Again, not conventional, still turns my crank.
Ford irrigation “pumping unit “
There is green prairie and dry-land. Dry land does not have access to irrigation.
With water, and a bigblock V8 , One can water acres of crop. These things run 24/7 all summer. Back in the day, a farmers chores would include delivering a 55 gallon barrel of fuel to these, every 22-23 hours.
In the 70’s, my Pops became a legen’ round these parts for figuring out how to get them to run 26-27 hours on one barrel. They are all converted to natural gas now. The old boys still line these things up at my Dads shop. Rockets, side oilers, hemi’s,,,hell I have seen Danes runnin Lambardini’s.
I remember swatting mosquitoes off my Dads back , so he could work on these. Re-wiring burnt up alternators, stripping an lashing, faster than I can tie a shoe.
This one is a Ford, but not a 390.
Natural gas Regulator, also looks like a accumulator pot behind that. These things are often cooled with the pond water they are drawing from.
I can see this has been repainted with a brush. They are always burning up. I see new wiring, alternator, Murphy’s, and the old belts on-board ( spares ).
Check out the handy tap on the fuel supply.
That is classy. Just say goodbye to your skin , before you stick your hand in there.
Not my dads work, but, check out the homemade manifolds. The exhaust is not for noise control, it just points the fire ‘up’.