Why are you here?

[tomcat109]

Hi all.....been a lurker for awhile .....sure appreciate this site, and, am learning a lot........I'm a lineman for a power co. and will be getting prepared to get off the grid (when it all hits the fan)...........! Want to get an 8/1 roid, with 5 kw ST, from Gary at des, as soon as I save up enough coin. ( in the process of building a pole shed to house the genset and everything else for SS) my guess, is that in less than 3years, we're not going to recognize this great country...........the electrical infrastructure is fragile and, most vulnerable to social and, economic collapse, fossil fuel shortages, terrorist attack, ect. Own 200 acres, garden, can meat, smoke fish, heat with a 1907 round oak cylinder stove, horses, dogs, (german shepherds and a jrt) harley, honda 4 wheelers, john deere tractor (diesel of course) hunt, fish, fly a ppc,........sorry, beginning to ramble......Why am I here......? You guys are all knowledgeable, informative....and cool and, this is a great site ...  that can help me down the path to ss...( self sufficiency).............Why not,...maybe I can somehow give something back.........................."Stay Safe".................................Mark

[flywheel]

Tomcat109 - Welcome, glad to have you here!
                                                                           flywheel

[farmer0_1]

we have alot of filbert or hazelnuts in my area and after the shells are dried and cracked out they are waste. so i bought an old pellet stove and had to block off some of the auger feed hole because it is a single feed auger sometime the shells will flow freely into the burn box. anyway i burn straight nut shells . now be warned there is alot of ash content so once a week i vacuum all the crooks and cranny's and every couple days i clean the burn pot and overflow ash. but i am home most of the time or close by and this makes life alittle thriftier.  the shells run from 50 to 90 a ton.  my stove is old so no self starting so it idles alot.  couple buddies tried it said to much work so to each his own. email if i can help

[lowspeedlife]

Thanks Farmer,
That's what we like to call "enginewity". take somethin' that's not worth nothin' & find a use for it. then save your self a little change in the process. 


      Scott R.

[admin]

welcome to our little corner of the web tomcat!

hope you like it here, and i am sure you have lots to share as well.

bob g

[rl71459]

Welcome Tomcat

I think you will like it here, This group is full of interesting and knowledgeable people.

Warning! This can be addictive stuff.

Rob

[dieselgman]

Welcome Tomcat,

You've found the right place! Best of luck with all your ambitious projects!

dieselgman

[tomcat109]

Thanks again guys............I am hooked.................."Stay Safe"........................................Mark

[BioHazard]

Warning! This can be addictive stuff.

Yeah, next thing you know you'll be looking for ways to smuggle chinese engines into the country from some ding-dang-ching-chong-big-dong engine company and find yourself researching BTU values of different fuels at 4 in the morning...

I don't even need a generator! 

[mobile_bob]

come on over to my place, you can get your fix here anytime!



bob g
aka "the iron pusher"

[uber39]

hello everyone, my name is Ian.
      Been doing CHP for a couple of years, didn't know what it was called when I first started,never seen it before and though I came up with a new concept ( I was wrong again ). Started with a Bamford 6/1 driving a 32v 50amp gen head to supplement my old Dunlite wind plant, all recovered heat pumped into under floor pipes. that was great till the big end died on me. I found a tool maker that will make new shells out of bronze for me when he gets a chance. Over this summer (In Australia ) started to build a new gen using an Isuzu 4fb1 seems to run well so far.
       Ian.

[BioHazard]

come on over to my place, you can get your fix here anytime!



bob g
aka "the iron pusher"

If the EPA has a hit list I'll bet you're pretty close to the top. 

Over this summer (In Australia ) started to build a new gen using an Isuzu 4fb1 seems to run well so far.

Welcome to the board...I bet everyone would love to see some pics of that!

[Mack_59]

Have been lurking for a while. Because of this site and going to antique engine shows and seeing slow speed engines that are 40-50-60 yrs old still working and making sweet noise I was unduly influenced to invest in some retirement projects. Hopefully I will be able to get my Stover and FB diesels powering some kind of ST head. I also have a Oilwell e20 that followed me home from the scrap yard that I hope run off of a gasifier. When I was knee high to a grasshopper I managed to lose quite a few of my dad's tools taking things apart. I fondly remember a compressor site on the other side of the river about a quarter of a mile away that had some big one lungers and going to sleep on the sound of the exhaust. I apprieciate all the information that is available here and opens up new possibilities that I could include when/if I get to build my dream house/shop. Thanks

[RogerAS]

Good question!

I'm here because I read about this forum on another site and clicked on the link that poster provided. I read about 10 posts here and signed right up. I've learned more about diesel engines than I ever thought possible since.

I live off grid and have for going on 11 years. I bought my first kubota EL-300 in the spring of 2000 just before moving onto our remote property in the Arkansas Ozarks. That engine didn't have a mount of any kind and I fabbed one together that was a sad little joke. I misread the owners manual and only changed the oil every 400 hours. It still ran for 3500 hours. Much of that time it was driving an AC generator AND a big automotive alternator. After the lower end failed and I had it rebuilt by idiots it lasted another 2000 hours before the head gasket failed. After that repair the engine never ran right and started leaking oil everywhere, which I suspect was blowby related. THEN the flywheel worked loose and destroyed the crank.

I went 2 years depending on a pull start gas Honda to provide power for big loads. I dislike the high rev gas for a long list of reasons, but the Honda still starts on the first yank, if fresh gas is in the carb.

I discovered a man selling these same small Kubotas near me and I fetched one from him that needed several parts that my old engine didn't eat. I took a risk on an engine with no head, starter or radiator. I built a thick wall stand with a 3/8" solid deck for the "new" engine. That was over 5000 hours ago, and this still engine ticks like a Swiss watch. I've run it long hours at low RPM and high RPM and everywhere in between. As long as it isn't puffing smoke it doesn't seem to mind. I no longer drive an AC gen head as any big DC load can now be addressed with my much larger inverter. I only drive a LN 160 amp alternator with the engine now.

Thanks to the help of a great many people here I figured out that rubber fuel line can bubble shut on the inside, like a human vein collapsing, and make an engine really behave oddly. I still owe the forum big time for the help figuring out that little crisis.

Hopefully, by sharing each others issues, we can become a resource for anyone in the world to explore a near limitless source of knowledge from which they may also learn and reference. There are people here that can teach us all so very very much, and this knowledge base is NOT limited to the Lister folks, or even engines for that matter.

I'm here because I'm a lover of knocking diesel engines, and the forum just seems like a great place to hang out. Who knows, one of these day I might be able to contribute meaningfully!

R