This Blackstone oil engine with 10 hp featured on the video below was built in 1909 in order to pump water from a river and direct it to a cultivated area. Unfortunately some evil person sabotaged the cylinder by blowing it up with explosives in the 1920s. The engine was repaired, a new cylinder was installed in it and so it was put back into service. Yet, due to many river floods the machine was eventually left buried in mud.

Although over the years it was tampered and even remained buried for a long time, its structure remained intact and now it functions quite good.

During the early 1990s it was rediscovered and restored back to life in 1997. The machine was dismantled, cleaned up and started after all those years of disuse. Today this monstrosity of an engine works perfectly fine using kerosene as fuel.

To start it, you need to heat the hot bulb with a blow torch in order to vaporize the kerosene and preheat the combustion chamber which will allow fuel ignition.

Who wouldn’t want a product with an everlasting quality like this? 🙂