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Offline inot2old

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The Hemi powered sawmill
« on: May 06, 2008 - 09:00:59 PM »
My freind Lowell is from West Virginia.  He said years ago there was an old man in his area that had a sawmill powered by 2 426 street Hemis.  One ran the saw and the other ran conveyor belts.  Lowell told his brother that when the saw mill shut down that he should try to get the Hemis, but his brother just said "why would I want those things"  (he must have been a Chevy guy).  Now the saw mill is closed & Lowell doesn't know what ever happened to the Hemis.    I would sure like to find them.
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Re: The Hemi powered sawmill
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2008 - 09:24:11 PM »
Maybe they were 392s

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Re: The Hemi powered sawmill
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2008 - 09:42:37 PM »
Chrysler used to sell "Industrial " engines to power machinery. I wonder of they are the same as car engines.

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Re: The Hemi powered sawmill
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2008 - 12:38:56 PM »
There was a story around town when I was a high schooler that there were some 426 hemi's around powering irrigation pumps in BIG farmers fields.
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Re: The Hemi powered sawmill
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2008 - 01:26:00 AM »
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Re: The Hemi powered sawmill
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2008 - 01:35:12 AM »


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Re: The Hemi powered sawmill
« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2008 - 02:01:13 AM »
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Re: The Hemi powered sawmill
« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2008 - 11:33:25 AM »
This thread is about to take on a life of its own I think!!! 


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Re: The Hemi powered sawmill
« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2008 - 11:41:47 AM »
I think some of the old military vehicles (Tanks) were powered by chrysler engines. Not sure if any were hemi's?? That's cool about the saw mill. I'd like to see them old rascals running!!


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Re: The Hemi powered sawmill
« Reply #9 on: May 08, 2008 - 12:15:50 PM »
Well, I found a link about a Hemi sawmill in California, but not West Virginia.  And it uses the old industrial Hemi, not a street Hemi.  Here is the story on it. 
www.amadorsawmill.org/Assets/5-2005.pdf
I also cropped a picture of just the engine, attached below.

Not to get off-topic, but:
Chrysler did build tank engines and aircraft engines.  In fact, their first Hemi was a V16 aircraft engine, developed as a replacement for the radial engine in a P-47 'Thunderbolt' application.  Despite several successful tests, the V16 Hemi was not used in P-47 production, as the end of the war eliminated the need.  The test engine is on display at the Chrysler Museum.  When you see it in person, it is amazing how HUGE it is (picture attached below).  But it has the hemispherical combustion chamber heads, the cross-bolted mains, and several other features that made it to the automotive engine.

Reading this thread made me think of the Hemi-powered air raid siren - Ever see one of those?  Scary looking behemoths, but they have an industrial-use Hemi (331 cid; 180 HP).  It looks like the same engine as that sawmill.  There is an interesting story on the sirens here: http://www.victorysiren.com/x/index.htm

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Re: The Hemi powered sawmill
« Reply #10 on: May 08, 2008 - 12:34:29 PM »
Tom, you beat me to it - I was going to look that up as soon as I cleared my unread topics.  Nice work.  And I bet a few of our Sacramento members will make a little cruise up to the Amador Sawmill just to get photos of that old Hemi.

That aircraft engine is a monster - amazing to me that anyone would think of putting something that large in one of the fighter craft of the day.  Radials are pretty complex, but they do have the advantage of being relatively compact.  Speaking of which, here's a question someone here should know:  Has anyone else ever noted that some aircraft engines are designed to be mounted upside down - that is, with the crankshaft at the top and the cylinders pointed down?  What would be the design advantages of that?  Keep the nose lower and the exhaust out of the bottom of the plane?  Any other reason?  :clueless:
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Re: The Hemi powered sawmill
« Reply #11 on: May 08, 2008 - 12:38:48 PM »
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Re: The Hemi powered sawmill
« Reply #12 on: May 08, 2008 - 12:44:35 PM »
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Re: The Hemi powered sawmill
« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2008 - 01:06:22 PM »
That video clip is awesome!  Notice that the siren pitch is controlled by the engine speed.  The siren is so darned loud that you cannot even hear the engine anymore!

Greg: Good question.  I always assumed that inverted aircraft engines were to ensure fuel flow through the manifold and into the cylinders at high altitudes.  I suppose it could also be for packaging into aircraft...Putting the valve covers down low, and the crank at the top, so that the top of the engine does not stick up so much (allowing a lower nose on the airplane).   :dunno:

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Re: The Hemi powered sawmill
« Reply #14 on: May 08, 2008 - 03:42:52 PM »
Chrysler made tanks during WW2.

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