Was Pleasantly Surprised

[CADplans]

My FIL came to visit one year, and offered to mow for me,, using an old 14HP Kohler powered Cub Cadet,,

He ran out the first tank of gas, then accidentally filled it with kerosene,,,

There was enough gas in the carb to restart the engine, and he mowed the pasture with the entire tank of kerosene.

He stopped for a sandwich, the tractor would not restart,,,
THEN, I had to drain the kerosene and refill with gas,, it started right again,,,

The kerosene did not seem to damage anything,, in probably 2 hours or more of mowing,,,

 

[Industrial Toys]

That's almost unbelievable.

 

[Jstpssng]

The local convenience store clerk told of a customer who filled their diesel Mercedes with gasoline. Her BF is a respected diesel mechaninc, and told her to put 2 quarts of oil in it and drive it 20 miles to his shop, where he drained the tank and put fresh fuel in.


My father used the same red metal cans he’d had for as long as I can remember, and always knew what was in them. Yet toward the end he wouldn’t mix oil with his saw gas; it said right on the saw, gas here, oil there.
He burned up two brand new Stihl chainsaws, by then though it probably was a good thing.

 

[CADplans]

That's almost unbelievable.

John Deere 2 cylinder tractors did that by design, using "distillate" fuel, which was somewhere between diesel and gasoline,,
The tractor had two fuel tanks, gas in one, distillate in the other,,
start on gas, switch to distillate when the tractor was hot.

BUT,, REMEMBER to switch back to gas before you shutting the tractor off,, or you gotta drain the carb,,,

Distillate was WAY cheaper than gasoline,,,

 

[Industrial Toys]

I use BLUE for Kerosene, but blue is often the color for potable water. I once read that you are suposed to drink some kerosene if you have parasites, so maybe that's why. lol

 

[milkman]

John Deere 2 cylinder tractors did that by design, using "distillate" fuel, which was somewhere between diesel and gasoline,,
The tractor had two fuel tanks, gas in one, distillate in the other,,
start on gas, switch to distillate when the tractor was hot.

BUT,, REMEMBER to switch back to gas before you shutting the tractor off,, or you gotta drain the carb,,,

Distillate was WAY cheaper than gasoline,,,

Dad had an F20 with two tanks, start on gas then when warmed up, turn off the gas and turn on the kerosene, ( we called it coal oil). At the end of the day, he'd just turn off the kerosene and let it run till the carb run dry, then next morning turn on the gas and fire it up again. The tractor before the F20 was a 1020 and it was the same.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Weren't many British tractors also run on Parafin?

That would make a practical use for those Scented "Gift" candles You clould plough the field and it would smell darn nice too.

 

[oosik]

My diesel is in WWll Jerry cans. The gasoline is in round plastic five gallon jugs. Looooong ago. I washed out the oil bath air filter on my first diesel tractor with gasoline. Didn't wait long enough or didn't dry the filter media out well enough. Start up was one WILD experience. I was fortunate - it self corrected immediately and there was no damage.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Did it memontarily leave this dimension?

 

[oosik]

There was no question - it started right up. The diesel fuel hit the cylinders immediately and it calmed down. One H*LL of a way to wake up - early in the AM. I was starting it - let it warm up - go back in and have my first cup of coffee. Darn near crapped my Eddie Bauer down pants.