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You can jump a car from a lawn mower? interesting...

Aug 31, 2011#1

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Imowmylawn

I came home from work today to find out my brother used my new precious lawn mower to jump his truck...at first, i was furious at him. However, he said...before you get more angry...go try to start your lawn mower...i mumbled, its not gonna work

...but i got on the lawn mower, turned the key...and it started in its usual 1 second of cranking :biggrin: i was so happy...and i carried away some new knowledge, that its possible to jump a dead truck battery (dead to the point of clicking) off a lawn mower :biggrin: In case anyone was wondering, its a Husqvarna 25 hp Kholer engine with about 55 hours on it...i was really surprised...just thought i'd share :smile:

Aug 31, 2011#2

JDgreen

Imowmylawn said:
I came home from work today to find out my brother used my new precious lawn mower to jump his truck...at first, i was furious at him. However, he said...before you get more angry...go try to start your lawn mower...i mumbled, its not gonna work ...but i got on the lawn mower, turned the key...and it started in its usual 1 second of cranking :biggrin: i was so happy...and i carried away some new knowledge, that its possible to jump a dead truck battery (dead to the point of clicking) off a lawn mower :biggrin: In case anyone was wondering, its a Husqvarna 25 hp Kholer engine with about 55 hours on it...i was really surprised...just thought i'd share :smile:

Why do you find it so surprising? Any decent size lawn tractor battery has enough CCA to spin over a good size vehicle engine, in WARM WEATHER at least. It is recommended you have a vehicle battery of at least one CCA per cubic inch, and I have a portable jump starting unit that has a battery the size of a lawn tractor battery, and it packs 300 CCA, and because the truck battery was not completely dead, it only needed a second of current surge going thru it. While you may be proud, I am not impressed.

Tell us you started a truck with a 12 volt cordless drill battery and maybe I will be....:laughing::laughing:

Aug 31, 2011#3

jmurray01

JDgreen said:
Why do you find it so surprising? Any decent size lawn tractor battery has enough CCA to spin over a good size vehicle engine, in WARM WEATHER at least. It is recommended you have a vehicle battery of at least one CCA per cubic inch, and I have a portable jump starting unit that has a battery the size of a lawn tractor battery, and it packs 300 CCA, and because the truck battery was not completely dead, it only needed a second of current surge going thru it. While you may be proud, I am not impressed.
Tell us you started a truck with a 12 volt cordless drill battery and maybe I will be....:laughing::laughing:

That is a preposterous idea! Oh, by the way I jump started our car with my phone battery once :thumbsup:

Aug 31, 2011#4

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Imowmylawn

JDgreen said:
Why do you find it so surprising? Any decent size lawn tractor battery has enough CCA to spin over a good size vehicle engine, in WARM WEATHER at least. It is recommended you have a vehicle battery of at least one CCA per cubic inch, and I have a portable jump starting unit that has a battery the size of a lawn tractor battery, and it packs 300 CCA, and because the truck battery was not completely dead, it only needed a second of current surge going thru it. While you may be proud, I am not impressed.

Tell us you started a truck with a 12 volt cordless drill battery and maybe I will be....:laughing::laughing:

I don't know why I'm surprised...it could be (not meaning to sound rude here it just sounds that way sorry, i can't think of another way to word it) that it showed no signs of battery drain when i went to start it again, and my brother did keep it running after he got his truck started..he shut it off immediately...oh well...i just didn't know it was possible...thanks for the info :smile:

Aug 31, 2011#5

JDgreen

Imowmylawn said:
I don't know why I'm surprised...it could be (not meaning to sound rude here it just sounds that way sorry, i can't think of another way to word it) that it showed no signs of battery drain when i went to start it again, and my brother did keep it running after he got his truck started..he shut it off immediately...oh well...i just didn't know it was possible...thanks for the info :smile:

He did it right to keep the tractor running while doing the jump start, because the alternator on the tractor helps keep the battery at full charge. I started a thread here at one time that described how out DirectTV installer tried to hook up his 12 volt cordless drill to his S-10 truck battery using jumper cables and 12 gage wire....

Aug 31, 2011#6

tankdriver

Imowmylawn said:
I came home from work today to find out my brother used my new precious lawn mower to jump his truck...at first, i was furious at him. However, he said...before you get more angry...go try to start your lawn mower...i mumbled, its not gonna work ...but i got on the lawn mower, turned the key...and it started in its usual 1 second of cranking :biggrin: i was so happy...and i carried away some new knowledge, that its possible to jump a dead truck battery (dead to the point of clicking) off a lawn mower :biggrin: In case anyone was wondering, its a Husqvarna 25 hp Kholer engine with about 55 hours on it...i was really surprised...just thought i'd share :smile:

Ahh....

I thought you had built some ramps, and tried to JUMP a car........:laughing:

What a let down.........:frown:

Aug 31, 2011#7

JDgreen

tankdriver said:
Ahh....

I thought you had built some ramps, and tried to JUMP a car........:laughing:

What a let down.........:frown:

GOOD ONE....:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: REALLY FUNNY!!!!

Sep 1, 2011#8

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benski

The way battery technology is changing, it won't be too long until you can start a vehicle with a battery the size of a fist.

Sep 1, 2011#9

tankdriver

benski said:
The way battery technology is changing, it won't be too long until you can start a vehicle with a battery the size of a fist.

Hope so, that's is what is holding back electric vehicles.

Sep 1, 2011#10

jmurray01

tankdriver said:
Hope so, that's is what is holding back electric vehicles.

I'm probably going to get stick for this but personally I'll never buy an electric vehicle.

I wouldn't buy any vehicle for that matter that was made after 2000. Too many buttons, too many useless features and things to go wrong.

Sep 1, 2011#11

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thumpper263

We have came to the point that to work on any equipment we have we must have a garage full of accessories with which to service it ---remember when the old school was absoluty the best --but alas we were in a slower time when we could smell the roses as we walked to school and chatted with our friends who were walking with us now we text every one while we are speeding down the road all alone what went wrong lol

Sep 1, 2011#12

tankdriver

I've worked on electric forklifts from 1978 till 2002. since 2002 I have taught others how to work on them. They can run 8 or more hours a day, but you have to have a large battery to do it, like 2000lbs. If they can reduce the size and weight of the battery while keeping the power there, most of the problems will be solved. The Toyota Hybrids are using the Toyota forklifts electrical system to power them.

Also remember that the 1st hybrid was made in about 1910 and has been in constant use since. It really is not a new system.

Anybody know what the 1st hybrid was? WITHOUT Googleing it.

Sep 1, 2011#13

JDgreen

tankdriver said:
I've worked on electric forklifts from 1978 till 2002. since 2002 I have taught others how to work on them. They can run 8 or more hours a day, but you have to have a large battery to do it, like 2000lbs. If they can reduce the size and weight of the battery while keeping the power there, most of the problems will be solved. The Toyota Hybrids are using the Toyota forklifts electrical system to power them.

Also remember that the 1st hybrid was made in about 1910 and has been in constant use since. It really is not a new system.

Anybody know what the 1st hybrid was? WITHOUT Googleing it.

You mean gas/electric or steam/electric?

Sep 1, 2011#14

jmurray01

JDgreen said:
You mean gas/electric or steam/electric?

I assume he means first ever, be that fuel and electric or steam and electric.

Sep 1, 2011#15

gtbobcat

Without googling it I`m saying Ford model T...there were so many back then .......about e-vehicles my opinion only..but for them to make a go of it..we need a breakthough in electric storage and a breakthough in electric generation, our old school ways wont be enough..solar panels only convert 5%-7% of the potential.
now I`m gonna google the answer........lol

Sep 1, 2011#16

gtbobcat

mmmm..that gas elc. or steam elec. question dun done me in........lol
turns out the model T killed the hybrids......lol

Sep 1, 2011#17

tankdriver

Reread my question, it has been in constant use since around 1928. And it is Fossile Fuel / Electric.....

Sorry about the incorrect date

Sep 1, 2011#18

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Mower manic

jmurray01 said:
That is a preposterous idea! Oh, by the way I jump started our car with my phone battery once :thumbsup:

I would very much like to know how you boosted your car's battery with a cell phone!
I am reasonably sure it's well beyond the realm of possibility.
Would you mind providing some details?
Please!

Sep 2, 2011#19

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benski

Mower manic said:
I would very much like to know how you boosted your car's battery with a cell phone!
I am reasonably sure it's well beyond the realm of possibility.
Would you mind providing some details?
Please!

Perhaps called AAA?:ashamed::biggrin:

Sep 2, 2011#20

tankdriver

Well, nobody answered, so the 1st Hybrid systems put in use and used ever sinse are the S-class submarines S-3, S-6, and S-7. The concept was put forth in 1928 and these were built in 1929. They are still using them today. AND lets no forget the ALCO HH series of diesel-electric switcher entered series production in 1931. Sence it has no battery, it is not a true hybrid.

Sep 7, 2011#21

Briana

Mower manic said:
I would very much like to know how you boosted your car's battery with a cell phone!
I am reasonably sure it's well beyond the realm of possibility.
Would you mind providing some details?
Please!

I second that. Please, do tell..

Sep 7, 2011#22

jmurray01

Mower manic said:
I would very much like to know how you boosted your car's battery with a cell phone!
I am reasonably sure it's well beyond the realm of possibility.
Would you mind providing some details?
Please!

Oh for Pete's sake! I was joking! :laughing:

Sep 7, 2011#23

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benski

I thought that might be the case!:laughing:

Sep 7, 2011#24

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Black Bart

jmurray01 said:
Oh for Pete's sake! I was joking! :laughing:

No one caught on to the triple A thing it went right over their head. :laughing:

Sep 8, 2011#25

B

benski

I dunno, I kind of liked it..:biggrin:

Sep 8, 2011#26

jmurray01

Black Bart said:
No one caught on to the triple A thing it went right over their head. :laughing:

:laughing:

Sep 10, 2011#27

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mullins87

Black Bart said:
No one caught on to the triple A thing it went right over their head. :laughing:

I did and thought it was hilarious.

Sep 10, 2011#28

JDgreen

mullins87 said:
I did and thought it was hilarious.

I thought it silly, period, as I am a long term AAA member and know for a fact they have no providers in Scotland, so it was an impossibility to begin with.

Sep 10, 2011#29

jmurray01

JDgreen said:
I thought it silly, period, as I am a long term AAA member and know for a fact they have no providers in Scotland, so it was an impossibility to begin with.

He meant AAA, as in the battery size (the kind you'd use in remote controls etc...) :laughing:

Besides, we have the AA here in the UK, and they do basically the same thing.

Just instead of being the American Automobile Association, it is the Automobile Association.

Sep 10, 2011#30

JDgreen

jmurray01 said:
He meant AAA, as in the battery size (the kind you'd use in remote controls etc...) :laughing:

Besides, we have the AA here in the UK, and they do basically the same thing.

Just instead of being the American Automobile Association, it is the Automobile Association.

Oh BULL ROAR, everybody knows AA stands for Alcoholics Anonymous.....

Sep 10, 2011#31

jmurray01

JDgreen said:
Oh BULL ROAR, everybody knows AA stands for Alcoholics Anonymous.....

Yes it does... Also! :laughing:

Sep 12, 2011#32

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Mower manic

jmurray01 said:
Oh for Pete's sake! I was joking! :laughing:

I just talked to Pete...he said you're a dope.

Sep 12, 2011#33

JDgreen

Mower manic said:
I just talked to Pete...he said you're a dope.

Why would Pete say that about JMurray.....

JMurray is not the one with a huge, stupid s--- eating manaic grin on his face on an upside down avatar.....

Pete told ME somebody else here is a dope...a troll, a busybody troublemaker who wants us to think he knows it all, but basically doesn't know s---- laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:

Sep 12, 2011#34

jmurray01

JDgreen said:
Why would Pete say that about JMurray.....

JMurray is not the one with a huge, stupid s--- eating manaic grin on his face on an upside down avatar.....

Pete told ME somebody else here is a dope...a troll, a busybody troublemaker who wants us to think he knows it all, but basically doesn't know s---- laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:

:laughing: Aww, don't be nasty to our pet troll! :thumbdown:

Here you go, have a cookie. There's a good troll! :laughing:

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