[AT] Easier to Start?

[Mike Sloane]

My brother-in-law was stationed in Thule Greenland AFB back in the '50s 
and told of similar procedures. If a piece of construction machinery 
stopped running during the winter, they had to wait until summer to get 
it started again - there was no way to get it to a warm area.

Mike

On 7/22/2012 7:12 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Yeah Ralph I’m aware that you have to have them up north.  Most winter
> mornings here a diesel will start but as you said, it sure makes it
> easier and the engines are happier and live longer if you heat them up.
>
> A friend of mine worked years ago for an air freight company that
> hauled supplies into the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay.   I'm not exactly sure
> where they were based, obviously further south but still in a place
> that stays frozen most of the year.  He told me that all of their company
> vehicles were (at that time) diesel Chevy Suburbans.   He said
> they had a heated shop and once a month the Suburban would go into the shop
> where it was shut down and serviced.  When it was restarted
> and driven out it didn't get cut off again for 30 days.  If for some reason
> it did get shut off or broke down it had to be hauled into the shop
> and warmed up.
>
> Charlie