[AT] ice storm

[Cecil Bearden]

I have several old ONAN 1800 RPM generators that would run 18 days 
non-stop.  In fact I have a 15KW ONAN from the 50's that ran 14 days 
non-stop in the 2001 Ice storm around here.  You can't beat ONAN for 
reliability.  The old ONANs that is...  I have some 4.5 to 6.5 Onans on 
Nat gas or Propane and a few  on gas if anyone wants to buy and pay the 
freight..

Cecil in OKla

Dick Day wrote:
> Oh my, I assume everyone in your family is ok?  The pictures are incredible, 
> thank you for posting them.
> 
> How long can you store that much fuel, and how do you prevent it from going 
> bad?
> 
> We have a Generac 7500 watt (13.5 peak).  We paid about $1400 for it several 
> years ago at TSC and, other than testing it occasionally, we've never needed 
> it.  Do you think it would run 18-days non-stop?
> 
> Thanks and glad you are ok.
> 
> Dick
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <oldiron62 at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 9:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] ice storm
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> 
> Western KY, near Eddyville.
> I was talking and working with the Elliot company, out of Roanoke, VA. And
> they said 84 poles in a row were snapped over on the other road 1 mile away
> from us.
> It was wild, 911 would not work at all for over a week. Untill our GOV
> contacted obama to get Fed assistance. Even the water was down until Feds
> brought in loads of gennys. The local hospital had to close for a few days.
> Their big gen layed down them. It was good I like to have 20 - 30 galons of
> gas on hand
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dick Day" <ddss at telebeep.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 9:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] ice storm
> 
> 
>> Kevin, where are you located?
>>
>> Dick
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <oldiron62 at gmail.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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>> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:39 PM
>> Subject: [AT] ice storm
>>
>>
>> We just had electric back on, after it being off for 18 days. The ice wind
>> broke 90% of the elictric poles, and the trees are a mess. The weather
>> folk
>> say this was the worse in recorded history.  I am glad to be able to store
>> the generator for awhile. Most the folks around here are still out of
>> electric still. Them generators really like the gas, and the older gen we
>> started out. Just holds 3 quarts gas, so i hooked it up to a 3 gallon boat
>> gas tank.  As it was with the little tank keptme running cont duty
>> refueling.
>> So we heared that the local farm store just got a 100, 6000watt
>> generators.
>> So I was gone in a minute to get one (chinesse crap)  being the only thing
>> availible and it has a 6.5 Gallon tank on it.
>> If we had not been able find that they had them they would  have  been all
>> sold the same day.
>> Hope yall dont get it like we have had it the past 3 weeks.
>> Tractor ref, I used the 560, 504, M  6 cyl tractors to assist in cleanup,
>> getting the trees off the fence.
>> Below is link to some pics that I took with the old sony mavica 3.5 floppy
>> discs And they are not as good.
>>
>> Kevin M
>>
>>
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/bellville1/IceStorm20091#
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