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Mb4

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Awesome build! Can’t be used indoors, I’d imagine, but awesome nonetheless.
 
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This is ****, I love it and all BUT that expensive little engine is gonna die if continued to be used that way. No way is this intended to have this sort of thrust applied to the end of the crankshaft.
It remains uber cool and inspires building a different device, maybe a stick blender for my wife(right). If only I had the dough for such sillyness.
 
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I used drills when working on a flagstone quarry that were hydraulic, but powered by an old Chrysler (? it was forty years ago) flat head eight. We ran multiple drills off the power unit.

We also had a couple of nightmare drills with two-stroke powerheads. They weighed in at about 100lbs, were unbelievably loud and sprayed oil in all directions when running--but you could use them where the hoses wouldn't go.

Also used Hilti gas-powered drills while working for the USFS one summer to install fence posts in solid rock. Much better units, for a giant-*** rotohammer.
 
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Beerhippie said:
I used drills when working on a flagstone quarry that were hydraulic, but powered by an old Chrysler (? it was forty years ago) flat head eight. We ran multiple drills off the power unit.

We also had a couple of nightmare drills with two-stroke powerheads. They weighed in at about 100lbs, were unbelievably loud and sprayed oil in all directions when running--but you could use them where the hoses wouldn't go.

Also used Hilti gas-powered drills while working for the USFS one summer to install fence posts in solid rock. Much better units, for a giant-*** rotohammer.
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This reminds we of the gas powered winches that resemble chainsaws. Also the early sky car logging winches. The sky car rode on dual 2" sky lines and was about 15' long. It had a straight eight also, a big winch and a chair for the operator. The guy sitting in the car would drop his winch line down to the ground crew who would hook up the logs and the car would move through the air on the cables to the landing. Similar carriages are used today but there is a camera and no operator on board. Engines in the right end, operator in the center (with rain roof) and winch on the left end. Lower right are the sky line cable guides which should be top right but have gotten bend down.
Sorry if this is straying off topic but cool to see how guys actually made a living just the same.

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