looking at the video and his responses to comments, buddy is a machine-recycling nut just using this to give himself a mobile welder on his acreage or whatever.

looking at the video and his responses to comments, buddy is a machine-recycling nut just using this to give himself a mobile welder on his acreage or whatever. he definitely knows it's a mad-max-by-way-of-something-awful "look what I made out of shit I had lying around" solution to a thoroughly solved problem. it's conceptually cool but it's a weird narrow use case and it's not an objectively good idea. you could address cooling by using a motor with a big clutch fan and a well-shrouded rad, and you would probably be better off using the engine's idle control system to manage this at lower RPM to save gas, but it'd still be lipstick on a pig and you could go to harbour freight and buy a prettier pig.