[SEL] My first engine

[John Hall]

I've got a friend with one of those--nice little engine.

Here are some of my thoughts and experience with running stuff with engines.

It should "play" with a 2 hole sheller. Don't know about the big shellers 
that you fed with a shovel--probably underpowered for that--then again 
shelling corn by the shovel full is more work than play.

As for grinders---Depends on how you want to run it. Most engines at shows 
hooked to grinders are just playing. I have a friend with a 7hp economy 
hooked to a Kelly Duplex mill and it knows its hooked to it if you feed it 
heavy but for the most part it is just having fun. You should be able to 
handle a grinder OK.

 As for grist mills with stone burrs, they typically take a lot of power to 
feed them heavy and grind fine enough to produce meal. I think ours has 
about 20 inch stones. We pull it with a 6 cylinder IHC power unit. We don't 
mess around--takes 2 guys to tend it if you are bagging up the meal in paper 
sacks for friends.The largest run we ever did was about 300lbs. The proper 
way, so I was told by a miller, to grind like this is to keep the meal 
temperature down to where it is just hot enough that you don't want to hold 
it in your hand very long. This results in running the mill fairly slow, so 
you just don't get to open up the engine and take advantage of all those 
horses.

John Hall
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "benmoyer moyer" <firepoliceco20 at hotmail.com>
To: <SEL at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 8:56 PM
Subject: [SEL] My first engine


> Well just bought my first engine, it's a John Deere LUC runs just needs 
> paint and a muffler.
> Just wondering if anyone knew if the exhaust faced up or down, also what 
> would be good to belt to it
> the corn shllers and grinders I have acesses to are made for hit and miss 
> engines. I would greatly appreciate any tips, tricks or quircks these 
> engines have.
>
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