So my nephew is a mechanic for a local ford dealer. He gets a job one day to put on a new fan belt for some guys car. Its on of those long serpentine ones. Next morning the service manager is getting ripped up one side and down the other because the belt job was no good. Squeals, does work right etc. The nephew comes in and ripped up by the service manager for doing a bum job. Well the guy brings his car back in and newphew looks it over, not really knowing how he could screw up a fan belt. Opens the hood and the belt looks fine, but he cant\'t quite see the bottom pulley. He gets his flashlight, whines in down, and there's a pair of eyeballs looking at him Seems like the crat needed a warm place and crawled up into the engine compartment. When the owner started the car, well, the thing did sort of squeal. So newphew call up the owner, tells him he owes another twenty bucks, and incidently can have the crats remains back

Exhumation of remains should really cost more than that. They probably need a new shop labor manual. Hell, I charge that just for looking at strange tracks on a barbecue grill. "Yep, that's a cat track allright."

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Hell, I charge that just for looking at strange tracks on a barbecue grill.

I thought everything was charged for 1 hour.

In all my life I've yet to kill a crat with an engine belt. I must have bad karma...

Dan

Pres., TYHc

www.TunaScent.BeltDressing

Killed one with a steel fence post once...
As the saying goes, "I shit you not!"

A friend came by with a box containing his girlfriend's crat. He was crafty sort. He picked up a fallen pecan branch and opened the box. The cat jumped out of the box and just stood there. Big John takes a swing with his stick and wacks the cat in the head. The damn stick breaks but addles the crat, while pissing it off immensely. The pussy goes into attack mode but didn't have complete control after being stick wacked. As it starts chasing BJ around I grabbed a steel post that was leaning against the barn. I got in a lucky swing as they came around the corner of the building and tattoo the crat with the post. I'm hear to tell you, a 6' T post has considerable knock down power !!!!
A finishing jab or two and we retired for a much needed brew..

Got me two cats with the fan on the John Deere 3020, one with our 1959 13 ton Ford straight truck with 361 engine fan belt, one with a 1965 mustang fan, and my favorite, one cat with my 1970 Chrysler station wagon fan belt. (440 four barrel).

You could just say that I am a fan and fan belt cat ace. Of course, growing up in Iowa, where cats find warmth in the winter where they can....

The fan belt thing I've taken as a challenge. My neighbor looked at me strangely as I put an open can of cat food under the hood of my Jeep. My wife thinks it odd that I have to start the Jeep several times a day. I tell her that its to keep the engine from freezing up in this cold weather. Got to go, its time to start the Jeep again.

I have started my vehicle with cats under the hood, they just haven't been in the right place yet.

Speaking of belts, my dad repaired dairy equipment. He was talking to a farmer one time who was baffled by all the cats around the place with just a stub of a tail. Till one day he flipped on the pump to wash the milking machine after milking the cows. He saw something go flying across the barn out of the corner of his eye. It was a cat with a bloddy stump for a tail. It seems the cats liked to sit on the machine which was warm after milking, and then would get their tail in the belt when it was turned on to wash up.

Mechanical wizzardry wanted. All this discussion has caused me to sit down and start designing a machine that is completely composed of every kind of serpentine belt arrangement I have ever seen. Tiller, lawnmower, ford, sawmill, loom equipment, etc.. It would be self-starting by means of an electric eye or similar. I want to put it out back in the garden for when the late spring yowlers arrive at night seeking feline debauchery.

Sounds like a fine idea NS, don't forget the "warm spot" option on top!

Dan

Pres., TYHC

www.ForCoolSpring.Nights

heavens, fanbelting crats.....whatever happened to using the .308???

We have an old 1880s factory near the house, that ran off of one old steam engine which drove a single shaft down the length of the building. The literal jungle of belts and chains that came off that puppy had to be dangerous as hell, and would make for a great "cat-wacker" contraption.

Thanks !20mm, that would make it a belted magnum.

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Thanks !20mm, that would make it a belted magnum.

This thread reminds me of an old friend who's father had an old Volvo. One day the engine sounded very strange so he took it to a neigbur who was a mechanic. What he found was the remains of a very large and fat rat in the fan. I am very glad I wasn't my job to clean it up...

Regards,
Marterius