In Alaska - we always left the diesels running in winter. Shut it off
long enough to get cold on a winters day - it might be spring before you
could start it again. LOL! Really - diesels were rarely shut down in
winter. And on the North Slope at the oil camps - never - all winter.
It's a major project to start one up when it's cold. And it gets bloody
cold up there. Spent a little time at Umiat - on the north side of the
Brooks range on the Slope. It was like minus 50 or so - and in the
little cabin the barrel stove was cherry red but there was frost on the
heads of the door nails inside the room. Diesels don't do well there if
they get a chill!

John

On 11/13/2013 5:17 PM, Scott Daniel wrote:
> it's all good ..
> just don't leave the damn things sitting around running !