A block heater is not possible - no electricity anywhere near the diesel tractor.
A little background. One of the things I'm very keen on is owning the stuff I use. Yea - there is a second and third tractor nearby - and I can use them if I have a need, they are owned by other family members. I kind of like when something breaks, it belongs to me - that way it's all on me and no one else's problem. Also my teenage boys are at the age where they can and should run a tractor. So as we get our hay deal going, it might be handy to have two tractors on hand - one to rake or ted and the other to bale. Buying another tractor has nothing to do specific to temperature - but we like to run a bush hog in the winter - even if or a little bit, to keep the place from growing into a solid bush - from fence line to fence line.
In addition to a gasoline tractor for cold weather starting, from a hobby standpoint (and this farming we are doing is pretty much that), I think a gas tractor alongside a diesel might be cool.
My biggest concern with a gasoline tractor is parts and potential rebuild kits. How much of that is still around for the Oliver, Contentional, IH, Ford and MF gas engines. If we are talking about a Farmall H or an 8N - probably for ever. If we are talking about a 3 cylinder Perkins diesel - probably for ever. If we are talking about a 3 cylinder Perkins gas engine - or another make, not so sure. But even with that concern, somehow I think that if we wind-up buying a gas tractor - we'll find a way to keep it going and my boys long after I'm gone.
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