Starting a Tractor When it's REALLY Cold

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Visit Tractor Mike website: http://asktractormike.com/ Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/thebigrockranch?sub_confirmation=1 Visit Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Ask-Tractor-Mike-312112962245304/ I apologize to my good viewers in areas where it's not freezing cold right now. I know you're probably getting sick of all these videos talking about the effects of cold temperatures on tractors. I have a large following in the south and you guys may be basking in the balmy weather while us northerners are freezing and our tractors won't start. I'm more than a little envious. I promise, after today I should be done talking about the cold. Starting a tractor when it's REALLY cold is a bit of a challenge. Even with glow plugs and block heaters, when it gets down in single digits, many diesel engines, especially the older ones, don't want to start. I knew when it got really cold over the weekend here, and I had to feed a round bale, that I needed to pull out all the tricks to get the old tractor started. If I couldn't get the tractor running, I'd never hear the end of it from Tractor Wife Carmen as we're trying to roll a round bale 200 yards into the barn lot over the frozen ground. I could hear the snide comments, "You'd think someone who calls himself Tractor Mike could at least get his own tractor started". So, I used a trick that dad taught me and it worked. Heat lamp pointed toward the block for a couple of hours and she fired up like it was June. Now, I'll be the first to admit that a block heater is a better option. But I don't have a block heater and I need the tractor started today and I've waited a little late to deal with my predicament. If that's you, hopefully my heat lamp trick will help you get your chores done.

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Great solution , but my dad just put a small electric heater under the tractor with a blanket over the hood. Now I have a question about tractor idling.I often have to leave my CK 2610 Kioti while temporarily doing another task.Is there a good reason why I should let it idle? Doesn t seem right for the environment and wastes fuel.
Thanks for the videos.

Hey Mike. Show us how it starts before you heat the block next time, so we can see the difference.Nice videos, btw.

Dad that every winter works great

seen my dad light wood fires under dozer to get it to go

Just glad I live in East Texas

Great hat! Great videos as well. Thanks Mike.

I'd worry about a barn fire

That's not really really cold. One way to heat the engine up when it's really, really cold (-40) is to build a small charcoal fire in a pan and slide it up under the engine. A half hour later and things are nice and warm. A plug in block or lower hose heater is still best, though. A tarp over the engine helps too if it's exposed otherwise. Could you do a video on just what it's like to live with a tier IV engine? The recharging of the exhaust filter, urea, and so on?

never had to do anything to start my Kubota diesel tractor even in our cold Canadian winters, It has a block heater and I have never used it. Maybe New Hollands need help to start in cold winter weather, my Kubota starts at minus 25 no problem. On the old Fords we took the battery in at night so she would start right up.

Mike I have a Kubota and it doesn't matter how cold it is it starts up first shot and I don't have a block heater either. The new holland would not start without the lamp ? My old ford 5000 wouldn't start period in the winter if it wasn't heated up and still at times wouldn't start and it came from the factory with the either spray start. I didn't think most tractors still had troubles starting in the winter anymore.

Thanks for the video! I am new to diesel tractors and this is my first winter with one. How long does it normally take glow plugs to warm up?

Hey Mike... It's Winter, your diesel engine will Not need all the airflow across the radiator... Place a cardboard blockage between the oil cooler and the radiator, everything will be Much better off without having that Cold air moving across ...

It's a great place...you can heat up hot dogs and get a suntan!!

Nice video. I've done the same trhing over the years. Whether it be tractor, vehicle or atv's. One thing I do is throw a tarp over what I'm trying to warm up. Cuts the heating time in half.

Nice cold guy tip!
Mike, what you really need to come up with now is a heat lamp that you can mount on your roll bar above, one that can draw off the current generated on board the tractor. Toasty driver spot while out in the cold! WOOHOO.
No worries about all the "cold weather" vids as we here in the mid-Atlantic area (PA/DE/NJ) just rec'd our first dusting of snow this week. Now we may get dumped on in a couple days to make up for all that green time we've had so far. :-( I'm glad we can share the misery, or at least the cold.

Nice video, Mike. But you could have a lot more cred with a better, say Denver Broncos, hat.

Great idea, Mike's dad! I'm guessing that a regular 150 W Floodlight will also work?