No sane engineer is going to claim gasoline has more BTUs then diesel, per gallon or by volume. If you go by weight, they are basically equal.
Gas weighs around 6.1 lbs. per gallon and has 114,000 BTUS of energy.
Diesel weighs around 7.1 lbs. per gallon with 130,000 BTUs of energy.
As to Nebraska Tests, there ARE a many gas tractors that beat diesels.
A few poorly rated diesels . .
Case 610 diesel tested at 9.1 HHG. Steiger Panther diesel tested at 9.3 HHG Ford FW30 diesel tested at 9.6 HHG John Deere 1010 diesel tested at 11.9 HHG Farmal 656 Hydro diesel tested at 12.3 HHG
Some better rated gas tractors . . Oliver 1800 gas - 13.1 HHG Allis Chalmers D10 gas - 13 HHG Farmal 706 gas - 12.8 HG Case 841 gas - 12.7 HHG
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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