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- From: KAKerby AT aol.com
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- Subject: [Market-farming] tractor question
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:18:38 -0400 (EDT)
I'm cross-posting this on a few different groups, so if you're seeing this
again, my apologies. Ahem:
I had just about signed off the notion of buying a tractor, in favor of
draft horses on the farm. Without getting into a lengthy debate about
which is best, our very careful recent analysis of costs for both found that
tractors had one big apparently fatal flaw: namely, fuel prices are just
gonna keep going up as far as I can tell, but we can grow the feed here for the
horses. That made a major difference in the operational costs for both
over time. But today while we were at our state fair, I saw a Farmall
Super C which had not only been restored, but it had apparently long ago been
fitted with a propane tank as its only source of fuel. I had never seen
that before.
Now, I don't really want to get another animal that eats propane, thanks
to that fuel's similar high-and-going-higher costs. But, we can
generate natural gas here on the farm, and the conversion between propane and
natural gas is relatively straightforward. But how would a gasoline engine
be converted to propane? I can figure out the rest on my own. Anyone
have any particularly good websites or books, or personal been-there-done-that
knowhow for retrofitting gasoline engines with either propane or natural
gas? Might just be a tractor in our future after all (but we'll still
train up the horses as well)........
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
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[Market-farming] tractor question,
KAKerby, 09/19/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] tractor question, Vern and Amy, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] tractor question, MAsteveINE, 09/20/2011
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] tractor question, KAKerby, 09/20/2011
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