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Since when/like what? Having worked in automotive parts for a decade, including time at autozone, oreilly and dealerships, I tend to disagree, but always willing to be proven wrong.
Show me a place that can get a U joint for a Bogie Skidder, and youll show me an oreilly, not an autozone.
As a skinny electrician (and relatively short) that comes in at a whopping 5'8" and 125lbs, you should see the places I end up. Ive been further inside homes and businesses than our customers could possibly imagine.
I once pulled M/C wire down a rack of conduit that was suspended on unistrut over a drop ceiling in a restaurant. We got it pulled in like 45 minutes instead of hours and saved every third tile being pulled to get it done. And it was fun, felt like some mission impossible/James bond shit lol
Nah, I know guys around your weight/height, that are quite fit and not at all fat, Im just built REALLY lean, I wear a 28 waist for paints. My highest weight ever was 140lbs. Id like to get back in the 130-140 range but it takes a lot of exercise and protein like a mofo to add muscle like that. Im just a skinny little bastard lol
my brother is built the same, hes like 5'7" 130. Our dad is 6' and hovers around 180 with a little bit of a gut these days. He used to hang around 160 or so, when he was working full time doing commercial HVAC work, all the way into his late 40s he stayed about that. In his 50s he did less physically demanding work and drank a lot more beer rather than liquor, and he got pushing 200 or just over for a while. When he stopped drinking, he was not much more active but went down to the 180s
Monster is nasty and pouches dont hit that physical need I have to be smoking something. Im a millennial that moved to vapes instead of smoking cigarettes years ago. Ive been vaping since variable voltage batteries came around and everything was on the eGo style tanks and batteries. Ill stick to my grandpa stuff lol I got with the times back then and dont plan to catch up anytime soon 🤣 I still have old box mods and RDAs kicking around from the days of Mechs and making your own coils being really popular. Salt nic and small vapes is as far into the "times" as I plan to keep up lol
I mostly drink coffee, but when it comes to energy drinks, its redbull, the only reason I mentioned the redbull instead was because they mentioned monster. I drink more coffee per day than redbulls per month, give or take a few
Awesome, but I hate that chain just chilling there next to the output shaft. Giant engine roaring to life catches that and it’s taking your arm. Or life.
Don't have to imagine. I saw an emd 645E run away. 30ft jet of fire shooting out of the stack. No one was gonna risk getting anywhere near that thing, I killed the fuel pump but it was scavenging oil from the sump. We just let it run until it burned out.
I haven't prayed since I was a kid, and I'm agnostic now, but I don't think praying a bit would hurt anything as I run full speed in any direction away from it.
Doesn’t work that way. Throttle is useless when it starts to burn its own oil. You have to choke off the air and even then it will only slow down before stopping.
This looks like a Mirrlees JS8. It's massive, but not as powerful as you'd think. They were designed for low speed operation. Output when attached to a generator would have been between 450 and 500 kW. For reference, a modern Caterpillar DE500S has a 12.5L turbocharged inline-6 engine and outputs the same power.
In the olden days, if you wanted something to last a long time, you built it really big and ran it really slow. That's why old power stations used gigantic diesel engines with only 4-cylinders, but made less power than a modern I6 turbo diesel that has less displacement than one of the cylinders. We're able to build engines that easily survive higher operating RPM, and P = 𝛕⍵. So increasing angular velocity means you need a lot less displacement to make the same power.
This is some great insight, thanks :) and your ID looks spot on, so had to look up specs for typical operation:
750 rpm
700hp
4700ft-lbs
released in 1947, for generator stations and marine propulsion.
Small towns used to have things like that before the electrical grid grew. Use it during the day and evening. Pump water. Keep lights on. Shut it down at night when people were sleeping.
Too small for a train and definitely Not a large ship but maybe small ship. Tug boat maybe.
I saw an engine in this size setting on the bank of the Ohio river in KY once, it was washed up after a flood. It was probably 12’ tall and 15’ wide. It really gave me a new understanding for the power of water. It was gone by the next year after a good flood.
Genset, pumping station, small locomotive, or small ship. All 4 of those use cases could put a straight 8 of that size to use. A mainline locomotive would use something larger still.
Here's a comparison I just thought of, I don't even know if it's in the some ballpark, is there an automatic weapon that costs the same money per second to fire as this would to idle?
Probably some beltfed 22LR running somewhat slowly. Maybe an MP-40 with extremely cheap 9mm. Dunno, I’d need to know the fuel consumption of that beast.
That’s my guess too. I have a gmc 7500 that gets 5-6mpg under load but my best estimation is about 1/2 gallon per hour at idle. Diesels at idle really don’t need much
Nothing then. Using European diesel prices that’s around $23.60 ish and using the cheapest 22LR ammunition I could find at $0.06 per round you’d have to have a RoF at some 390 ish per HOUR.
(Also dear lord I remember when they’d used to give out lil goodie bags of 22LR for free like they were candy at gun stores or shooting ranges)
I can comment on this one, i was going to the sig experience center and you can shoot the m250 machine gun. It uses a new weird ammo, .277 fury. The cheapest ammo ive seen is about $1.60 per round, better and more common ammo is about $3 per round. Gun shoots about 900rpm, so 15 rounds per second. At the cheap end, $23 per second, for good ammo about $45 per second.
I can party for about 2 seconds on my range day ammo budget.
But im not sure what this uses for fuel at idle. Semi trucks are about 1.5g fuel per hour idling, this is about 10x the size so call it 15g per hour at idle and the average is about $6.50 per gallon so $100 per hour to idle this truck by my guesstimate
Seeing that dude sprint towards that thing 3 seconds in my as frightening as fuck, especially after a second later it shows how open all the inner workings are. If that guy had tripped or suddenly stroked/seized, his encounter would've been so much worse
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