[AT] stiff tractor day

[Bob Seith]

I remember sometime in the late 1960s that we had problems with heating 
oil thickening up during a particularly nasty cold spell up in Northeast 
Ohio. Temperatures went down between 15 and 20 below and stayed there 
for a while. We had tanks of No. 1 heating oil standing outdoors that we 
used to carry around in cans to fill space heaters throughout the farm 
buildings.

I think there was an additive you could use. Fortunately, we had enough 
oil stored indoors that it warmed up again before we got into trouble.

And about 15 years ago, I was living in Boston, Mass., during a cold 
winter when the power steering in my CJ-5 Jeep went goofy. The wheel 
would vibrate and the system would groan as if the steering was tearing 
itself apart. Turned out I had ice crystals in the power steering fluid.

Bob Seith
1953 Farmall Cub


charlie hill wrote:

> Ralph,
>
> Seems to me that I heard in the news a few years ago that it was so 
> cold somewhere in the Western US that people's fuel was gelling and 
> their furnaces wouldn't run.  I guess if it can get so cold that 
> diesel fuel or kerosene won't flow that hydraulic oil wouldn't have 
> much of a chance.
>
>