[AT] Oil and cold weather.

[charlie hill]

Yep that's a bit expensive.   Sounds like the vegetable based hydraulic oil 
the guys that work on the water here have to use.  It's something like 80 
bucks a gallon but if they spill it overboard they don't have to call the 
coast guard and get charged for a cleanup.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 9:44 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Oil and cold weather.

On 1/1/2011 7:37 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>
> Gene,   don't you wish you had some multi-viscosity oil back then?
>
> Charlie
>
>
>
Its surprising just how thick even the multi viscosity 10w-30 oil gets
here in winter. I use it in two tractors but the bigger diesel 2090 Case
I have changed over to a straight grade
#10 oil for winter. Case did not recommend multi vis oils for that
series tractors so I have stuck with the straight single weight oils all
the time I have owned the tractor.
Another option I like for grain auger engines is the synthetic 0w-30
oil. It stays much thinner in the cold yet not too thin for summer. At
over $8 a litre it is a little expensive.

Ralph in Sask.
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