PTO's

[kellys_eye]

A friend has a little Jap tractor - quite the collectors item I'm told though I have no knowledge of what the market is like so, ho hum. Anyway, his little machine, cute as it is, has a 'massive' 37hp engine!!!!

I'd give it 25hp at the PTO perhaps (??) but even that is good for a circa 20kW genset. That kind of power could supply our little village (12 properties) with some careful management so maybe a 'community' purchase might be suggested. Who knows?

Right now (I think) tractors command a higher price than I'd be prepared to pay for a simple genset solution - yeah, they can obviously be used for other purposes but I'm not into aggro-working on such a scale. Again, as a community it might get some traction (pun intended).

However, the idea of a PTO system will be useful to some and I'm not sure how well known this is as a solution to a community power requirement hence the suggestion.