Me and my buddy (whos names is also "Paul") have talked about this option
as well.
We both live in rural areas and he sses power outages a little of requently
than I. Since we often share equipment, it was thought to buy a bigger
unit and be able to move it between houses depending on who needs it (we
have never lose power at the same time.)
Now, the one thing he doesn't like about the tractor one is that it can't
be made "automatic." Meaning that if he is on a trip and the power fails,
there is no way his wife is going to know how (or be able to) hook up a PTO
genny and wire it up and keep it running.
I looked into mounting a permament genny on the Unimog, I still may do that
for smaller generation, then a larger one for the whole house. (well, not
the whole house, I have 400amp service!)
Something to think about.
Inch
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-----shop-talk-owner@autox.team.net wrote: -----
To: "john niolon" <jniolon@bham.rr.com>
From: Paul Parkanzky <parkanz1@msu.edu>
Sent by: shop-talk-owner@autox.team.net
Date: 09/21/2005 22:41
cc: Shop-Talk <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: home standby generator
My father-in-law manages industrial construction. He has dealt with
several BIG generator installations, including a couple of hospital
jobs.
They live in a pretty rural place. When the time came for them to
put in a generator he settled on one that ran off the PTO of his
tractor. It's not automatic, but it's a lot cheaper kW for kW, and
you don't have to maintain the motor on the generator. A sensible
option if you happen to have a tractor that will run one.
~Paul
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