[AJD] Two Cylinder JD's and Power Driven Equipment

[Keith Kinney]

Don't the Oilpulls fire hit, miss, hit, miss, where the John Deere  
fire hit, hit, miss, miss giving the Oil Pull's a smother run?  Don't  
have any answer for the single cylinders.
Keith


On Feb 5, 2008, at 10:17 PM, D. Schuyler wrote:

> Well Keith I am not sure about that ? As one of the best tractors for
> sawmills was the Rumely heavyweight Oilpull, the later ones were two  
> cyl the
> early ones were single cyl.
> Of course years later they went to more cylinders. But you sure see  
> a lot of
> heavyweight oilpulls on sawmills.
> Dee
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith Kinney" <kkinney at herculesengines.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 7:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [AJD] Two Cylinder JD's and Power Driven Equipment
>
>
>> I remember talking with the old timers in our area back in the
>> mid-70's. They claimed you should never run a sawmill with a two
>> cylinder John Deere because for the reasons you mentioned.
>> Keith
>>
>>
>> On Feb 5, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Duane Ledford wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Thought I would ask you folks what your opinion and knowledge is
>>> about this.  Have
>>> ran across several individuals who claim that if you use any type of
>>> PTO driven or
>>> belt driven equipment on a two cylinder JD, that the bearings of the
>>> equipment will
>>> be ruined.  Their reasoning is that the uneven firing of the two
>>> cylinder engine
>>> pounds on the bearings, universal joints, etc.  I might be able to
>>> see this if you
>>> were lugging the tractor for an extended time.  But if this is true,
>>> wouldnt every
>>> bearing in the tractor be subject to this pounding, therefore need
>>> frequent
>>> replacing?  Bearings wear out, but I really haven't seen any more
>>> frequency in JD's
>>> bearings needing replaced over any other brand.  Has anyone done or
>>> heard of a
>>> study of this "rural myth?"  Would be interesting to see measured
>>> results of the
>>> differences in stress on equipment between the pulsing  two cylinder
>>> engines over
>>> the smoother running four and six cylinder ones.  What has been your
>>> experience?
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>>
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>> Keith Kinney
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Keith Kinney
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