[AT] Ralph Goff CLOSE THE DOOR

[charliehill]

Farmrer,  I have a friend who worked for an air transport company in Alaska 
that serviced the north slope oil fields.
This was in the late 70's or early 80's.  He said their company vehicles 
were diesel Chevy Suburbans.  He said in the winter time they never cut them 
off.  They sat outside and ran 24/7.  Every 30 days or so they pulled them 
into a heated shop, shut them down and serviced them, fired them back up and 
let them run another 30 days.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Ralph Goff CLOSE THE DOOR


> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:40 PM, John Hall <jthall at worldnet.att.net> 
> wrote:
>>  Al, I'm beginning to doubt your Southern heritage--anything less than 80
>> for a daytime high is not warm enough for my liking! Besides, have you 
>> ever
>> tried hand cranking a tractor when it is below freezing? A 50 deg drop in
>> temperature makes a heck of a difference. For what it is worth, tracks 
>> are
>> fun to drive on sleet, but leave steel wheeled tractors under the shed 
>> when
>> there is snow out. Weather like this reminds me of the old timers telling
>> about draining the water out into buckets at night and having to break 
>> the
>> ice in the buckets the next morning to pour it back in.
>>
>> John Hall
>>
>
> ===================================
>
>
> My father used to tell of how in really really cold weather he not
> only drained the radiator on his Model T as soon as he parked it, he
> also drained the oil out. He said that the old oil got as stiff as
> grease below zero and that he just couldn't crank start it. He was
> quite strong but even if he managed to turn it enough to fire it the
> engine was just too stiff to start and keep running the few minutes it
> took to loosen it up. He carried his bucket (a cream bucket with a
> tight lid) in the house each night and sat it behind the kitchen stove
> (where the dog slept). He would pour it in the engine in the morning
> after sometimes heating it more on top of the stove. He would then
> start the engine and very quickly pour in the warm water he brought
> from the house. If he just went out and poured the water in the not
> yet running engine and it wouldn't start (not that uncommon) then you
> were stuck with a whole cooling system full of very quickly frozen
> ice. Upon arrival at work he just drained the cooling system on the
> street since water was free and drained his oil back into his cream
> bucket which he carried into the store and sat behind the stove along
> with the cream buckets of several other employees...
> -
> An old friend of my father that had been stationed in Russia one
> winter during WW-I used to tell me of the army using John Deere trucks
> and how they always kept at least one running 24-7 so that they could
> use it to pull start the others as needed. He described them as an
> open cab truck with the old solid rubber tires.
>
> -- 
> --
> "farmer"
>
> "Good clean muck never hurt nobody!!!"
> Morris Moulterd
>
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> Central Indiana USA
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