Robert Welker, that is what is so cool about it! If we have an idea for something to help you out, or add to a video you see if you can do it. I made some suggestions and they made it into the video. Nick made it turn out better than I expected, he has a gift for making videos!
Best to be prepared. I remember about ten years ago we lost power in our home for two weeks due to a horrible ice and snow storm. 6ft of snow in 30 hours followed by a night of ice rain. It covered everything and every powerline with thick ice and ripped everything apart due to the weight. And because the ice was everywhere and we living at the very top of a mountain with one possible road to town we were completely isolated from society. We had no water because the well pump of course didn't work, but we melted snow on the fireplace/oven (I don't know what it's called sorry) and we got a new appreciation for everything we had in our cupboards and things like that. After the first week me and my Grandpa decided to try and make our way to town 3.8 miles of 0.4 miles hight different like, from us to the town. Everything was ice and we could bearly walk with shoes my grandpa had painstakingly screwed hundreds of screws into from the inside out for traction. So we started walking down at 8 in the morning, by 2pm we reach a road where farmers (bless them) were going back and forth with tractors picking up people and taking them into town for supplies at the back of sleads they'd kept from they did logging with horses many years ago. Well into town we realized just how dire the situation actually was - there was nothing to get. Apart from food, the stores had rationed out pre packaged boxes with food and necessary supplies depending on the size of your household, since we had 7 people and a very young child we got very much stuff, so much so we could hardly carry it between me and my grandpa - and we still wanted to get some fuel and a generator or propane (we have a backup propane fridge) but there was nothing left except some propane camping gear, so we grabbed a few of them and a Slead to pull everything in that we fitted nails to at the back so it wouldn't slide backwards up the steap hills to our house. We also got a small solar power setup with a battery and everything to be able to listen to the radio for news and possibly charge a phone or two (we actually had two old Nokia 3310 that we had decided to keep charged before the storm hit, and I'm so incredibly glad we did because they lasted the full two weeks and we could make calls to the people trying to help us) anyway, back to our town. We got packed up and ready to move back home, but it was getting dark and it was getting dark quick and with the temperature dropping over - 22 degrees fahrenheit there was no way we would get home. So we got to stay with a couple of old friends of my grandpa overnight, we got some hot soup, coffee and kvikk lunch (it's a kit Kat hiking chocolate we have here) with us for the walk home and started the journey home. It took almost 10 hours to walk home with all the gear, and my grandpa at 77 at the time struggled the least out of the two of us. He was a tank, powering through the freezing cold, old age and exhaustion the old man got us home to our family just an hour after dark when the temperature hit - 30 fahrenheit. Exhausted, freezing, starving and frostbitten we came home to the warmest welcome a person could ever get. Home baked bread from the fireplace, potatoes and some meat stew and a warm bed in the living room with everyone else. A welcome fit for a hero. Till this day my grandpa never forgets the trip or the two weeks of frozen hell, the worst winter in history for our little town and a reminder to always have some canned and non perishable food in the house. We now have a small generator and a big drum of gas the we swap the gas in every winter, enough to keep food and water going for our house for at least two weeks at all times. I'm sorry for the long comment, but I thought I would have to share this story with you guys. And sorry for not knowing every word in English. (I tried to convert the units for you guys though)
@@shelly8334, Agree. 99% of the time, the spring doesn't need to be removed. Remove old rope, feed new one through the hole, knot the end and use that notch Nick pointed at to wind the spring and rope at the same time.
Part of shop class in high school was small engine repair-- part of the test was the teacher coming up and cutting the pull cord and making you replace it. Disliked that man. Loved that class. Learned a lot.
IMPORTANT, just a tip with older generators. My dads an electrician/farmer and most burned fridges, fluoride bulbs and electronics are due to old generator's governors. Hook up a multimeter BOTH under load and free to check the hertz. Sometimes the load dips just to far when engageing loads or is running too high at start and fries your appliances ecpecially microwaves. O and when switching over try to switch on breakers one by one so as to not jolt the genset too much and cause a frequency dip. Anyway hope it helps if you didn't know already and stay cozy.
WOW...love watching the elderly gent working on that engine....Still has a good mind and ability...I know you are proud of him...Guys like him are what has made America great...love your channel!
My favorite part is people helping people. No one understands helping on another anymore. I grew up on a farm and then moved to the suburbs. Its amazing how little people care about each other. You were in need and this man had a spare generator so he gave it to you. That's how life should be.Its not what you take when you leave this world behind, is what you leave behind you when you go.
I don’t understand how you guys have only 274,000 subs. You are the best UA-cam channel I’ve watched in a long time and really get excited to see an upload from you. Wish you guys the best of luck with the storm and keep up the UA-cam grind! Thank you for the great content!
You are good hard working young dudes that anyone would be proud to call my kids love your videos intelligent young guys no wonder I like farming you tube
ok, so what i used to do on the oilfield generators i built and worked on is set the throttle speed to the hertz meter you will need 60 hz for proper power. so set the throttle up to speed till you get to 62 HZ so when the engine pulls down under load you will be at 60 hz and adj. the regulator to 120V or 220v whatever voltage it's wired to. keep it under a cover so those old exciters on the generator don't get wet and put a good shielded/sheathed ground cable on the frame and attach it to that ground rod i saw on the frame and drive it into the ground. i would run a battery tender to the unit to float charge the battery and also a block heater so when you need the unit it's GTG. a normal house will need close to 8KW to run most lights and appliances minus the elect. stove and water heater. i can run my house minus the elect stove on 7500 watts we have an on demand water heater and we have mini split A/C and heat pumps which don't use much power i can also run my well pump and charge pump etc. with that. i can not use my air compressor but can run my lathe and mill and shop lights etc. with the 7500 watts. 35kw is a great size generator to wire in if you have all the houses on a grid and i would also look into a surge protector to protect your homes from overload.
Maybe you already have one but you MUST have a means to disconnect the utility from your house before you tie in the generator so you don't power up the lineman doing the repair from the storm. Normally this would be a transfer switch. And yes, don't forget the earth ground connection! Nice rig. Good job getting it running.
They're not hard wired there yet but now a manual transfer switch is the cheapest way to go. I'd throw on a car remote starter too. And a propane conversion kit this way here you can run off an 80 gallon propane tank.
@@anastyb i like the propane alternative we use 100# bottles here so i can fill them when i go to town for $1.75 a gallon as opposed to well over $2 to have it delivered and i use the bottles in various locations on the property so 1. bottle wouldn't do. propane will last forever in the bottle as opposed to gas which doesn't age well. in some areas propane is super exp. i bought some in Redwing MN one time for my RV, i thought i was filling the bottles with liquid GOLD.
@@markthegunplumber8376 wow and I thought things out here on the East coast or expensive I just checked the prices and we only pay a dollar 41 a gallon delivered for propane we can get it for a dollar 34 if we take 500 gallons. In days past we used to get twenty one hundred gallons of number 2 oil this way here we were all set on heat for the whole year. my friend Mark was in northern Connecticut with a farm and he cooks and heats hot water with propane he gets hundred-pound bottles filled down at the Agway because he says it's cheaper. Yeah the propane conversion kits are cool I've used them on my Jenny's in the past. Adding remote start is an added bonus.
Several people have mentioned that it is important to get the frequency set to 60 Hz and it is. Nobody mentioned that the generator has a built in meter to show the frequency. That middle meter on the generator cabinet is a frequency meter. It is clearly vissible in the video at 29:40. It contains several reeds that vibrate at the output frequency. The one that vibrates most is the current value. So set your engine rpm so that under load the 60 Hz (more likely labelled Cycles per Second on that one) is vibrating the most. Then adjust your output voltage. Our power company targets 120 volts but allows a 10% variation so voltage is not as critical as frequency.
that's a prime example of having a great relationship with your neighbors and community people will give you things they no longer need. that machine will be very handy. it was cheaper to fix up that unit instead of buying a new one it really pays to know people and have some basic mechanicical skills nice video.
We always pumped anti-freeze through, just long enough that it was coming out all tips. Removed the tips, filters, unhooked all the hoses, shoot air through the lines, removed the pump and left the sprayer outside, pump stayed indoors. But, everyone does things differently. I'm seeing a lot of holes in the roof of that building... Those old generators are extremely hard to beat. It's always best to prepare for the worse and hope for the best. Cheers :)
A lost American art. How to troubleshoot, repair, and restore to working condition. Kudos to the Welker team for bringing back old iron and the diverse set of skills necessary to accomplish. Stay safe during the storm and keep the videos coming
This kind of stuff is what I really enjoy. Maintenance, sorting things out, getting hands dirty to do what needs to be done. All so that work and life later is better for all. How you tuck into mechanical repairs is fantastic. Something needs a fix, boom [with the power of video editing =D ], it's done. A joy to watch. I just had to explain to my GF that throwing up a few roof trusses and a cantilever awning to fix some roof issues is straight forward. Once done, we'll never have to worry about roof leaks again. A bit of work now, quite affordable, makes everything better down the road. Good luck and hunker in for the winter. Keep your families warm. Cheers!
Put everything to bed! Have a good winter. Get everything ready for spring. There's always something to do. Maybe this is that time of year you can do all those honey do jobs.
I would love to see more videos like this. I'm not technician and I can't repair anything like you do, but I worlk with my own hands too and when I see what you do guys, I'm always amazed. Great video!
I get tickled when there is "dread" of the snow as we sit here in Mississippi after just setting several days worth of "new record high temperatures". Truth be told when there is a prediction of snow people go bonkers around here, emptying store shelves of bread and milk, schools shut down so buses don't have to risk traveling in something they have almost zero experience with. I was in college in Iowa in the mid 70's so got a good bit of snow driving experience. With our heat we envy the cool weather. Did enjoy our recent mid Sept trip up your way to visit family in Whitehall. Felt almost surreal sleeping with open windows every night while a mid to low 50 degree breeze was coming in. A lot of me wants to relocate to your part of the country. Made a mule deer hunt out of Havre in 2016, love the country up that way, enjoy your videos. I know Leg Arms has likely thought about this, but I would put an oil pressure switch inline with the fuel pump primary power supply to kill the engine if the oil pressure drops. Then to prime for starting put a momentary on push button bypass switch that would have to be held down during the start cycle. Just a save the engine thought. Agree with another poster about the engine RPM, it all has to do with the cycles, USA power systems are 60 cycles which takes 1800 RPM on a low speed generator or 3600 RPM on the small generators like the Briggs unit you fixed the starter rope on. With the engine at 1500 RPM you are likely only making 50 cycle juice, NOT GOOD for any of your USA electric devices. With the right kind of tester you can adjust the throttle while the unit is under a load to get the cycles where they need to be. In my experience the no load cycles on my small generators tends to come in at about 62 cycles then a decent load pulls it down to about 60. I have been told a bit over is preferable to a bit under.
Good project for next summer. Build a shed between yalls houses for that badass new generator. Run the exhaust thru the roof and put in a power line to all the buildings. Hmmm ideas ideas. Good job gettin that ole gal runnin again y’all.
The 60 cycles a second depends on the engine rpm. By you slowing the engine down you may have reduced the cycles per second and doing that can damage whatever you have plugged into it. Use a voltmeter to check your Hertz or cycles per second before using it.
Had a Welker Farms hat on today in the Fleet Farm store in Sioux Falls SD. Guy says wow where did you get that, I watch them everyday!!! I sent him to the website.
When we winterize the sprayers we just put about 200g of 28-0-0 liquid fertilizer in the tank and then go spray about 100g out through everything. We make sure we leave enough in the tank to keep the pump completely full because as long as there’s no air in pump housing it doesn’t rust. Might get colder there and not work for you. We get down to single digits here. Been doing that for the last 25 years and haven’t had any issues. Much easier then draining things. Thanks for the vids.
When you get time, switch it to run on gas or Natural gas or propane. I spent $300 on gas during the last Hurricane my neighbor spent $35 on nat gas. Justathought! Keep the great vids coming. I really enjoy seeing your Dad's contribution to the you tube effort. ;-)
There are other benefits than just the money side. You don't have the problems with ethanol. And propane as far cleaner than gas to burn (carbon buildup).
Wood gas would be better yet , but it looks like typical farmground , most farmers are tree haters , Get z pig barn and a digester , and generate all your own electricity all the time.
Hey Guys, thank you for all you do for us out here in UA-cam land, we really do enjoy your content. Keep up the good work and God Bless you and your families. From your neighbors (The Cool People) In Polson, MT :-)
@@fendtforlife9829 Or maybe have some respect towards other's beliefs. O and by the way the channel creators themselves are also relegious so don't watch it if you don't approve of their believes. Hypocrisy just makes you seem disinformed
@@fendtforlife9829 nobody is forcing you to believe in anything or disrespecting you. Everybody is different we need to live with one another without crying because we do not get are way.
The little generator would be good for one house. But that was a great deal on that big generator!! It took a few days and few hours to get it to work!! But that’s awesome that it runs and makes power!! That beast is gonna come in handy!! God bless and I hope the storm doesn’t knock out your power.
Hey guys I'm an electromechanic and I work on generators and stuff like that I would definitely recommend taking those older generators to your local electric motor service center to give them a once over!...after the storm
Swamie says "I see Generac whole house generators appearing at at least 1 Welker residence for demonstration purposes " Anyone else have that kind of a vision? That old one might run the whole operation though! Thanks for the video!
Only way it could run the whole operation is if the entire setup is on a single transformer and they tap in on the meter side. If their power company and setups are like is typical in our area when there is any distance involved (250 feet +) they string the uninsulated "high wires" to the end then set transformers as needed for a meter or two.
When I had my Barndominium built I had a generator system put in. It will run everything and runs off natural gas from the utilities or propane and Diesel. Keep up the great videos.
The knowledge that he has is absolutely priceless. I wish I could work with a guy like him every day of the week because you can't find the knowledge he has anywhere.
Our Son went in our storage room and work room and put all new shelves in and took stuff away and off of the floor. amazing amount of space available. He lost his job and he needed something to do.
Make sure you tarp/bag those combine tires - UV, even in winter is hard on tires. Make a PTO adapter for that generator - you could power it with a tractor
"I'm just going to use the pull starter on this generator because the electric starter's wires are all disconnected and what not" *Pulls cord once, cord doesn't go back in* Yep, that's typical pull starter behavior.
As a kid I hated that job wintering the sprayer. When dad retired and I took over with a pure cattle operation I never missed it. Thankfully my sprayer I use on corn is a smaller three point hitch that ends up in the heated shop for the chore tractors. I Betya you’re pretty happy to be done with harvest SW Manitoba not a wheel has turned most of September.
On most any AC generator that uses a spark ignition engine (Gas, Propane, CNG), the number of field coils dictates a specific RPM to output at 60 Hz. Small engines usually 3600 RPM (low $, with low Amperage) or Larger engines usually 1800 RPM (more $ with higher Amps). A Diesel engine is: of course best and it likes the 1800 RPM generator design which demands the more field coils for 60 Hz., Most $ and more reliable. from Jim B.
Yup, hopefully they see this comment. Otherwise everything will run SLOW. Clocks will lose time and such. Running it at 1550rpm is probably closer to 50hz output.
Sure don't like to see snow this early. Hope here in PA we don't see it for a while. You both had a great teacher in your Dad. I can see you both paid attention. Great job as always.
He needs more generator on that generator. You build a nice shed and install a good engine with a big genny on it and keep it maintained or you build same shed and make as many gennies as you need for the property. Not like they don't know their way around old engines. I bet Frankenswather would run a good arc welder.
@@prjndigo accully the kubota generators at my dealer sells from $1,200 to $9,000 for the huge 60hp and the summer branded ones here with 42hp is around $99,000 and the caterpiller ones is $129,000 wich quite a different
@@michaelmactavish1728 Ya never want a new generator for your first storm. When you buy a generator you need to run a tank of fuel through it under load first go once every 3 days three times total. If it so much as makes a weird noise you take it back.
So so cool!!! I hope all homes,shops, etc feed from one location like transformer pole??? That way a $500 transfer switch to isolate generator and regular power is all you need. 35kw will run your 3 houses,water wells,shop (even Legarms welding) I have a 20kw and is plenty. Central Alberta and enjoying everything your doing and amazing quality of your channel.
Thanks for all the helps and suggestions on the generator. That's what makes this a community channel !!
Robert Welker, that is what is so cool about it! If we have an idea for something to help you out, or add to a video you see if you can do it. I made some suggestions and they made it into the video. Nick made it turn out better than I expected, he has a gift for making videos!
Sorry, can"t help you. Only deliver them sometimes by the wind turbine builders. But how they work??
@@MrGerritStok they work well when you need them
@Robert Welker I want a legarms for Christmas
Best to be prepared. I remember about ten years ago we lost power in our home for two weeks due to a horrible ice and snow storm. 6ft of snow in 30 hours followed by a night of ice rain. It covered everything and every powerline with thick ice and ripped everything apart due to the weight. And because the ice was everywhere and we living at the very top of a mountain with one possible road to town we were completely isolated from society. We had no water because the well pump of course didn't work, but we melted snow on the fireplace/oven (I don't know what it's called sorry) and we got a new appreciation for everything we had in our cupboards and things like that. After the first week me and my Grandpa decided to try and make our way to town 3.8 miles of 0.4 miles hight different like, from us to the town. Everything was ice and we could bearly walk with shoes my grandpa had painstakingly screwed hundreds of screws into from the inside out for traction. So we started walking down at 8 in the morning, by 2pm we reach a road where farmers (bless them) were going back and forth with tractors picking up people and taking them into town for supplies at the back of sleads they'd kept from they did logging with horses many years ago. Well into town we realized just how dire the situation actually was - there was nothing to get. Apart from food, the stores had rationed out pre packaged boxes with food and necessary supplies depending on the size of your household, since we had 7 people and a very young child we got very much stuff, so much so we could hardly carry it between me and my grandpa - and we still wanted to get some fuel and a generator or propane (we have a backup propane fridge) but there was nothing left except some propane camping gear, so we grabbed a few of them and a Slead to pull everything in that we fitted nails to at the back so it wouldn't slide backwards up the steap hills to our house. We also got a small solar power setup with a battery and everything to be able to listen to the radio for news and possibly charge a phone or two (we actually had two old Nokia 3310 that we had decided to keep charged before the storm hit, and I'm so incredibly glad we did because they lasted the full two weeks and we could make calls to the people trying to help us) anyway, back to our town. We got packed up and ready to move back home, but it was getting dark and it was getting dark quick and with the temperature dropping over - 22 degrees fahrenheit there was no way we would get home. So we got to stay with a couple of old friends of my grandpa overnight, we got some hot soup, coffee and kvikk lunch (it's a kit Kat hiking chocolate we have here) with us for the walk home and started the journey home. It took almost 10 hours to walk home with all the gear, and my grandpa at 77 at the time struggled the least out of the two of us. He was a tank, powering through the freezing cold, old age and exhaustion the old man got us home to our family just an hour after dark when the temperature hit - 30 fahrenheit. Exhausted, freezing, starving and frostbitten we came home to the warmest welcome a person could ever get. Home baked bread from the fireplace, potatoes and some meat stew and a warm bed in the living room with everyone else. A welcome fit for a hero. Till this day my grandpa never forgets the trip or the two weeks of frozen hell, the worst winter in history for our little town and a reminder to always have some canned and non perishable food in the house. We now have a small generator and a big drum of gas the we swap the gas in every winter, enough to keep food and water going for our house for at least two weeks at all times. I'm sorry for the long comment, but I thought I would have to share this story with you guys. And sorry for not knowing every word in English. (I tried to convert the units for you guys though)
That was a very bad ice storm. We have never faced anything like that. Thanks for the memory.
The english was very easy to read thank you for your story.
Wow! Great story.God bless you and your family.
Tremendous story! Proof that UA-cam comments don't have to suck. I salute you and yours, sir.
What country?
I can tell the Welkers are held in high esteem in the community.
A shout out to everyone who’s fixed a pull starter issue on a small engine👍!
Joseph Huelsmann them recoil springs suck
@@shelly8334, Agree. 99% of the time, the spring doesn't need to be removed. Remove old rope, feed new one through the hole, knot the end and use that notch Nick pointed at to wind the spring and rope at the same time.
I hate them with a passion.
Part of shop class in high school was small engine repair-- part of the test was the teacher coming up and cutting the pull cord and making you replace it. Disliked that man. Loved that class. Learned a lot.
my recollection was a piece of old clothes line was used
The work that goes into a farm operation is just staggering
IMPORTANT, just a tip with older generators. My dads an electrician/farmer and most burned fridges, fluoride bulbs and electronics are due to old generator's governors. Hook up a multimeter BOTH under load and free to check the hertz. Sometimes the load dips just to far when engageing loads or is running too high at start and fries your appliances ecpecially microwaves. O and when switching over try to switch on breakers one by one so as to not jolt the genset too much and cause a frequency dip. Anyway hope it helps if you didn't know already and stay cozy.
WOW...love watching the elderly gent working on that engine....Still has a good mind and ability...I know you are proud of him...Guys like him are what has made America great...love your channel!
My favorite part is people helping people. No one understands helping on another anymore. I grew up on a farm and then moved to the suburbs. Its amazing how little people care about each other. You were in need and this man had a spare generator so he gave it to you. That's how life should be.Its not what you take when you leave this world behind, is what you leave behind you when you go.
I don’t understand how you guys have only 274,000 subs. You are the best UA-cam channel I’ve watched in a long time and really get excited to see an upload from you. Wish you guys the best of luck with the storm and keep up the UA-cam grind! Thank you for the great content!
Nothing compliments a great farm operation except adding good neighbors to the mix.
Don't ever change Welker's, keep being awesome!
You are good hard working young dudes that anyone would be proud to call my kids love your videos intelligent young guys no wonder I like farming you tube
They are great to work with 👍 thanks 👍 blessings
ok, so what i used to do on the oilfield generators i built and worked on is set the throttle speed to the hertz meter you will need 60 hz for proper power. so set the throttle up to speed till you get to 62 HZ so when the engine pulls down under load you will be at 60 hz and adj. the regulator to 120V or 220v whatever voltage it's wired to. keep it under a cover so those old exciters on the generator don't get wet and put a good shielded/sheathed ground cable on the frame and attach it to that ground rod i saw on the frame and drive it into the ground. i would run a battery tender to the unit to float charge the battery and also a block heater so when you need the unit it's GTG. a normal house will need close to 8KW to run most lights and appliances minus the elect. stove and water heater. i can run my house minus the elect stove on 7500 watts we have an on demand water heater and we have mini split A/C and heat pumps which don't use much power i can also run my well pump and charge pump etc. with that. i can not use my air compressor but can run my lathe and mill and shop lights etc. with the 7500 watts. 35kw is a great size generator to wire in if you have all the houses on a grid and i would also look into a surge protector to protect your homes from overload.
This. Make sure you get the frequency right or you will burn out almost anything that you plug into it.
Maybe you already have one but you MUST have a means to disconnect the utility from your house before you tie in the generator so you don't power up the lineman doing the repair from the storm. Normally this would be a transfer switch. And yes, don't forget the earth ground connection! Nice rig. Good job getting it running.
They're not hard wired there yet but now a manual transfer switch is the cheapest way to go.
I'd throw on a car remote starter too. And a propane conversion kit this way here you can run off an 80 gallon propane tank.
@@anastyb i like the propane alternative we use 100# bottles here so i can fill them when i go to town for $1.75 a gallon as opposed to well over $2 to have it delivered and i use the bottles in various locations on the property so 1. bottle wouldn't do. propane will last forever in the bottle as opposed to gas which doesn't age well. in some areas propane is super exp. i bought some in Redwing MN one time for my RV, i thought i was filling the bottles with liquid GOLD.
@@markthegunplumber8376 wow and I thought things out here on the East coast or expensive I just checked the prices and we only pay a dollar 41 a gallon delivered for propane we can get it for a dollar 34 if we take 500 gallons.
In days past we used to get twenty one hundred gallons of number 2 oil this way here we were all set on heat for the whole year.
my friend Mark was in northern Connecticut with a farm and he cooks and heats hot water with propane he gets hundred-pound bottles filled down at the Agway because he says it's cheaper.
Yeah the propane conversion kits are cool I've used them on my Jenny's in the past.
Adding remote start is an added bonus.
Gotta love bringing old iron back to life...America!
Several people have mentioned that it is important to get the frequency set to 60 Hz and it is. Nobody mentioned that the generator has a built in meter to show the frequency. That middle meter on the generator cabinet is a frequency meter. It is clearly vissible in the video at 29:40. It contains several reeds that vibrate at the output frequency. The one that vibrates most is the current value. So set your engine rpm so that under load the 60 Hz (more likely labelled Cycles per Second on that one) is vibrating the most. Then adjust your output voltage. Our power company targets 120 volts but allows a 10% variation so voltage is not as critical as frequency.
That's not a generator. Its an old Redseal power delivery unit. Those things are great. You struck gold with that one.
Was leg arms really cleaning his boots out with an airline? Love it. Glad you finished harvest in time. UK Farmer.
I am inspired seeing modern large scale farmers working with and restoring good old machines, those are fun.
that's a prime example of having a great relationship with your neighbors and community people will give you things they no longer need. that machine will be very handy. it was cheaper to fix up that unit instead of buying a new one it really pays to know people and have some basic mechanicical skills nice video.
We always pumped anti-freeze through, just long enough that it was coming out all tips. Removed the tips, filters, unhooked all the hoses, shoot air through the lines, removed the pump and left the sprayer outside, pump stayed indoors. But, everyone does things differently.
I'm seeing a lot of holes in the roof of that building...
Those old generators are extremely hard to beat. It's always best to prepare for the worse and hope for the best. Cheers :)
That new transition at 6:46 is pretty slick I like it.
A lost American art. How to troubleshoot, repair, and restore to working condition. Kudos to the Welker team for bringing back old iron and the diverse set of skills necessary to accomplish. Stay safe during the storm and keep the videos coming
Definitely needs to run at 1800 RPM as previously stated by others to provide 60 hertz. Set RPM first then adjust voltage.
I love when old equipment is brought back to life and is useful again.
Really like seeing the old iron come back to life. Takes a lot of time to keep all those engines running, but it’s great when they are😀
This kind of stuff is what I really enjoy. Maintenance, sorting things out, getting hands dirty to do what needs to be done. All so that work and life later is better for all. How you tuck into mechanical repairs is fantastic. Something needs a fix, boom [with the power of video editing =D ], it's done. A joy to watch. I just had to explain to my GF that throwing up a few roof trusses and a cantilever awning to fix some roof issues is straight forward. Once done, we'll never have to worry about roof leaks again. A bit of work now, quite affordable, makes everything better down the road. Good luck and hunker in for the winter. Keep your families warm. Cheers!
I bet the old boy that spotted you the generator is a treasure. Maybe interview him sometime?
I love it when old iron gets saved and is put into service again!!!
Gotta love when old trucks start without having to be prodded lol
Put everything to bed! Have a good winter. Get everything ready for spring. There's always something to do. Maybe this is that time of year you can do all those honey do jobs.
I would love to see more videos like this. I'm not technician and I can't repair anything like you do, but I worlk with my own hands too and when I see what you do guys, I'm always amazed. Great video!
I get tickled when there is "dread" of the snow as we sit here in Mississippi after just setting several days worth of "new record high temperatures". Truth be told when there is a prediction of snow people go bonkers around here, emptying store shelves of bread and milk, schools shut down so buses don't have to risk traveling in something they have almost zero experience with. I was in college in Iowa in the mid 70's so got a good bit of snow driving experience. With our heat we envy the cool weather. Did enjoy our recent mid Sept trip up your way to visit family in Whitehall. Felt almost surreal sleeping with open windows every night while a mid to low 50 degree breeze was coming in. A lot of me wants to relocate to your part of the country. Made a mule deer hunt out of Havre in 2016, love the country up that way, enjoy your videos.
I know Leg Arms has likely thought about this, but I would put an oil pressure switch inline with the fuel pump primary power supply to kill the engine if the oil pressure drops. Then to prime for starting put a momentary on push button bypass switch that would have to be held down during the start cycle. Just a save the engine thought. Agree with another poster about the engine RPM, it all has to do with the cycles, USA power systems are 60 cycles which takes 1800 RPM on a low speed generator or 3600 RPM on the small generators like the Briggs unit you fixed the starter rope on. With the engine at 1500 RPM you are likely only making 50 cycle juice, NOT GOOD for any of your USA electric devices. With the right kind of tester you can adjust the throttle while the unit is under a load to get the cycles where they need to be. In my experience the no load cycles on my small generators tends to come in at about 62 cycles then a decent load pulls it down to about 60. I have been told a bit over is preferable to a bit under.
So glad there are commentores like you and others. Learn lots, Blessings 👍
Leg Arms measuring the snow bank, 122” is 10 feet 2 inches, lol 😂. It is good to see Leg Arms in this one and having fun.
Good project for next summer. Build a shed between yalls houses for that badass new generator. Run the exhaust thru the roof and put in a power line to all the buildings. Hmmm ideas ideas. Good job gettin that ole gal runnin again y’all.
The 60 cycles a second depends on the engine rpm. By you slowing the engine down you may have reduced the cycles per second and doing that can damage whatever you have plugged into it. Use a voltmeter to check your Hertz or cycles per second before using it.
Had a Welker Farms hat on today in the Fleet Farm store in Sioux Falls SD. Guy says wow where did you get that, I watch them everyday!!! I sent him to the website.
That's so cool! It happens to us also. Glad you ate a part of this with us. Kudos 👍
One of the best channels on UA-cam
When we winterize the sprayers we just put about 200g of 28-0-0 liquid fertilizer in the tank and then go spray about 100g out through everything. We make sure we leave enough in the tank to keep the pump completely full because as long as there’s no air in pump housing it doesn’t rust. Might get colder there and not work for you. We get down to single digits here. Been doing that for the last 25 years and haven’t had any issues. Much easier then draining things. Thanks for the vids.
Dang Nick, Scottie, Mr Welker just when I thought y’all couldn’t get any better. BEST VIDEO YET!!
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Can you believe... 261,726 views in 2 days - that's star power! The three amigos never cease to amaze me with their videos. Great stuff! 😁🏆👍
Definitely surprising to us! Thanks
When you get time, switch it to run on gas or Natural gas or propane. I spent $300 on gas during the last Hurricane my neighbor spent $35 on nat gas. Justathought! Keep the great vids coming. I really enjoy seeing your Dad's contribution to the you tube effort. ;-)
There are other benefits than just the money side. You don't have the problems with ethanol. And propane as far cleaner than gas to burn (carbon buildup).
Wood gas would be better yet , but it looks like typical farmground , most farmers are tree haters , Get z pig barn and a digester , and generate all your own electricity all the time.
Well the conversion cost actually makes it not so good. (It's like $9000 dollars)
Yellow generator to match your yellow tractor. Old iron is super cool
Neat. We have a generator in our shed that we assume is from the 40s or 50s and still works great every time power goes out.
I love watching your videos because you just make things happen. And use a little creativity and don’t always need brand new. Great job and God bless
Hey Guys, thank you for all you do for us out here in UA-cam land, we really do enjoy your content.
Keep up the good work and God Bless you and your families.
From your neighbors (The Cool People) In Polson, MT :-)
Can you keep the god rubbish off the page please, not all of us are american and are forced to believe in some made up superhero.
@@fendtforlife9829 Or maybe have some respect towards other's beliefs. O and by the way the channel creators themselves are also relegious so don't watch it if you don't approve of their believes. Hypocrisy just makes you seem disinformed
@@fendtforlife9829 nobody is forcing you to believe in anything or disrespecting you. Everybody is different we need to live with one another without crying because we do not get are way.
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The little generator would be good for one house. But that was a great deal on that big generator!! It took a few days and few hours to get it to work!! But that’s awesome that it runs and makes power!! That beast is gonna come in handy!! God bless and I hope the storm doesn’t knock out your power.
If you hadn't messed with the generators, then you for sure would've needed them. That's how it always works.
Hey guys I'm an electromechanic and I work on generators and stuff like that I would definitely recommend taking those older generators to your local electric motor service center to give them a once over!...after the storm
Good call
Exactly what I needed today! Thanks Welker's for the great content!
You guys are just handy, not a bad generator!!! Great find!!!
one cool dude to get that genset out to y'all and a really nice back yard too! i'd love that caboose
GREAT VIDEO AS USUAL , THANK YOU SO MUCH NICK AND FAMILY 😀👍🏾🚜🚜🚜
Swamie says "I see Generac whole house generators appearing at at least 1 Welker residence for demonstration purposes " Anyone else have that kind of a vision? That old one might run the whole operation though! Thanks for the video!
Only way it could run the whole operation is if the entire setup is on a single transformer and they tap in on the meter side. If their power company and setups are like is typical in our area when there is any distance involved (250 feet +) they string the uninsulated "high wires" to the end then set transformers as needed for a meter or two.
Oh I agree with the distances not working I just meant the capacity!
I have some of those dryshod boots. Best winter barn boot on the planet.
The little Briggs and Stratton sounds like she ready for work
Briggs and Stratton is always faithfull
Isn’t it so satisfying when you fix a broken pull rope on an old small engine. Maybe because they test your patience for a moment😂😂😂 nice work
lane heward yea but then if you try to pull with a crappy rope you end up having more problems so its better to just replace it the first time!!
Totally agree
Oh man, I love that new transition after the B roll. Great work guys, keep it up.
Hair dryers are handy for generating quite a bit of load for testing on small generators. Gives a better sense of how the thing responds.
I can't wait to see big bud restoration
Its always cool to bring a old machine back to life!
Run 25-50 gallons of 28% through the sprayer. On some land then you are winterized.
Im sure it was noted in the comments below. You need to run it at 1800 rpm to get 60Hz. Great to see an old machine put to good use.
Nice work...
Frig I wish I had as many sheds as you guys do. Mint. Everything likes to start better being out of the wind in our cold winters.
I like when they wrench on things those are the best videos
the good ol ford will start every time
RV antifreeze will work well, just rinse it b-4 you use it next spring. Like the video.
When I had my Barndominium built I had a generator system put in. It will run everything and runs off natural gas from the utilities or propane and Diesel.
Keep up the great videos.
you have a engine that runs off natural gas, propane And diesel?? that is a first.. does it have a injection pump, injectors and a carburetor too??
@@vdub4201 yeah it's technology that been around for years, maybe you need to get out of your mother's basement and learn something.
@@brianhubbard6423 how original.. I will get right on that sweetness
The knowledge that he has is absolutely priceless. I wish I could work with a guy like him every day of the week because you can't find the knowledge he has anywhere.
Is there no cover large enough to cover your combines, like a car cover? Maybe have some custom made, it would be worth it.
The wind gets into it and itll flap even just a little bit you can barely see
Takes all the paint off and make a real mess
Our Son went in our storage room and work room and put all new shelves in and took stuff away and off of the floor. amazing amount of space available. He lost his job and he needed something to do.
Am I the only one gets excited seeing an old time machine running again? 🤔
No, obviously, no.
Nope
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Nope!
Depends what machine. A Bud is quiet unique. But a gen-set. . . not that excited this time. To be honest.
Make sure you tarp/bag those combine tires - UV, even in winter is hard on tires. Make a PTO adapter for that generator - you could power it with a tractor
Be sure to use a temperature correction chart on the engine generator when setting the charge voltage.
A what? I probably too young to know
@@Adiiii87 Lead acid batteries need different charge/float voltages for different temperatures.
Great videos guys. Shout out to Dad. Good job sir! You've raised them right. Congrats
"I'm just going to use the pull starter on this generator because the electric starter's wires are all disconnected and what not" *Pulls cord once, cord doesn't go back in* Yep, that's typical pull starter behavior.
That's step one of pull starter initiation. Step two is taking it off to fix it and fielding a spring to the jaw.
this video reminds me to get a generator, but fixing up a busted one, nope!
Those old Continential engines were real work horses. That one runs good!
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As a kid I hated that job wintering the sprayer. When dad retired and I took over with a pure cattle operation I never missed it. Thankfully my sprayer I use on corn is a smaller three point hitch that ends up in the heated shop for the chore tractors.
I Betya you’re pretty happy to be done with harvest SW Manitoba not a wheel has turned most of September.
You have to set the cycles to 60 and that is what determines the rpms of the motor.
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On most any AC generator that uses a spark ignition engine (Gas, Propane, CNG), the number of field coils dictates a specific RPM to output at 60 Hz. Small engines usually 3600 RPM (low $, with low Amperage) or Larger engines usually 1800 RPM (more $ with higher Amps). A Diesel engine is: of course best and it likes the 1800 RPM generator design which demands the more field coils for 60 Hz., Most $ and more reliable. from Jim B.
Yup, hopefully they see this comment. Otherwise everything will run SLOW. Clocks will lose time and such. Running it at 1550rpm is probably closer to 50hz output.
That motor is in great shape for its age, great buy
shrink wrap those combines like you would a boat...just an idea..?
Wow another great find and fix great job on the generator leg arms and pops man the snow is here dang
Nick: makes Welker farms magnet
Nick: slaps magnet on everything
The farm: why just why...
Welker Farms, thats why!
Eventually if the equipment drives over something metal it will pick it up
that's a cool old generator the man gave you. You could mount that on a trailer and weld anywhere!
I did a double take when I saw the boom on that dodge, when was that last used?
Another great video nick!! 🤘😎🇺🇸
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trying to organize more after seeing Coles clean up videos? :D
the old generator found a nice new home where it could get fixed and have a new life. good job men...
ITS ! to early with all that snow :O
Beautiful Snow..
Yah, and all the same colour ;) Very white.
I think the Welker’s next project is going to be a new shed...
Sander Tedder why a new shed? Looks like to me they need more grain bins so they can use the sheds to put the equipment in.
Sure don't like to see snow this early. Hope here in PA we don't see it for a while. You both had a great teacher in your Dad. I can see you both paid attention. Great job as always.
NO IM NOT!
HES LYING!
HES FULL OF IT! 😂😂 That got me
Should put a dryer vent housing on garage door or wall and be able to run a hose to the exhaust. So you guys can fine tune without fumigating yourself
Don't run the Gen at 1500, that will give you 50Hz i believe.
You need the 1800 to have 60z
Nice generator! I like marvel mystery oil to loosen and clean up those old engines also. Nice find.
You'll need a flag on that generator.!
im looking at a KUBOTA SJ series generators that powers 3 houses and everything on 1 unit wich pretty sweet wich im kinda looking into buying one
He needs more generator on that generator. You build a nice shed and install a good engine with a big genny on it and keep it maintained or you build same shed and make as many gennies as you need for the property. Not like they don't know their way around old engines. I bet Frankenswather would run a good arc welder.
@@prjndigo accully the kubota generators at my dealer sells from $1,200 to $9,000 for the huge 60hp and the summer branded ones here with 42hp is around $99,000 and the caterpiller ones is $129,000 wich quite a different
@@michaelmactavish1728 Ya never want a new generator for your first storm. When you buy a generator you need to run a tank of fuel through it under load first go once every 3 days three times total. If it so much as makes a weird noise you take it back.
Can't wait for part 3
That’s called a sediment bowl
So so cool!!!
I hope all homes,shops, etc feed from one location like transformer pole???
That way a $500 transfer switch to isolate generator and regular power is all you need.
35kw will run your 3 houses,water wells,shop (even Legarms welding) I have a 20kw and is plenty.
Central Alberta and enjoying everything your doing and amazing quality of your channel.
Thanks 👍