Originally Posted by Distridr
Originally Posted by chlinstructor
GrandDad used to have an old Farmall Diesel Tractor.
You had to start it on gasoline, then switch over to diesel.
Anyone remember those ?

My hand start 39 JD B is like that. Has two tanks, the smaller is for gas, the larger is for kerosene or distillate. Those were cheaper back then.

I've heard (FWIW) that it requires kero or dist and will not run on diesel. I haven't tried anything other than gas.
There were still a few of those old 2 tank tractors around in my day. The little tank was real gas to start it and the other was called tractor fuel. It was more flammable than kerosene. One of the local ladies way back died from burns when she was using it to get a wood stove or heater going. Story was she thought it was coal oil as they called kerosene but it flamed up like gasoline and burned her all over. Maybe it set her can on fire also. anyway it was more volatile than kerosene.

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