Call me crazy if you want, but look for an old Kohler with the flathead 4 cylinder. We had these at our radio sites, and boy were they reliable, tough, and easy to work on. The one ran for about 3 weeks straight at near full load without a lick of trouble. We ran them with synthetic motor oil and Caterpillar coolant with distilled water. I think these can be found surplus fairly often. Easy to rebuild the engine, and you will be in for less money than anything new of comparable size, around 8-10kw. One was even dual fuel and could run on gasoline or propane. Seemed fairly easy on fuel, too.
One was replaced with a newer Kohler with a Ford engine that had major engine failure at 1200 hours. That was replaced with a very expensive Cat Diesel unit that they never could get to run in a reliable manner. The old Kohler, now on a trailer, still had to do the job.
Looking for one myself to rebuild and mount in a little covered trailer.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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