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jodywy

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Started the tractor then went and did a few things came back and it was gelled up, battery dead. So called my feeding crew, Glad the Heifers and heifers, bulls, young cows , sheep and horses were all fed. So we only had to unroll 5 bales.




 
My skid loader tried that on tuesday but it came out of it and I went to town and topped it off with number one. We have no snow and it has'nt been all that cold here.
 
Looks like an all weather feeding crew. That neg 30 spot in the tank - takes real character to make jokes about that.

I find a gel problem is usually in the lines between tank and fuel filters. That part about ounce of prevention and pound of cure - I dislike running #1, but I hate gelling up.
 
Howes if they sell it there, keeps water out and good for gelling, we use it on top of the 50/50 blend on the really cold days of plowing snow with motor graders for the county. Old piece of carpet and tarp straps is a god saver too. That is what I do for dad's 4440 and he just runs #2 with howes and the carpet, never had issue. We don't see to may consecutive 40 below days just once in while. Hope get it running.
 
Sandhills boy said:
Howes if they sell it there, keeps water out and good for gelling, we use it on top of the 50/50 blend on the really cold days of plowing snow with motor graders for the county. Old piece of carpet and tarp straps is a god saver too. That is what I do for dad's 4440 and he just runs #2 with howes and the carpet, never had issue. We don't see to may consecutive 40 below days just once in while. Hope get it running.
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Howes is being used too
 
Sandhills boy said:
Howes if they sell it there, keeps water out and good for gelling, we use it on top of the 50/50 blend on the really cold days of plowing snow with motor graders for the county. Old piece of carpet and tarp straps is a god saver too. That is what I do for dad's 4440 and he just runs #2 with howes and the carpet, never had issue. We don't see to may consecutive 40 below days just once in while. Hope get it running.
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Mine are all on straight no.2 and Howes but the skid loader is a finiky sob I normally run some blended in them in january and 1/2 of febuary.Were not feeding yet so I have'nt been running much equipment.
 
Back in the day, Howes, and pump fuel was good enough for the old Pete, otherwise, fuel isn't as slick now. I'm glad I have a gas pickup, and I may need a snowplow by next week.
 
I have used Howse in the past. Got along great.

This year, parts man at dealership had Howses, Power Service, & Stanadyne. I went with the Stanadyne. I had a thread else where, and I think it was just blended a little thin, despite the parts guys recomendations.

I don't like #1 & its hard to find, but gelling sucks. Put some in the PSD last night. Didn't want to bet on the Stanadyne.

Anybody else use Stanadyne?
 
I started using it here last winter on the tractor dealer's recommendation. He said it works differently than the usual stuff and won't damage the injectors if there is a lot of moisture in the fuel. That's all I know other than that we had no freezing troubles after we started using it and it did get a bit chilly here last winter... :shock:
 
Well long story short, parts man said that all the salesmen driving diesel trucks put 16 oz to a tank. Tank is 34 gallon on most newer trucks, mine included. The bottle says 16 to 30 gallon.

Put in first bottle, and 34 gallon. Next fill I was right at half a tank, should be 17 gallon. Well it wound up being 20. I might of had some water in there too, not for sure. I gelled up about 1/3 of a mile from home. Changed filter and all was good.

Proably should of dumped in some extra, but you would think they would leave some wiggle room in there recomendations. It did get to -11 that night.

Guy that sells product for years told me that I should use Preformance 1000 at a half rate while using stanadyne product for single digits or less. I never worried about gelling unless it was in the teens.
 

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