[SEL] Guess what is showing up at Portland...

[k_armstrong1 at bigpond.com]

where is the engine, why have a trailer when the engine is only a mounting 
frame

Kevin & Lorraine Armstrong
Collectors of old things
Perth
WA
Australia
Vintage Tractor & Machinery Association member
k_armstrong1 at bigpond.com
www.oldengine.org/members/armstrong
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Spencer Yost" <yostsw at atis.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>; 
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Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 7:21 AM
Subject: [SEL] Guess what is showing up at Portland...


> OK - it has been two and one half years since I got the engine during a
> great trip with Steve, Brice and Dave Rotigel.   It has been two years
> since I have been to Portland.   But the 25 HP Ball oilfield engine will
> finally be at Portland this year.    The trailer is finished, the skids
> are finished, and I am just waiting on the crane to lift the engine onto
> the skids and the whole shooing match onto the trailer.   This will
> happen this Friday.    Check out the pictures of the trailer and skids 
> here:
>
> http://www.atis.net/forums/album.php?albumid=29
>
> The engine is not running and this year I am planning on spending the
> week at Portland getting it in running condition an hope to have it
> running by the end of the week.   I am missing several things for the
> engine so I actually could use stuff.   So this is  call for anyone with
> oiling trees, oilers, wicks, various plumbing, gasket material, propane
> stuff, piping anything you think I might could use and you are willing
> to sell, bring it on to Portland!
>
> Also, I could use some thoughts and ideas on loading and mounting the
> engine.  Some folks - one in particular I really trust - think I should
> somehow bolt the engine to the trailer.    I like the idea, but I am not
> sure I can bolt this in any meaningful way .   To bolt down, I could not
> use the hardened all-thread that is bolting the engine and skids since
> those won't line up with the steel under the deck of the trailer.    The
> steel under the decking is 2"x4" 'L' irons and these are all I have to
> bolt to.  The 2" leg is the horizontal portion (the part the decking is
> screwed to), so I imagine I could drill 3/4" holes through the bottom
> skid, through the deck, and then through these irons and use 3/4"
> bolts.  I have three irons crossing under the length of the skids.  So
> that would be  total of 6(three on each side) 3/4" bolts holding the
> bottom skid to the trailer while my 6 hardened all-thread holds the
> engine and skids together.   My question:   Would 6 3/4" bolts really
> hold a 6000+ pound engine while running and even if they would, is this
> really necessary?   I plan to obviously chain and strap the sucker good
> for traveling and those bolts wouldn't help in an accident anyway.  As
> for running - it wasn't bolted to the concrete foundation I found it on
> in PA.  It was just sitting on it and it obviously never shimmied or 
> moved.
>
> Any thoughts and comments on the trailer loading and mounting would be
> much appreciated!
>
>
> Take care,
>
> Spencer Yost
>
>
>
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