Fine! So drain the oil. Tell me how much of that baby poop brown goop you find. Then pull the oil pan and look harder. There won't be any. You get into places like the air passages, those formed steel tubes running from the top of the governor housing to the front of the cyl head and from the cyl. Head to the air cleaner there may be some. But none anywhere warm oil flows.
Allan is correct on his statement that if you only run a tractor 20 minutes at a time when it's zero degrees you will get to the point of having water in the oil. But as long as you get the tractor reasonably warm, say run the engine an hour, no sludge will plug any small oil passages.
If you read the operators manual, you'll see that your supposed to change oil and filter much more frequently when the engine is run for only short periods in cold weather.
Your talking about the black sludge from not changing your oil and filter. That is NOT what the original poster and I am talking about.
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