[AT] anti-freeze

[charliehill]

Yeah I guess we do have it a lot easier now, in fact I know we do.  I can 
remember my dad talking about a big snow storm in the 20's or 30's when the 
snow drifted so high you couldn't tell where the ditches and canals were. 
(remember 2" a years is a big snow year for us)  The mule stumbled into the 
canal and the whole family was in there in the snow and freezing water with 
the mule trying to get him out.

However, I can remember being pretty cold a few times in my life and 
struggling to try to get equipment to start.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] anti-freeze


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Ralph Goff CLOSE THE DOOR
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>
>> John my dad used to tell me about not being able to get anti-freeze 
>> during
>> WW II and folks putting kerosene in the cooling system.
>>
>
> Charllie, my Dad also talked of using either diesel fuel or kerosene as
> anti-freeze in his John Deere D way back in the fifties. I don't know if 
> he
> couldn't afford anti-freeze or if it wasn't available. It would have cost 
> a
> fair bit to fill up that big cooling system on the D so maybe he was 
> trying
> to avoid the cost. He did comment on at least one occasion when the
> "anti-freeze" (kerosene) got so thick in the radiator that it stopped
> circulating and actually overheated the engine.
> This would likely have been in the early fifties before electricity came 
> to
> the rural areas so block heaters were not an option. No battery chargers
> either so when the batteries wouldn't crank anymore it was time to grab 
> that
> big cast iron flywheel and try to start the tractor. I sometimes wonder 
> how
> they survived those winters. We have it pretty easy now even though we
> complain about the cold.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
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