Monday, April 11, 2016
Tuesday Torque: V12 Rolls Royce Merlin!
Here's an engine nut in hog heaven. Can you beat this with an engine in your collection?
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13. Clear your work area and your escape path of brush, vines, and other hazards that can trip you or catch your saw.
14. Escape from the bullseye when the tree tips. 90% of accidents happen within 12 feet of the stump. Go more than 15 feet, and stay out of the bullseye until things stop falling.
15. Keep spectators away more than twice the height of the tree in the direction it will fall.
16. Don't cut alone.
17. Keep your body and the swamper's out of the line of the bar in case of a kickback.
18. Set the brake when taking over two steps or when moving through tripping hazards. Keep your trigger finger off of the throttle when you are moving.
19. DO NOT operate a chainsaw from a ladder! Operating with your feet off the ground requires special training.
20. Do not cut above your shoulders.
21. Springpoles must be shaved on the inside of the apex between the ascending and descending sides. If the apex is higher than you shoulders, stand under the springpole and cut it low on the descending side. It will release upward, away from you.Leaning and heavily loaded poles that are too small to bore cut for a hinge should be shaved on the compressed side until they fold.
22. Do not cut a tree that is holding up a lodged tree. Do not work under a lodged tree. Think about a mouse trying to steal the cheese out of a trap.
23. Instruct your swampers and helpers to NEVER approach you from behind or the sides to within the reach of your saw when you are cutting. If you pull out of a cut with the chain running, or have a severe kickback, the swamper can be killed if he is coming up behind you!
24!! Quit When You Are Tired!
5 comments:
I had a lot of trouble (with my poor hearing) understanding what that man said - but I sure understood that engine.
On a related note, there was a lunatic by the name of E. J. Potter who put one of those V-12s in a 1964 Dart (?) station wagon. When that didn't work out, he hooked a big generator to it & used it to make an electric drive car, with the generator stationary & a long extension cord.
Then there was the "Bloody Mary" bike, with a Corvette motor on it.
It took a lot of guts to drive any of his creations, and much to my surprise none of them killed him, although several tried.
Merle
I can't understand him either, and my hearing is nearly perfect. Funny thing is no-one else can hear the buzzing and ringing that my ears hear. Hearing the wife over all that vibration is difficult. It might have something to do with chainsaws and gunfire.
I sympathize - I also suffer from tinnitus.
Merle
I turned on closed captioning. "catholic italian engine" was one of the gems and there are more.
Of course this led into a little internet research on the engines.
Very interesting, but the big radials are still holding first place in my heart.
Great post, thank you.
Here is his wiki, quite a interesting person.
If you have watched any of the Isle of Mann TT races, he is fearless.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Martin
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