Posted by 36F30 on January 27, 2013 at 18:51:46 from (75.170.172.197):
In Reply to: Tom Fleming... posted by Fritz Maurer on January 27, 2013 at 17:42:17:
Some fuel history, took this from tractor data to save typing. Bottom line farmers were always looking for the cheapest fuel available
Kerosene
Kerosene was commonly used as a tractor fuel in the early part of the 20th century. Like tractor-fuel, it was used in "all fuel" engines after the engine had warmed enough to allow efficient combustion of the kerosene. Cheaper gasoline after World War II, plus the onset of diesel engines, caused kerosene to disappear as a tractor fuel.
Gasoline
Starting with John Froelich's 1892 tractor, gasoline had always been a fuel for farm tractors. Most tractors built through World War II either used gasoline, or could use gasoline (in an all-fuel engine). By the 1960s, diesel was replacing gasoline as the primary fuel, although gasoline was often an option into the 1970s. Today, gasoline is only used in lawn tractors or other small equipment.
LP Gas
Liquified propane, or LP, gas was commonly used in the 1950s and 1960s as fuel for farm tractors. Farmers began converting their gasoline engines to LP gas in the 1950s to take advantage of the low cost. Manufacturers soon began offering these engines as an option. LP gas engines were discontinued as diesel engines began the primary fuel for farm tractors.
Tractor-fuel/distillate/TVO
Known as tractor vapourising oil or distillate, this once-cheap fuel was commonly used in farm tractors until World War II. Many manufacturers built low-compression "all fuel" engines designed to burn tractor-fuel, gasoline, or kerosene. The engine was started on gasoline from a small tank, and switch to tractor-fuel once it was warm.
Tractor-fuel was a low grade fuel produced between gasoline and diesel in the traditional distillation of crude oil. The refining techniques developed during World War II made it possible to convert this into more useful fuels, and it began to disappear.
A tractor-fuel engine can be run on modern gasoline. The lowest grade of gasoline available today is often better than the highest grade available when these engines were built.
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