Do you have the Harbor Freight 15KW PTO Generator? What do you think?

[dex3361]

After the dust has settled from the widespread storm related power outage I am thinking of adding a PTO generator to the fleet. The best deal for the dollar appears to be the HF 15KW PTO generator. My questions to the TBN Brain-trust are: Do you have one or have experience with one? What are your opinions on the unit? Would you buy one again? Do you know of a better option on PTO Generators?

 

[psj12]

I purchased the identical unit from Rural king online and am very pleased with it. It was also a couple hundred cheaper than HF.

 

[Code54]

Good question Randall - never seen one at Cross Lanes, is it one of those by order only items? After that storm I have to admit I am thinking of making some changes around the house for the "next one"

 

[dex3361]

I purchased the identical unit from Rural king online and am very pleased with it. It was also a couple hundred cheaper than HF.

How long have you had it?

 

[dex3361]

Good question Randall - never seen one at Cross Lanes, is it one of those by order only items? After that storm I have to admit I am thinking of making some changes around the house for the "next one"

Yes it is a order only only item. I have been looking for a coupon that will work online but no go so far. I met the demand with my little diesel generator but I have an old 4KW Coleman gas generator. I want my back up to be diesel fuel based. I found that I could get diesel even when the stations were out of gas. How long were you out of power?

 

[Code54]

We were down for the entire week. Funny you mentioned the diesel generator, I been starting to look for a diesel version myself. I had about 25 gallons of diesel when the storm hit and about 5 gallons of gas - I only have a gas generator so that didn't help a whole lot.
Check out the "Entertainment book" if someone has one, they always have one of the 20% coupons in it. I would send you one but I already used them - we really spend too much time at Harbor Freight....

 

[dex3361]

We were down for the entire week. Funny you mentioned the diesel generator, I been starting to look for a diesel version myself. I had about 25 gallons of diesel when the storm hit and about 5 gallons of gas - I only have a gas generator so that didn't help a whole lot.
Check out the "Entertainment book" if someone has one, they always have one of the 20% coupons in it. I would send you one but I already used them - we really spend too much time at Harbor Freight....

I had a 20% of coupon and the fine print said it could not be used on generators(wouldn't you know it).

 

[dex3361]

We were down for the entire week. Funny you mentioned the diesel generator, I been starting to look for a diesel version myself. I had about 25 gallons of diesel when the storm hit and about 5 gallons of gas - I only have a gas generator so that didn't help a whole lot.
Check out the "Entertainment book" if someone has one, they always have one of the 20% coupons in it. I would send you one but I already used them - we really spend too much time at Harbor Freight....

I had 60 gallons of diesel with what I had in jugs and the truck. I finished cleaning out some 35 gallon poly drums and bought a 12V fuel pump. I used about 65 gallons of diesel in little air cooled generator running for about 200 hours +-. I want to keep about 100+ gallons of diesel on hand.

 

[dex3361]

So no more thoughts or opinions on the HF 15KW generator?

 

[Gale Hawkins]

On the subject of PTO generators can one run a generator too large for the tractor (say a 30KW on a 30 HP tractor) as long as they did not demand more than 15KW out of the generator?

I know it takes at least 2 HP per KW of output.

thanks.