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Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
I guess it makes a difference where you live.....and how many watts you can live with.


12 gallons aint nothing.



Pretty much. The dairy farm I worked for as a kid used a PTO backup generator. I remember the IH 986 purring for days on end running that thing on many occasions.

They must be pretty trouble free too because they are still using it 25 years later, and it looked old when I was a kid.

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My brother has one of those PTO generators. He’s in rural western Ks and waters 200 cattle in a feed lot on an electric well pump. When the power goes out he has a problem very quickly and needs the generator to pump water for cattle.


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Originally Posted by rosco1
Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
I guess it makes a difference where you live.....and how many watts you can live with.


12 gallons aint nothing.



Pretty much. The dairy farm I worked for as a kid used a PTO backup generator. I remember the IH 986 purring for days on end running that thing on many occasions.

They must be pretty trouble free too because they are still using it 25 years later, and it looked old when I was a kid.



Yep,some fuel is cheap when 150 cows need a drink.
75 want their teets pulled, and there is $1200 worth of milk that needs kept cold.

When in that situation, a pto generator can't be beat.
It doesnt need any attention when unneeded, the tractor is always being used and maintained, it will start, it will run.
You probably even have backup tractors if one has problems.


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