[AT] anti-freeze

[charliehill]

Larry, you can ask Ralph but I suspect you won't get much water out of the 
ditch up his way!  grins.

charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] anti-freeze


> Humm.  This thread mentions an interesting concept -- anti-freeze in a 
> Johnny-Popper.  My uncle and my grandfather had around 2 dozen of them on 
> the dairy farm and never put anti-freeze in any of them.  It was a lot 
> cheaper to drain the radiator and the block every night and fill it with a 
> bucket of  water from the irrigation ditch every morning.
>
> Larry
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net>
> Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:22
> Subject: Re: [AT] anti-freeze
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Ralph Goff CLOSE THE DOOR
>>
>>
>> > 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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