Thanks! We are about to fire it up next Sunday. So we'll try one extension cord (we bought good ones), I saw in the book the more you use the less the power is. We will also see about switching out the spring! If that doesn't work, we'll get a new motor.
Thank you! Looks like we might have to look into a new motor...ahhh. This one wasn't cheap even used. The book said 3/4hp farm duty so that's what we went with. We'll probably check out Harbor Freight.
We purchased one of these last year and it needed the motor/electrical components. We finally got all that hooked up on it. We used it today but everytime we stuck a chicken in it, once it hit the featherplate, it stopped. When you'd pick up the chicken off the featherplate, it would start up...