HemiMoparMan: I'll be the first to admit, I know very little about 6 cylinder IH gassers, which is exactly all I intend to know. I've talked with dozens of users that bought them new. Poor source of power compared to same size diesel, is the most common comment. I've had more than a few guys tell of putting 6 Imperial gallons per hour through a 263 gasser.
Here is what I do know for fact, our last gas tractor of any size was a Farmall 300 and it sucked back 3 gph on a 9' NH460 haybine. Bought a 560D in 63 and much to our surprise on that same 460 haybine it burnt 1 gph, handled the haybine much better, thus cut 20% more hay per hour. Maybe these things don't count with some of you folks, but if your cracking the hours on it adds up. No, I never bought a 6 cylinder gasser, 300 was experience enough for me. Both my 560 and 656 diesels went roughly 10,000 hours each to first rebuild. There were no spark plugs or points to change, never a timing set. Service was little more than change oils, filters and grease them.
I put 11,000 hours on my 560 in 17 years, 15,000 hours on 656 in 20 years, 1066 crossed the 10,000 mark in 8 years and a 100hp Deere 13,000 hours in 10 years. You tell me how much higher the fuel bill would have been doing that same work with gas? Bear in mind we have always paid 30% more for fuel here in Canada than south of the border. Difference is taxes, but taxes are a fact of life.
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Today's Featured Article - Memories of a Farmall C - by Monty Bradley. When I was a child, my grandparents lived on a farm owned by a Mr. Walters. The crops raised were cotton and soybeans, with about forty head of mixed breed cattle. Mr. Walters owned two tractors then. A Farmall 300 on gasoline and a Farmall C, that had once belonged to his father-in-law, and had been converted from gasoline to LP Gas. Many times, as a small boy, I would cross the fence behind the house my grandparents lived in and walk down the turn row to where granddaddy would be cultivati
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