Is it a bird? Is it a plane? NO!

It's a Kubota Diesel Generator!

The owners of Victor Island Getaway, situated off the Mackay coast near Hay Point had to replace their old Lister Generator. They purchased a new Kubota J112, 12 kVA diesel generator from Geoff Walsh Engine Parts the Kubota Power Equipment dealer in Mackay.

The problem was how to get it onto the island.

Access to the island is by small boat only and to transport a 350kg generator across 5kms of open sea in a tinny was a project that no one volunteered to take on, so the idea of flying it onto the island by helicopter was born.

GEOFF WALSH ENGINE PARTS will do whatever is necessary to meet a customers requirements.

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Pictured is Frank Davis, Office Manager of Thiess Mackay, taking delivery of yet another KJ series Kubota Generator from Geoff Walsh, Dealer Principal of Geoff Walsh Engine Parts in Mackay, Queensland.

Thiess have purchased over 60 of these units from Geoff Walsh Engine Parts over the past four years and the unit in this photo is going to the Burton site to replace a KJT180 that has over 32000 hours on the clock. There are other units in there that have now clocked more hours than that and are still going strong.

Geoff adds a few extra niceties to the KJ Generators for Thiess in the form of test switches for the oil pressure and water temperature shutdown systems and a low water level shutdown is also added.

These extras allow the operator to actually test each shutdown circuit each time the unit is started.

A Wiggins coupling is attachedc to the oil drain to allow quick and easy oil changing and a 300 litre base fuel tank completes the modifications of the unit.

Thiess are to be commended for their dedication to good servicing of their Kubota's but there is no getting away from the fact that to produce hours of service such as these, the Kubota generators have to be an excellent product in the first place.