farmersamm
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Supposed to be 4 days of sub zero weather coming
One the things to get ready...........because we're supposed to get an ice storm out of this on the first day.........fire up the welder, gas it up, and make sure all of the extension cords are handy.
Pull the rat/mouse shields off, and fire it up. Started promptly (whew)
If you noticed the "outside" battery box...................... I can't reach the battery on the welder when it's on the skid. So I decided to make a box for the battery that is attached to the skid. This allows me to run any size battery I want. Regular car battery, commercial truck battery, and the stupid batteries they put in Fords. We can take a battery out of anything if the battery in the box fails. Redundancy is king when it's push-come-to-shove time. You don't want to be messing around when the power goes out in the middle of the night.
I use old "failed" tractor, and truck, batteries. They won't crank a large engine anymore, but do fine for quite a long time on the welder. It's a real money saver.
i'm sure you've seen these pics before................but you know how old guys are. We tend to tell the same story over, and over..........because we don't have a lot of new stories at our age.
The box is hinged to swing out of the way when I open the motor compartment on the welder. The welder is fully shielded against rodents. I had a very bad experience with rats making a home in the welder.
Where the cables run inside the welder, the holes are stuffed with steel wool. Critters don't like steel wool.
Anyways.................I think we're ready for the Arctic Blast............as good as I guess we can be.
One the things to get ready...........because we're supposed to get an ice storm out of this on the first day.........fire up the welder, gas it up, and make sure all of the extension cords are handy.
Pull the rat/mouse shields off, and fire it up. Started promptly (whew)
If you noticed the "outside" battery box...................... I can't reach the battery on the welder when it's on the skid. So I decided to make a box for the battery that is attached to the skid. This allows me to run any size battery I want. Regular car battery, commercial truck battery, and the stupid batteries they put in Fords. We can take a battery out of anything if the battery in the box fails. Redundancy is king when it's push-come-to-shove time. You don't want to be messing around when the power goes out in the middle of the night.
I use old "failed" tractor, and truck, batteries. They won't crank a large engine anymore, but do fine for quite a long time on the welder. It's a real money saver.
i'm sure you've seen these pics before................but you know how old guys are. We tend to tell the same story over, and over..........because we don't have a lot of new stories at our age.
The box is hinged to swing out of the way when I open the motor compartment on the welder. The welder is fully shielded against rodents. I had a very bad experience with rats making a home in the welder.
Where the cables run inside the welder, the holes are stuffed with steel wool. Critters don't like steel wool.
Anyways.................I think we're ready for the Arctic Blast............as good as I guess we can be.