Yeah that is amazing and it is just like the engines we had on those post-WWII bulldozers and maintainers. Fire up the gasoline engine and get it screaming at h

Yeah that is amazing and it is just like the engines we had on those post-WWII bulldozers and maintainers. Fire up the gasoline engine and get it screaming at high rpm and then use that high rpm to transfer power to the flywheel of the diesel engine which will crank and run once the compression is high enough to ignite the diesel. Here is a video of a guy cranking a Caterpillar D2 like we had to crank our D4 back in the day. [0] When I started working with that small family-owned company I had no real experience with mechanical things other than my own pickup truck. When I finally moved on from them a couple years later I could maintain, tear down, and rebuild gasoline and diesel engines, compressors, hydraulics, air brakes, etc. We did all of that ourselves in addition to the real jobs of pipeline maintenance and repair and oil spill cleanup. I don't remember all the times I spent laying on the dirt floor of the "shop" there in central Texas and cursing all the oily sand and crap that fell in our eyes and faces as we tried to fix things after the day's work was done. Luckily beer-thirty was a cherished event that came with hang-down (summer sausage), cheddar cheese chunks, fresh onion slices, cold milk and saltine crackers. We finished most days in the domino shack trying to avenge the previous days' losses. Good times indeed. [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck210eL9qcI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck210eL9qcI