A lot of it was for farmers and the custom cutters on the plains was you only had to keep one fuel for all. Then original theory was before all the clear fuel nonsense. They used one fuel and could pump fuel for the tractors,combines and such then use what they needed out of the same tank. This made fuel easier to keep on hand and saved on the fuel tax too. Then the use with better mileage and no fooling around with plugs wires and such made the diesel practical. Probably for those uses along with the pulling of header trailers each week for a day then pull whatever they needed to made it work out for them. I know when I was out there it made sense in the late 80'searly 90's we had one pickup with a 460 on a gas switch to propane deal and it was always a problem with fuel since the boss would not go over the change over with the guy driving it. It would keep up on a bunkhouse but headers it was a different story and he only used it the one year and was gone for a diesel. I bought my first diesel for the purpose of being able to pull more easier with wagons and equipment from farm to elevator and that gearbox never once was a problem versus the old slush boxes everybody was starting to have problems with. I would prefer a gear box behind any engine over the slush box for speed control pulling slow loads like wagons or equipment. Currently I would like to find an old Dodge 3/4 for the heavier axles and truck to use for transporting equipment from one farm to the other at times. Bigger tillage equipment is getting to heavy to use regular pickups for that. The disc supposedly weighs in around 30,000 according to Sunflowers website spec figures. I would not want to pull that with a regular pickup by the bumper. I don't even like using the 856 to transport it.
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