Posted by Bill(Wis) on July 30, 2020 at 09:15:47 from (75.97.187.58):
In Reply to: TVO Tractor posted by Steve@Advance on July 30, 2020 at 08:16:46:
All of the original John Deere tractors in our neighborhood were equipped with distillate engines. In fact, that was the only engine available. It could burn fuel oil, kerosene, tractor fuel (about 40 octane gasoline) or gasoline. They were started on gasoline provided from an on board tank of about one gallon capacity, and then switched over to distillate after the engine was warm. They usually had a relatively low compression ratio of about 4.75 to 1. During WWII (The Big One) fuel was rationed but farmers seemed to get fuel oil without any problem, whereas gasoline was a little bit in tight supply. So, they would try to get by with using as little gas as possible to warm those tractor engines and they would get changed over a little too soon and would smoke a good bit. Bluish/white smoke. Fun to watch them on a cold December morning in Wisconsin. With no wind, the smoke would billow up quite high. Or, with wind, the smoke would blow all around them. By the time they got out into the field and started working they were OK. Very little smoke and the smell was that of oily things. (;>)) We had an Allis Chalmers 1936 WC purchased new by my father in April of 1936. It had a 1 gallon aux starting tank and two exhaust pipe mount kits. One with a K on it and one with a G so as to provide the optimum heat for the intake manifold. Hotter for the Kerosene/oil. We just used gasoline as Allis Chalmers was pretty fuel efficient and we had two teams of horses for winter work. Also used a good bit in the summer through WWII. Most of the wagon pulling, hay cutting, one half of the cultivating and, oh yes, the planting, was done with horses. Finally, John Deere came out with their "gas burning A" Upped the horsepower as they could increase the compression ratio and use a higher octane fuel.
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