Anyone Roll Coal with a Tractor?

[Garandman]

Maybe just go with decals? Best bang for the buck.

I've been thinking: let's see, I can buy wheel spacers and tire chains, a larger chipper, or screw around with my engine so it will produce little clouds of smoke. Decisions, decisions....

 

[Brad_Blazer]

I agree "rolling coal" in the face of other drivers is criminally obnoxious. It is cool to see at pulls though and there may be one benefit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5jiSv31Faw

 

[square1]

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thought it would be that chicks dig it!

 

[chim]

There are a different things that make activities like "rolling coal" popular.

There is the desire to be a showoff by doing something they are capable of to compensate for not being able to do something else.

There is a lack of respect for others. Self importance trumps all else.

Any goofy activity that is given a cute/catchy name and posted on Youtube is copied and immediately becomes a fad, especially with those who aren't capable of an original idea. I bet if someone came up with a cute name for peeing down their left leg and posted it we'd have a lot of wet spots on our sidewalks.

 

[jlgurr]

If nothing else, I've got a lot of new links to some killer tractor pulls.

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[dieselcrawler]

There are a different things that make activities like "rolling coal" popular.

There is the desire to be a showoff by doing something they are capable of to compensate for not being able to do something else.

There is a lack of respect for others. Self importance trumps all else.

Any goofy activity that is given a cute/catchy name and posted on Youtube is copied and immediately becomes a fad, especially with those who aren't capable of an original idea. I bet if someone came up with a cute name for peeing down their left leg and posted it we'd have a lot of wet spots on our sidewalks.

It would start as 'Left wee on knee' soon followed by 'Right wee on knee' and soon it would just be shortened to just 'I wee knee'.

*grin*

 

[joecoin]

So, how do I stop my Ford E350 diesel from "rolling coal"?

 

[RDrancher]

So, how do I stop my Ford E350 diesel from "rolling coal"?

Take that big heavy right foot off the floor. Seriously though...some of you guys need to lighten up with the whining. Sound like a bunch of three year olds. My 7.3 has been rolling coal since 1999. As for shortening engine life? Yeah right. The F350 just turned over 323,000 miles and runs like a champ. If a diesel is equipped with a chip or tuner it's going to roll coal when you get on it. It will also have a whole bunch more power. If that doesn't put a smile on your face, I don't know what to tell ya. Works great fending off annoying tailgaters and ticking off whining "sticks in the mud" too. Oh yeah...I'll be 59 in a couple of months and I'm not anywhere near slowing down on having fun yet!

 

[SPYDERLK]

I consider it the best indication that you are getting full power from the cylinder charge. My 7520 will not smoke black even when lugged down. I would like to steepen the fueling advance rate to the point that black smoke will start as RPM lugs down to 75 or 80% of the no load setting.
,,,larry

Take that big heavy right foot off the floor. Seriously though...some of you guys need to lighten up with the whining. Sound like a bunch of three year olds. My 7.3 has been rolling coal since 1999. As for shortening engine life? Yeah right. The F350 just turned over 323,000 miles and runs like a champ. If a diesel is equipped with a chip or tuner it's going to roll coal when you get on it. It will also have a whole bunch more power. If that doesn't put a smile on your face, I don't know what to tell ya. Works great fending off annoying tailgaters and ticking off whining "sticks in the mud" too. Oh yeah...I'll be 59 in a couple of months and I'm not anywhere near slowing down on having fun yet!

I stand in agreement with you. Im not sure others understand that its not wasting until it smokes and theres a good bit of power available above the mfg enrichment curve before it smokes. Thats where the operator can have options to torque thru with some smoke ... or downshift.

 

[Garandman]

If nothing else, I've got a lot of new links to some killer tractor pulls.

At Fort Campbell KY I saw a tractor that had an Allison aircraft engine. It blew two blue flames about three feet long at full throttle. Waay cooler than soot.

Fort Benning had the most boring pull ever. first a Gamma Goat came out and beat all the pickups. Then an ammo hauler and a tank hauler from the NG came out and just motored on down the course like there was nothing there. No smoke, no noise, just power.