Re: H farmall start on gas switch to Kerosene

Posted by Delbert from Lincoln on May 03, 2005 at 11:40:12 from (205.188.117.138):

In Reply to: Re: H farmall start on gas switch to Kerosene posted by Redmud on May 02, 2005 at 16:23:03:

My dad farmed with F series, dual fuel Farmalls. Started on gas, got em hot, then swithed to the main tank. As long as you watched the temp gage and kept the shutters adjusted so they were running about 200F, they ran fine. Gas was about 20 cents a gallon delivered to the farm. Tractor fuel as it was called, was usually 15 or 16 cents, and kerosene, or coal oil as we called it then was around 10 cents. The tractors ran better on tractor fuel then they did on kerosene. If my dad had a good wheat crop coming on we cultivated the corn and plowed the wheat stubble under with tractor fuel. If the wheat crop, which was sold for cash money as soon as it was harvested, was poor the tractors had to burn the kerosene because that was all a poor hill farmer could afford..When shutting down it was a good policy to shut the main tank off a ways from where you were going to park it. When the engine started sputtering, you reached down quickly turned on the gas tank. Then when you got it parked, you gronded the mag with the spark advace lever. Next time you started it, carb was full of gasoline and it was ready to go.

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