[AT] "older men" and change

[Jason]

They rate small engine differently now because someone sued them because
his lawnmower didn't make its 4.5hp or whatever.

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017, 9:15 PM Greg Hass <ghass at m3isp.com> wrote:

> I think this is tractor related as it affects much of what we do. My 30
> year old skid steer has been down for over a year but due to health
> problems just got to pulling the engine yesterday. It is a Honda 24 hp.
> engine I put in less than 200 hours ago. At one third throttle it will
> go through a quart of oil in 5 minutes. I think the seal behind the
> flywheel came out but have not torn it down yet. Last night just for the
> heck of it I looked in the northern tool catalog I recently got to see
> what a new engine would cost. NONE of the engines are listed by
> horsepower but by cc. and torque. Well I know that means something to
> somebody but not me. I have better things to do (a nap comes to mind)
> than try and convert those figures. Also, I'm not sure of conversions;
> for instance, my Farmall Cub is rated at 10 hp. and is a c60 running at
> 1800 RPM. The Cub power unit on our IH 64 combine was also a c60 but ran
> at 2900 RPM giving it about 18 hp. so I'm not sure you can go by
> displacement. HP rating have worked for a hundred years why change now.
> Call on a new tractor and they will give you engine horse; that may be
> all and good but only drawbar horse will tell me how many plows I can
> pull. A couple of years ago my brother bought a 10,000 watt generator.
> He got it home a fueled it up and was test running it when he happened
> to glance at the box it came in. In big letters it said 10,000 watts,
> but in small print under that it said starting watts. Also in small
> print it said 8000 watts running. Turns out when the salesman was
> showing the forklift driver which generator to load he just looked at
> the top number and took that one . My brother had already used it so now
> he is stuck. Have we reached the point where all people can do is
> deceive us?  Old man rant over.
>          Greg Hass
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