Homemade Gator.

[WOEII]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Op2zeGN9M
Guy looks like he is making one from scratch and would like some friendly advise. :Chers: :cool:

[WOEII]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_E0A6Fw2XU
Opps! I guess he finished it! He calls it Mator! :lol: :cool:

[Dane]

When I saw the thread title I thought it was this video I watched during lunch today. A hit & miss engine to start an even larger one. Somehow it all works.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULQ6196Tfds

[WOEII]

When I saw the thread title I thought it was this video I watched during lunch today. A hit & miss engine to start an even larger one. Somehow it all works.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULQ6196Tfds

Just awesome! :cool:
I am restoring a 1916 Fairbanks Morse 3hp flywheel right now. Cant wait till her first POP! :strpot:

[DCtowing]

http://youtu.be/B_E0A6Fw2XUIm the maker of this invention! Just joined tonight!

[Dane]

20 years ago I used to live near a family the restored antique tractors, farm machinery and stationary engines. Lots of steel wheels and even one on tracks. It was so much fun to go visit. Every fall after the corn was dried they would use an old hit or miss, leather belt and mill from the same era to make corn meal & grits.

Once they had an engine in the barn with a 20 ton bottle jack and post going to a beam in the barn. I can remember the barn creaking as they pumped the jack to get a piston out the looks like it had rust into place 20 or 50 years ago. Their son about my age was a machinist so they made or modified most of the parts themselves. This tank was from an old sprayer, that exhaust was an artillery shell case, I turned this piece out of a '34 Ford axle... There wasn't anything they could not fix or make.

100 years from now do you think anyone will be restoring the complex, computer controlled engines in our modern cars, tractors and machinery? I doubt it.