[SEL] Make 'em earn their keep!

curt at rustyiron.com curt at rustyiron.com
Mon May 5 09:48:19 PDT 2008


Mike,
Sounds like a real day of fun! Now we need to get you to Cotton Ginning
Days and set up up sawing wood with the rest of us!

Have you tried simply making an adjustment to the shoes, making the
pressure when engaged tighter? That's usually all it takes.
Curt


> Howdy all,
>
> Because of all of the work building the house, we have not been able to
> play engines since Portland 2006! Finally yesterday we latched onto the
> Famous with my granddad's 1948 SC Case tractor and drug her out of the
> corner of the barn so we could then roll her out to do a little work.
> After a little tlc to get her running again we started sawing on our
> huge pile of scrap wood. The goal was to cut the scrap wood up into
> lengths that would work as kindling for starting our winter fireplace
> fires. The Famous ran beautifully and were were able to easily saw a
> bunch of the scrap into great kindling.
>
> I do have a question on how to fix a little problem. The clutch pulley
> on the Famous is a regulation IHC clutch pulley with wooden blocks
> responsible for engaging the pulley. On some of the bigger or harder
> chunks of wood the clutch pulley would "slip" a little and even though
> the engine speed was not phased the blade would slow down a bit. Is
> there anything that we can treat the clutch wood with to make it more
> "sticky?"
>
> See ya',
> Mike
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