[AT] Case VAH... just like the one I grew up on

[Ralph Goff]

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From: Dean Vinson <vinsond at voyager.net>
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Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Case VAH... just like the one I grew up on


> Ralph Goff wrote:
> > That VAH is sure a high wheeler Dean.
> I don't know about DCs specifically but I bet it's an "all-fuel"
> tractor, with a little tank for gasoline to start on and then a bigger
> tank for kerosene or "tractor fuel" or some such lower-priced fuel to
> run on once it got warmed up and running.  I've seen those on some other
> color tractors now and then, maybe a wartime thing.
>
> Dean Vinson  --  Dayton Ohio
> <http://my.voyager.net/~vinsond/>

Maybe what we called "distillate" here in Canada. It was a low cost fuel,
cheaper than gas and worked well as I have heard. My Dad had a John Deere D
that he ran on distillate for years. Now that you mention it I think the
Deere did have a small gas tank attached to the back of the main tank with
gas for starting and then it would be switched over to distillate.
The JD AR I have now is strictly a gas burning engine. Lately it has joined
the ranks of my "pull start" tractors. In fact I could not even start it by
pulling a half mile last weekend so we rolled it into the work shop where I
can do a little checking over and hopefully get it back running on all two
cylinders.

Ralph in Sask.
http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/