John it has nothing to do with maintenance. Up until 1939 we did not have electric at the farm. So even if you had a block heater or battery charger you where not going to use it. It is not uncommon here to not get above zero for weeks at a time,Dec. 1979 never above zero for the month. Even gas tractors will not start in sub zero weather all of the time.
We used to use an old hog waterer lid to hold charcoal. The we would lite it and stand corrugated tin up on each side so the heat would warm the tractor motor. Old 10-20 would take a ten lbs. bag and two hours of heating time, to start on a below zero day. The biggest problem was getting the oil warm enough to turn over. Even with 10w or 5w. We even would take the team of horses and pull a rope around the belt pulley to crank it. You still had to use a little heat to get it going.
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