[AT] Battery Charger recommendations

[Cecil Bearden]

Ed:
That is much better life from an Interstate Battery than I ever got.   
Back in 2010, I got hooked up with them for fleet sales. They came buy 
every other Wednesday morning at 5am..........    I spent about $800 the 
first couple of months on their batteries. Even had 2 of those Work a 
holic batts.   Within 2 years every Interstate battery had to be 
replaced.  However, a year or so earlier, I bought 10 of Interstate's 
"Blem" batteries by trading a bunch of cores I had here on the farm.  I 
replaced the last one of those in my Generator this winter.  I don't 
know why the blems were better service batteries.  They were switched 
from tractor to truck to whatever.  The high priced ones were put in 
trucks and suv's that were used daily and did not last.  The longest 
lasting battery I have is in my 2000 C3500, it was bought at Oreilly's 
in june 2007, in an emergency.  The truck has a 4 ton electric winch,  
So I bought the best AGM battery they had.  it was nearly $200 at the 
time.  It is still starting the truck in all kinds of weather...  That 
is over 8 years.   AGM batteries have the best life if you can afford 
them....

Cecil in oKla


On 5/1/2016 8:17 PM, Edchainsaw at aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 4/28/2016 12:03:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> at-request at lists.antique-tractor.com writes:
>
> Subject:  Re: [AT] Battery Charger recommendations
>   
> We have  at least 15 chargers (nessessity--- we have 5 locations all a
> good distance apart and my sister has run over 2 and I left 2 out and rain came
>   we are hard on them)
> I am swaring off the Schumacher  chargers  I cant get parts like  knobs
> from them--- they told me in an official email they dont sell them-- I was  to
> get them from Century Ghargers----  I have a century and Like it a whole
> lot better ( I got it at an auction)  they are a TON$$$ more
>   
> we are hard on them (our hired help has pulled the wires off 2 in the last
> year ) again not the Century but the Schumacher-- again--- got to Century
> for  parts...
>   
> I have about 6 of the Harbor Freight trickle chargers and all work yet  ,.
>   
>   
> I would suggest the Century models ----  not sure but think our John  Deere
> chargers are Centruy's as they have held up -- 1 was even nicked by my
> sister's car back in 1984....
>   
>   
> One other item battery related and old tractor related:     battery life.
>     In  December of 1999 dad and I  purchased a MF 2805 that was sitting on
> a dealer's lot because the owner  couldn't pay the repair bill  ($12k)
> The dealer put new batteries in when the repair work was done in October of
>   1999.
>   
> 2 wks ago one finally died!     I use this tractor  fairly regularly on our
> grain vac and for some years back the grain drill and  BushHog (R)  mower
> when we had it.    I dont rember  replacing the batteries ever...  the chads
> are chipped out for  October  and 9.    Unless the battery fairy replaced
> them in  09  they are OLD.
>   
> I checked the one with my checker and it had 12v but dropped the second
> load hit...  the other still had 12v and was still good..
>   
> these are  Interstate Work-aholic   battieries.....     I tried to send
> picks to   Interstate but they refused my emails..  LOL   oh well..
>
>
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