[SEL] How big an engine ?

[Dave Rotigel]

At 08:22 PM 2/11/2005, you wrote:
>  Hi list;
>        I was asked today from fellow workers how big a hit miss engine it
>would take to power a threshing machine ,  I couldn't give them nothing but
>a guess , my guess was around 7 Hp , was I any where close ?  can anyone on
>list say " been there done that ! "  lets hear some guesses
>
>  Rex Hinz

Hi Rex,
         It, of course, would depend on the size of the threshing machine 
but I think it would take more than a 7 HP. My 15 HP IHC will pull my 
club's thresher.
         Dave