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Ughhhh....
Maybe I can pull 5 shanks instead of 7...
Maybe this is all just a huge mistake and waste of time..
Yay farming!!🥴
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One of the most important steps before starting a new engine is to prime the oil system before installing the distributor. Remove the valve covers first so you can see oil reach the rocker arms once the lifters are fully bled. Start with the engine at top dead center on cylinder #1. Drive the oil pump until oil appears at both the intake and exhaust rockers, then turn the engine 90° and follow the firing order for each set of rockers until oil is seen. Complete two full crank rotations in 90° increments, pumping until oil appears at each step. This prevents valve chatter and excess bearing wear on a fresh engine at startup.
Just frikn murdering swamp onions in the hopes we get a drought next year and actually get something out of this land....
When its starting to freeze, you dont get stuck!! 🥴
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Yall retarded. Let’s vandalize personal property because we don’t like it. Fucking liberals
The first diesel in America was used to make beer!? 🤯
Fantastic 🤌
Ever wonder who brought the diesel engine to America? It was a beer man.
In 1897, Adolphus Busch of Anheuser-Busch heard about a German engineer named Rudolf Diesel and his new engine. Busch didn’t wait around. He bought the American rights to build it and brought Diesel himself on as a consultant.
The first diesel engine ever built in America was finished in St. Louis on September 19, 1898. It had two cylinders making 60 horse, and it went to work in the brewery’s power plant.
So the first American diesel didn’t haul freight or pull a plow. It helped make Budweiser.
Then in 1913, Alexander Winton (from my previous post yesterday), the same Cleveland car man who built the first car hauler, came out with a diesel of his own design. Not a copy of Rudolf Diesel’s, but his own. GM bought his diesel business in 1930, and it went on to power railroad locomotives for decades.
Busch’s company went on to build diesels for ships, power plants, and Navy submarines in World War I, and kept at it until 1946.
Every one of us who’s ever spent a night listening to a diesel idle owes a little thanks to a brewery. Seems fitting. Most truckers I know already appreciate their work. 🍺🚛
Would you farm with this exact tractor, new today, if it was a 4 track set up?🤔
What do you think you'd have to pay, in today's dollars?
Since I did Big Bud, The Earthquake, and the big Steiger I would be remiss if I didnt do the Versatile 1080 “Big Roy.” The craziest tractor nobody’s ever heard of.
1977 was a horsepower war. Steiger was testing a 650 horse twin. Big Bud was building the 747. Up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Versatile’s boss Roy Robinson told his engineers to build him a 600 horsepower monster when most tractors topped out around 350.
So they did. And then they flipped the whole thing backwards.
Engine in the back. Cab in the middle. Fuel tank out front. A Cummins KTA 1150 cubic inch making 600 horsepower, and eight-wheel drive on four axles.
With the engine behind you, you couldn’t see a thing back there. So in 1977, Versatile put a TV camera on the back and a screen in the cab. A backup camera, almost 50 years ago.
Field testing showed it packed the ground too hard, and Versatile only built one.
Today Big Roy sits restored in a museum in Manitoba, named after the man who said build it anyway. 🚜
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The Cats nobody talks about. Everybody knows the 3406 and the C15. Here are the other three.
The C-16. Basically the big 15.8 liter version of the 3406E, rated up to about 600 horsepower. The biggest C-series engine Cat ever put in a highway truck, and they only built it a couple of years. When the 2004 emissions rules hit, Cat dropped it rather than try to make it legal.
The C-12. The C15’s little brother. A 12 liter that topped out around 430 horsepower from the factory. You found them in lighter trucks and fleet tractors where the owner wanted a Cat without the weight or the price tag of the big bore.
The C13. It replaced the C-12 in 2004 with ACERT twin turbos, and it ran until Cat left trucks in 2010. The later ones got hit with the same class action lawsuits as the 2007 to 2010 C15s.
Three engines that lived in the C15’s shadow the whole time.
Anybody ever run a C-16? I’ve talked to guys who swear it was the best Cat ever built, and I’ve never seen one in person. 🚛
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I'm from the 1900s. We had to wait for our pictures to develop before finding out we looked stupid.
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Thermohashostat is live. Feel free to download it n use it to stay warm. Dynamically scales units.
Water heater software is included. DIY guide will come soon.
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They'd tell me to just grow radishes....🙄
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