Here's some pictures of a 5 horsepower Sattley that was purchased at auction on June 29th 2002. I didn't plan on buying any engines at this auction and after looking around I asked my wife if she was interested in anything. She pointed to a 5 hp Sattley. I was pretty stunned as this doesn't happen very often, if it does it is usually a polished up beauty that is out of my league. We looked it over and decided what the highest price would be that we would pay. Ended up 75 bucks less than our maximum so we were both happy. Plus it was on our anniversary day so it will be called the anniversary engine.

Had a little incident unloading this engine Sunday afternoon August 18, 2002. I wasn't going to take any pictures, but then decided I'll probably regret it if I don't. So I took pictures. Then I figured I better not tell all my friends because of the ribbing I might get. I changed my mind and figured that it might scare somebody into thinking twice before lifting your engines around. Fortunately nobody was hurt (only my feelings). I can offer no good explanation as to why this happened. Other than maybe having my head entirely up my butt. I used the cherry picker to lift the engine off a trailer, then drive the trailer out from under it, set the engine down and all is good. I've done this I don't know how many times. When I have to move the engine around I'll usually set it on the legs of the cherry picker then roll the cherry picker around and then set the engine down. With this engine I couldn't put the boom out far enough to clear the legs to set the engine down on the ground, obviously it is to heavy and the back end of the cherry picker would come off the ground with the boom way out. I put some blocks on the dirt and set the engine on the blocks so it was high enough to clear the legs on the cherry picker. I slid the cherry picker out from under the engine that was now up on blocks (or 4x4's, 2x4's whatever I had handy). Now the only thing I had to do was pick up the front of the engine and pull out the blocking, set it down. Then move the cherry picker and lift up the back of the engine and take out the blocks, set it down. Pretty straight forward and simple. I hooked up the cherry picker to the front of the skid and lifted just enough the clear the blocks. I pulled out the blocks and started to lower the front of the engine down. When all of the sudden it started to tip over right on my leg as I was running the jack. I tried to push back on the flywheel but noway stopping it with 1000 pounds coming over. Luckily the flywheel just sorta brushed or rubbed all the way down my leg. It all seemed to happen in slow motion. A nice thud when it hit the ground, with a clang when the flywheel hit the cherry picker.

The only visible damage that I can see so far is the handwheel for the speed adjustment. The plywood on the handwheel got damaged a little bit, but this isn't original any way. Someone added the plywood before I purchased it. I got about as lucky as you can get I think.

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