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Show MARS POPE Ill PAGE 16 and then we got the other two just about maybe a year before the boom. If we had grown enough and people had gotten enough more equipment, then we would have had to have added to our capacity, but until the b.oom came, with those five different units we had plenty of power. But when the boom came, and we didn't. We j us:t couldn't. Anybody that's running a machine very much, you hate to, what I call, punish an engine, and we'd have to run these at more than their rate of capacity to keep power going. Of course, that heats your engines up, and raises the devil with your hearings and like that. That was our big trouble was that we'd overload them so much that the bearings would go out on us. We'd have to change them on our older big diesel and the horizontal pistons would crack on the face probab.ly twenty, twenty-two inches across the faces of these pistons, There are only two cylinders, and to help cool these, each time it'd come forward, there would be a bunch of water splashing over the fact of it. Well, they'd get s.o hot that when this water hit, they'd crack. Arid I remember the first time we cracked one of them. Why, I asked for them to get us a spare. We didn't have anything here. I remember that. "Do you realize how· much those cost?" And I said, "No." And they said, "Five hundred dollars a piece." So I only got one. |
