Posted by 2002sliverado on December 05, 2017 at 07:13:37 from (216.16.75.34):
In Reply to: Gas vs Diesel posted by Oliver 500 Wa on December 04, 2017 at 23:53:35:
When I was a youth in the 1970's, I watched as the first diesel tractor was purchased for our family farm. Prior to that, we had nothing but gasoline powered tractors. Three in particular were known to have an incredible appetite for gasoline and they were a 4020 John Deere, 806 Farmall, and 450 Farmall. For field use and many hours of operation, I wouldn't want anything other than a diesel. We fed cattle and we had to run feeding wagons in 3 lots every day. We fed in the morning. We then loaded the feeding wagons immediately after the morning feeding. We then fed again in the late afternoon. For these tasks, and not having a heated shed to place the chore tractor in, we would not have wanted anything but a gasoline powered engine in that tractor simply because of the cold winter weather and ease of starting. We typically fed and loaded with two tractors every day and both had gasoline engines. Both were under a roof at the very least, but not in a totally enclosed building. They were parked overnight usually in the alleyway of a corn crib. If the temperatures dropped well below zero, we would plug in the tank heaters on those tractors, and those stretches of cold temperatures could linger on for several days or a few weeks. Usually one of those two tractors had the front end loader, too, for moving snow before chores in the morning, too. I am not on the family farm, but I do live in the country. I have had a tractor to use where I live. It has had a front end loader and in the most recent years, I also upgraded to a better and newer machine. My older tractor was a 656 Farmall with a gasoline powered engine. It was tired when I purchased it, but it worked pretty good for the 11 years I had it. It always sat in an enclosed shed, but not heated. I started the tractor on a cold winter morning when the temperature was down to -17 F. It took quite a bit of choking, but it started up relatively easy. I now have an IH 86 Hydro, which is very cold blooded. If the overnight temperatures drop below 40 degrees, I simply make sure I plug the block heater into my time clock. It will take a couple hours of "cooking" for it to start. If it is colder in the winter months, I will have the heater come on about 4 hours before I need to use it for moving snow. I run a winter grade diesel fuel in the tractor year around since I do not burn a lot of fuel and I never quite know or how I am going to get the tank emptied, but I never pull it hard. It is just the nature of that engine, from what I have been told. One of my closest friends has one identical to it and has experienced this on his since he bought it new. Of the tractors we have at the family farm, typically the newer the model of tractor, the easier it starts in colder weather, too.
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