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Old 09-24-2011, 12:29 AM
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We got a Kubota ARX6500 about 10 years ago. We have two big boxes next to each other on the house wall. We're out in the country a bit.

One to run the auxilliary building which has a 2 bedroom pool house, a three bedroom apt. that I use as a home office, an RV garage between them which serves as living space for the tin can and a 65 Mustang...and for the water pump and pool filter.

The other box is for the main house...two airconditioners, several hot water heaters, appliances, three daughters armed with essential items such as hair curling irons, etc.

Had a guy come in and wired it up with switches and plug-ins so that I can run either box. The ccircuit breakers obviously allow me to run what's needed.

Roll it up...hit the electric start and run what we want...run the pump for awhile and fill the pressure tank, then switch over to the main house.

Side benefit of having a nice portable to use whenever.

I have no clue what the current model has or costs, but this has all of your stats met and came in around what you're thinking.

No problems.

Best use was two nights before Xmas a few years ago...some drunk hit a pole. Everyone's lights out...no moon. Wife had put up Xmas lights to the hilt and was sad, so I hooked it up and it ran the lights and the house that night. Think Charlton Heston's pad in The Omega Man.
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