Help ID this?

**Mick** · 07-14-2012, 04:20 PM

Got this yesterday. I'm guessing a part of a small tractor engine since I picked up the tractor parts - mostly sheet metal.

**Mick** · 07-14-2012, 04:21 PM

This weighs 261 pounds.

**freonjoe** · 07-14-2012, 04:24 PM

Looks a lot more like a big transformer!

**Mick** · 07-14-2012, 04:35 PM

I just scraped the windings. The top seems to be aluminum and the bottom is copper.

**ScrapperNJ26** · 07-14-2012, 06:36 PM

I would agree with FJ Mick......Don't know if it's possible for you to cut the windings out, but it looks like a lot of cutting and hard pulling.

**Ditchdigger** · 07-14-2012, 08:01 PM

It's a Mahrinda tractor, with some big rusty thing hanging from the loader.

**Mick** · 07-14-2012, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by Ditchdigger

It's a Mahrinda tractor, with some big rusty thing hanging from the loader.

PROBLEM SOLVED. Thanks, buddy. Maybe next time, I'll get a Kubota and I'll scrap it.

**Ditchdigger** · 07-15-2012, 10:08 AM

You know you can always count on me, Mick.

**Mick** · 07-16-2012, 04:13 PM

Neighbor ID'd it as a transformer from the electric company. That thing on the poles and submerged in oil. What you see in the picture came to:

Iron: 246 pounds
Aluminum windings: 4 pounds
Copper windings: 11 pounds

Some of the copper is coated, so it'll probably be #2. Most of it is thick enough to be #1.

**Dunemaul** · 07-16-2012, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by Mick

Neighbor ID'd it as a transformer from the electric company. That thing on the poles and submerged in oil. What you see in the picture came to:

Iron: 246 pounds
Aluminum windings: 4 pounds
Copper windings: 11 pounds

Some of the copper is coated, so it'll probably be #2. Most of it is thick enough to be #1.

Given its out of a old one but that just screams good info for someone dumb enough to go after a live one.