Re: PJ, hydraulic powered generator
Paul,
I don't know how much money you would save. A hydraulic motor, couplers, lines, quick disconnects all add up. Figure about $300 or more for the motor and hoses and stuff and you could by a gas motor for that much. Now, if you want to do it so that you don't have another gas engine to maintain, that's a different story. I could agree with that( remember I'm still looking at chippers and blowers to run off of the PT because I don't want so many gas engines to maintain ).
Having some expereince with my generator, I've found that when the power goes out, there is usually storm damage that I want to clean up. If the PT is tied up running the generator, you can't do the cleanup. Also, this tends to happen at night to me. I use the generator to run some lights to do clean up or for security. Also, my wife's family lives near. If one of them needs to borrow the generator, I take it over and hook it up. But there is no way I'm loning out my Power Trac /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
So, to me at least, the generator is about the only thing that I wouldn't want to run with the PT. Everything else in the garage should be converted to hydraulic!!! /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif Hope this helps.