Hit and miss engines are some of the coolest on the planet. Great engineering and a distinctive sound when running.
One of my high-school buddies was into restoring/rebuilding them. Really cool to see such old tech still usable!
Hey Phil, next time I am over at farmer Bob’s place I will get some photos of his engines. He has one that runs an ice cream maker, one for a small grain mill, and one for a water pump. He is a fourth generation miller and show n’ tells once a month at the family’s formerly owned water powered mill. It is an undershot mill powered with a 42hp turbine, the sight, sound, and smell you won’t forget. Fresh cornmeal, yeah!
HTR
Phil, wouldn’t the header for this article accurately also be applied to the Ford picture collections that Cederq posts? I know that the whole car is usually stationary in those cases, but that’s due to the stationary non-reciprocating parts inside their engine block, that should be doing the reciprocating back-and-forth thingy, but regularly just won’t.
Uh-oh, don’t let Leigh read this comment.
And here I was going to be nice and not mention that I figured it was a Mopar collection.
Not so long ago, engines like these were all over the oil patch. Donkey engines. Some ran on natural gas while others ran on the oil as pumped after going through a centrifical filtering device.
Hit and miss engines are some of the coolest on the planet. Great engineering and a distinctive sound when running.
One of my high-school buddies was into restoring/rebuilding them. Really cool to see such old tech still usable!
Hey Phil, next time I am over at farmer Bob’s place I will get some photos of his engines. He has one that runs an ice cream maker, one for a small grain mill, and one for a water pump. He is a fourth generation miller and show n’ tells once a month at the family’s formerly owned water powered mill. It is an undershot mill powered with a 42hp turbine, the sight, sound, and smell you won’t forget. Fresh cornmeal, yeah!
HTR
Phil, wouldn’t the header for this article accurately also be applied to the Ford picture collections that Cederq posts? I know that the whole car is usually stationary in those cases, but that’s due to the stationary non-reciprocating parts inside their engine block, that should be doing the reciprocating back-and-forth thingy, but regularly just won’t.
Uh-oh, don’t let Leigh read this comment.
And here I was going to be nice and not mention that I figured it was a Mopar collection.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
enjoy…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjoPZIUB8pA
Beautiful! Nice rabbit hole to wander down…
Not so long ago, engines like these were all over the oil patch. Donkey engines. Some ran on natural gas while others ran on the oil as pumped after going through a centrifical filtering device.
I have a bunch of hit or miss engines