When you don't use your tractor that much....

[Gene Blister]

Soc

I have a 40 KW standby generator with a 60 gallon tank. I also use its tank as storage for the tractor so it doesn't all just sit for a long period of time but I also treat it with biocide to be safe.

I spent a few weeks in Cuba in 1999 and was traveling from Havana to Cienfuegos in a new Mercedes transit bus. Out in the middle of nowhere the driver stopped on a railroad crossing with the engine shut off. I could see stopping before but not on the crossing so I decided getting off the bus was a good idea. I walked around back and the driver had pulled both fuel filter cartridges and was scraping the slime off with a well-used wooden paddle he kept for that purpose. They couldn't get biocide and couldn't afford to continuously replace filters so at least once each trip he was scraping enough of the slime off to keep the bus running. He told me that bus was less than a year old but I bet the fuel system wouldn't make it to two years with that sort of "maintenance".

And a couple of photos of one of their local tractors for required tractor content

Rodger

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