[AT] cold weather woes

[Henry Miller]

The gas they fill bulk tanks with is different from what you get at the pumps in town. Bulk tanks often are not filled more than every few years so the gas has to last. Gas stations get filled weekly (often every 5 days), and car owners generally full twice a month so they figure if pump gas lasts 2 months that is plenty good. For cars it is, but for small engines it isn't. 

Nothing todo with ethanol, except that because ethanol is high octane they can mix lower octane cheap gas in and still get the ratings they need. 

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  Henry Miller
  hank at millerfarm.com

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018, at 11:04 PM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> On 1/19/2018 4:05 PM, John Hall wrote:
> > Greg, around here I use straight gas, year around. Now we don't get real
> > cold usually.
> You guys down South must get different gas than we do here in the great 
> white north. As far as I know gas is the same year round. My Cockshutt 
> 50 still had the gas in the
> tank from last July at the threshing demo when I started it up here in 
> December to run the hammer mill. I don't recall the exact temp but might 
> have been around +10F. My bulk
> tank gets filled up whenever I need it with whatever is in the delivery 
> truck. If its filled in the summer time I'll be burning that gas well 
> into the winter. Can't say I've
> ever noticed a difference in starting performance.
> 
> Ralph in Sask.
> >
> 
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