Do you have a working generator?

whelan2

Just wondering do many people have a generator, I do, hopefully we wont need it

greenfield21

No and milking too, fairly far north so will hopefully miss the worst of it.

visatorro

No, against my wishes

Say my name

Yep bought one before Ophelia hit.
I've got a big dog too.

degetme

No generator here. Was able to milk cows with pto of tractor and luckily enough esb came back on while finishing the cows each time the last two storms. Enquired about getting set up with a change over switch with an electrical company and told there were 40/50 people ahead of me.

Nekarsulm

Way back in the early 90's sometime we had a storm that brought down power lines nationwide.
We were milking with an ancient Alfa Laval tandem parlour at the time, and while the vacuum tanker could provide the vacuum, you were rookied for the milk pump and liquid level probes and pulsation.
No mobiles then, and phones were out, and I remember my dad and I driving around the county on the strength of a rumour that 2 old boys had some kind of jenny in a shed.
Got going in a kind of a way and it was 6 days before mains power returned.

So, once bitten etc. We bought a PTO driven 15kva machine and got it wired in properly.
Only been needed 4 or 5 times in 25 years but it's great peace off mind.

The Rabbi

Got one here,I put it on in mid Dec for scheduled network maintenance.Only took it off to spread fert 10 days ago,that evening I see on here the warnings starting. asfi