Air Starter???!!!

[Don4107]

Used an old Kenworth with a Cat 3406 and an air starter in the harvest fields.  Was always fun when someone walked up to talk to me and being the considerate type I would shut down the engine so we could hear.  The air starter exhaust was straight down so not only did it sound like a machine gun going off it blew a big cloud of dust and dirt right at their feet.    What, harvest was long and otherwise boring!

Don 4107

[Eric]

You act like i get up in the AM!!!  I'm insulted! Just kidding! I really had no idea these things are so dang loud! should be interesting to hear it for the first time!

[Dallas]

Back in the olden days, PIE, Redball, Bekins,Yellow and Roadway used air starters in their trucks.
It's amazing how fast you can come out of a sleeper when some 1d10t decides to fire up after his lunch break at 0:dark:hundred.
Imagine what it would be like with a pile of ladies at a picnic table.

[BG6]

Hello:
   Air starters have a few quirks. One of them is they require constant use. That is why transit buses usually have them where they will be started every day.

They shouldn't.  I've flown planes with air starters which hadn't been used in months.

The thing about an air starter is that you have to be READY when you hit the starter.  If your engine needs priming, prime it BEFORE you hit start, because you only have a few seconds of spin.  The nice thing about the air starter in a plane is that you can get a restart in the air even if you have had to shut off the Master switch.

Don't ask how I know that.