Thank you for your service Hank. I am a 4 war combat Veteran also. Desert Shield, desert storm, operation during freedom, and iraq. 15 tours between the last four wars.
You guys are always starting up something interesting! Hate I missed you guys at the farm show, maybe next year! Heck, y’all can follow us back to our farm and try to help start some of our junk!!😂
Hank and Wiley are going to call in the mothership to see if they can get picked up early. I don't blame them either considering how crazy this planet has become. lol
Thanks for taking the time to make this video for us . Great quilty video. Love the learning experience. You two didn't give Like to see more content like this..God bless.
Reminds me of the time we were in line at the scales. We were refurbing a mobile home park (120 trailer be homes) . Spent a lot of time at the scrapyard. LoL. One more guy in front of us, and we get get swarmed by cops! Seems a drunk guy balanced a highway overhead sign pole (3 lanes long) on a grocery kart and pushed it to to scale. He told the cops he found it on the side of the road. Love your videos, some things you just can't make up. As always, all the best to everyone. Chef Scott 👨🍳
6 volt batteries have 3 caps on top. 12 volt batteries have 6 caps on the top. 8 volt batteries have 4 caps on the top. 8 volt batteries were commonly used to replace 6 volt in automotive applications. You could use the 8 volt batts to get faster cranking speeds and brighter lights without having to replace the generator and starter. If you put a 12 volt battery in you had to replace the generator and starter to keep from burning them up. The 8 volt battery would run for years on a 6 volt system.
It was touch and go there for a minute, but they both finally ran! Good job fellas!! 👍👍 Do you think they'll let ya'll try to expand the tower? You might pick up some Top Secret communications...lol.
Hank and Whilley that was great and it runs really enjoyed it thank you for sharing and your time was really great never miss a video and can't wait for next one.
Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable. I found this most interesting. I worked with these mobile towers in a lot of overseas locations while in the Air Force. To bad we could not get the tower up. Lots of history there and memories for me. You both worked real hard getting this one to run. Real interesting work by both of you. Quite the old military type set up but you and Wiley got it to run. Ya!!!!!!! I Thanks for your great work. Interesting unit. You all take care and be safe. Looking forward to the next video. Thanks for everything Hank and Wiley. Enjoy your meal. Hank you are buying I trust. Bye. The Iowa farm boy.
I was in Army Tactical Satellite Communications (MOS 26Q) in the early 80's. We had nothing like this. I was in UHF. We went to the field with 3 trucks, 2 shelter trucks and one for gear. Our satellite dish was 8-10 feet in diameter and was on a tripod where we could move it on X and Y axes. The entire antenna when disassembled fit in the aisle of one of the shelters. I'm guessing that this was more of a strategic or semi-permanent set up. I agree that it was probably Gulf war era. Not to mention that the satellite phones were probably in use by then.
I do radio and tower work with a person who owns one of these portable towers. They are quite amazing. Only need one generator, the second is a standy, and if both fail, there is a hand hydraulic pump to upright the tower, with cranks to crank up the sections. I wonder if he wants another...
Thank you men. Your camera has a laugh track . When Wiley said just another pretty face blue haired lady,s all over the world started googling Wiley,s information,😂😂😂❤
As an Ex-communicator maybe I can throw some light on it. Looks like it's part of a tropospheric scatter or radio relay (microwave) system. Also most Army equip runs 24v systems. Somewhere there should plate (will probably be black with silver characters) that will have an NSN (NATO Stock Number) on it, punch that into google and it should tell you exactly what the equip is. Additionally Hank, breaking that knob off looked like non fare wear to me so I think you need to raise a Lose and Damage report!🤣🤣
NSN = National Stock Number. Example NSN 1005010083251 will lead you to a Rifle, Cal .30, M1 otherwise known as a Garand Rifle. Or it can lead you to Rifle, Cal .30, Inert, M1903. Basically any .30Cal rifle even ones that can be fired were under that number at some point. My gun bag that came from the military has that number and the serial number of the rifle that belongs in it. It was a rifle used by a burial detail at a National Cemetery and is a functioning Garand. Although it is too special to be used except for that service. The base it was assigned to at one point was the home of the 509th Bomb Wing. If that number sound familiar, 509th was the only ones to ever drop a nuke in a war. Grandson of Gen. Paul Tibbets also was in charge of that base at the time it was there. And yes, I had met Gen. Tibbets and the rest of the surviving crew of the Enola Gay. Plate may also be silver with a black set of numbers and a scan strip. As for the paperwork, as it is the military, it should be in triplicate and all with wet signatures. 😉 Or with what I dealt with, it was 7 duplicating copies that had to have wet signatures.
Another great video as always ...thank you for your Service Hank .....My late father was a SSGT in Korea and my late brother was a seamen 3rd on the U.S.S. Saratoga CV-60 i however wasnt able to serve because of an auto accident after graduation in 85 .....God bless you you 2 and your families
Onan engines where originally made in Canada. Case/ingersoll mowers used them for a number of years for reliability. Onan was later bought by Cummins if you are looking for parts.
A light tap on the enclosure will coax a wasp or two out without upsetting the whole gang off before opening it, if they are there. We did this on our enclosures doing phone line work. I forgot to do this once while tied off 20 feet up a pole. Never forgot again.
HANK! You must be blessed, Elvis & Wiley! St. Peter will definitely open them gates for you! I really enjoyed this video. Now I’m gonna research old military equipment.
I was stationed at Ft Bragg and assigned to a team to deploy one of these beast back in the middle 80's. We put 3 4ft microwave dishes on the top and connected to a AN/TRC-138 to provide LOS communications. The thing was so fragile, if you tried to erect it without knowing what your doing it could be turned into a pile of twisted aluminum pretty quick. The 10kw generators were the best part of these units.
Like you, I called those insects "Dirt Dobbers" most of my life. Back in the 60's I was in the boy scouts. We went to a Jamboree. There were 100's of scouts there, from all over. I met Hank, a scout from up North. We saw that insect, Hank called it a Mud Mason. I laughed at Hank's silly name and Hank laughed at my silly name. We both insisted our favored name was the correct one. When we got back, we looked up the name. The correct name is "Mud Dobber" So we were both half right and half wrong. Ah, good times! In the 80's I was a very active amateur (ham) radio operator. A fellow ham operator had a military crank up tower, much like the one in this video. He was in the process of moving away. The realtor told him, that he had to get rid of the crank up tower in order to sell his house. When I heard he was giving it away to anyone who would remove it, I rushed over there. Much to my disappointment, some one had claimed it just before I arrived. Ah, not so good times! 💛 73
Those generators have to be run at 60 cycles you also dont release the starter switch it has a starter lock out but the starter switch also runs the safety circut override and flashes the field on the generator. once you see frequency on the hz meter you can let go of the starter switch
I'd check that emergency shut off switch for sure. Cause like hank was saying if it's stuck on the off position it will start up & stay running. It sounds like the injector pump isn't working right like it should. Like it needs to be rebuilt.,or replaced on that engine to me.
Not supposed to use ether when you use glowplug preheat. That's where you mess stuff up. I think they say it will ignite in wrong position and lock engine
E-Stop button must be in the OUT position to run. Those two vertical cylinder things are fuel pumps. (There should be a couple more nearby. The thing at the top of the right hand fuel pump is a "Skinner" valve, not a pump. Probably needs to have 24 volts to open.
I'm sure the two of you know but for anyone in the comments Be very careful using Ether/starting fluid on engines that have glow plugs. If you're not aware of why you need to be careful about it I'm sure there's videos on TH-cam that will show you what can happen. I just found your channel and I have watched 5 or 6 videos now and your channel is quickly become one of my Son and I favorites. Looking forward to watching more.
All the ethanol in the gas does that oxidation! There’s even more in the fuel now . Shut off the fuel and Run your equipment till it quits before storing it .
Nearly every RV you see out there has an ONAN genset in it. I have one out of a Winnebago set up to run my house when storms take the power out. Good units to have.
Thank you for your service Hank. I am a 4 war combat Veteran also. Desert Shield, desert storm, operation during freedom, and iraq. 15 tours between the last four wars.
Yes sir! Appreciate you
Thank you for your service
Thank you for your service sir and welcome home🇺🇸
Thank you for your service and yes we do need God in America again.
Thank you for your service
Love this stuff,please keep up the great work Hank and Wylie and God bless you both
Thank you for watching!
I like to watch you guys work on this old stuff an get running again. Keep up the good work thanks.
Thanks!
Pretty interesting video cranking an old military comms tower Wiley and Hank, both engines cranked!
You guys are always starting up something interesting! Hate I missed you guys at the farm show, maybe next year! Heck, y’all can follow us back to our farm and try to help start some of our junk!!😂
Hank and Wiley are going to call in the mothership to see if they can get picked up early. I don't blame them either considering how crazy this planet has become. lol
Lol
Thanks for taking the time to make this video for us . Great quilty video. Love the learning experience. You two didn't give Like to see more content like this..God bless.
Reminds me of the time we were in line at the scales. We were refurbing a mobile home park (120 trailer be homes) . Spent a lot of time at the scrapyard. LoL. One more guy in front of us, and we get get swarmed by cops! Seems a drunk guy balanced a highway overhead sign pole (3 lanes long) on a grocery kart and pushed it to to scale. He told the cops he found it on the side of the road. Love your videos, some things you just can't make up. As always, all the best to everyone. Chef Scott 👨🍳
6 volt batteries have 3 caps on top.
12 volt batteries have 6 caps on the top.
8 volt batteries have 4 caps on the top.
8 volt batteries were commonly used to replace 6 volt in automotive applications. You could use the 8 volt batts to get faster cranking speeds and brighter lights without having to replace the generator and starter. If you put a 12 volt battery in you had to replace the generator and starter to keep from burning them up. The 8 volt battery would run for years on a 6 volt system.
Hank says: Wylie this one is a doozy, it's got a lot of switch's. wheres the crescent wrench Wylie?🤣
It was touch and go there for a minute, but they both finally ran! Good job fellas!! 👍👍 Do you think they'll let ya'll try to expand the tower? You might pick up some Top Secret communications...lol.
I love the new format and editing.
Thank you for the feedback
Hank and Whilley that was great and it runs really enjoyed it thank you for sharing and your time was really great never miss a video and can't wait for next one.
Thank you! Always enjoy your comments👍
89 to now is 33 years. Great video Hank!
Determination and Elvis being present paid off!
The Dynamic Duo’s very determined!
Thanks for another great video.
It was interesting and enjoyable.
I found this most interesting. I worked with these mobile towers in a lot of overseas locations while in the Air Force.
To bad we could not get the tower up.
Lots of history there and memories for me.
You both worked real hard getting this one to run. Real interesting work by both of you.
Quite the old military type set up but you and Wiley got it to run. Ya!!!!!!!
I
Thanks for your great work.
Interesting unit.
You all take care and be safe.
Looking forward to the next video.
Thanks for everything Hank and Wiley.
Enjoy your meal. Hank you are buying I trust.
Bye.
The Iowa farm boy.
Glad Wylie and u hank are together god bless ya'll ty for the adventure be safe ty again
Glad it finally started, that was a lot of work for to have not started, good stuff !!
Thank you. This one was fun!
I was in Army Tactical Satellite Communications (MOS 26Q) in the early 80's. We had nothing like this. I was in UHF. We went to the field with 3 trucks, 2 shelter trucks and one for gear. Our satellite dish was 8-10 feet in diameter and was on a tripod where we could move it on X and Y axes. The entire antenna when disassembled fit in the aisle of one of the shelters. I'm guessing that this was more of a strategic or semi-permanent set up. I agree that it was probably Gulf war era. Not to mention that the satellite phones were probably in use by then.
I do radio and tower work with a person who owns one of these portable towers. They are quite amazing. Only need one generator, the second is a standy, and if both fail, there is a hand hydraulic pump to upright the tower, with cranks to crank up the sections. I wonder if he wants another...
🤣😂🤣 Cheech and Chong ...."Up in Smoke" 🤣😂🤣
Hank and Wally "Just Until it Smokes"🤣😂🤣
lol. 👍😂
Thank you men. Your camera has a laugh track . When Wiley said just another pretty face blue haired lady,s all over the world started googling Wiley,s information,😂😂😂❤
As an Ex-communicator maybe I can throw some light on it. Looks like it's part of a tropospheric scatter or radio relay (microwave) system. Also most Army equip runs 24v systems. Somewhere there should plate (will probably be black with silver characters) that will have an NSN (NATO Stock Number) on it, punch that into google and it should tell you exactly what the equip is.
Additionally Hank, breaking that knob off looked like non fare wear to me so I think you need to raise a Lose and Damage report!🤣🤣
Lol
NSN = National Stock Number. Example NSN 1005010083251 will lead you to a Rifle, Cal .30, M1 otherwise known as a Garand Rifle. Or it can lead you to Rifle, Cal .30, Inert, M1903. Basically any .30Cal rifle even ones that can be fired were under that number at some point. My gun bag that came from the military has that number and the serial number of the rifle that belongs in it. It was a rifle used by a burial detail at a National Cemetery and is a functioning Garand. Although it is too special to be used except for that service. The base it was assigned to at one point was the home of the 509th Bomb Wing. If that number sound familiar, 509th was the only ones to ever drop a nuke in a war. Grandson of Gen. Paul Tibbets also was in charge of that base at the time it was there. And yes, I had met Gen. Tibbets and the rest of the surviving crew of the Enola Gay.
Plate may also be silver with a black set of numbers and a scan strip.
As for the paperwork, as it is the military, it should be in triplicate and all with wet signatures. 😉 Or with what I dealt with, it was 7 duplicating copies that had to have wet signatures.
Onan makes good stuff. Good job. God Bless!
Thats an Onan DJC !!
Cummins owns them and those things are still out there running !!
Parts are kinda hard to come by but some are still around !!
As many have mentioned I would love to see them get the tower operating on that piece of equipment. As usual love your videos. Keep up the great work
These two Einstein is always get things going all the time there's always so great and so wonderful to get things going God bless them
I do hope the owner can get it out and maybe you can get someone who knows the machine and you can set it up 👍👍
I love when you all get stuff like that going
Two engines running a victory for the home team.😊😊😊
Thank you for your service Hank
Hank and Wiley are the best!
Another great video as always ...thank you for your Service Hank .....My late father was a SSGT in Korea and my late brother was a seamen 3rd on the U.S.S. Saratoga CV-60 i however wasnt able to serve because of an auto accident after graduation in 85 .....God bless you you 2 and your families
Great content. An hour, even with judicious 15s skip, was a bit long for my attention span. 😀
Onan engines where originally made in Canada. Case/ingersoll mowers used them for a number of years for reliability. Onan was later bought by Cummins if you are looking for parts.
Hank thank you for your service I've been out of the army for 7 years now
Onan made gen sets and some of their own engines as well as using others including Cummins on some of their bigger stuff.
They might make good 🚜.,or excavator engines.,or A backup communication tower engines to.
A light tap on the enclosure will coax a wasp or two out without upsetting the whole gang off before opening it, if they are there. We did this on our enclosures doing phone line work. I forgot to do this once while tied off 20 feet up a pole. Never forgot again.
Yeah hank& Wiley y'all should try to buy that for sure even if the engine is bad on it. Swap it over to A different engine.
Get it running and it would be a pretty easy sell to an emergency management agency or a ham radio operator for the right price
HANK! You must be blessed, Elvis & Wiley! St. Peter will definitely open them gates for you! I really enjoyed this video. Now I’m gonna research old military equipment.
Rigth on!
You get to "play" with such cool stuff!!!!! If it was me, I would want to buy/keep all the stuff I got running!!!!
Lol. I hear ya
Those original engines with first gen DEF sure throw you two for a loop
This was one of the best. Wylie is amazing and you guys make a great team. God bless you both.
Brilliant work and interesting .
A good video from the dynamic duo,hank n wiley
When you ask Wiley if he wanted some bug spray I laughed big time. God bless you guys.
Real good will it start Hank and Wiley never seen a piece of equipment like that. Thanks for sharing Hank 👍
👍👍
That injector pump maybe dirty needing cleaned out good. It's like it has A slight clog in the line is all.,or blockage.
I was stationed at Ft Bragg and assigned to a team to deploy one of these beast back in the middle 80's. We put 3 4ft microwave dishes on the top and connected to a AN/TRC-138 to provide LOS communications. The thing was so fragile, if you tried to erect it without knowing what your doing it could be turned into a pile of twisted aluminum pretty quick. The 10kw generators were the best part of these units.
Right on. I was at Pope from 91-93
Were these 400hz or 60 hz generators,
@@farmingsmallkubota1783 Ours were 60hz, otherwise all the fans in the radio shelter would have run really really fast.
I really love your videos and I just like when you to joke around it always puts a smile on my face keep it up guys
You guys found another fine piece of equipment 🤣🤣🤣
Definitely different 👍👍 thanks for watching
That oil dipstick looked like 90 weight milkshake. 👊🏾🤣❤
Like you, I called those insects "Dirt Dobbers" most of my life. Back in the 60's I was in the boy scouts. We went to a Jamboree. There were 100's of scouts there, from all over. I met Hank, a scout from up North. We saw that insect, Hank called it a Mud Mason. I laughed at Hank's silly name and Hank laughed at my silly name. We both insisted our favored name was the correct one. When we got back, we looked up the name. The correct name is "Mud Dobber" So we were both half right and half wrong. Ah, good times! In the 80's I was a very active amateur (ham) radio operator. A fellow ham operator had a military crank up tower, much like the one in this video. He was in the process of moving away. The realtor told him, that he had to get rid of the crank up tower in order to sell his house. When I heard he was giving it away to anyone who would remove it, I rushed over there. Much to my disappointment, some one had claimed it just before I arrived. Ah, not so good times! 💛 73
Lol
Now that was cool they were both starters.
Thank you hank for your service
Hank I live about 30 minutes from Fort Hood Texas.. I see them guys pulling all types of equipment up-and-down the road all the time.
Thank You for Your service!
My Wife was in Desert Storm as well...
Very cool!
Enjoyed the video Hank and Wiley.
Thank you sir
Great video keep them coming please
Good morning Gent's, two successful cranks, back on track 👍 yehaa. lol Great program Hank and Wiley. Take care
Thank you. We had a good time on this one!
Thank you gentlemen for serving our country.
Those generators have to be run at 60 cycles you also dont release the starter switch it has a starter lock out but the starter switch also runs the safety circut override and flashes the field on the generator. once you see frequency on the hz meter you can let go of the starter switch
I'd check that emergency shut off switch for sure. Cause like hank was saying if it's stuck on the off position it will start up & stay running. It sounds like the injector pump isn't working right like it should. Like it needs to be rebuilt.,or replaced on that engine to me.
A good source of Diesel Generators on those old machines.
Good morning hank awesome job another super nice will it start 👍👍💯💯❤️😊.
Thank you for your service Hank🇺🇸
👍👍
Elvis is back in the House!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good video guys
Even the starting fluid can was doing a dance when it fired up, brilliant video.
Not supposed to use ether when you use glowplug preheat. That's where you mess stuff up. I think they say it will ignite in wrong position and lock engine
Very good job and God bless yall
E-Stop button must be in the OUT position to run. Those two vertical cylinder things are fuel pumps. (There should be a couple more nearby. The thing at the top of the right hand fuel pump is a "Skinner" valve, not a pump. Probably needs to have 24 volts to open.
I wish i had that. It is a antenna tower. Be good for our Ham radio club.
Poor Wiley has to listen to Hank sing Wiley she get paid double for listening to Hank sing 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
The fuel tanks may need to be really good inside of them to.
I remember seeing these units coming out at auction on government liquidation, about 10 years ago. Thought they where could then.
One click on that switch is glow plugs and hold key till it starts and bring key back to fuel prime run location
Good morning buddy hope y'all an your family's are doing great see y'all in the ne xt videos good luck guys
Thank you sir
My two favorite papaws back at it again
No power to the electric governor but great video thanks Hank and Wylie
You did good Riley
That would be awesome to have for my ham radio
👍great start up
Good to see you Fella’s
Morning
This was great, I want to see you guys get the tower raised up
Yeah we need to figure that part out for sure. It would be cool
Thank you for your Mr hank
Those are some pretty good generators I see on that piece of equipment
OLD GUYS RULE great video God bless
👍👍
Front 2 pumps and filters for auxiliary fuel source
I believe it will start up. It's trying too.
Vietnam 2 yrs ffor me during TET Offensive era. Att he first shown control panel I saw a Dyna-motor to the left- motor and generator combined.
What a great way to start a Saturday morning . 😎. Breakfast & Coffee while Watching Hank & Wiley on the Tube ..
Mack
Thanks Mack! Have a good one!
You too Hank . Happy Saturday Buddy
I'm sure the two of you know but for anyone in the comments Be very careful using Ether/starting fluid on engines that have glow plugs. If you're not aware of why you need to be careful about it I'm sure there's videos on TH-cam that will show you what can happen.
I just found your channel and I have watched 5 or 6 videos now and your channel is quickly become one of my Son and I favorites. Looking forward to watching more.
All the ethanol in the gas does that oxidation! There’s even more in the fuel now . Shut off the fuel and Run your equipment till it quits before storing it .
Nearly every RV you see out there has an ONAN genset in it. I have one out of a Winnebago set up to run my house when storms take the power out. Good units to have.
There are some on the TH-cam channel A guy saved to sale he kept that will fit inside of that unit.
Wake up on my birthday to a new video, I think it’s going to be a good day !!
Happy birthday Tim!
Elvis will make it work. Thanks