So what did you do today?

[Yukon Stihl]

Was enjoying my coffee at 1030 when my neighbour calls and asks if I heard the sirens and saw the smoke. The smoke was coming from the area of our backup generator for the town.
Oh yea it was -44C
Power went out moments later
Luckily I have a bunch of light towers. I went and got one brought it home. Had to heat it with a propane tourch for 1/2 hour to get it warm enough to start
Cut the end off a cord and wired up my boiler and had heat going for my house.
Then needed to fuel it up as no power for fuel pumps.

 

[heimannm]

@EFSM - thank you so much for that lead, it is indeed the governed carburetor. I had not encountered that before on an HL model and missed it completely as I went through the carburetor.



Now if the owner of the saw can find the guard I can call it complete.

Mark

 

[furb]

Definitely need to have that gen checked out. Too many electronic boards in a house that can go fubar from unstable power.

I’m hoping it’s something in the jet, freakin horror freight stuff.

 

[furb]

After probably overloading the poor sxs I was fixing the driveway and lost the box. The three point drops when you run the loader and the pin gave up. Everybody said it was stupid to not fill the box with concrete. I filled it with scrap so I could unload it to pick it up.