[Vwdiesel] winter fronts

[Harmon Seaver]

  No, it was the mount for the hydraulic cylinder for the blade. I was rolling
along fairly fast, pulling an empty skidding dray with a hydraulic log loader,
and caught the corner of the blade on a big birch. I remember being just totally
amazed that it broke.
   One thing that was neat about those TD-9's was that they started on gasoline,
had a valve that opened a little chamber where the gas intake manifold fed and
which had a spark plug, on each cylinder. That also, of course, lowered the
compression. So it cranked over pretty easily for such a big engine, then once
it was warmed up, you just flipped the lever and it became a diesel again. Not
much power on the gasoline side, but it would move the machine around.
   Much easier to start in really cold weather than a straight diesel, but it
taught me that just because you can start up machinery in really cold weather
doesn't mean you should. At least not if you're trying to make money with it. I
guess big companies can afford to do that but I would have been a lot better off
to have just stayed in bed that day. I'm sure a lot of other parts get a lot of
wear in bad cold too, that you don't see right away, like wheel and gearbox
bearings. And on a crawler about 200x more in the undercarriage and tracks.


On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:49:10PM -0500, Drew MacPherson wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>
> >    Don't you just hate it when it's so cold your tires just stay flat on one
> > side and you go thumpty-thump down the road? I gave up running any equipment
> > when I snapped a really big casting on my IHC TD-9 just hitting a glancing blow
> > on a birch tree when it was about -25C. Better to stay home and feed the fire.
>
>
> Wasn't a final drive housing was it?  They seem to be a weak point on the
> older TD's.  My father-in-law busted one on his TD-5.
>
> Drew
>
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