How'd it go today?

[FireFighterZero]

 

[davidwyby]

Any youse into Coachella?

Me neither but it's being broadcast live on YT so it's kinda interesting to see for oneself

It’s a couple hours from me

 

[davidwyby]

Today went well

 

[FireFighterZero]

Pretty country.

 

[davidwyby]

Starting to get toasty.

That’s Glamis. Winter holiday weekend population 100,000

Summer 0

 

[davidwyby]

💩 from Wild Donkeys left over from the days of the West

 

[Mick!]

Any youse into Coachella?

Me neither but it's being broadcast live on YT so it's kinda interesting to see for oneself

We have Glastonbury this year, same multi artist festival thingy.

I wouldn’t go at gunpoint, but me and the wife love watching it from the comfort of our sofas, glass of wine in hand.

 

[Dave Shepard]

The leaning pine at the sawmill finally came down with the wet heavy snow yesterday. Best case scenario, I didn't want to have to trip that mess.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Learning curve today.
5.3 with a tick
Stephen disassemble

 

[pigwot]

It’s a full time job just keeping your vehicles going!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Seemingly

 

[Kaveman]

Erebody keeps breaking stuff and Stephen has to fix it...

 

[flushcut]

Learning curve today.
5.3 with a tick
Stephen disassemble View attachment 144675

One weight heavier on oil and a higher octane, fix all kinds of ticking.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

As did a proper OEM oil filter. Got a lot quieter

 

[WoodCutr]

helped out a buddy on a job, white and red oaks in a front yard, he spent all day yesterday in the lift and got most of the brush off but wasn't having a good time setting the lift up and has zero experience with cribbing so he called me, I didn't really have enough but we made it work, planning to mill up the rest of my hemlock pile and make rough sawn 4x6's since I'm running into more and more lift work, and those dang nifty 50's won't level up on anything over about 5 degrees, we had 6 or 7 lift setups and had to throw wood for every single setup, usually 5-6 rows high, just not fun at all


I want an SD64 so bad now, but itll wait a while yet, one day, one day, an SD90 would be amazing if they ever do come out with one

 

[Cobleskill]

As did a proper OEM oil filter. Got a lot quieter

I used to have a Ford straight six. The thing would start ticking to let me know it was time to change the oil. I told my bud that and he said yeah, ok. Showed him.

 

[davidwyby]

Air cooled crank bearings

View attachment IMG_2262.mov

 

[flushcut]

Some JB weld ought to fix that. Lol

 

[davidwyby]

I’m tempted to try to fix the block even though I have spares, just to say I did.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Piston and rod have left the chat

 

[Marc-Antoine]

What amazes me is that the engine is still running. Usually, this sort of event brings the apocalypse inside (youtube data sourced).

 

[Nutball]

I used a Dosko stump grinder. Could be better, but not bad. I think it runs higher rpm than a hydraulic grinder. It doesn't help that wet clay around the stump doesn't clear well like wood chips do.

Air cooled crank bearings

View attachment 144680

Story time, I'm waiting...

 

[WoodCutr]

tractor pull happening this weekend, wish our allis was running because theres no class for my dump truck, and I really want to go pull just for shits and giggles

 

[davidwyby]

I’ve seen guys with big mil trucks walk away with the sled. Like off to the parking lot 😆

Story is the truck is a ‘73 with most components rebuilt in ‘90s which it makes it more unfortunate they oversped it and threw a rod. Very heavy pistons, rods don’t like RPM. Piston lodged in upper bore. They drove it home. Presumably the low half of rod beat all the holes in the block until it was in pieces in the oil pan or ejected. I test ran it to see if the air compressor, alternator, water pump, etc. worked. They did.



I bypassed the fuel system…

Radiator leaks, common. Big old school heavy, truck shakes them apart.

 

[Nutball]

tractor pull happening this weekend, wish our allis was running because theres no class for my dump truck, and I really want to go pull just for shits and giggles

It's a good way to break stuff. Two things to consider:

1) Pulling a sled in low gear allows time for the engine to reach peak output. Peak power + lowest gear = maximum stress on the drive train. Not to mention longer time before it stalls...

2) As the load increases slowing the truck to a stop, power is actually going back through the drive train in reverse. Acceleration requires power, acceleration is a change in speed, so to slow something (accelerating it in the opposite direction) means power is going in backward, and depending on how fast the truck is forced to slow down, the drive train could experience way more torque than the engine could ever supply.

In pulling videos, trucks often break just before they stall, after having experienced higher than maximum torque for a few seconds. The weight of the sled, if on the truck, can increase traction such that the wheels don't slip as easily as they would if a driveshaft starts twisting, so it gets twisted until it snaps.