Cold start Insley excavator 1960

Insley with a 6 cyl Volvo diesel.

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• insley

[zstationuk]

Sounds like a Perkins P4?

[Jobergg]

It´s a Volvo diesel.

[mackmodleR123]

it sounds like a croud in the back ground why does it take 50 people to start a track hoe

[Jobergg]

This was on a tractor show.

[sniper152]

damn, give it some grease, it won't squeak as much,

[SvenTheTerrible]

Back when you could actually understand how machines worked

[justforever96]

I think I gotcha. So the turret and engine and boom are the K-12, and the black piece can be switched with other accessories, like the bucket on a excavator today? so is a "cable hoe" like a dragline, except with a more "bulldozer blade" configuration? Like, it's for scraping things rather than scooping up dirt? I like the concept of one machine that can do several things. Versatility rocks

[marion7200]

One has a cable hoe attachment and one has a crane boom attachment for use as a crane and/or dragline.

I have seen three or four k-12s with shovel fronts on them. Insley shovels is a rare find. I have been told around 200 or less Insleys left the factory with shovel front attachments on them. The olny difference in the main machine if it was a k-12 shovel would be the counter weight,

[justforever96]

Addicted to either? How is that? addictive personality? Naw, I'll bet you're right; if either really does damage the piston rings, it'll make the cylinders loose compression. If it's already hard to get the thing to fire, dropping the compression even a little will just make things worse. And every time you use it, it'd just burn the rings some more...the "addicted" metaphor really was accurate, huh? Like people who get hooked on drugs and need to take them to function until they die from it.

[justforever96]

True we have awesome machines to do our work, and we've made ginormous towers and ships and bridges and cities, but it's still more impressive to see something like the Panama Canal, dug by hand. Amazing what you can do with enough men to work at it. Just ants in the eyes of God, but when you're done you have a cathedral or the Pyramids, etc.

[justforever96]

That's one of the things I was wondering; I don't think you can flood a diesel, unless you REALLY flood it. A diesel doesn't worry about the fuel/air mixture like a gas engine. If you pump more fuel into a cylinder than the available oxygen can burn, it just sends the extra fuel out the exhaust. That's one of the reasons diesel dragsters smoke so much. The trick to diesel power is to push as much air as you can into the motor. You can burn as much fuel as you have air to burn, no "lean" mode.

[justforever96]

So what is the difference between a K-12 cable hoe and a K-12 dragline? Or are they the same thing?

[justforever96]

What do you mean "a flap at the bottom"? Are you talking about the shackle-thingy that transmits the force of a single cable to both sides of the shovel? (Kind of like the "whiffletree" that you use to hook two horses to one wagon) I thought at first it was a flap like the old steam-shovels had, but it's not. Other than that, all I can see of "twin-ended" is that the other end on the shovel is open, so you could reach down into a hole and scoop forwards and in an upstroke, to make a flat wall.

[marion7200]

They was a K-12 cable hoe at the 6th annual old construction & surface mining equipment show this past September. Plus a L dragline and a k-12 dragline

[wealllovecheese]

it does cause harm and also it can get addicted to either as well which is not good