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Oh no, it's not bending while stored. It was initially bent a bit while trying to attach the loader. With use, the bend has become worse, the metal weaker. I assume now it bends with perhaps normal torque of the loader in use because it is weaker on account of the initial bend and repeated...

Yeah, a crazy twist. I spent an awful lot of imaginary money, and I sure learned a lot, which was fun. The Kubota lowboy seemed like something reasonable that I could set up mostly myself and could auto-start, but the near certainty that anything I got would wet-stack on our under 1kw normal...

OP here. So I landed not on a diesel or whole house generator. I ended up with a portable gasoline powered Champion inverter generator #100520, 7000 running watts, supposedly 8750 surge watts. Since I got it we had a 30 hour outage, and it did really well, though I did get the overload light...

Thanks everyone! This helps a lot. I guess my main remaining question is why the current stand bends as I use it on the loader, without even lowering it and using it as a stand. I've had it mounted for seven months solid, after having pulled it straighter, but after a winter of snow work and a...

Thank you! I had never heard of (or thought of) such a thing, but of course, it's obvious now. So when the approach isn't straight, just move the loader into a better position. And potentially move the loader a bit out of the way when it is on the dolly, to make more room in the garage...

Yeah, I know where to straighten this one -- but I think it is much weaker for having been bent a few times. I guess if I keep the original one I would find a welder to add a strengthening element to it, or else drill and bolt on some kind of reinforcement. I'll take the loader off mid may to...

This would be clearer if I started it and lifted the loader. This view from the top. You can see the bent part down under the front grill guard. Maybe I should start it and get it up to eye level. I definitely have always taken the loader off on my concrete garage floor and not anything soft...

Nah. I've just got a little place, something over 3 acres. I've got a little lean-to shed where I can fit this one with the roll bar down to store it -- bigger one wouldn't fit, and I'd have to build something. It's not like I'm a farmer or professional lumberjack or something. If this one can't...

I guess I must have bent it a little at some point when trying to re-mount the loader, not going in square. The stand has bent more with use, the 90 degree bent piece that crosses by the hydraulic line. It's also twisted just a bit at the front left attachment point by the bucket. I've...

And at 1:27 AM, my portable generator is running. Snow event over performed the forecast by a good bit. 108 outages in my town. Bloody hell. I guess I’m not crazy to be working on the whole house generator. Back to bed, with my CPAP on the battery.

This Onan is just a few miles from me. The guy selling it is an electrician, took it from a nearby lab that had used it for backup for its freezers but the power almost never went out, so almost never any use. 44 years old. I imagine dis-use is more of a problem for this than real use. I still...

Noooo......! You're not going to pop this balloon too? Almost certainly made in China. Nevertheless, seem to have a decent reputation.

I've spent more time researching and thinking about this than I'll spend running the thing for the rest of my life. I'm pretty sure I've come down to the Champion 14k and will get a propane tank again. Maintenance details aren't included in the owner's manual, which I've read, so I might want to...

Will not get the 20k Onan. I would wet stack it running at such a light load.

Yeah, just had the LP tank hauled away a year ago when we got rid of the gas range. Kind of a relief. But yeah, it would be great for a generator. On the other hand if we had a 9 day outage and ran out of LP it might be hard to get a truck here to deliver it. Keeping gas fresh for the current...

So I found a 4 cylinder diesel Onan 20k for less cost than the smaller Lowboy. Not sure how expensive it would be to set it up for auto start. It’s about 24 years old with like 3100 hours on it. Assuming it’s got at least another 3000 hours of life in it? Meanwhile, on another forum, I found a...

Heat pump water heater, stays on heat pump mode, pulls 300 watts.

I've got a phone appt with an electrician tomorrow. He's a good and smart guy. The load here is really never over 5k unless the oven and or dryer are on, which is deliberate. I can see that from the Sense monitor we got with the solar install. Really, never. No natural gas here, and we removed...

"Are you really wanting auto transfer upon mains failure?" Yes, that is a real impetus. About half the power failures we have happen in the night. We both use CPAP, so it would be deluxe to keep sleeping. I've been tough enough to get up and go out into the storm to switch over to generator...

"- Brushed Self regulated - Uses just a capacitor and has poor voltage regulation but is cheap." Yeah, I guess I don't even have to look up the details of this generator to guess that's what it's got. In any case we're moving on (I think I mentioned while I was away on a trip my wife wasn't...