What to make with a Kubota D722-E3 3 Cyl. Diesel?

[John12fv]

I have a water-cooled Kubota D722-E3 3 cyl. Diesel engine (0.719L 43.88CI 15HP at 3600RPM & 45ft/lbs at 2400RPM). It's 139.1 lbs/63 KG. I've been thinking of what to do with it. So far my ideas are these- 1. Find some piece of equipment with the same engine, and use this one as a replacement or parts motor. 2. Make a wood-chipper with it. 3. Make a framed log splitter with it. 4. Make a framed generator with it. My buddy keeps pushing for this. In either of the last 3, I'd make it skidsteer attachable. I also don't own any of those tools 5. Make some kind of hydraulic pump system to allow non-aux hydraulics skidsteers to use high flow attachments and to power hydraulic hand tools such as saws. 6. Make some type of PTO system to allow it to run various things with a frame around it. This seems interesting. 7. Make a solid axle 4x4 atv of sorts with it. This would be awesome but would take a while. 8. Your own suggestion. I plan to start a land clearing and property maint. business in the future so any thing useful in this field would be great, but I'm open-eared to any cool ideas!

 

[Tazza]

I don't mind the idea of a chipper. If you have a skid steer with aux hydraulics i wouldn't bother with making a power pack with it. A generator is handy, but you still need the generator to mount to the engine.

 

[jerry]

I don't mind the idea of a chipper. If you have a skid steer with aux hydraulics i wouldn't bother with making a power pack with it. A generator is handy, but you still need the generator to mount to the engine.

A chipper might come in handy if you are doing clearing and land maintenance. Or just put it on a frame with a transmission to use to power other things. You may at some point want a power topsoil,dirt screener too.

 

[John12fv]

A chipper might come in handy if you are doing clearing and land maintenance. Or just put it on a frame with a transmission to use to power other things. You may at some point want a power topsoil,dirt screener too.

Tazza, this is true. I do have access to a retired utility truck-mounted Onan generator head with 8-10ish hp engine, but can you 'overload' or the proper term a gen head with 'too much motor'? Jerry, this is what I'm leaning towards a bit. Have a mechanical coupler coming off of the flywheel to power various tools. Here's a new idea-a firewood processor! With delimb (maybe), cut-off, split, advance log, usual wood proc. functions. Do you guys think the Kubota could handle this? If used for stationary all-day tasks, I'll probably get a bigger radiator than the stock one. Maybe look into an oil cooler of sorts. Any thoughts on the previous? Thanks again!

 

[Tazza]

Tazza, this is true. I do have access to a retired utility truck-mounted Onan generator head with 8-10ish hp engine, but can you 'overload' or the proper term a gen head with 'too much motor'? Jerry, this is what I'm leaning towards a bit. Have a mechanical coupler coming off of the flywheel to power various tools. Here's a new idea-a firewood processor! With delimb (maybe), cut-off, split, advance log, usual wood proc. functions. Do you guys think the Kubota could handle this? If used for stationary all-day tasks, I'll probably get a bigger radiator than the stock one. Maybe look into an oil cooler of sorts. Any thoughts on the previous? Thanks again!

I don't believe you can over power a generator in that way, it just means it won't bog down as much when a load is applied. I have actually head of someone that over reved a generatlr as he wanted a little more power out of it, with the load on it, it actually twisted the armature laminations, not sure how it was possible though.