Joseph Cummings

What all do you have?

82 80 CI Shovel FXR I've got a buddy that is heavy into Flatheads if you are into old and fast. He held the world record at Bonneville for a bunch of years. I think last time was 180 MPH. He's looking much older too. His shop is about half an hour from here next to Bills Custom Cycles Bill's collection takes up 55,000 SQ feet. For his birthday he had a barrel rider there https://www.billsbikebarn.com/billsbik-VirtualTours-30.htm

Here is something pretty cool. I think they were using a one megawatt 1800 RPM unit here. Voltage is at least 4160. You can see the generator load every time the feet go down. I didn't watch all the parts, but usually lots of greasing going on when they walk them far. Hey @Mark T, How far did they walk the Anthracite King that time? I think it was some crazy distance. I think they told me it was to make the cut for RT81. Anthracite King below

2 MW? maybe a bit more?

ESI Plus with 3 filters and the big pan. All the blue, as kinda like a Pedigree

And I thought I felt old then

I don't look like or walk like me 12 years ago

237 as built shouldn't have anything but a 5 or 6

Should have been wearing my glasses

Oh yeah somehow I missed that one. Funny I don't remember seeing a splitter on the shifter

Normally they were 44 tons so the yard guys could run them. 45 tons and up had to have an engineer or a two man crew

Tom Benden does lots of cool frame and suspension stuff https://www.youtube.com/@bendinwithbendon

I went by the shift knob lol. I don't see a picture of the trans. Maybe it's an ENDT673C

237 5speed, Mack suspension with the short trunnion. Not bad really

These trucks full of Portland Cement belong to SIG. They are like the largest Portland cement producer in Asia. These guys aren't playing. They are doing business like it's combat, and here in the US we are doing business like it's a day care center for preschool girls

You see stuff like this, and realize we have become the world's biggest sissies. When you see them in some of the other videos and they are breaking equipment, it isn't because they are stupid, it's because the money is so big, that it just isn't that big of deal

I delivered trailer mounted equipment to the Lipari Landfill down in Pittman NJ. Same deal, I couldn't set foot on the ground even to drop and hook. And they washed my tractor before I left. That was a big superfund site. The town of Pittman had a big cancer cluster in the 70's. If I remember right there was a lake there and the stuff got in the lake that people swam and fished in

Here is a great free book on Lead acid batteries. It's old old like 1920. Goes over all the rebuilding and repair https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29718/pg29718-images.html

Back in the 80's and 90's my Polish cousin, ran his whole demolition company with Illegal Polacks. He was giving them like 100 a day and they worked here for a couple of years living cheap, and then go back to Poland with 50 or 100K saved up. From what they told me American Dollars went a long way in Poland, and if you had 50 or 100k in US Dollars you were a very wealthy man

What do you think guys like George Racho, or Booty would think of those Pakis?

Joey, again I'm not saying 'All". I just don't like the way all this is going. They are trying to make everything out to be a super high tech repair that can only be done by guys that grew up in a monastery, shaved their heads, flogged themselves and fasted for one month a year. And this super high tech only exists in somebody's fantasy. You don't know how many times I see mechanics do stuff like spend 10,000 rebuilding an engine for a shop forklift that That you'd be able to buy a good running replacement forklift for maybe 5,000 or less. The engine might have nothing wrong with it but a leaking valve, or one chugged out cylinder, or just need rings bearings and valves because it's old. But they don't want to do that, they want to act like some part that might be worn half a thousands under isn't good enough for the shop forklift that might get run 5 hours a week. It's like they don't get that they are building a 4 cylinder B Cummins for a POS obsolete forklift and not a race engine for Barny Oldfield And the worst part is, even with their high tech BS talk, the shit doesn't run right when they are done