What I'm up to

[redpoint5]

Oh, I forgot to mention we've got a lot of tractors, so a PTO generator might be the best option. We store up to 550 gallons of diesel (just had that quantity delivered 2 weeks ago), so that's plenty of emergency power.

Not sure how the throttle gets adjusted based on load. Perhaps a more modern tractor can adjust throttle based on load to keep the PTO speed constant?

[Gasoline Fumes]

On a tractor, the throttle control usually selects the engine speed and a governor adjusts the actual engine throttle to maintain that RPM. PTO speed is pretty standardized. I think it's usually 540 or 1000 RPM?

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by Gasoline Fumes

On a tractor, the throttle control usually selects the engine speed and a governor adjusts the actual engine throttle to maintain that RPM. PTO speed is pretty standardized. I think it's usually 540 or 1000 RPM?

We've got a 40+ year old Mitsubishi MT372 - 12 HP PTO 540 RPM


a 40 year old John Deere 750 - 18 HP PTO 540 RPM



and a 50+ year old Allis Chalmers One Ninety - 77 HP PTO 540/1000 RPM


... almost forgot this old Ford 4400. It hasn't moved in a while. - 45 HP PTO 540 RPM

[redpoint5]

We've got power AND internet again! 6 days of outage.

It will probably be a week or two for my parents to get power restored. I spent the morning clearing their driveway and cutting debris into movable pieces. Still several days worth of clearing debris from the yards left.

Here's drone footage from Saturday morning.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jVd...ew?usp=sharing

[freebeard]

I finally got through to my brother['s wife]. They've been without power for six days running, too.

[redneck]

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Don’t worry.

They have it under control... 😉







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[freebeard]

It's hard to keep up, isn't it?

FARK.com: (11186182) You know that photo of a helicopter ...
https://www.fark.com/comments/111861...eah-about-that
Dr Jack Badofsky: I'm not worried about it being from not-Texas, but kinda thought these windmills would have some better ice protection that having to have a 'copter spray stuff on them. Can't they do something similar to airplanes where they put the bladders on the wingtips? Keep reading. Wind turbines do have built-in de-icing mechanisms and the helicopter was a test in case they failed.

The lead story on Suspicious 0bservers was about Oregon, youtu.be/AnOE_X7PVOw?t=43

we know the situation in texas is getting the headlines but this might be
the worst that parts of oregon have fared as well
power and water problems 208 miles of lines down
people using co-producing heaters inside their homes
if only someone had predicted the winters would turn on us like this

Meanwhile, things are looking up on Mars.

[Isaac Zachary]

Originally Posted by redneck

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Don’t worry.

They have it under control... 😉







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The question remaining is whether or not the ice storm was made from fossil fuels.

[freebeard]

We had a thread about that, or at least the lack of consensus. It got locked.

We're all just a leaf on the wind.

Scott Adams takes a victory lap. At one minute he passes a late model Airstream with a nice tow vehicle.

[Piotrsko]

Those are Norwegian turbines. The texan ones are not set up with de-ice since they never should go below freezing according to the owners of said turbines. AFAIK, there's more conventional generation offline than what all the turbines produce.