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Originally Posted by Otter74
Denis, those were nice stories - thanks for sharing them. I really love that sense of community.
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I agree. Good stuff.
Pretty much the same here. We have one clinker on the farm across the "Neck" as my little peninsula is called. Pretty good batting average
Not a big deal but my back-up generator has been having issues, older diesel I bought used for powering tools, stays on one of my small trailers in the barn.
With Isaias coming, I started doing preps yesterday and the d gen is struggling. Since I have a basement and I expect a lot of rain and loss of power for a day or two, I went out and bought a new gas powered gen to back up the Honda powered gen I own. One plugs into the house and powers the sumps, etc., but I like auxiliary sumps directly powered from the 2nd gen when it really rains.
I really like redundancy. For big storms I also have a PTO powered gen. I know, but a week without power is a lot.
So I called my closest neighbors son to have him help me unload the new gen. He was here in about two minutes and it took just a second to accomplish the task.
I asked him if he knew anyone that wanted the old d gen, explained that it wasn't running well.
He called a friend of his who wanted it and knows how to work on diesels - VOTEC kid, bright young man.
"How much?"
Put it in your truck, it's his.
So off it went 15 minutes ago. Ten years of use and I paid $250 for it. This happens all the time. Once you get inside the community circle of trust all is well.