Re: Propane vs. Gasoline Engine whats best?

Posted by CLW on January 02, 2005 at 11:54:35 from (64.216.238.187):

In Reply to: Re: Propane vs. Gasoline Engine whats best? posted by paul on January 01, 2005 at 18:23:27:

Paul, I understand what you are saying. You are correct. You need a tank and hose to fill it. (same as a gas) If you really are going to use the tractor a lot you need a fuel tank on the land you work. We had a LP tank in a two wheel trailer that we pulled from one farm to another to fill the tractor.(five farms) It was a lot easier than carrying 12 five gallon cans to fill the two tractors had they been gas.(3 cans per tractor morning and same for afternoon). You have to remember most farmers had 50's models 1/2 ton short bed pickups and didn't have electric pumps to pump fuel to tractor. Also they couldn't leave a large (55 gal) tank in the truck as they had to have the truck for other things.
LP parts are not hard to get from either Deere or your local LP supplier once you learn which place to go for what part. Anything different is a little scary until you do it once.
Growing up I saw a lot more tractors burnt that were being filled with a 5 gal. can of gas being poured into the tank over hot plugs and manifold than LP's. Come to think of it the only LPG tractors I saw burnt were both in a (same) barn fire. In Texas in the mid 50's there were about a 50/50 split between gas and LP. LP was cheeper and it did take more LP gallons than gas to do the same amount of work. But cost wise (then, not today) it was cheep enough that MANY farmers changed there gas tractors to LP.
I guess what sets me off is that I have seen many replys to a LPG tractor and there "dangers" from people that have NEVER been around one. I drove both and felt safe around both. Have a 630LP now. There are safety rules for both and if you follow them you will be OK.
CLW

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