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thebuildist wrote: ↑Fri Dec 17, 2021 7:24 pm So let me get this straight... You looking for a little booty?
Well, if you say so...
Bob
Not me , I'm broken , the wife is worn out from work and we have a 13 year old grandson with special needs . I should have said sock or toque to keep the oil in the filter from cooling off to fast untill the system makes enough of its own heat . With dual coolers and extra plumbing , keeping it's cool in the winter is no problem . Getting Frankie up to working temp in the winter is somettimes . 
Ya , he is under a pergola . I have a heated shop but if he is in there I have no where to work . He has P220 under the hood but also has a 12gpm pump and drive a hydra rear blower . I am just looking to take the "chill " off and the stress of trying to move all that oil when it is like molasses . I do run semi-synthetic 15-40 year round which helps . This is him ready for winter .Timj wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:09 pm Dave, so I take it Frankie is in a totally unheated shed?
I've always rolled around thoughts on making it easier to get started in the cold. My 4118 has always been somewhat of a hard starter in the cold. I think it's going to be better with lighter oil and heavier battery. It's not really a problem for me to let run for a while to warm up, as long as it starts. I could put it in my garage that rarely gets below 25°f. Also, at home we don't get much snow at cold temps, they usually follow it. Wood duty is the only thing I have to do sometimes in below 0° temps. But when I was thinking about taking Ingy up to the cabin I was thinking about ways to warm it. We left that blue and yeller thing up there for snow duty, it has a block heater on it, so plug in and it'll start.
I take it your looking to just warm it up for a while before use, not continuous.
I like the idea of not doing an extreme cold start.
Frankie is a mean looking beast ready to conquer anything old man winter can throw at him. So, the front snow caster housing is used as a plow? I see hydraulic lines running to the front but no chute!DavidBarkey wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:32 pmYa , he is under a pergola . I have a heated shop but if he is in there I have no where to work . He has P220 under the hood but also has a 12gpm pump and drive a hydra rear blower . I am just looking to take the "chill " off and the stress of trying to move all that oil when it is like molasses . I do run semi-synthetic 15-40 year round which helps . This is him ready for winter .Timj wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:09 pm Dave, so I take it Frankie is in a totally unheated shed?
I've always rolled around thoughts on making it easier to get started in the cold. My 4118 has always been somewhat of a hard starter in the cold. I think it's going to be better with lighter oil and heavier battery. It's not really a problem for me to let run for a while to warm up, as long as it starts. I could put it in my garage that rarely gets below 25°f. Also, at home we don't get much snow at cold temps, they usually follow it. Wood duty is the only thing I have to do sometimes in below 0° temps. But when I was thinking about taking Ingy up to the cabin I was thinking about ways to warm it. We left that blue and yeller thing up there for snow duty, it has a block heater on it, so plug in and it'll start.
I take it your looking to just warm it up for a while before use, not continuous.
I like the idea of not doing an extreme cold start.
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Dave
The hydraulic lines you see are for the loader bucket cylinders . The old Case Caster casing was twisted and the auger had a bend in the tube .I think the PO tried to pull it out of somewhere bad by the auger . It never worked right and was beyond repairing properly so the casing was repurposed into a bucket for the loader and auger made its way into other projects in pieces . I now have caster worth fixing thanks to a trade with Eugen . The new to me caster will go on the 446 I am rebuilding and will be a front mount and the primary winter machine . Frankie will get most of the winter off by then . I plan on putting the oil tank heater on the 446 as well . Should work a little quicker being less than a gallon . Kicking the idea of engine oil heater as well though a pipe plug in the oil pan at the base of the dip stick tube . If I can find one small enough . A timer for those days they are calling for snowmagettin is an easy thing . Ideas are easy remembering what I was doing half way through not so much .Harry wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 6:14 pmFrankie is a mean looking beast ready to conquer anything old man winter can throw at him. So, the front snow caster housing is used as a plow? I see hydraulic lines running to the front but no chute!DavidBarkey wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:32 pmYa , he is under a pergola . I have a heated shop but if he is in there I have no where to work . He has P220 under the hood but also has a 12gpm pump and drive a hydra rear blower . I am just looking to take the "chill " off and the stress of trying to move all that oil when it is like molasses . I do run semi-synthetic 15-40 year round which helps . This is him ready for winter .Timj wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:09 pm Dave, so I take it Frankie is in a totally unheated shed?
I've always rolled around thoughts on making it easier to get started in the cold. My 4118 has always been somewhat of a hard starter in the cold. I think it's going to be better with lighter oil and heavier battery. It's not really a problem for me to let run for a while to warm up, as long as it starts. I could put it in my garage that rarely gets below 25°f. Also, at home we don't get much snow at cold temps, they usually follow it. Wood duty is the only thing I have to do sometimes in below 0° temps. But when I was thinking about taking Ingy up to the cabin I was thinking about ways to warm it. We left that blue and yeller thing up there for snow duty, it has a block heater on it, so plug in and it'll start.
I take it your looking to just warm it up for a while before use, not continuous.
I like the idea of not doing an extreme cold start.
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Dave
Keep the Peace
Harry
Oh well it is getting better . Hasn't happened to me yet. 
It really makes me want to start a business and make such devices with servers located on our soil! 
DavidBarkey wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:32 pmYa , he is under a pergola . I have a heated shop but if he is in there I have no where to work . He has P220 under the hood but also has a 12gpm pump and drive a hydra rear blower . I am just looking to take the "chill " off and the stress of trying to move all that oil when it is like molasses . I do run semi-synthetic 15-40 year round which helps . This is him ready for winter .Timj wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:09 pm Dave, so I take it Frankie is in a totally unheated shed?
I've always rolled around thoughts on making it easier to get started in the cold. My 4118 has always been somewhat of a hard starter in the cold. I think it's going to be better with lighter oil and heavier battery. It's not really a problem for me to let run for a while to warm up, as long as it starts. I could put it in my garage that rarely gets below 25°f. Also, at home we don't get much snow at cold temps, they usually follow it. Wood duty is the only thing I have to do sometimes in below 0° temps. But when I was thinking about taking Ingy up to the cabin I was thinking about ways to warm it. We left that blue and yeller thing up there for snow duty, it has a block heater on it, so plug in and it'll start.
I take it your looking to just warm it up for a while before use, not continuous.
I like the idea of not doing an extreme cold start.
101_2887.JPG
Dave, What a cool beast you have done a great job on the hydraulics system. I like the cab with the front and back wipers also.
TLD89
That’s quite a set up Dave. Any videos of it operating. And a question, can videos be put on this site. Be slick to have a cone clutch between engine and pump to disengage to help with starting. John Deere 140H3 has that set up.DavidBarkey wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:32 pmYa , he is under a pergola . I have a heated shop but if he is in there I have no where to work . He has P220 under the hood but also has a 12gpm pump and drive a hydra rear blower . I am just looking to take the "chill " off and the stress of trying to move all that oil when it is like molasses . I do run semi-synthetic 15-40 year round which helps . This is him ready for winter .Timj wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:09 pm Dave, so I take it Frankie is in a totally unheated shed?
I've always rolled around thoughts on making it easier to get started in the cold. My 4118 has always been somewhat of a hard starter in the cold. I think it's going to be better with lighter oil and heavier battery. It's not really a problem for me to let run for a while to warm up, as long as it starts. I could put it in my garage that rarely gets below 25°f. Also, at home we don't get much snow at cold temps, they usually follow it. Wood duty is the only thing I have to do sometimes in below 0° temps. But when I was thinking about taking Ingy up to the cabin I was thinking about ways to warm it. We left that blue and yeller thing up there for snow duty, it has a block heater on it, so plug in and it'll start.
I take it your looking to just warm it up for a while before use, not continuous.
I like the idea of not doing an extreme cold start.
101_2887.JPG
Dave
or grandson Jacob film it . I thought about a clutch set up , but still would need to warm up the oil somehow and the engine heat would take too long . I have only tried the heater once so far . We will see what it does in real cold in the couple of months.Thanks Eugen. I didn’t know all that. And because I am not computer wise I really have no idea how these sites work. And as for the second paragraph thanks for that too, but wayyy over my head. Hehe. I’ll just stick to reading posts.Eugen wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 8:07 am @Propane57 the forum software is not capable of adding video files. We would run pretty fast out of space anyway. Currently the forum is running in a total space of about 100GB. To move up to larger space would increase the monthly cost by quite a bit. You probably noticed no ads on this forum. So no money is coming from anywhere other than my pocket (and a one time donation from one of our members which covered a part of a one month cost). I'm saying this not to ask for money, just to describe that even if we were able to store videos on the site it would become quickly a problem with the space.
But we have another way to post videos here. I store my video clips on vimeo.com and to upload a video from my phone to vimeo.com I use the vimeo app. After I record the video I choose to share it, than I choose the vimeo app and all I need is to give it a name and optionally a description. After it shows up in my vimeo.com account I post the link here like this
https://vimeo.com/661065027
Perhaps we all just throw in a few bucks?Eugen wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 8:07 am @Propane57 the forum software is not capable of adding video files. We would run pretty fast out of space anyway. Currently the forum is running in a total space of about 100GB. To move up to larger space would increase the monthly cost by quite a bit. You probably noticed no ads on this forum. So no money is coming from anywhere other than my pocket (and a one time donation from one of our members which covered a part of a one month cost). I'm saying this not to ask for money, just to describe that even if we were able to store videos on the site it would become quickly a problem with the space.
