Antique Diesel Engine Start-Up 1 Cyl Witte Diesel 

I love how closed caption says “music” when that thing starts firing.

Engines are so cool I find them way more interesting than electric motors

It’s terrific to see someone learning and sharing that knowledge with us here. Thank you for your videos and for keeping these old engines alive. They’re fascinating.

I’m familiar with the Witte engines, that looked very similar but were gas. The intake valve had no operating mechanism. Only a light spring to close it after it opened by cylinder vacuum. They were on oil well pump jacks (60’s)and ran on the natural gas from the well. They had a belt driven fan. The starting crank was the same as this.

Beautiful old engineering. Those will last forever.. unfortunately they don't make engines like that anymore...

It sound like you got a couple horses pulling a wagon on a cobble stone road, with a old sewing machine going, and the driver has a worn out pocket watch ticking!! Haha!!

Now that would make an interesting mini-bike!

So pleasing to see old engines running as they were designed for😮💯. Much better than just being static at a museum

Wooow. Very wonderfull Diesel engine DUMM DUMM sounds. I love Diesel engine.😍😍😍

When cranking, turn your hand around so your palm is facing away from you. That way if the engine kicks back the handle will fly out of your hand without breaking your wrist. I was told that by and old guy who was watching me crank start my 1959 Triumph.

Very cool guys, nice to see someone actually load one of these old engines.

Grandpa had the 12hp, gen set. Ran the resort for years. Thank you for the memories.

A beautiful engine - love the mechanical sound of these engines

The piston that you described is a Recardo piston design. This design was used in many large Continental engines.

PHUT PHUT PHUT PHUT poong poong poong poong poong.... What a wonderful thing. Nice work keeping her alive, mate.

It is amazing how rugged things were built back in the day. Made to last.

"you can't over oil it" 3:04, very well put!

As the last comment look I broke my thumb. A lovely old engine not seen in the UK

I Love The Engine Sound

So cool! Was born 50 years too late

6 HP. Nice little "go cart" engine. ;o) I was thinking about it earlier today. There's nothing more satisfying for a "gear head" than to make some old mechanical device come back to life. Explains why there's so many people I like to watch on RU-vid ----------------- doing exactly that !!! 👍👍👍👍

Thanks for keeping these old girls alive..........very interesting

Thanks for sharing this old gal with us. She's a beaut and what a lovely sound. Reminds me of one of the old "hit & miss" engines.

Just love the sound when the engine starts :)

Really nice engine. Fascinating about the in-piston prechamber as well. It wasn't that hard to crank either!

Antique diesel engine with an antique Mr Gasket air cleaner from the 60s

It doesn't drip oil..... It just marks it's spot !!! 👍👍👍👍

That is a remarkable engine as you are, Mike. Keep up your good work and sharing your toys with us.

Pretty cool, really enjoyed listening to that engine

I love that ole Witte , ENJOYED .. Thanks Mike !!

Nice running engine. Big brother of my Witte 3 hp engine at home.

Great video ! Cool old engine, love to see them running. Thanks for the detailed explanation of the governor. Good to see you have help from hit and misfits

Great old engine Mike thanks for sharing 👍🎟

What a beautiful nice great running engine! Id love to have one of those!

Nice engine Mike. Thanks

Smooth running cause of the mega fly wheel. It even has troubles reving it's self up :-)

Love those old engines. Very cool.

After long time old memories get fresh of nineteens diesel engine work on tubal. thank you for uploading this video

Very imformative about the workings of this particular engine. Much appreciated guys

Very nice engine, double thumbs up!

Wow you've got a lot of cool stuff. Nice video!

What a wonderful contraption.

Love to hear those old engines still doing it,, thanks so much for sharing 😁 BTW great to see Jonathan from"Hit and Misfits" also, Howdy from Texas!!

Way to go Mike!! You need to put up the vids more often because we always enjoy they!

I want to build a boat around one of these...they are great reliable power. They will probably run on anything greasy too.

Very impressive I enjoyed it tremendously.

I am in love with any good running engine. This one sounds great. Thanks for loading it to make it talk. I believe that some MAN diesels have a partial sphere in the piston for a precombustion chamber. Their hype said that it made it run much quieter.

Fantastic channel

Sweet! Love this Engine! Just an awesome mechanicalness to it and it has an awesome sound! Can't wait to see more videos from the new shop and hope all is going well with it! (PS: Tell Roadking where the lens is on that camera next time he films a video for you :)

Your assistant has got style : )

Nice engine Mike 👍

Nice engine, love this song

Excellent video

Like this engine, thanks for showing.

love them old engines

I love these old engines.

Awesome love this engine 👍🏻

Pretty Cool Mike!!!!

Sounds good n not loud at all with no muffler

Amazing ! Great vid thank you

That is awesome. Thank you mike. Everyone should have one..

that’s beautiful music!

Destin sent me, thanks for the great engine insights!

Love the sound

The Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range RR had these in their International Cabooses for heat & electricity & they had exterior access doors on the outside of their cabooses for maintenance......

Cool old engine. Nice to see how it controlled the speed when a load was put on it.

Love old timey engine's thank God for modern technology, but this makes me apreasuate modern stuff

wow! smooth as silk

Great video Mike,..Thank you for showing the full sequence. Love that exhaust sound! ( I think that cameraman needs some training though,...Hahahaha,...just a dig at the ROADKING there!)

This thing is going to run forever. I have a similar engine (maybe a Lister?) I think it's close to 100 years old, and I plan to rebuild it to use it with biodiesel.

Thank you so much brother

nice work Thanks

5:10 is the part you're looking for.

Impressive. Thanks for sharing!!

Diesel engines the best!

that a beautiful thing! thanks

great vid thanks

👍👍👍We had one same. But 15 hp. But it was scrapped in 1969. I regret 😒😒😒

The diesel engine, greatest invention ever!

Behold, the American horizontal Lister CS.

informative vid thanks.

Such and old antique piece of technology yet I couldn’t begin to understand its engineering and mechanics.

That has the human revolutionary, this was the solution. An Wonder of pressing old flora and fauna by using a mashine. With ech step an old soul will be free in the air ^^-

Very Cool! Thank You!

very nice.

Thanks for sharing and explaining it. In German it is pronounced like Vitta. Charles

That's cool! Are you guys going to finish that custom Briggs radial engine y'all were building? Love the videos!

thx for shown

Super cool.

I’ve never seen one of these. I love Diesel engines. But I’m confused, where is the fuel tank? I’ve never worked on anything this old before. Great video 👍👍👍

With as much simplicity and reliability as these engines have I’m surprised they aren’t still used in service today.. I’m sure they are pretty fuel efficient

That air cleaner assembly is a great thing to have on any engine, however it Sticks Out Like A Sore Thumb. At least it's a part marketed from about the 50's, 60's and up. And not one of those super high tech K&N - type filters.

Excellent

Is that a 1" thick copper band surrounding the flywheels?

Love it!

That's a sweeeet puppy.

that is one of the quietest diesels i have seen run... where can i get one for my truck ?

Very nice engine. I have one like it with a generator. It starts easy even in cold weather with the aid of a propane torch blowing heat into the air intake. I have been having a problem with the fuel pump loosing prime. I have to get that sorted out. I like your fuel filter. Is that an oil furnace filter?

Wonderful engine! the diesel filter would make it black and even the wheels !! Pity not to see the right side of the engine😃😃

Wow, that's awesome. Was that Roadking doing the video? i thought I recognized his fingers in the shot!