Re: -15 and started right up.....
A moderator should be an "Even Keeled" person, NOT an "Attacker" of the other members. Seems like there is "ONE" on every site that thinks they know it all and talk down to anyone who thinks differently than them. If the owner wants to run their tractor for an hour, It's his tractor, His Fuel.
The only concern about running a diesel at low speed unloaded in especially cold weather would be "wet stacking" where the combustion temps aren't hot enough to burn all of the fuel. This can cause cylinder wear.
So if what the OP did was unnecessary, in only ONE individuals opinion, then why are stationary emergency generators run generally once a month to "Exercise" them???? I run my 7.5JB, Onan generator, powered by natural gas about once a month. It powers my home when we lose power. The only thing I do is to load it with 4KW of resistive load.
If this ONE individual say had to go to an Emergency hospital because He or one of his family had been sick or injured, then the utility power goes out, seconds later the Hospitals "Regularly exercised" generator comes on line seconds later and restores partial power to the hospital, I would think He would be DAMN Glad someone checked it to make sure it would start and run ....Even in MINUS temperatures. By the way, Most generators that are run to exercise are run for a certain amount of time UNLOADED and doing nothing but running.
I totally agree! This Idaho Wolfman IS like the "Other" forums where everyone is insulting each other.
A moderator should be an "Even Keeled" person, NOT an "Attacker" of the other members. Seems like there is "ONE" on every site that thinks they know it all and talk down to anyone who thinks differently than them. If the owner wants to run their tractor for an hour, It's his tractor, His Fuel.
The only concern about running a diesel at low speed unloaded in especially cold weather would be "wet stacking" where the combustion temps aren't hot enough to burn all of the fuel. This can cause cylinder wear.
So if what the OP did was unnecessary, in only ONE individuals opinion, then why are stationary emergency generators run generally once a month to "Exercise" them???? I run my 7.5JB, Onan generator, powered by natural gas about once a month. It powers my home when we lose power. The only thing I do is to load it with 4KW of resistive load.
If this ONE individual say had to go to an Emergency hospital because He or one of his family had been sick or injured, then the utility power goes out, seconds later the Hospitals "Regularly exercised" generator comes on line seconds later and restores partial power to the hospital, I would think He would be DAMN Glad someone checked it to make sure it would start and run ....Even in MINUS temperatures. By the way, Most generators that are run to exercise are run for a certain amount of time UNLOADED and doing nothing but running.
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