Another use for your generator.

[clydengail]

A friend of mine posted this on Facebook.

A Mornin’ Redneck Moment…
Working Drive Security today at the Ryman Auditorium when a guy drives up in an old, but running, pick-up truck. He stopped to ask a question about parking and there was a gas powered generator in the bed. It was running and had an extension cord plugged in to it. When I asked him what he had plugged in to the generator, he
explained that the heater was broken and it would cost him $1,000 to get it fixed. He then opened his door and there on the floor on the passenger side was a small electric heater running as fast and as hot as it would go.

[gbopp]

I'm sure duct tape is somehow involved in this story. 🙂

[Handbasket]

I've got a 'cheap' Remington electric pole saw. I once backed the camper down into the back yard among the trees of the little church I attend, and used the Onan to power it. A 70' poplar had broken part-way off in a big windstorm, and was hanging over our 'nature trail'. The extension pole was just long enough to reach the break, so I could cut thru it at the hinge point and drop the top of the tree safely onto the ground.

I then went home & got the pickup with the 'real' chainsaw and winch, and removed it from the trail. That lil' Remington pulls a heck of a starting surge, maybe due to the chain friction. Almost bogged the Onan 2800 down every time I pulled the trigger, but it kept going. I cut the tree up later and gave the wood to one of the girls who also goes there.

Jim, "If the zombies chase us, I'm tripping you!"

[RoyB]

My 2KW Gnerator sits secured in the tailgate corner of my truck bed. My truck bed has the FOLD-A-COVER hard plastic folding covers.


The main purpose for my truck mounted generator is re-charhging my trailer batteries at 8AM each morning when camping off the power grid but also has been my PLAN B thing for the past 6 years now for many other times when myself and others need some power... No telling how many times I have run down my truck start battery when using my emergency radio comms I do a lot of...

This setup Charges batteries, jump starts stranded folks by charging their battery for five minutes with my portable battery charger, makes great fresh ground bean coffee for us in about five minutes of generator run time using our Cusinart Coffee grind and serve coffee pot, and any number of PLAn B items...

Always got to have a PLAN B...

Roy Ken

[RAS43]

We were returning home from a trip and were about 100 miles from home when the alternator went out on our truck. I had a battery charger with us so I hooked it up to the battery and ran an extension cord to the generator in the bed and fired it up. We made it home fine.:)