this site will be down for a day or so... the back up of the database has been done and the site is being reloaded elsewhere. sorry for the down time but the host company bombed the site.

i was looking at the cost of selling a lister cs / genset on ebay... use to be they had a fee structure that got lower percentages the higher the selling price. now it appears they are charging a straight 9 percent no matter how high the price... sooooo... if you sell a genset for $3500 thats 3500 x .09 or $315.00 to sell your item! are they insane?

if you sign up at outlaw auctions you get a $25 site fee credit to your account. Sell a genset for $3500 and the fees come to i believe $12.75   which comes out of your credit leaving you still with a $12.25 credit.... in other words its free!

i recommend the site for anyone wishing to sell anything lister. leave a link here to the item and you will get traffic. i had around 300 hits on the genset and doubt ebay would have done better. if you are worried you wont get a good enough price put a reserve on your item

something got messed on the server. looks to be good now. sorry for the downtime

Thought we could add a chatroom for folks to hang out and share with others... We can see how it goes and if we want to keep it

the hosting company this site is with is called hostdepartment,com... whatever you do.. do not sign up with them... i have a new hosting company and have been working at migrating the site and will hopefully get that done this weekend.. there may be  a day or so more for everything to point to its new home after that... then hopefully we will not have these issues....  thank you for your patience

i apologize for the down time.. the server company that i use has had some problems with attacks from muslim hackers... hopefully this site will stay up and not face the same fate as a few other sites i have... if it does get hacked.. then you may be reading muslim propaganda soon

www.alexa.com rates the internet sites by traffic. i believe the search engines use these rankings on placement for searches. ie if someone looks for lister info.

currently we are rated the 3,888,768 th most popular site on the internet. my thought is if people here went to alexa and downloaded their tool bar (which is a nice feature) then the sites we visit would have more weight. its like all of us signing up to be neilson families (do they still do that?). just a thought if you feel like stuffing the ballot box (could be fun)

last night a young man and his wife stopped by the farm to look at the 6/1 i have listed here for sale. the engine has sat since it was checked out and put back together in october. the temperature was in the low 20's is my guess and i cranked it in hopes of him being able to hear it run. the injector creaked which was a good sign. i half expected the fuel to have slowly dripped from the tank to have found it empty. it also meant i wouldnt have to rebleed the fuel system... so far so good. after spinning it up to speed i asked him to swtiched the compression release valve. it poofed very slightly and i am sure wondered what sort of idiot i was trying to wake it while it was hibernating. second try same thing. after taking turns cranking for about 9 tries it showed signs of life and we come to the major point of this post.

there is enough friction especially when cold that when the engine fires up if you arent careful, the crank will escape from your hand... heaven help you when this happens. all i could do was warn my visitors to stay out of harms way after about 5 seconds of coming up to speed the handle flew off. looking back i should have hit the fuel shut off, but everyone survived. the engine did settle into a nice easy thumping after about 10 seconds.