[SEL] How not to load and engine....Flywheel needed.

[Keith Kinney]

Thanks Bent.  Yep, sure makes me sick to look at the engine.  It is 
one of my favorite engines too.  Ran real well and to think it is 
well over 100 years old.
Keith

At 05:50 PM 12/28/2007, you wrote:
>Keith my condolences that was tragic hopefully there is a donar out there
>with a spare one for you still a cool looking engine  brentnz
>
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>From: "Keith Kinney" <kkinney at herculesengines.com>
>To: <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
>Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 12:22 PM
>Subject: [SEL] How not to load and engine....Flywheel needed.
>
>
> > Back in July we were loading our Oil City/South Penn Half-breed
> > engine to take to our county fair.  The engine is on skids and when
> > we take it to a show we just back our flat bead trailer up to the
> > engine and hook a winch to the skids.  It normally just comes right
> > up on the trailer no big deal.  Well, this time it didn't work too
> > well.  The engine was sitting on wood blocks to keep it off the
> > ground.  When the front of the engine slid off the block it caused
> > the engine to tip over.  When it tipped over the left flywheel landed
> > on the skid of the 15 HP Reid sitting next to it.  You guessed it,
> > all the spokes broke out of the flywheel.  We were just sick.  So, if
> > you have any leads on were we might be able to pick up another
> > flywheel please let me know.  For all the gruesome details I've
> > posted before and after pictures here:
> > http://www.herculesengines.com/Oil%20City/default.htm
> >
> > Learn from our miss fortune and be extra careful when loading those
>engines
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Keith Kinney
Evansville, Indiana  USA
www.HerculesEngines.com