Yesterday a wonderful mechanical contrivance arrived in the shed. It was made somewhere around the mid seventies in Cornwall by Holman who were mining equipment engineers. It’s a rotary screw air compressor driven by a twin cylinder Lister diesel engine. It does need a bit of a clean up, an oil and filter change. It works fine or does after the fuel tank was drained of old diesel, water and surprisingly a dead bird. A quick fuel bleed and away it went. It blew all the bits of chaff and stalk out of the combine grain deck and screens. A wonderful find. A clean combine with a rebuilt differ… citeste mai mult