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The three best words to live by, Improvise, Adapt. Overcome. Good work. Snow in OK while us yankees are sweating. What global warming?
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Until the power comes back on, i am the kool kid because i get up and go start a jenny.You may push this a little to far. Then all **** will break out. You may have to spend a few days in the barn, before the fallout settles.
She sounds like a keeper to me!! Was your power out in the January ice storm any? I hope they get your power back on soon!!Mine asked me today how to start it, so we walked thru checking oil, coolant, looking for leaks, fuel gauge, preheat start, run and volts/hz adjustments. When we got done, she said, you need to write the procedure down, I said, its on the inside of the cover that you just closed. She just 'hmft' and shrugged her shoulders, said 'thats smart'
It was supposed to run at 540. It was just geared wrong. My little tractor makes 540 at 3200 so it's already buzzing. 3600 is wide ass open.It sounds like the PTO generators were designed for 1000 RPM PTOs. Like you, my Ford 4000 doesn't have that option, only 540.
X2, most small tractors today are short stroke high rpm jobs that suck fuel and make power at upper revs. I was thinking PTO generator before buying my 803, but couldn't justify taking a $30k tractor and putting generator hours on it, plus I might need it during a storm.It was supposed to run at 540. It was just geared wrong. My little tractor makes 540 at 3200 so it's already buzzing. 3600 is wide ass open.
Sometimes women just don't understand men's instinct to prepare for the unexpected.
My wife thought I had some sort of generator addiction and that... I had really lost it...when I increased my MEP-002a stable from one to two, then three gensets! After my last purchase she asked "Why on earth do we now need 3 generators?" My response was "Cause we have 2 electrical service entrances on the property and the one down below runs the well to keep our horses' water trough full among other things". She said "Ok, so explain what's the 3rd one for?" I said "That's for when one of the other two malfunction". She looked at me with "that look" and I could tell she wasn't really buying it...that is until a few months later during our 50 year record ice storm that took down lines & power poles and we were without utility pwr for a week. During that event, wouldn't you know it...my #1 generator hooked to the house had a malfunction (voltage went high forcing me to take it offline) and with no time to troubleshoot/repair in freezing weather and darkness rapidly approaching I was able to unhook the house genset and roll in the spare genset to restore backup power to the house. After about 20 minutes when house lights came back on she was one happy camper and she really appreciated my wisdom in having a back-up to the back-up.
X2, most small tractors today are short stroke high rpm jobs that suck fuel and make power at upper revs. I was thinking PTO generator before buying my 803, but couldn't justify taking a $30k tractor and putting generator hours on it, plus I might need it during a storm.
There is a farmer up my road that had a 4440 John Deere tractor hooked to a generator to run the farm and in the middle of the night the tractor blew a radiator hose and he lost the engine. I would hate to see that repair bill. Makes me wonder how many 8XX generators have experienced a similar fate.
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