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Posted by SLoroll on January 05, 2005 at 18:00:54 from (12.219.230.225):
In Reply to: for sloroll posted by ericlb on January 05, 2005 at 17:24:38:
Hey I was treated to an awful picture of a damaged leg. Got a W4 myself and looked the situation over good. I believe.
Well it was again in high school our farm finally got into the big league as we were doing all our farming with a 300U "ALL OUR FARMING". Being typical teenager I was embarassed our neighbor had a Stieger and we both farmed just along the highway right outside of town. The 966 had a nasty habbit of the fuel line plugging when the fuel got to about 1/4 tank. I surmised it was a corn or bean leaf floating in it. I carried a basketball pump under the tractor seat to blow the line back when the tractor stopped. This got annoying as I never saw that Stieger stop. One fall day I saw a woman had left an old Eurica (I called em a weiner vac) vacuum out for the trash man. I got a great idea. As we were done with the 966 for the winter (harrvest was done) and the Utillity would be used for choring I drained all the fuel out of the big tractor's tank by way of the drain plug, unscrewed the fuel line and drained all I could out of her. I left the cap off the tank to evaporate any fuel out and walked away.
Four months later and about time to spring till I crawlled up on my proud mount with the wiener vac under my arm With the cab on the tractor there was nowhere to hold except lean over the tractor hood with my feet precariously ballanced on the frame. One handreached over the hood and the other held the vac nosel. I flipped the toggle with my nose and proceded to suck. Who ever placed the drain plug in a 966 must have flunked engineering or let his little brother eat over the drawings. I can attest that there was at least a quart of diesel in that tank even after evaporating for 4 months.
To create a propper jet engine the fuel must be vaporised (drawn through a vaccuum bag). Run through a turbine (vaccuum fan blades) and be ignighted by a shower of sparks (The powerful Eurica electric motor). That Wiener vac roared to life under my armpit pushing flame out the back side a good 12 feet or more. I was screaming the vaccuuum was reving up and getting louder I couldn't let go of anything to jump because I couldn't let the flame shoot around the shed and I was so ballanced the thing would have fell on me as I fell anyway. Finally the motor burned up after what felt like 30 min but probably 20 seconds or so. I left a big sooty spot on the shed wall and filled the Lester building with smoke. I set it all down and sat outside for a long time to stop shaking. I don't reccomend anyone try to replicate the situation. The good news I FIXED IT! The better news... Our snooty neighbor had triples on his Stieger when he sunk it in the mud and snapped an axel. Now ar age forty two I feel bad about that but in highschool... it was sweet revenge.
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