[AT] Battery Charger recommendations

[Mike M]

Cecil, that's why I'm a fan of the maintainer. Batteries have 
skyrocketed in years. I can buy a brand name maintainer for about $23. 
Some things stay hooked up all the time with others get spot charge ups. 
Money well spent when a new battery is $120+

Mike M

On 5/1/2016 10:16 PM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
> 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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