[SEL] cable plowing now Furnace Power

[Rick Rowlands]

Curt,

I ran my induction furnace today.  kinda felt bad adding that additional 75 
KW of load to the system but bills must be paid.  Three heats in four hours 
is a new record for me.  I have a lawn sprinkler under the cooling unit. 
When the water temp gets above 108 degrees I turn it on for a few minutes 
and the water temp drops back down to about 98 degrees and slowly climbs up 
over about 20 minutes or so.

Does it take 8 hours to get the metal in the channel furnaces back up to 
pouring temperature?

Rick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt" <curt at imc-group.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Nice Wheels/ cable plowing


> Ya know Arnie, I've wondered if this was the case even with much less 
> expensive gas engines. Take a 8 or 10 HP saw rig. That's 4 or 5000 pounds 
> of iron to pay for. In a few of days you can saw a winter's worth of wood. 
> I could see where a group of farmers would have bought one and used horses 
> to pull it from one farm to the other in a cooperative arrangement.
>
> Knowing the size of the team of men required to run and support a steam 
> traction engine, I suspect you are spot on about the cooperative effort.
> Curt
> P.S. I'm outta here in an hour of so. Duke Power just shut us down due to 
> excessive power consumption. We've got 30 minutes to get below a kw-hr 
> consumption rate and this means shutting the plant down and putting the 
> furnaces on generator for the next 6 hours or so, 'till the household A/C 
> usage subsides a little. Second or third shift will have the pleasure of 
> starting the casting lines back up. That's about an 8 hour process. 
> Later.....
>
> Arnie Fero wrote:
>
>>Hi Curt,
>>
>>Rather than an individual farmer buying two traction engines and the cable
>>plowing rig, I wonder if it might have been done on a local collective
>>basis?  Maybe a couple of entrepreneurs who went farm to farm and did the
>>cable plowing?  Perhaps something like what was done with threshing?
>>
>>See ya,  Arnie
>>
>>Arnie Fero
>>Pittsburgh, PA
>>fero_ah at city-net.com
>>
>>On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Curt wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Have been to several steam shows here in the states and, to date, have
>>>yet to see a steam traction engine with a cable setup under the belly.
>>>So it might have been done, but it was sure on small scale. In our early
>>>culture of entrepreneurial / no government involvement, what farmer
>>>could afford to buy 2 traction engines!? It would be interesting to know
>>>the extent that government subsidies were involved in cable plowing in
>>>Australia.
>>>
>>
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