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  • Опубликовано: 28 окт 2022
  • WE FOUND A COMMUNICATION TOWER IN A SCRAP YARD! WILL IT RUN?
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  • @God.bless.America.forever
    @God.bless.America.forever Год назад +42

    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.

  • @bigjohn2048
    @bigjohn2048 Год назад +6

    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.

  • @andreamills5852
    @andreamills5852 Год назад +14

    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

    • @HamiltonvilleFarm
      @HamiltonvilleFarm  Год назад +1

      Lol

    • @Klelack01
      @Klelack01 Год назад +1

      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.

  • @richardsalyers1643
    @richardsalyers1643 Год назад +6

    I like to watch you guys work on this old stuff an get running again. Keep up the good work thanks.

  • @MrPNutt
    @MrPNutt Год назад +4

    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!!😂

  • @matthillsscalemodels7067
    @matthillsscalemodels7067 Год назад +15

    Love this stuff,please keep up the great work Hank and Wylie and God bless you both

  • @wildefox1478
    @wildefox1478 Год назад

    Pretty interesting video cranking an old military comms tower Wiley and Hank, both engines cranked!

  • @andrew5792
    @andrew5792 Год назад +7

    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!🤣🤣

    • @HamiltonvilleFarm
      @HamiltonvilleFarm  Год назад

      Lol

    • @gravelydon7072
      @gravelydon7072 Год назад

      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.

  • @whitneyallison3717
    @whitneyallison3717 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @davida.p.9911
    @davida.p.9911 Год назад +2

    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.

  • @hfuqua1
    @hfuqua1 Год назад +1

    89 to now is 33 years. Great video Hank!

  • @PapaJ5667
    @PapaJ5667 Год назад +1

    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

  • @davidbarnsley8486
    @davidbarnsley8486 Год назад

    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 👍👍

  • @sterlingscharmen2850
    @sterlingscharmen2850 Год назад

    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

  • @joeheck146
    @joeheck146 Год назад

    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...

  • @JimFinlayson
    @JimFinlayson Год назад +2

    Great content. An hour, even with judicious 15s skip, was a bit long for my attention span. 😀

  • @tnheritage6218
    @tnheritage6218 Год назад +2

    Glad it finally started, that was a lot of work for to have not started, good stuff !!

  • @vstromrider625
    @vstromrider625 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @tossedsalad5532
    @tossedsalad5532 Год назад +1

    Those original engines with first gen DEF sure throw you two for a loop

  • @phillipdickinson8557
    @phillipdickinson8557 Год назад +2

    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.

  • @Fatamus
    @Fatamus Год назад +3

    🤣😂🤣 Cheech and Chong ...."Up in Smoke" 🤣😂🤣
    Hank and Wally "Just Until it Smokes"🤣😂🤣

  • @raymondgregory937
    @raymondgregory937 Год назад +1

    I love the new format and editing.

  • @crossbones995
    @crossbones995 Год назад +3

    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.

    • @HamiltonvilleFarm
      @HamiltonvilleFarm  Год назад

      Right on. I was at Pope from 91-93

    • @farmingsmallkubota1783
      @farmingsmallkubota1783 Год назад

      Were these 400hz or 60 hz generators,

    • @crossbones995
      @crossbones995 Год назад

      @@farmingsmallkubota1783 Ours were 60hz, otherwise all the fans in the radio shelter would have run really really fast.

  • @markgilbert9100
    @markgilbert9100 Год назад +2

    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

  • @arthurbiringer5676
    @arthurbiringer5676 Год назад

    Determination and Elvis being present paid off!

  • @jayjones6904
    @jayjones6904 Год назад

    Glad Wylie and u hank are together god bless ya'll ty for the adventure be safe ty again

  • @stevenicoson6670
    @stevenicoson6670 Год назад +3

    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.

  • @JT-ok8te
    @JT-ok8te Год назад +1

    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.

  • @Castel5871
    @Castel5871 Год назад

    Hank and Wiley are the best!

  • @donerickson7869
    @donerickson7869 Год назад +1

    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

  • @robert-vt1fq
    @robert-vt1fq Год назад +1

    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

  • @noahbailey2824
    @noahbailey2824 Год назад

    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.

  • @kenithisaacs3508
    @kenithisaacs3508 Год назад

    I love when you all get stuff like that going

  • @lewiemcneely9143
    @lewiemcneely9143 Год назад

    Onan makes good stuff. Good job. God Bless!

  • @brandonstaab1254
    @brandonstaab1254 Год назад

    Thank you for your service Hank

  • @backpi
    @backpi Год назад +2

    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.

  • @Will-ct9ww
    @Will-ct9ww Год назад +1

    Hank thank you for your service I've been out of the army for 7 years now

  • @markmunro8753
    @markmunro8753 Год назад +1

    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,😂😂😂❤

  • @nickslistm246
    @nickslistm246 Год назад

    I remember seeing these units coming out at auction on government liquidation, about 10 years ago. Thought they where could then.

  • @bruceaplin
    @bruceaplin Год назад

    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

  • @rdaw33
    @rdaw33 Год назад

    You get to "play" with such cool stuff!!!!! If it was me, I would want to buy/keep all the stuff I got running!!!!

  • @johnhicks735
    @johnhicks735 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @neil6212
    @neil6212 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @johnhicks735
    @johnhicks735 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @arthurcortright8550
    @arthurcortright8550 Год назад +1

    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 👨‍🍳

  • @neilmoore3856
    @neilmoore3856 Год назад

    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.

  • @grandy0406
    @grandy0406 Год назад +1

    This was one of the best. Wylie is amazing and you guys make a great team. God bless you both.

  • @arthurbiringer5676
    @arthurbiringer5676 Год назад

    The Dynamic Duo’s very determined!

  • @johnhicks735
    @johnhicks735 Год назад +1

    They might make good 🚜.,or excavator engines.,or A backup communication tower engines to.

  • @dr.leonardhofstadtersavage6413
    @dr.leonardhofstadtersavage6413 Год назад +1

    Hank says: Wylie this one is a doozy, it's got a lot of switch's. wheres the crescent wrench Wylie?🤣

  • @benjaminstockton3917
    @benjaminstockton3917 Год назад

    Real good will it start Hank and Wiley never seen a piece of equipment like that. Thanks for sharing Hank 👍

  • @gageclegg5646
    @gageclegg5646 Год назад

    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

  • @johnhicks735
    @johnhicks735 Год назад +1

    That injector pump maybe dirty needing cleaned out good. It's like it has A slight clog in the line is all.,or blockage.

  • @markmunro8753
    @markmunro8753 Год назад

    Two engines running a victory for the home team.😊😊😊

  • @bobglenn1476
    @bobglenn1476 Год назад

    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 !!

  • @johnhicks735
    @johnhicks735 Год назад +1

    The fuel tanks may need to be really good inside of them to.

  • @johnkordish3546
    @johnkordish3546 Год назад

    Thank you hank for your service

  • @daver681
    @daver681 Год назад

    This was great, I want to see you guys get the tower raised up

    • @HamiltonvilleFarm
      @HamiltonvilleFarm  Год назад +2

      Yeah we need to figure that part out for sure. It would be cool

  • @craigbowley6783
    @craigbowley6783 Год назад

    Thank you for your service Hank🇺🇸

  • @n20prostock97
    @n20prostock97 Год назад

    Those are some pretty good generators I see on that piece of equipment

  • @louiebillia1857
    @louiebillia1857 Год назад

    Thank you gentlemen for serving our country.

  • @64marine
    @64marine Год назад

    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.

  • @gregrhodes8451
    @gregrhodes8451 Год назад

    When you ask Wiley if he wanted some bug spray I laughed big time. God bless you guys.

  • @ScottMcmillianII1996
    @ScottMcmillianII1996 Год назад

    Sorry for two comments. But Thank everyone for your service if you served. My grandfather George F Mcmillian was a gunners mate on the Fletcher class Destroyer U.S.S BRYANT hull number DD-665 in the Pacific theater during World War Two. Was injured out of combat by traumatic amputation. A chain that wrapped his arm up and kept wrapping...He was very humble about his service but when asked he would tell you anything you wanted to know. He was the glue holding the families together.
    You boys have every value my grandfather would very much appreciate. Thank you

  • @nelsonmattoon150
    @nelsonmattoon150 Год назад +1

    You guys found another fine piece of equipment 🤣🤣🤣

  • @poppabear2476
    @poppabear2476 Год назад +1

    Thank You for Your service!
    My Wife was in Desert Storm as well...

  • @daver681
    @daver681 Год назад

    One trick that might help you get all this equipment running, take the starter off and take the plug out of the end that there is almost always one in it and oil both ends of the starter motor and touch the jumper cables on it and spin it, and at that point you might have to oil it again while you are spinning it and then put it back on the engine and hook it up and try it and it should spin a lot faster and easier.

  • @gearhead2017
    @gearhead2017 Год назад

    A good video from the dynamic duo,hank n wiley

  • @scottsinfl
    @scottsinfl Год назад

    Now that was cool they were both starters.

  • @ryanmall
    @ryanmall Год назад

    That would be awesome to have for my ham radio

  • @robertgiguere7137
    @robertgiguere7137 Год назад

    On the first engine, the two cylinder items to the left of the fuel filters are electric impulse fuel pumps. The caps on the bottom of them hold an about one inch tall filter.

  • @martineastburn3679
    @martineastburn3679 Год назад

    My guess on it's history is likely out with an active or ready to be active. Then this was rotated to the Reserves and the main line got new stuff - then new stuff to reserves and this found the junk yard.

  • @johnhicks735
    @johnhicks735 Год назад +1

    There are some on the RUclips channel A guy saved to sale he kept that will fit inside of that unit.

  • @georgehaynes5283
    @georgehaynes5283 Год назад

    Inside air box shutoff solenoid is stuck hold plunger down while cranking also will not run until oil pressure come up

  • @georgehaynes5283
    @georgehaynes5283 Год назад

    Front 2 pumps and filters for auxiliary fuel source

  • @user-lh5tq9ik4k
    @user-lh5tq9ik4k 4 месяца назад

    I wish i had that. It is a antenna tower. Be good for our Ham radio club.

  • @64marine
    @64marine Год назад

    A good source of Diesel Generators on those old machines.

  • @backpi
    @backpi Год назад +1

    That oil dipstick looked like 90 weight milkshake. 👊🏾🤣❤

  • @dandunlap8638
    @dandunlap8638 Год назад

    Onan made gen sets and some of their own engines as well as using others including Cummins on some of their bigger stuff.

  • @gregbutler9873
    @gregbutler9873 Год назад

    We have both mud and paper wasps , I had the misfortune of hooking up a water buffalo and learned my lesson . I was driving a International bobtail with a pinnacle hook , backed up too the water buffalo ( we used it for waste fuel from our 5 refueling trucks on a daily inspection for water in JP-4 we used to refuel our aircraft ) . I hopped out of the cab and found that the trailer ( water buffalo ) hitch loop was too high , I went to the hitch roller and went to lower the loop . I had lowered the hitch of the trailer and had squatted down to check alignment of both the truck and trailer , surprise … surprise just looked up to watch that wasp flying straight at my face . I “ ducked sucker “ just not quick enough … bam the wasp nailed the fleshy part between my lip and nose and I thought it was carrying a three pound hammer , that is what it felt like . One flew out and stung me and four more of his friends showed up right behind him . I took my bruised ego and my now swelling stung tween meat into the flight office . I had to explain to every crew chief that I had not gotten into a fight because my upper lip looked like I stuffed a “ lil Smokey “ inside my upper lip . 😂😂😂😂

  • @anthonyblacker8471
    @anthonyblacker8471 Год назад

    I think that little flap that Wiley was messing with was the shutoff and when he was pushing it down it shut it off, the air or something, and when he released it it was firing so it let the air back in.. Not sure but it seems that way, because that door would be normally closed so

  • @georgehaynes5283
    @georgehaynes5283 Год назад

    Best thing to do take generators off and scrap tower and trailer that is what military did with most of them was good design but become obsolete with modern systems

  • @thomashubbs3989
    @thomashubbs3989 Год назад +1

    I believe it will start up. It's trying too.

  • @Sundog0811
    @Sundog0811 Год назад

    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

  • @eatsinabeat
    @eatsinabeat Год назад

    Even the starting fluid can was doing a dance when it fired up, brilliant video.

  • @benjimenfranklin7650
    @benjimenfranklin7650 Год назад

    Seems to need some TLC but it did run good job !

  • @orlandomcintosh5325
    @orlandomcintosh5325 Год назад

    Good morning hank awesome job another super nice will it start 👍👍💯💯❤️😊.

  • @davidcolesr.8628
    @davidcolesr.8628 Год назад

    Good to see you Fella’s

  • @busterbailey370
    @busterbailey370 Год назад

    Great video keep them coming please

  • @1Leyland
    @1Leyland Год назад

    Brilliant work and interesting .

  • @beagleman113
    @beagleman113 Год назад

    Man y’all had me on the edge of my seat. On the annunciator panel that you broke the knob on I bet Wiley didn’t know on those terminals for the gages he had his arm laying on is 240v phase to phase. Scared the poop out of me!

    • @beagleman113
      @beagleman113 Год назад

      Ps. Next time y’all do generators, I will be glad to hang out and make sure y’all stay safe. Luv you guys

    • @HamiltonvilleFarm
      @HamiltonvilleFarm  Год назад

      Yes sir!

  • @terrymangum7635
    @terrymangum7635 Год назад

    Enjoyed the video Hank and Wiley.

  • @robertforget6369
    @robertforget6369 Год назад

    OLD GUYS RULE great video God bless

  • @georgehaynes5283
    @georgehaynes5283 Год назад

    Master battery switch bottom of frame under control box

  • @B422TMack
    @B422TMack Год назад

    What a great way to start a Saturday morning . 😎. Breakfast & Coffee while Watching Hank & Wiley on the Tube ..
    Mack

  • @randylenart9674
    @randylenart9674 Год назад

    One click on that switch is glow plugs and hold key till it starts and bring key back to fuel prime run location

  • @johnhicks735
    @johnhicks735 Год назад +1

    That's is just A older tractor switch is all that master switch controllers are Willey.& Hank.

  • @MARKLOCKWOOD2012
    @MARKLOCKWOOD2012 Год назад

    then does it have a fuel tank selector i’d get the generator going off the full tank if you can swap like in an airplane you may have air trapped in it

  • @jefferyrightmire9520
    @jefferyrightmire9520 Год назад

    I wish I had the tower for our GMRS Repeater

  • @Kitt96
    @Kitt96 Год назад +1

    Wake up on my birthday to a new video, I think it’s going to be a good day !!