Posted by Pappy on April 16, 2015 at 16:32:29 from (107.215.24.145):
In Reply to: Roadtrip... posted by Steve@Advance on April 16, 2015 at 08:04:04:
My dad used to run one of those cotton gins in Texas. As I remember, the two cylinder engine was a diesel that had to be started with a blowtorch on the glow plugs and when it started, you could hear it for half a county. I believe it had 18 inch pistons. It ran for years, 1940's, and when the sun went down and the humidity came up, you could hear it for miles.It had eight inch stacks for exhaust pipes. Later, they replaced the diesel with a big twin city propane burner which was two six cylinder engines with a common gear box. When they installed the new engines, the installers overreved the engines and some of the large cast iron pulleys disintergrated, sending schrapnel for hundreds of yards. One of my good friends was killed instantly and my father died a few days later from his injuries. I never went back.
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