And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Is that a 3408? When I commercial fished, the engine ran 24/7 for weeks at a time. Even for oil changes while running. Four filters, two in series and a reserve tank to switch over during the change. Not one hiccup for an eight month season. Tear down at the end of season.
Ten-four, a 3408. In my humble opinion, a mechanical 3406 with a Jake and a retarder is the best log truck engine ever made. Plenty of power, great mileage and you seldom have to touch the bakes descending long grades. It's a shame they don't make them anymore.
Back in the day when you could get those high horsepower Detroit Diesel 12V-71s, Cummins K-Series and Cat 1693 engines in those Cowboy trucks - Freightliner, Kenworth, Peterbilt.....
What an engine looks like when you build everything on it to be accessible for fast changes of parts that wear out, instead of a Chinese puzzle that multiplies a simple oil filter change into 9 hours of labor costs to remove the back seat to get to the cable that connects through the dashboard to get the headlight assembly out to drop the transmission in order to access the oil filter.
Detroit design engineers and executives should be skinned alive, dipped into a vat of rubbing alcohol, and then lit on fire, alive and screaming, and dragged down the road chained by the heels until the flames go out. On live TV. Pour encourager les autres.
Ran a CAT triple seven one coal mine worked at, they have a similar looking V8, though it is larger, those 777's haul a hundred tons abouts, one day the loader operator wante to see how many tons coal it could carry, weighed out 124 tons, engine did not notice one little bit. Amazing engines. Ran that particular 777 4 years, till was put in a loader, then loaded that same truck 3 years, had to drive it over to another mine one day, ran sweet a can be. All that time never broke down, except for losing a drag link, snd AC quit. CAT builds true quality equipment. Another mine, operated a CAT 992C loader, older twin stick rock loader, converted to coal loader with n 18 yard bucket, ran that 4 1/2 years, broke down cause the main hyd hose burst, it ran 24/7, we worked 3 crews on 12 hour shfts, that 992C was a 1978 model, this was in 2008 - 2012, that old beast was such a great loader. It never quit.
300 KW and will run 24/7 at full load for weeks or months at a stretch.
Those Huge, 600' tall windmills that claim to be 1MW nominal, will actually only put out about 250 KW (25% capacity factor) when they want to, not when you need it.
Is that a 3408?
ReplyDeleteWhen I commercial fished, the engine ran 24/7 for weeks at a time. Even for oil changes while running.
Four filters, two in series and a reserve tank to switch over during the change.
Not one hiccup for an eight month season. Tear down at the end of season.
Ten-four, a 3408.
DeleteIn my humble opinion, a mechanical 3406 with a Jake and a retarder is the best log truck engine ever made. Plenty of power, great mileage and you seldom have to touch the bakes descending long grades. It's a shame they don't make them anymore.
That looks like it had maintenance in mind when designing.
ReplyDeleteBack in the day when you could get those high horsepower Detroit Diesel 12V-71s, Cummins K-Series and Cat 1693 engines in those Cowboy trucks - Freightliner, Kenworth, Peterbilt.....
ReplyDeleteI'm kinda partial to Detroits
ReplyDelete8 was sweet, agree on the B with jake and retarder but love the clatter of a 93.
ReplyDeleteWhat an engine looks like when you build everything on it to be accessible for fast changes of parts that wear out, instead of a Chinese puzzle that multiplies a simple oil filter change into 9 hours of labor costs to remove the back seat to get to the cable that connects through the dashboard to get the headlight assembly out to drop the transmission in order to access the oil filter.
ReplyDeleteDetroit design engineers and executives should be skinned alive, dipped into a vat of rubbing alcohol, and then lit on fire, alive and screaming, and dragged down the road chained by the heels until the flames go out. On live TV. Pour encourager les autres.
Ran a CAT triple seven one coal mine worked at, they have a similar looking V8, though it is larger, those 777's haul a hundred tons abouts, one day the loader operator wante to see how many tons coal it could carry, weighed out 124 tons, engine did not notice one little bit. Amazing engines. Ran that particular 777 4 years, till was put in a loader, then loaded that same truck 3 years, had to drive it over to another mine one day, ran sweet a can be. All that time never broke down, except for losing a drag link, snd AC quit. CAT builds true quality equipment. Another mine, operated a CAT 992C loader, older twin stick rock loader, converted to coal loader with n 18 yard bucket, ran that 4 1/2 years, broke down cause the main hyd hose burst, it ran 24/7, we worked 3 crews on 12 hour shfts, that 992C was a 1978 model, this was in 2008 - 2012, that old beast was such a great loader. It never quit.
ReplyDelete300 KW and will run 24/7 at full load for weeks or months at a stretch.
ReplyDeleteThose Huge, 600' tall windmills that claim to be 1MW nominal, will actually only put out about 250 KW (25% capacity factor) when they want to, not when you need it.
3408,,,, me,,, rather have a 3406,,,, they were great drilling rig engines.
ReplyDelete