FB hack revisited

[Not db4600]

Well not actually, but the last round was entertaining so let’s do it again.

Not sure if this is for pumping tires or introducing nitrous?

I haven’t seen one of these in years. Surge or De Laval?

 

[oldsarge]

Block heater

 

[joeysmith]

That's for starting fluid

 

[Tx Jim]

Petcock in photo could have been used to ""provide vacuum when engine is operating"" to operate a cow milking machine

 

[Brown David]

Vaccum port to run a milker.

EDIT: Jim is quicker.

 

[Scott 730]

Petcock in photo could have been used to ""provide vacuum when engine is operating"" to operate a cow milking machine

40 ish years ago a local guy milked his cows during an extended power outage by pulling vacuum from his pickup engine.

 

[rrlund]

It'll work, but the vacuum is so low, it's hard on the cow if you do it too many times.

 

[stoughtonfarmboy]

My father-in-law did that a couple times in an emergency. No electricity situation around 1966.

 

[Brian G. NY]

Vaccum port to run a milker.

EDIT: Jim is quicker.

Yep! Never saw one on that modern a tractor.

 

[Willow Lane]

The only problem is that if the cow kicks the milker off, the engine looses vacuum and quits.

 

[Mule Meat]

1000 watts, 120 volt, 50-60 Hz. Therm-O-Pump..

Appears to me to be a common coolant heater, better known as a block heater.

If it were a cow milker. Why would it be plumbed from the intake to the engine block and have a power cord attached to it?

 

[Gambles]

I grew up on a dairy farm and in the late ‘60’s, when I was a small kid, we had about 25 cows. When the power would go out, we’d hook our Surge equipment ( strap over the cow, milk equipment beneath the cow) to an idling Allis-Chalmers C and get the cows milked.
We later built a different barn, complete with a DeLaval pipeline system. We also purchased a PTO-powered Winco generator.
The system pictured above can also be farmer-engineered to get rid of the air in a cooling system when trying to get all the air out of a freshly built modern engine.

 

[Brown David]

1000 watts, 120 volt, 50-60 Hz. Therm-O-Pump..

Appears to me to be a common coolant heater, better known as a block heater.

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If it were a cow milker. Why would it be plumbed from the intake to the engine block and have a power cord attached to it?

Yep. your pic shows an engine heater.

I/we were takling about the petcock above the carburetor.

 

[joeysmith]

1000 watts, 120 volt, 50-60 Hz. Therm-O-Pump..

Appears to me to be a common coolant heater, better known as a block heater.

View attachment 145347

If it were a cow milker. Why would it be plumbed from the intake to the engine block and have a power cord attached to it?

The valve just above the carburetor is what i believe is in question

 

[used red MN]

1000 watts, 120 volt, 50-60 Hz. Therm-O-Pump..

Appears to me to be a common coolant heater, better known as a block heater.

View attachment 145347

If it were a cow milker. Why would it be plumbed from the intake to the engine block and have a power cord attached to it?

THIS valve is what they are talking about! It could also be used to put a vacuum in an irrigation pump to prime it in certain configurations. There was either a glass unit or a float type deal like a shop vac to turn off the vacuum when the water got up to it. If that was overlooked the alternative was bad.

 

[Tx Jim]

1000 watts, 120 volt, 50-60 Hz. Therm-O-Pump..

Appears to me to be a common coolant heater, better known as a block heater.

View attachment 145347

If it were a cow milker. Why would it be plumbed from the intake to the engine block and have a power cord attached to it?

The petcock in OP's photo when turned in on position is a place that can provide vacuum to operate a cow milker while tractor engine is operating

 

[560Dennis]

Where’s the hack ?