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What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?
8ntruck replied to Ed Kennell's topic in Wheel Horse Tractors
I woke Morgan, the 14-8 up from his winter hibernation today. Mowed the lawn for the first time this year at our Michigan location. It was about a month overdue. Had to use 2nd gear, low range in some areas, the grass was so heavy. The blades on the deck were not cutting cleanly, making me think it is time to touch them up. Will have to take a good look at the spindles and bearings while I'm doing that as well. At one point, the deck stopped. Oh goodie, what now, I'm thinking. While I'm taking a closer look at the drive belt to make sure it had not twisted, I spotted the problem. A corn cob was wedged in the bottom of the mule drive. Easy fix. Fluids change is on the to do list for him in the not too distant future. -
The landfill at Yorkana pulled the methane off the enormous mountain of New Jersey trash and burned it in five huge leased Caterpillar generators with the power going into the grid. Those engines required a catwalk to service the valves and the oil pan was below floor level. They were finicky to operate with the quality and quantity of fuel constantly changing. My son and son-in-law operated these things. Well my son got a better offer from another company and SIL said he was taking the opportunity to go full time in his own business. That left the high priced keyboard warriors from Caterpillar to hang up their coats and get to work. In just a couple of weeks I heard the explosion at my house 6.5 air miles away. The generation plant was dismantled and never rebuilt.
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You are lucky that you didn't have a backflash when you opened the door allowing oxygen in.
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Side shot Saturday... AND SUNDAY !
lynnmor replied to Sparky-(Admin)'s topic in Wheel Horse Tractors
No wonder you have physical issues! Try to get some rest. -
I had to build a shield on top of the cabinet to protect it from the miles of pipe above. A roof drain pipe split once during a storm and we had water everywhere. And that boiler room is hot. The exhaust on that chiller runs around 1500° There was an issue once with emissions control and it got so hot it burned the insulation off of the pipe. It was glowing red!
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It's a chiller for comfort cooling. 454 Chevy marine engine on Nat. Gas. It runs when we need it. It's cooled by a cooling tower on the roof. We also take waste heat and send it to heat exchangers for domestic and reheat water. We cool the water to 45° and the AHU's in the bldg. discharge around 60°. Then the air is sent thru individual reheat coils in every room that set the room temp to the thermostat set point
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Not that flight, bur Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh were very good friends and he was a part of the engineering team that developed the Tri-Motor.
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So, it never occurred to anyone that the electronic components in that cabinet would be much more reliable in a climate controlled area away from the vibrating machinery. You are working way too cheap. When I left the greenhouse company in 1986 and went to FPL I held all of the pesticide, herbicide and fungicide licenses and any time they needed to place an order it cost them $ 100. None of the growers could pass the state exam, this went on for about three years.
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That's quite a machine. From what I gather these are chilling (cooling?) machines? What is their purpose and is that an engine running the chiller 24 hours a day? Equipment like that fascinates me even though I don't understand what's going on.
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33 hours and 30 minutes flight time. Charles certainly had a strong incentive to stay awake and alert but I don't know how.
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I have a tractor, and I borrowed my son-in-law's disk harrow, but it was unable to break it up either. These are very short runs as you can see, and each time I get to the edge I had to lift the three-point hitch and stop turning the soil over.
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At least no horses were damaged! WOW that was close. Several years ago, my folks on vacation put their momma Vietnamese sow and pigs in a temporary pen inside dad's shop while they were gone. The heat lamp knocked down into the straw on the cement floor. Someone saw smoke coming from the building and called fire department who called me. By the time the fire department got there the fire was out. The building was airtight enough the fired lacked oxygen. I was burning a brush pile a couple of years ago. Some of the hot ashes floated onto some dead trees on the neighbor's land. I ended up cutting the dead trees down in order to extinguish them. What a mess. Most plastic articles warped. The drywall on the ceilings and wall was smoke covered. But the cans of gasoline didn't ignite nor all of the shop chemicals. Looks like Ed and my folks were fortunate. Fires cause me great caution. I would rather not make the front page of the local newspaper!
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36" Rototiller installation
Moparfanforever replied to HyperPete's topic in Implements and Attachments
When you get to the really hard ground, you can push your clutch in and let the tractor/tiller set there and just dig in. Unless you think the ground is to hard and it will damage something. Not ideal i know, but I have done it before. Not sure if your walk behind will do any better, unless you start high and lower your tines a little on each pass. Do you have a friend with a compact tractor and tiller?? May have to use something like that to break your ground up for the first time. -
What have you done "WITH" your Wheel Horse
Sparky-(Admin) replied to rjg854's topic in Wheel Horse Tractors
Here’s what I did WITH my WH today. Put down some lawn stripes! “ 414-8 with a 42” RD “ -
The times are not rounded off, and although they might benefit from a little sharpening, they ought to be adequate for a tiller. The soil is in a field (front yard) that likely NEVER been aerated. (I've only lived here 3 years, and my little spike aerator just rides on the surface.) While it had rained 2 & 3 days earlier, it was still pretty dry. I just gave up on the hard sections at the edges of my garden. In the video you can see the tiller just hopping across the surface. In the middle it digs in a bit. I made 6 passes, two passes in three different directions. By next year my body ought to have healed enough to try my walk behind on the hard sections to see it does any better. If it does, I'll try sharpening the blades a bit. 45 degrees? Surely not shallower... lv_0_20260520181004.mp4 lv_0_20260520181004.mp4
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I made this video on a hot day when I was leaving in 2017
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We have a 350 ton McQuay Magnetic bearing chiller that does the main hospital. There is NO back up! It likes to go down on the 4th of July Holiday. It has a control board that is cooled by refrigerant. That board had a bad connection and it melted the main plug in for it. They stuck one of those wood clamps like Uncle Fester used to keep the plug into the board until parts arrived. board alone was 10 grand! We just de-commissioned a 350 ton steam absorption chiller in another building as parts are no longer made and it needs a ton of work. There's a 200 ton Rental unit sitting outside that struggles to keep up on the hot days.
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Side shot Saturday... AND SUNDAY !
bo dawg replied to Sparky-(Admin)'s topic in Wheel Horse Tractors
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What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?
ebinmaine replied to Ed Kennell's topic in Wheel Horse Tractors
As an overall nearly always fully capable powerplant I'd say that may be the best bang for the buck Wheelhorse ever had. Some use less fuel. Some are more powerful. But the pros and cons on that 12 HP engine are excellent. -
Not a hospital, but this 150 ton York chiller was used to keep the 150,000 gallon of water in my hydro turbine test stands at a constant 70*. It was not happy quite often.
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What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?
sqrlgtr replied to Ed Kennell's topic in Wheel Horse Tractors
Replaced muffler from parts 310-8 to 312-8 Ive been converting to Electric fuel pimp on. Got everything back together and fired right up, well after I let the epump fill lines and bowl up on carb. Works great this is one of the smoothest running 12hp kohlers Ive ever had powerfull and not a hint of smoke . Notice the tie rod in pic both look like that so thats next on list. Forgot pic of mower deck but its in great shape also. I dont belive this mochine was used alot it has a little over 500hrs showing on meter. This is the mochine I had to buy to het the 520H and really didn’t want it but glad I pulled the trigger on them . -
Just looking at that and realizing how many components are “critical to operation” and how many different skills come into play to keep it happy would give me pause and instigate a TON of questions. My great-grandfather was the head of physical plant at Coney Island Hospital in the 1920’s & 1930’s--complex and demanding in its day. I’m sure some of his genes have shaped my “jack of all trades” appetite.
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Also I plan to paint rust o leam on the bottom hopefully to protect it a little bit more
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