90cummins
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Your last generator Maintenance Run
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grsthegreat
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i could have used a helicopter today. had to drive up a mountain 14 miles, half of it in 4x4 LOW to get to a cell tower. and they were logging to boot. my truck looked like a dust ball when i got thru.
sad part...i have to go back as they want to add sell monitoring to it now. why didnt they tell me before i drove up there.
sad part...i have to go back as they want to add sell monitoring to it now. why didnt they tell me before i drove up there.
grsthegreat
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Yes on milage. Bt ive cut it down to 2 days a week. The problem is, the wife is always asking what days i work, so if im not getting paid i can work for her for free.
Everybody loves free labour, except the person doing it !
Told this one before..... Pan Am Games in Toronto.... once security forces calmed down, the married LEOs were thinking "Damn - a real man-cave, with electricity and NO cell reception - we're gonna have to secure this site, probably for years !". ( a couple a guys were digging a cave, in an empty field - mental health exercise only).
More than a while ago, I'd heard about select high-end restaurants adding Faraday cages (not what they'd know it as) to their walls.... people were sick of cell chains, even back-when.....
I have a Class A license... if I had a spare 10MM or so lying around, you could outfit a 53'er with slide-outs, and set up a real nice mobile man-cave, or high-security mobile conference facility. I could make either work !
Rgds, D.
Told this one before..... Pan Am Games in Toronto.... once security forces calmed down, the married LEOs were thinking "Damn - a real man-cave, with electricity and NO cell reception - we're gonna have to secure this site, probably for years !". ( a couple a guys were digging a cave, in an empty field - mental health exercise only).
More than a while ago, I'd heard about select high-end restaurants adding Faraday cages (not what they'd know it as) to their walls.... people were sick of cell chains, even back-when.....
I have a Class A license... if I had a spare 10MM or so lying around, you could outfit a 53'er with slide-outs, and set up a real nice mobile man-cave, or high-security mobile conference facility. I could make either work !
Rgds, D.
grsthegreat
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Who needs test runs…. Stupid power went out again just now.
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PGE sending out notices to prepare for public safety power outages…
A couple of days with the power out changes one’s prospective.
My elderly prince of a guy neighbor passed away last year…
I kept my Honda 5000 in his garage with neatly bundled 100 10ga and 50’ extension cords, etc…
He would cover 4 household refrigerators and a light or two with my generator including moms place.
Passed at 97 but was excellent at rotating fuel, stabil, etc… they just don’t make neighbors like that anymore…
Power off at 10 pm and back on at 6 am…
California born, raised on a farm to Chinese emigrant parents and had his drivers license at age 12 to drive the farm truck to market… licensed signed by the chief of police…
A couple of days with the power out changes one’s prospective.
My elderly prince of a guy neighbor passed away last year…
I kept my Honda 5000 in his garage with neatly bundled 100 10ga and 50’ extension cords, etc…
He would cover 4 household refrigerators and a light or two with my generator including moms place.
Passed at 97 but was excellent at rotating fuel, stabil, etc… they just don’t make neighbors like that anymore…
Power off at 10 pm and back on at 6 am…
California born, raised on a farm to Chinese emigrant parents and had his drivers license at age 12 to drive the farm truck to market… licensed signed by the chief of police…
Trying to remember the name of the movie Dudley Moore was in.... played a top-dog Ad man, who gets cursed into having to speak the truth..... would be great to wave that wand when you want....
"PGE's Lawyers and Bean-Counters have decreed that for the "safety" of the corporate bank accounts, You get to huddle in the dark, risk exposure, starvation, spoiled food, non-functional medical equipment... ad nauseum "
Day-dreaming aside...... serious question - what happens to Traffic Lights, during these "Public Safety" shutdowns ? Do any keep functioning ?
Your neighbour was a great guy.... hard to replace, esp. today. Growing up on a working farm can teach many things.... Personal accountability, is one of the first things I think of.
That generation of immigrant, and the values they taught their kids, is part of what (literally) built up your country, and mine.
Rgds, D.
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Yep…many interesting stories growing up in a itinerant farmer shack where 5 million dollar homes are common now.
He was quick to learn about machinery and loved tractors… so many stories starting on gas and switching to kero and such to save a few cents.
He became a butcher and when drafted the Army made him meat inspector at Fort Lewis… predudice was alive and well but the Army really expanded his horizons and treated him well.
I was the only non family member seated with family at the funeral and to the right of his widow.
He took better care of my generator than I would have… kept under a blanket and meticulous on fuel rotation logging run time, service, etc.
As for generators mine was bought when you were obligated to inform Utility of the presence of a generator onsite no matter if it was not tied to house circuits.
Now the utility encourages generators.
Nice thing about the Honda is quiet and reliable.
So many neighbors bought Home Depot specials and it’s like hearing a loud mower all day… these same owners are having problems after prolong storage.
Traffic lights work for a number of hours but most eventually cease.
Cell Towers now hardened with extended standby power but generator theft is a problem…
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grsthegreat
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I just repaired a cell tower generator where aholes tried to vandalize generator and building. No reason except to cause trouble. Even ripped cover off of propane tank.
Our power finally was restored 2.25 hrs. Cause unknown
Our power finally was restored 2.25 hrs. Cause unknown
Chilliwack Murray
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Went to a prime power mountain top microwave repeater site once where the idiots cut the locks and shut off the fuel supply shutting off the power to the site. When we got there they had their tent setup on the helipad.
The wash was enough to send it flying with all their stuff in it. If I remember right, their reasoning was they didn't like the noise on what they thought was a tent pad put there just for them. Apparently they didn't notice the signs.
No service truck and not many helicopters anymore, mostly 737's and rental cars.
Good thing there isn't much traffic in your State, and I expect that everyone carefully treats those dead lights as a 4 way. This is done for Public Safety, after all.....
Anything can be stolen, but old school CO buildings (larger footprint) used to be well stocked with big battery banks. Generators aren't light weight, but don't weigh anything like those battery banks - days of runtime, IIRC, before needing a charge.
Rgds, D.
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Ran the Subaru for an hour two days ago. The heaters also tested the idle control system well.
90cummins
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Always good to run it at 50~80% load for 1/2 hour to thoroughly warm it up.
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daugen
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nice looking Subie gen Aba
Subaru stopped making small engines and gens in 2017.
Their engines were excellent, in fact Kubota used Subaru to make the sixteen horse one lunger I had in my Kubuta utv. I believe Kubota bought the rights to that engine.
Yours looks like new, you clearly take care of it.
Subaru 22hp v-twin is a nice engine
Do you plug that into a transfer box for whole house power?
I see some still being sold as new in commercial markets.
They have full five year warranties, that's impressive
Subaru stopped making small engines and gens in 2017.
Their engines were excellent, in fact Kubota used Subaru to make the sixteen horse one lunger I had in my Kubuta utv. I believe Kubota bought the rights to that engine.
Yours looks like new, you clearly take care of it.
Subaru 22hp v-twin is a nice engine
Do you plug that into a transfer box for whole house power?
I see some still being sold as new in commercial markets.
They have full five year warranties, that's impressive
Sawyer Rob
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Subaru bought that engine line from Robin, Kubota bought the rights to a couple of them from Subaru, Yamaha bought a couple and the rest went to a china company.
The Kubota UTV single cylinder UTV was a poor seller and Kubota discontinued it. Their 500 UTV used a twin but when Kubota started making that engine, they made some improvements and now put it in their 520 that replaced the 500.
The 520 UTV is much improved over the 500, more power ect...
SR
daugen
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it really didn't have the 20+ hp it needed, but that FI engine started marvelously in the cold and was utterly reliable for me.
Mine was the lowest possible model, I think a 450?
huge value at ten grand and ride was superb. Just was kinda noisy and slow. Most of those small utv's have terrible sounding engines.
I'd like a liquid cooled one with a nice set of pipes on a 25hp twin.
shut the motor up and let's hear the pipes, or not hear them at all.
Subaru apparently decided making cars had become so complicated, so demanding from tech investment, they just couldn't fiddle with small engines any more. Thank goodness we still have Honda.
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