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8deers · Feb 13, 2020

Bobcat Diesel started this morning at -28 F without being plugged in. Needed to pull a car out of ditch. Snow sure is sqeeky.

Determined · Feb 13, 2020

(quoted from post at 10:39:55 02/13/20) Bobcat Diesel started this morning at -28 F without being plugged in. Needed to pull a car out of ditch. Snow sure is sqeeky.

Glad it started for you, any time I have had to start something not plugged in when it is really cold out, all I can think is;

How many years did I just take off the life of the poor thing by doing that.

I used to plug the feeding tractor in every other day as we feed every second day, now when it is cold I keep at least one plugged in 24/7.

You never know when something is going to come up and leave you scrambling; a power failure, snow storm or as you had a vehicle to pull out.

A buck a day for power seems real cheap when things start breaking.

jm. · Feb 13, 2020

What was the engine , a KUBOTA maybe or Perkins ?

flying belgian · Feb 13, 2020

My gosh that's impressive. Reminds me of when I had JD 4230. It could be 80 degrees out but if weather man forecast cooler weather, it would not start.

Scott 730 · Feb 13, 2020

My 4020 may start hard if you walk past it with an ice cream cone in the summer.

flying belgian · Feb 13, 2020

Ha, never heard that one before. I'm going to start using that one. What's sad is neither one of us is exagerating

jeffcat · Feb 13, 2020

Yes. That is Cold when that snow sqweeks! Sounds pretty cool until you start getting cold.

jeffcat · Feb 13, 2020

Some of you saying about cold starts. A friend of my dad ,he snapped the bendix right off. Just a little too cold.

paul · Feb 13, 2020

That is impressive.

Dad would use the Farmall H when it was well below zero back in the day, it had a magneto and would start whenever. The magneto went bad and he stuck a points distributor in instead of rebuilding, it didn?t start the same in winter after that. Gas engine of course.

My New Holland 1720 will start at 5 below F I?m impressed enough with that. Might need a charger on the battery to get it warmed and topped off a bit if it hadn?t been running the day before. I?ve coaxed it to start at 10 or 11 below, used a little bit of magnetic heater when I can it doesn?t add much but makes the oil a little thinner at those temps.

Paul

SVcummins · Feb 13, 2020

My 4020 will start at 25 below without ether or being plugged in usually have to put the battery charger on overnight though

Blueford4000 · Feb 13, 2020

(quoted from post at 08:39:55 02/13/20) Bobcat Diesel started this morning at -28 F without being plugged in. Needed to pull a car out of ditch. Snow sure is sqeeky.

35 years ago I lived in Bemidji Mn, for 13 months. The temp one morning was -38, and my pickup was an old red chevy with 3 on the tree and a 6 banger. Engine block heater was plugged in, and she fired right up.

When I went to shift from reverse to 1st, the lever was so stiff I could hardly move it, and then the linkage under the hood broke before I got into first gear.

Man, that place was cold!

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