Identifier: farmengineshowto00step (find matches)
Title: Farm engines and how to run them; the young engineer's guide ... with special attention to traction and gasoline farm engines, and a chapter on the science of successful threshing
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Stephenson, James H
Subjects: Farm engines Traction-engines
Publisher: Chicago, F.J. Drake & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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.Before putting on the belts, turn the machine by handa few times to see that no parts are loose. Look intothe machine on straw^ rack and conveyor. First connect up belt with engine and run the cylinderonly for a time. Screw down the grease cup lugs whennecessary, and see that no boxes heat. Take off thetightener pulley, clean out oil chambers and thoroughlyoil the spindle. Then oil each separate bearing in turn,seeing that oil hole is clean, and that pulley or journalWOrks freely. The successive belts may then be put onone at a time, until the stacker belt is put on after itspulleys have been oiled. Especially note which belts areto run crossed—usually the main belt and the stacker belt.You can tell by noting which way the machinery mustrun to keep the straw moving in the proper direction. Oiling on the first run of a machine is especially im-portant, as the bearings are a trifle rough and more liableto heat than after machine has been used for some tin.v iS8 YOUNG ENGINEERS GUIDE.
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O< O O<1 faO O H E02 It is well to oil ashaft while it runs,since the motionhelps the oil to workin over the whole sur-face. The sieves, con-caves, check boardand blinds must beadjusted to the kindof grain to bethreshed. When theyhave been so adjust-ed the machine isread)^ to thresh. SETTING SEPARATOR. It is importantthat the machine bekept perfectly steady,and that it be levelfrom, side to side,though its being alittle higher or lowerat one end or theother may not mat-ter much. If the lev-el sidewise is not per-fect the grain willhave a tendency towork over to oneside. A spirit leve)should be used. One or more ofthe wheels should Ijcset in holes, accordingto the unevenneis ofthe ground, andthe rear wheelsshould be well block-ed. Get the holes MOW TO RUN x\ THRESHING MACHINE. 1S9 ready, judging as well as possible what will give a truelevel and a convenient position. Haul the machine intoposition and see that it is all right before uncoupling theengine. If holes need redigging t

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