Your heating the genset oil thing, reminded me of a story on History channel about the WWII Russian air force in winter. When done flying they drained the oil out of those fighter planes into a big can that kind of looked like a modern Nascar quick fuel can with the long spout. They carried those cans in the building and lit the little kerossne burner on the bottom of the can. This kept the oil warm so it could be quickly poured into the fighter plane engine and crank it up, get going before the enemy arrived..
When I started farming, my first two "big" tractors were two Olivers bought cheap with blown up 310 engines, that I repowered with propane burning 454 Chevy V8's I still have both of them and use them yet for loader and auger duty more than 30 years later. My first two "big" combines IH 914 and 1482) were insurance salvage jobs that we rebuilt in the winter off season. Amazing what you can "make do" with when money is needed to pay bills instead of buying new paint. ;)
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