Re: C-200

Posted by Hugh MacKay on July 19, 2005 at 17:16:10 from (209.226.247.140):

In Reply to: Re: C-200 posted by Nat on July 19, 2005 at 13:58:13:

Nat: Nothing wrong with any of the diesels. In the late 1950s IH believed, and rightfully so, diesel was the wave of future farm power. The result was not much in the line of development dollars went into gass engines.

Here in Canada we have always paid about 30% more in common dollars for fuel than people in the US, thus we were very quick to warm up to the diesels. I have only ever seen one Farmall 6 cylinder gasser in my life. That was a Farmall 460. One of the big surprises of my life since coming to YT are the numbers of post 1960 Farmall gassers in the USA. You couple our cost of fuel up with the fact those gassers were eating up 3 times the fuel for the same work.

Just to give you an example, my dad bought the first NH 460 haybine in our area, ran it at first with Farmall 300. It was a load for the 300, and we burnt 3 Imp. gallons of gas per hour on the haybine. With a new 560 diesel that fuel consumption dropped to 1.25 Imp. gallon per hour and 560 just played with the haybine. Just a side note, 300 used to break 1/2 dozen shear bolts per day on haybine. This would happen with engine loosing rpm a bit and then governors hitting it. I used the haybine for about 14 years after that on 560 and 656 diesels and don't ever remember breaking a shear bolt. Steady power is what counts.

The old sleeved gassers from letter, 00 and 50 series were much steadier engines than the newer non sleeved as well. I have seen a few of those 4 cylinder non sleeved gas Farmalls. Neither the C-153 nor the C-200 will measure up to the old sleeved C-169 or C-175. For that matter I thought the 460 gas was a sick excuse along side my 300. 460 made a huge roar, but when it came right down to field lugging the old 300 was right there with it.

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