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Stale gas and ethanol baahh!

Discussion in 'Chainsaws and Power Equipment' started by J. Dirt, Jun 1, 2017.

  1. clemsonfor

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    I use plenty of one year old gas. Not in my saw normally but in gas stuff like mowers and old trucks all the time.
     
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    Amazing, I grew up with a 966 Hydro affectionately named "Big Red". It wasn't the biggest tractor on the farm by then but it did a lot of work. The owner considered it his favorite and loved to run it for hay work. That tractor spent a LOT of time hooked to the square balers and bailed hundreds of thousands of bales.

    Letter series farmalls (3 Hs and 3 Ms, no supers) did all the small work too.
     
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    That's what are 10 does mostly too. I can't feed the baler enough to haul the tractor down.
     
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    That's probably double the HP it would take to effectively run that baler :whistle: :thumbs:
     
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    Well the 1066 stands for 106hp 6 cylinder but most of them were closer to 125 go so yeah it is probably 3 times what it takes.
     
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    Well those are easy model numbers to decipher one you know the structure.
     
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