Being a farmer quickly teaches you to learn a lot of new skills. Great video, nice dry sense of humor, and quite informative. I’ve got an old engine generator that I thought about converting to a PTO setup. I’ll have to ponder that one.
It’s always cool to make something out of what you’ve got! On a farm you need the works when it comes to equipment but small farms like us don’t have the budget and need to make things work! Thanks for stopping by Mark !
Very nice setup! I had thought several times about getting a pto generator. Nice little welder too! I don’t see anything wrong with your fix at all, never hurts to try anyways.
I’m glad you approve of the fix! But my fabrication skills definitely need improvement. I’ve been really happy with the Miller 211 so far it’s pretty user friendly. I appreciate you watching Ben !
Sure is a good thing to have during a power outage, I’m sure you guys got to experience some of that over the past winter. Probably a good idea to keep a bottle of fuel anti gel on the shelf as well as I don’t think it’s a common thing on the shelf down there !
Great work Richie, PTO generator is cool, like you said if you break down in the field you just bring the generator with one of the tractors and you can fix the problem yourself and save some 💵 to buy another hat 😉😂. Have a great weekend 🙋🏼♂️👍🏻
This is useful to see in action, I've been thinking of a similar setup. The pto hp of that tractor is lower than the hp required to get the full juice from the generator. And I've been wondering if I can put an oversized generator on my pto with the foreknowledge that I wont get the full kw out of it. The reason is tractor pto hp takes a lot of different values between tractors, but the pto generators are only a few hp values. Thanks for sharing, was helpful.
Subbing to you as well, it’s just something that has to be done on a small farm, a new rake would be about 10 thousand so I’ll just keep this old one working and have an old Ford rake for a back up too, thanks for watching !!
Awesome setup and great video. Are you able to power your entire house with that setup? I've got a L2501 that I'm looking to buy same size generator to replace my 6500 generac. Looking for something to run central air during hurricane season. Thanks for any advice.
I don’t see why it wouldn’t, never tried to run a house off of it, we live in a 5th wheel, when the power goes offline I just run the Honda 2200i at about two gallons of gas a day gives us all we need ! I don’t see any reason it wouldn’t run a full house, maybe not run the dryer while Baking a turkey lol Thanks for watching !
Thanks for watching. Im not sure how i would be able to calculate a full load with this generator. The max output of the generator head would be 13000KW, while it would need 2 PTO HP per 1kw. The 2501 makes 19 PTO HP which would be equivalent to 9500 Running watts. To get an idea of anything needed to run you multiply amps X volts to get a rated wattage. Is there anything in particular you want to know if it could handle?
@@HillsideAcres I was just wondering if this would be an option as a backup generator to run an entire house with the 2501 as a power plant. guess you just answered my question lol
@@Chris72401 I would absolutley count on it to run a whole house, I would just be somewhat mindful or how much juice you are using, maybe not bake a turkey while running the clothes dryer lol but lights, fridge, appliances, well pump, furnace blower I wouldn’t even put it in question should be fine for air conditioning as well.
@@HillsideAcres Thank you sir for your input! Keep up the good work. These 2501's are great. If you're mechanically inclined, increase your timing from 5 to 10 degrees on your injection pump and you've got yourself an L3400 essentially! Might void the warranty, though! :D
@@Chris72401 that’s good info but definitely want to hang on to the 6 year warranty, especially since I can be pretty hard on it. It does everything we ask out of it and have the M series for the bigger jobs. Thanks for watching !
I have the same setup minus the tractor (Kioti) but using my Lotus Welder it weds Ike crap- I assumed that its because the generator is dirty 120v ? Yours seems to do well and I was wondering if your welder is set up for dirty voltage or did you find the right RPM to sync the AC waves?
@@HillsideAcres so I’ve always heard the rule of thumb thing for 2 PTO HP is equivalent to 1KW. . Is there an actual formula for this. Just doing the simple wattage calculation, it seems these things lose some actual efficiency by about 30% if we’re using 1 HP equals 746 watts.
Hello from Minnesota. I've heard of PTO generators before. Nice to see one in action
It really works great, thanks for watching Ricky!
Being a farmer quickly teaches you to learn a lot of new skills. Great video, nice dry sense of humor, and quite informative. I’ve got an old engine generator that I thought about converting to a PTO setup. I’ll have to ponder that one.
It’s always cool to make something out of what you’ve got! On a farm you need the works when it comes to equipment but small farms like us don’t have the budget and need to make things work! Thanks for stopping by Mark !
@@HillsideAcres I’d like to add that you and Christie’s work ethic is inspiring. I wish you both the best.
Very nice setup! I had thought several times about getting a pto generator. Nice little welder too! I don’t see anything wrong with your fix at all, never hurts to try anyways.
I’m glad you approve of the fix! But my fabrication skills definitely need improvement. I’ve been really happy with the Miller 211 so far it’s pretty user friendly. I appreciate you watching Ben !
"But do it twice please" hahahah Nice video Richie. I did not even know there were PTO generators. pretty cool.
Sure is a good thing to have during a power outage, I’m sure you guys got to experience some of that over the past winter. Probably a good idea to keep a bottle of fuel anti gel on the shelf as well as I don’t think it’s a common thing on the shelf down there !
@@HillsideAcres i do not think so. but what do I know. We do not freeze that often and my tractor will be in my insulated shop.
@@HomeWithTheBuffingtons the insulation in there is to keep the metal from sweating, you would need to add supplemental heating
Great work Richie, PTO generator is cool, like you said if you break down in the field you just bring the generator with one of the tractors and you can fix the problem yourself and save some 💵 to buy another hat 😉😂. Have a great weekend 🙋🏼♂️👍🏻
More I save more stuff I can buy right !!??
This is useful to see in action, I've been thinking of a similar setup. The pto hp of that tractor is lower than the hp required to get the full juice from the generator. And I've been wondering if I can put an oversized generator on my pto with the foreknowledge that I wont get the full kw out of it. The reason is tractor pto hp takes a lot of different values between tractors, but the pto generators are only a few hp values. Thanks for sharing, was helpful.
New sub here Great video👍Wow that looks like it is going to work pretty good. I like that you fixed it yourself ☀️😁👍
Subbing to you as well, it’s just something that has to be done on a small farm, a new rake would be about 10 thousand so I’ll just keep this old one working and have an old Ford rake for a back up too, thanks for watching !!
Nice job.
Thanks for watching
How often do you hook up a grounding rod to the generator?
Awesome setup and great video. Are you able to power your entire house with that setup? I've got a L2501 that I'm looking to buy same size generator to replace my 6500 generac. Looking for something to run central air during hurricane season. Thanks for any advice.
I don’t see why it wouldn’t, never tried to run a house off of it, we live in a 5th wheel, when the power goes offline I just run the Honda 2200i at about two gallons of gas a day gives us all we need ! I don’t see any reason it wouldn’t run a full house, maybe not run the dryer while Baking a turkey lol Thanks for watching !
Always remember, "It'll hold til it breaks" Good job! Can you test this generator with full load on the L2501?
Thanks for watching. Im not sure how i would be able to calculate a full load with this generator. The max output of the generator head would be 13000KW, while it would need 2 PTO HP per 1kw. The 2501 makes 19 PTO HP which would be equivalent to 9500 Running watts. To get an idea of anything needed to run you multiply amps X volts to get a rated wattage. Is there anything in particular you want to know if it could handle?
@@HillsideAcres I was just wondering if this would be an option as a backup generator to run an entire house with the 2501 as a power plant. guess you just answered my question lol
@@Chris72401 I would absolutley count on it to run a whole house, I would just be somewhat mindful or how much juice you are using, maybe not bake a turkey while running the clothes dryer lol but lights, fridge, appliances, well pump, furnace blower I wouldn’t even put it in question should be fine for air conditioning as well.
@@HillsideAcres Thank you sir for your input! Keep up the good work. These 2501's are great. If you're mechanically inclined, increase your timing from 5 to 10 degrees on your injection pump and you've got yourself an L3400 essentially! Might void the warranty, though! :D
@@Chris72401 that’s good info but definitely want to hang on to the 6 year warranty, especially since I can be pretty hard on it. It does everything we ask out of it and have the M series for the bigger jobs. Thanks for watching !
Looks like a $400 weld.. well done
And multiply that by all the other ones that had broken lol! Thanks for watching Chris!
Have you actually tested your PTO generator to see how many watts you’re putting out? I’m thinking of getting one for my L2501 HST.
I have the same setup minus the tractor (Kioti) but using my Lotus Welder it weds Ike crap- I assumed that its because the generator is dirty 120v ? Yours seems to do well and I was wondering if your welder is set up for dirty voltage or did you find the right RPM to sync the AC waves?
My Miller 211 is an inverter welder and designed to be tan from a generator. That’s the only welder I’ve ran off of the generator.
@@HillsideAcres Thanks also for stying on the subject of your video. So many get off on tangents and spend 10 minutes talking about unrelated stuff.
Super 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for watching !!!
Lol @ the double thumbs down
Have you actually tested your PTO generator to see how many watts you’re putting out? I’m thinking of getting one for my L2501 HST.
Nope runs everything illl ever need it to 19 pto hp should make 9500 watts
@@HillsideAcres so I’ve always heard the rule of thumb thing for 2 PTO HP is equivalent to 1KW. . Is there an actual formula for this. Just doing the simple wattage calculation, it seems these things lose some actual efficiency by about 30% if we’re using 1 HP equals 746 watts.
@@GulfSoftwash I’m really not sure, I’ve never ran into any issues with the 2501 running the gen, have a70hp too if I needed more but never have