225 Timberjack cold starting

[Dieselsteve]

Heating the oil is only a third of your battle, you need to keep the fuel warm and the combustion chamber has to be warm for it to fire. a block heater and a fuel heater is your best bet.

[jwilly3879]

It does warm up the engine also. Hydraulic tank and fuel tank warm first and what blows past them hits the engine. It can bring the engine up to where it fires pretty quick.

[David-L]

Cold weather is approaching, picked up a 1000 watt block immersion heater today from Katz and is a bolt on for the 53 series Detroits. 59 bucks and will be well worth the 1/2 wait fueling , drinking coffee, cutting till it warms her up abit. the # for these from Katz is 30301 for the 1000watt. Thanks for all the input.

                                          David-l

[trev]

6 ft of exhaust flex pipe pointed at the engine with a propane big bertha blow torch on the other end. heats like a salamander without the generator.

[cutter88]

The best $1,200.00 I ever spent in the woods was for an Espar heater. I program it to come on at 5:00AM and when I get there the skidder starts like it's July. The cold days in Western Maine can easily get to -25*F. Starting a cold skidder in that weather can be hard on the motor. $1,200.00 is a lot of money but I haven't lost 5 minutes in 3 winters from time trying to start my machine. A lot of guys up here also have them on their cranes.

agreed

[David-L]

Good news, Installed a 1000 watt block heater on the 353 and yesterday morning it was 27 degrees here, after 1/2 hr of heating it popped over pronto. It will start without it at that temp but only after turning it over for awhile if you don't use either. Convinced this will be a battery and starter saver for sure. Simple install and the heater was readily available at Fleet Pride.  Of course you need a generator that starts in the cold well, I run 5-30 wt in mine when its cold, it's a briggs.

                                                                        David

[barbender]

Some guys also put a piece of flex pipe from their pickup exhaust to underneath the engine on the skidder.