbeat.
The scary part of the old two row corn chipper was sharpening the damned blades. They ran on the circumference
of a pair of parallel disks, about 18" long flat steel blades. To sharpen, climb up on the slick steel sides, one foot on
a tire, no foodholds, of course, undo a couple of wing nuts and open the door to whirling hell. Then flip over a two track
wire guide spanning the opening with a round axe sharpening stone bonded to a guide that runs on the two wires, about
1/4" diam rods, really.
Fingers CAREFULLY back on the handle, push the stone across the opening, as the blades blur by, throwing sparks.
Repeat a few times, then swing the stone and guide back to the side, and carefully close the Door to Hell, and tighten
up the wing nuts. Count your fingers and congratulate yourself on surviving another blade sharpening.
Kjnda like this one, but this is PTO driven, and we had no tractors nearly powerful enough to drive them with the
PTO, so they had their own 100hp motor on board. That raised up the chipper higher and meant you had to climb
up to get to it. Towed like an offset trailer, and the other tractor "flew formation" picking up the silage from your
chute. Long, long ago. Tiny and wimpy compared to that machine that waco makes, or the cedar eater. It'd still
take off a hand in a heartbeat.
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Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Flail mowers/choppers are great tools...until you hit a rock. I have an ancient (like all my other equipment) New Holland 33 chopper. I picked up a stone almost +the size of a baseball one day. I can't even begin to tell you how much fun that was. Between the flails, the knife and the fan paddles I had several days of repair work to do. All from a rock Opie coulda chucked in the pond in the opening credits of The Andy Griffith show.