[AT] Battery Charger recommendations

[Edchainsaw at aol.com]

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..