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Bob Bancroft

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Aurora NY
I couldn't live without it. Coldest day of the year- power goes out at 9:30 AM. Where the original line (1938) goes winding through a gully with trees, brush, and Jurassic era grapevines, one main line was laying on the ground, behind a neighbors house! I just got four hours of good out of my old Winpower 15/25. I do have to confess that now that I have a small, modern diesel, the antique tractors don't get to run the alternator, unless of course it gets so cold the diesel won't start.
 
I've never owned one but some day I will get caught with my pants down. The local REC has done a very good job of updating lines by re-spanning poles and replacing the cables and we haven't had any real bad ice so we haven't had an outage of more than a couple hours for a good thirty years or more. When my power was updated a year and a half ago I had the double throw switch installed so all I need to do is shuck out a few bucks for a generator and I'm set to go, but it hasn't been a priority and it should be. Around here so many hog sites have gone up and they require a large standby generator so now smaller farmer owned 15-25 KW generators can easily be found on consignment sales and they usually are cheap. All I have to do is go to a sale and raise my hand. (Sigh)
 
Probably early 70s we had a Winpower gen. on the farm to milk the cows and I think the fans had to keep running in a hog confinement building when the power was out. I had instructions on how to throw the levers on the boxes but don't remember doing it, made the Farmall M bellar. Had to be the 60s, I wasn't around after 1971.
 
I have an older PTO generator and I bought a stationary one for the home farm two years ago. The stationary generator has less than 10 hours on it so far. The PTO generator has many more. I can remember running it 10 days straight in the early 2000s when we had an ice storm take down the lines for miles around. Had it on the JD 4440 and put over 200 hours on it that one stretch. I would not be with out one these days.
 
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