Power your home with your tractor - Winco PTO Generators 

Eric Duck I’m in central Louisiana as well. What PTO generator do you have? I would like to get one before another Laura comes.

@@sphill_edc Northern Tool is the company I bought it from. It was $1,000 several years ago. Have not checked the price recently. Also purchased the outside plug to connect to house. Had to also buy a power cord to connect it together. I built a 3-point hitch to mount it to tractor. You may want to mount it on a wheeled cart for easy moving. The one in video was a nice package.

I have an older Kubota and am looking at a Winco to do the same thing. Eric did you leave your tractor running the whole time? Refuel while running? Just curious as I am considering the same and don’t mind running a tractor - but can honestly say I have never run one 6 days straight. How did it do? How long did it take you to get used to it running non stop? Any concerns while you were doing it?

@@charlessavino7946 I have a new Kabota L3901 with about 100 hours. No problems with it nor any concerns. I ran it while I added fuel. I did disconnect a few times while I used the tractor for cleanup. I used it to carry limbs, etc. I would shut it down to check the oil. I would cut away from generator 4 or 5 hours during the day, but ran it all the other times. Good luck.

@@ericduck8273 how much fuel did you end up consuming?

Muy skookum.

I have a 19 hp PTO what size generator should I be looking for ?

@@dirtyd9792 10KW would be your max output. You can buy a larger generator, but you won't get all the power out of it.

@@briangc1972 10kw CONTINUOUS, 12KW surge.

⚠️Please make sure you follow all the generator safety tips whenever you use your portable generator. This is just a reminder for your safety when using generators. All generator safety instructions need to be followed carefully. Here are the safety tips: 1) KEEPING OTHERS SAFE: Please do not allow an unqualified person or your children to operate and service the portable generator. Just because some manuals don’t say that doesn’t mean it’s safe. That is important against the generator safety rules. We also need to be keeping an eye on our children too. You need to make sure that your children are not playing near the portable generator especially when it’s running so they won’t get electrocuted. Generators pose electrical risks and they can be hot during an operation. Please keep your children away from the portable generator at all times. It is important to keep our children safe especially our little ones. Children often get curious about anything so we should keep an eye on them to also make sure they’re not wandering towards the generator. 2) WHERE TO RUN YOUR GENERATOR: Some people use their portable generators indoors which increases the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. It’s important to have a carbon monoxide if you have a gas generator. Never ever use your generator indoors even if your doors and windows are open and even in the garage is not safe to use a portable generator. Not even at your porch and your deck. It is never safe to use your generator indoors and in enclosed areas of your home. Your generator needs to be 15-20 feet away from your house. 3)🔥FIRE HAZARDS: Never refuel your generator while it’s running. You need to let your generator cool off before refueling it and before storing your generator. Never overload your generator too. Never ever back feed your generator. You should never plug your generator into a wall outlet. Also never store propane tanks indoors. Please keep flammable things away from the generator as well and please don’t smoke cigarettes near the generator. Having a fire extinguisher next to the generator is also important against the generator safety rules. 4) GENERATOR OPERATION: make sure your hands are dry before touching the generator. Never use your generator in wet conditions. Don’t let your generator get wet. You need a generator tent if you need to use your generator during wet weather. Please don’t wear loose clothes when operating the generator. Turn on your generator before plugging in appliances. Use the right cord for your generator. Please do not use worn out cords. Hope this helps.

"Generator always starts" Yeah, that's the big difference I see. You're running and maintaining your tractor engine all the time. If you have a separate generator engine, it's another maintenance item.

I'm considering a PTO generator (for power outages), but my current set up is two generators: I have a 3200 watt dual fuel inverter generator which can power all my household (800 sq foot) needs (except the well) at the rate of .19 gal of propane per hour (26 hours per 20 pound bottle). And a 220v generator, that I use for about 10 minutes a day to refill the 50 gal back up water tank, which uses 5 quarts of gasoline per hour. It sounds like the biggest difference is that I have two extra pieces of equipment to maintain and store.

I have a 19 hp PTO what size generator should I be looking to get ?

@@dirtyd9792 10kw CONTINUOUS, 12KW surge.

⚠️Please make sure you follow all the generator safety tips whenever you use your portable generator. This is just a reminder for your safety when using generators. All generator safety instructions need to be followed carefully. Here are the safety tips: 1) KEEPING OTHERS SAFE: Please do not allow an unqualified person or your children to operate and service the portable generator. Just because some manuals don’t say that doesn’t mean it’s safe. That is important against the generator safety rules. We also need to be keeping an eye on our children too. You need to make sure that your children are not playing near the portable generator especially when it’s running so they won’t get electrocuted. Generators pose electrical risks and they can be hot during an operation. Please keep your children away from the portable generator at all times. It is important to keep our children safe especially our little ones. Children often get curious about anything so we should keep an eye on them to also make sure they’re not wandering towards the generator. 2) WHERE TO RUN YOUR GENERATOR: Some people use their portable generators indoors which increases the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. It’s important to have a carbon monoxide if you have a gas generator. Never ever use your generator indoors even if your doors and windows are open and even in the garage is not safe to use a portable generator. Not even at your porch and your deck. It is never safe to use your generator indoors and in enclosed areas of your home. Your generator needs to be 15-20 feet away from your house. 3)🔥FIRE HAZARDS: Never refuel your generator while it’s running. You need to let your generator cool off before refueling it and before storing your generator. Never overload your generator too. Never ever back feed your generator. You should never plug your generator into a wall outlet. Also never store propane tanks indoors. Please keep flammable things away from the generator as well and please don’t smoke cigarettes near the generator. Having a fire extinguisher next to the generator is also important against the generator safety rules. 4) GENERATOR OPERATION: make sure your hands are dry before touching the generator. Never use your generator in wet conditions. Don’t let your generator get wet. You need a generator tent if you need to use your generator during wet weather. Please don’t wear loose clothes when operating the generator. Turn on your generator before plugging in appliances. Use the right cord for your generator. Please do not use worn out cords. Hope this helps.

And you'd use far less fuel by running the diesel tractor powered generator!

⚠️Please make sure you follow all the generator safety tips whenever you use your portable generator. This is just a reminder for your safety when using generators. All generator safety instructions need to be followed carefully. Here are the safety tips: 1) KEEPING OTHERS SAFE: Please do not allow an unqualified person or your children to operate and service the portable generator. Just because some manuals don’t say that doesn’t mean it’s safe. That is important against the generator safety rules. We also need to be keeping an eye on our children too. You need to make sure that your children are not playing near the portable generator especially when it’s running so they won’t get electrocuted. Generators pose electrical risks and they can be hot during an operation. Please keep your children away from the portable generator at all times. It is important to keep our children safe especially our little ones. Children often get curious about anything so we should keep an eye on them to also make sure they’re not wandering towards the generator. 2) WHERE TO RUN YOUR GENERATOR: Some people use their portable generators indoors which increases the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. It’s important to have a carbon monoxide if you have a gas generator. Never ever use your generator indoors even if your doors and windows are open and even in the garage is not safe to use a portable generator. Not even at your porch and your deck. It is never safe to use your generator indoors and in enclosed areas of your home. Your generator needs to be 15-20 feet away from your house. 3)🔥FIRE HAZARDS: Never refuel your generator while it’s running. You need to let your generator cool off before refueling it and before storing your generator. Never overload your generator too. Never ever back feed your generator. You should never plug your generator into a wall outlet. Also never store propane tanks indoors. Please keep flammable things away from the generator as well and please don’t smoke cigarettes near the generator. Having a fire extinguisher next to the generator is also important against the generator safety rules. 4) GENERATOR OPERATION: make sure your hands are dry before touching the generator. Never use your generator in wet conditions. Don’t let your generator get wet. You need a generator tent if you need to use your generator during wet weather. Please don’t wear loose clothes when operating the generator. Turn on your generator before plugging in appliances. Use the right cord for your generator. Please do not use worn out cords. Hope this helps.

Dairy farmers here in Louisiana have been also!

Hurricane Michael here too Richard - Panama City, Fl.

I live in SE Texas where we deal with hurricanes often also. I just bought a used Winco 25KW to use with my new L4802. I'm glad to see someone posting with a smaller tractor running this same generator. Curious just how much fuel it uses in 24hrs.

TRUE!!!!

⚠️Please make sure you follow all the generator safety tips whenever you use your portable generator. This is just a reminder for your safety when using generators. All generator safety instructions need to be followed carefully. Here are the safety tips: 1) KEEPING OTHERS SAFE: Please do not allow an unqualified person or your children to operate and service the portable generator. Just because some manuals don’t say that doesn’t mean it’s safe. That is important against the generator safety rules. We also need to be keeping an eye on our children too. You need to make sure that your children are not playing near the portable generator especially when it’s running so they won’t get electrocuted. Generators pose electrical risks and they can be hot during an operation. Please keep your children away from the portable generator at all times. It is important to keep our children safe especially our little ones. Children often get curious about anything so we should keep an eye on them to also make sure they’re not wandering towards the generator. 2) WHERE TO RUN YOUR GENERATOR: Some people use their portable generators indoors which increases the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. It’s important to have a carbon monoxide if you have a gas generator. Never ever use your generator indoors even if your doors and windows are open and even in the garage is not safe to use a portable generator. Not even at your porch and your deck. It is never safe to use your generator indoors and in enclosed areas of your home. Your generator needs to be 15-20 feet away from your house. 3)🔥FIRE HAZARDS: Never refuel your generator while it’s running. You need to let your generator cool off before refueling it and before storing your generator. Never overload your generator too. Never ever back feed your generator. You should never plug your generator into a wall outlet. Also never store propane tanks indoors. Please keep flammable things away from the generator as well and please don’t smoke cigarettes near the generator. Having a fire extinguisher next to the generator is also important against the generator safety rules. 4) GENERATOR OPERATION: make sure your hands are dry before touching the generator. Never use your generator in wet conditions. Don’t let your generator get wet. You need a generator tent if you need to use your generator during wet weather. Please don’t wear loose clothes when operating the generator. Turn on your generator before plugging in appliances. Use the right cord for your generator. Please do not use worn out cords. Hope this helps.

I agree. I just bought a used Kubota G1800, and am studying how to hook up a generator to it. It should pull a 10KW continuous, 12KW surge generator with no problems

Exactly man. Every generator I've owned sits a few months then I run it abit... And carb issues... I see absolutely no downfall to a PTO driven unit for my house

And you are using far less fuel than using gasoline/propane/natural gas, and diesel is far safer for the environment (when used in a properly maintained tractor) than gasoline!

You really need to run through a power out scenario to decide which configuration would work best for you. In most cases the portable generator is on wheels and you simply wheel it outside, plug in the feed line and you're up and running. I can have mine connected and running in less than 10-mins. With the tractor you have to go out to the barn, garage, shed or wherever you store the tractor... wheel over the PTO generator and get it hooked up. Then start the tractor and drive it to the house and find a place to park it so you can get your feed line connected. Connect your load, throttle up to wide-open and now you have the tractor screaming away outside your window at wide open throttle. It just makes no sense. PTO generators sound like a good idea until you've been through a couple extended outages... maybe during an ice storm or hurricane-like winds. I can protect my little portable generator from the elements. I can't do so easily for the tractor and PTO generator sitting out in the driveway or yard. I won't even mention the risk of theft of an unattended running tractor.

@@eosjoe565 I'd have to go out to the shop, shed, barn, back 40, or wherever I store the generator and lug it across the property I haven't seen anyone that keeps their "Portable" generator hooked up to the house 24/7 so you'd have to go lug that thing all over the place too...I'd rather jump on the tractor and hookup the generator that way than lug around a not so portable generator. For that kind of money though I'd just have a standby generator installed, then I don't have to do anything, except reset all the clocks, even with automatic transfer switches you still lose power for a couple seconds. I've thought about a standby generator but we don't have enough power outages to justify having one, and it is 1 more engine to maintain. I had a portable generator, yeah when you get one that is large enough to actually power your house they aren't portable, maybe on wheels but they're not something you'd just drag around your property they're heavy, they're cumbersome, and they have to be maintained. I got rid of my generator because I never used it enough to justify keeping it and the power outages that we have where I live don't bother me, sometimes its nice to just sit back and relax and not have to work LOL. A PTO generator would make far more sense if you already have a tractor and you don't use it 24/7, and most people don't...they're tractors sit more than they are used, so having a Generator that you can power off a tractor would justify having the tractor around that only gets used a couple times a month. You don't need a tractor to clean up storm damage, you need a chainsaw and time. So the tractor can sit and keep your house powered while you are cutting up the tree that fell on your house, that is if it didn't crush your pretty tractor too.

You run into the same issue as the smaller portable units, if your running a smaller tractor, when your wife turn on the oven and decides she needs to dry clothes too, the rpm drop kicks the breaker or burns something up. On the other end, if you have to big of a tractor, you dont have the loading issues but you run the risk of wet stacking and you are using a high dollar machine to do an $800 generator's job...They are handy though.

The diesel tractor pto generator is far QUIETER than a gasoline powered portable, it uses far LESS fuel than the gasoline portable (and is better for the environment), diesel IS FAR EASIER to procure because everyone else is buying up all of the gasoline to run their "noisy, inefficient, gashog" generators. The diesel engine also lasts far longer than the air-cooled gas engine, and diesel is far safer to store in your garage than gasoline because diesel's fumes don't "go BOOM!" as gasoline can, and diesel can be stored far longer than gasoline before it goes bad! It's a no-brainer for this countryboy! The diesel is the way to go!

@@user-cy6gf2pj7y Finally got my tractor a week ago....one of these generators is on my list for sure now. Thanks.

Had one for a while and got rid of it because I just didn't use it enough to justify having it around. That and it didn't have a 220V output so wasn't exactly much use for a backup generator to run anything you'd actually need during an extended power outage like a well pump, water heater, and other 220V stuff.

5 years old?!?! not bad. i just bought a 25 year old winco, paint isn't as shiny as it used to be but it works great. i honestly believe it has another 25 years of life left in it being used for power outages.

With the Sun you don't need any generator? What size solar panels are you using to provide 8-9KW or power?

@@eosjoe565 I have 24 x 345W panels from Solar World (8,240Watts). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zb4oar9UHSY.html

Technically, you could just use the tractor's alternator and batteries to charge the battery packs if you have a 12 volt battery system.

I mean people can walk up to your tractor during the night when its parked wherever you store it and drive away with it too, so there's no difference in it sitting out powering your generator, or sitting in a shed. Really, if someone wants your tractor they're going to take it regardless where you have it parked.

I hope they bring duct tape, they will be leaking

Not a problem at my place. Very rural here and I am well armed.

@@kennethfeld6639 good one!

Except you can tow your generator to the fuel station and power it to fuel yourself up!

Nothing, I was going to make the same comment. I think that is why he is way over quoting the hp to KWs conversion. To keep a relatively constant speed you have to keep the load under the actual capability quite a bit so that the engine does not slow a lot at the current throttle position. I really could not recommend one of these without a tractor that can maintain a constant pto speed. My family used to have a 15KW generator like this that didn't have speed control. Every time you put a big load on it, you would have to go out and ajust the trottle till the frequency was back to 60hz. We tended to damage electronics when a load would drop off, and the voltage would surge. It would be fine for a big pump or similar load that you set once and let run for hours. Not so great for a home where the load varies frequently., and there are sensitive electronics. They should really put switching eletronics in these to give a contant output voltage and frequency regardless of engine speed, and only vary the current. I have only ever seen that on the little 2KW units though.

@@court2379 You nailed it, these put out clean power at constant load, the rpm fluctuations make it dirty though. An inverter style unit that you could set tractor at 1200rpm for night time, low load and lower noise, and 1800rpm for daytime higher loads would be much more practical.

As long as your loading stays in your hp rating, the governor on the engine will hold the rpm steady. The only time it would vary, a miniscule time, is catching or shedding a load. This is called droop and surge. The only time this would become critical is when coming close to the maximum load vs available hp ratio. Once that is eceeded, the governor will just go to limit with the engine bogging down. This applies to all generators, not just pto driven. The more sophisticated units will shed load by tripping breakers at the least or by canbus to a load center that will start switching loads off by priority. The math work is critical!

@@robertberry7194 exactly-apparently these guys are unfamiliar with governors. The Winco has voltage regulation & is rated at less than 5% variation, which is better than most utility power!

yes, the Kubota bx has a governor. I use a PTO generator successfully.

I agree! What's the use in buying one if you want to just park it in the garage and look at it. You can go to a dealership and look at it all you want for free!

⚠️Please make sure you follow all the generator safety tips whenever you use your portable generator. This is just a reminder for your safety when using generators. All generator safety instructions need to be followed carefully. Here are the safety tips: 1) KEEPING OTHERS SAFE: Please do not allow an unqualified person or your children to operate and service the portable generator. Just because some manuals don’t say that doesn’t mean it’s safe. That is important against the generator safety rules. We also need to be keeping an eye on our children too. You need to make sure that your children are not playing near the portable generator especially when it’s running so they won’t get electrocuted. Generators pose electrical risks and they can be hot during an operation. Please keep your children away from the portable generator at all times. It is important to keep our children safe especially our little ones. Children often get curious about anything so we should keep an eye on them to also make sure they’re not wandering towards the generator. 2) WHERE TO RUN YOUR GENERATOR: Some people use their portable generators indoors which increases the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. It’s important to have a carbon monoxide if you have a gas generator. Never ever use your generator indoors even if your doors and windows are open and even in the garage is not safe to use a portable generator. Not even at your porch and your deck. It is never safe to use your generator indoors and in enclosed areas of your home. Your generator needs to be 15-20 feet away from your house. 3)🔥FIRE HAZARDS: Never refuel your generator while it’s running. You need to let your generator cool off before refueling it and before storing your generator. Never overload your generator too. Never ever back feed your generator. You should never plug your generator into a wall outlet. Also never store propane tanks indoors. Please keep flammable things away from the generator as well and please don’t smoke cigarettes near the generator. Having a fire extinguisher next to the generator is also important against the generator safety rules. 4) GENERATOR OPERATION: make sure your hands are dry before touching the generator. Never use your generator in wet conditions. Don’t let your generator get wet. You need a generator tent if you need to use your generator during wet weather. Please don’t wear loose clothes when operating the generator. Turn on your generator before plugging in appliances. Use the right cord for your generator. Please do not use worn out cords. Hope this helps.

You are correct that a small tractor driven diesel generator is far more fuel efficient than a propane or gasoline driven generator, and is far better built as well!

and the diesel unit is more fuel efficient, and diesel is easier to get during storms because nearly everyone is burning gasoline in their autos while searching for gasoline for their inefficient gasoline generators!

no louder than a portable generator! Also, the only reason a "whole house" "generac style" generator is quiet is that they jam all of that hot generator/engine in a sound-reducing box...that box makes that genset far hotter and reduces the life of the generator!

Why are you running the heaters and the ac during an emergency?

@@macbook802 I think the HW is hot water.

But, IF you had a crappy generac PROPANE 25KW generator, you'd have spent far more (25%) money to fuel it than what you spent in diesel, and the generac's air-cooled engine runs HOT and isn't designed to run as many hours as the diesel engine!

⚠️Please make sure you follow all the generator safety tips whenever you use your portable generator. This is just a reminder for your safety when using generators. All generator safety instructions need to be followed carefully. Here are the safety tips: 1) KEEPING OTHERS SAFE: Please do not allow an unqualified person or your children to operate and service the portable generator. Just because some manuals don’t say that doesn’t mean it’s safe. That is important against the generator safety rules. We also need to be keeping an eye on our children too. You need to make sure that your children are not playing near the portable generator especially when it’s running so they won’t get electrocuted. Generators pose electrical risks and they can be hot during an operation. Please keep your children away from the portable generator at all times. It is important to keep our children safe especially our little ones. Children often get curious about anything so we should keep an eye on them to also make sure they’re not wandering towards the generator. 2) WHERE TO RUN YOUR GENERATOR: Some people use their portable generators indoors which increases the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. It’s important to have a carbon monoxide if you have a gas generator. Never ever use your generator indoors even if your doors and windows are open and even in the garage is not safe to use a portable generator. Not even at your porch and your deck. It is never safe to use your generator indoors and in enclosed areas of your home. Your generator needs to be 15-20 feet away from your house. 3)🔥FIRE HAZARDS: Never refuel your generator while it’s running. You need to let your generator cool off before refueling it and before storing your generator. Never overload your generator too. Never ever back feed your generator. You should never plug your generator into a wall outlet. Also never store propane tanks indoors. Please keep flammable things away from the generator as well and please don’t smoke cigarettes near the generator. Having a fire extinguisher next to the generator is also important against the generator safety rules. 4) GENERATOR OPERATION: make sure your hands are dry before touching the generator. Never use your generator in wet conditions. Don’t let your generator get wet. You need a generator tent if you need to use your generator during wet weather. Please don’t wear loose clothes when operating the generator. Turn on your generator before plugging in appliances. Use the right cord for your generator. Please do not use worn out cords. Hope this helps.

That's true for large generators but most emergency generators used for whole-house emergency power use gasoline, LP or natural gas.

... but many of the less-expensive generators at big-box stores are gas powered, which bring the problems of engine maintenance, gas freshness, etc., not to mention that they just can't handle the job they were purchased to do. One problem, I think, is when so many folks (me included) are ignorant of what is actually needed for a true "whole-house" unit, and buy an underpowered gas generator thinking it'll do the job. Like you said, diesel engines seem much more appropriate to the task (vs. gas, anyway).

Could really come in handy for powering stuff around the Farm. As for "back up power for the home" maybe good as back up power for back up power but one would need to see how the entire system tests out and in fact connects first before these claims can be valid. A straight up two stroke outboard motor is still better tho...properly set up of course..

I put a sheet of plywood over my generator and strapped it down to the three point hitch. You don't want the rain to get onto the electrical works, my short out.

May short out.

All you have to do is to make a little 3 sided (one side being a roof) plywood box to keep the rain off of the generator

you could also do a belt drive with different sized pulleys to bring that 2600rpm up to 3600 to run a belt drive generator, OR do different pulleys that would slow down the output speed to run the 540 rpm pto generator.

You are correct. They have some advantages of a large generator on a small tractor. One is that the larger mass of the generator helps keep the generator spinning and you don't get as much of a dip in power during a surge like a large pump kicking on. You burn less fuel also.

@@w.j.guidry8459 Thank you. I called Winco tech support yesterday, and they also confirmed my line of thought. But your point about the larger gen having a fly-wheel effect is also good information.

I'b buy the "lowboy" before I buy a propane/natural gas/gasoline model anyday!

these have much higher turning mass so they handle transients like that much better. The wattage ratings are continuous loads, not peaks like you see on gas generators.

⚠️Please make sure you follow all the generator safety tips whenever you use your portable generator. This is just a reminder for your safety when using generators. All generator safety instructions need to be followed carefully. Here are the safety tips: 1) KEEPING OTHERS SAFE: Please do not allow an unqualified person or your children to operate and service the portable generator. Just because some manuals don’t say that doesn’t mean it’s safe. That is important against the generator safety rules. We also need to be keeping an eye on our children too. You need to make sure that your children are not playing near the portable generator especially when it’s running so they won’t get electrocuted. Generators pose electrical risks and they can be hot during an operation. Please keep your children away from the portable generator at all times. It is important to keep our children safe especially our little ones. Children often get curious about anything so we should keep an eye on them to also make sure they’re not wandering towards the generator. 2) WHERE TO RUN YOUR GENERATOR: Some people use their portable generators indoors which increases the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. It’s important to have a carbon monoxide if you have a gas generator. Never ever use your generator indoors even if your doors and windows are open and even in the garage is not safe to use a portable generator. Not even at your porch and your deck. It is never safe to use your generator indoors and in enclosed areas of your home. Your generator needs to be 15-20 feet away from your house. 3)🔥FIRE HAZARDS: Never refuel your generator while it’s running. You need to let your generator cool off before refueling it and before storing your generator. Never overload your generator too. Never ever back feed your generator. You should never plug your generator into a wall outlet. Also never store propane tanks indoors. Please keep flammable things away from the generator as well and please don’t smoke cigarettes near the generator. Having a fire extinguisher next to the generator is also important against the generator safety rules. 4) GENERATOR OPERATION: make sure your hands are dry before touching the generator. Never use your generator in wet conditions. Don’t let your generator get wet. You need a generator tent if you need to use your generator during wet weather. Please don’t wear loose clothes when operating the generator. Turn on your generator before plugging in appliances. Use the right cord for your generator. Please do not use worn out cords. Hope this helps.

Lots of variables in that. How's it been used, how's the maintenance been on it, etc. play a major role in how long an engine will last. I'm guessing 20k hours wouldn't be unheard of in a diesel tractor engine and still going strong long after....but again maintenance and the way its treated is a huge factor.

@@wildbill23c thanks for that but I figured you could gauge the diesel engine that same way you could a vehicle engine just for instance its just confusing to me I guess as to how nobody can put a number on it lol

Depends on how it was used. On a machine that has ran a hammer, 3000hrs is worn out, it is a tough environment. On a mid 90's john deere tractor that mows hay, alittle over 10,000hrs its done, needs new liners/pistons plus the rest of the tractor needs attention. Have a ford 5600 with 5000hrs and it is worn out front to back. Had a ford 1720 with 3400hrs that was knocking. Seen light plants and generators with 10k hours and were still humming along fairly well, no idea if they had been repowered. It really depends, you need to look at the unit as a whole if buying used and really listen to it run. I will say that 30k is optimistic, even if its a stationary type unit that is kept out of the dust.

What's in your car and what's in your tractor are entirely different. What he said is 100% accurate. You know that older guy that has a 1960's deere with a bunch of leaks and an engine that runs just fine? That's how it works. Fluid seals will wear out LONG before a tractor engine that got good (not the cheap stuff) oil and filters at the right time. Most of those diesels are sleeved as well, so if you do live long enough to see your tractor engine wear out, you throw new sleeves and pistons in it and you're ready to go. MIGHT have to rebuild an injection pump, but the baby you took a picture of in the tractor seat when you brought it home will probably be 40 when that happens.

It’s all about how they are used. The stationary generators or refrigeration units on trailers are about the easiest loads for a diesel. Usually constant rpm & no shock loads. Hence the insane hours you can get out of them.

Flip the seat forward.

@@MessicksEquip thanks for the reply

Primary problem of the three-point log splitter is the speed. Not so much the hours.

With one of these generators, a Lincoln "cracker box" and/or an electric mig/tig (or gassless) wire feed, you'd be on your way!

Gald to help of you like. wonderful woman named April in our office knows all about ordering and shipping these during these supply challenges.

You have to over-size your tractor to make it work. If you have a smaller tractor you may have to adjust the speed up some before running the dryer and the oven, it is doable. Some tractors have a better governor system that would help too.

Called a governor.

Govenor

@@Adam-bw4lw govna

Less than 535 or more than 544 PTO rpm and the AC power frequency is out of spec. A mechanical governor is not precise enough for this under all load conditions.

That's an option

or it could be bolted down to a concrete pad as well!

I totally agree with you about going from engine RPM through the transmission to 540 then back up to 1800 even though it’s not a generator we have on our farm a PTO driven water pump and last season I was pumping water from one pond through a 650 foot long 1-1/2 inch line filling another pond for irrigation purposes and it was running for two 8 hour periods I burned through 2 tanks of diesel and only filled the other pond 3/8-1/2 full The next day that pond was empty again and I said this is useless I’m not using that PTO pump for the amount of time and fuel and stress on the tractor plus taking up a valuable tractor that I could be using in the fields! I am designing up a plan to build a direct shaft diesel powered water pump too then pump through a 3 inch pipe and the pump can be fired up anytime I need water in the other pond and it doesn’t take the tractor!

@@mainelyelectric IF your tractor is large enough, shift the PTO to the 1000 RPM setting and "throttle down" the engine so the PTO runs around 540. It's far more quiet, uses far less fuel, and pumps the same amount of water!