Hurricane Matthew

[Stan Disbrow]

Hi,

Well, he's outta here. We have a few trees down here at the head-end of the Cape Fear river. The river itself is well over the banks and going to flood even worse until it starts back down Tuesday. We have a fishing cabin right on the river bank, and a big tree is sitting on the roof. We can't get to it as the river is halfway up the walls at this point.

To keep it crawler related....I need that JD450 tree spade unit. Not to harvest that tree off the roof - just to wade thru the backed up water to get to the cabin!

http://www.jdcrawlers.com/messageboard/ ... hp?t=10982

Stan

[Paul Buhler]

Sorry to hear about the hurricane damage. Hope things dry out soon. Paul

[Stan Disbrow]

Hi,

Yesterday, the Cape Fear river came up further than we'd seen it in the past decade or so. But it back down to its normal flooding level. Power is still out, and probably will be for a few more days. Fortunately, I have two small generators (4k and 5k) and both work. So, I have been alternating between them.

Hmmm. There is a bad pun there. Alternating Generators!

So, back to a Deere if not crawler realated discussion....

Anyone know of genset makers who use the Deere 3/179 engine? That ought to be good for 20kW or so at 1800 RPM.

I grow tired of the one-cylinder pull-start gas engined baby gensets....

And, I do like the 3/179....

Stan

[sl1250c]

contact Broad Crown distributor as they assemble gen sets with 3 cylinder John Deere engines. Brown Crown is a UK company but have distribution
in the USA.

[Pat]

Stan, hurricane mathew was a pain here in coastal NC also. Corn fields were wet from previous rains, so 80 mph winds flattened mine. Just got power back. Some roofs gone on outbuildings. Trees down. To be honest, even though bad hurricanes are infrequent, I'm getting tired of replacing tin, cutting down trees, and hauling limbs off! Guess thats the price of living close to the coast. But on the bright side, I have a crawler to push debris with.

[Stan Disbrow]

Hi,

Power is back on here this morning. That is good as one of my portable gensets threw its' conrod Sunday evening. That one had been my Dad's backup but I took it back in 1996 when I got Mom a LP powered Generac. That one had low hours on it, but it failed anyway. So, I was down to using my other portable genset with lots of hours on it since it was my race track unit. I had to clean the rust out of he gas tank before I could use it, but it saw us through.

So, it is most definitely time for a real backup generator. My wife finally agrees. See, she could yank on the 5 HP which failed, but can't quite get enough pull on the 8 HP one....

The river has receded to 'full'. But there are several reservoir dams with almost certain fear of failing. So that might rise it back up again. The only damage is three trees fell on our fishing cabin right on the riverbank. The roof is toast, but the thing is made from really fat power poles, so it isn't going to cave in. Can't get there yet. Everything is covered with slimy river silt.

Most crops OK here. Just soggy fields for the most part.

Stan