MM Power Unit

Riverslim · May 13, 2010

Saw today a Minneapolis Moline power unit, 4 cylinder, the tag said 165 4A, with a belt pulley on business end, very rare?

jm. · May 13, 2010

My grandfather left home one day early in 1952 he was gone a couple days (200 mi to Memphis TNn.) When he came back he had the unit you describe. Had been powering a sawmill with two G JOHN DEERS tied to one common shaft. After a day of puting the big MM unit up on a crib of crosties when they fired it up mill would just run thru logs with no let up. People drove for miles to see the MM powred sawmill. This engine was fuled with propane which was also very rare at time in rural Tennessee. You cold run the unit 200 hrs and the engine oil would still be clean looking. Best I remember the mill was still runing on that MM unit when I left for the army in 64 have no idea how many hours it ran.

Anonymous-0 · May 13, 2010

Back in the 1950's we had several old style 800
6cyl M.M. engines pulling irrigation wells. they
were a slow turning engine: max 1350 RPM. When
I moved to AZ. in the mid 1960's, the corporation
I leased land from bought 30 new style 800 MM
engines and put them on deep irrigation wells.
These engines turned max 1800 rpm. Most were still running when I retired from farming in 1986.

Oldmax · May 13, 2010

A lot of M/M Units power sawmills in this area yet today. most are natural Gas.

noncompos · May 13, 2010

Engines run on a gaseous fuel (NG etc) instead of a liquid fuel like gasoline don"t have the cylinder washdown, oil dilution problems gasoline engines have; the oil stays cleaner, the engine simply wears less, lasts longer.

JOCCO · May 14, 2010

That is basically the R tractor engine 165 cu inch. Nice unit probably kind of rare as a power unit.

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