My sincere thanks for showing us all the great Pattin Brothers engine. Engines of this time era will always be in my heart and fuel flowing in my veins. Keep up the great work too.
Great job restoring this survivor! Ya gotta love the basic carbonation! Took a bit of tweaking but thanks also to the guy on the tractor, ya got it right! Runs great!
Yeehaw! Many happy babbits! What a joy... it lives! Exhaust falling over hardly matters. Throttle control seems super sensitive... as you showed. That was exciting :-) Great result.
@@rpennybrown it's a diamond valve, works decently for throttling once the engineer knows what he's doing! I've gotten this engine pretty well figured out at this point.
thanks! If i put my ear to the bearings, i can hear a slight "click" as the bearing loads and unloads. Just about perfect as far as i'm concerned. There's always shims to remove too.
Nice job little hairy there a couple of times that much iron can get out of hand real quick but seems to run good when it settles down just a little more tweaking and finding the sweet spots Yes Success 🍻👍😎
Thanks for sharing. This machine is from an era before "idiot-proofing," when the clumsy or less intelligent guys were weeded out by natural selection! Haha
That was cool. I had never been exposed to these engines in my youth. Bet your bottom dollar I would have been deep into these if things had been different. I had all sorts of engines apart and back together.... and to run again, all but a twin Onan that sat exposed to the elements to long but sure was fun tearing it to bits.
ARTISTRY ON VIDEO - to you blokes and generations before. In the early 80's in a country town, my service club got a 1920's tractor restarted after weeks of sourcing tyres (English spelling) from farmers as well as a few weeks of constant lubricant soaking before start date. Worked within say 30 seconds on first try. It was part of our town's yearly parade that year. Preserve, preserve.
yeah fuel efficent and builted to survive the rain and a nuclear blast srsly ye old hit n miss engines are fuel efficent and they are builted to survive hell but the thing that makes them rare is the fact that theres not many left due to the great wars the metal in them were invaluable so most were taken and scrapped out for their metals or thats what i would assume but the things are quite neat
Unfortunately I couldn't make it to the show either day, but there's always the Spring show and I'll be sure to stop by and take a look if you're there then.
Sir: Hey bill fix the fly wheel bill: YES SIR bill: hm why is it broken it looks just fine *turns on machine* oh it wont move *sticks hand through the fly wheel * come on... *clunk* *SNAP* AAHHHHHH
Good video. Its clear that you're being honest when you say that this is the first start in all those years. Its annoying how lots of people on RU-vid with old engines claim that the engine "hasn't started in X years" only for the engine to start up like it ran 5 minutes before. You can tell that those people are just lying since almost nothing starts up on the first try after a few years.
I would love to have a few old engines. I hit the antique engine and steam engine show every year. I only have my 80’s model Onan and Yanmar to play with and a Chinese knock off of the Yanmar 100. I still have fun with what I have. Those old engines are just my type of hobby though.
Fantastic... brought to mind a few old John Prine lyrics. There's roosters layin' chickens And chickens layin' eggs Farm machinery eatin' peoples arms and legs 52818
at first i thought steam then i saw the propane and lack of boiler to be seen .. so im guessing its similar to a diesel but using propane.. neat old engine hope you have a good new use for it ..nice to see them run better to see them working ;] thanks for the video
Interesting early engines, those flywheels will tear you to pieces in seconds. Rotating equipment is no joke. It's amazing how long it took for us to recongnize it and setup standards. Old farm equipment was neat, but dangerous, I lost a great uncle to a thrasher. That had to be one hell of a way to go
Bruns real smooth that's bull these old engines don't run smooth whatsoever they run like a hammer hitting an anvil but they run and this proves they run for a long time
If you put your fingers over the intake there while you are trying to find the sweetspot; then you can immediately go back to the previous setting and make the necessary mechanical adjustment without risk of stalling. Just like any other combustion motor.
I didn't know they had LPG back then?? ;D and you probably needed a 15 horse team to drag it to the threshing machine. :D Well done. I love watching these old beauties.
It originally ran on wellhead gas, and was installed on a wooden or concrete base in its pump house. I have it on the cart for ease of moving it around, it eventually went onto an oak skid.
I wander over to the wood chipper pull the choke lever, set the throttle, turn the key and the big V twin Honda starts up straight away. Not half as much fun as this, this has to be one of the best start up vids I have seen you put it all in warts and all goodonya . I take it that this engine was made to be bolted down and not a mobile due to the very bad balance or is this due to some component missing. Good luck take care and most of all have fun. from the land down under
yes, these engines are meant to be on a solid foundation. The cart is for ease of transportation; some day i will make a skid for it and keep it in one of our buildings.
