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Wonder what they would have thought about me lying under that Mack, cold enough, heating the crossover line from tank to tank, with a fusee , stalled across a spur, before a 3 track crossing in WI. Way back in 58. (I posted something on this years ago. Will have to search for town name.Could have been Sheboygan)

 

Found it....See post #59971 Town was wherever we loaded the chrome hinges back to the plant.

 

A lot has to do with the fuel you are getting, and I don't mean that it is necessarily bad, just not formulated for colder temperatures, or it is bio-fuel. I don't recall anybody here even selling bio diesel.

The Canadians in western Canada at least must have diesel formulated for severe cold, because you don't hear about them having issues or having to add anti-gel.

 

I had a similar expereince right after fueling at the J in Fargo, in my 83, in the middle of the night, at 40 below, with a stout wind. That truck had a hotline on it between the left tank and the primary filter. It drew a lot of juice when you turned it on, and the fuel getting to the filter was warm but I had a restriction at the brass fitting coming out of the tank it turned out.

I bundled up with all my winter gear, got my little torch out, and heated that fitting. The truck hadn't died, but my fuel pressure had gone to zero and I knew I didn't have long to figure it out before it would have to get towed into a shop to get warmed up. Fortunately it didn't take long at all to get it flowing, and the straight #1 I put in at the J kept it good. Sometimes I wonder if adding fuel that is relatively warm doesn't cause an issue when it hits sub-zero fuel in the tank.

 

I guess, but it is hard to forgive a Case pickup baler. Pickup teeth put the dried soybeans from off the windrow into the bale chamber and the ram slammed it thru the back side.... Where you and some other poor soul were sitting, one on each side, on low slung, steel seats.
Man RH side behind the pickup pull a wire out of the holder tube and punched it thru the slot/separator device to your side. Then did another for the bottom of the bale. You wound up with 4 wire ends sticking out on your side. Stick the smooth end into the looped end and tug it snug. When bale ejected and xpanded tight as a fiddle string. easy to get 125 pound bales.
(Selected whether you wanted to "punch" or "tie". Same hot,sweaty, dusty work...)
Hard work at 10 to 16 kinda prepares you for long life, e.g. Me......

 

Oliver got some kind of presidential medal around 1900 for the chilled plow on account of the man hours it saved and tillage efficiency .

 

Thing went big in the 50's when Graham-Hoeme presented thiers. We had one, seemed like 9 feet wide, an all a Farmall M wanted in 2 nd gear. Thing was all galvanized frame and well built.
An M would pull a 3 bottom turning plow in 3rd at say 6" depth. This thing was like dragging a dozen cant hooks at s foot deep.
But you could plow a field with it,then disc and plant. was the forerunner of our present day "no till" or little till methods.

 

Stand still ya goofy things!!
The more I do this the more I enjoy it.

 

You may be on to something with the warm fuel hitting the cold tank. We were down maybe 45 minutes that night but I was as cold as I ever been

 

Sumthin must be free at jbs
Or cheap