Posted by Bruce from Can. on September 16, 2020 at 03:00:08 from (76.69.26.210):
In Reply to: Gas vs diesel posted by svcummins on September 15, 2020 at 16:25:59:
I have a few old gas tractors, but they are no longer used for any actual farm work , they are small old tractors and I have nothing for them to do. At one time I did all my farm work with gas tractors, and they were all old when I bought them and cheap, and while gas cost more than diesel, what I saved on tractor price it worked for me. As my farm grew, and I worked more ground I needed larger tractors there were no gas tractors being built by 1984 , so I bought a new diesel tractor, IH 584 brand new $11,000.00 and 52 hp. Didn’t cost anymore to fuel it than my smaller gas tractor did, but fuel jelling was sometimes an issue. I think the modern diesel tractor engines are great, and start well in cold temperatures, but fuel jelling can still occur some years. I believe it has more to do with how fuel is refined than cold temperatures. The big draw back of modern diesel tractors is the emissions junk they put on them. As there is no modern gas tractors, who knows what kind of emissions junk would be loaded on to them. I have some 5 ton gas trucks, they live gas, and like cooler temperatures . I do think my gas trucks would be better runners if they were modern gas and not old carburetor/points style. Too many diesel pickup trucks rot away from the body’s. To justify the extra purchase price and maintenance cost of a diesel pickup, you need to be driving that truck 500,000 miles in ten years. Drive a gaser 50,000 miles per year, and it will probably fail. Myself I like a new truck maybe once every ten years, and don’t drive anything close to enough to ever consider a diesel pickup. My two largest diesel tractors each get between 400-500 hours every year, and the rest of my tractors combined would only get another 300 hours between the 4 of them.
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