[AT] Polar Ice Caps

[Ralph Goff]

Actually that charcoal in the frying pan method of heating an engine dates 
way back to the Model T days. I've heard of guys that would shake the ashes 
and hot coals out of their wood stove into some sort of pan and then set it 
under the oil pan of the old car to help thin out the oil. I'm sure there 
were lots of other variations.
One that I often used to help start a stubborn Briggs and Stratton grain 
auger engine was to carry a kettle of boiling water out and pour it over the 
intake and carb of the Briggs. This heated it up enough that the gas would 
vapourize better and certainly helped starting.

Ralph in Sask.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Polar Ice Caps


Leave it to a trucker to think of that!  Sometimes I think they are better
inovators than Farmers.  I might have told this group about building a
newspaper fire under a log trailer in the middle of the highway when an
airline froze up and locked the brakes.  I hope I don't have to do that
again.

Another time I had a brake get hot and catch grease on fire on a rear
tractor axle.   I was on the side of the road thowing dirt on the fire with
my hands.  A guy going fishing stopped in the road, got the fire
extinguisher out of his boat, threw it too me and drove off without even
giving me a chance to thank him or pay him.  I've tried to pay that one
forward a few times on his behalf.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herbert Metz" <metz-h.b at mindspring.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Polar Ice Caps


> Right Charlie, just do not get any oil drippings too warm.
> Probably an old truckers solution, but I had not heard of the following
> before.  Couple decades ago, an OTR trucker needed to get on the road
> after
> the holidays; we had an unusual cold spell (Bloomington, IN area).. He
> used
> approx two dozen cheap charcoal grill pans and several bags of charcoal
> bricks, got them going good and placed them under his trailer tractor and
> placed one or more tarps over the tractor.