Small diesel

jerdee

Just wondering if anyone uses a small diesel stationary engine .i use a small pto barley crusher now and again and was wondering if I could setup something that would be portable . As I think it a waste using a large tractor ticking over . Also thinking a electric motor but power not always around .

yellow50HX

Have seen a few lads with small diesel engines on bale wrappers, they would probably be along the same lines as what your thinking. dont know what they are though. what a lot of fells do is they tow the wraper behind a loader to each job and use the loader to lift the bales onto the wrapper and stack the bales while using a remote control for the wrapper. The engines power the hydrulic pump.

reilig

yellow50HX wrote: »

Have seen a few lads with small diesel engines on bale wrappers, they would probably be along the same lines as what your thinking. dont know what they are though. what a lot of fells do is they tow the wraper behind a loader to each job and use the loader to lift the bales onto the wrapper and stack the bales while using a remote control for the wrapper. The engines power the hydrulic pump.

Are they not just hydraulic power packs (ie engine with a built in hydraulic oil tank and pump) as opposed to a stand alone engine?

I have one of these for working the log splitter. It would probably power the wrapper, but it has no external shaft for powering the lokes of a corn roller.

yellow50HX

reilig wrote: »

Are they not just hydraulic power packs (ie engine with a built in hydraulic oil tank and pump) as opposed to a stand alone engine?

I have one of these for working the log splitter. It would probably power the wrapper, but it has no external shaft for powering the lokes of a corn roller.

A hydrulic motor could be fitted to the shaft of the roller like those on a beet chopper.

Might actually be ideal if you have one of those wrappers and needed to go rolling grain you could take the engine off the wrapper and put it on the roller for the winter. shouldnt be too hard to make up a frame to mount it and stick on a few hydrulic couplings

jerdee

Yes I have seen the remote power packs for wrappers .kinda thinking down the vintage route lister single cylinder .....

iverjohnston

depending on your mechanical ability, and the level of thinkering you are prepared to do, you could do worse than make friends with your local scrap metal merchant. Ask him to look out for an older diesel engine car, one without any electronics. Lots of old ventos etc getting baled up. If you are lucky, you might chance upon one of the old daihatsu charade 3 cylinder diesels. Iver in Cavan

jerdee

Ya that's another idea iver.
Have a ould Almera for the fields might swap for diesel