Hi Tom Dugas, hope you are having a nice day
06-May-96 23:10:00, Tom Dugas wrote to Cloyce Osborn
          Subject: Re: LPG or Diesel Gen.
 -=>> Quoting Cloyce Osborn to Tom Dugas <=-
 TD>> I'm setting up a homestead on approx 15 acres.  I'm on the
 CO>> but we get our share of tornados, etc.  I rigged a transfer
 CO>> switch on my main power feed and can now hook a tractor
 CO>> mounted generator to the house for emergency power.  The
 CO>> generator won't run everything in the house but it will run
 CO>> the essentials such as lights, refrigerator, furnace blower.
 CO>> My tractor is an old Satoh S-670D (30 hp diesel).  The
 TD> I hadn't thought of using a tractor with a PTO setup, *smart!!*
I recently saw a modification that I thought was clever. A friend has a
little four x four car called a Lada Niva. It is apparently made in Russia
(or that way somewhere). It is a carbrettor engine and comes with jets that
let it run or just about anything short of furnace oil. On a recent camping
trip, once we had made camp, he changed the carby jets and ran a seperate
fuel line to a boat fuel tank containing kerosene. He then used the PTO
to run a compressor to an inverter to allow mains type power.
The thing that made my chin drop was that it only took him about ten minutes
to set up the change over.
 -=> Yours sincerely, Jock Rogan <=-
... "He was a man, all and all, I shall not look upon his like again."        
   
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