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Old 05-07-2013, 11:58 PM
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Default ET2 electric garden tractor coversion
While looking this evening for video on cultivator set up I ran across this garden tractor that had been converted to electric ... interesting, sure it won't satisfy a lot of needs but was impressed with its performance,

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I like it. I mean check out that 4th gear hill climb.
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I would love to have a LNG conversion!!
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I would love to have a LNG conversion!!
Liquified Natural Gas?? That's all I could find.
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Liquified Natural Gas?? That's all I could find.
Yep, second would be LPG.

The country seems to have plenty of these now!!
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A month ago I was at a gas station and a commercial landscape crew was fueling their truck ... they had several large zero turn lawn mowers with 30lb. propane taks mounted...I asked them how they did and how lonfg they ran ....

said overall maint. was lower (engine) and that a 30lb cylinder lasted a full
8-10 hr. run time.

The trick is finding a out of the way place to mount the cylinder. its a great idea.

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A month ago I was at a gas station and a commercial landscape crew was fueling their truck ... they had several large zero turn lawn mowers with 30lb. propane taks mounted...I asked them how they did and how lonfg they ran ....

said overall maint. was lower (engine) and that a 30lb cylinder lasted a full
8-10 hr. run time.

The trick is finding a out of the way place to mount the cylinder. its a great idea.

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Why would engine maintenance be lower because of the type of fuel used?
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Default propane / lng powered
less deposits in oil after cylinder burn ... stays cleaner longer

plug runs longer

no fuel going bad in bowl during storage

runs cleaner .. less emissions than gas

Alot of city buses now burn lng , look for large bulges on roof. engines run longer and cleaner. They convert diesels to lng ... detroit diesel is big on this for these applications ... pretty cool !

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I ran two fork lifts daily for 12 years, the fork lifts each had 4000 hours on them when I got them.

ONCE, at about 6 years, I changed the oil in them. What came out looked like what I put in. Those propane powered engines were amazing.

The engines were automotive 4 cylinder Mitsubishi engines. Amazingly clean running.

My BIL had a neighbor that ran a propane powered 4010 JD farm tractor. The oil in that tractor never looked like it needed changed.

And with propane, there would be no ethanol issues!!

Electric would be good, but, the best option is what is lowest cost at the time.
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