For us normally fair weathered Californian's we are in for a cold spell tonight, forecast of 24 degrees. If i remember correctly in 1990 we hit around 22 and there was a whole lot of pony engines cracked and a few mains also.
I had just remembered, 10:30 P.M. that that i had an AC grader out in the cold and could not remember if it had antifreeze, it did:) Hope everyone got theirs taken care of. BRRRRR:D Don

Almost had a close call this week, came back to the ranch monday afternoon and one of the guys was getting ready to repaint our old JD 2 CYL high crop, and the guys were asking if I wanted the new radiator hoses removed before painting, just then remember that I had put only water in the radiator last summer when the low was 88 and the high was 121, didn't think that it would take this long to finish.


Back in 1990 I got my free D4 6U from a San Jose area apericot / cherry grower who's last thought on his mind Dec 89 was that old cat that ended up with a cracked pony on the lower LH side, and the radiator lower tank was cracked from one side to the other ended up replacing the complete radiator from cat and changing over to direct start the next winter.

I also got a JD M that was used by another grower that used it pull bin trailers.


I'll take this north cold dry wind over the damp fog we normally get. At least when it's cold the sun comes out, nothing like being trapped in the misty fog for weeks where everyting is wet including you.