We had one of those on the farm back in Minnesota when I was in my teens. Ours was a little newer than that, but not by much. As I recall, it had a Lauson engine on it, not the Briggs. Also had a larger shroud over the moving parts.For me this has to be the all time oddest. It was a 1958/62 Jari walk behind sickle bar mower. Running this was barely controlled chaos. And after 15 minutes you could not feel your hands any more.... It vibrated that much. And this ran at a speed that was faster than a walk, but just slower than a run. You jogged behind it. I can't remember how many times it got away from me under power, which wasn't a problem in my remote location to other people, but it would turn on a dime, on its own, and come back at you, like an evil being. It really needed a tether kill switch.
Reverse currents aren't generally an issue as the governor immediately brings the output up to around 4MW upon the closure of the generator breaker when syncing to the grid. The governor also controls the voltage regulation treating both sides as a single unit. I don't recall the outputs varying between the two sides but it's been several years now since I've had to deal with it. There aren't many of those out there, I've run into only two in the last 40 years.
Are you talking about one of these Widow Makers? Got it down in a trench and it’ll turn you into mush.
Something like this thing, what that made it odd to me was it ran off jp8. It was very heavy, even with a decompression valve hard starting, and you didn't want it getting away from you in a trench.
Speaking of large overhead cranes, my first job in a machine shop was to assemble the gearing/hoist assembly on a large (30 ton?) overhead crane. The mechanic who took it apart had cleaned it all up, piled it all onto a good-sized pallet and quit working there. Had no book or instructions of any kind, just found what fit where and put it together. It even worked when I was done.
