[AT] : Ice Storm

[Cecil Bearden]

I have more generators around here than I really know.  I have collected 
them for years.  I have some antiques from the 30's here too.  They 
always fascinated me as a kid, and they were too expensive for me to 
afford.  Now I still cannot afford them, but they seem to follow me 
home.  I have always had a soft spot for ONAN generators as they are an 
industrial duty and run only 1800 since they use a 4 pole generator.  By 
only running 1800 rpm this also derates the engine to where it lasts 
almost a lifetime.  We had one in here that had over 3000 hours on it 
and it only needed the carbon cleaned out of the head... 

  I want to take an old swather  frame and power it with a generator and 
make it into a tree cutting unit.  I could run a 20hp electric motor on 
a hydraulic arm for clearing cedars and fence rows.  I have some 3 hp 
oil clutch gearmotors to use for the drive wheel power.  With the 
frequency drives available, variable speed would be simple.  Electric is 
just so much more efficient than hydraulic.  I found a 35kw generator 
but need to sell one of these small house units to afford to go get it.

Cecil in OKla



John Hall wrote:
> Dad keeps wanting to get one of those to trim around the fields with. 
> Amazing how many limbs seem to wander into the fields every year.
>
> John Hall
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry D Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] : Ice Storm
>
>
>   
>> Just a thought for you, Al -- I bought one of those itty-bitty "chain saws
>> on a stick" from Home Depot or Lowe's or some place like that and I throw
>> that and the generator in the utility trailer, hook it to a tractor, and 
>> use
>> it to trim the dead wood out of the oaks and pines around the house and 
>> over
>> at the church.  It gives me a good excuse to keep the generator in 
>> operating
>> condition at least once or twice a year.  Between the reach of the chain 
>> saw
>> and some additional height made possible by a step ladder in the trailer,
>> it's easy to reach up 20 feet or more with relative safety.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>>
>>     
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