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Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:24 pm
by butzsi
Thanks Tom and James for the quick work !
As requested here is a photo of my tractor (in it's current state)
Chris
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:42 pm
by impmad2000
The 'Maverick' Porsche Club for Classic Porsche 356, Porsche 911, Porsche 912, Porsche 914 & Replica Fans
.. And Tractors
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Love it !
Where's the rest of the engine Butzi ?
Tim
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:42 pm
by butzsi
Where's the rest of the engine Butzi ?
Amazing that just one cylinder can lug all that cast metal around AND still pull a plough!
Chris
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:08 pm
by gridgway
what capacity is it?
GRaham
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:34 pm
by butzsi
Hi Graham,
The capacity is a whopping 822cc with a CR of 19.1 and a LOUD diesel knock that makes you think the big end is failing the first time you hear one running.
Power output 14 -15HP and (almost) impossible to stall -such is the torque and the size of the flywheel.
Chris
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:49 pm
by butzsi
Found another video with some good period footage edited in with some more modern stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_2hmfWT17A
Chris
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:57 pm
by gridgway
Astonishing Chris! Reminds me of my youth spent with my father and brother inshore fishing. My brother bought a lovely Scottish fishing boat - a motorised fifie like the one here (but wihout sails)
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It had a gardner 4LW 64bhp diesel. Now before we saw it, we couldn't believe that 64 bhp was enough to propel a trawler. But this 4 cyl thing was huge, it rotated so slowly that each cylinder seemed to fire every hour!
Is reminiscing a sign of old age?
Graham
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:39 pm
by porker914
oh arghhh! now where is my combine harvester!!!!
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 11:04 am
by burgundyben
gridgway wrote: .
4LW, lovely piece of kit, one of my favourite boats has a pair of 4LW's, Tahilla, a Dunkirk little ship.
Gardner's are engine porn.
Interesting picture of reaper, I know someone that will like to see that.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:27 pm
by myatt1972
I work on narrowboats so quite often get grubby working on Gardners, amazingly there are still quite a few on the inland waterways.
You loose 10ft of your boat to have a 4cyl in there, beautiful engineering though.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:43 pm
by burgundyben
Apologies for the thread drift, I had occasion to look over a pair of 8LW's and a 1LW to run a compressor to fill a tank to start the 8's a fortnight ago, some lovely engineering.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 10:46 pm
by gridgway
ok, sorry I started it, that's enough! I'll have to buy a boat otherwise.
Graham